The Bank of the Federal-Academic Complex
The battle for education reform is being occurring along three major axes — power (among States and Districts), childcare (among Large-Scale Consumers of Educated Workers and Parents) and money...
View ArticleHow to Be a Central Actor in the Education Debate
Education policy in the United States has enjoyed two central actors in the past century — first the Teachers’ Front Organizations, and more recently the Federal-Academic Complex. The Teachers Front...
View ArticleHow Platform Monopolies Fail
Technology platform tend towards monopoly. Whether physical or virtual, platforms provide a level playing field for other actors to use to their advantage. The predictability of monopolies allows other...
View ArticleThe Pillars of the Central Actors in the Education Reform Debate
A recent interaction with Michael Josefowicz on twitter made me think of how old some of the components of the two platforms on which American education rested and rests — the Teachers Front...
View ArticleThe Enemies of the Federal-Academic Complex
The Federal-Academic Complex is that collection of bureaucrats and researchers that set the educational agenda in the United States. The Federal-Academic Complex does this through understanding the...
View ArticleAcademia, Science, and Anti-Science
Dr. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson’s anti-scientific critique of rational choice theory made me think more of Academia, and its relationship to Science. Academia and Science are not the same thing. Indeed,...
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