On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. O.K. But the whole account is an unanswerable damning of the Obama > Administration. > > We would be much better off with a Republican in the White House. That > would energize some useful opposition to such developments. > > The Blog is mostly a moral huffing and puffing. It doesn't glance at the > core effect of neoliberal disruption of schools at every level: the > creation of a new and expanded reserve army of labor. >
I have no illusions about the Obama government which has been awful in many areas, but perhaps nowhere more awful than in education policy - at every level from K-12 to higher ed. I don't however buy into this "better off with a Republican" argument. We *may* be better off, but you have to make that case. After all, as I have said before, the George W. Bush years did not see much evidence for this whole "energize some useful opposition" thesis. You are wrong about Tressie MC's blog. She does some great work on profiling the kind of students who are served so poorly under the present education system. I can't think of a contemporary sociologist who does more interesting or relevant work. She is a nice antidote to celebrity academics like that awful Sudhir Venkatesh. You should give her writing a real chance before dismissing it so casually. -raghu.
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