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[#91.2] James Rovira and his Anazoa Project – Rejuvenating Higher Education

Posted: 2015/05/11 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Podcasts
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To download, right-click and select “Save link as…” PUNKONOMICS 4-22-15 PT.2

We had James Rovira on the phone to discuss higher ed and his fascinating ideas of how to radically reform it.

In the studio with Jesse and I was my son Felix (High School junior and even more opinionated than me!)

http://anazoaproject.org/

https://player.vimeo.com/video/82863058

Welcome to the website for the Anazoa Educational Project, a non-profit organization devoted to rejuvenating higher education. Our goal is to explore alternative models of higher education for the purposes of starting a new model university. Please read the “About” page to learn more about this project and how you can participate, and thank you for visiting.

theanazoaproject@gmail.com

[#91.1] James Rovira and his Anazoa Project – Rejuvenating Higher Education

Posted: 2015/05/11 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Podcasts
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To download, right-click and select “Save link as…” PUNKONOMICS 4-22-15 PT.1

We had James Rovira on the phone to discuss higher ed and his fascinating ideas of how to radically reform it.

In the studio with Jesse and I was my son Felix (High School junior and even more opinionated than me!)

http://anazoaproject.org/

https://player.vimeo.com/video/82863058

Welcome to the website for the Anazoa Educational Project, a non-profit organization devoted to rejuvenating higher education. Our goal is to explore alternative models of higher education for the purposes of starting a new model university. Please read the “About” page to learn more about this project and how you can participate, and thank you for visiting.

theanazoaproject@gmail.com

I dedicate this George Carlin skit to all those forcing standardized testing on kids & teachers. Especially the testing companies and politicians who serve them

Posted: 2015/05/04 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
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I would like to dedicate this old George Carlin skit to all the people involved with forcing standardized testing on our kids, teachers, and schools. Especially the corporate testing companies and the politicians who serve them >:/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVlkxrNlp10

Standardized Testing is a Sick Racket to Fuck Our Children for Profits (Be afraid and get angry)

Posted: 2015/05/04 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
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John Oliver does a great summary of all the key points (with irony):

Standardized testing CAN be a useful tool as part of a broad educational program but the “reforms” over the past decade+ are NOT RIGOR but a RACKET!

It’s a part of a general corporate takeover of the education system, turning it into a multi-tiered prison system in which our children get abused into submission, parents and kids get turned into obedient debt-slaves, and corporatist masters get rich.

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“So maybe it’s time to stick a fork in education reform”

Posted: 2014/09/19 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/Video
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Ego, money and false promises: Michelle Rhee’s big secret and the collapse of education “reform” – Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/19/ego_money_and_false_promises_michelle_rhees_big_secret_and_the_collapse_of_education_reform/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

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