Posts Tagged ‘education’
Why the Racist History of the Charter School Movement Is Never Discussed | Alternet: By Christopher Bonastia
Posted: 2013/08/04 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: alternet, Charter school, education, education system, fraud, Kleptocracy, Learning Theories, Methods and Theories, racket
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Are you 50+ (living in Central Florida) and want to take a short liberal-arts course with me (Beni Balak) or others at Rollins College?
Posted: 2013/07/31 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in AnnouncementsTags: Central Florida, education, Rollins College
NOTES:
- There should be some scholarships coming up (starting tomorrow: August 1st). It’s not very expensive anyway (see info below)
- My course in this program is a short version of the ever popular Economics, media, and Propaganda
Economics, Media, and Propaganda
Instructor: Benjamin Balak, Ph.D. Description: This course examines how economic rhetoric in the media is shaping popular understanding of political-economic issues and public policy. There is a gap between professional economics and the public discourse about economics. This is particularly apparent in political public rhetoric and thus has a significant effect on decisions taken, policies enacted, and the democratic process in general. This course will attempt to disentangle the actual social-science from the ideologies and interest groups that dominate the media. In the words of one of the greatest economists of the 20th century Joan Robinson (1955): “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” Dates & Location: Thursdays, October 3, 10, 17 and 24 from 1pm-2:30pm
Hamilton Holt School AuditoriumContact: Register for this course - My dear wife Charlotte Trinquet (from Secrets of the Fairies on WPRK91.6FM and secretfofthefairies.org) is also offering a course:
Reading Fairytales to Grand-Daughters: Beyond Disney’s Cultural Establishment
Instructor: Charlotte Trinquet Description: This 4 week course is designed for students to get an understanding of the rich variety of classic fairy tales, to go back in time and see where they come from, and to see if there is a tradition which is better adapted to the modern aspirations of young children. Dates & Location: Wednesdays, September 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 10:30am-noon
Hamilton Holt School AuditoriumContact: Register for this course.
Info from http://www.rollins.edu/rcll/senior/ :
Senior TARS (STARS) Program
The Senior TARS (STARS) Program at Rollins College offers innovative liberal arts programming and other educational activities for adults 50 and older from Winter Park, Maitland, Eatonville, and surrounding communities.
Sponsored in part from a grant from the Winter Park Health Foundation, the STARS Program consists of courses on educational topics with particular appeal to older adults. The STARS Program provides an affordable fee structure, small class size, accessible facility, convenient parking, daytime and evening offerings, and opportunities for active learning and socialization with other older adult students. The Hamilton Holt School with its rich history of educating nontraditional students at Rollins College was the logical home for the STARS Program.
Today’s older adult learner is an active and vibrant part of our community and deserves the best educational opportunities available. Rollins College is gratified to be able to welcome an entirely new cohort of students to the Rollins liberal arts experience.
With no entrance requirements, no tests and no grades, nothing could be more appealing. In fact, no college background is needed at all.
Participate in stimulating classes designed to spark your smarts so you can become the smartest kid on the block again.
A STAR membership with the Rollins Center for Lifelong Learning gives you access to enlightening and entertaining non-credit courses taught by Rollins professors. Members will be eligible to enroll in three non-credit courses per semester.
Annual membership: $200 (includes 3 classes in the fall and 3 classes in the spring)
Individual course cost for non-members: $60
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Why economics needs economic history | vox
Posted: 2013/07/29 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: education, fraud, history, methodology
Why economics needs economic history | vox.
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Can America Learn From Foreign School Systems? : NPR
Posted: 2013/07/05 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: education, education system
Show #38: Catching up with current events
Posted: 2013/06/30 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in PodcastsTags: austerity, Brazil, capitalism, conspiracy, Drug test, education, finance, fraud, Indentured servant, justice, Kleptocracy, Paula Dean, propaganda, racism, radical, righteous rage, Turkey, United States Supreme Court
Jesse and I chatted about some of the exciting things happening lately. Here are the notes i mentioned having on the show… which we didn’t exactly follow of course ;)
- I mentioned my post (June 21st) where I spewed the following witticism in response to this whole drug tests for welfare recipients BS which is so pathetically petty, hateful, and beside the point that it makes me very angry! …well, i admit that lots of things make me angry ;)
If bankers had to take a drug test before getting THEIR welfare (bailouts, tax cuts and loopholes, etc etc) we would not be in a deficit >:/
- The good old American tradition of hating on the poor
- 25% of children in the US today live in poverty (currently $23,050 total yearly income for a family of four!)
- This also has a racist dimension: what people like Paula Dean and several Supreme Court justices would call “lazy poor n___”. man this shite makes me even angrier!
- Latest salvo from the class-wars: Student loans are set to double next month to 6%
- Hurrah! Fear not! Conservatives have a wonderful solution to the cost of education and opportunity that hearkens back to those good-old-days of the 18th and 19th centuries: Rich people (the 1%) will pay the educational expenses of selected regular people (the %99) in exchange for owning a share of their future income! YES YOU HEARD RIGHT! Indentured slavery is back!
- On the bright side:
- Some people are NOT taking this shite like we do (taking our happy pills and watching mind-numbing TV and superhero movies), THEY are out on the streets raising hell by the millions against socially-conservative corporate kleptocratic crony-capitalism in Turkey, Brazil, Egypt, and other places.
- They are rallying against the destructive class-war fake economic idea of budget cutting when the economy is down and millions are unemployed with little or no economic opportunities: aka austerity that has already destroyed the Greek economy (even the IMF all but admitted it).
- This is especially criminal when vast amounts have been transferred from the public to the %1 since they crashed the economy in 2008. The total numbers are many times larger than the budget deficit all the fake hysteria is about: $6-12,000,000,000,000 that’s $6-12 trillion.
- Finally: Edward Snowden the young america hero who sacrificed his ticket to joining the 1% and became a political refugee in order to tell the American people what their government is really doing in the digital frontier. This is critical since too few people realize how in a big data world, control over information is tantamount to control over our bodies: slavery!
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