Monthly Archives: December 2011

Public Transit Education: “Things They Don’t Want You To Know”

Earlier today I was on the 18 Line, travelling towards the SafeWay in Albany in order to consolidate my change jar into good old-fashioned cold and hard greenbacks, when the bus passed a group of demonstrators on Solano Boulevard.  The … Continue reading

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2011: a Year in Review

Suggestion: while reading this post listen to the above track, “Far More Drums,” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, featuring Joe Morello, who passed away this year, on drums. I remember standing outside of Henry’s Coffee Shop in Lawrence, KS, late … Continue reading

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Public Education: Free Your Mind (and the rest will follow)

This is the final installment. (Here’s one, two and three). What would this academy, predicated on the idea of education-as-social justice, look like, and what action(s) should we undertake in order to name a new reality? The aim of this … Continue reading

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