Coursera

With so many top universities offering their best courses free online, it was inevitable that someone would package and offer them on a profitable basis.  So it has happened.  I am working with WAOE.org to do something similar, instead of getting everything up, just get a liberal arts education up on a website for free.   I'll let you know how that goes.

Israel And University of California

The State of California passed a unanimous resolution directing its University system policies to forbid any teacher or student saying, among other things:

that Jews in America wield excessive power over American foreign policy;

Read the list of what is not allowed.  Surely something are already not allowed, but law, regardless of the topic.  So why only Jews?  This is a bad idea.

It is further reason why we need separation of school and state.

Political Theatre in Chicago

The dismantling of the now unnecessary teachers unions, and their pensions, continues on a new stage, this time in Chicago.    Publicity is relentlessly bad: average salary 79K per year, 89% of 8th graders are below proficiency in reading.  Ouch.

Most teachers will ride this down in flames, making no effort to adjust.