“The capitalists, from the start, complained that universities were unprofitable. These early twentieth century capitalists, like heads of investment houses and hedge-fund managers, were, as Donoghue writes “motivated by an ethically based anti-intellectualism that transcended interest in the financial bottom line. Their distrust of the ideal of intellectual inquiry for its own sake, led them […]
Archives for December 2014
LAUSD: Haste Makes Ed Tech Waste
By Cynthia Liu, CEO/Founder of K12NN. [BREAKING: The FBI carted away 20 boxes of documents relating to the iPad purchase from LAUSD offices late Monday, December 1, 2014.] Two education technology disasters mark the former LAUSD Superintendent’s brief tenure: the iPad debacle, born from cozy relationships with vendors and dependent upon broadband infrastructure that, in […]
Why I Support An Ethnic Studies High School Graduation Requirement in LAUSD and SFUSD…And Beyond
Cynthia Liu, PhD, is founder and CEO of K-12 News Network. Once upon a time there was a girl who grew up in a remote small town in upstate New York. There were five Asian American families in her town; hers was one. At that time, she knew nothing about transcontinental railroad workers from China, […]