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For your education: growing stupidity in America’s schools

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0512, 25th February, 2011
Want to school yourself on America’s school system? Well, I could write a short rant, or a long rant, but others have done this way better than I have. First, watch John Stossel’s Stupid in America (40 minutes), then read at least one page a day of John Taylor Gatto’s Underground History of American Education. [...]
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on child labor laws and the blues

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1338, 10th April, 2010
Child labor laws have taken this poor kids blues away.  He lives in Wisconsin, and is an 8-year-old with a shocking musical ability.  He will from time to time go play at blues venues, and the money from that is all put toward his college education.  It’s sort of the opposite of child exploitation.  But [...]
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