by Erik Kain on January 26, 2012
announced recently its entrance into the digital textbook market. Dead-tree textbooks, the company claims, are a thing of the past. And, as David Thier notes, is off to a very strong start with its new textbook service – selling over 350,000 textbooks in just three days. Many are enthusiastic about the tech giant’s entrance into [...]
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I enjoy poking fun at dishonest arguments from time to time, but one thing I enjoy even more is having a little fun with dishonest headlines. I recently wrote a piece about Michigan charter schools in which I quoted a professor, Dr. Gary Miron of Western Michigan University, who testified before the House that 80% [...]
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The charter school movement began as a grassroots attempt to improve public education. It’s quickly becoming a backdoor for corporate profit. In Michigan, four out of five charter schools are run by for-profit EMO’s. Once upon a time, the charter school movement was a grassroots phenomenon. Its proponents wanted to create a system of experimentation [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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