Re: [xmca] American Values

What is the common thread?
Fundamentalism in one case, hedonism in the other?
Maybe a new social formation? Fundamentalist hedonism?
mike

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:

> Besides which, the "Reading First" program is now shown to have been
> ineffective, after it's been known that this was driven by ideology and by
> profit interests of Administration cronies.
>
>
> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Mike Cole wrote:
>
> Passed from a local source:
> >
> > Interesting fact . .
> > The U.S. government has allocated $1.5 billion to inform 17 million
> > citizens
> > about the digital TV transition. The total proposed budged for literacy
> > education in 2009 stands at a paltry $574.6 million.
> >
> > Source: Gizmodo.com (5-6-08)
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> Tony Whitson
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> _______________________________
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> "those who fail to reread
> are obliged to read the same story everywhere"
> -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
>
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