Democants Free Republicons to Pursue War on Teachers and Public Schools When it became clear early on that Obama would rubber stamp the Bush-Spellings NCLB school privatization agenda by passing over Darling-Hammond and promoting to Secretary the pasty, befuddled yes-man to corporate tyranny, Arne Duncan, the conservatives ...
A seat at the table or a piece of the pie? The feds have spelled out their plans in detail, in their technology report, in the Blueprint, and in Duncan's speeches. It is a top-down, purely data-driven system with more testing than ever seen in history, with all tests, interim, summative, and ...
Weighing the animal vs. feeding it: Published in the NY Times Too Much Testing Feb 8, 2012, New Tork Times To the Editor: One article in The Times described the profound problems children are facing in school because of the economy (“Teacher, My Dad Lost His Job. Do We Have to Move?,” On Education column, ...
