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Monday, August 1, 2011

School Tech Connect: John Kuhn at the SOS March

School Tech Connect: John Kuhn at the SOS March

John Kuhn at the SOS March

Here's the remarkable John Kuhn, superintendent of Perrin-Whitt School District in Perrin, Texas, just down the road from where I was born. During the course of my career, I spent a lot of time being lectured about data by people from Texas, so it was a pleasure to hear a Texan talk about what's really going on in our nation.

Seriously--- once out in Mesa, Arizona, we had some Texas data guys come out and bray for an entire half day about data-driven instruction. We actually had to stand up and recite a thing they had written called The Beatitudes of Data-Driven Teaching. It was the perfect storm of religion and fundamentalist faith in poorly