Schools Matter: Corporate Insider, Bob George, Named Steering Committee National Director for SOS

Schools Matter: Corporate Insider, Bob George, Named Steering Committee National Director for SOS:

Corporate Insider, Bob George, Named Steering Committee National Director for SOS

by Jim Horn

Below is the first paragraph from a post I put up in 2006, which lists Catapult Learning as one of the fat leeches sucking dollars from ED during the heyday of NCLB.  

The coming of the neocons to ED has meant that subjects other than reading, math, and behavior control have been shoved aside by a plalanx of testing pushed by the ed industry, the testing/textbook industry, and the politicos at the Business Roundtable. Let's not forget, too, the know-nothing politicians who use the testing hysteria as an opportunity to appear tough by punishing schools and children, while turning their backs to the criminals 

Parents in Pittsburgh are Opting Out

by Judy Rabin

Listen to great reporting from Chalkface Radio's interview on Saturday with Tim Slekar, United Opt Out and  the radical suburban soccer moms in PA who are opting out of testing to protect the best interests of their children.

Leafy suburban neighborhoods are the new battlefront against the barrage of high stakes tests, schools closings, for profit charter schools and privatization. Haven't these corporate ed deformers ever heard of NIMBE (not in my backyard).