New report: "family income appears more determinative of educational success than race”
Reblogged from Something Like the Truth: By Robert Mann The evidence keeps piling up on the relationship of poverty to poor student/school performance. The latest is in a new report, "Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward," released by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Here are a few excerpts from the report: While education has been envisioned as the great equalizer, this promise h
EduShyster: The Insidious Mission of TFA: LINK Added!
Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog: In an unusual turn, EduShyster writes a serious article about the increasingly insidious role played by Teach for America today. The organization began with the laudable goal of supplying teachers to schools where there were chronic shortages. However, it has become a mainstay of the privatization movement, staffing charters that open as public schools close.
Common Core/Data Sharing letter from a true Louisiana Patriot, Debbie Sachs, that I would like to share with my readers
Common Core and Data Sharing is an issue that should be a concern for everyone, no matter what political color you bleed (red, blue or green.) I am proud to count Debbie as one of my staunchest and most dedicated allies in the fight to reject the corporate takeover of public education and commercialization of our children and their data. Our children are not products, and their data are not resour
EduDEformistas are all about data -- how to "massage" it until it looks good to their wealthy backers
Posted on July 30, 2013
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Educational Deformers like Tony Bennett, Michelle Rhee, and others proclaim that they are "data-driven".
They don't tell you the rest of that slogan, however. It goes like this:
"...unless the data contradict what we keep claiming; in that case, then we fake or alter the data!"
In a secondary-school science project where a student fakes their measurements to get the "right" answer in their expeiment, it's not so serious, though it's not good there, either, because some of those dishonest students end up being dishonest researchers or scientists claiming breakthroughs that don't exist.
We have our own share of EduDeformistas in Louisiana. Perhaps you heard of the Seabaugh Solution? Well, that's not the only one, merely one of the most documented one (with the help of a taped phone conversation between Superintendent John White and Representative Seabaugh,