Monday, July 22, 2013

England, America and Shakespeare: Education Reform Absurdity | Reclaim Reform

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England, America and Shakespeare: Education Reform Absurdity

England is undergoing the same corporate education reform takeover attempts that America is undergoing.
Billionaires are making huge profits with high stakes testing and charters. Experienced and fully credentialed public school teachers are concerned with educating and nurturing children.
Profitable control of education is the corporate goal. Meeting the educational needs of individual children is the goal of public school teachers and public education.
There is, however, one constant requirement of England’s nonsensical demand that is hilarious for its unintended irony and sheer absurdity.
Shakespeare Hamlet 3-3
“There will be a list of words they will be expected to spell correctly. Shakespeare makes a required appearance in the English curriculum at an earlier grade than heretofore and the