InBloom Wants Your Child's Data
CHICAGO (CBS) – The head of a Chicago parents group was warning parents the Chicago Public Schools system plans to upload personal student information into a national database run by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.Julie Woestehoff, executive director of Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE), said the InBloom database upload is an invasion of privacy, masquerading as a program to
TFA is Losing Its Luster
There is still good, quality, genuine education going on around the country despite the teacher anti-teacher, anti-intellectual and misogynistic meme of accountability and performance, test scores, and measuring every student every year, over and over and over again, on standardized fill in the bubble sheets.TFA, just like so much of corporate education reform, fails to acknowledge the "appro
Evidence Presented in the Case Against Growth Models for High Stakes Purposes
Posted earlier today at Substance News:Evidence Presented in the Case Against Growth Models for High Stakes PurposesDenise Wilburn and Jim HornThe following article quotes liberally from The Mismeasure of Education, and it represents an overview of the research-based critiques of value-added modeling, or growth models. We offer it here to Chicago educators [and educators everywhere] with the h
Calling Wendy Kopp!
With the government shutdown, a great opportunity exists for those entrepreneurs who see education as fertile ground for their innovative innovations.Wendy Kopp, here is an idea for you—free of charge:Govern for AmericaCall on bright young college grads with no expertise or experience in government to commit to 2-year (House) or 6-year (Senate) stints in the U.S. Congress![You're welcomed..]
10-9-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Confessions of a "Bad Teacher" Confronting Treachery During an Age of "Reform"I read Rafe Esquith’s Real Talk for Real Teachers and James Owens’ Confessions of a Bad Teacher during the same week. Esquith described many types of educational malpractice being imposed in the name of “best practices” that I have seen. In fact, he recounts disgusting incidents that a
