The Bill and Melinda Gates Fixers
Gates money continues to drive projects to put its peculiar definition on texts schools must teach and to diminish all subjects except Language Arts and math.by Susan OhanianWhat Good News! Bill and Melinda Gates Fixers are critical of evaluation rubrics. What Bad News! Bill and Melinda Gates Fixers are designing new teacher evaluation rubrics. They're working with grants from the Bill and Melin
The Dirty Water on Mike Pence's Fascist CECI
by Doug Martin (please sign the petition to tell Pence to stop his educational power grab. And call Mike Pence at 1 (317) 232-4567).More information is coming into me, as we speak, concerning the CECI detailed below. I will be following up with more writings concerning Pence's group. Please stay posted. DM)When Glenda Ritz walked out on the recent state board of education fiasco in Indiana, the
Nashville Metro Puts Brakes on Charter Expansion--CorpEd Spews
A clip from the Tennessean:The Metro school board approved a plan Tuesday night effectively restricting the authorization of new charter schools next year to South Nashville or to schools tagged for three straight years of poor performance.The resolution approved by the board requires all new charter schools to be located either within areas where schools are above 120 percent of capacity or in an
11-14-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Happy Early Birthday, Arne Duncan, on Your 52nd BirthdayI know, I know, you just turned 49 on November 6, but since I missed your birthday (sorry), I thought I would get ahead of the game and wish you the best on the one birthday that all of America's teachers and parents will celebrate, just days before your departure from the U. S. Department of Education on November 6, 2016.And