Regents Chancellor Tisch, NYSED Commissioner King Must Be Forced From Power
The Times Union report on the Regents fellows - private employees (paid for by the Gates Foundation and other corporate philanthropists) who are running the state education department from within, making policy and ordering around the government employees to do their bidding - goes to show what a corrupt government Andrew Cuomo is running here in NY State.Truth be told, I bet there are similar arr
Andrew Cuomo MUST Be Held Accountable For InBloom
NY on the state's forced data plan for all NY State school districts:Big record-keeping changes are coming to schools across the state.Under a new plan, public schools will be required to send student data, such as grades and attendance records, to a cloud-based data storage company sometime after the new year.New York is the first state to make a full commitment to the program created by the Atla
Frank Bruni LOVED "Won't Back Down"
Frank Bruni has some propaganda piece out about the Common Core State Standards in the Times that equates critics of the standards as purveyors of the self-esteem movement in which every child is a winner and everyone gets a trophy no matter how they do in life's competition.Alas, before we take anything Bruni writes seriously, let us remember how much he enjoyed the propaganda film "Won't Ba
Perdido Street School Blog Finally On The Twitter
Here - realitybasededucator@perdidostschool Still holding out on the Facebook though.Screw Zuckerberg.
New York Only State STILL Committed To InBloom Data Program
The Associated Press covers the inBloom mess in New York State:NEW YORK (AP) — After months of debate about the risks of storing student data in the cloud, New York is pressing ahead with a plan to create a statewide database for every public school student's grades, tests scores and attendance records — a tech startup proposal that drew interest from several other states that have now reconsidere
11-23-13 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School mark as readMayor Bloomberg Makes Incoherent Statement Defending Common CoreOn the heels of John King calling critics to the Common Core "special interests" and Arne Duncan insulting critics to the Common Core of being "white suburban moms" who are mad because their kids aren't "as brilliant as they thought" comes this doo