When Corporate Psychology Replaces Child Development, KIPP Style
Dr. Martin Seligman is the most prominent leader of the popular movement and corporate cult known as positive psychology, which Dr. Brian Welch describes as modern day version of Norman Vincent Peale's "power of positive thinking."Dr. Seligman is also the richest leader of the movement, after landing a $119 million contract from Pentagon generals in 2009 to administer positive psychology
Buying Indy Mayor Ballard: School Privatizing Update
by Doug Martin Back in the summer of 2012, when the mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard, was closing The Project School because it was the only charter school in the city not playing the game set up by the Indiana Corporate School Complex, I wrote about the various school privatizers funneling money into Ballard’s campaign, which included Walmart and Betsy DeVos front man Fred Klipsch, Mind Trust
1-9-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Market-Driven Researchers Find that Reality Is Messy IIIThis is the third in a series of critiques of Matt DiCarlo's "The Year in Research on Market-Based Education Reforms: 2013." The preceding posts, here and here, summarized research on some obvious problems with value-added evaluations that should have been foreseen. This post addresses pitfalls that were discovered a
