Friday, January 3, 2014

1-3-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter:





Real Life Consequences of Corporate Education Deform
There's no shortage of education blogs and information about how utterly worthless and destructive current education policy is for the United States. There are mounds of factual, scientific evidence based on thousands of academic studies on the destructive education policies that continue to dumb down the nation's next generation. There are enough books and documents to fill the Capitol rotunda te


National Threat Alert: The Mind Trust’s CEE-Trust, George Bush, and Bill Gates
By Doug MartinThe Indianapolis-based Mind Trust plays a major part in my forthcoming book Hoosier School Heist,but many people don’t realize that the group founded by former Democratic mayor Bart Peterson and David Harris is a national leader in the school privatization movement through its CEE-Trust (Cities for Education Entrepeneurship). Loaded with Bill Gates/Joyce and Carnegie Foundation money
1-2-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Social Studies National Curriculum: Pearson and Gates Ready for Next PushEven as 22 states are rethinking, restricting, or dropping prior commitments to national Common Core corporate standards for schools, this has not stopped the CorpEd machine from quietly pushing forward with another prong of its overreaching and lucrative exercise to increase testing, standardize thinking, and