inBloom and Data Mining: A Common Core Cousin
This week I posted this piece about a January 9, 2014, webinar promoting data mining– a webinar with Gates money all over it. (Here is a briefer follow-up to the post.) The initial post had a record number of comments, some of which were made by an inBloom representative. The comments prompted me to further investigate some of the […]
APPR on Steroids and other Cuomoisms
My quick reaction to New York Governor Cuomo’s education proposals from his “State of the State” speech today. For those outside New York State, Governor Cuomo has proclaimed himself as the “lobbyist for the students”, but reads right from the Corporate Education reform script. I address my teaching colleagues here: APPR on Steroids and other […]
Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader
Standards Won\’t Change Inequity: A Reader. via Standards Won’t Change Inequity: A Reader.
A Fantastic Summative Comment on My Data Mining Post
On January 3, 2014, I posted a piece entitled Beware of Data Sharing Cheerleaders Offering Webinars. On January 5, Diane Ravitch featured the post on her blog due to the post’s active commentary on both sides of the issue, including that of an inBloom representative. It is January 7, and the comments are still live (167 comments). […]
1-7-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Evidence Refutes TFA ExpansionTeach for America: A Return to the Evidence, by Julian Vasquez Heilig and Su Jin Jez, may be too optimistic in its subtitle (not sure we’ve ever lingered at all with the evidence in order to return to it), but that aside, this report offers yet another clear message that TFA is far more agenda- than evidence- […]1 by plthomasedd / 1h hide // saveSh