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Friday, January 17, 2014

Why Resist Immense Harmful Forces? | Reclaim Reform

Why Resist Immense Harmful Forces? | Reclaim Reform:

Why Resist Immense Harmful Forces?

Why resist immense harmful forces?
If we fight, we might lose.
If we don’t fight, we have already lost.
Resistance
What forces? Common Core State Standards. No Child Left Behind. Race to the Top. Active and retired teacher pension raids. High stakes, high pressure testing with a 70% failure rate. Mass public school closings. Privatized charter schools. ALEC written legislation. Teacher evaluations based on flawed tests. Etc. Etc.
Who and what forces both finance and profit from all of the above? The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundations. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Walton Family Foundation. The John Arnold Foundation. Pearson. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and Wireless Generation. The inBloom data mining corporation. UNO Charters. Gulen and Concept Charters. The Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. The Pritzker Traubert Foundation. All of the owned legislators who do the bidding of these corporations