Part 3: Classroom Video Camera Project Spending Millions to Extend Teacher and Student Surveillance
As educators and parents,we must be diligent in protecting the democratic institutions that insure protections for children and human rights for all people. Currently, unelected billionaire power brokersare eroding the individual right to privacy, the public’s right to steer public education policy, and the human right to dignity over profitability. The current use of cameras in Washington Count
Another Former KIPP Teacher Steps Forward
Posted at Edushyster:A former KIPP teacher in New Orleans finds her voiceI was never much of a champion [reference to Teach Like a Champion, Doug Lemov's exhausting checklist that serves as a bible for TFA and KIPP], to be honest. KIPP defines a successful teacher as someone who keeps children quiet, teaches children how to answer each question on a test composed of arbitrary questions, and then p
2-12-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Standards as Political FootballsIn a piece published in a 2001 issue of English Journal, "Standards, Standards Everywhere, and Not a Spot to Think," I opened with a story about my daughter, then in middle school:[M]y eleven-year-old daughter, Jessica, made an observation: “All they care about is the PACT test; they don’t care if we learn anything.” She was speaking of the
