Control Freak, Kevin Huffman, Told to Get Out by Republicans
from Joey Garrison at the Tennessean:Citing a "complete lack of trust" and alleging possible manipulation of test results, a group of 15 Tennessee Republicans has asked for the immediate resignation of state Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman in a letter sent to his boss, Gov. Bill Haslam, on Thursday."Our trustworthiness has continued to be jeopardized on education reform,"
Common Core testing: Asking the big questions.
Sent to the Washington Post, June 20, 2014According to "Field test of Common Core exams went well, officials say," (June 19), the "field-testing" was largely about how students react to online testing and what testing experts call "item-analysis," which means eliminating tricky items. These are low-level aspect of field-testing. There is no indication that the big que
The Gates Effect in Schools: Divisiveness, Inequity, and the Proliferation of Supercilious Know-Nothings
When Bill Gates left his $90 million calling card in Memphis in 2009, it was plenty to buy the fawning politicians who lined up for a handout in exchange for pushing the Gates Plan to Memphis schools.Now five years later, the effect has been that of a massive institutional fragmentation grenade. A failed consolidation scheme has left at least seven school systems to replace the two that operated
6-19-14 Schools Matter #StopJebNow
Schools Matter: Louisiana Withdraws from PARCC and Jindal Moves to Block Pearson Test PurchaseIn the latest bad news for the Oligarchs' Common Core enterprise, Bobby Jindal has moved to sever the head from the Common Core monster in Louisiana. He knows that without the Pearson tests that PARCC is force-feeding the states without the benefit of a bidding process, the Core will disappear within a c