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Thursday, June 5, 2014

6-5-14 Schools Matter

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KIPP Links, Including Research and Commentary
A reader in California asked for some links, and here is the result I will share with you, too.  This is certainly not an exhaustive list, not even for SM.  A start, nonetheless.One thing you should note from this first link below is that non-profit charters schools are a myth, thanks to some handiwork by Clinton before he left office.http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2014/04/americas-top-corporate-ed


Marshall Tuck's white male friend Dax Shepard 'splains that cultural sterilization isn't "real racism"
When I taught in the Los Angeles Unified Schools, I openly opposed the Vietnam War and was critical of the system’s race policies.  Fortunately, I was never threatened with dismissal, I belonged to a union. — Professor Rodolfo F. Acuña Students Protesting Marshall Tuck's racist decision to kill Ethnic Studies. Photo by Robert D. Skeels. Eli Broad's California State Superintendent of Public Instru




6-4-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: The Pearson Teacher: From Sage on the Stage to Technician in the MechanismWhen Bill Gates came to Memphis in 2009 with $90 million to grease the hinges on every bureaucratic door within a hundred miles, the schools became the laboratory for every self-serving thought disorder that the aging crackpot could come up with.  The latest bad dream brings together Common Core, Pearson, Win