Does Reformster Character Matter?
When I posted this morning about the giant confluence of issues and money that is K12, Inc., I received this comment from ready Candy Crider:I would rather you address the curriculum - is it sound and will it help students learn and love learning? Bashing the people who built it tells me nothing about the program itself."Bashing" is a fairly plastic term in bloggy circles. Sometimes &quo
K12 Defies... Well, Everything
K12 remains the top dog in the junkyard of cyberschooling. It provides an instructive lesson in how a good pile of cash and friends in the right places can keep a business afloat even after people have poked holes in the hull.There was never anything about the organization that didn't look like a red flag. It was set up by hedge fund manager Ronald Packer and propped up with money from junk bond k
8-3-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: The Permanent Politicizing of EducationIt's completely predictable that in the wake of CCSS, other problems will arise. Folks who think that we can chase the Common Core away and afterwards go back to How Things Were Before are kidding themselves-- even if CCSS were to vanish tomorrow, it has already changed the educational landscape in ways we can't fully grasp yet.One sign is in