Odds and Ends, first week of August 2014
The main difference between the Gates Foundation funded Common Core and Dr. Maria Montessori's method is this: Montessori did not create educational theories and then try them out on children. She did the opposite. — Jeffrey Katz It's been a very busy summer. Here in Los Angeles we're faced with a Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school board special election to replace my dear friend,
Matt Ubelhor, the Walmart/Amway Family Greeder
by Doug Martin With $106,000 of in-kind contributions from Mitch Daniels’ school privatizing Aiming Higher PAC (page 7), $13,000 of in-kind contributions (page 11) from Brian Bosma, a $1,500 direct deposit from Mike Pence’s committee (page 10), and $53,000 (page 8) in hard cash from the anti-critical thinking Indiana Chamber’s Indiana Business for Responsible Government PAC, Matt Ubelhor, Indian
KIPP Foundation's 990 for 2011
The closer I get to the KIPP story, the more bizarre and disturbing it gets from every angle. Let's take a peak at administrative costs first. Prior to 2011, the KIPP Foundation's administrative costs averaged 18 percent of its operating expenses every year. According to Nonprofit Investor, which, by the way, rates KIPP a "Buy," that percentage improved in 2011, so that administrative
Get Visas for the Entire Family with $500,000 to a Charter School
I came across this Reuters story yesterday while researching funding for charters. Don't know how I missed this in October 2012, when it was first printed:. . . .Wealthy individuals from as far away as China, Nigeria, Russia and Australia are spending tens of millions of dollars to build classrooms, libraries, basketball courts and science labs for American charter schools.In Buffalo, New York, f
8-4-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Campbell Brown Clip from Colbert ShowThe Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archiveby Jim Horn / 3min 8-3-14 Schools MatterSchools Matter: From Korea to KIPP: "production, performance, and obedience"Reading the essay by Se-Woong Koo on the South Korean system of educational child abuse, I was struck by how much of wha