Saturday, May 3, 2014

A Letter to Educators Who Embrace the #commoncore | National Education Policy Center

A Letter to Educators Who Embrace the #commoncore | National Education Policy Center:

A Letter to Educators Who Embrace the #commoncore

June 21, 2013

Dear Educator Friends,

While the common core may not be an issue for you, or your school, do know that for others it will be a major issue. And the problem is this, while the standards might work for you and your school, there are many standards in CC that do not work for many students and many communities. Creating a set of national standards that cannot be changed, in which only 15% can be added (which must be approved by the DOE) is a serious problem when we know that the K-3 standards are developmentally inappropriate and will CRUSH children in high need/high poverty schools. There is no picking and choosing with CC – it’s all or nothing – therefore, many children will be failed under this system. Your children may be unscathed, but for the students in my school – it will be devastating. The CC will fail many students, teachers, schools, communities. So, that’s just my take on it when considering the standards as an innocent stand alone – which they are NOT. And of course, let’s remember that they were not created by classroom teachers and they have never been field tested, this alone is enough for me to refuse the CC because I find it highly shocking that anyone thinks it is acceptable to use children as guinea pigs for an experiment created by the 1%.

However, let’s then take a look at CC for the monster it truly is – let’s throw out the whole conversation about good standards/bad standards because bottom line is that the bigger picture is not so much about the standards as it is about how well we and our children can be controlled and managed by the CC. This is about using the standards to gather data in order to control students, teachers – pretty much the whole damn system, so that they can determine how we will be used – to meet their needs- in this game called life. This is about profit via data mining. This is about creating a class of workers to meet the needs of the 1%. This is about taking public education and managing it and US – because right now, there are too many of us out there that think out of the box – teachers and children who think creatively and independently are A Letter to Educators Who Embrace the #commoncore | National Education Policy Center:

Call on the Koch Brothers to Have a Public Debate on Climate Change — Petitions — NextGen Climate

Call on the Koch Brothers to Have a Public Debate on Climate Change — Petitions — NextGen Climate:

CALL ON THE KOCH BROTHERS TO HAVE A PUBLIC DEBATE ON CLIMATE CHANGE

The Koch Brothers have always been shrouded in secrecy, their labyrinth of shadowy organizations have spent hundreds of millions of dollars benefiting candidates who deny basic science and push legislation that enables climate change.

Charles Koch has already mourned the oppression of “free and open debate.” Here’s his chance to do something about it:

Tom Steyer has invited Charles and David Koch to a public debate on climate change. Let’s see if they really know how a democracy works and where their money is going.

STAND WITH TOM STEYER AND CALL ON THE KOCH BROTHERS TO COME OUT OF HIDING AND HAVE A REAL CONVERSATION ON THE ISSUES THAT MATTER. Call on the Koch Brothers to Have a Public Debate on Climate Change — Petitions — NextGen Climate:

Nite Cap 5-3-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

James Baldwin said it best:

"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."

A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP

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