Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Letter to the Seattle Public School Board about Teach for America, Inc. and the Taylorite agenda | Seattle Education

Letter to the Seattle Public School Board about Teach for America, Inc. and the Taylorite agenda | Seattle Education:


Letter to the Seattle Public School Board about Teach for America, Inc. and the Taylorite agenda

The letter below to the Seattle Public School Board harkens back to yesterday’s post, Occupy Education Seattle and the “Throw Down” with the Gates Foundation on March 1st, when Wayne Au, speaking to a Gates Foundation representative, explains to him about the origin of standardized testing, the Taylorists and the Eugenecists.  As described in the post:
As Wayne Au explains in his book, Unequal By Design, standardized testing entered the public schools in the early 1900s as a way to graft scientific management models used in assembly line production onto the classroom by Taylorists and Eugenicists—the pseudo scientists that believed intelligence is genetic and that whites were biologically superior to other races or ethnic groups. Au writes,
“Looking back to its origins in the eugenics movement, Standardized testing provided the