The Weekly Update Part 1 + Part 2 : More school closings, tests for tots and Seattle still scraps the MAP + More school closings, the Common Core blasted by one who would know, hedge fund Whiteousness and much, much more « Seattle Education

The Weekly Update Part 1: More school closings, the Common Core blasted by one who would know, hedge fund Whiteousness and much, much more « Seattle Education:

The Weekly Update Part 1: More school closings, the Common Core blasted by one who would know, hedge fund Whiteousness and much, much more

by seattleducation2011

The Weekly Update Part 1: More school closings, the Common Core blasted by one who would know, hedge fund Whiteousness and much, much more

The Weekly Update for all the news and views you might have missed.

There is so much going on in the world of education that this Weekly Update will be brought to you in at least two parts.

Let’s start with charter schools in the news.

How To Know When Your Charter School Sucks

by Mark Naison:

1. It’s leader calls himself/herself a CEO.
2. The CEO’s salary is more than three times the salary of the highest paid teacher in the school.
3. The board of the school is full of hedge fund executives [or corporate directors].
4. Teachers in the school are terrorized and students treated as though they were in prison 

The Weekly Update Part 2: More school closings, tests for tots and Seattle still scraps the MAP

by seattleducation2011

The Weekly Update for all the news and views you might have missed.

Part 2

So now it seems that teachers need a $60M test to know if Johnny can read before entering kindergarten and if Susie knows her colors. Hmmm….

Kindergarten more challenging for students, teachers

Please understand that our Seattle Times is corporate owned and controlled and sings the praises of all things ed reform all of the time. They shamelessly glorify privatization and most of us don’t buy the rag.  The paper is basically one big advertisement for the corporate takeover of our public schools.

With that in mind, I am providing a link to this article for its basic information, such as