NEA Says Its Members “strongly Support” Common Core?
Here we go again with the CCSS support propaganda from an organization that has accepted millions from Bill Gates to promote the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The National Education Association (NEA) wants you to want CCSS. It conducted a survey. Surprise, surprise. NEA has decided to fully follow in the American Federation of Teachers’ […]
The Weekly Update: Predatory capitalism, privatization, sequestration and our children, Common Core Standards and opting out
Reblogged from Seattle Education: Everyone is back in school, the privatizers are not letting up but parents, students and teachers are fighting back. Diane Ravitch is coming out with her new book on September 18th, a book that is totally awesome by the way. I will have a review posted on September 17th. We've got […]
Merrow and Gates Money: Et tu, John?
John Merrow has decided not to report on Michelle Rhee. He helped promote her, and now he has decided to call it quits. Education historian Diane Ravitch says not so fast, John; you owe us some follow-through in unmasking Rhee. I agree. Merrow owes American education his service in unmasking the monster he helped to […]
KIPP’s Use of Harriet Ball
In an otherwise solid piece of opinionating at Valerie Strauss’s site at WaPo, Mike Rose leaves the impression that Harriet Ball had in some endorsed the KIPP total compliance reform schools. She did not, and at the time of her death, Ms. Ball felt just as used by KIPP as the thousands of discarded teachers […]
As More Children Are Left Behind, CorpEd Turns to Gain Scores to Mask Reform Failure and Increasing Gaps
A new study is out showing increasing inequality based on race, class, and education, and with it comes the non-startling news that poor and minority children are further behind than they were when NCLB became the law of the Land, signaling as it did the full transition from the use of high stakes testing for […]
9-11-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: 9/11: Essays and Film | the becoming radical9/11: Essays and Film | the becoming radical.by plthomasedd / 6min 9-10-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk FaceSCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Ilana Horn: Recipe for InequalityRecipe for inequality* 1. Find a metric that correlates to poverty. 2. Use it to measure quality. 3. Find that high poverty schools are bad. 4. Make sc