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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

1-28-14 @ The Chalk Face

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How “School Choice” Has Failed Louisiana (Especially New Orleans) Parents
Advocates of the privatization of American public education have proclaimed the week of January 26, 2014, as “school choice week.” As such, they are celebrating the creation of their own lucrative bureaucracy, one that is anything but controlled by parents. In short, “school choice” is a misnomer. “School choice” would be better named “forced choice,” […]

What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and Equity

What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and Equity. via What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and Equity.




1-27-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Bad Journalism, Test-Mania, and High Education: “A Flabbergasting Reality”About thirty years after the fabricated “the sky is falling” moment in public education—A Nation at Risk—we may be witnessing a similar dismantling of higher education in the U.S., as John Marcus overstates: On weekend mornings all this winter, anxious high school juniors and seniors will file into school c