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Progressive edreform radio the Chalk Face. Were back Sunday at 6PM EST chatting about the Project School in Indianapolis the Common Core again and maybe a little bit about the recent NAEP science results.
and education-radio.blogspot.com with Barbara Madeloni: Pearson's Teacher Performance Assessment: Exposed!
Pearson has managed to acquire companies that vertically integrate almost the entire educational spectrum and at enormous expense to the American parent – the profit has to come out of somebody’s hide.
The Powers Behind Reform
Alec on a Mission to Dismantle Public Education
The mission of ALEC is to privatize public schools. Some of you might think this is a good idea to keep our schools competitive in the global market, but have we not seen enough of the dangers of privatization, to be concerned that our public school system is in the privatization cross hairs? Banks are privatized, so is our health care system, and many of our prisons. Has privatization worked for these institutions? Well it has worked for CEO’s, hedge fund managers, insurance companies, and prison lobbyists but not so much for the rest of us.
Perils of Standardized Testing
Meet a Common Problem in Public Education - A compilation of research about Common Core
Nonrandom Human Error in Testing
The Bottom Line
Human errors, both individual and systemic, occur in testing programs at all phases, and such errors can have a significant negative effect on students when high-stakes decisions are made. The degree to which testing errors are publicly diagnosed, accepted, and addressed varies significantly.
A Request to Make the Pearson Tests Public
My hope in writing this article is that other people (and perhaps also, news organizations like The New York Times) will also file Freedom of Information requests, and that Pearson and the state will recognize the public demand for transparency in testing and reverse their positions on test secrecy.62 Page Instruction Manual for Preparing Preschoolers for Common Core in New York
Using Accountability to Manipulate Teachers
Evil Ways - The Rural Teacher shares how new systems of accountability coerce teachers
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If a policy were 1. Supported by the wealthiest people in the country 2. Made huge profits for private corporations and 3. Insisted that poverty and racism should have no impact on outcomes, progressive people would normally be up in arms about it right? Welcome to the Education Policies of the Obama Administration under Arne Duncan!Are you going to make believe it's not happening or raise your voice in protest the way you would if were coming from Mitt Romney or George Bush? Here's a way of taking a stand. And you might even help bring a few Democrats to their senses!
Have you signed yet?
Help protect the nations’s public schools from privatization and excessive testing by signing this open letter to President Obama.
Help protect the nations’s public schools from privatization and excessive testing by signing this open letter to President Obama.
PEARSON, ALEC AND THE BRAVE NEW WORLD: BOYCOTT NOW
National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing
ACTION FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 13TH: BOYCOTT PEARSON NYS JUNE FIELD TESTS
Drug dealers & Pearson sell harmful products with entirely manufactured need. But Pearson forces the end user to help produce their poisons. --- John Kuhn
National Interest
Jeb Bush video - know thy enemy
Calling all angels - Jesse the Walking Man Turner keeps tellin' it like it is
Politicians, policy makers, private sector entities have come to view the resistance of parents, teachers, educators, advocates and activists for public schools to their proposals as defenders of the status quo. What they deny is that it is they themselves who, through their plans and legislative actions over the past quarter century, have become the chief perpetrators of thestatus quo.
Going Down the Rabbit Hole: the Mad World of Bill Gates and Pearson Publishing
- IF you didn't happen to read this the first time, you don't want to miss this journey. Fabulous presentation and chalk full of information.
The concern that if we guess wrong about what EVERYONE must know we will suffer the fate that single crop agriculture faces when the only variety available gets a disease that can't be controlled. It is an advantage to have people dispersed throughout a society with different views, knowledge, and skills. Monoculture does not work for very long. -Robert Valiant
The Left Wing of the Possible - Deborah Mier
Something Scary Happened Last Night - Diane Ravitch
The collusion between those who are sworn to protect the public schools and those who are incentivized to privatize them is surely the most important thing to be gleaned from this correspondence
Open Letter To Education Reform Supporters - another angry voice comes calling
Charter School News
Instead of Teacher Appreciation Week, President Obama asks us to celebrate Charter School Week'Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?'
Colorado
Colorado School Board Video: Union Teachers Don't Get Economics
Three minutes long. If you can stomach it to the end, you've got a stronger constitution than I
Florida
St. Lucie County School Board Endorses National Resolution On High Stakes Testing
Florida Board of Education to rewrite teacher dismissal rules
No teachers, administrators names to Cuomo education panel
With a Brooklyn Accent
Let's Vote for a Teacher, not a Politician, as Superintendent in Indiana: Hoosiers, although I haven't fully researched this candidate for secretary of education, I'm contending unless this guy has been charged with several serious felonies, he has to be better than Tony Bennett.
Boycotting the Indiana Press’s Corporate School Reform Agenda
Pennsylvania
Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? - Bruce Dixon keeps us updated. Comment section interesting.
South Carolina
550 Parents Opt Out in Snohomish
Teacher Depreciation Week
Welcome to the Machine by a troublemaker turned teacher turned troublemaking teacher
Indiana
Let's Vote for a Teacher, not a Politician, as Superintendent in Indiana: Hoosiers, although I haven't fully researched this candidate for secretary of education, I'm contending unless this guy has been charged with several serious felonies, he has to be better than Tony Bennett.
Boycotting the Indiana Press’s Corporate School Reform Agenda
Betrayal Merits the Deepest Pit: John Gregg Supported by Corporate Ed Reform Funders
Mind Trust's David Harris: His Next Step Will Be Over Youa - Peg with Pen - a great blog I overlooked at first.
Repa 2: Points of concern with new teacher licensing
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Progressive edreform radio the Chalk Face. Were back Sunday at 6PM EST chatting about the Project School in Indianapolis the Common Core again and maybe a little bit about the recent NAEP science results.
Pennsylvania
Underfunded. Overburdened. About to be sold for scrap.
Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? - Bruce Dixon keeps us updated. Comment section interesting.
South Carolina
Johnson, Rabon: Fight to end high-stakes testing - Well written argument for opting out in SC.
Washington
Parents opt kids out of standardized test to protest education cuts - Several hundred Snohomish students opted out in one district. Could be the beginning of something.
550 Parents Opt Out in Snohomish
In Appreciation of Teachers
Teacher Depreciation Week
Elizabeth Phillips: Teachers Need to Be Supported
Although I’m an individual with a background in the sciences – both from a formal education and as a hobbyist, my 15 years experience as a teacher has me convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that educating our youth effectively is an art.
Great job! This is a great service to activists around the U.S.
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