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#RTTT and these stupid test-driven competitions seem a little harder to get...
So, I hear from the Chicago Tribune that states are making an a** out of the current administration, not following through on the DOE’s bribes grants from Race to the Bottom Top. Otherwise, the Obama...
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#Indiana is taking a nice, cool dip into the #optout waters, kind of like a...
StateImpact in Indiana reports on a small group of parents organizing a local opt out of the ISTEP this academic year. I’m quoted in this. I guess I said that, I never remember what words come out of...
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Hawaii’s Teachers Take a Stand: Take Your RTTT Bribe and Shove It
From Valerie Strauss at WaPo: Public school teachers in Hawaii have rejected a contract that called for a move to a performance-based evaluation and compensation system, as required by the Race to the...
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The #SOTU and #education hints at quite a bit missing
Education Week reports on the State of the Union and what it had to say about education. “Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them...
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In Bridging Differences, @dianeravitch wonders if #Obama actually understands...
Via the Answer Sheet: Why does President Obama think that teachers can “stop teaching to the test” when their livelihood, their reputation, and the survival of their school depends on the outcome of...
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And now a new #STEM competition as part of #RtTT. Doesn’t competition just...
Education Week reports on President Obama’s new STEM competitive grant initiative: One item on the president’s agenda is an $80 million proposal for a new federal competition to support “effective STEM...
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Rushing Toward the Cliff While “Tweaking” the “Quirks”
In 2001, the PR firms that the Business Roundtable hired to sell their plan to blow up public schools and to rebuild them in the corporate image for corporate benefit could not have settled on a more...
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Gates, ALEC, and Tennessee Miracles
Roll Call has a story this morning on the Plutocracy’s attempts to crawl of out of sight from the Web spotlight that is now shining on their corporate coddling of the fascist outfit, ALEC. And yes,...
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This is how the #ccss is going to work
I created a simple diagram of how the Common Core standards are going to work. There’s really nothing scientific about it, yet I feel like supports of the CCSS aren’t really aware of the implications....
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Obscuring history and human agency through NCLB, RTTT and CCSS
“Prior research, then, strongly suggests that charter programs have not lived up to their initial promise of transcending the segregating effects of traditional district boundary lines. In fact, these...
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Interesting connections re #pearson #studentsfirst et al.
Venn graphic by teacher-blogger Kris Nielsen. FYI. Tagged: connection, pearson, rttt, studentsfirst
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Debunking Common Core Curriculum’s so-called Four C’s
“When you go to doctors, they don’t take all your blood, they only take a sample.” — Professor Stephen Krashen Professor Diane Ravitch had a brief comment entitled The True Goals of Education? this...
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Continuing skirmishes with CCSS cheerleaders on Diane Ravitch’s blog
“There is no evidence that standards and tests improve school achievement. The money budgeted for standards and tests to enforce the standards should be used to protect children from the effects of...
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Common Core State Standards Primer
Disclaimer: The publishers of this document, Truth in American Education, have some very disconcerting right-wing membership and advisors. I mean really right wing, like Heritage, Koret, the...
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Wayne Au: Coring Social Studies within Corporate Education Reform
“Teachers could stop #CommonCore tomorrow—if they joined hands and said ‘Hell, No!’ The alternative is loss of profession—and soul.” — Susan Ohanian A local university professor I’m friends with...
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An investigative documentary into the Common Core State Standards Initiative
BUILDING THE MACHINE (2014) – Official Trailer [HQ] I want to use the same disclaimer here that I did the last time I posted Common Core State Standards (CSSS) related materials from sources that I...
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Of the thousands of slacktivists, we only have 1,756 signatures?
I know what you’re going to say: petitions don’t matter. I get it. But I’ve seen one of the most respected authors and activists around, Susan Ohanian, publish a new White House petition to “Direct the...
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K12NN: American Statistical Association has just released a very important...
First published April 9, 2014 on K-12 News Network “The President of the United States and his Secretary of Education are violating one of the most fundamental principles concerning test use: Tests...
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