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Is Co-Opted Opt Out Lurking in Your State? – Save Maine Schools
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Helping You Navigate Next-Gen Ed Reform from the Great State of Maine. Is Co-Opted Opt Out Lurking in Your State? Lisa Nielsen, author of the blog The Innovative Educator. Hopes that technology will mean the end of teaching as we know it. Why deny that the traditional role of the teacher is needed less and less? Technology can do much of what teachers do and better.That teachers have intimate relationships with their students and learning is customized is a fantasy. Nielsen has been featured on the blog.
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David Welch: The Man Behind Vergara v. California – Capital & Main
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Awards & Accolades. Labor & Economy. Politics & Government. Culture & Media. David Welch: The Man Behind Vergara v. California. February 20, 2014. Bill Raden and Gary Cohn. As the Vergara v. California. Trial ends its fourth week, the most conspicuous absence from the plaintiffs list may be that of the man most responsible for bringing the education lawsuit David Welch, the 52-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of Students Matter. His Menlo Park-based nonprofit initiated Vergara. And simila...
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Beware the Roadbuilders Redux: Education Reform Wars Fail Race, Again | the becoming radical
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A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University). Critical Literacy Teaching Series. Essays in Edited Volumes. Living and Learning in Poverty. Lou LaBrant: An Annotated Bibliography. P L Thomas Writing @. Speaking Truth to Power (English Journal). August 13, 2015. Beware the Roadbuilders Redux: Education Reform Wars Fail Race, Again. A classic analogy is Mothra vs. Godzilla. Finally, what does this template represent? White critics of education reform s...
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Education Reform Illustrated : October 2014
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Before They Were "Hoosiers for Quality Education" They Went By Another Name. H4QE is funded by a lot of deep pockets outside of Indiana. If this group is advocating for quality education for all Hoosier school children, why have they supported candidates and policies responsible for pressuring teachers and administrators to teach to the test. And cut funding to public schools. Doug Martin has some insight on this group here. I smell big money funding this PAC. Corporate educa...
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Education Reform Illustrated : Eli Broad's Sick, Twisted Idea of Education Reform and the Insidious Nature of Standardized Testing
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Monday, July 15, 2013. Eli Broad's Sick, Twisted Idea of Education Reform and the Insidious Nature of Standardized Testing. Standardized testing advocates won’t tell you what teachers already know. Standardized testing is an inherently unfair instrument to assess children’s educational growth and a horrible ordeal for many children. Why? Conditions or any child for that matter. Eli Broad of SunLife. And the standardized construction magnate of KB Homes fame. Thinking about taking action?
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Education Reform Illustrated : A Who's Who Responsible For The Narrowed, Standardization of K-12 Curricula In The U.S.
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Monday, October 6, 2014. A Who's Who Responsible For The Narrowed, Standardization of K-12 Curricula In The U.S. The Koch's, Bill Gates and Eli Broad are the most powerful funders of education deform in the World. In the U.S. Arne Duncan is their tool. There is a fourth wheel of government accountable to no one. It is the big, big monied elites. They control significant numbers. Of politicians. They influence. Legislative initiatives. They control. The mass media and public information.
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Schools Matter: August 2015
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A child's learning is the function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher. James Coleman, 1972. Monday, August 31, 2015. Offering Real Choices or Just Segregated Charter Schools: Let's Look at the Wait Lists. Nashville is one of two cities in Tennessee that is on the billionaires' hit list for school privatization. A corporate outfit called Education Cities. In Nashville, an informed school board and groups of savvy parents. The corporate education reformers' argument to ...
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