Here’s a link to the PDF. So, the bill: HB12-1091 – Gives policy leaders the opportunity to direct taxpayer dollars to proven evidence based preschool programs and provide 3,000 young children real opportunities to learn and achieve. More than 8,000 at risk children are eligible and waiting for the Colorado Preschool Program. The problem? Well, […]
@uniting4kids puts out a fact sheet in a rather interesting bill in CO, HB 12-1091
February 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Will Arne Duncan Please Answer Valerie Strauss
February 29, 2012 By 1 Comment
Valerie Strauss asks the billion dollar question and the emperor is buck naked. Why don’t top private schools adopt corporate-driven reforms? By Valerie Strauss This was written by Bruce D. Baker, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This first appeared on his School Finance 101 […]
Interesting text on #TFA and their wild “experiments”
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
An interesting text linked for me on Twitter. Check it out, never read it. But I do wonder if the TFA experience is not just some grand experiment, working on the kids and communities where both the “teachers” and the reform advocates don’t have any “skin” in the game, so to speak. They don’t live […]
See press release for @unitedoptout
February 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
#Edreform discussion via #SOSchat
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Why Bill Gates Makes Me Throw Up
February 28, 2012 By 2 Comments
The chart above shows market capitalization trends for Apple and Microsoft over just two months in 2010. To show that this trend of Microsoft’s failing hegemony is not a fluke, here is another showing operating income from devices running Apple and Microsoft systems from 2007 to 2011(click either to enlarge). So while Bill Gates’s company […]
@assailedteacher calls for a strike in NY
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
@schoolsmatter on the Common Core
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
How grassroots is grassroots? Kind of like the definition of cage free hens or something. They have access to out of doors, which really means that a door is cracked open, but the hen is too heavy, too drugged up, and too deformed to take advantage. Steven Krashen says it well: How can anybody doubt […]
School shooting in Ohio
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Common core standards/national tests = a classic grassroots movement?
February 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan:“The idea that the Common Core standards are nationally-imposed is a conspiracy theory in search of a conspiracy. The Common Core academic standards were both developed and adopted by the states …” https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/statement-us-secretary-education-arne-duncan-1 How can anybody doubt this? The Common Core/National tests movement was a classic spontaneous grass roots movement. […]
Very excited to be speaking this week at the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee
February 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Myself along with some colleagues will be speaking at the Education Summit for the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, AL. This should be a great experience, check out their website here. Here’s the schedule for the entire event. I hope, I hope, I hope I can do the topic justice, on civil rights and […]
If The Plan Is to Kill Us With Tests, Then We Will Kill the Tests
As Michael Winerip points out in his commentary below, the line has been drawn between those who believe that a 26 point margin or error is good enough to make high stakes education policy decisions, and those who now ask Cuomo, Bloomberg, Duncan, and Gates: “Have you no shame?” Join us in Occupying the DOE […]