Online Forum by @parentsacrossam The Parent Trigger from California to Florida parentrigger.eventbrite.com#LAUSD twitter.com/PESJA_LA/statu… — PESJA Los Angeles (@PESJA_LA) May 17, 2013 Sunday, May 26, 2013 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM (PDT) We will be hearing from Lori Yuan, a parent in Adelanto who fought the Parent Trigger at her school, and Parents Across America […]
Thank you for this thoughtful and informative video exposing The Heartland Institute, Parent Revolution, and ALEC’s corporate charter trigger law. We’re hopeful that videos like this will counter the lies the trigger proponents promulgate, and that communities will resist when these outsiders come to steal our schools. — rdsathene The video tells the story of […]
Corporate education reformers love to rave about how schools that “beat the odds” are full of teachers with “high expectations”. There are echoes of George W’s “soft bigotry of low expectations” in this mantra implying that in the past, teachers–stifled no doubt by those innovation-hating unions–all had “low expectations” for their students and somehow THAT […]
In my soon-to-be-released, self-published book, I do my best to help parents, teachers, and others understand why the Common Core Network is so bad for our kids and our nation’s future. (This is not a shameless plug, I promise. I have a real question here.) It’s becoming common knowledge that the Common Core State Standards […]
Q.E.D. has a pretty depressing look at the side-by-side comparison between education stats and incarceration stats in America. As we fight over who gets to close the achievement gap based on junk science, students in poverty look forward to a statistically bleak future. This is a true education crisis; the one that we’re accustomed to […]
A clip from The Guardian: With the demise of the “big society”, the coalition’s claims to be anything more than an unimaginative deficit-cutter are in tatters – except in education, where it has been extraordinarily radical. Last year saw, among other things, plans to impose performance-related pay on teachers, the development of the EBacc exam, and the […]
“And not merely pride of intellect, but dulness of intellect. And most of all, the deceitfulness; yes, the deceitfulness of intellect” — Leo Tolstoy To David Welch, Eli Broad, Theodore J. Boutrous, Theane Evangelis Kapur, Theodore B. Olson, Enrique A. Monagas, and Joshua S. Lipshutz: Your Students Matter website explicitly states “When it comes to […]
LAUSD District 2 candidate Robert D. Skeels speaking, and the following roundtable discussion at the December 6, 2012 meeting of the Association of Raza Educators Los Angeles. The topic was ‘Reclaiming Education is a Human Right during this era of Neoliberalism.’ The talk was in preparation for the anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human […]
By John Thompson As conservative school “reformers” bemoan their defeat in the 2012 election, and as some seem to admit the failure of their “reforms,” some accountability hawks are doing some self-criticism. For instance, Fordham’s Kathleen Porter-Magee says that the reform movement suffers from “group think,” and it could be heading for its educational Bay […]
“These “data-driven” investors are not so much interested in students’ scores, as in the opportunities to cut costs by using online technology… The central question, says education entrepreneur John Katzman is “How do we use technology so that we require fewer qualified teachers?”” — Jeff Faux A “RIFed” (laid off) Los Angeles Unified School District […]
“The idea of “choice” has been manipulated by the corporate reformers and spread by groups like ALEC, who seek to use methods such as the Parent Trigger to turn public schools over to privately-managed charters. This is not real choice; nor is it parent empowerment.” — Parents Across America. My commentary in response to: Gloria Romero: […]
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