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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

School Tech Connect: Boondoggle

School Tech Connect: Boondoggle:


Boondoggle

The whole thing. 

We have extended the military-industrial complex into education "accountability," and none of it's worth a single penny.  The total cost of what will eventually be known as the Common Core Debacle will be very hard to calculate, in the end. A colleague recently pointed out that his district is spending $65k this year on this contraption, which is pretty much a test-generator with a reporting function, all scientifically "aligned" with the Common Core.

Mind you, it's more time testing for kids. It's also a huge time investment to set up, and an IT person will have to be in charge of it because I guarantee you it's going to be complex. Plus all the training and arguing and 

Injecting Politics

I totally missed this Ben Joravsky column until right now. Just go read it.


Sigh. When I hear from Jean Claude Brizard that an elected school board would inject politics into the running of