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Thursday, January 24, 2013

School Tech Connect: Monty Neil Tonight

School Tech Connect: Monty Neil Tonight:


Monty Neil Tonight

7 PM, Hartzell Methodist Church.

Inch by inch, row by row, people are waking up to overtesting that's going on in our schools. Even the sleepiest people.

By the way, the testing is not something the teachers are asking for. It's political. It's part of the corporate takeover of public education. You can't have something like SB7 and not expect a barrage of idiotic "formative" testing. If you were a legislator, for example, and you voted for SB7, and you had no idea about the number of tests that would follow, then you're simply not paying attention.

It's More Than He Said-She Said

Ok, this is an important matter here--- and to be dramatic, it goes right to the heart of journalism. In this excellent piece by Bryan Lowry, CPS Communications person Becky Carrol distributes a considerable spray of flak in response to the premise of the utilization criticism. Read it carefully.