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6-27-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

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After Forty Years of Test-Based Acccountability, Almost Nothing and Less than Zero

  The federal information clearinghouse, ERIC, had 9 entries for the subject, “educational accountability,” in 1970.  By 1972, there were 440 entries for that year.  In 2010, the number of entries peaked at 2,200.  You may say, with good evidence to back it up, that “educational accountability” has essentially dwarfed or completely erased every worthy […]

Perhaps the NEA and AFT both adhere to an old model of lesson planning

This whole idea of monetizing lesson plans seems like a very antique method. This from the Huffington Post on a very similar initiative soon to be released by the NEA that is strikingly similar to AFT’s Share My Lesson, or whatever. The NEA’s is called, what, BetterLesson or something? I mean, OK, I guess. Who […]

Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership | the becoming radical

Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership | the becoming radical.

Arne Duncan, Civil Rights Visionary of Our Era

When he attended the star-studded premiere in 2010 for Davis Guggenheim’s slick propaganda film, Waiting for Superman, Arne Duncan called it a “Rosa Parks moment.”  In making this stunning analogy, it became clear that corporate education reform schoolers were no longer going to sit at the back of the corporate jet.  No longer would they […]


6-26-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

mike simpson at Big Education Ape - 8 hours ago
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: [image: gears] Ultra badass student activists in Chicago giving it to CPS #stuvoice by Chalk Face, PhD I am quoting, via Facebook: Just spoke out against the Board of Education with students from the CSOSOS! Most bad ass thing in the world! Security had no idea what was going on as students across the room stood up and spoke against the Board. It was pure chaos! My thirty second stand up speech: […] Duncan: Pay no attention to who is behind the #CCSS curtain by Chris Cerrone Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been quite busy lately ma... more »