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Thursday, December 5, 2013

PISA, Christmas, and Truth | Reclaim Reform

PISA, Christmas, and Truth | Reclaim Reform:

PISA, Christmas, and Truth

PISA scores have again caused an avalanche of media talking heads screaming their propaganda about whatever they have been paid to scream by the Corporate Education Industrial Complex.
Don’t believe results that omit the main factor in the numbers – poverty. Poverty with all its related deprivations.
Christmas in 1848 and the Truth will be connected, but first read what real experts are saying about the PISA scores, our children, our schools and our teachers.
Read Diane Ravitch HERE.
Read the Washington Post HERE.
Read School Finance 101 HERE.
Read G.F. Brandenberg HERE.
Watch the American Federation of Teachers’ video HERE.
A Christmas Carol published in 1843 by Charles Dickens tells the Truth about what all of these and other education experts concluded.
Ignorance and want1
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both… but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.”
- The Spirit of Christmas Present speaking to Scrooge
(Ignorance is lack of a full education. Want is poverty. Some of my students thought that ignorance meant stupidity and want meant greed – wanting more, more, more. Since many of my students had