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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

6-4-14 Schools Matter

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Weingarten Twisting in the Wind Over Common Core Embrace
Randi Weingarten has tried every strategy that her posse of lawyers can come up with to maintain her loyalty to corporate education plutocrats who made her, while pretending to represent the interests of children, parents, and public schools.  She has gone so far as to get herself arrested in protest of school closures, while behind the headlines continuing her undying support of Common Core, test

The Pearson Teacher: From Sage on the Stage to Technician in the Mechanism
When Bill Gates came to Memphis in 2009 with $90 million to grease the hinges on every bureaucratic door within a hundred miles, the schools became the laboratory for every self-serving thought disorder that the aging crackpot could come up with.  The latest bad dream brings together Common Core, Pearson, Windows tablets, and the Gates dream of making schools entirely teacher proof.  Teachers will


6-3-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Parent Insists Her Child Will No Longer Be Pearson Lab RatThere was a time not so long ago when the post-test curriculum could take hold after the March madness of state testing, when teachers could do a few of the interesting units and projects that once engaged children from September through February. Now school after test time is increasingly filled with even more rigorometry a