Daily Archives: November 16, 2015

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
The Hechinger Report describes a study from an online company that has been data mining the kids. Based on data mining and test scores, it reaches the conclusion that only 4.7 minutes of…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Julie Vassilatos explains why school choice is harmful: to students, families, and communities. She writes: I don’t care what anyone tells me about competition among schools making them all better, or how being…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
This was written before I spoke in Omaha, but the reporter was well prepared and got the gist. Actually when I spoke to him, I had not yet written my speech. ? What I…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
John Thompson, historian and teacher, reflects on the teaching of “creative disobedience.” I grew up in an oligarchy but it was under attack by a bottom-up force known as democracy. During my childhood,…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Gary Rubinstein wrote recently about the TFA leader in Nashville, who was swiftly removed. Gary speculated that he was removed after a video surfaced showing the TFA leader expressed some outrageous views about…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
In a strange turn of events, Maureen Healey, the Attorney General for the state of Massachusetts, issued a brief defending the cap on charter schools. There is currently a strong push by charter…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
The Network for Public Education has created an interactive graphic and a narrative that describe Bill Gates’ experimentation on our nation’s children over the past year. It is a must-see! The extent of…

Originally posted on Gary Rubinstein's Blog:
In my last post ‘Tea F A?’, I speculated that the former executive director of TFA Nashville was fired after a video surfaced of him saying some pretty disgusting things at a Tea…

Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog:
In my November 11, 2015, post about former US senator Mary Landrieu’s becoming a “strategic advisor” for the very-anti-union Walton Foundation, I included the following nine-minute Walmart employee training video, which came to…