This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build.
From Kenneth Saltman, via Workplace:
The Rise of Venture Philanthropy and the Ongoing Neoliberal Assault on Public Education: The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Kenneth Saltman
In the past decade educational policy and reform has come...
We have laws against the doping of racehorses. Any legislators out there interested in extending the same benefit to children, who are regularly subjected to legal speed and anti-psychotic drugs for the benefit of ignorant parents, total compliance...
The evidence grows each week that the Business Roundtable's latest magic bullet for killing off public schools has failed to fully penetrate its victims. What has penetrated the thinking among states and municipalities is the realization that the...
As Arne's pals on the Business Roundtable have perfected the use of the black-white test score gap in schools as an excuse to vilify educators and impose uniform and uniformed "no excuses" corporate chain gang schools throughout an impoverished urban...
Huffington Post just lost a last great post by Jerry Bracey, submitted posthumously by Susan Ohanian. Seems HuffPo will put up any meaningless mush by Tom (Elwood Blues) Van der Ark, but when there is real story about a real neolib icon like Arne,...
