Pity the Corporate School Reformers It’s gotta’ be tough to be a corporate school reformer these days. Betsy DeVos is Education Secretary. Donald Trump is President. Their entire Koch Brothers-funded, ALEC-written agenda is national policy. But their stripes are showing – big time. The NAACP has turned against their school privatization schemes. The Journey for Justice Alliance is having none of it….
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Worse Than Fake News – Ignored News. Top 5 Education Stories You May Have Missed in 2016
Worse Than Fake News – Ignored News. Top 5 Education Stories You May Have Missed in 2016 Fake news! Watch out for fake news! In the wake of the disastrous 2016 election cycle that left us with a conman turned reality TV star as President, the media has suddenly decided the whole thing can be blamed…
Standardized Tests Have Always Been About Keeping People in Their Place
Standardized Tests Have Always Been About Keeping People in Their Place There are some things that can’t be unseen. America’s history of standardized testing is one of them. Today, critics from all sides of the political spectrum decry the overuse of high stakes tests while paradoxically championing them for accountability purposes – especially for schools serving…
Blinded by Pseudoscience: Standardized Testing is Modern Day Eugenics
Blinded by Pseudoscience: Standardized Testing is Modern Day Eugenics Adolph Hitler was a big fan of standardized testing. It helped justify much of the horrors of the Nazi regime. “National Socialism is nothing but applied biology,” he said. In other words, it’s just science, people. Some races are simply inferior to others. Black people, Jews, Gypsies,…
Colorblind to Justice: The Enduring Legacy of Racism in The Progressive Era
Colorblind to Justice: The Enduring Legacy of Racism in The Progressive Era A year before he was to make his first of five runs for The White House under the banner of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, Eugene V. Debs penned an article for the International Socialist Review titled,“The Negro in the Class Struggle.”…
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