“Schools of the Future” and Other Scams to Monetize Your Child Do you feel it? The future is coming. There it is hovering just over the horizon. You squint your eyes trying to get a quick peak before it arrives. But that rarely works. By the time it’s here, it’s never quite in the shape you…
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The Racists Roots and Racist Indoctrination of School Choice
The Racists Roots and Racist Indoctrination of School Choice “Simple justice requires that public funds, to which all taxpayers of all races contribute, not be spent in any fashion which encourages, subsidizes, or results in racial discrimination.” -President John F. Kennedy “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Billionaires and…
Why Schools Should NOT Be Run Like Businesses
Why Schools Should NOT Be Run Like Businesses America loves business. We worship the free market. Nothing is more infallible – not reason, not morals, not even God. Money is the true measure of success – the more you have, the better a person you are. This perverted ideology has taken over much of American life….
What Diane Ravitch Means To Me
What Diane Ravitch Means To Me Am I crazy? That’s what many of us had been wondering before we read Diane Ravitch. As teachers, parents and students, we noticed there was something terribly wrong with our national education policy. The Emperor has no clothes, but no one dared speak up. Until Diane Ravitch. We were told…
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,…
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