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Dr. Ravitch Speaks: Watch It, and Then Watch It Again
Despite some self-serving radical revising of her own role in developing and perpetuating the testocracy that she now decries, this is powerful stuff and something that should be shared all over, and...
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And the Winners Are . . . The Test Scores
With the first round of bribes being announced today in Duncan’s Race to the Trough, it is now apparent that destroying the teaching profession is even more important to the Business Roundtable than...
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Duncan Bribery Turns to Blackmail and Extortion
From Firedoglake: . . . .Race to the Top just announced their first two grant winners, Tennessee and Delaware, yesterday. I hope we can be honest about what this actually represents: blackmail. It...
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How BIll Gates Won the Race to the Top, and Why Every Parent and Teacher...
Every so often we glimpse small stories stuck into the back pages of the corporate press on the continuing payouts by Microsoft for settlements to years-old State claims that Gates “had stifled...
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Changing RTTT Rules in the Middle of the Race
At the beginning of the first leg of RTTT, there were forty state entrants. Some states had changed laws on charter schools and teacher evaluations and constant surveillance data systems in order to...
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…and Where’s Joanne’s Ethics Waiver?
Duncan’s Chief of Staff Margot Rogers (previously employed by the Gates Foundation) and OII Director Jim Shelton (also previously employed by the Gates Foundation; also previously employed by NSVF and...
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Race to the Top and the Politics of Corruption
Arne Duncan became Secretary of Education because of his fealty to the corporate education reform agenda that he nurtured and learned under in Chicago. When it was time for Arne, as Secretary, to...
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Ravitch’s Top 10 Reasons for Refusing RTTT
From Bridging Differences, ht to Monty Neill: . . . . As I listened to teachers and principals, I concluded that states and districts should not participate in the Race to the Top. It might better be...
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In First Sign of Congressional Sanity on Education, RTTT Cut by $800 Million
When the oligarchs cut a corporate welfare deal with Obama to spread their poisonous urban charter chain gangs across black and brown America, they did not count on pushback from a dumb Dem Congress....
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What to Cut in Schools During the Depression, and It Ain’t Libraries
Rather than accepting the cheap RTTT bribes inspired by Gates and Broad to bust up public education even further, states need to gird their loins, make some tough decisions, and hunker down. From...
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NEA: No confidence in RTTT
Posted as a NCTE blog: The National Education Association just voted “No Confidence” in the Race to the Top Guidelines & the use of competitive grants by the Dept of Education. I propose that NCTE...
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Team Obama Suggested Cutting Food Stamps to Maintain Duncan’s RTTT Bribes
Thank God for David Obey, quoted here from EmptyWheel: The secretary of Education is whining about the fact he only got 85 percent of the money he wanted .… So, when we needed money, we committed the...
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WikiPeeks Offers Up Secret Draft of Duncan Speech Announcement
Secretary Duncan will speak at noon today to announce news regarding Race to the Top. Schools Matter was able to acquire this earlier draft of ED’s announcement from WikiPeeks: The Quiet Coup...
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Karen Lewis on RTTT, Charters, and More
One can hope we are looking at the next President of the AFT:Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: charter schools, Karen Lewis, RTTT
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Respectable Academics Standing Up to Chief Corporate Goon, Rick Hess
Of the many things I get red in the face about is the fact that education academics, my colleagues, have been sitting on their hands in in their pre-fab towers (ed school people don’t get into the...
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