Correct. The real goal was never to fix "failing schools." It was to
franchise education for a certain population and make more money for a
precious few.
>From lockstep scripted curricula without the arts, sciences etc. to the loss
of school nurses. The new Common Core Standards are a glaring example.
Instead of a High-stake test for each state, Pearson can now make one
blanket test for everyone, with Pearson the required Pearson Test prep
materials which must be purchased.
Now children can be put into categories more easily. Someone in Denver can
know my students are a "1", or a "3" without ever having met them, knowing
what they can do, how they think, etc.
Of course not all children will have go to through this. Children of the
well-off will not have to experience this nor their teachers. Only
working-class children and poor children of color. If you connect the dots
between who owns Pearson, CTB McGraw-Hill you will find the usual suspects
from the Wall St. bailouts behind them.
From: Glenn moyer <glen...@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:05:02 -0500
To: Alex de Soto <wil.p...@comcast.net>
Cc: UnivCity listserv <UnivCity@list.purple.com>
Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
The real goal of "education reform" comes through in the latest Chicago
example, but citizens need to pay attention!
If one looks at the shenanigans closely, the school board was not aware
that some of the schools being closed had made tremendous strides in raising
student scores, even with the fraudulent evaluations used against them.
They were also not aware that principals and pedagogy had been changed just
last year and often yearly for ten years. This is extremely important!
While the very involved parents and students know that sabotaging and then
closing their public schools has long been the goal, the board is armed with
FRAUDULENT data! It's another important example of the real goal, like the
evaluation that was exposed in the phillycom article I posted a few days ago
(the good teacher got a failing grade for "group activities" even though the
principal knew she was good at this).
These evaluation packages make a tiny group of education "experts" millions
of dollars! The simplistic measurement instruments are pushed as valid and
reliable at a bargain price for the businesses running school boards. But
they give arbitrary and failing grades to any schools or teachers, and the
entire system is pushed to adopt strategies to beat the scheme behind the
test, while the morale of good teachers is destroyed.
Invalid and unreliable measurements are no better than evaluating teachers
by the color of their shoes and maybe worse!
The university based reformers funnel the data crunching contracts to
their private companies and that's where the reformers make their millions!
Of course the victims in poor and working class neighborhoods know beyond
any doubt, THAT THIS FRAUD WAS NEVER INTENDED TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS. It was
always about building a disingenuous case, while simultaneously de-funding
schools one library and one music program at a time!
I saw the identical process close-up in behavioral health care. They are
closing down all those programs too, while the stocks in private prisons
skyrocket!
Glenn
PS: I saw about a year ago, Detroit raised its class size to 60 pupils, in
poor neighborhoods of course.
On 2/24/2012 9:22 PM, wil.p...@comcast.net wrote:
> Chicago is where the President Obama's Race to the Top was born as a kind of
> a joke between then Sen. Obama and Arne Duncan. Chicago nearly as much as New
> Orleans sees the terrible effects of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top.
>
> Ironically, Paul Vallas, from Chicago destroyed the Post-Katrina New Orleans
> School District under the auspices of Arne Duncan. "The best thing that ever
> happened to the New Orleans Schools was Hurricane Katrina."
>
> If people really care to they can do a search and verify this.
>
> Sent from Xfinity Mobile App
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: glen...@earthlink.net
> To: wil.p...@comcast.net
> Cc: UnivCity@list.purple.com
> Sent:Sat Feb 25 01:34:32 UTC 2012
> Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
> Wilma,
>
> Have you seen the latest from Chicago?
>
>
>
> http://www.suntimes.com/news/10815524-418/board-of-education-oks-shake-ups-for
> -17-schools.html
>
>
> Our brothers and sisters from Occupy Chicago are standing in solidarity with
> students, parents, and teachers. Knowing Chicago's history, this might be the
> first place where teachers and parents are tazed and pepper sprayed in large
> numbers.
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw4PgOeRuLg&feature=related
>
>
> Chicago recently implemented the same "permit rules" as our very own Parks
> and Recreation. Isn't that a strange "coincidence?"
>
> Peace and solidarity,
> Glenn
>
>
>
>
> On 2/24/2012 6:20 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote:
>>
>> I for one am VERY happy about this.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately those parents and children who do NOT have the money and the
>> clout behind them will lose their neighborhood schools and be herded into
>> corporate charter schools IF they would have them. They will also be
>> "counseled out" and have decreasing choices for their education if charters
>> do not keep them. The attrition rate for African-American students,
>> particularly males, is quite high for corporate charter franchises.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Segregated, (mainly charter schools), have increased at a rate not seen since
>> BEFORE the Civil Rights Movement. The remaining public schools are rundown,
>> neglected from the siphoning of public funds to corporate charters.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thankfully, Parochial School children have averted this fate because the
>> right people support them. I just wish it could be so for public school poor
>> children of color.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: <craigso...@aol.com>
>> Reply-To: <craigso...@aol.com>
>> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:07:15 -0500 (EST)
>> To: "krf...@aol.com" <krf...@aol.com>, UnivCity listserv
>> <UnivCity@list.purple.com>
>> Subject: Re: [UC] Inky reports West Catholic will stay open
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Also just announced on WPHT 1210 5:00 PM news, based on strong alumni
>> support. I was with Fr Marrone Wed nite; he was anxious for an answer. His
>> hard work and that of many others has been rewarded, but the stewardship will
>> have to be continuous.
>>
>>
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> _________________________________
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 2/24/2012 4:41:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> krf...@aol.com writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Click here: All four Catholic high schools saved
>>> <http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Archdiocese-HS-news-coming-
>>> later-today.html>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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