New Cartoon:
Found in a Standards-Struck Classroom
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This one received so much comment, I'll mention it again.
Teacher Contemplating Common Core
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You won't want to miss Duncan's recent remarks:
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I'm clearing my head tonight with a performance by classical guitarist, Xuefei Yang. I don't know how she did on PISA.
Susan
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Drinking the Technology-Enhanced Kool-aid
Susan Ohanian
blog
2013-12-06
http://susanohanian.org/core.
Quick! Somebody tell PARCC how much highlighters cost.
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Hey, There, Listen Up
Susan Ohanian
blog
2013-12-04
http://susanohanian.org/core.
Is anybody listening?
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It's official: No PARCC field tests for Florida
Jeffrey S. Solochek
Tampa Bay Times
2013-12-02
http://susanohanian.org/core.
The Tampa Bay Times has been a vigorous cheerleader from the Common Core. There have been no editorials yet on this new wrinkle.
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To the editor
Stephen Krashen
San Francisco Chronicle
2013-12-03
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Yes! We must say it again and again: Poverty. Poverty. Poverty.
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What’s Good For Bill Gates Turns Out To Be Bad For Public Schools
David Morris
Common Dreams
2013-11-30
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Morris makes an especially important point ignored by the press: To qualify for Obama Race to the Top Grants states had to march in step with Gates policies
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The Gates Foundation's Hypocritical Investments
Alex Park and Jaeah Lee
Mother Jones
2013-12-06
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Contrasting what Bill Gates says with where the Foundation invests its money.
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The Googlization of the Far Right: Why is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
Nick Surgey
Center for Media and Democracy: PR Watch
2013-11-27
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Google, the tech giant supposedly guided by its 'don't be evil' motto, has been funding a growing list of groups advancing the agenda of the Koch brothers.
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A Teacher Looks a Gift Horse in the Mouth
Sean Black to John Stossel
letter exchange
2013-12-04
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Sean Black explains why he's refusing Stossel's special offer to educators.
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Order the CD of the resistance:
"No Child Left Behind? Bring Back the Joy."
To order online (and hear samples from the songs)
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/
Other orders: Send $15 to
Susan Ohanian
P. O. Box 26
Charlotte, VT 05445
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