“No need for facts in education”– when we have the internet
In 2010, Bill Gates is quoted in this article as saying, “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the […]
View ArticleAchievement Gap Not Narrowed by Common Core! So What’s the Next Talking Point?
The Hechinger Report, which bills itself as Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education and is partially funded by the Gates Foundation, writes in More than five years after […]
View ArticleKids and Screen Addiction-Damaging their Brains and Strong as Cocaine?
How much money do you think Xbox brings in a year? Or Minecraft? Or Pokémon Go? Do you love your kids being glued to the screen, playing these games? Would […]
View ArticleMelinda Gates Won’t Give Up Misguided Course to Remake American Education
Translation: Melinda Gates believes The Gates Foundation made a mistake in deciding to support The Common Core State Standards Initiative that bypassed state legislatures and voters because the […]
View ArticleABCs of Classrooms at Risk: DON’T just #OPTOUT
What are we doing to our kids? Cancer doesn’t care if you are Democrat or Republican. The dollars invested in the edtech industry don’t care if your child is Democrat […]
View ArticleSEL Commission & Measuring Emotional Standards in Schools
SEL. What is it? Social Emotional Learning. Corporations, non-profits, government agencies and the American education system are obsessed with personal history, personality surveys, algorithms that...
View ArticleThe USDoE’s Digital Promise to advance the edtech field, CBE, and online ed
In 2011 the US Department of Education (USDoE) launched the nonprofit Digital Promise, and Digital Promise helped create The League of Innovative Schools. (Click to see map of Innovative Schools in...
View ArticleReasoning Mind Math: reason to worry?
The non-profit Reasoning Mind offers “personalized” on-line math curriculum and a computer based “Genie” who is virtually a child’s best friend, and knows personal things about them, even confessions....
View ArticleThe proposed NSA-like national database for student data: Moneyball for kids
For anyone who has ever filled out a college application, or scholarship or grant application, you know the incredible amount of personal information these forms require. What if there was a […]
View ArticleReviewing Achieve Inc.’s National Common Core Standards
Here’s a (mostly pictorial) history of Common Core. We will use Colorado as an example but chances are this story will seem very familiar (even 95% similar) to folks in every state. […]
View ArticleWho’s afraid of Common Core and who supports it? Questions for leaders.
Even though Common Core has been acknowledged as a major campaign issue and is the focus of a heated debate in education, it was not mentioned during the hearing* to confirm our new US […]
View ArticleParents, tell Congress to get rid of John King’s Rules on Federal Test and...
Former US Secretary of Education, John King, now leads The Education Trust. It should come as no surprise that Ed Trust is feverishly tweeting, and tweeting and tweeting –urging people […]
View ArticlePresident Trump: It’s Time to Hold Bill Gates Accountable for His...
President Trump is set to meet with Bill Gates on Monday, March 20, according to The Hill: White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced the meeting on Thursday at […]
View ArticleThe Scary Truth on Why Data Mining of Students is a Human Rights Issue
Question: Do you believe school administrators and third parties when they assure parents/taxpayers that personally identifiable student data is safe? Are you one of “those people” who don’t want […]
View ArticleUSDoE’s Digital Promise and Facebook team up for student databadges.
Trick or treat Two-fer today. The Data Quality Campaign, funded by Bill Gates is lobbying Congress to further weaken FERPA. You can and SHOULD read all about that here. We urge you […]
View ArticleDear Congress, you are being duped. HR4174-S2046 is a Privacy Fail. Here’s why.
Dear Congress, The GOP Majority Staff of the Congressional House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote and distributed a response to my November 12 blogpost that opposed HR4174. This...
View Article2011 Video: Personalized Learning’s Plan to Replace Teachers?
The last few years have seen an astronomical increase in screen time and “blended learning” being required in schools, starting even in preschool and kindergarten. Many schools require students to pay...
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