[...] Alfie, “Have They Lost Their Minds?” : “ If you read the FAQ page on the common core standards website, don’t bother looking for words like “exploration,” “intrinsic motivation,” “developmentally appropriate,” or “democracy.” Instead, the very first sentence contains the phrase “success in the global economy,” followed immediately by “America’s competitive edge.” If these bright new digitally enhanced national standards are more economic than educational in their inspiration, more about winning than learning, devoted more to serving the interests of business than to meeting the needs of kids, then we’ve merely painted a 21st-century façade on a hoary, dreary model of school as employee training. Anyone who recoils from that vision should be doing everything possible to resist a proposal for national standards that embodies it. http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/national.htm Grassroots Education Movement in NYC Protest Jan 21: “We are picketing Bloomberg’s residence because he is in charge of these wrongful closings. We need to bring our opposition to his doorstep.” http://grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com/2010/01/protest-bloombergs-school-closings.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMIxM+(GEMnyc) Randi Weingarten (AFT) Proposes to Abolish Tenure (as in Detroit): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/education/13teacher.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y Joan Roelofs Analysis of the Relationship of Schools and the Military (Click under pages, it’s several pdf files well worth the candle): http://joanroelofs.wordpress.com/military-industrial-complex/4-education-and-culture/ [...]
January 19, 2010 at 12:42 am |
[...] Alfie, “Have They Lost Their Minds?” : “ If you read the FAQ page on the common core standards website, don’t bother looking for words like “exploration,” “intrinsic motivation,” “developmentally appropriate,” or “democracy.” Instead, the very first sentence contains the phrase “success in the global economy,” followed immediately by “America’s competitive edge.” If these bright new digitally enhanced national standards are more economic than educational in their inspiration, more about winning than learning, devoted more to serving the interests of business than to meeting the needs of kids, then we’ve merely painted a 21st-century façade on a hoary, dreary model of school as employee training. Anyone who recoils from that vision should be doing everything possible to resist a proposal for national standards that embodies it. http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/national.htm Grassroots Education Movement in NYC Protest Jan 21: “We are picketing Bloomberg’s residence because he is in charge of these wrongful closings. We need to bring our opposition to his doorstep.” http://grassrootseducationmovement.blogspot.com/2010/01/protest-bloombergs-school-closings.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMIxM+(GEMnyc) Randi Weingarten (AFT) Proposes to Abolish Tenure (as in Detroit): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/education/13teacher.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y Joan Roelofs Analysis of the Relationship of Schools and the Military (Click under pages, it’s several pdf files well worth the candle): http://joanroelofs.wordpress.com/military-industrial-complex/4-education-and-culture/ [...]