https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-06-27T06:22:48+00:00 https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-algorithmic-order/ robertogreco audreywatters 2026 edtech technology education schools schooling standardizedtesting testing coding natashasinger google chromebooks politics policy high-stakestesting rossweiner nclb educationreform reform teaching curriculum learning howwelearn howweteach pedagogy democracy technocracy australia uk us canada texasideology californianideology fredturner secularism christianity whitesupremacy surveillance military extraction extractivism texas bible individualism libertarianism neoliberalism mooc moocs quinnslobodian bentarnoff muskism fordism elonmusk henryford spacex starlink southafrica business society capitalism sciencefiction scifi futurism ailiteracy literacy ai artificialintelligence benwilliamson arjunappadurai theobaker stanford universities colleges highereducation highered academia lmsacasas emilybender nannainue language anthropomorphization socialmedia moralpanic regulation deregulation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc6b54329945/ 2026-06-27T06:13:44+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/schools-testing-accountability.html robertogrecoFor a generation, the reform coalition took its validation from economists and accountability metrics, while treating parents, students and communities as mere functionaries rather than partners in a shared civic enterprise. Taking their priorities seriously would mean broadening what we expect from the classroom. Schools should put what students can do on equal footing with what they know, embedding real skills in academic learning rather than leaving them to chance or sequencing them to later in life. Schools should reconnect with the communities they serve, so young people learn through and about the places where they live. And they should reanimate the character-forming, developmental mission a pluralistic democracy requires. Federal policy has an essential role to play in public education: protecting civil rights, funding quality data and research, and encouraging promising practices to spread. But the formative mission cannot be mandated by Washington. Belonging, the foundation of both learning and civic commitment, is relational and starts local; it cannot be standardized or scaled, but must be cultivated by schools that are responsive to the communities they serve. It’s not a fully-fleshed out vision for education, to be sure, but it does gesture at something quite different from the technocratic one that schools have spent the last few decades delivering -- and delivering via education technology, via a machinery that shapes the form and increasingly the content, the curricula and the pedagogy. Funny, for all the invocation of "the future of education" from ed-tech evangelists and testing companies and politicians, they're almost always talking about the past, or at least about much older narratives of what that future might look like. (And in doing so, they ignore that computers have been ubiquitous in classrooms for a very very long time now.)"]]]> rosswiener education schools schooling nclb 2026 audrey watters policy schoolreform reform civilrights technocracy pedagogy curriculum edtech teaching howweteach democracy belonging civics pluralism academics learning howwelearn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b31695b25cce/ 2026-04-18T22:31:35+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-school-reformer-accountability robertogreco pisa education policy us schools schooling accountability finland netherlands freddiedeboer belgium canada australia standardizedtesting pedagogy teaching howweteach oecd europe japan southkorea korea singapore taiwan humanity humanism economics culture history comparison naep nclb davidberliner reform schoolreform poverty commoncore curriculum equity inequality sanfrancisco algebra standardization standards rttt florida ohio texas arizona louisiana indiana mississippi essa 2015 2026 socialjustice mattyglesias jonathanchait https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:59d7e5c1063b/ 2026-03-24T20:43:27+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/when-people-say-they-want-good-schools robertogreco schools schooling parenting 2026 freddiedeboer education robertpondiscio learning howwelearn successacademy charters charterschools selectivity publicschools exclusivity privateschools zoning exclusion nclb geofreycanada harlemchildrenszone teaching howweteach pedagogy disruption behavior children jonathanchait segregation desegregation society inequality admissions demographics policy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:da158314f581/ 2026-03-20T07:19:03+00:00 https://educationwars.substack.com/p/how-did-this-happen robertogreco jenniferberkshire 2026 edtech technology schools schholing education bigtech siliconvalley audreywatters jebbush sasharogelberg personalization personalizedlearning michellerhee studentsfirst history 50can arneduncan rttt nclb zqinstitute richardwhitmire rocketship charters charterschools anyakamenetz amylittlefield barackobama billgates markzuckerberg philanthropicindustrialcomplex charitableindustrialcomplex staceychildress reedhastings https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:06c09ed13491/ 2026-03-13T05:14:57+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/what-people-want-from-our-schools robertogreco education schools schooling society 2026 history germany france netherlands finland us china equality inequality economics plato europe oecd children chidlhood horacemann johndewey curriculum pedagogy howweteach teaching learning howwelearn hierarchy civilrightsmovement anationatrisk nclb selectiviy charterschools charters sat testing standardizedtesting southkorea israel academics conscription aptitude compulsory labor work unionization unions brucespringsteen nafta gatt vrettonwoods mexico vietnam ronaldreagan barackobama lobbyists lobbying policy politics corporations corporatism democrats republicans thinktanks socialmobility freddiedeboer https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d7136e98b930/ 2026-02-28T17:14:52+00:00 https://unherd.com/2026/02/why-your-kid-hates-learning-apps/?edition=us robertogreco johnallenwooden education schools publicschools teaching howweteach schooling gamification edtech technology automation 2026 i-ready surveillance testing childten us policy standardizedtesting standardization learning howwelearn bigtech testprep tutoring coercion monotony schoolwork howwlearn sitejabber curriculumassociates lessonplanning curriculum pedagogy data datacollection nclb sciencewashing resistance research wested lobbying lausd kellysia stileeducation coppa privacy benjamincoleman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:be4704569217/ 2026-01-17T04:31:54+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/if-you-want-freedom-and-democracy robertogrecofreddiedeboer 2026 iran us venezuela nicolásmaduro regimechange donaldtrump maga trummpism foreignpolicy media mohammedmmossadegh 1950s elections middleeast uk cia rezapahlavi ruhollahkhomeini nclb accountability neocons neoconservatism intervention greenland mossad israel corruption democracy mohammedshiaal-sudani syria iraq georgewbush iraqwar isis saddamhussein afghanistabn islam peterbeinart virtue neoconservatives necons neconservatives https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a7201dbffe59/ 2026-01-12T22:08:35+00:00 https://patrickfarenga.substack.com/p/the-empty-rituals-of-schooling robertogreco patfarenga school schooling education children 2026 johnholt us history society policy nclb rttt essa nationatrisk 1983 1968 bilingualeducationact 1965 2001 1994 2009 2015 howwelearn learning howweteach teaching jonathanhaidt cevisoling childhood parenting politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:27e4075f210a/ 2025-11-06T19:21:19+00:00 https://hammerandhope.org/article/atlanta-cheating-standardized-tests robertogreco atlanta education 2025 schools schooling sarahabdelaziz annasimonton cheating standardizedtesting publicschools danaevans coercion nclb sonnyperdue us 2013 2009 2000s paulhoward rico https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f6908216577b/ 2025-08-29T19:15:42+00:00 https://educationwars.substack.com/p/is-public-education-over robertogreco education schools schooling publicschools standardizedtesting jenniferberkshire 2025 florida suewoltanski vouchers arizona derekblack chandlerfritz capitalism neoliberalism privatization danagoldstein accountability testing texas andrewcuomo nyc davidbrooks schoolreform reform billclinton barackobama teaching howweteach joebiden kamalaharris michaelpetrilli mississippi alabama louisiana tennessee kelseypiper mattburenig commoncore republicans noradelacour chicago catoinstitute microschools children us policy nathansage susancollins maine grahamplatner joshcowen michigan abdulel-sayed iowa catelindrey democrats politics teachers greatbooks donaldtrump rttt nclb educationreforminequality billytownsend tests abundance abundancenetwork educationsavingsaccounts abundancemovement rahmemanuel yimby yimbyism yimbys abundanceagenda https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6b392afaefaa/ 2025-07-05T02:01:14+00:00 https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/06/20/code-red-how-ai-is-set-to-supercharge-racism-rewrite-history-and-hijack-learning/ robertogrecoai artificialintelligence 2025 race racism history learning disinformation misinformation inequality inequity technology 2024 education socialmedia nclb accountability machinelearning crisis compassion community justice injustice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6e73308d2774/ 2024-12-13T21:51:12+00:00 https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/you-cant-rebrand-a-class-war robertogreco hamiltonnolan class classwar classwarfare left us politics economics donaldtrump linakhan ftc albertsons kroger mergers acquisitions law legal joemanchin kyrstensinema nclb labor work workers democrats republicans policy jenniferabbruzzo elonmusk spacex sec taxes taxation inequality populism regulatorycapture regulation careerism medicareforall healthcare health medicine radicalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:141c4028d50a/ 2024-09-10T18:30:04+00:00 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-and-genes-grab-bag robertogrecoboth sides are buying into and thereby furthering the larger eugenicist project of attributing socioeconomic inequality to genetic variation. I am again in this position where the basic moral values I’m evaluating simply do not make sense to me. Merchant reveals herself to be a committed progressive and critic of contemporary capitalism in this essay. Good. But what is progressive about denying the role of genetic variation in socioeconomic inequality? Our genetic endowment lies entirely outside of our own control, and the fact that we are born with a given genome is a matter of pure random chance, just like being born into a rich family. The neoliberal capitalist project depends on a widespread societal belief that our system is fair and consistently gives almost everyone a decent shot to succeed. But how can the outcomes be fair if our genes disadvantage us before we can make a single choice, before we attend a single class, before we work a single job? It’s rude and unscientific to believe that fat people are just gluttons without self-discipline. It’s rude and unscientific to believe that everyone has the same risk of being an alcoholic or drug addict. It’s rude and unscientific to believe that schizophrenia is caused by cold and distant mothers. And it’s rude and unscientific to believe that when one kid excels in the classroom and the other one struggles, that process is equitable and fair."]]> freddiedeboer genes genetics education 2024 eugenics policy nclb academics meritocracy neoliberalism metrics measurement testing race racism emilylanchermerchant edwinboring iq society inequality income https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9e8a05b33f52/ 2024-03-01T18:43:46+00:00 https://www.publicbooks.org/this-is-your-brain-on-books/ robertogrecoelysegraham 2023 books reading howweread thinking howwethink monks history saintanselm communion christopherdehamel bibliomaniacs manuscripts isolation community art learning nerds bookofjob judahbarezekiel religion christianity juadaism prayer oracles status ai artificialintelligence tiktok booktok doomscrolling twitter socialmedia adrianjohn magic christopherdehemel waynebooth oraltradition orality secondaryorality ebwhite howwewrite writing text letters alphabet society language edmundburkehuey technology socialscience jameswhale saccades punctuation read-ins libraries sesamestreet nclb readingfrist 1960s 1970s 2000s 1930s 1940s uptonsinclair raymondchandler claudeshannon information informationtheory cryptanalysis stem childhood literacy lectures howwelearn education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:03487709fa36/ 2021-04-29T20:18:07+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKWLNzveyo robertogreco jonathankozol 2021 education schools schooling us poverty policy inequality society learning children howwelearn finland china vietnam lithuania jamalbowman funding testing teaching howweteach philadelphia segregation privatization unions austerity nclb standardizedtesting adequateannualprogress charterschools rttt racetothetop arneduncan barackobama georgewbush schoolreform homeless homelessness housing opportunity malnutrition mentalhealth kenzoshibata childpverty nikhilgoyal gravelinstitute https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b12581120e3b/ 2019-10-16T04:46:36+00:00 http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/next_gen_learning/2019/02/why_equity_conservative_force_American_education.html robertogreco equity achievementgap education policy jalmehta via:derek 2019 liberation conservatism curriculum nclb rttt intentions civilrights testing standardizedtesting reading math schools schoolclimate testprep inequality authoritarianism learning howwelearn howweteach teaching publicschools privateschools data poverty us transmission interdisciplinary constructivism pedagogy credentials pedronoguera jeffduncan-andrade glorialadson-billings theresaperry power shanesharif experience diversity discussion agency horizontality leadership communities change management institutions culture schoolculture liberatorydesign ta-nehisicoates baltimore compliance curiosity inquiry rigor paulofreire https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:360916bbd6b6/ 2019-03-12T21:59:38+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/21/wrong-answer robertogreco 2014 testing standardizedtesting cheating atlanta education schools schooling incentives rachelavivrttt nclb high-stakestesting us scandal howweteach teaching learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e1f127335395/ 2019-03-07T17:36:11+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVlybJoV88 robertogreco yongzhao 2018 schools schooling pisa education testing standardizedtesting standardization china us history testscores children teaching howweteach howwelearn sideeffects privatization tims math reading confidence assessment economics depression diversity entrepreneurship japan creativity korea vietnam homogenization intolerance prosperity tolerance filtering sorting humans meritocracy effort inheritance numeracy literacy achievementgap kindergarten nclb rttt policy data homogeneity selectivity charterschools centralization decentralization local control inequity curriculum autonomy learning memorization directinstruction instruction poverty outcomes tfa teachforamerica finland singapore miltonfriedman vouchers resilience growthmindset motivation psychology research positivepsychology caroldweck intrinsicmotivation choice neoliberalism high-stakestesting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:621609aa2d00/ 2018-09-23T22:53:40+00:00 https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2018/09/18/how-much-do-rising-test-scores-tell-us-about-a-school/#acfe95c22e87 robertogreco frederickhess standardizedtesting 2018 education reform nclb rttt standardization policy measurement assessment attainment naep learning howelearn howweteach teaching publicschools schools schooling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7cae2a3b46d5/ 2018-09-23T22:50:04+00:00 https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2018/09/20/is-the-big-standardized-test-a-big-standardized-flop/#64cfe1df4937 robertogreco petergreene standardizedtesting testing standardization 2018 schools reform education measurement nclb rttt parcc sba frederickhess jaygreene teaching learning howwelearn howweteach policy schooling publicschools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fdc5ce5586d3/ 2018-05-14T01:19:28+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/early-childhood-outdoor-education/558959/ robertogrecoplay outdoors preschool education schools schooling academics learning howwelearn nature richardlouv children kids 2018 conorwilliams forestkindergartens kindergarten forests nclb rttt freedom unschooling deschooling unstructured creativity reggioemilia waldorf montessori pedagogy howweteach teaching health alternative childcare sustainability https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:afee454908f9/ 2017-04-30T20:18:11+00:00 https://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/04/07/richard-rothstein/nation-risk-twenty-five-years-later robertogreco anationatrisk richardrothstein 2008 1983 schools politics policy education poverty publicschools inequality testing standardizedtesting backtothebasics curriculum teaching nclb society economics sociology charterschools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:48b588776528/ 2016-08-02T02:14:08+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/dewey-knew-how-to-teach-democracy-and-we-must-not-forget-it robertogreco via:anne education johndewey sfsh openstudioproject tcsnmy lcproject democracy schools learning pedagogy society individualism individuals community class inequality us policy rttt nclb anationatrisk race training howweteach meaning purpose elitism theshoppingmallhighschool edhirsch hannaharendt vygotsky zpd interests interest-basedlearning children criticalthinking autonomy interest-drivenlearning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ccf6c143ca1/ 2016-07-29T23:36:44+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/the-common-core-costs-billions-and-hurts-students.html robertogreco 2016 dianeravitch commoncore standardization standardizedtesting testing government us nclb rttt georgehwbush gatesfoundation billgates standards education schools publischools poverty inequality segregation naep statistics achievementgap opportunitygap politics policy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d567f50b1e7d/ 2016-06-25T04:53:54+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-limits-of-grit robertogreco grit 2016 angeladuckworth race class luck perseverance daviddenby education mastery practice kipp character classism elitism obsessions malcolmgladwell serendipity mikeegan judithshulevitz capital privilege success effort talent skill achievement history culture society edreform nep pisa testing standardizedtesting nclb rttt socialscience paultough children schools poverty eq neuroscience jackshonkoff martinseligman learnedoptimism depression pessimism optimism davelevin dominicrandolph honesty courage integrity kindliness kindness samuelabrams https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:49e0bfd0b3c8/ 2016-03-01T07:24:39+00:00 http://www.theradiodispatch.com/show/radio-dispatch-live-with-megan-erickson-and-nikhil-goyal/ robertogreco via:litherland education us meganerickson nikhilgoyal policy learning billgates gatesfoundation 2016 nclb anationatrisk publicschools schools fear edreform reform terrelbell poverty race class inequality mentalhealth children engagement howwelearn divergentthinking curiosity creativity purpose progressive jonathankozol docility freeschools democracy danielgreenberg sudburyschools individualism brightworks avenues waldorfschools rudolfsteiner johndewey history paulgoodman unschooling deschooling johnholt herbertkohl alternative brooklynfreeschool resistance optimism hope unions nea aft radical radicalism democraticschools fannierushing subversion studentvoice paulofreire https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f1d55f005e26/ 2016-02-29T03:23:58+00:00 http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/ed/15/01/whats-worth-learning-school robertogreco davidperkins loryhough 2015 education curriculum thewhy why teaching achievement information expertise purpose schools assessment testing standardizedtesting nclb knowledge learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3be0f3009264/ 2016-01-12T15:44:25+00:00 https://newrepublic.com/article/127317/school robertogreco schools schooling education capitalism 2015 aaronswartz business influence money testing learning nclb https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d40d3b24db2f/ 2015-11-23T17:11:32+00:00 http://www.josieholford.com/first-they-make-you-crazy-then-they-sell-you-the-cure-be-mindful-of-mindless-mindfulness/ robertogreco josieholford mindfulness buddhism schools buzzwords fads 2015 children mentalhealth anxiety nclb grit health injustice testing standardizedtesting wellness trends education learning teaching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3cefa21c6b92/ 2015-05-12T19:38:28+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/nyregion/28education.html?pagewanted=all robertogreco education nclb 2005 inequality policy schools via:jannon princeton testing standardizedtesting assessement race samuelfreedman https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b2cf811951d1/ 2015-05-04T17:56:54+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lyURyVz7k robertogreco johnoliver testing standardizedtesting assessment rttt nclb schools publicschools us policy pearson education learning teaching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:967326e375ed/ 2015-05-02T18:19:39+00:00 http://shermandorn.com/wordpress/?p=7877 robertogreco shermandorn 2015 education history policy reform edreform nclb danagoldstein teaching teachers poverty grades grading assessment gradeinflation divorce pedagogy curriculum narrative vocationaleducation colleges universities highered highereducation schools publicschools learning us rickhess marctucker https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:45567ecdf623/ 2015-04-19T16:47:20+00:00 http://stager.tv/blog/?p=3476 robertogreco commoncore 2015 education policy schools publicschools standardization standardizedtesting standards learning teaching pedagogy technology testing democracy process implementation agency howweteach howwelearn publicimage seymourpapert numeracy matheducation math mathematics numbersense understanding memorization algorithms rttt gatesfoundation pearson nclb georgewbush barackobama garystager https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c4321d69961/ 2015-04-13T19:36:30+00:00 http://killscreendaily.com/articles/no-pineapple-life-behind/ robertogreco standardizedtesting testing schools schooling education gaming videogames subalterngames nopineappleleftbehind humor satire children teaching learning howweteach factoryschools standardization nclb rttt publicschools pisa absurdism atlanta cheating economics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:446b1dad9500/ 2015-04-08T03:43:57+00:00 https://vimeo.com/122720631 robertogreco testing standardizedtesting nclb rttt schools education middleschool chipmanmiddleschool lindadarling-hammond alfiekohn martinmalström socialemotionallearning poverty iq assessment policy howweteach howelearn learning competition politics arneduncan jebbush measurement quantification inequality finland us edreform tcsnmy community experientiallearning communitycircles morningmeetings documentary film terrielkin engagement meaningmaking howwelearn teaching sylviakahn regret sellingout georgewbush susankovalik lauriemclachlan-fry joanduvall-flynn government howardgardner economics anthonycody privatization lobbying gatesfoundation marknaison billgates davidkirp broadfoundation charitableindustrialcomplex commoncore waltonfamily teachforamerica tfa mercedesschneider dianeravitch davidberliner publischools anationatrisk joelklein condoleezzarice tonywagner business markets freemarket neworleans jasonfrance naomiklein shockdoctrine karranharper-royal julianvasquezheilig sarahstickle ronjohnson alanskoskopf soci https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2f02a6a214f8/ 2015-03-28T03:37:54+00:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful/2015/03/26/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html robertogreco stem education testing standardizedtesting us policy sweden israel testscores comparison innovation technology science conformity conformism standardization diversity williambennett nclb rttt ronaldreagan anationatrisk writing criticalthinking liberalarts fareedzakaria 2015 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8daeea657589/ 2015-03-27T04:32:51+00:00 http://www.edutopia.org/landmark-education-report-nation-risk robertogreco anationatrisk 2007 tamimansary assessment diversity class ronaldreagan georgehwbush georgewbush nclb policy education 1983 1990 1993 1989 1992 2000 billclinton sandiaeport testing standardizedtesting statistics power politics publischools privatization curriculum rttt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2836463cb323/ 2015-03-26T07:51:47+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/business/economy/grading-teachers-by-the-test.html robertogreco nclb assessment testing standardizedtesting teaching education schools goodhart'slaw 2015 cheating china measurement metrics hesserothstein atlanta florida elpaso texas policy howweteach https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8d077b403cb4/ 2015-03-01T18:14:59+00:00 http://theconversation.com/in-test-based-systems-even-young-kids-resist-learning-37569 robertogreco testing learning howwelearn children schools 2015 nclb standardizedtesting accountability jenniferkeysadair ece earlychildhood anxiety howweteach teaching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1858073d6d7b/ 2015-01-14T01:42:09+00:00 http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/big-sort-obsession-american-education-ranking-people-95455/ robertogreco standardizedtesting testing education policy history phrenology iq 2015 danagoldstein nclb anationtrisk johnfriedman jonahrockoff rajchetty economics valueadded assessment instruction teaching learning howweteach howwelearn schools rankings measurement sat robertrosenthal lenorejacobson tedbell georgewbush politics johnhattie andrewbutler sorting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d4dfa599f266/ 2015-01-07T06:57:48+00:00 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/12/talking-cure robertogreco class language cultue education parenting 2015 margarettalbot headstart bettyhart toddrisley nclb learning vocabulary rttt policy angeltaveras providence rhodeisland conversation words children howwelearn providencetalks andreariquetti jamesmorgan linguistics annettelareau patriciakuhl richardweissbourd debate verbalacuity advocacy self-advocacy academics schoolreadiness kennethwong https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ae68e473e1c/ 2014-12-19T21:46:15+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWSaceaSpRI robertogreco danagoldstein teaching teachers poverty edreform tfa 2014 criticism inequality race rttt nclb magicalthinking teachforamerica https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:47c5ec42b2f8/ 2014-11-21T04:37:37+00:00 http://stager.tv/blog/?p=3401 robertogreco“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” (Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963) Educators are to remain neutral and seek consensus at all-costs. Balance programs us to find the silver lining in tornados. There MUST be SOMETHING good in what Bill Gates or Sal Khan or any number of a million corporations with ED or MENTUM or ACHIEVE or VATION in their names happen to be peddling. The laws of the political universe, and education is inherently political, greet each embrace of “balance” as ten steps in a more conservative direction. There is no balance – just weakness. I urge you to read one of my favorite passages ever written about “balance” in education. It is from a lesser-known classic, On Being a Teacher,”  by the great American educator, Jonathan Kozol. Please take a few minutes to read, “Extreme Ideas. [http://stager.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Kozol-Extreme-Ideas.pdf ]”]]> garystager balance compromise mediocrity submission 2014 jonathankozol resistance hybridmodel politics policy weakness dilution unschooling deschooling tcsnmy curriculum commoncore phonics rttt nclb mandates directives rules standardization helplessness gradualism teching pedagogy schools education khanacademy socialjustice leadership learning https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e958055519d6/ 2014-09-21T06:54:41+00:00 http://zhaolearning.com/2014/09/13/fatal-attraction-americas-suicidal-quest-for-educational-excellence/ robertogrecoAll the remains of her ancient institutions, which China now possesses, will necessarily be lost; they will disappear in the future revolutions; as what she hath already lost of them vanished in former ones; and finally, as she acquires nothing new, she will always be on the losing side. [8, p. 134]."]]> education assessment nclb china yongzhao via:taryn competition standardization rttt policy schools schooling control authoritarianism us homogenization accountability indoctrination high-stakestesting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:025778e457ba/ 2014-07-12T05:48:45+00:00 http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/common-core-commotion_796394.html robertogreco education reform edreform anationatrisk nclb georgewbush georgehwbush ronaldreagan barackobama jimmycarter money policy experts commoncore curriclum 2014 andrewferguson via:ayjay 1990 2000 1979 departmentofeducation edwardkennedy tedkennedy goals2000 1983 gatesfoundation billgates arneduncan bureaucracy markets aft nonprofits centralization standards schools publicschools us ideology politics technocracy credentialism teaching howweteach measurement rankings testing standardizedtesting abstraction nonprofit https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3c2ae68d561a/ 2014-06-22T06:40:44+00:00 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-nelson/education-reform-a-nation_b_5511589.html robertogreco 2014 stevenelson education publicschools nclb rttt arneduncan edreform gatesfoundation broadfoundation elibroad commoncore poverty billgates michellerhee attention parenting teaching learning politics policy pearson classsize charterschools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bc905d9a0361/ 2014-02-25T21:45:57+00:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-common-core-ravitch/ robertogreco dianeravitch commoncore 2014 government policy education democracy us standards nationalstandards meritocracy testing standardizedtesting society arneduncan rttt nclb schools publicschools pearson michellerhee joelklein billgates jebbush https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fbeb7e84aefb/ 2014-02-08T20:40:31+00:00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/06/the-misguided-effort-to-teach-character/ robertogreco education cognition character charactereducation pverty mikerose 2014 grit discipline rttt nclb policy economics testing standardizedtesting inequality afqt psychology personality measurement edreform politics pathlogizingthepoor self-control https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:16047f2e2f15/ 2014-01-09T04:37:31+00:00 http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2014/01/are_progressive_critics_of_com.html robertogreco commoncore 2014 policy education nclb rttt standards testing criticalthinking standardizedtestinganthonycody billhonig https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bf6c397108e9/ 2013-12-19T08:11:02+00:00 http://theamericanreader.com/a-question-of-silence-why-we-dont-read-or-write-about-education/ robertogreco education unschooling canon houmanharouni 2013 criticaleducation theory eleanorduckworth deborahmeier jeanpiaget ivanillich karlmarx society schooling oppression class liberals progressive progressives theleft paulgoodman sartre theodoreadorno michellerhee reform edreform nclb rttt radicalism revolution 1968 herbertmarcuse power policy politics teaching learning jaquesrancière arneduncan foucault louisalthusser deschooling frantzfanon samuelbowles herbertgintis jenshoyrup josephjacotot praxis johndewey philosophy criticaltheory henrygiroux herbertkohl jeananyon work labor capitalism neoliberalism liberalism progressiveeducation school schooliness crisis democracy untouchables mythology specialization isolation seclusion piaget michelfoucault althusser jean-paulsartre jacquesrancière schools rancière https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3b4a6892a426/ 2013-12-09T21:01:04+00:00 http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/12/creativity_is_rejected_teachers_and_bosses_don_t_value_out_of_the_box_thinking.html robertogrecoIn terms of decision style, most people fall short of the creative ideal … unless they are held accountable for their decision-making strategies, they tend to find the easy way out—either by not engaging in very careful thinking or by modeling the choices on the preferences of those who will be evaluating them. Unfortunately, the place where our first creative ideas go to die is the place that should be most open to them—school. Studies show that teachers overwhelmingly discriminate against creative students, favoring their satisfier classmates who more readily follow directions and do what they’re told. Even if children are lucky enough to have a teacher receptive to their ideas, standardized testing and other programs like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top (a program whose very designation is opposed to nonlinear creative thinking) make sure children’s minds are not on the “wrong” path, even though adults’ accomplishments are linked far more strongly to their creativity than their IQ. It’s ironic that even as children are taught the accomplishments of the world’s most innovative minds, their own creativity is being squelched. All of this negativity isn’t easy to digest, and social rejection can be painful in some of the same ways physical pain hurts. But there is a glimmer of hope in all of this rejection. A Cornell study makes the case that social rejection is not actually bad for the creative process—and can even facilitate it. The study shows that if you have the sneaking suspicion you might not belong, the act of being rejected confirms your interpretation. The effect can liberate creative people from the need to fit in and allow them to pursue their interests." … "Most people agree that what distinguishes those who become famously creative is their resilience. While creativity at times is very rewarding, it is not about happiness. Staw says a successful creative person is someone “who can survive conformity pressures and be impervious to social pressure.” To live creatively is a choice. You must make a commitment to your own mind and the possibility that you will not be accepted. You have to let go of satisfying people, often even yourself."]]> business creativity education psychology jessicaolien teachers teaching schools schooliness 2013 bias lcproject tcsnmy openstudioproject mediocrity davehickey art design barrystraw annawintour gracecoddington nclb rttt resilience happiness fulfillment glvo rejection control https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cbe7bef8a656/ 2013-10-10T05:22:27+00:00 http://www.salon.com/2013/10/09/6_ways_neoliberal_education_reform_is_destroying_our_college_system_partner/ robertogreco education neoliberalism MOOCs testing quantification nclb rttt 2013 ratings via:shannon_mattern mooc https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d937084c00b4/ 2013-09-18T18:16:48+00:00 http://www.fairtest.org/common-core-assessments-factsheet robertogreco commoncore education testing assessment 2013 debunking standardizedtesting nclb educationindustrialcomplex https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:68c11549da6f/ 2013-08-12T22:31:13+00:00 http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/27_04/edit274.shtml robertogreco assessment standards commoncore inequality nclb rttt 2013 education schools us policy democracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b410dfe5101e/ 2012-10-17T02:48:35+00:00 http://theeducatorsroom.com/2013/12/the-exhaustion-of-the-american-teacher/ robertogreco exhaustion socialjustice politics nclb rttt policy schools learning parenting scapegoating education teachers teaching 2012 johnkuhn scapegoats https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:58a7de70e402/ 2012-09-18T21:07:40+00:00 http://www.hepg.org/hel/article/548#home robertogreco criticalmass maine colorado washingtonstate snohomish 2012 parenting optingout standardizedtesting nclb testing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6406abf73320/ 2012-08-23T19:01:29+00:00 http://www.motherjones.com/print/188516 robertogreco standardization standards commoncore publicschools history tfa wendykopp billgates michellerhee latinos immigration learning sanfrancisco missionhigh bigdata education policy robertglaser assessment standardizedtesting rttt nclb kristinarizga 2012 teachforamerica https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f3dc8d1a04f7/ 2012-08-09T03:32:22+00:00 http://epx.sagepub.com/content/26/2/268.abstract?rss=1 robertogreco NCLB quantification education_policy via:lukeneff https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e3f3e393daa/ 2012-04-28T04:54:35+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/taking-emotions-out-of-our-schools.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&pagewanted=all robertogreco reading_course reading NCLB data juking_the_stats via:lukeneff https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d51b13860917/ 2012-02-22T06:01:40+00:00 http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2012/01/if-you-say-scale-up-you-dont-understand.html robertogreco heartofdarkness wine diversity differences norming norms standardization rttt nclb arneduncan benjamindistraeli williamgladstone cottonmather hybridization worldisflat universaldesign scalingup scalingacross germany france uk us americanization localism local teaching learning unschooling deschooling comparativeeducation blueprints society americanexceptionalism exceptionalism reform britisshemprire thomasfriedman assimiliation cooexistence frenchcolonialism terroir deborahfrieze margaretwheatley anglocentrism decolonization colonization humanscale human scaling scale education schools 2012 irasocol usexceptionalism https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6a7c7a74468a/ 2012-02-21T00:09:33+00:00 http://annetrubek.com/2012/02/an-introverted-boy-against-an-army-of-label-makers/ robertogreco males boys academics introspection nclb productivity howwelearn unstructured creativity specialized learningdisabilities slowprocessing add dysgraphia dyslexia adhd overdiagnosis autism schooliness schools learningdifferences learning parenting education teaching introverts susancain 2012 annetrubek shrequest1 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b19df85a4560/ 2012-02-10T23:39:26+00:00 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"I’ve seen enough “data”. Next year my classroom is going to be about creativity, projects, & having fun w/ ideas. The way I look at it now, every year may be my last, & I don’t want to go out playing a numbers game that was rigged against me & my students from the start. Rigidly applied standards will fail the kids; that’s not my job."]]> dougnoon teaching reading creativity well-being resistance pedagogy 2011 data testing standardizedtesting poverty theprivateeye standards standardization numbersgame statistics schools policy reform schoolreform arneduncan barackobama rttt nclb wellbeing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ae34d509210/ 2011-04-25T04:01:53+00:00 http://stager.tv/blog/?p=1973 robertogreco education deschooling criticaleducation garystager unschooling democracy georgewbush policy privatization pubicschools society 2011 michigan detroit catherineferguson schools activism neoliberalism corporations greed corporatism lcproject government us arneduncan newtgingrich schoolreform reform alsharpton michellerhee barackobama oprah nclb rttt money rachelmaddow politics charterschools oprahwinfrey https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00e1fcecbabe/ 2011-04-18T16:32:43+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_united_states_is_destroying_her_education_system_20110410/ robertogreco education politics reform us corruption class money policy rttt nclb testing standardizedtesting billgates michaelbloomberg schools schooling chrishedges socrates hannaharendt civilization civics morality authority obedience consciousness self-awareness skepticism thinking criticalthinking lcproject tcsnmy greed https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e7bc08b345b/ 2011-04-06T02:05:52+00:00 http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/tcast.htm robertogreco nclb alfiekohn testing testscores standardizedtesting criticalthinking meaning measurement learning teaching tcsnmy lcproject unschooling deschooling achievementgap https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:31668f2ea85e/ 2011-04-02T22:16:11+00:00 http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2011/04/obamas_policies_under_fire_dep.html robertogreco education testing standardizedtesting barackobama 2011 arneduncan justinhamilton policy rttt nclb learning schools performance assessment accountability https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24dea891235d/