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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoWhy American Education is Broken - YouTube2021-04-29T20:18:07+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQKWLNzveyo
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http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/next_gen_learning/2019/02/why_equity_conservative_force_American_education.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUVlybJoV88
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickhess/2018/09/18/how-much-do-rising-test-scores-tell-us-about-a-school/#acfe95c22e87
robertogrecofrederickhess standardizedtesting 2018 education reform nclb rttt standardization policy measurement assessment attainment naep learning howelearn howweteach teaching publicschools schools schoolinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7cae2a3b46d5/Is The Big Standardized Test A Big Standardized Flop2018-09-23T22:50:04+00:00
https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2018/09/20/is-the-big-standardized-test-a-big-standardized-flop/#64cfe1df4937
robertogrecopetergreene standardizedtesting testing standardization 2018 schools reform education measurement nclb rttt parcc sba frederickhess jaygreene teaching learning howwelearn howweteach policy schooling publicschoolshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fdc5ce5586d3/Thread by @thrasherxy: "Jimmy Carter remains the one & only interesting post president from a social justice angle. Obama would have turned Habitat for Humanity […]"2018-05-23T01:46:42+00:00
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/998918171791937536.html
robertogrecoWith Uber's new hire, Obama alumni invade Silicon Valley: D.C. to Silicon Valley is a well-worn path.
http://fortune.com/2014/08/19/uber-plouffe-obama/
- Natalie Foster went to shill for "Share," the "front group for AirBnB (which busts housing regs)
- Michael Masserman went to Lyft
With Uber's new hire, Obama alumni invade Silicon Valley: D.C. to Silicon Valley is a well-worn path.
http://fortune.com/2014/08/19/uber-plouffe-obama/
So, it's fitting the Obamas went not to PBS but--like the depressing move of Sesame Street from PBS to HBO--took their show to Netflix.
Converting public post-presidential comms (which maybe should open to the public?) to private Netflix capitalization is on-brand-Obama.
In their Netflix press release, the Obamas wrote: "we hope to cultivate and curate the talented, inspiring, creative voices who are able to promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples."
Meaningless pabulum.
Hoping for change through cultivating & curating "voices who are able to promote greater understanding" only to Netflix subscribers is pretty status quo.
Without critique of capitalism, empire, racism, and sexism, a vague dream to "promote greater empathy" are empty.
I wish the Democratic leaders (Pelosi, Schumer, the Clintons, the Obamas) were out here barnstorming the country, railing against the facscist they've helped install. I wish they had a fraction of the rage & courage of of ADAPT and BLM.
Reading the horrific labor SCOTUS ruling, I wonder what could have been if Obama had fought his last year for his SCOTUS nominee, rather than saying, "Now let's stay calm everyone, if we're reasonable enough, they'll be reasonable, too."
Calmness hasn't helped much. And it's nauseating to see the Obamas rolling off to the bank & hiding their little bit of discourse behind a Netflix Paywall--while Hillary's hat routine seems to be the extent of her public "resistance" (cc @kath_krueger )
Hillary Clinton Did a Bit With a Russia Hat at Yale and I Want to Die
Have you felt an acute-but-nagging desire to fade back into the nothingness of the universe yet today? No? Well look no further!
https://splinternews.com/i-yearn-for-deaths-sweet-embrace-1826207903
The market is NOT the answer to every American problem. As @B_Ehrenreich wrote, the reason people are poor is NOT that they aren't educated enuf, inspired enuf, nor that they're insufficiently "innovative." Yet the Ds, just like the Rs, say it is.
Why are people poor? Because they are uneducated? No, because (1) they are paid so little for their work and (2) the pittance they are paid is quickly sucked off by landlords, credit companies, the medical industry and other predators. Solutions are obvious. [from: https://twitter.com/B_Ehrenreich/status/998571038727458816 ]
This, to me, is neoliberalism--addressing everything from market driven schools to market driven healthcare to the market driven post-presidential philanthropy (Clinton Global Inititiative, Obama media empire) to the "choice" of the market.
One of the unfortunate meeting points in thinking about Black liberation & in anti-Blackness is questioning the Obama's hauling of tens (more?) of millions in the post-presidency. White supremacists don't want him to have that money.
But I, too, have questioned his money haul, particularly in the face of his public giving going first to Black kids who work summer jobs & while raking it in to talk to the banks who bankrupt Black people...
Barack Obama's $400,000 speaking fees reveal what few want to admit | Steven W Thrasher
His mission was never racial or economic justice. It’s time we stop pretending it was
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/01/barack-obama-speaking-fees-economic-racial-justice
And it makes me sad to see the limits of viewing Black liberation imagined as "this man, for whom so many of us did so much to put into office, needs to be able to haul as much cash as possible in the coming years as a signifier of Black success."
In the name of the Black ppl who worked their butts off to install him, the Latinx people he deported in record numbers, and the the ppl who are QTPoC, immigrants, Latinx, women and/or Muslin made vulnerable by his successor, I would hope Obama would be out here fighting for us.
But that is just a dream. Obama is who he is. The hope he'd "really speak his mind on race" when he left office was a denial of who he was in office.
The presidency is the head of the American empire, in all its complexity and violence.
And only Carter has wrestled with this in the post-presidency, largely outside of the market.
Neoliberal structure encourages liberals to retreat to safe spaces created by the market. If market "choice" can provide safe schools or healthcare or water or transport for someone, they're less inclined to demand society provide these things for whom "choice" has failed.
So, I fear Obama TV will encourage a neoliberal retreat for liberals to choose to have President Obama on Netflix, even as Trump runs rampant IRL running over the rest of us who can't much retreat to safety...
..and we can only wonder what Obama TV would have looked like if, perhaps, 44 had shown up on the public airwaves sometime, marching with ADAPT or BLM.
Mind you, I am not thinking about this as a character flaw in the Obamas as such. The presidency, post-presidency, the Obamas & all of us are formed by neoliberal logic. It's the dominant frame of our polticual consciousness.
But it's still distressing."]]>steventhrasher barackobama jimmycarter hillaryclinton neoliberalism 2018 ntflix uber lyft airbnb siliconvalley corruption markets finance banking inequality privatization race habitatfohumanity money politics scotus democrats liberation philanthropy arneduncan chicago schools education batsydefos rttt davidplouffee natalifoster michaelmasserman grit poverty society publicservice charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7b497af3532/The Push for Outdoor and Nature-Based Preschools - The Atlantic2018-05-14T01:19:28+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 sustainabilityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:afee454908f9/Dewey knew how to teach democracy and we must not forget it | Aeon Essays2016-08-02T02:14:08+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/dewey-knew-how-to-teach-democracy-and-we-must-not-forget-it
robertogrecovia: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-drivenlearninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7ccf6c143ca1/The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students - The New York Times2016-07-29T23:36:44+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/the-common-core-costs-billions-and-hurts-students.html
robertogreco2016 dianeravitch commoncore standardization standardizedtesting testing government us nclb rttt georgehwbush gatesfoundation billgates standards education schools publischools poverty inequality segregation naep statistics achievementgap opportunitygap politics policyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d567f50b1e7d/The Limits of “Grit” - The New Yorker2016-06-25T04:53:54+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-limits-of-grit
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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with
robertogrecothisamericanlife education segregation desegregation 2015 policy race nikolehannah-jones elisacrouch whiteflight resegregation history chanajoffe-walt arneduncan rttt learning schools us busing missouri racismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eee9160ab18a/Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing (HBO) - YouTube2015-05-04T17:56:54+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lyURyVz7k
robertogrecojohnoliver testing standardizedtesting assessment rttt nclb schools publicschools us policy pearson education learning teachinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:967326e375ed/Yong Zhao (final) on Vimeo2015-05-03T20:03:38+00:00
https://vimeo.com/126604445
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http://stager.tv/blog/?p=3476
robertogrecocommoncore 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 garystagerhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c4321d69961/Why are teachers cheating the American school system? This videogame will explain - Kill Screen - Videogame Arts & Culture.2015-04-13T19:36:30+00:00
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/no-pineapple-life-behind/
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https://vimeo.com/122720631
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful/2015/03/26/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html
robertogrecostem 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 2015https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8daeea657589/Education at Risk: Fallout from a Flawed Report | Edutopia2015-03-27T04:32:51+00:00
http://www.edutopia.org/landmark-education-report-nation-risk
robertogrecoanationatrisk 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 rttthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2836463cb323/Talk to Your Kids: The poorer parents are, the less they talk with their children. The mayor of Providence is trying to close the “word gap.”2015-01-07T06:57:48+00:00
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/12/talking-cure
robertogrecoclass 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 kennethwonghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ae68e473e1c/As if teachers' jobs aren't hard enough, they're asked to fix poverty, too - YouTube2014-12-19T21:46:15+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWSaceaSpRI
robertogrecodanagoldstein teaching teachers poverty edreform tfa 2014 criticism inequality race rttt nclb magicalthinking teachforamericahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:47c5ec42b2f8/Balance : Stager-to-Go2014-11-21T04:37:37+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 learninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e958055519d6/Education in the Age of Globalization » Fatal Attraction: America’s Suicidal Quest for Educational Excellence2014-09-21T06:54:41+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-stakestestinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:025778e457ba/Teacher Tom: Equality Vs. Cruelty2014-06-30T05:57:12+00:00
http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/equality-vs-cruelty.html
robertogrecogatesfoundation arneduncan rttt education edreform schools corporatism billgates pisa us policy politics training democracy criticalthinking equality community civics 2014 tomhobsonhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:77af20d7e428/Education Reform: A National Delusion | Steve Nelson2014-06-22T06:40:44+00:00
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-nelson/education-reform-a-nation_b_5511589.html
robertogreco2014 stevenelson education publicschools nclb rttt arneduncan edreform gatesfoundation broadfoundation elibroad commoncore poverty billgates michellerhee attention parenting teaching learning politics policy pearson classsize charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bc905d9a0361/How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution - The Washington Post2014-06-10T16:43:09+00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html
robertogrecocommoncore 2014 education billgates gatesfoundation 2008 policy schools lyndseylayton politics money influence arneduncan barackobama rttt standardshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e99bbcf97d8e/Everything you need to know about Common Core — Ravitch2014-02-25T21:45:57+00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/18/everything-you-need-to-know-about-common-core-ravitch/
robertogrecodianeravitch commoncore 2014 government policy education democracy us standards nationalstandards meritocracy testing standardizedtesting society arneduncan rttt nclb schools publicschools pearson michellerhee joelklein billgates jebbushhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fbeb7e84aefb/The misguided effort to teach ‘character’2014-02-08T20:40:31+00:00
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/06/the-misguided-effort-to-teach-character/
robertogrecoeducation cognition character charactereducation pverty mikerose 2014 grit discipline rttt nclb policy economics testing standardizedtesting inequality afqt psychology personality measurement edreform politics pathlogizingthepoor self-controlhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:16047f2e2f15/Are Progressive Critics of Common Core "Getting Played" By Enemies of Public Education? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher2014-01-09T04:37:31+00:00
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2014/01/are_progressive_critics_of_com.html
robertogrecocommoncore 2014 policy education nclb rttt standards testing criticalthinking standardizedtestinganthonycody billhonighttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bf6c397108e9/“A Question of Silence”: Why We Don’t Read Or Write About Education2013-12-19T08:11:02+00:00
http://theamericanreader.com/a-question-of-silence-why-we-dont-read-or-write-about-education/
robertogrecoeducation unschooling canon houmanharouni 2013 criticaleducation theory eleanorduckworth deborahmeier jeanpiaget paulofreire 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 jacquesrancièrehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3b4a6892a426/Creativity is rejected: Teachers and bosses don’t value out-of-the-box thinking.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."
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"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 controlhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cbe7bef8a656/6 ways neoliberal education reform is destroying our college system - Salon.com2013-10-10T05:22:27+00:00
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/09/6_ways_neoliberal_education_reform_is_destroying_our_college_system_partner/
robertogrecoeducation neoliberalism MOOCs testing quantification nclb rttt 2013 ratings via:shannon_mattern moochttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d937084c00b4/Editorial: The Trouble with the Common Core2013-08-12T22:31:13+00:00
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/27_04/edit274.shtml
robertogrecoassessment standards commoncore inequality nclb rttt 2013 education schools us policy democracyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b410dfe5101e/The Exhaustion of the American Teacher2012-10-17T02:48:35+00:00
http://theeducatorsroom.com/2013/12/the-exhaustion-of-the-american-teacher/
robertogrecoexhaustion socialjustice politics nclb rttt policy schools learning parenting scapegoating education teachers teaching 2012 johnkuhnhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:58a7de70e402/Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong2012-08-23T19:01:29+00:00
http://www.motherjones.com/print/188516
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http://mikerosebooks.blogspot.com/2012/04/teacher-who-cant-find-job.html
robertogrecovia:tom.hoffman work employment education teaching 2012 jobs ageism age policy rttt publicsectorhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:44978c6df695/SpeEdChange: If you say "scale up," you don't understand humanity2012-02-22T06:01:40+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2012/01/if-you-say-scale-up-you-dont-understand.html
robertogrecoheartofdarkness 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 irasocolhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6a7c7a74468a/Better Test Scores Lead to Better Lives and Strong Economy: Fact or Hunch? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice2012-02-10T23:39:26+00:00
http://larrycuban.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/better-test-scores-lead-to-better-lives-and-strong-economy-fact-or-hunch/
robertogrecovia:tom.hoffman ideology policy education schools us publicschools testing standardizedtesting commoncore nclb rttt mikepetrilli 2012https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d12e5039c2b/cloudhead - school (part II)2011-09-19T00:31:33+00:00
http://cloudhead.headmine.net/post/233008546/school-part-ii
robertogrecoschools schooling schooliness unschooling deschooling shiftctrlesc cloudhead learning education lcproject hierarchy fragmentation schoolsystem systems change rttt factoryschools industrialschooling headminehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ae69267396fe/YouTube - A "Real" Grad School Ad2011-07-06T08:09:41+00:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M98x-FLp7E
robertogrecodeschooling via:leighblackall gradschool humor academia superiority life education highereducation colleges universities collegeforall rttthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8170cdafb004/SpeEdChange: Measurement and the Overpromise2011-06-27T18:21:08+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2011/06/measurement-and-overpromise.html
robertogrecoirasocol measurement education fixing learning tcsnmy rttt gatesfoundation billgates politics policy comparison falsecomparisons society capitalism 2011 philanthropy charitableindustrialcomplex shrequest1 philanthropicindustrialcomplex power control nonprofit nonprofits charitieshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b638d4962fbf/SpeEdChange: The art of seeing2011-06-27T02:34:16+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2011/06/art-of-seeing.html
robertogrecoseeing observation observing deepmapping learning education unschooling deschooling science progressive administration management tcsnmy lcproject schools irasocol nclb billgates gatesfoundation arneduncan rttt checklists adhd adhdvision pammoran salkhan jebbush matthewkugn robertmarzano instruction training gamechanging salmankhanhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fe49c16b3d00/Borderland › Areas of Smoke2011-06-05T04:37:45+00:00
http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2011/06/02/areas-of-smoke/
robertogrecodougnoon testing reform rttt nclb arneduncan standardizedtesting learning education schools schoolreform 2011 fuckitmoments reading teachinghttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4d9af9a2e651/Borderland › Hearts and Minds2011-06-05T04:35:24+00:00
http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2011/06/04/hearts-and-minds-2/
robertogreco
"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 nclbhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ae34d509210/Things May Not Get Better! : Stager-to-Go2011-04-25T04:01:53+00:00
http://stager.tv/blog/?p=1973
robertogrecoeducation 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 charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:00e1fcecbabe/Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig2011-04-18T16:32:43+00:00
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_united_states_is_destroying_her_education_system_20110410/
robertogrecoeducation 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 greedhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5e7bc08b345b/Frank Chimero - On #winning2011-04-03T07:52:06+00:00
http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/4236970622/on-winning
robertogreco2011 winning competition learning education frankchimero inquiry questions questioning rttt winningthefuture racetonowherehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:18871b39497c/Obama's Policies Under Fire: Department of Ed Responds - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher2011-04-02T22:16:11+00:00
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2011/04/obamas_policies_under_fire_dep.html
robertogrecoeducation testing standardizedtesting barackobama 2011 arneduncan justinhamilton policy rttt nclb learning schools performance assessment accountabilityhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:24dea891235d/Yong Zhao » A True Wake-up Call for Arne Duncan: The Real Reason Behind Chinese Students Top PISA Performance2011-03-21T02:29:06+00:00
http://zhaolearning.com/2010/12/10/a-true-wake-up-call-for-arne-duncan-the-real-reason-behind-chinese-students-top-pisa-performance/
robertogrecoeducation china pisa testing standardizedtesting policy arneduncan 2010 yongzhao assessment politics international well-being singapore korea japan hongkong tcsnmy schools teaching learning rttt nclbhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d2e235ae170/SpeEdChange: The Big Lies (Part One)2011-03-06T20:48:53+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2011/03/big-lies-part-one.html
robertogrecoinnovation assessment competition edreform reform education policy rttt nclb standardizedtesting testing standards standardization 2011 publicschools humandevelopment irasocol learning measurement compliance unschooling deschooling schoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f9c849e09696/Diane Ravitch - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/03/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central2011-03-05T18:49:36+00:00
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-3-2011/diane-ravitch
robertogrecoeducation politics policy dailyshow rttt nclb jonstewart dianeravitch testing standardizedtesting arts science history schools publicschools finland privatization 2011 poverty learning accountability interviews parenting segregation racialisolation vouchers teaching blame greed compensation benefits reform gatesfoundation broadfoundation healthcare preschool headstart charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d072d09616d/Daily Kos: I Don't Want to be a Teacher Any More2011-02-27T23:14:14+00:00
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/26/950079/-I-Dont-Want-to-be-a-Teacher-Any-More
robertogrecoteaching education us policy rttt nclb frustration unions oregon testing standardizedtesting standardization teachingtothetest respect 2011https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:26ea755d76c2/Think Again: Education - By Ben Wildavsky | Foreign Policy [""Relax, America. Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future."]2011-02-22T21:41:15+00:00
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/22/think_again_education?page=full
robertogrecous policy education china india competiveness spacerace sputnik arneduncan rttt nclb shanghai pisa anationatrisk learning schools propaganda fear standardizedtesting highereducation highered colleges universitieshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:14eb52f6dd35/Education Week: An Open Message to President Barack Obama2011-02-13T15:48:47+00:00
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/02/02/19tanner.h30.html?tkn=PLYFEp74BpJvhIaflLU5R9jFDF5ZZykZcjBa&cmp=clp-edweek
robertogrecoeducation rttt barackobama arneduncan 2011 learning science math mathematics schools curriculum arts vocational colleges universities collegeprep history coldwar testing standards standardizedtesting standardization tcsnmy meaning publicschools civiceducation careers danieltanner jamesconant johndewey highereducation children politics policy inequality engagement teachinghttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:101f69742f90/NYC Public School Parents: What Finland and Asia tell us about real education reform2011-01-31T05:01:23+00:00
http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-finland-and-asia-really-tell-us.html
robertogrecoresearch asia finland testing standardizedtesting standardization teaching learning policy nclb schools schooling us china pisa comparison korea arneduncan 2011 barackobama georgewill business democracy rttt classsize pasisahlberg politics economics money misguidedenergy respect training salarieshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9f8c82f04db0/Yong Zhao » “It makes no sense”: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech2011-01-31T04:51:21+00:00
http://zhaolearning.com/2011/01/30/%E2%80%9Cit-makes-no-sense%E2%80%9D-puzzling-over-obama%E2%80%99s-state-of-the-union-speech/
robertogrecoeducation rttt obama 2011 policy schools innovation china india children learning creativity economics teaching publicschools yongzhao us stem moreofthesame moreisnotbetter competition competitiveness curriculum pisa comparison history future nclb arneduncan reform sciencehttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1c5e21836b93/The 7 Fascinating Education Ideas of the Year - voiceofsandiego.org: Schooled: The Education Blog2010-12-27T21:30:25+00:00
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/education/schooled/article_774f4d7a-11e2-11e0-9e1f-001cc4c002e0.html
robertogrecosandiego 2010 emilyalpert einsteinacademy innovationsacademy algebra math teaching learning sdusd language languageacquisition change euclidelementary data rttt vocabulary tracking democracy democratic schools biliteracy assessment collaboration teacherretentionhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c9cd06e00fcf/The truth about failure in US schools | Paul Thomas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk2010-12-25T22:17:36+00:00
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/05/schools-education
robertogrecoassessment failure education sociology nclb rttt policy us poverty society schools publicschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5ab37dbeeb01/Education is Top Priority For Gates - Newsweek2010-11-29T04:50:22+00:00
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/28/alter-education-is-top-priority-for-gates.html
robertogrecopolicy education us billgates jonathanalter 2010 politics money rttt charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4e2009cfdcc7/Teaching for America - NYTimes.com2010-11-22T04:24:20+00:00
http://www.diigo.com/annotated/61194ca2563c5347ebb25051186818b8
robertogrecorttt education reform policy finland denmark singapore southkorea korea us arneduncan meritpay teaching schools learning competition misguidedenergy credentials unions 2010https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:281d20e5885e/When Did Teachers Become Bums? | CommonDreams.org2010-10-13T02:22:29+00:00
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/10-1
robertogreco
If you want better schools, work for more stable incomes, families and neighborhoods. Get involved in your schools. Fire the few bad teachers but support the overwhelming number of good ones. And don’t be suckered by those peddling venom in the guise of altruism. Your children are products to them, pieces of meat on an assembly line whose only purpose is to produce profits. We can be better than that."]]>education policy 2010 learning middleclass disparity wealth incomegap income poverty society teaching schools us rttt forprofit reform wealthdistribution charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:173da2ba0bdb/Rick Ayers: An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform2010-09-18T18:57:15+00:00
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-ayers-/an-inconvenient-superman-_b_716420.html
robertogrecowaitingforsuperman corporatism testing standardization standardizedtesting money politics pilcy influence privatization rickayers uniformity specialinterests documentary 2010 reform education publicschools schools funding nclb rttt charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a5965836c60/The Indypendent » Learning the 3C’s: Competition, Corruption & Cheating2010-09-15T05:48:28+00:00
http://www.indypendent.org/2010/09/09/competition-corrruption-and-cheating/
robertogrecotesting nclb rttt criticalthinking tcsnmy writing reading standardizedtesting entitlement engagement grades grading education schools schooling schooliness unschooling deschooling lcprojecthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aae711d9a090/Alfie Kohn: What Passes for School Reform: "Value-Added" Teacher Evaluation and Other Absurdities2010-09-11T19:18:27+00:00
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alfie-kohn/what-passes-for-school-re_b_710696.html
robertogrecoalfiekohn nclb rttt education standards standardizedtesting standardization teachning learning policy tcsnmy unschooling deschooling lcproject arneduncan joelklein billgates 2010 latimes valueadded meritpay schools uniformity reform charterschoolshttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:790b27d6b0fc/SpeEdChange: On KIPP, and the question, does philosophy matter? [links to comment, quoted below, from 'htb']2010-09-04T18:56:34+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-kipp-and-question-does-philosophy.html?showComment=1283557399358#c5115476632392932831
robertogrecokipp autism standards standardization policy us education learningdisabilities learning sorting ranking arbitrary tcsnmy schools discipline onesizefitsall allsorts arneduncan rttthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b15a522f69d3/SpeEdChange: On KIPP, and the question, does philosophy matter? [Previously: http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-kipp-academies-do.html]2010-09-04T04:28:13+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-kipp-and-question-does-philosophy.html
robertogrecoirasocol education policy 2010 arneduncan barackobama kipp rttt standardization disparity desegregation historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:63694494909d/SpeEdChange: What KIPP Academies do... [See also the comments and this follow-up: http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-kipp-and-question-does-philosophy.html]2010-09-04T04:26:42+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-kipp-academies-do.html
robertogreco
No Mr. President, KIPP Academies are not innovation. They are the oldest colonialist form of oppression in the school manual. They are institutions of the elite's cultural power, and their purpose is to protect the elites by ensuring that underclass children will never catch up.
But, if you really want to prove me wrong, send your daughters to a KIPP Academy. Your i3 grants mean there should be one coming to the White House neighbourhood soon."]]>irasocol policy education arneduncan barackobama kipp rttt standardization creativity respect freedom equality disparity 2010https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fda70221988e/Tuttle SVC: The Tao of the ELA Common Core2010-08-31T13:49:48+00:00
http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2010/08/tao-of-ela-common-core.html
robertogrecotomhoffman commoncore standards humor evidence thesis writing teaching learning rttthttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a760657c4a0c/SpeEdChange: What I wish Bill Gates had learned about education from Microsoft2010-07-24T23:29:56+00:00
http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-i-wish-bill-gates-had-learned.html
robertogrecobillgates education technology microsoft tcsnmy lcproject policy influence understanding learning experience rttt nclb gatesfoundation money power ignorance tracking standardization agesegregation standards accountability 2010 open cheating choice individualized business elitism irasocolhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:388b23e266ad/The Answer Sheet - Primer for ed reformers (or, it’s the curriculum, stupid!)2010-07-22T06:08:21+00:00
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/primer-for-ed-reformers-or-its.html
robertogrecocurriculum reform criticalthinking policy education learning tcsnmy progressive standards standardizedtesting testing rttt nclb motivation elibroad billgates malcolmgladwell wealth influence money collaboration understanding humans lcproject deschooling unschooling teaching commoncore accountability autonomy righthererightnow hereandnow sensemaking bighere longnow toshare topost interdisciplinary marionbradyhttps://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e48d9d6dd2ac/Hold Schools Accountable, but Don't Standardize Learning - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com2010-07-22T05:14:38+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/7/21/who-will-benefit-from-national-education-standards/hold-schools-accountable-but-dont-standardize-learning
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