What the #CCSS profiteers are subjecting my nephew and his peers to. photo via @hmgardner #testhearingsnow pic.twitter.com/UfvwflMQgL
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) March 24, 2014
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Showing posts with label common core. Show all posts
Showing posts with label common core. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
What the CCSS profiteers are subjecting my nephew and his peers to
Sunday, February 23, 2014
SKrashen: Please take a closer look at the Common Core
SKrashen: Please take a closer look at the Common Core: Sent to the School Library Journal 2/23 Librarians may be "findings aspects of the common core to celebrate"("What's ha...
LAUSD's own facts demolish Deasy and Daily News' defense of iPad Profligacy
From KPCC
"Even life-cycle repairs such as roof or air-conditioner replacements will inevitably exhaust available bond funds. Officials estimate those repairs will run over $13 billion over the next fifteen years, much more than the remaining bond funds."
How can John Deasy and his stenographers at the Daily News keep saying we can afford "both" when they must be aware of simple fact mentioned above? There's not even enough money for necessary repairs. Deasy is so afraid of being confronted on these questions, that he's avoiding an interview with Univision.
None of this includes the funds needed for earthquake retrofits!
The only explanation is that Deasy and his well heeled supporters are placing Pearson plc's corporate profits above the safety and health of both LAUSD students and those educating them.
Join Repairs Not iPads today and fight for a LAUSD with student-centered priorities.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Univision wants Deasy to answer questions about his corporate priorities in light of Repairs not iPads phenomenon
@DrDeasyLAUSD W are requesting an interview with U ABT the teacher’s campaing #repairsnotipads http://t.co/nGOCB8LwMg pic.twitter.com/DbmFwPUx83
— Univision LA (@NU34LA) February 21, 2014Univision wants to interview Deasy about the Repairs not iPads phenomenon, let's pressure him into doing it! Retweet, repost, and demand he answer to the press about his wrongheaded corporate priorities.
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Common Core Stealth Standards by Dr. Mark Naison
Dr. Mark Naison speaks out against Common Core. Mark is Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham and the founder and principal investigator of the Bronx African American History Project. He is co-founder of Badass Teachers Association. He is the author of four books, and over one hundred articles on African American History, labor history, sports and popular culture.—Cortlandt Manor, New York. February 4, 2014
4LAKids - ANONYMOUS L.A. SCHOOL EMPLOYEES TURN TO FACEBOOK TTO SPOTLIGHT NEEDED REPAIRS
4LAKids - ANONYMOUS L.A. SCHOOL EMPLOYEES TURN TO FACEBOOK TO SPOTLIGHT NEEDED REPAIRS: Annie Gilbertson| Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/1cQSzTk Repairs Not iPads/Facebook | A photo posted on a Facebook group called...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014
A Critical Look at Common Core with Dr. Stephen Krashen, hosted by UTLA Bilingual Education Committee
UTLA Bilingual Education Committee
Dr. Stephen Krashen
Professor Emeritus University of Southern California
A Critical Look at Common Core
What does it mean for our children?
What are the implications for English Learners?
and
Dr. Katherine Hayes
Chief Researcher LAUSD
Best Practices for Organizing Classes with English Learners
Friday, February 14, 2014
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.*
UTLA 3303 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles 90010
fee: $10.00
*Light refreshment will be served
R.S.V.P Maria Hedrick @ 213-487-5560. Send payment by February 10
High-stakes standardized tests and CCSS, they're a great way to measure… profits
High-stakes standardized tests & #CCSS, they're a great way to measure… profits. #LAUSD #edreform @skrashen @susanoha pic.twitter.com/Gn4LXB9KHi
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) February 4, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Standardized: Lies, Money and Civil Rights
Standardized: Lies, Money & Civil Rights h/t @ParentsAcrossAm #LAUSD #edreform https://t.co/m8sqHg3HxO
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) January 31, 2014High-stakes standardized tests using technology. Thank you Pearson, Deasy, Broad, and Gates!
High-stakes standardized tests using technology. Thank you Pearson, Deasy, Broad, and Gates! #LAUSD #FAIL #edreform pic.twitter.com/9m7R1f6bEc
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) January 29, 2014
Monday, January 06, 2014
The Zinn Education Project goes where Corporate Core (CCSS) refuses to go
In memory of Hugh Thompson, Jr. who died #tdih2006 (age 62.) On March 16, 1968, during the My Lai Massacre, Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson blocked fellow U.S. troops with his helicopter, had his crew train machine guns on them, and rescued a group of civilian Vietnamese villagers hiding in a bunker. His actions led to an end to the brutal massacre. Learn more from this ballad by David Rovics, here:http://bit.ly/19ZLJWY (A related new book is "Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam" by Nick Turse that documents (tragically) that My Lai was not a rare event. Learn more from this Democracy Now! broadcast:http://bit.ly/1hre14h)
Please visit and support The Zinn Education Project
Bruce A. Dixon of Black Agenda Report posted addional information from Wikipedia
via Karen Watson... Thompson: What's going on here, Lieutenant? Calley: This is my business. Thompson: What is this? Who are these people? Calley: Just following orders. Thompson: Orders? Whose orders? Calley: Just following... Thompson: But, these are human beings, unarmed civilians, sir. Calley: Look Thompson, this is my show. I'm in charge here. It ain't your concern. Thompson: Yeah, great job. Calley: You better get back in that chopper and mind your own business. Thompson: You ain't heard the last of this! Thompson took off again, and Andreotta reported that Mitchell was now executing the people in the ditch. Furious, Thompson flew over the northeast corner of the village and spotted a group of about ten civilians, including children, running toward a homemade bomb shelter. Pursuing them were soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, C Company. Realizing that the soldiers intended to murder the Vietnamese, Thompson landed his aircraft between them and the villagers. Thompson turned to Colburn and Andreotta and told them that if the Americans began shooting at the villagers or him, they should fire their M60 machine guns at the Americans: "Y'all cover me! If these bastards open up on me or these people, you open up on them. Promise me!" He then dismounted to confront the 2nd Platoon's leader, Stephen Brooks. Thompson told him he wanted help getting the peasants out of the bunker. ~ Wikipedia
Saturday, December 07, 2013
An investigative documentary into the Common Core State Standards Initiative
BUILDING THE MACHINE (2014) - Official Trailer [HQ]
I want to use the same disclaimer here that I did the last time I posted Common Core State Standards (CSSS) related materials from sources that I disavow any connection with. The video is produced by, and also features, individuals that are from fringe-right-wing groups. The last time I published a disclaimer like this, I was subjected to a firestorm of criticism from the right. That's fine, we will never be allies in any sense other than shared opposition to the vile corporate CCSS curriculum being foisted on students. That said, there's a distinction to be made between factual information about CSSS, and ideological opposition. That's why I am posting this film trailer, because the factual case against CCSS can be made from either end of the political spectrum.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Official Petition to Remove Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education
Remove Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education http://t.co/Pw05FC1Fis pic.twitter.com/ulwgk17NMW
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) November 20, 2013Saturday, November 16, 2013
Rally at Galatzan Event Against LAUSD iPad Giveaway
Like Marie Antoinette, LAUSD's Tamar Galatzan is ignoring community needs with her flippant suggestion: the district should spend school bond money for thousands of iPads for every student and teacher. To the parents who want: Smaller Class Sizes, Arts Education, Physical Education, Early Education, Adult Education, Nurses, and Librarians Board Member Galatzan says Let Them Eat iPad!
Friday, November 15, 2013
If you suspect that CCSS perpetuates what bell hooks terms 'white supremacist capitalist patriarchy,' you're right!
If you suspect that #CCSS perpetuates what bell hooks terms "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy," you're right! pic.twitter.com/OraOcdRqAc
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) November 15, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
SM@TCF: Los Angeles parent-activist sounds off on CCSS
First published on LA Schools Matter on September 14, 2013
"We had 23 different language groups at my son's school. How can one common core be relevant to all of these very different people?" — Teresa Sitz, LAUSD Parent-Activist
I founded Communities & Families Resisting Proposition 39 Charter Colocations along with several families fighting against the privatization project's latest ploy, the colocation. While the group was pretty 90026 specific (we have two colocations in our community), it grew quickly throughout Los Angeles.
As the group grew, its focus broadened to cover all school privatization and the neoliberal corporate reform project in general. Over the weekend one parent asked about Corporate/Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Paraphrasing, she said she understood the whole opposition based on the profit motive behind CCSS, but asked why national standards were bad in general. There were a lot of excellent responses, but one of the most interesting came from a prominent Silver Lake parent-activist named Teresa Sitz. It was so cogent, I felt it needed a larger audience than that of a facebook message board. Here it is in its entirety.
From what I understand, and I haven't looked at this deeply, school districts have to buy (rent) the common core at an exorbitant price that drains funds from the everyday running of schools. The money - billions - goes to for-profit corporations who have lobbied heavily to implement what for them is a cash cow. In essence it's a transfer of wealth (tax payer dollars) from the poor to the rich. ALEC is a principle lobbyist. This is no small thing.
I don't know that you can tease out possible benefits from the corporate interests, but here are another couple of things to consider. I believe this locks down curriculum, so a teacher teaching inner city students, who in their class might be behind in reading, couldn't add the book ALWAYS RUNNING, for instance, to their class. Teachers have to stick to corporate/state approved curriculum even if it has no relevance to the students and the students do not engage. The teacher's hands are tied.
This won't be implemented in private schools - it's only for public schools - a grand experiment on the poor. Our corporate and state leaders are not famed for their promotion of critical thinking. In addition, would we need real teachers to teach the core? If you just follow a standard dictated day by day, couldn't any Teach for America employee with 5 weeks of training step in and act as the teachista? Doesn't it take someone with a background in critical thinking, with a background in education, highly qualified, to teach critical thinking?
What about schools with highly successful programs like MAS (Mexican American Studies). Sorry. Success doesn't matter. Keeping the steady stream of money flowing to the corporations to fund a state sponsored curriculum that may be entirely irrelevant to students and families is a type of violence. Students and families want to see their own lives reflected in their studies instead of having their cultures ignored and whitewashed.
We had 23 different language groups at my son's school. How can one common core be relevant to all of these very different people? You need fully qualified and supported teachers to reach all of these students. Education in our very diverse culture cannot be one-size-fits-all.
Common standards have been tried in the past and failed. I believe the common core might be tied to federal funds so the poorest school districts would be blackmailed into funding it just as they are with No Child Left Behind and other unfortunate reforms. Not exactly consensus or adoption - more like another state-sponsored corporate giveaway.
Developmentally Inappropriate Common Core Standards
Dr. Megan Koschnick discusses the inappropriateness of the Common Core Standards for K-3 at the Common Core Conference held at Notre Dame on September 9, 2013. H/T @slekar
Friday, September 13, 2013
Reading books, the antithesis of Corporate Core
Reading books, the antithesis of Corporate Core #CCSS #LAUSD @skrashen @susanoha @plthomasEdD http://t.co/m1lcBMJTNV pic.twitter.com/OGwQUgg6hN
— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) September 13, 2013
Monday, September 09, 2013
SKrashen: The "core' or the whole thing?
SKrashen: The "core' or the whole thing?:
Sent to the Oregonian, Sept 9.
Limiting grades only to "academic mastery" ("Missing homework, late assignments matter little, as Oregon schools grade exclusively on academic mastery," Sept. 7) means limiting school only to preparation for tests based on the standards.
It means, in other words, that the "common core" is not just the core, not just the basic minimum that all students should learn. Rather, the common core is the whole thing. Gone are all other goals of education, including the goal of helping students discover their interests and explore ideas.
Stephen Krashen
Hat-tip: Ashley Hastings
original article: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2013/09/missing_homework_late_assignme.html
Sent to the Oregonian, Sept 9.
Limiting grades only to "academic mastery" ("Missing homework, late assignments matter little, as Oregon schools grade exclusively on academic mastery," Sept. 7) means limiting school only to preparation for tests based on the standards.
It means, in other words, that the "common core" is not just the core, not just the basic minimum that all students should learn. Rather, the common core is the whole thing. Gone are all other goals of education, including the goal of helping students discover their interests and explore ideas.
Stephen Krashen
Hat-tip: Ashley Hastings
original article: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2013/09/missing_homework_late_assignme.html
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