Sentences with phrase «corporate education reform movement»

That said, the truth is hardly a concern when it comes to the slick marketing and public relations tactics of the charter school industry and their allies in the corporate education reform movement who consistently — and wrongly — claim that American public education is a failure.

However, the corporate education reform movement would have us believe that America's education system is failing.

The corporate education reform movement is fond of claiming that poverty is no excuse for children failing to succeed in school.

Lacking any evidence that their so - called «reforms» are working, many in the corporate education reform movement resort to bullying as a way to force the changes that are presently threatening the quality of education in our public schools.

And what Moales wants now is a seat in the Connecticut State Senate where he can continue his work on behalf of the charter school industry and the corporate education reform movement, all despite the fact that he sent his children to expensive private schools.

If there is one article to read about Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and the rise of the corporate education reform movement in Connecticut, this is the one.

Proponents included the biggest corporate entities and individuals behind the corporate education reform movement including Families for Excellent Schools, Education Reform Now, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the Walton Family and a who's who list of donors from the charter school industry.

She was also a director for K12, Inc., the major on - line, for - profit education company that has made millions from the corporate education reform movement.

With its ongoing focus on Connecticut politics and policy, along with the ever growing damage that is being done to our public education system by the charter school industry and its allies in the corporate education reform movement, Wait, What?

Last week she and a number of other leading authors and illustrators wrote a powerful letter to President Obama about the inappropriate use of standardized testing and the failings of the corporate education reform movement.

«One of the hallmark refrains of the corporate education reform movement is «accountability.»

And then there was the back and forth with Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) in which DeVos was unable to explain the difference between proficiency and growth when it comes to the use of the corporate education reform movement's beloved high - stakes Common Core standardized testing scheme.

Like so much of the corporate education reform movement, the rhetoric sounds great, but the product produced is the antithesis of what is best for students, faculty and the society at large.

The corporate education reform movement initially started as an initiative to bring strong accountability to education.

Sharon provides cutting edge information and exposes scandals in the corporate education reform movement including charter schools and the Broad Foundation (from whose leadership academy our new CEO, JC Brizard, is a graduate).

Rather, they result from policies pushed by the corporate education reform movement and its privatization agenda, and embraced by the U.S. Department of Education.

Not exact matches

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

«As a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unified.

In conclusion, while it is true that the corporate education reform «movement» is weighed down with a long list of failed policies, you have to give them credit for their prowess when it comes to developing marketing terms that seek to mislead their target audiences.

Deeply seasoned in animosity toward the education reform movement, Los Angeles Unified held its traditional ground as charter schools were built around its schools, demands for merit pay for teachers were answered by corporate philanthropists and metrics - based teacher evaluation processes were published in the Los Angeles Times.

At a time when corporate reformists are more interested in making money off of education than actually attempting to improve educational quality for all students, books like this are critical in helping us decipher the truth from the perpetual myths that have become the bedrock of the reform movement.

Everyone tracking the education reform corporate movement should take the time to read this informative and disturbing piece.

Corporate education reform foe Diane Ravitch will visit Madison next month and activists are using the occasion to inform local citizens about the movement to privatize schools.

Yes Magazine exposes the Rocketship Style corporate reform movement: profiteering instead of education Yes Magazine's February 2014 article exposes charter school operators like Rocketship and their underlying interests to privatize the education market.

Educators can begin this process by becoming more involved with the education reform movement instead of simply complying with policies implemented by «others» (i.e., non-education professionals, politicians, and corporate interests).

Those who support corporate school reform have attempted to claim the mantle of the civil rights movement, with one of their biggest champions, former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan calling education the «civil rights issue of our timEducation Secretary Arne Duncan calling education the «civil rights issue of our timeducation the «civil rights issue of our time.»

While appealing even to people opposed to the rest of the corporate education reform «package,» the standards minimize student - centered and culturally - relevant curricula generated at regional levels — and popularized thanks to the work of the Civil Rights and Women's movements — and they shift power away from teachers, parents, and communities.

From «Is Corporate Education Reform trying to Coopt the Opt Out movement?»

In the last two years, Ravitch has accused private entrepreneurs, the «corporate - reform movement,» Florida Governor Rick Scott, charter schools, and voucher advocates, among others, of trying to «destroy» public education.

Anyone following the corporate education - reform movement should keep an eye on what happens here.

«Our film was not the first nor the only thing to clue people in to the dangers of the corporate reform movement, but «The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman» has proven to be an important piece of the ever - growing pushback and effort to preserve public education.»

Stand for Children is a leading player in the «education reform» movement, with a special focus on moving corporate funds into political campaigns in order to reward candidates who support their cause and punish those who aren't on the school privatization bandwagon.

Perhaps the greatest indignity perpetrated by the corporate education reform industry is their fallacious claim that they represent the «new civil rights movement.»

Harries received his «superintendent training» as a member of the 2009 class of the Broad Academy, the corporate education reform foundation that is funded by billionaire Eli Broad who is one of the three largest donors behind the education reform movement, along with Bill Gates and the Walton Family of Wal - Mart fame.

Although the corporate reform movement has made unprecedented gains in the last twenty years, its roots go back more than sixty years to Milton Friedman's essay, «The Role of Government in Education,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the UniteEducation,» which laid out the call for privatizing public education in the Uniteeducation in the United States.

As a critical friend of the privatization movement, he was one of the first to see through the guise and sales talk of the corporate school reform agenda of Dr. Tony Bennett, the Mind Trust, and the mayor's Office of Education Innovation.

Diane Ravitch is the Patron Saint of the movement to take back our schools from the corporate education reform industry.

Malloy's willingness to engage in some of the most outwardly heinous aspects of the corporate reform movement such as teacher bashing were only outdone by his actions which have positioned him as one of the most aggressive pro-corporate education reform Governor's in the country.

Claiming that he was «hand - picked» by Arne Duncan to be part of the corporate education reform industry, «Dr.» Terrence Carter has become a national example of what is wrong with the education reform movement.

Shortly after he was elected with CEA's first endorsement in 2010, the governor of this state disrespected every teacher with his «tenure» comment, then promoted Common Core, supported the corporate education movement through charter schools, advocated for more and more standardized testing, hired an education commissioner who had absolutely no public school experience (in fact had ties to charter schools), chipped away at teacher security through negative tenure reform, and championed the complete elimination of the state contribution to the retired teacher's health insurance fund.

I had a fun little Twitter chat recently with Peter Cunningham, executive director of Education Post, the billionaire funded anti-public education website devoted to fighting back against the critics of the corporate reform of education Education Post, the billionaire funded anti-public education website devoted to fighting back against the critics of the corporate reform of education education website devoted to fighting back against the critics of the corporate reform of education education movement.

Education blogger Anthony Cody has written about scams rife in the corporate reform movement, citing librarians as an antidote to destructive policies.