Education
Related: About this forumWow. Did you all see Diane Ravitch's latest speech?
Earlier today, I posted a link to Teacher Ken's post on Daily Kos, where he called it the most important speech on education in years. Here's a direct link to the entire speech. It's outstanding!. Ken is not exaggerating.
http://parentsacrossamerica.org/2011/12/whose-children-have-been-left-behind-by-diane-ravitch/
Some highlights:
And many more children will be left behind.
ewagner
(18,967 posts)The truth about the "accountability" scam has to be told loudly and often.
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)I am hoping someone filmed it and we have video. Or if she could go on PBS or somewhere and deliver it again. It needs to be yelled from the rooftops, all of it.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Or teachers
Or school buildings
Or materials
Or supports for kids with disabilities
All they care about is destruction of the very systems that need re structuring not de structuring. And they can start with many of the lame ass administrator jobs that are in systems that can barely feed kids. They can start by trimming and in some cases a full on hair cut of the same administrators who are making big, big bucks with huge perks.
Washington does not live in the same country we live in.
badhair77
(4,664 posts)I wish more people could hear DR's message.
She says "In some states, like Ohio, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, virtual charter schools are making millions of dollars for their owners, while children sit home alone in front of a computer." A friend of mine works for a cyberschool and it is definitely FOR-PROFIT.
AdHocSolver
(2,561 posts)Health care, pharmaceuticals, health insurance, "energy", and now "education reform". Agribusiness, factory farms, genetically modified food, outsourcing jobs, credit default swaps...does anybody see a pattern here?
Computerizing education is all about control of the learning process to indoctrinate (not educate) children.
Using computers as a learning tool is in the same category as using secret, proprietary software in electronic voting machines to count votes in elections.
Does anyone really believe that private corporations will really educate children to fill the nonexistent jobs of the future that those same corporations outsourced to low wage countries?
It is time for people to get the big picture and stop quibbling about irrelevant details.
Using a computer to teach children is equivalent to putting shackles on their minds. Its sole purpose is to teach the victims of such abuse abject obedience to authority.