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But of course you don't know any good teachers who could teach you those things — they quit being good teachers just as soon as they tell you what you don't know. And that is precisely why the history of education in the U.S. over the last hundred years has taught those who are capable of learning from it the critical importance of academic freedom, peer review, seniority, and the tenure system.
But of course you don't know any good teachers who could teach you those things — they quit being good teachers just as soon as they tell you what you don't know. And that is precisely why the history of education in the U.S. over the last hundred years has taught those who are capable of learning from it the critical importance of academic freedom, peer review, seniority, and the tenure system.
===Comment 3 (Reply)===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1015930
Now, Mr. Reno, you know what he's saying. It is known in logic as “Argumentum ad Squirrelum”. The public begins to smell a Big Greedy Rat stealing their cheese — so our corporate owned politicians and corporate owned media yell “Squirrel !!!” at the top of their well-funded lungs and point their bony fingers at poor public service workers just getting by on peanuts.
Now, Mr. Reno, you know what he's saying. It is known in logic as “Argumentum ad Squirrelum”. The public begins to smell a Big Greedy Rat stealing their cheese — so our corporate owned politicians and corporate owned media yell “Squirrel !!!” at the top of their well-funded lungs and point their bony fingers at poor public service workers just getting by on peanuts.
===Comment 4 (Reply)===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016056
To my way of thinking, communication is a two-way street. I'm just not seeing any evidence from his statements that Mr. Reno has absorbed anything more than cookies from his tenure on Sesame Street.
To my way of thinking, communication is a two-way street. I'm just not seeing any evidence from his statements that Mr. Reno has absorbed anything more than cookies from his tenure on Sesame Street.
===Comment 5 (Reply)===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016102
Re: “If they don't represent us, then who are they representing?”
Re: “If they don't represent us, then who are they representing?”
Hint. Go Ask ALEC.
Hint. Go Ask ALEC.
===Comment 6 (Reply)===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016353
Mr. Reno,
Mr. Reno,
I do not think the similarities are purely coincidental.
I do not think the similarities are purely coincidental.
===Comment 7===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016565
This just in …
This just in …
Timothy D. Slekar • “Cheating or Protecting? Depends”
Timothy D. Slekar • “Cheating or Protecting? Depends”
* http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-d-slekar/cheating-or-protecting-de_b_892067.html
Sorry, Ms. T, I couldn't find the Wobblie Spin on this, so this Little Libbie Ragtime will have to do for now.
Sorry, Ms. T, I couldn't find the Wobblie Spin on this, so this Little Libbie Ragtime will have to do for now.
===Comment 8===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016780
John Kuhn • “Stop Labeling Teachers, Label The Lawmakers”
John Kuhn • “Stop Labeling Teachers, Label The Lawmakers”
• http://mineralwellsindex.com/opinion/x1281108295/Letters-to-the-Editor-April-10-2011/
• http://mineralwellsindex.com/opinion/x1281108295/Letters-to-the-Editor-April-10-2011/
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Did you know that over the next five years, Texas lawmakers will send half a billion dollars to London, to line the pockets of Pearson’s stakeholders. That’s 15,000 teacher salaries, sacrificed at the altar of standardized testing. $500,000,000 for a test! I’m sure it’s a nice test, but it’s just a test. I’ve never seen a test change a kid’s life or dry a kid’s tear. Tests don’t show up at family funerals or junior high basketball games. They don’t chip in to buy a poor girl a prom dress. Only teachers do those things.
Did you know that over the next five years, Texas lawmakers will send half a billion dollars to London, to line the pockets of Pearson’s stakeholders. That’s 15,000 teacher salaries, sacrificed at the altar of standardized testing. $500,000,000 for a test! I’m sure it’s a nice test, but it’s just a test. I’ve never seen a test change a kid’s life or dry a kid’s tear. Tests don’t show up at family funerals or junior high basketball games. They don’t chip in to buy a poor girl a prom dress. Only teachers do those things.
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Them Darn Texican Commies …
Them Darn Texican Commies …
===Comment 9===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1016893
I've been following these developments just long enough to observe that the same patterns of behavior are coming to light across the spectrum of charter and public “Reform Schools”, from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD, to Atlanta, GA. I think we can expect to see a lot more.
I've been following these developments just long enough to observe that the same patterns of behavior are coming to light across the spectrum of charter and public “Reform Schools”, from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD, to Atlanta, GA. I think we can expect to see a lot more.
But it's Fajita & Margarita Time — so Adios for now !!!
But it's Fajita & Margarita Time — so Adios for now !!!
===Comment 10===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1017932
For those of you who just joined the program, it appears that the inmates of Stalag 13 did not take Colonel Klink's dictates very seriously.
For those of you who just joined the program, it appears that the inmates of Stalag 13 did not take Colonel Klink's dictates very seriously.
===Comment 11===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1017992
Susan Ohanian maintains a useful site for following the controversies arising out of NCLB and RT³ —
Susan Ohanian maintains a useful site for following the controversies arising out of NCLB and RT³ —
* http://susanohanian.org/
===Comment 12===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1019984
The point of my little parody is that something has gone seriously wrong with the introduction of market dynamics into the usual routines of evaluation in education.
The point of my little parody is that something has gone seriously wrong with the introduction of market dynamics into the usual routines of evaluation in education.
It is obvious from their own position statements that a number of obscenely well-funded forces are striving to inject market psychology into people's hearts and minds for the express purpose of doing away with universal free public education. Other people may be drawn into the game from a lack of information about its ultimate purpose. As with any astroturf pyramid scheme, it is always hard to draw a hard and fast line between the shills and the marks, but I do not believe the great majority of people would be happy with the consequences if they could see where the con is headed.
It is obvious from their own position statements that a number of obscenely well-funded forces are striving to inject market psychology into people's hearts and minds for the express purpose of doing away with universal free public education. Other people may be drawn into the game from a lack of information about its ultimate purpose. As with any astroturf pyramid scheme, it is always hard to draw a hard and fast line between the shills and the marks, but I do not believe the great majority of people would be happy with the consequences if they could see where the con is headed.
===Comment 13===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1021635
Schools Matter • “Jonah Edelman Spills the Oligarchs' Blueprint for Crushing the Teaching Profession”
Schools Matter • “Jonah Edelman Spills the Oligarchs' Blueprint for Crushing the Teaching Profession”
* http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2011/07/jonah-edelman-spills-oligarchs.html
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As Lisa Guisbond said, “this is an amazing video from the Aspen Ideas Festival in which Stand For Children’s Jonah Edelman explains how he, with the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Arne Duncan’s senior advisor Jo Anderson (former Executive Director of the IEA) out foxed the CTU, the IFT and the IEA’s Ken Swanson and Audrey Soglin into agreeing to Senate Bill 7.”
As Lisa Guisbond said, “this is an amazing video from the Aspen Ideas Festival in which Stand For Children’s Jonah Edelman explains how he, with the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Arne Duncan’s senior advisor Jo Anderson (former Executive Director of the IEA) out foxed the CTU, the IFT and the IEA’s Ken Swanson and Audrey Soglin into agreeing to Senate Bill 7.”
In this Machiavellian masterpiece, we see Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children infamy describe in great detail how great wads of hedge-fund and other corporate cash came to bear on the last legislative election in Illinois, how all the best lobbyists were bought up by Deform (including minority ones), how unions were outspent and how politicians followed the money, how teacher unions were lured to the table and how they were totally manhandled by the best lawyers and negotiators that money can buy, how union leaders became complicit, scared, weak, groveling.
In this Machiavellian masterpiece, we see Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children infamy describe in great detail how great wads of hedge-fund and other corporate cash came to bear on the last legislative election in Illinois, how all the best lobbyists were bought up by Deform (including minority ones), how unions were outspent and how politicians followed the money, how teacher unions were lured to the table and how they were totally manhandled by the best lawyers and negotiators that money can buy, how union leaders became complicit, scared, weak, groveling.
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===Comment 14===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1029600
Updated Info On ALEC —
Updated Info On ALEC —
Democracy Watchdog Action Network
Democracy Watchdog Action Network
* http://www.facebook.com/democracy.watchdog.action.network
Wear Red For Public Ed
Wear Red For Public Ed
* https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wear-Red-for-Ed/221599601212557
Support Bill Cronon
Support Bill Cronon
* http://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Bill-Cronon/163419837045434
Bill Cronon is a distinguished history professor who came under attack when he wrote an article about ALEC and the Mackinac Center, so the people who came to his defense began collecting data about these issues.
Bill Cronon is a distinguished history professor who came under attack when he wrote an article about ALEC and the Mackinac Center, so the people who came to his defense began collecting data about these issues.
Related Tags at the Daily Kos —
Related Tags at the Daily Kos —
* http://www.dailykos.com/news/ALEC
* http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Exposing%20ALEC
Current updates at the Daily Kos —
Current updates at the Daily Kos —
* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/09/983573/-Exposing-ALECJune-Update-on-ALEC-Activities,-Articles-and-Links
* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/15/985433/-EXPOSING-ALEC2nd-Update-with-important-news-and-links
* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/20/986970/-Exposing-ALECupdate-3-+-Petition-for-your-State-Lawmakers
* http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/01/989671/-EXPOSING-ALECALEC-Relationships-and-Update-4
===Comment 15===
* http://rochester.patch.com/blog_posts/lansing-visit-offers-time-to-reflect-and-ponder#comment_1029691
Finally, a refreshing bit of honesty —
Finally, a refreshing bit of honesty —
ThinkProgress • “Pro-Voucher Tea Party Group Admits It Wants To ‘Shut Down Public Schools And Have Private Schools Only’”
ThinkProgress • “Pro-Voucher Tea Party Group Admits It Wants To ‘Shut Down Public Schools And Have Private Schools Only’”
* http://thinkprogress.org/education/2011/07/11/265663/voucher-tea-party-go-away/
==Nov 05, 2012 — McMillin, VanRaaphorst : Candidate Questionnaire Form==
==Nov 05, 2012 — McMillin, VanRaaphorst : Candidate Questionnaire Form==