Category Archives: College and Career Ready

Reign of Error: Diane Ravitch vs. Bill Gates

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Highlighting Members' Needs

image courtesy of http://www.good.is. Dear Bill and Melinda, Our hopes were dashed when you ignored our invitation to attend Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error Book Tour in Seattle tonight.  Your silence and your continued lack of response to any one … Continue reading →

Posted in Bill Gates, Capitalism, Charter Schools, Civil Rights, College and Career Ready, Common Core, Common Core High Stakes Testing, Dialogue with Teachers, Diane Ravitch, Edreform, Failing Schools, inBloom Data Mining, Invitation to Bill and Melinda Gates to dialogue with Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates, Invitation to Interview, Melinda Gates, Poverty, Privatization, Profit, Race to the Top, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, War on Public Education | 1 Comment

Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: A Year at Mission Hill

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Highlighting Members' Needs

Chapter 8 – The World of Work What “college and career ready” really means Bill, “College and career ready” is one of your ed reform slogans that’s repeated ad nauseam.  Your way of achieving this goal is to use the … Continue reading →

Posted in 826 Boston, Bill Gates, College and Career Ready, Common Core, Freedom to Learn: A Year At Mission Hill, Freedom to Teach, Mercedes Schneider, Mission Hill school, School has become testing facility, Social and Emotional Learning, Social Justice, Standardized Testing | 2 Comments

Schooling should help children DISCOVER their own unique talents, not “standardize” them.

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Highlighting Members' Needs

Dear Bill, Grading teachers based on when their students acquire and master a specific set of skills, is like grading parents based on when their children learn to tie their shoes or ride a bike. While, most people can learn … Continue reading →

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Here’s an idea, what if every school adopted a dual career and college readiness mandate?

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Highlighting Members' Needs

Dear Bill, The Common Core’s emphasis on independent mastery of complex informational text puts weaker and learning disabled readers at a severe disadvantage. The Common Core also presumes that the information our students will need to analyze and interpret in … Continue reading →

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