Author: Lloyd Lofthouse

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jonathan Pelto reports on the big money that will flow into the Massachusetts referendum on expanding charters. Most of it will flow from the coffers of hedge fund managers, who never showed any prior interest in improving public schools but get excited by the opportunity to privatize them. He writes: A group of billionaires…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: http://childrenaremorethantestscores.blogspot.com/2016/09/who-decides.html?m=1 Jesse Turner is known as “the walking man.” He walked from Connecticut to D.C. inn 2010 to protest the overuse of mandated testing and its negative effects on children. He did it again in 2015. His blog is called “children are more than test scores.” This is his latest. It is called “Who…

As schools have relied more heavily on technology, they’ve invited big business into a space that is supposed to be private. Source: The Child Predator We Invite into Our Schools

Originally posted on Ed In The Apple: Face the Nation and the other Sunday Talking Heads news commentary shows talked about the softening of the Obama coalition, the daily NY Times “percentage” in August had Hillary ahead 90-10, now the “poll” gives Hillary a 75-25 lead; whatever that means. The Nate Silver fivethirtyeight blog,”Chance of Winning,” has Hillary: 61.1% and Trump…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Charles Blow writes a regular column for the New York Times. In this one, he excoriates Donald Trump’s serial lies, which never end. He is not only a liar, he traffics in conspiracy theories. His “retraction” of the Obama birther claim came after five years of cultivating a following of rabid Obama-haters. He did…

Originally posted on gadflyonthewallblog: I am a male human being. And you’d better believe I’m a feminist. I wear that label proudly. The other day a friend of mine heard one of my articles was published in Everyday Feminism. And he said, “Kind of a backhanded compliment. Isn’t it?” Hell no! What does that mean? Would someone suppose that a…

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The Associated Press reported on September 6, 2016 that ITT Tech, with more than 35,000 students, will close all of its campuses after federal aid sanctions. The AP reported, “Under President Barack Obama, the Education Department has led a crackdown on for-profit colleges that have misled students or failed to deliver…