Originally posted on iLook China: On December 4, 2013, a New York Times headline shouted: “Shanghai Students Again Top Global Test”, and once again, America’s vocal critics of the U.S. Public Schools called for more reform. Not so fast. In fact, maybe not at all. In China, the first nine years of education is compulsory… Read more

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: What’s going on? First the public schools and now the VA! First:Under President Clinton and a Congress dominated by a GOP majority, the Glass Steagall Act of 1933 that was meant to protect the United States from another Great Depression was repealed in 1990 leading to… Read more

Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Two things happened in the last few days. First, I was shopping at Wholefoods and while waiting in line to buy dinner, I saw the cover of a May 2014 Economist Magazine with an Eagle sitting on a desktop globe and the banner headline asked: What Would America… Read more

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Recently, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing reported on the release of a dozen years of 12th grade NAEP scores revealing the test-based accountability era of G. W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Obama’s Race to the Top with its seriously flawed and… Read more

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Over on Mercedes Schneider’s Blog, she tackles and criticizes Bill Gates view of the Common Core State Standards. “Bill defines standards as a ‘list of what kids are supposed to know’ at each grade level.” But Mercedes, Bill Gates is correct in his thinking—for computer programs… Read more

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: It’s easy to manipulate facts. The fake Ed reforms do it all the time to make the public schools look bad, and even some public schools cherry pick facts to look good. Technically what both sides share with the public are not lies, but they don’t… Read more