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Originally posted on deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog: We are in an age of so-called “data-driven” education reform. Numbers and analyses are being worshiped as the end-all, be-all evidence of education quality. Student standardized test scores are at the center of the majority of such analyses. Moreover, in order to “drive” the privatization of public education using quantitative data analysis, corporate-reform-bent…

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Harvard reports that The Best Thinkers Have 7 ‘Thinking Dispositions’, and they all require critical thinking and problem solving skills. Critical thinking is mentioned twice in the piece. Nowhere does the Harvard study mention the importance of high test scores in math, literacy or science. Harvard says, “So if you want…

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Anthony Cody just published a book about his efforts to educate Bill Gates. The book is called “The Educator and the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges Bill Gates.” Please buy it and read it. Bill Gates has used his billions to impose his ideas, despite his total lack of experience as a teacher or student…

Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Common Core Education without Representation lists David Coleman as #9 on the top-ten list for scariest people in—fake—education reform. Coleman is the lead “architect” for the English Language Arts (ELA) portion of the Common Core, and he is not an educator, but he is a businessman. He’s also responsible for enlisting…

Originally posted on iLook China: It’s arguable that the history of democracy in Hong Kong is so short, it never existed. China never willingly leased Hong Kong to the British Empire in 1842. Instead, China lost Hong Kong during the Opium Wars, and later leased adjacent terrorists to the British under duress when, in 1860, at the end of the…