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@Unitedoptout responds line by line to the scare tactics of the IDOE...
Here it is, a rebuttal to the Indiana DOE threatening arrest for parents who may keep their children home from testing. Actually, they need only keep their children home for math or reading, not...
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Your project is to speak for the Project School in #Indianapolis right now
Peggy Robertson’s all over this. A school in IN stood up to the ISTEP and standardized testing. Perhaps their scores took a dip. Perfect for some quack at the Mind Trust, which sounds like some kind of...
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@dianeravitch discusses #REPA in indiana, dumbing #teachers down
Ravitch details new legislation in Indiana that makes it even easier to become a teacher, thus making irrelevant teacher education in the state. Well, almost. A teacher who is licensed in any subject...
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Progressive Eugenics and Liberal Institutions
For a time I was a fan of Jane’s Addiction (everyone was doing it), but that “Been Caught Stealin’” song was really one of their least interesting off of their break-out album Ritual de lo Habitual. I...
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Shove Your Yardstick and Your Calipers and Your ETS
Indiana has recently released its “report card” assessments of its public schools. I’m sure I don’t need to go into the reasons the grades themselves are only political and have nothing to do with the...
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So I’ve heard, about #justletmeteach
I just heard about these bracelets, kind of Livestrong style. You know, those cheap plastic things available for every cause imaginable. Just Let Me Teach. Well, so now I hear two things about them:...
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#FAIL = #WIN in #edreform
It’s amazing, isn’t it? For all the very $eriou$ accountability-ish talk in the current education reform climate. A man so reviled by educators in the state of Indiana, the people he is supposed to...
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We should not valorize all educators with impunity
Because of this woman, an Indiana bigot educator who wants to exclude students who are gay from prom. We have to admit, as ardent public school and teacher advocates, that not everyone in the classroom...
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Voucher Gospels in Indiana Government
**Guest Post by Doug Martin SCHOOL VOUCHER BULLYING, PURE POLITICS, AND THE INDIANA OFFICE OF MANAGEMENTAND BUDGET When it comes to the corporate-religious-political bullying for the...
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We spoke to John Stoffel from Indiana tonight, make sure you give him a listen
You can listen to the show here. One brief comment about it, largely based on a good final point John made. Our little show means to give voices to people who are fighting this stuff, like teachers. I...
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From John Stoffel on #marchmadness and #commoncore
It’s time for March Madness in Indiana. Sadly, I refer not to our state’s passion for basketball, but to our lawmakers’ debilitation of public schools through high stakes testing which students began...
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Past and Present: Eugenics, Standardized Tests, and the Politics of School...
[Editor's note: An early draft version was posted in error. This has been corrected.]*Guest Post by John Loflin, Education-Community Action Team. johnharrisloflin@yahoo.com Past and present:...
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Two moms and two (or more) problems regarding #commoncore
Kudos to these education activists receiving some notoriety for their anti-common core views in Indiana. After spending four years in the state for graduate school, I can say I’m somewhat familiar with...
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Bennett and Flo Rida, match made in heaven #NCSC13
What happened in IN, you know, with former state supe Bennett and fixing the grades of a big donor’s charter school? Didn’t I just wax philosophical about my previous reverence for those in “Central...
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#Indiana is taking a nice, cool dip into the #optout waters, kind of like a...
StateImpact in Indiana reports on a small group of parents organizing a local opt out of the ISTEP this academic year. I’m quoted in this. I guess I said that, I never remember what words come out of...
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