This just arrived in my email. An advertisement for Pearson’s virtual charter business, Connections.
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Proven Virtual and Blended Learning Do you need to close achievement gaps within your district? Do you need to reduce costs on instructional and technology solutions? Are you searching for a solution to help you meet the Common Core State Standards?
CONNECTIONS LEARNING by Pearson can help. Let’s connect at the NSBA Conference so you can learn how Connections Learning can support your blended and virtual learning needs. Visit us inBooth #428 to preview:
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Great opportunity for an awareness raising action at Booth #428.
I just got the same email.
Ah, yes, innovators in education, who are remarkably similar to those innovators on Wall Street who gave us liar loans, mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps and trillion dollar looting.
probably somehow connected to the WMDs we never found either.
I wonder if their virtual school will be as difficult to use as their Envision math series? They presented it as oh-so-Activboard-friendly before we bought it, and it was barely usable. Especially since it logged me out everyday in the middle of lessons (hello, I’m teaching math for an hour, and the reason I’m not clicking on anything is because the program stinks and I only have it up as a visual).
Gag! Pearson sold our career college a program for PD. It was unbelieveably awful! One didn’t even need to read the material to pass a test at the end of it. We would just take the test first, using common sense. Then, we would look at the ones we missed, go back an (guess) do them again, until we passed and got our PD credit. I sure hope they don’t do this to kids!!
Gag me with a spoon. : (