This post, written by Joseph Ray Lavine, gives an account of Anthony Cody’s speech at the University of Georgia. Cody told the audience that programs like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top had squandered billions of dollars, and that methodologies like “value-added measurement” could not measure what mattered most in education. Teachers want students who can engage in critical thinking, collaboration, and who can persevere, but the testing regime does not promote or encourage these qualities, nor can it measure them. We are not raising the bar, he said; we are actually lowering expectations by relying so heavily on high-stakes testing.
Cody recently published a book about the Gates Foundation and its influence on current failed reforms. The book is “The Educator and the Oligarch”; it describes his exchanges with the foundation and his efforts to persuade it to change course.
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The main difference between a pedagogue and a profit-monger is that the teacher seeks to impart knowledge that can empower all, leading them up the “hill of success”. The business-model type teaches only what they want, in order to keep the masses under their control; to make good consumers of them, not liberating thinkers. The business type parasitizes students, the pedagogue seeks their freedom.