Some party!
EduShyster crashed it and couldn’t find many happy events.
Hanna Skandera, one of the shrinking number of Jeb’s Chiefs for Change, was a no-show.
Tony Bennett, ex-Indiana chief, ex-Florida chief, was not sure whether to lecture on A-F grading systems. Rahm Emanuel insisted he was not a reformer, maybe just a passerby.
Was anyone happy? Sounds more like a wake than a party.
Are the reformers down in the dumps because they realize they ARE the status quo?
Who can you rail against when you control the federal government, the biggest foundations, and most states?
Just those darn teachers.
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Anytime Kevin Huffman is out of Tennessee is a greater day in Tennessee!!!….I am not sure if he attended Jeb’s party. Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:36:09 +0000 To: nancyturnbo@hotmail.com
Our OK Superintendent and one of our state Senators were there to brag on our data system and our A-F grades…problem was, back home, the newly-minted grades when through at least 5 changes in one day…they’d drop and raise within hours.
Our two universities partnered on a peer-reviewed study of the effects of our A-F grades and found the system full of problems. Today, in our largest paper, the report was attacked as a ‘tirade’. Research scientists attacked because they dared to tell the truth about this mess.
Schools will be closed; kids will lose their neighborhood schools. Teachers will lose their jobs because of this junk science.
We are drowning in ‘hunches’ by non-educators.
Sounds like the Bermuda triangle of the Status faux, filled with unexplained mysteries.
My morning news sweep turned up old-school Republican Sam Blumenfeld, of The New American, who also attended the event.
He took it for granted that American Schools are as bad as Jeb Bush wants them to be, but he saw right through their agenda. Here’s his conservative’s take on corporate “reform”. Yes, the quotation marks are his: he should read Reign of Error, I think.
“Their interest is in the new lucrative opportunities that education “reform” is providing with charter schools, private schools and colleges, vouchers, online education, and Common Core curriculum development. Public education is financed by billions of taxpayer dollars, and the new reformers are finding creative opportunities to share in that never-ending cash flow.”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/16779-jeb-bushs-education-summit-promotes-common-core
My younger son graduated from FIU, with honors and a Phi Beta Kappa key, in SPITE of Jeb Bush. My son should have graduated high school in 2004 but didn’t. He decided near the end of his junior year that South Miami High School had nothing to teach him. So he asked us if he could drop out. The school system could offer him nothing. So, while we would have loved him to stay and graduate, we let him drop out. He got his GED, went straight to the local community college and obtained his AA. He never had the need for any remedial education, unlike many of his classmates who even WITH a high school diploma had to spend a lot of time in remedial ed. Florida has a policy whereby if a student graduates from a 2 year state community college, they are guaranteed admission into the state university system. My son went on to FIU in Miami and graduated with a degree in Asian Studies with a certificate in Chinese. No thanks to Jeb Bush. Once he was elected Governor the emphasis on testing started and the charters, many of them substandard, flourished. But at least Jeb never blamed the teachers in the way that current Governor, Rick Scott, does.
Oh but he undermines our profession. He disses educators behind closed doors. His actions speak louder than his words.
But in NC tonight, at the 5th 6th grade intermediate school band concert/ Title I required parent meeting there was also a presentation to get parents ready for the drop in test scores expected on Nov 7 and that this happens anytime there is a change in the standards and that these are for getting kids ready for their careers or college and it is raising the bar (complete with photo of pole vaulting) and it does not affect their grades or status but to be ready and other states are going through the same thing.
Nov 7.
That. Was. The. Best. ” the buck stops here istan” snort
Jeb Bush has dropped out of the 2016 presidential race due to health issues. Hillary Clinton will be running for president in 2016. Get the apple pie ready!
Jeb Bush is having health issues due to his weight. He has had several close calls with heart attacks.