EduShyster retains the capacity for astonishment and surprise.
In this post, she identifies some seemingly blatant conflicts of interest on the part of big players in the education reform world.
Yet no one cares. Ethics? What’s that?
She calls it “carerruption.”
I don’t feel like getting a lawyer’s letter today threatening to sue me for defamation, so I will ask you to read EduShyster yourself.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This has been pointed out in higher ed before.
See this interview
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/94340483-josh-humphreys-on-dartmouth-endowment-practices.html
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Again, I see this type thing as an offshoot of high divorce rates. An unintended consequence in mindsets, perhaps. We learn how to be neutral because we have to to get along from day to day. Surely that mindset has effects in other areas besides keeping peace in homes and among entangled lives.
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“I don’t feel like getting a lawyer’s letter today threatening to sue me for defamation….”
I nearly spit out my coffee…. nice one.
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The “mystery” unfolds…
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/state-conservative-groups-assault-education-health-tax
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Ed reform superstar lands on his feet:
“In the heated competition between ACT Inc., and the College Board for a bigger chunk of the common-core testing market, ACT has enlisted a new weapon: Tony Bennett, the former commissioner of education in Indiana and Florida.
Bennett told me that he is serving as a consultant to ACT on its new Aspire testing system, working on test development, government relations (better known as lobbying), and other things.
“I’m doing everything from soup to nuts, helping them with a number of issues, giving them a chief’s perspective on things,” he said.
Bennett has moved back to southern Indiana and is now an independent consultant in education and business.
UPDATE: ACT spokesman Ed Colby said he could not confirm that Bennett would be doing government relations work for the company, but did confirm that “ACT Aspire has hired him to consult on state level initiatives.”
“We understand his focus to be on initiatives related to ACT Aspire as states consider the future of their state assessment programs,” Colby said in an email.”
http://indianapublicmedia.org/stateimpact/2013/12/12/edweek-tony-bennetts-gig/#more-27850
The “Common Core testing market” LOL. Good for them for using the plain-language “testing”.
Extra credit! “Assessment” is ed reformer-speak for “standardized test”. Standardized tests must poll poorly.
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Douglas County is fighting back too with our own hero, Julie Keim!
http://coloradocommunitymedia.com/stories/Ruling-on-campaign-allegations-pending,20191
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Colorado is Conflict of Interest Central. Our State Dept of Ed, our superintendents, all in Gates’ pocketbook. Check out this list of Legacy Foundation Trustees: http://colegacy.org/about-us/board-of-trustees/ And who funds Legacy…Bill Gates, to the tune of $11,455,547. Whose best interest do these elected people have: Gates or our kids? If you are on the board of Legacy Foundation or any other special interest group funded by Common Core-it is a conflict of interest.
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You know…I keep reading about these terrible politicians and public figures selling us all out. And they definitely are doing just that. But what about Gates? What about Broad and the Waltons? All of these people who are giving all this money away in order to buy the political power. Is it legal?
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The latest on LAUSD is Deasy is hiring loads of expert teachers to roam around schools in the district to make sure they are teaching common core. There is no job description as of yet, but everyone knows what they’ll be doing – harassing and spying on teachers . Perhaps they will pick up some great ideas and LAUSD will take the credit and copyright it. The teachers who chose to teach in the most challenging neighborhoods have finally had it. It’s never been this bad. More bonus bucks for the corporate hound dogs.
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I bet the expert roamers are being paid more than the teachers actually doing the work.
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