Anthony Cody comments on a startling conversation between two teachers and Secretary of Education Duncan.
The conversation appears on a video.
One of the teachers asks him about the role of philanthropists such as Eli Broad and Bill Gates in setting education policy.
Consider this astonishing exchange:
“Lisa Clarke:
“One of the particular questions we’ve heard teachers ask is if corporate-based philanthropists are playing too heavy a role in public education, and if there’s a corporate agenda at the Department.
“Arne Duncan:
“I think that’s a very important question of what role does philanthropy or the corporate side have, and anyone who thinks that those who are major donors to education, or those giving a lot, have a seat at the table in terms of policymaking, nothing could be further from the truth.”
Read that line again.
“Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Then read Anthony Cody’s description of how Bill gates paid for every aspect of the Common Core standards that Arne vociferously advocates.
“Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Others can parse how many seats Eli Broad has at the policy table, but it would be hard to find someone who thinks he has none.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I thank goodness every day for Diane Ravitch. I would love to see her on HuffPost every day so that more of us could understand what’s really going on with the plot to destroy public education.
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Reblogged this on sharsandblog.
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I posted on Anthony’s article. You all should too since most of you write better than I do. Nice job Anthony. Peter did a nice synopsis too as only he can. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/01/askarne-spleen-theater.html
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I did post on Cody’s story, Janna. I posted this question for Duncan:
” Right at the end, Lisa Clark looks at the camera and says, teachers should continue the conversation, and send our questions for Duncan to answer.
“Can you get us the link to do that? My question is,
“Mr. Duncan, you say Gates has no place at the policy table. Can you prove that? Will you, right now, release all state from Gates’ conditions and restrictions on any federal funds, grants, and waivers? That includes requirements for student data accumulation, test-score-based teacher evaluation, and Common Core implementation.”
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Thanks! you did well!
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Anthony Cody answers:
You can leave your comments on the video where it is posted on the Department of Ed webiste here: https://www.ed.gov/blog/2014/01/arne-duncan-answers-teachers-questions-on-the-role-of-private-funds-and-interests-in-education/
Or if you are on Twitter, you can tweet your questions to the hashtag #AskArne.
Let’s all do that, shall we?
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Checking it out now 🙂
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My two cents:
Yes – schools are under-invested and this has been designed by the policies associated with NCLB and now RTT. If the Gates Foundation’s does not have a seat at the table and their support is only to help education why not ask these “successful people” to “give back” and close the gaps in schools that are under-invested. That seems like what a philanthropic institute would do. Instead you chose to use the resources of these “successful people” to over-regulate the already under-invested schools, to demoralize public school teachers and to expand unregulated, publicly funded and privately owned and operated charter schools. This IS hurting kids and teachers, and your claim that this hasn’t been “your experience” is proof that you do not have real educators at your table.
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LOL
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I’m turning that sentence over in my head to see if maybe it’s a play on the word ‘nothing”. For instance, if you’re asked to write a recommendation for someone who really doesn’t deserve it, you might say, “I would recommend no one ahead of Bob.” There’s either got to be a double meaning in there or Arne is just flat out lying, and we certainly wouldn’t expect that of Mr. Duncan now, would we?
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“This is not just a seat at the table. The Gates Foundation has set the table, and decided on the menu.”
And how.
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yup
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Hopefully the ED Week readers will read your 6 part series on Gates and the Common Core. I think we could film it an make it a horror flick.
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Or a snuff film . . . . .
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You are bad!
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Not really, Janna.
Arne Duncan and the Broads . . . . They are bad.
Make it evil, nefarious, pernicious . . . . Fill in the blanks.
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I agree- they are dangerous and harmful. You just have a wicked sense of humor.
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Janna, a wicked sense of humor is most times a pro-social way of channeling some otherwise very objectionable anger at the plutocracy out there . . . . .
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I disagree, Robert. That’s not a “pro social” or pleasantly wicked reference; it’s an all-the-way ugly turn that corrupts the conversation. Did you stop to take account of what strain of “humor” you’re trading on? I think you’re trolling this blog again.
I wish you’d go somewhere else when you need to vent your ego.
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Okay, Chemtechr, you win.
My metaphor was extreme, but I equate what is going on in most of the reform movement to the murder of democracy and its graphic depiction to the public.
I can imagine what you MIGHT feel about Matt Taibbi and his use of extreme imagery. I am a fan of Taibbi.
Still, I don’t think your objections to style are unreasonable in the parlance of serious discourse. There is much to be said for serious, adult tones.
And perhaps extremism, even if it is to be perceived as a language police issue, may fan the flames to burn down every acre instead of directing them in a targeted way to destroy specific enclaves of bad policy.
I assume this is akin to your premise here; I could be wrong.
I assure you I am no troll, and my only ego here is aimed at seeing collectively all educators preserve public education and not have it turned into Central and South America, where virtually all decent and excellent schools are privatized.
If you consider that to be an ego trip, Chemtchr, then call me a grade “A” egotist . . . .
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And what or whom to devour–all in the name of?
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And we teachers and our unions are ON the menu . . . . .
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It’s time to call in Theresa from RHONJ to come in and flip the %#%##% table on Arne and King Gates. Privatizing pimps!
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What is RHONJ? Who is Theresa?
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Real Housewives of New Jersey. See video clip here. Arne’s table gets flipped.
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I am considerably pop culture and cable TV illiterate.
If Theresa will conduct herself that way in favor of public education as a Congresswoman, then . . . . . . . she may garner quite a few votes.
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Linda,
The clip was hysterical. Do these people actually exist?
Foul mouths, large bank accounts, and Texas sized hair with even bigger homes . . . . all in the garden state.
This is not the Erskine Lake / Ringwood community I associate with New Jersey, of which I have nothing but fond memories .. . .
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AMEN! Duncan is a liar, and we are to respect and trust him? I think NOT.
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I don’t respect and trust him.
I loathe and revile him . . . .
He is vomit on two legs.
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I recant the last line here; I would rather have Chemtchr’s respect than lose his/her solidarity . . . . .
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But, Mercedes, this turn of conversation really represents a defeat for Duncan. Remember where the “place at the table” meme came from: no teacher or community group would even be allowed a voice unless they accepted the Gates Foundation’s authority over the agenda.
You know who’s still plunked on her little 3-legged stool at the foot of Gates’ table (all by herself now, according to Duncan)? It’s Randi! Listen to her in yesterday’s Hartford Courant
“But Weingarten said “even with all of this, polls have found that an overwhelming majority of teachers support the new standards, but too many feel unprepared and unsupported.”
“She said that “to reclaim the promise of public education—and keep great teachers in the profession—school administrators, principals, lawmakers and others must listen to teachers about what they need to prepare their students for the real world.”
http://www.courant.com/news/education/hc-teachers-unhappy-0123-20140122,0,539177.story
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Hasn’t she backed herself into a corner and now she’s clinging to a few stale talking points? She’s running out of edubabble.
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Here’s a good gauge of whether Arne Duncan is lying:
Check to see whether his lips are moving.
Duncan’s educational technology blueprint, issued at the beginning of his tenure, was basically the strategic plan of Gates and Murdoch’s inBloom–national standards, national tests, a national database of student responses and test scores based on those standards and tests, a computer for every kid, computer-adaptive curricula (e.g., curricula that adapts to the responses in the database).
And Mr. Gates was there with the checkbook to pay for it all.
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This is called a “public-private partnership.”
Or, as Benito Mussolini it, “Fascism is the erasure of the distinction between government and corporations,” so one could call it fascism instead. Top-down, invariant, totalitarian policy issued by an unelected body, abetted by appointed bureaucrats, and paid for by a small group of oligarchs in furtherance of a business plan.
Think: The United Fruit Company. Think: Banana Republic, but with education as the commodity instead of bananas.
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re: banana republics. I get a very bad feeling when I think about who kept them the way they were/are for so long. As some of them become ’emergent economies’, the chickens come home to roost.
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And, of course, Gates’s inBloom startup had NOTHING to do with Duncan’s revising the FERPA rules so that students’ private data could be turned over to a corporation without parental consent. Nothing at all.
And that key in Arne’s back and the sticker that says “Property of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” do not mean that he is Bill’s wind-up toy. Not at all. He’s his own guy.
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@ Robert D Shepherd.. that line was LAUGH OUT LOUD HYSTERICAL – “Here’s a gauge of whether Arne Duncan is lying… check to see whether his lips are moving…” tragically priceless!!
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Good one, Robert. LOL! My first laugh this early morning.
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Priceless! No need to say more…
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It’s proven by following the federal tax money –
Duncan promotes and runs the US Department of Corporate EDUCATION TESTING via Gates (COMMON CORE PEARSON INC.) with Broad’s Foundation. What’s more, Duncan serves as Bill Gates’ lobbyist in his tax funded position to sell the Common Core funded by Gates with federal RTTT bribes to states.
Duncan’s favorite corporate reform favorite cheerleader is Michelle Rhee – TFA for three years using tape on mouths for discipline and had ZERO qualifications to lead Washington DC.
Duncan can’t hide from the billions in federal tax funded contracts he has awarded by funneling/promoting Pearson’s high-stakes testing so the US can become Singapore or Korea.
Duncan does not understand that US parents do not want Singapore style education or Korea style education or Duncan’s style of bashing public school teachers and public schools.
Parents need an investigation into Duncan’s no-bid contracts that were funneled to Wireless Generation (now owned by Rupert Murdoch) when he was CEO (no education qualifications) of Chicago Public Schools.
Anthony – Keep the pressure on Duncan. It’s making a difference. Parents are now on top of Duncan’s for-profit corporate scheme in almost every state.
Duncan needs to resign and the Murdoch/Klein/inBloom data gathering with Coleman’s Common Core must be stopped.
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State of the Union Address will be more SPINS. It’s sick.
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Peter Greene’s take on it:
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/01/askarne-spleen-theater.html
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And Duncan had to gall to write this op ed in today’s Washington Post calling for people to “tell the truth” about the achievement gap. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/arne-duncan-better-education-starts-with-honesty-about-achievement-gaps/2014/01/23/7f276928-7ed2-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html (which, of course was bs in itself)
He clearly can’t handle the truth.
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Arne needs to have his brain scanned . . . .
You’ll notice that in this recent scan of his, there is nothing inside:
http://radiographics.highwire.org/content/28/5/1477/F4.expansion.html
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Why does Arne think he is the only person who ever tells the truth? Why does he accuse teachers and parents of lying to children? What gives?
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All I can say is that we are living in an epoch of narcissism, ignorance, incompetence, and corruption.
These are VERY sinister times. But I know history has cycles, and the length of the cycles does vary, unfortunately.
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I liked Josh Starr’s reaction to Arne saying that.
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Arne, are you joking? Those of us in L.A. know Broad owns the chairs, the table, and the building it’s located in!
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Duncan promotes his own lies to cover for his boss – Obama via the Gates and Broad foundations with their BFF corporation – Pearson. Pressure is making a difference and Duncan/Obama with the CEO of Pearson are all sweating because parents DON’T like what they are trying so hard to sell.
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Before Arne Duncan became Secretary of Education he was on the Board of the Broad Foundation. See the 2009/2010 Broad Foundation Annual Report – Page 25
http://tinyurl.com/6w5sps2
On Page 5 of this report, it says:
“The election of President Barack Obama and his appointment of Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, as the U.S. secretary of education, marked the pinnacle of hope for our work in education reform. In many ways, we feel the stars have finally aligned.
With an agenda that echoes our decade of investments—charter schools, performance pay for teachers, accountability, expanded learning time and national standards—the Obama administration is poised to cultivate and bring to fruition the seeds we and other reformers have planted.”
On Page 10 of this report it says:
“Prior to becoming U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan was CEO of Chicago Public Schools, where he hosted 23 Broad Residents. Duncan now has five Broad Residents and alumni working with him in the U.S. Department of Education.”
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Thanks for posting this here and on the article. Great information!
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“Multiple rounds of budget cuts and layoffs that have left 34 of the 50 states providing less funding for education than they did five years ago, and the elimination of more than 300,000 teaching positions.”
“A wave of privatization that has increased the number of publicly funded but privately run charter schools by 50 percent, while nearly 4,000 public schools have been closed in the same period.”
“A massively well-financed campaign of billionaires and politically powerful advocacy organizations that seeks to replace our current system of public education—which, for all its many flaws, is probably the most democratic institution we have and one that has done far more to address inequality, offer hope, and provide opportunity than the country’s financial, economic, political, and media institutions—with a market-based, non-unionized, privately managed system.”
Public schools aren’t faring too well under ed reform leadership, not at the state level, and not at the federal level, either. That to me is the measure of Duncan’s work. He’s done a terrible job.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/23/the-coming-common-core-meltdown/
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These guys will go down as biggest duds in history. 2 more years
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In the video, Duncan promotes GE, IBM, and Joyce Foundation. He talks about “purchasing power” and unmet needs.
Duncan is clearly a tool for the billionaires via their corporations and shareholders without his own teaching experience for even ONE DAY!
I request that Bill Gates’ teacher film crew captures videos of Arne Duncan teaching any level (K-12) so we can all have a perspective on his expectations for US public school teachers. Gates needs to create a website with Duncan as the expert teacher so we will all learn how to be more like Singapore or Korea.
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I’m dreading “school choice week” because I’ve seen this show before. It will be a parade of the same 15 “experts” bashing public schools and selling a book or a lobbying group or a law and the politicians I elect to act as advocates will be pushing their way to the microphones to join in on yet another round of public school bashing.
The only public school advocate who will be invited to appear will be a labor leader, and this will be set up, once again, as “Greedy Unions versus Saintly Reformers” as if everyone in this country except for Randy Weingarten can’t wait to close their local public school and turn it into a “no excuses” charter or that we’re all “trapped” in our public schools and pleading for vouchers.
Duncan’s biggest and most self-aggrandizing delusion is that he’s somehow “bucking the status quo”. He IS the status quo.
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Arne:
How many of your current or former US Department of Corporate Education employees have ties to the Gates Foundation or Bill Gates?
Please respond with names and dates of employment with Bill Gates or his foundation.
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precisely
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Either Arne is lying or Arne is delusional. Take your pick.
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LYING!
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K Quinn and Yvonne Siu-Runyan: with all due respect, we are asked us to pick between two correct answers.
I wish I was trying to be humorous. Click on the link below for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s speech of April 30, 2013, to the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association.
Link: http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/choosing-right-battles-remarks-and-conversation
Among other features, notice how he is somewhat for, somewhat against, and simultaneously somewhat for/somewhat against high-stakes standardized testing. “I’m a Sec of Ed, Short and stout, My mind’s so open, That my brains fell out!”
Consider too that in the speech he chastises some of his fiercest and most knowledgeable expert critics on standardized testing—for not getting standardized testing right! The cognitive dissonance is so strong, a bottle-full of Aleve and Ibuprofen wouldn’t take much of the edge off the ensuing mental pain.
If you think I exaggerate, notice how the greatest single promoter of the national hazing ritual known as high-stakes standardized tests relates his very personal anguish over its intended consequences:
[start quote] Most of the assessment done in schools today is after the fact. Some schools have an almost obsessive culture around testing, and that hurts their most vulnerable learners and narrows the curriculum. It’s heartbreaking to hear a child identify himself as “below basic” or “I’m a one out of four.” [end quote]
May I suggest adding other correct answers to the mix? He is a), lying, b), delusional, c), concocter of word salad, or d), all three.
Just my dos centavitos worth…
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Both
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File under: Educational industrial complex? What educational industrial complex?
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Liar, Liar…
House on FIre.
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Make it pants.
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Okay, okay, okay.
We can sit here and complain about Duncan all we want, but he still works for his boss, and his boss wants all of this shock administered to education.
His boss wants to dismantle public education.
His boss and his boss’s wife . . . Mr. and Mrs. Hideous themselves . . . .
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I believe Mr. Duncan is doing something far worse than lying about the starring roles of corporations and philanthropists in the design and implementation of national education policy. He ( and his corporate/philanthropic partners) seem very comfortable strong-arming states, cities, towns, local board of educations, the American people. Mr. Duncan and his financial backers believe they are doing something for the greater good and are using any means possible to forge ahead with their plans. Mr. Duncan is undermining democracy, and that is far worse than lying.
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Excellent! Well put!
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Education is the latest cash cow for corporation. It is the same old story. The buy there way in with political and social donations then they practice tape, rob, and pillage of the unsuspecting public. Can any say Newark, Christie, Booker (yes Booker), and their ” hook up” Cerf!!!!!
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The scary part is that, so far, it has been working. Hook, line, and sinker. The tide is turning, but not before a generation of guinea pig/children/students have been subjected to their failed experiment. But don’t worry. The children of the Deformers will come put unscathed. The Obama girls will never be subjected to ObamaCore.
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Oops. Come OUT unscathed…
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I abhor Gates, but at least he didn’t lie when he described the neo-liberal profiteering aims of the Common Core: “It will unleash a powerful market of people providing services for better teaching. For the first time there will be a large uniform base of customers.”
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Education is NOT “customer service” or is “market-driven.” That’s what these idiot neoliberals can’t get through their thick skulls. Public education is a public service for the public good, not some “business” where somebody at the top siphons off the money for their benefit.
Neoliberalism is evil, and it has screwed up an entire generation of politicians.
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Education vendors already had a very large base of customers to whom they sold their wares and made decent profits. Requiring education to be “uniform” is just making it cheaper for companies to “scale up” and easier for them to get larger returns on their investments. Neo-liberalism feeds the insatiable ambitions of avarice.
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They have confused the table for the feeding trough. I have wasted 7 minutes and 34 seconds of my life.
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I realize this is late, since this post ran yesterday, but I am compelled to comment. From Denver: it is all about public relations and lies. Always. Not stop. Why just yesterday our superintendent was touting higher graduation rates for the district, and while they have inched up over the past nine years of reform, the remediation numbers have grown at a faster rate meaning we are handing out worthless diplomas. But our data are better. And by the board of education’s own established goals, the rate should be at 87% district wide at this point. What is it? 61.5%. Statewide rate is 76.9%. I can’t give you this year’s remediation number because had it been released at the same time – which it should have been to put it all in context- it would show the sham occurring here. The supe has the nerve to talk about higher standards when in fact we are consistently lowering standards. For example, DPS now has a one year foreign language requirement to graduate, not enough to get into Colorado’s flagship university, the University of Colorado, Boulder. But the bottom line is lies are difficult to combat when you have the money and the press on the side of the liars .
Jeannie Kaplan
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Now all someone needs to do is find video of him repeating talking points from those foundations websites verbatim like the spokesmodel that he is.
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In this video, Duncan talks in a friendly collegial tone to re\presentatives of a our nation’s teachers, agroup THAT, IN FACT, DUNCAN WANTS TO DESTROY, and that his CORPORATE MASTERS ARE PAYING HIM TO DESTROY.
That’s not hyperbole. This is EXACTLY what is going on. When talking to teachers, Arne puts on the facade of “I’m your friend”… “you’re whom we want input from”, and and on and on… while the truth is…
ARNE DUNCAN WANTS TO DESTROY THE TEACHING PROFESSION.
I first heard words to that effect two-and-a-half years ago at UTLA’s LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE from Warren Fletcher, my current union president:
(go to 06:30)
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WARREN FLETCHER, UTLA PRESIDENT:
“Well, I’ve been through a lot. In the past our reactions to each successive wave of bad educational ideas would have been what you might expect: ‘We’re professionals. We’ll do what’s best for the kids despite these bad policies. We’ll just get through this.’ That’s what professionals do!
“But the challenges we face today in Los Angeles are different. THE GOAL of the phony ‘reform’ movement IS NOT TO CHANGE YOUR JOB; IT’S TO ELIMINATE YOUR JOB.
“THEIR GOAL IS NOT TO CHANGE THE TEACHING PROFESSION; IT’S TO ABOLISH TEACHING AS A PROFESSION.
“Teachers are college educated professionals. You are not easily taken in. You see what the current school board majority is trying to do to your profession and to your students. I know that every one of you is ready to stand up and take this fight to the District, ready to take back our schools.
“You are not alone. Your union stands with you.
“We are public school teachers and we are proud of it!”
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Indeed, one of the goals of the “reformers”—a goal that goes hand-in-hand with overall privatization—is change teaching from…
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CATEGORY A … a profession with requires exacting education, extensive expertise, a demanding training period before actual practice… much like that of doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. … a career job that last decades…
and convert it to …
CATEGORY B… nothing more than a low-level service job that requires the most minimal education, almost no expertise, and little if any training period (just gimmicks from godawful books written by “experts” like Doug Lemov) … like fast food, retail sales at a store, janitorial, etc. … not a career job… and with no job protections, or due process for firing… a few years and out you go, to then be replaced by a next round of similarly poorly-compensated, short term workers…
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CATEGORY B need only be paid a pittance and can be abused and over-worked with impunity, while CATEGORY A requires considerably more compensation. If the money-motivated privatizers are going to make a decent profit while taking over all or much of what is now public education, the the work force has to be the latter.
I remember talking to a TFA Corps Member at a school site, telling her that doctors, lawyers, and engineers need exacting education, extensive expertise, a demanding training period before actual practice… and so should teachers.
Her reply, “Yeah, but those are different from teaching; those are REAL professions.”
THUD! Sound of my jaw hitting the floor. (That’s part of what they’re taught during their five weeks of training… oy vey!!)
The other agenda is that corporations—including those not engaged in raping and pillaging of public educatin—and rich folk will have their taxes drastically cut as a result of all this. Those corporations will have higher profits, higher price for their stock, and happy stock-holders as a result. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED IN CHILE… thanks to decades of the dictatorship there, and no democratic process to stop privatization.
That’s why the so-called “corporate reform” privatizers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars vilifying the current teachers and their unions—documentaries, movies, op-eds, foundations, etc. Those unions are getting in their way of their rampage towards profits. The privatizers desperately need to destroy the public’s faith and confidence in teachers, and pass so-called “right-to-work” laws that will destroy unions. They want to do to education what they did to the housing industry, and to Wall Street… education is the next realm to conquer, rape, and pillage. These are the same folks.
However, you’ll notice that in the schools that these well-heeled folks send their own kids, you have teachers with multiple degrees, decades of experience… schools that include full-time dedicated libraries / librarians, arts teachers/ program, music teachers / programs..
Unlike the McSchools they want for the kids of the middle and working classes, these schools have small class sizes, and no (or very little) time spent in a cubicle with on-line or digital teachers. 100% (or close to it) of their kids’ instructional time is spend with live teachers of CATEGORY A above, and because of the small class sizes—12-to-1, 10-to-1, that attention is often 1-on-1… again, totally unlike the McSchools they want for everyone else’s kids.
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In New Jersey, Eli Broad funded the RAC organizations. These are the state run bodies that work with priority and focus schools. As a matter of fact the Broad organization was emphatic about the Christie Administration support of his reforms.
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Three items about RAC
1. Research based turn around model. Where is the research? What urban district have their ideas have been successful, Newark?
Patterson? I do not think so!
2. Rutgers University. The N. J. State University has a model for education reform that has been developed and was being Implemented in Asbury Park. After thousands of dollars spent on training and collaboration a district wide initiative was abruptly stopped due to conflicts with the RAC.
3. RAC has eight basic premises two of which are ignored.
A. School Climate
B. Community Engagement
Just ask Newark!
The plan for Camden is being shared with the community tomorrow. By this time tomorrow Camden will be “stewing” like Newark over the DOE version of community engagement.
Hey for that matter ask Asbury Park!
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Not to mention all the Gates staff that did/is doing a stint in the department and Eli Broad detailing his staff to the department to help write the school turnaround guidelines, etc.
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Three items about RAC
1. Research based turn around model. Where is the research? What urban district have their ideas have been successful, Newark?
Patterson? I do not think so!
2. Rutgers University. The N. J. State University has a model for education reform that has been developed and was being Implemented in Asbury Park. After thousands of dollars spent on training and collaboration a district wide initiative was abruptly stopped due to conflicts with the RAC.
3. RAC has eight basic premises two of which are ignored.
A. School Climate
B. Community Engagement
Just ask Newark!
The plan for Camden is being shared with the community tomorrow. By this time tomorrow Camden will be “stewing” like Newark over the DOE version of community engagement.
Hey for that matter ask Asbury Park!
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These were not two random teachers unknown to Arne Duncan. Lisa Clarke and Joiselle Cunningham were both selected as Washington Fellows to be placed to work full-time at the Department of Education’s headquarters. http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-secretary-arne-duncan-announces-eight-teachers-selected-2013-2014-teac
Googling Joiselle Cummingham shows some connection with Teach for America. http://www2.ed.gov/programs/teacherfellowship/2013fellows/cunningham.html.
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