Today I am devoting to Peter Greene’s painstaking and often hilarious dissection of Pearson’s plan to revolutionize education. This is Part 1.
As you will see, Pearson doesn’t think small. The writers of their 88-page document–Michael Barber and Peter Hill–have released their plan for “a new world order,” which they define for us, the little people.
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A great synopsis. Two talking heads smoking or drinking something strong and then patting themselves on the back for their brilliance.
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“Two talking heads smoking or drinking something strong and then patting themselves on the back for their brilliance.”
Sounds like a description of what my son and myself will be doing in a day or so after getting camp set up, pugnaciously pursuing the piscatorial pleasures, hopefully successfully, getting a fire going and then sitting around it regaling ourselves with our personal piscatorial prowess.
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I am in love with the following sentence: Let’s follow that with some research used to prop up the idea that teachers are responsible for the topping out. The ceiling is made neither of glass nor brick, but of inert teacher bodies, human speedbumps on the road to infinite smartitude.
That’s certainly how I felt that I was viewed in my last years of teaching (now happily retired).
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A couple of weeks ago, my students did presentations on various Holocaust-related topics. The group doing propaganda and education actually used the term “common core curriculum” to describe how the Third Reich controlled schools and brainwashed students. That was a sobering moment.
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