Jeb Bush prides himself on being a master of technology. He was one of the main movers behind a report called “Digital Learning NOW!,” which was underwritten by a score of technology companies. Many of those same companies are sponsors of Bush’s Foundation for Educational Excellence, and he has actively promoted replacing teachers with technology. A reporter in Maine traced the links between Bush and his sponsors and won a major journalism award for this story.
But technologically speaking, this was a bad week for Jeb Bush. First, in an effort to demonstrate transparency, he released a trove of private emails, not knowing that he was making public the emails, addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases, social security numbers of people who had corresponded with him. Then, he had another tech problem. He hired some guy to be his campaign’s technology director who had a long trail of misogynistic statements, referring to women as “sluts,” for example.
Read about it here.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Was it worse than Chris’s? https://vine.co/v/OteqbA7qgqt
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Just had to cross – post this.
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Jeb-Bush-s-Very-Bad-Terri-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Bush-Jeb_Bush-Messes-To-Clean-Up_Diane-Ravitch-150214-290.html#comment533472
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RutRho. And he’s supposed to be the “smart” Bush.
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“. . .“smart” Bush.”
Now there’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever seen one!
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A smart bush is one that is on fire and talks, but when the flames vanish, there is no damage and it just goes back to being a dumb bush.
:o)
Let’s set Jeb Bush on fire and see if he comes out with no damage or burn marks.
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I will literally throw up if Jeb is the Republican nominee. I will throw the towel in and vote Democrat. The GOP can do better!!
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Who are you hoping for instead?
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Not Donald Trump. 😮
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“When Bad is Good”
What’s bad for Bush
Is good for the rest
When Jeb is flush
He’s at his best
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In 2006 I read the Craig Unger’s book, House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties. “”Unger writes, “Never before has an American president been so closely tied to a foreign power that harbors and supports our country’s mortal enemies.””
Bush’s bloodline is to continue to have these “relationship” that brings them riches and power. I wonder if Unger will write another book titled “Another House of Bush, House of Unchecked Sound Bytes: The Sordid Relationship of Greed and Power Continues Online”.
People better wake up to the continuation of the Bush Dynasty of Greed.
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I’ve never understood why the Bush family income has been off limits in the media. This family has its personal financial interests entangled in so many sensitive US policy interests. Shady Saudi characters, energy, oil, arms dealers, international weapons consortia, So.American water rights, education, and who knows what else.
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Hey, you gotta put all that old Nazi money somewhere.
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Well, of course he doesn’t understand the Interwebz; it was invented by a Democrat after all.
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This is what Al Gore said.
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp#0Eegeu5UKLhlV01I.99
Remember that a Democrat did not innovate the Internet.
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Did you not understand I was joking?
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“God forbid if little Johnny is all stressed out and we pass him on—not in Florida, but in other places—if they haven’t learned to read in third grade,” Bush said on Tuesday. “How horrible it is for their self-esteem that they’re held back to actually learn how to read? My gosh, that’s the policy—this worrying about self-esteem at the expense of whether a kid can read? And that’s a problem that doesn’t just relate to poverty. We need to lift expectations up for every kid for them to be able to achieve earned success in our society.”
The absolute gall of this person who had every advantage and is a third generation lucky heir lecturing other people on ‘earned merit” is just amazing to me.
I am so, so sick of these people scolding us.
I don’t know which political operative or marketing team is telling politicians to travel the country delivering stern lectures to the peons who aren’t living up to their expectations, but at this point I hope every one of them loses every race they enter. It isn’t just Bush, either. They ALL do it now.
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The real question is when will the peons start fighting back?
Where is our revolution?? Why are we taking it?? Why?
Where are all the educated, progressives in this country?
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Escalate mass non-cooperation & join the opt -out movement. When more parents begin to understand their kids are being mistreated and bullied by the test & punish boys, change will take shape.
It was parents of kids with disabilities who forced the passage of IDEA (PL 94-142 in 1975). One by one, and in small organizations all over the country parents were challenging the status quo of exclusionary laws aimed at keeping their kids out of public schools.
In the 1970’s parents used the courts to enact legal protections. Today, given the outsized influence of billionaires & the financial industry in writing law, our target is their data source- testing.
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Smile, it couldn’t have happened to a worse candidate. Sometimes what goes around ….
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With all due apologies to the owner of this blog, putting “Bush” and “master” in the same sentence is like putting “Bush” and “competence” in the same sentence.
A la Yoda: Exaggerate, I not.
From President George “NCLB” Bush:
[start quote]
“So long as there is a viable accountability system, where states are able to show progress and where states can show whether or not children are and if not, that there is a consequence – then that’s fine by me,” Bush said Tuesday.
Bush’s statement was a significant step short of his rhetoric last year, when he said uniform statewide tests were critical to allow comparisons among school districts and among states.
Reformers contend that the lack of such comparisons makes it much harder to take schools to task. “Without clear statewide standards, all you have is the shell of accountability, with very different results in different districts,” said John Jennings, director of the Center on National Education Policy. “In poor districts, much less is expected of kids, and differing tests won’t reflect that.”
National studies, Jennings said, “have shown that kids in the inner city who are being told they are A students would really be C or D students in the suburbs, because they are being held to lower standards.” Without uniformity statewide, he said, “you are just testing for the sake of testing.”
But Bush sharply disputed that argument, saying basic reading, writing and math tests are easy to correlate. “A reading comprehension test is a reading comprehension test. And a math test in the fourth grade – there’s not many ways you can foul up a test,” he said. “It’s pretty easy to `norm’ ” the results.
[end quote]
Link: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010315&slug=bush15
[I saw it first in Daniel Koretz, MEASURING UP: WHAT EDUCATIONAL TESTING REALLY TELLS US, 2008, p. 7, note #1]
Focus on the last sentence: “there’s not many ways you can foul up a test.”
George W. Bush. Jeb Bush. Literally, not figuratively, brothers from the same mother.
Google “pineapple” and “hare” and “Daniel Pinkwater.”
A Bush by any other name…
‘Nuff said.
😎
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When Jeb Bush runs for President does he promise to come to Ohio public schools in all 88 counties and trash them like he does at the events he holds for national ed reform lobbyists?
The national candidates always appear at our public schools to advance their own careers in Presidential election years. All I ask is that ed reform politicians talk like they do when they’re “among friends” in The Movement. If he wants to use our public schools for campaign events and our kids as campaign props, I think he should have to spit out the same vitriol he does when appearing at “movement” events. Anything less than that would be cowardly and deceptive.
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“…The Whitehouse counters that the Republican proposed legislation (on vouchers) would divert federal education dollars to unrelated projects like prisons…”- Friday, Feb. 13
The politicians of both parties divert dollars from community schools and children, to the projects of tech/test corporations, hedge funds, and charters.
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bravo—–perhaps he will be outed as the public enemy he is
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Here is an ugly story about his tech geek–a co-founder of Hipster.com.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/ethan-czahor-jeb-bush-2016-elections-115106.html
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I see little hope at the end of this long tunnel.
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I don’t think Jeb Bush can win the GOP nomination. He’s not conservative enough (I know 🙂 ) to get Tea Party votes. The candidate those of us who care about education should fear is Scott Walker (and yes, we pretty much should fear every one of the GOPers jockeying for position now). Walker brags about his antipathy to public education and teaching. And he’s likely to be the GOP nominee.
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The underlying genius of the Bush Crime Family~
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