This is a hilarious explanation of how charter schools succeed. If you might be offended, don’t watch.
If you want to see a hotly debated issue presented in graphic form, then take a peek. Only 2 minutes.
A site to discuss better education for all
28 Comments Post your own or leave a trackback: Trackback URL
Leave a Reply Cancel reply
Search All Posts
Previous posts
- May 2022 (91)
- April 2022 (105)
- March 2022 (119)
- February 2022 (96)
- January 2022 (94)
- December 2021 (98)
- November 2021 (77)
- October 2021 (79)
- September 2021 (78)
- August 2021 (74)
- July 2021 (82)
- June 2021 (69)
- May 2021 (66)
- April 2021 (72)
- March 2021 (103)
- February 2021 (140)
- January 2021 (169)
- December 2020 (142)
- November 2020 (160)
- October 2020 (169)
- September 2020 (170)
- August 2020 (175)
- July 2020 (191)
- June 2020 (195)
- May 2020 (205)
- April 2020 (203)
- March 2020 (197)
- February 2020 (165)
- January 2020 (180)
- December 2019 (194)
- November 2019 (185)
- October 2019 (199)
- September 2019 (169)
- August 2019 (172)
- July 2019 (169)
- June 2019 (193)
- May 2019 (203)
- April 2019 (195)
- March 2019 (187)
- February 2019 (160)
- January 2019 (201)
- December 2018 (204)
- November 2018 (213)
- October 2018 (213)
- September 2018 (186)
- August 2018 (190)
- July 2018 (196)
- June 2018 (190)
- May 2018 (225)
- April 2018 (221)
- March 2018 (242)
- February 2018 (182)
- January 2018 (212)
- December 2017 (224)
- November 2017 (188)
- October 2017 (240)
- September 2017 (239)
- August 2017 (237)
- July 2017 (235)
- June 2017 (224)
- May 2017 (267)
- April 2017 (265)
- March 2017 (284)
- February 2017 (262)
- January 2017 (355)
- December 2016 (239)
- November 2016 (274)
- October 2016 (219)
- September 2016 (218)
- August 2016 (211)
- July 2016 (217)
- June 2016 (219)
- May 2016 (233)
- April 2016 (229)
- March 2016 (242)
- February 2016 (244)
- January 2016 (247)
- December 2015 (230)
- November 2015 (233)
- October 2015 (292)
- September 2015 (262)
- August 2015 (268)
- July 2015 (252)
- June 2015 (254)
- May 2015 (277)
- April 2015 (290)
- March 2015 (322)
- February 2015 (281)
- January 2015 (247)
- December 2014 (225)
- November 2014 (226)
- October 2014 (287)
- September 2014 (283)
- August 2014 (271)
- July 2014 (258)
- June 2014 (281)
- May 2014 (284)
- April 2014 (330)
- March 2014 (358)
- February 2014 (308)
- January 2014 (282)
- December 2013 (260)
- November 2013 (270)
- October 2013 (342)
- September 2013 (358)
- August 2013 (373)
- July 2013 (336)
- June 2013 (347)
- May 2013 (348)
- April 2013 (369)
- March 2013 (379)
- February 2013 (296)
- January 2013 (342)
- December 2012 (328)
- November 2012 (270)
- October 2012 (366)
- September 2012 (475)
- August 2012 (463)
- July 2012 (372)
- June 2012 (209)
- May 2012 (120)
- April 2012 (17)
-
Recent posts
Blog Topics
Accountability Betsy DeVos Billionaires Budget Cuts California Charter Schools Chicago Closing schools Common Core Corporate Reform Corporate Reformers Democracy Duncan, Arne Education Industry Education Reform Florida For-Profit Fraud Funding Gates Foundation, Bill Gates International Los Angeles New York New York City Ohio Parents Privatization Race to the Top Resistance School Choice Standardized Testing Students Teacher Evaluations Teachers Teachers and Teaching Testing Texas Trump Unions Vouchers
Top posts
- The Greatest Hoax in the History of Education
- James Harvey: The Lies Promoted by NAEP’s Absurd Benchmarks
- Oklahoma: Billionaires Pushing Charter Schools and Vouchers Underwrite Salary of State Secretary of Education
- Why Isn’t the “Parental Rights” Movement Fighting for the Parents of Transgender Youth?
- If the Right to Own a Gun Were Like Access to Abortion…
- Weep for the Children of Uvalde
- Heather Cox Richardson: The Historical Origins of America’s Gun Lobby
- Russia Censors a Musician for Playing Forbidden Music
- BBC: America’s Gun Culture
- Russian Diplomat Quits in Shame
Follow blog via RSS reader
-
Diane Ravitch's Blog by Diane Ravitch is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at dianeravitch.net. Blog Stats
- 39,526,563 hits
Diane Ravitch's blog 
LOVE. IT.
Posted on Facebook.
Watch the video back-to-back with its sequel:
Thanks for the added post.
Linda: what you said.
😎
Diane’s “Don’t watch this video” makes fans of George Lakoff smile.
About the artist/
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore delivers hard-hitting and fun political animation to millions of viewers worldwide. Called “the undisputed guru of the form,” by the Wall Street Journal, Fiore’s work has appeared everywhere from CNN to Al Jazeera to the San Francisco Chronicle and Mother Jones. Now you can see, share and embed his work on YouTube!
This is not the publicity that the charter industry seeks.
I am now waiting for the inside of the charter school video.
I just found this great article written and posted this week by three pro-public-school LAUSD Board Members — Steve Zimmer Board Pres., George McKenna Board Vice-Pres., and the recently elected Scott Schmerelson. They’re opposed to Eli Broad’s charter school expansion because “children are not commodities.”
http://edsource.org/2016/our-children-are-not-commodities/94237
What’s interesting is the Comments Section of this article. There is an attempt by Heidi Landers, a wealthy proponent of school privatization out here in Los Angeles, to do a little rhetorical sleight-of-hand in her response to the letter’s criticism of “privately” run schools that use public tax money with no accountability … and the pitfalls inherent in having such schools.
————————-
Heidi Landers 4 days ago
“The term ‘privately’ run is, in my opinion, inaccurate; these schools are ‘independently’ run.”
————————-
Caroline Grannan immediately responds:
————————-
CarolineSF 3 days ago
“Is attempting to replace ‘private’ with ‘independent’ an Orwellian effort to control language and thought, or just a clumsy marketing effort?
“Discuss.”
————————-
Must see video.
Posting about the video could not have been more timely as idaho Legislators were treated to a Kool Aid session. What is this “Ohio Miracle” of which they speak? To me this looks like a charter school hard sell. Idaho’s Albertson Foundation is already pushing online tech charter schools. Anyone know about Ohio’s schools? http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article58703538.html
“Bringing business people in to teach”?
Mary Ollie,
Seriously, the Ohio Miracle? The charters in Ohio lead the way in F ratings. The online charters get disastrous results, but make their owners very rich.
Even the Walton Foundation acknowledged that online schools are dreadful
I love it! I encourage folks to post this beyond your education activist circles. Finally, an easily digestible explanation of the situation. Funny that it takes a cartoon to elevate the discourse.
Reblogged this on Politicians Are Poody Heads and commented:
Watch the video Diane links to . It’s hysterical!
Wasn’t offended until I saw it. Disappointing partisan and racist presentation.
Hideous bureaucrat, we welcome another charter troll.
No you don’t. High school sarcasm from a towering historian is a little unbecoming. So much for the notion of tolerant progressives. I’m a registered democrat with 39 years teaching experience and am against charter schools since propsed by Shanker. If I could unshake your hand I would.
Hideous Bureaucrat,
Consider your hand unshaken.
Thank you for your input.
Kind of difficult to imagine a more apt avatar than yours, hb.
Diane, you are such a genial host!
@hideousbureaucrat: to lift from the two videos, Note: “racist” does not necessarily mean “racist.”
Well, much as I enjoy tennis, the volleying here isn’t terribly interesting given the vagueness of the above comment. Unless you care to pin down what is “racist” about the videos, it’s hard to know what you’re on about and easy to see why someone might think you a troll. Your second comment clarified nothing, really, as far as your gripes with videos that most folks, myself included, seemed to think hit numerous nails squarely on their heads.
Not sure if there’s sarcasm embedded above, and if so, what grade band it’s drawn from, but my conscious aim is to get you to get down to brass tacks or leave off firing. What are the chances?
And yet you feel compelled to reply…
@Hideogump: and yet you feel compelled to offer nothing of substance. Anyone can throw out epithets. Explicating them takes actual analysis. You should try that some time, rather than what appears here to be your specialty: saying nothing, but with vitriol.
I do. I would explicatify but I might get more vitreous by taking the bait.
No need to continue to prove my point, hb. It’s already clear you can’t put up and won’t shut up. That sort of time-wasting is a drug on the market.
What’s particularly incisive is the distinction between local, grassroots charters and charter chains. I’ve always been willing to look at the former as potentially fitting the role for charter schools that Albert Shanker had; I’ve grown sick (to my stomach) of looking at charter chains and their vapid, dishonest claims of miracles, magic bullets, etc., that are grounded in little more than shameless profiteering and hatred of children. They are another key weapon in the anti-democratic arsenal.