There seems to be no shortage of money to create new corporate reformer organizations, and they seem to open faster than anyone can keep track of them.
Here is a new one: Results for America.
You will recognize the names of some prominent figures in the Obama and George W. Bush administrations.
Notable among them is Jim Shelton, who worked for Gates, Arne Duncan, and then led the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Let’s hope they pay attention to the scandals now afflicting the charter industry and don’t use their money and weight to promote more of what has already proven to be a failure.
The website cites the federal Every Student Succeeds Act as one of its successes:
Strengthening Public Education
RFA helped develop the evidence provisions in the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act which could help states and district shift up to $2 billion annually toward evidence-based solutions in FYs 2017-2020.
Considering that ESSA retained NCLB’s mandated annual testing, it is hard to see where the evidence is for its “success.” If the measure is test scores, then ESSA has not moved the needle. ESSA maintains the Bush-Obama failures, with the sole exception being the removal of the insane 2014 deadline by which every student would be proficient. What part of ESSA has succeeded? What evidence is there to believe that “every student” will succeed because of this pointless law?
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GW, Jr. and Obama’s policies are horrid. So was Clinton’s.
And NEVER forget Reagan and GW, Sr., too.
I do remember when teachers could teach and students weren’t tested and common gored to death. I think the deformers became afraid that students were actually critically thinking rather than sitting in front of a computer screen. The $$$$$ online costs is ridiculous in more ways than just one.
Do read this one about bone spurs in necks from those devices and screens:
https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-evidence-that-younger-people-are-growing-horn-like-bumps
Gates and Zuckerberg, Duncan, Obama, and GW, Jr. should be sued for malfeasance. They shouldn’t “get away” with destroying our public schools.
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Did you mean another “deformer organization”??
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If every student succeeded, does that mean the U.S. would have hundreds of millions of billionaires instead of 607 (six-hundred-and-seven)?
607 billionaires vs 327,200,000 Americans that are not billionaires.
And since the Super Rich avoid paying taxes at every opportunity legal or illegal, does that mean the rest of us can also succeed at not paying all of the taxes we owe?
“How the Super Rich Avoid Paying Taxes”
https://www.topaccountingdegrees.org/taxes/
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the concept of student ‘success’ has been re-wired over the past fifteen years: what used to be a a focus on social success through production of creative entrepreneurs has become corporate success through the production of command-following drones
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“Notable among them is Jim Shelton, who worked for Gates, Arne Duncan, and then led the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.”
So spent his entire career inside the ed reform echo chamber, private, public, then private again. Seamless transitions.
We joke that the Obama Administration were identical to the billionaire ed reform orgs, but in many cases it was literally true. The same people.
They don’t need to call it a private/public partnership. There is no dividing line. The private consumed the public. Private swallowed it whole.
Is there an Obama alum who does NOT work in the echo chamber? I can’t think of ONE who left Duncan and left the “movement” fold. They really were true believers in market based education reform. I think we actually underestimated it.
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“literally true. THE SAME PEOPLE.”
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Well, when the “reforms” they come up with land locally with actual public school families and teachers and students we’ll know where they came from. The same people who brought us the last set.
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