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CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Arbitrary Marker Of Time's Inexorable Passage Edition (12/30)

ICYMI: Arbitrary Marker Of Time's Inexorable Passage Edition (12/30)

Yeah, I'm not big on the whole New Year celebratory thing. I will occasionally give in to the urge to do an end-of-year/beginning-of-year style post, but sometimes I think it's just as well to keep on keeping on. So here's this week's batch of worth-your-while readings.

Beware Silcon Valley Santas in the School

Michelle Malkin and I share little in the way of either style or beliefs, but if you want to see how the same hard-right folks who hated Common Core are now coming out swinging against Personalized [sic] Learning, here you go.

Charter School Cash Spent in Connecticut Elections

Man, democracy is just so inconvenient. Hence the periodic attempts to smother it under piles of money, like the last election cycle in Connecticut. Here's who came to play.

12 Educational Headlines You Probably Won't See in 2019

Short, but cute.

Homework App Worth Three Billion

If you want to see what education looks like when it's been stripped of all actual education and reduced to simply the appearance of education, the Chinese are the folks to follow.

 The Waltons and Their Charter-Choice “Inroads”: Making Strategic Purchases 

Oh, those wacky Waltons.

 Gratitude 

Mary Holden left the classroom, and then she came back. Here's a lovely seasonal piece about what she's grateful for.

About That Nephrologist On DeSantis Transition Team

You may remember that we looked at Florida's governor-elect and his transition team for the dismantling of public education. A couple of those names were mysterious, but here's one figured out.

Asking If Early Childhood Education Is Worth It Is The Wrong Question

This is a ball I refuse to take my eye off of.

Arne Duncan Still Pushing Privatization

Nancy Bailey takes a look at Duncan's most recent attempt to push the same old baloney.  


CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Arbitrary Marker Of Time's Inexorable Passage Edition (12/30)

YESTERDAY

A Call for Hong Kong Reform

by Peter Greene / 16h

Philip Yeung was educated at Oxford and the University of Toronto, but he has made his living in China. He's been an academic consultant, a senior communications manager, and currently is with English for Emergencies (my new favorite company name) where he does ghostwriting . He's also an opinion writer for the South China Morning Post , which is where we find him today . Here's a message for eve

Elon Musk's Special School

by Peter Greene / 17h

There may be few Very Rich Guys who can top Elon Musk for confidence that is boundless and groundless , so it should come as no surprise that Musk started a school. Unlike other wealthy meddlers in the education world (and, that matter, unklike Musk when it comes to other enterprises), Musk has kept the not-for-profit school, created in 2014, mostly under wraps. That's because his goal has not bee

ICYMI: Arbitrary Marker Of Time's Inexorable Passage Edition (12/30)

by Peter Greene / 18h

Yeah, I'm not big on the whole New Year celebratory thing. I will occasionally give in to the urge to do an end-of-year/beginning-of-year style post, but sometimes I think it's just as well to keep on keeping on. So here's this week's batch of worth-your-while readings. Beware Silcon Valley Santas in the School Michelle Malkin and I share little in the way of either style or beliefs, but if you wa

DEC 28

Why Teachers Don't Use The Software Their Districts Paid For

200+by Peter Greene / 2d

Ryan Baker (University of Pennsylvania's Center for Learning Analytics) unleashed a small surprise last month with a report indicating that the vast amount of software licenses purchased by school districts are simply never used . There are points on which we might quibble, including the smallish sample size of districts (48) and the very small sample size of data management companies (1). But th

Defining Reformy Terms Is Everything

by Peter Greene / 2d

EdChoice has released their annual report about education , with a particular focus on reformy stuff. It's a survey of teachers, parents and the general public, and a look at attitudes and beliefs about many aspects of education. I've read it, but this time I am not going to run through the whole thing for you, because I want to focus on the power of definitions in framing these kind of discussion

DEC 27

AZ: Proposed Teacher Gag Law Part of National Push

1Kby Peter Greene / 3d

The proposed teacher gag law in Arizona may look like a piece of small time revenge legislation, but it is actually part of a larger movement to silence teachers in and out of the classroom. When Arizona teachers walked out on strike, it led to a legislative move to increase education funding by $400 million. But it also led to an expectation that some legislators would seek some vengeance on the

DEC 26

PA: State High Court Will Hear Anti-School Tax Lawsuit

by Peter Greene / 4d

Can a court overrule an elected school board when it comes to taxation? The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court is one step closer to deciding just that in a lawsuit that has been kicking around for a couple of years now. I wrote about this case in some depth back in 2016, and I'm going to quote liberally from myself. Fun fact: One of Lower Merion's most famous alumni The short version of the story

Will Education Suffer (Again) In 2020

100+by Peter Greene / 4d

I have about as much desire to start working on the 2020 Presidential election as I have to jab pointy sticks covered with habanera sauce into my soft fleshy parts. But I am beginning to suspect that we have little choice. You can see the problem by looking at the early "favorites" for the Dems. Consider, for instance, Cory Booker. Booker is charismatic and s already working on his ground game . A

DEC 25

For Your Christmas Listening Pleasure

by Peter Greene / 6d

It's family time here at the Curtmudgucation Institute, but for your holiday enjoyment, if you've had enough of the same old same old on the radio, here is a big mixed bag of holiday music for you.

DEC 23

ICYMI: The You're Probably Not Reading This Edition

by Peter Greene / 8d

Yes, we're right in the thick of it, so many of you are busy with a hundred things other than your usual internet diet of education goodies. But the world keeps spinning, so here are some pieces to look at while you're enjoying vacation. Can Charters Be Reformed? Should They Be? Carol Burris offers five reasons that charter schools cannot become a productive part of the education landscape. Pa Cha

DEC 22

8 Reasons Not To Love Personalized [sic] Learning

100+by Peter Greene / 9d

As we roll into 2019, it becomes increasingly clear that much of the education debate is going to center on Personalized [sic] Learning. I've poked at various parts of PsL at length, but I'm going to respond to someone who just wanted me to lay out the problems in a simple list. Challenge accepted. First a note on terminology. We're going to have to start distinguishing between Personalized [sic]

DEC 21

The 13th Clown and Best Classroom Practices

20by Peter Greene / 10d

Many leading voices of the ed reformist movement have started calling for an emphasis shift from policy to practice. That makes a certain amount of sense; the last two decades provide plenty of evidence that policy can interfere with practice far better than aid it, and ultimately students are educated by classroom practices, not by policy. But when discussion among edupolicy wonks turns to the u

DEC 20

At The Risk Of Repeating Myself

30by Peter Greene / 10d

It can be frustrating to repeat yourself. In a long-running debate such as the one surrounding education, it is easy to find yourself pushing out the same points again and again. Lately, I've heard several folks on the pro-public side (The Resistance, if you like) expressing their frustration (most notably the absolutely awesome Audrey Watters ). I get that. I've put up (checks notes) over 3100 po

Will Indiana Clean Up Its Cyber Charter Mess?

55by Peter Greene / 11d

It has been over a year since Chalkbeat published a Shaina Cavazos story about virtual schools in Indiana., making clear what a huge mess it has on its hands. Now there's noise that next year the legislature might do something about it. Not counting on this guy. The state of cybers in Indiana should come as no surprise-- even CREDO, a charter-friendly organization, found that cyber schools are lit

DEC 19

OK: Another Rich Amateur Assault On Education.

100+by Peter Greene / 11d

Hechinger Report elevated my blood pressure with a story that is a near-perfect microcosm of the state of public education and, really, democracy in 2018. Looks like a fun guy. Paul Campbell is a successful business guy . He put in over a decade with Rolls-Royce in Indiana, rising to the level of VP of customer business. He put in a few yers with Capstone , a manufacturer of micro-turbines. Then h

DEC 18

PA: The Importance of District Wealth In One Chart

by Peter Greene / 12d

Pennsylvania is close to the bottom of the nation in state financial support for public education. For years, we've hovered around 35% of school funding coming from the state. That means that the effects of local wealth are heightened in the state. Rich districts can afford to pony up tax dollars to make up the difference, and poor districts struggle. In other states, state dollars might obscure t

DEC 17

PA: The Good News You May Have Missed

66by Peter Greene / 13d

Pennsylvanians may remember our old buddy John Eichelberger, GOP State Senator from Blair County. He ran the Senate Education committee, and... well, he was not a friend of public education. Eichelberger was an upstart candidate, running against the GOP establishment and goosed along by the infamous late-night legislator pay raise. His attacks on teachers and public ed were many . He was the DeVos

How To Avert A Strike

by Peter Greene / 13d

It's an odd thing-- we almost always talk about teacher strikes as if they are a choice of teachers and their unions. Yet, the power to avert a strike lies on the other side of the table. Here's what management needs to understand. Teachers don't want to strike. No union committee sits down and says, "Well, the board is ready to talk to us with a batch of proposals to get this contract under way--

DEC 16

ICYMI: Sleeping In Edition (12/16)

by Peter Greene / 14d

Since you don't get the whole day to read through the list, I'll keep things relatively short. The Cautionary Tale of Correspondence Schools Some edu-history of an oft-forgotten chapter with interesting implications for modern reform ideas like personalized [sic] learning. A long read, but an fascinating one. Christmas Time: A Minefiield for Teachers Nancy Flanagan reminds us why the holiday seaso

A Book About Rural Ed: No Longer Forgotten

by Peter Greene / 14d

Andy Smarick and Mike McShane, they of the AEI-Bellwether-Fordham axis of reformerdom, have put together a book about "the triumphs and struggles of rural education in America," and I grabbed a copy because rural education A) is hardly ever part of the Education Debates and B) is mostly where I've spent the last fifty or so years, both as student and teacher. This collection of eight papers essays

DEC 14

In Praise of Inconsistency (TL;DR)

by Peter Greene / 17d

At my school, there was an academic question that would come up fairly regularly-- should all teachers use the same style guide for writing essays and papers? The argument in favor of consistency is that it's easier on the students. Not only that, but with only one set of rules to learn, they might actually learn how to use it properly. It would also create a sense of unity across the classes and

Imagine

by Peter Greene / 17d

Has it been six years? It seems forever, and yet it seems yesterday. There will be many retro pieces today, looking at the events at Sandy Hook, the children, the families, the killer, the damaged whack jobs who have denied its existence, and of course many reflections about the turning point where we chose as a culture not to turn. I'll leave all of that to others. I just want to imagine. Imagin

DEC 12

Why What Works Doesn't Work

by Peter Greene / 18d

One of the dreams of reformerdom has been to identify classroom practices that are solid, successful, even foolproof, and to send them out into the world so that every teacher can use them in her own classroom. Students learn, angels sing, and education is one step closer to being neat, scientific and efficient, and one step further away from being a big higgledy piggledy mess. This may strike you

Chris Cerf: Who, Us?

by Peter Greene / 19d

After Robin Lake decided to reject the "reformy" mantle, Chris Perf has decided to add his two cents, but I'm not sure that his two cents is not overpriced. Cerf came up in the Klein-Bloomberrg overhaul of NYC pubic schools, by virtue of having taught at a private school for a year, then working as a lawyer in Joel Klein's law firm. The arrangement was a curious one-- his salary was paid not by th

DEC 11

FL: DeSantis Tabs Team To Crush Public Ed

81by Peter Greene / 20d

It is always difficult to say just which state is the most hostile and inhospitable to public education, but no matter how you slice it, Florida is always working hard to stay at the top of the big, smelly heap . And the administration of Gov-elect Ron DeSantis is committed to finding ways to make Florida worse. The new public school cafeteria There's Jennifer Sullivan, the 27-year-old homeschoole

DEC 09

ICYMI: The Tree's Up Edition (12/9)

by Peter Greene / 22d

The tree is up, but we're waiting to see how the board of directors does with it before we add ornaments. Tis the season. In the meantime, here's some reading from the week. Remember to share. Cashing in Immigrant Children The warehousing of immigrant children has been a gold mine for one business. And guess what-- charter schooling is part of the business plan. Dora Fisher: Down The Dark Money Ho

DEC 08

KY: Setting More Bad Goals for 2019

100+by Peter Greene / 22d

Oh, Kentucky. A state slowly being beaten down by the usual gang of mediocre businessmen masquerading as public servants. Big data , charter entrepreneurs , voucher fans , pension vultures , testocrats -- they've all taken a shot at grabbing tax dollars from Kentucky taxpayers with a great deal of patience and varying degrees of success, even if Kentucky's teachers did raise a fuss (prompting Gove

Inducing ADHD

200+by Peter Greene / 22d

"Maybe you should consider testing him. You know. For ADD." That was my son's kindergarten teacher. His mother and I were in for yet another conference because he was "a problem." The nature of the problem? Well, because of my schedule, he arrived 15-20 minutes before school officially started. His teacher's expectation was that he would sit at his desk, still and quiet, while she finished getting

DEC 07

MI: Baldfaced Power Grab

42by Peter Greene / 24d

Lansing is witnessing one of the most extraordinary power grabs ever attempted, and one of the targets of these lame duck Republicans is the state board of education. Several actions are being attempted by the legislature, and they include an attempt to complete supplant the constitutionally established and democratically elected state board of education . The move to overturn the democratic proce

DEC 06

The Disordered Order of Competencies

45by Peter Greene / 24d

Competency Based Education (or Proficiency Based Learning, or Outcome Based Education, or Mastery Learning, or whatever new name appears next week) is the up-and-coming flavor of the week in education, even though it is neither new nor well-defined by the people who promote it (or the people who are implementing it in name only). But the basic principle is simple and, really, fairly common sensic

Guest Post: Why Tests Are Boring

by Peter Greene / 25d

It's Guest Post day here, and my guest is William Bryant . Bryant is currently an edupreneur with a company focused on helping students get ready for college, but he spent a decade working in test development for the folks at ACT. He has some interesting insights to offer about why tests end up the way they do; important to understand not just because of the tests themselves, but because of the t

DEC 05

Real Stupid Artificial Intelligence (Personalized Learning's Missing Link)

54by Peter Greene / 25d

Good lord in heaven. Intel would like a piece of the hot new world of Personalized [sic] Learning, and they think they have an awesome AI to help. And they have concocted a deliberately misleading video to promote it. In the video, we see a live human teacher in a classroom full of live humans, all of whom are being monitored by some machine algorithms "that detect student emotions and behaviors"

Education, Bad Leadership, and Harvard

100+by Peter Greene / 26d

We have a problem with bad management, pretending to be leadership, in this country. And it has infected education. Even in a small area like mine, the symptoms have been plain to see. A major local oil business was put under the leadership of a man who had previously run a soap company and a toy company. He was not good for the company. In my town, the mining machinery company that employed both

FL: What Competition Gets You

by Peter Greene / 26d

Florida is supposed to be the Great Exemplar of ed reform. Charters, vouchers, ESAs-- every brand of reform under the sun runs free and unfettered under the bright Florida sun. There may be no state that has more effectively set loose the Invisible Hand or market forces and competition. And what does that get you? Well, it gets you unqualified scam artists like Eagle Arts Academy charter school ho

DEC 04

Children's Insurance Headed the Wrong Way

by Peter Greene / 27d

From the file of Things That Are Going To Affect Education Indirectly, we get this : Roughly 276,000 more children were uninsured in 2017 than the year before, bringing the total to more than 3.9 million, according to a report released Thursday by Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families. We are far short of the disastrous high in numbers of uninsured children back in 2008, but the

College Board: Help Us Market Our Product

35by Peter Greene / 27d

Right down to its name, which sounds like some sort of non-profit official education oversight panel, the College Board has a history of marketing its product while trying not to look like a company whose life depends on its ability to sell a products. In recent years, the market has tightened up, what with the ACT competing effectively and some schools dropping the SAT as an entrance requirement

DEC 03

Florida Contemplates Putting Fox In Charge of Hen House

by Peter Greene / 27d

As a legislator in Florida (Motto: Why sell swampland when you can just rob schools), Richard Corcoran was determined to make sure that public tax dollars were directed to enriching private school operators at public school expense. Sorry about your future, kid Corcoran pushed the Schools of Hope program , a program that allows charters to prey directly on public schools. And after asking charter

DEC 02

ICYMI: Here's December Edition (12/2)

by Peter Greene / 29d

Oh, that month again. Here's some reading from the week. Remember to pass along what speaks to you. Common Core Creator Slammed Reading Teachers for Having a Research Gap-- How Ironic Nancy Bailey sounds the irony alert on a critique of teachers and research. Why New Educators Resent "Reformers". Let's hear from the newest generation teachers-- the ones who grew up with reformster policies shaping

DEC 01

A Glossary for the Next Big Thing

47by Peter Greene / 29d

I'm a big Nancy Bailey fan, and her post today inspired me. S he writes about the language used to sell ed tech solutions as the profit-based and data-gathering wings of reformerdom race toward the Next Big Thing-- Personalized Competency Based Proficiency Mastery Mass Customized Algorithm Driven Learning Education Stuff. As with any sales job, part of the trick is to use terms that have meanings

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