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 From NPR, a superlative story about a gifted math teacher.

Here's an op-ed from the New York Times - High School Doesn’t Have to Be Boring - written by two writers who spent six years traveling in the U.S., observing schools.

When you ask American teenagers to pick a single word to describe how they feel in school, the most common choice is “bored.”

When the two of us — a sociologist and a former English teacher — began our own investigation of this question several years ago, we made two assumptions. Both turned out to be wrong.

The first was that innovative schools would have the answers.

Our second mistake was that we assumed the place to look for depth was in core academic classes.

It turned out that high schools — all of them, not just the “innovative” ones — already had a model of powerful learning. It just wasn’t where we thought it would be.

Before the final bell, we treat students as passive recipients of knowledge whose interests and identities matter little. After the final bell — in newspaper, debate, theater, athletics and more — we treat students as people who learn by doing, people who can teach as well as learn, and people whose passions and ideas are worth cultivating. It should come as no surprise that when we asked students to reflect on their high school experiences, it was most often experiences like theater and debate that they cited as having influenced them in profound ways. 

And, Middle School is Becoming the New High School and It’s Ridiculous from the Grown and Flown blog.

What is beginning to happen in our middle schools has already toxically permeated our elementary and high schools, but middle school (not unlike the middle child), has contentedly remained ignored (and immune somewhat) to the overachievement insanity that has taken hold of the other schools. 

And now this insanity has reached middle school, where once joyful fifth graders who loved to learn are not only walking into a brand new “social” environment they have to navigate, they’re being told on day one that if they’re not seriously and 100% properly prepared for high school (which we now plan on banging into their heads daily during grades 6-8) well, then they can just forget about college, which means they’ll never reach any level of success whatsoever because college is the only path to success. And now, evidently that path starts in 6th grade, where the option to enroll in high school classes even exists at this point. STOP. PLEASE STOP.

I will be clear on the point that whoever the Democratic nominee is, I'll be supporting that person with all that I have.  There are many choices at this point and hopefully, the Dems will refuse the impulse to tear them all to pieces, in search of the "perfect" candidate.  (Raise your hand if you think you are just as or smarter than Trump.  Yeah, I feel that way as well.)

But, if you were asking me who I would probably not support in the primary, I already have two people - Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke.  And it's because both of them are ed reform supporters (especially Booker).  Here's an interesting article from Town and Country magazine about O'Rourke's wife, Amy O'Rourke. She taught school for a short period of time but, in the ed reform world of TFA, that's good enough. She then opened a charter school.

These days, Amy is the "choose to excel director" at CREEED, a nonprofit focused on helping students in El Paso County public schools.  

 If you hit that link, you'll see another ed reform effort, this one in El Paso, Texas where they live.

Is Mr. O'Rourke Mrs. O'Rourke?  Of course not but seldom do presidential spouses stray far from each other politically.

From Ed Week, a story that is right out of the Gates Foundation playbook (remember InBloom, the $100M experiment/failure for Gates for K-12 data storage):

Google is starting to provide cloud storage for K-12 districts, helping them warehouse the massive amounts of data they collect on their students, then offering artificial intelligence-as-a-service to help districts analyze the information and use it to generate visualizations, recommendations, and predictions

There's money in them there clouds.   Just say no.

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