US Department of Education (USDOE)
A Citizens’ Rebellion 2020
Maria Goodloe-Johnson, Mayoral COntrol, Seattle Pubic Schools
‘Coronavirus Capitalism’ Is Coming for Public Schools
A Better Way, Charter schools, School Choice, School Vouchers, Tax credits
School Choice and Segregation: New Name, Same Game
Charter school bill, Charter school scandals, Charter schools, Eric Pettigrew, Green Dot charter schools, League of Women Voters, Summit charter schools
Another attempted cash grab by the corporate ed crowd in Washington State: House Bill 2788
Seattle Public School Board, Seattle Public Schools, Seattle Superintendent Denise Juneau
Letter to Seattle Public Schools Leadership Demands Accountability for Abuse in its Schools — & the District’s Silence
Diane Ravitch, Privatization of schools, Seattle
Diane Ravitch will be in Seattle on February 4th to discuss her latest book “Slaying Goliath”
Charter schools, Teach for America
The latest cash grab : Teacher/charter school villages
Career Keys, Hobsons' Naviance, John Trudell, Knowledgeworks, Penn Foundation, Philadelphia, Student Data Dashboards, whole child - data collection
Saying No To Naviance: Active Non-Cooperation Is The Best Form of Resistance
Ed Tech, Naviance, school hierarchy, Standardized testing
Soft Corruption
Caleb Perkins and Krista Rillo, SPS College and Career Readiness Team, Clever, College and Career Ready, High School and Beyond Plans (HSBP), Hobsons' Naviance, Naviance, Naviance Career Interest Profiler, opt out, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Student Data Dashboards, The Source
No Thank You to Naviance
“evidence-based” approaches, big data & healthcare, big data and the surveillance state, Evidence based policy, FERPA, IBM Watson, Money Ball for Government, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Success, Pay for Success and Big Data, Portland State University, RealNetworks facial recognition, Student-level data, surveillance capitalism
Black Boxes, Student Data & Playing Moneyball for Education
COPPA, FERPA, Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom, Google Student Accounts, HIPPA
What’s Stored in your School Google Drive Account? You Might be Surprised.
Blended learning, PII (personally identifiable information), screen time
Digital Curriculum: Questions Parents Should be Asking
Advocacy, Excellent Schools Now, Facebook, League of Education Voters, Stand for Children
Manufacturing Consent: How to Engineer an Education Activist
Career Pathways, Lily Eskelsen Garcia - NEA, National Education Association (NEA), Ted Dintersmith, workforce development
Why Turning Our Schools into a Workforce Development Pipeline is Bad for Democracy
AI and education, Automated Drones, “evidence-based” approaches, behavioral economics, big data and the surveillance state, Bill Gates, Blockchain, Bloomberg, Cambridge Analytica, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Characterlab / Grit, Choice Architects, Daniel Kaheneman, decentralized identifiers (DIDs used to create self-sovereign digital identities), digital nudges, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Goldman Sachs, Google, Google’s Eric Schmidt Data is the New Oil, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), Ideas42, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, impact metrics, Institute for New Economic Thinking - George Soros, International Finance Commission (IFC), Internet of Things, John and Laura Arnold Foundation, John Arnold- Enron, Katherine Milkman, Lisa Nutter - Sidecar Social Finance, MacArthur Foundation, Michael Nutter - What Works Cities, MIT Media Lab, neoliberal practices, Nudge Unit, Obama’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OccupyICEPHL, Pay for Success, Philadelphia District Attorney’s office - Larry Krasner, Project Trillion Billion, PTB Ventures, public pensions, Results for America, Richard Thaler, Smart Cities, social control, social impact investing, Swarthmore Professor Syon Bhanot, Tata Consulting, The Brookings Institution, UPenn’s GRASP lab, US Army Research Lab, Wharton Business School, Wharton’s Behavior Change for Good program
Digital Nudging: Data, Devices & Social Control
Do you sometimes wonder why the Seattle Times does so many puff pieces on Bill Gates and his failed education initiatives?
What you can do to assist families at our southern border
“Mission Readiness", Council for a Strong America, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, educational technology / military training, gamification, JB Pritzker, Jeremy Roberts, Pay for Success, ReadyNation, UCLA CRESST, workforce development, workforce metric
From Math to Marksmanship: Military Ties to Gamified Assessments
digital identity, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Healthy eating incentive, hunger, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, INET, Janis Dubno, neoliberal practices, Nudge - healthy choices, nutrition, outcomes-based contract, outcomes-based funding stream, Pay for Success, Pay for Success Fund, performance-based contract, Poverty, Ridge-Lane, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, ROI - return on investment, San Francisco Federal Reserve, Smart contracts - benefit eligibility, social impact investing, The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, third grade reading scores, white supremacy
Test Scores and Child Hunger: The Cold Calculus of Pay for Success Predators
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Career Connected Learning, ESSA, Knowledgeworks, No Child Left Behind, North Dakota, North Dakota - ND 2186, OECD study in 2015, personalized learning, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Superintendent Kirsten Baesler, Ted Dintersmith, Tony Wagner, vocational training
School Transformation Double Talk Threatens Students and Teachers
biometric data, Brilliant.org, Collective Shift - LRNG Program, Future Ready, Google, Google’s Eric Schmidt Data is the New Oil, IMS Global, Institute of the Future, Kirkland Parks Foundation, Kirkland, WA, KiTE STEM challenge, KiwiCo, Knowledgeworks, Lake Washington District, MacArthur Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Pacific Science Center, personalized learning, STEM, Tin Can API, workforce data badges
Tracking Students: Google Rolls Out “Anytime, Anywhere” Learning in Kirkland, WA Parks This Spring
big data and the surveillance state, Cambridge Analytica, Classrooms, Not Computers, data as the new oil, data surveillance tactics, Facebook
A New Campaign! Classrooms, Not Computers: Stop Educating for Profit
The Battle in Seattle Against a Charter School Invasion
Career Connected Learning, Career Pathways, Common Core Standards, Naviance, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), Spark, Tracking
Stealing Vocational Dreams: Pushing Career Education Too Soon
anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any pace learning, Child Labor, Cities of LRNG, Digital On Ramps, IoT and Predictive Policing, KiTE STEM, Learning Ecosystem, Racism, Social Emotional Learning SEL
Navigating Whiteness: Could “Anywhere, Anytime” Learning Endanger Black and Brown Students?
Big Picture Learning, Career Connected Learning, Career Pathways, Chris Reykdal, Colorado Education and Workforce Alignment Pathways Blueprint, Governor Inslee, human capital, McCleary decision, pathway state, STEM Education Innovation Alliance, Suzi LeVine, Swiss Model, Youth Apprenticeships
Kids, Welcome to the Machine: Suzi LeVine & Career Connected Learning
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Charter schools, Chicago Public Schools, Ed Tech, Facebook-Summit partnership, James H. Shelton, LEAP, Measures of Effective Teaching (MET), personalized learning, Promise Neighborhoods, Social Emotional Learning SEL, Stand for Children, Summit Basecamp, Summit charter schools, Teach for America
Beware of Tech Titans Bearing Gifts
Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, data as the new oil, Poverty, social impact investing, surveillance capitalism
Social Impact Investing, Poverty, & Bill Gates’ New Plan
Big Picture Learning, Class Size, IMPACT Public Schools, Jeff Petty, Regional Director of Big Picture Schools, Jen Wickens, McCleary decision, Most Likely To Succeed, Summit charter schools, Teach Like a Champion (TLAC), Ted Dintersmith
The Movie “Most Likely to Succeed” is a Paid Infomercial for Project Based Learning
McCleary decision, Paramount Duty, School Funding
A high school student speaks up about school funding and Washington State’s Paramount Duty
Behavioral Science and Social Impact, biocapitalism, biometric data, Go365 Program, Healthy Tomorrows Program, social capital market, social impact bonds, West Virginia's Wildcat Teachers Strike
Biocapitalism and the West Virginia Wildcat Teachers Strike
A note about changes on the blog
Education Levies, League of Education Voters
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