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Federal Privacy Rights
How can parents exercise their rights to protect their children’s privacy under federal law?
How FERPA has changed over time
Directory Information Opt-Out Form
Instructions on how to exercise your COPPA rights
COPPA Opt-Out Form (submitted to online vendors/service providers)
COPPA Opt-Out Form (instructing school/district to contact online vendors/service providers on your behalf)
There is lots more. Check out Student Privacy Matters.
Dora Taylor
For a review of the book, click the image. This book is recommended for young adults.
Noun
*government by the wealthy.
*a country or society governed by the wealthy.
Plural noun: plutocracies
*an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.
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Dollarocracy: How the money and media election complex is destroying America
By John Nichols and Robert McChesney
From the Preface:
Carter declared-as the planet's most famous election observer- that '“We have one of the worst election processes in the world right here in the United States of America, and it’s almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money."
Click the image to see their interview with Bill Moyers.
More than 1.2 million students are homeless, and nearly 76,000 are living on their own without parents.
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US News.com
For when the corporatists start snooping around, Click image for link
"There is something grotesque about the fact that education reform is being led not by educators but by financiers and speculators and billionaires."
This process -- a handful of the wealthiest people in our country controlling the political process -- is called "oligarchy."
The great political struggle we now face is whether the United States retains its democratic heritage or whether we move toward an oligarchic form of society where the real political power rests with a handful of billionaires, not ordinary Americans.
"I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture."
Albert Einstein
ALEC Exposed-The Privatization of Public Schools:
alecexposed.org/wiki/Privatizing_Public_Education,_Higher_Ed_Policy,_and_Teachers
And more about the Koch brothers and their dad: kochexposed.org
Charter School Scandals
charterschoolscandals.blogspot.com
Charter School Scams and Scamsters
edusyster.com
Class Size Matters:
classsizematters.org
Common Core Standards:
stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com
whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com
truthinamericaneducation.com
Democrats for Education Reform
DFER Watch
dferwatch.wordpress.com
Standardized testing
fairtest.org
Student privacy
studentprivacynow.com
Teach for America:
reconsideringtfa.wordpress.com
"Any time hedge fund managers...when they walk into the inner city areas and start talking about poor children's education, it's not because they want kids to read and write, it's because they know that the federal government spends $600B on education and they want it and they're going to get it."
Jesse has collected stories from students, educators and parents around the country and formed a picture of what is happening in public education and why:
More Than A Score edited by Jesse Hagopian
This book is a must read to understand what teachers are going through with the corporate takeover of our public school system:
Confessions of a Bad Teacher by John Owens
Need I say more? It's a book by Chris Hedges:
Death of the Liberal Class: Chris Hedges
Dollarocracy: Robert Waterman McChesney
Ravitch lays it out in this book and its no holds barred:
Reign of Error: Diane Ravitch
Want to know where over 50% of each tax dollar is going? Read this book:
The Operators by Michael Hastings
Why is it is hard to tell the difference between the Dems and Repubs? Read this book and find out:
The Party is Over: Mike Lofgren
This is a must read. Naomi Klein breaks it down in this book about how oligarchs are manipulating us and running our world:
The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein
If you want to know about the financial collapse of 2008, why the rest of us are no better off now and yet the stock market and banks have rebounded, making huge profits and why another collapse is inevitable, check out this book by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics:
Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy
