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There’s a reason I’ve been off the internets for a while
My first grandchild Oliver Lachlan McCuen
There will be no Common Core for this child or high stakes testing. My daughter determined that before Oliver was born.
Things have settled down now and I have much to share, so onward!
Dora Taylor
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A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
For a review of the book, click the image. This book is recommended for young adults.
Plutocracy
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.
Watch Bill Moyers and Company: Plutocracy Rising
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What we’re reading now
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.
Dollarocracy
Noam Chomsky: Requiem for the American Dream
“Poverty is the new slavery.”
Number of Homeless Students Reaches All-Time High
More than 1.2 million students are homeless, and nearly 76,000 are living on their own without parents.
Click the image for a link to the article.
US News.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): The Legal Guide for Bloggers
For when the corporatists start snooping around, Click image for link
Chris Hedges
"There is something grotesque about the fact that education reform is being led not by educators but by financiers and speculators and billionaires."
Bernie Sanders
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.
Diane Ravitch
Danny Weil, 2009
On standardization
"I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture."
Albert Einstein
Where to Find What
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
Chris Hedges
"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."
DIANE RAVITCH ON SCHOOL CLOSURES
Frederick Douglass
Recommended Reads
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
Dora
You are so fortunate, what a beautiful baby!
Congratulations! and what a fine looking baby! I love his name and his Mom’s plan’s for his education, too. But, I hope CC and high stakes testing, and the rest of the terrible education policies masquerading as “reform” aren’t around for any children by the time he’s ready for school!
Congratulations! And what a wonderful vision for this child’support educational future – Common Core nor high stakes testing – I hope this can include a high quality public education that embraces the whole child.