Algorithms, Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, CEP (Commission for Evidence-based Policy), Cortana technology, data breaches, Data Quality Campaign, DataShop, Department of Education (DOE), Dreambox, Edmodo, Evidence based policy, Facebook, Federal Learning Registry, FERPA, Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom, Google Student Accounts, IRS, Knewton, LearnSphere, Microsoft, National Secure Database, NWEA MAP, PROJECT BRAINWAVE, Student Privacy, WORKFORCE Data Quality Campaign, Yet Analytics

Dear Congress, you are being duped. HR4174-S2046 is a Privacy Fail. Here’s why. ( And please no more suspended rules and voice votes on these bills. )

November 19, 2017 — 0 Comments

1:1 device initiatives, adaptive management systems, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, AI and education, Algorithms, AltSchool, Americorp volunteer, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any pace learning, AR/VR, augmented reality/virtual reality, Army Research Lab, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates, Bill Gates / Gates Foundation, Booz Allen Hamilton, Broad Superintendents Academy, Carnegie Mellon, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Charter schools, Chromebooks, Class Size, Classcraft, Common Core Standards, Cyber-Education, Department of Defense, Department of Education (DOE), Education Elements, ESSA, Evidence based policy, FERPA, financial de-stabilization, Future Ready, gamification, Global Education Futures: Agenda, global finance, Google Apps for Education, Google Student Accounts, grit, Halliburton, Hewlett Packard, High Stakes Testing, IBM, Innosight Institute, Institute for Creative Technologies, Kindergarten, Learning Ecosystem, Micro Schools, Microsoft, Minecraft, Montessori school model, Naviance, online chat bots, Opting Out of High Stakes Testing, Pavel Luksha, Pay for Success, Pearson, personalized learning, Project Based Learning, Reasoning Mind, Remake Learning, Rocketship, School Vouchers, Skolkovo Institute, Social Emotional Learning SEL, Summit Basecamp, The Clayton Christensen Institute, Tom Vander Ark, TouchSense, US Department of Education (USDOE), USC, Vouchers, whole child - data collection, workforce development

An Interview with Alison McDowell: KEXP’s Mind Over Matters Community Forum

August 14, 2017 — 1 Comment

A Better Way, Common Core Standards, Department of Education (DOE), Education Reform, High Stakes Testing, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium exam, Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium exam (SBAC), Standardized testing, Standardized tests, State of Washington

Why Delinking Graduation from the Smarter Balanced Assessment & Other Tests is the Right Thing to Do.

May 17, 2017 — 1 Comment

Bellwether Education Partners, Collaborative for Student Success, Department of Education (DOE), ESSA, Gates' Foundation, Local Control, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, OSPI Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, personalized learning, Reauthorization of the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Reauthorization of the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), US Department of Education (USDOE)

The Myth of Local Control and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Why do the Collaborative for Student Success and Bellwether Education Partners Get to Independently Review State Plans?

May 5, 2017 — 3 Comments

Commentary, Department of Education (DOE), Donald Trump, Funding for education, President Trump, Racism, Resistance, Social Justice

Look What You’ve Done – An Open Letter to My Mother

January 29, 2017 — 5 Comments

Astro Turf Organizations, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Bill Gates, Blended learning, Common Core Standards, Department of Education (DOE), ESEA, ESSA, personalized learning, Reauthorization of the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Reauthorization of the Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), US Department of Education (USDOE), WEA

Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) – $8 Million from the Gates Foundation and the Myth of Local Control

November 27, 2016 — 7 Comments

Arne Duncan, Arne Duncan : Secretary of Education, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Blended learning, Department of Education (DOE), Ed Tech, Parents Across America, Privatization of schools, US Department of Education (USDOE), Webinar

The US Department of Education’s Digital Promise to advance the ed-tech field and online learning in public schools

October 20, 2016 — 3 Comments

1984, Blended learning, College and Career Ready, Computers in schools, Corporate education reform, Department of Education (DOE), Ed Tech, Online learning, Privatization of schools, Standardized tests, Student Privacy, The Economy and Education

Questions We Should Be Asking About “Future Ready” Schools

October 9, 2016 — 1 Comment

Common Core Standards, Department of Education (DOE), Student Privacy, US Department of Education (USDOE)

Opposition to the Common Core now has bipartisan support in Washington State

June 23, 2016 — 1 Comment

A Better Way, Corporate education reform, Department of Education (DOE), Education Reform, President Obama

The ESSA: A renewed attack on parents’ and students’ rights

June 21, 2016 — 4 Comments

Department of Education (DOE), KIPP charter schools, KIPP Schools, Teach for America

The grifters of corporate ed reform: KIPP charter schools with the aid of the DOE

May 4, 2016 — 1 Comment

Arne Duncan : Secretary of Education, Common Core Standards, Department of Education (DOE), Race to the Top

How we got the Common Core Standards: Federal Manipulation Through Race to the Top

September 20, 2015 — 2 Comments