The Times profiles the new number two at the DOE.
He wants testing four times a year in every subject.
If the subjects tested are English, math, social studies, science and a foreign language, that would be 20 standardized tests a year.
Doubt that will make the education system better but it sure will make the test prep companies richer.
And I'm sure Shael would never ever go work for a test prep company after he leaves the NYCDOE.
Ahhhh yes....follow the money...who does this benefit but the testing company...?
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ReplyDeletePeople like Godmother Tisch's brother in law from K-12 Inc...Kaplan...and many others...so in the end...a small cabal of special interests entwined...when they have the market cornered...they can have the monopoly on pumped up prices for the crap they are peddling...see...it's always pump-and-dump with these frauds...something or someone must get dumped somewhere along the line...so they can pump...the New Great American Way...or maybe not so new...See http://www.zerohedge.com/article/failing-prosecute-wall-street-fraud-extending-our-economic-problems
ReplyDeletefor coverage on the fraud that has brought us to this New Depression...and the same gangsters are now using pump, dump, and all- out fraud to take our jobs and perform a hostile takeover of public education. And why not? It's easy pickins'...If they can high-jack the world economy...what's so hard about takiing over a bunch of soft teachers, and "pliable" union bosses...?
From above link...
ReplyDelete"Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky and the Wall Street Journal all say that the U.S. economy is a giant Ponzi scheme.
Virtually all independent economists and financial experts say that rampant fraud was largely responsible for the financial crisis.
"But many on Wall Street and in D.C. - and many investors - believe that we should just "go with the flow". They hope that we can restart our economy and make some more money if we just let things continue the way they are.
But the assumption that a system built on fraud can continue without crashing is false.
In fact, top economists and financial experts agree that - unless fraud is prosecuted - the economy cannot recover... Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says about the failure to prosecute Wall Street fraud:
The legal system is supposed to be the codification of our norms and beliefs, things that we need to make our system work. If the legal system is seen as exploitative, then confidence in our whole system starts eroding. And that's really the problem that's going on.
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I think we ought to go do what we did in the S&L [crisis] and actually put many of these guys in prison. Absolutely. These are not just white-collar crimes or little accidents. There were victims. That's the point. There were victims all over the world"
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/10/fraud-caused-great-depression-and-this.html
"Robert Shiller - one of the top housing experts in the United States - says that the mortgage fraud is a lot like the fraud which occurred during the Great Depression. As Fortune notes:
Shiller said the danger of foreclosuregate -- the scandal in which it has come to light that the biggest banks have routinely mishandled homeownership documents, putting the legality of foreclosures and related sales in doubt -- is a replay of the 1930s, when Americans lost faith that institutions such as business and government were dealing fairly.
The former chief accountant of the S.E.C., Lynn Turner, told the New York Times that fraud helped cause the Great Depression:
The amount of gimmickry and outright fraud dwarfs any period since the early 1970's, when major accounting scams like Equity Funding surfaced, and the 1920's, when rampant fraud helped cause the crash of 1929 and led to the creation of the S.E.C."
Yes...kiddies...we are going up against a formidable foes...they make the Gambino crime family look like the Micky Mouse...
I can just see the members of NY's "ruling class" , Meryl Tisch ( NYS head regent ) , Mikey Bloomberg ( NYC mayor, Master of NYCDOE ) , Sen. Shumer, Heir Chancellor Klein (technically STILL the Ed. Chancellor according to Mikey), the Kaplan people, Tisch from K-12 (countries largest online ed. vendor),Mikey's daughter, the one who's constantly falling off horses(who runs a charter?), Meryl's "genius" daughter Jessica (Teacher for America)...all break matzoh (or whatever they do) over the holidays...you know, they are next door neighbors according to the NY Times
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and discuss the ever growing " family business" of education, government, and publishing... Heir Klein will report on his education products business deals with publishing magnate Murdoch,WHILE HE'S STILL THE ACTING DOE CHANCELLOR, and how it's all being sown into one neat bow...as Mayor Mikey looks on from the head of the table...and the youngins like Jessica and her relatives lick their chops at the vision of being placed at the head of the new education dynasty...It's all a wonderful bowl of cherries for them right now...all tied up in a neat little bow...
Time to stop ranting and start organizing in your schools where you often also have to face the collaborationist UFT. A reformed UFT/AFT can be the only force with the potential to battle these megabucks. It all starts at the school level where every one of the people in the building should be hearing these arguments. Spread the word from school to school. Get active. Come to the ad hoc committee meeting to stop school closings and charter invasions on Dec. 21 at CUNY.
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