Showing posts with label Geoffrey Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geoffrey Canada. Show all posts
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Cuomo Appoints Geoffrey Canada To Smart School Initiative Commission That Looks To Upgrade Classrooms For Online Testing

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Another day, another Cuomo commission - this one a commission to make recommendations for what to do with $2 billion in "Smart School ...
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Greedy Geoffrey Canada: Privatize Education AND Social Security Too!

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Geoffrey Canada has been going around the country with some Wall Street criminals to talk to the youth of America about how they're gett...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Corporate Education Reformers Looking To Churn Out Obedient Workers And Compliant Consumers

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This Alternet article on the connection between behavioralism and consumerism resonates in the day and age of corporate education reform: ...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Geoffrey Canada Wages War On Traditional Public Schools

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In case you missed this, charter school operator and real estate magnate Geoffrey Canada declared war on traditional public schools yesterda...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Corporate Education Reformers Look To Buy The Next Mayor

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The corporate education reform movement in New York has gotten pretty much everything they have wanted when it comes to "reforms."...
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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Bill Gates, His Own Kids, And Class Size

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A Seattle columnist has a proposition for Bill "Class Size Doesn't Matter" Gates: At Lakeside, Seattle's premier school, t...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Canada Defends Black In Daily News

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The intrigue in the Black/Canada/Bloomberg story grows: Controversial incoming schools Chancellor Cathie Black has one big fan: the educator...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

Cathie Black Says She Was Bloomberg's First Choice For Chancellor

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A day after the NY Times reported that Mayor Moneybags offered the chancellor job to Harlem Children's Zone real estate magnate Geoffrey...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Geoffrey Canada Claims Bloomberg Offered Him Chancellor Job

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Odd that this is coming out now, but the Times reports that Bloomberg offered the chancellor position to Harlem Children's Zone founder...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Use Of Wiretaps In Insider Trading Investigation Of Hedge Funds Widens

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This could get really, really good: WASHINGTON — Secret, court-approved wiretaps put in place more than two years ago are now being used by ...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

WSJ: Insider Trading Investigation Focuses On Bankers, Hedge Fundies

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This I like: Federal authorities, capping a three-year investigation, are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, ...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

If Class Size Doesn't Matter...

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...than I guess Geoffrey Canada will be raising class sizes at his Harlem Children's Zone schools from 15 to 38? Just saying.
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Melinda Gates Steps Down From Washington Post/Kaplan University Board

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I guess the NY Times expose on the fraud that is the Washington Post/Kaplan company got to Ms. Gates. Here is how the Washington Post cover...
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Geoffrey Canada Says Bloomberg Reached Out To Him On Chancellor Search

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Buried in this morning's NY Times article about potential conflicts of interest Cathie with an "i" Black will have from sittin...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Bob Braun Takes Aim At "This Season's Education Reform"

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From my favorite writer in the Newark Star Ledger: This season’s version of education reform has hit some speed bumps, what with the resigna...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

Goldman Sachs, Dirty Money and the Harlem Children's Zone

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Goldman Sachs gave a $20 million grant to the Harlem Children's Zone through it's charity wing, Goldman Sachs Gives. According to G...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Geoffrey Canada and the For-Profit Colleges

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Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, is the darling of the education "reform" movement. I will leave the skepti...
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Rubber Room For Corrupt Politicians: Bloomberg, Malcolm Smith Edition

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It's good to be connected. The NY Daily News reports this morning that three charter schools with connections to Mayor Bloomberg or Sta...
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