Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. If you have time to watch the entire hour, I encourage you to listen as these two men discuss
Making Childhood Pay: Arthur Rolnick, Steven Rothschild, and ReadyNation
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. The push for early childhood education access is NOT being driven by a desire to meet the basic
How Big Data Becomes Psy Ops and Tilts the World Towards its Own Aims: Next Stop, Public Education
Reposted with permission from Educationalchemy. While “grit” has been exposed for the racist narrative it is, it’s also a direct by-product of the same OCEANS framework used
Pre-K Profit: ReadyNation Hosts Global Business Leaders in New York City this November
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. The rise of pay for success, social impact bonds, development impact bonds, and outcomes-based contracting will usher in privatization of
Betsy DeVos: Best Villain EVER & Big Fan of the Swiss Model of Youth Apprenticeships & Career Connected Learning. Wait, What?
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid
Tracking Students: Google Rolls Out “Anytime, Anywhere” Learning in Kirkland, WA Parks This Spring
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. If you’re going to spend time in your local park, do you want your child glued to a
Badges Find Their Way to San Jose, Philadelphia (and the Point Defiance Zoo)
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. In this brave, new world education will no longer be defined as an organic, interdisciplinary process where
A New Campaign! Classrooms, Not Computers: Stop Educating for Profit
Reposted with permission from Educationalchemy. We want to end the invasive corporate control of students, schools, and communities being pushed in the name of technology. We want to
What Will Facebook Terragraph, 5G, and Being a “Smart City” Mean for San José Residents?
Reposted with permission from EduResearcher. A quote from the Smart City Team presentation in April on the Facebook Terragraph (millimeter wave technology) rollout reveals that “deploying
Are You Sure It Won’t Happen Here?
Reposted with permission from Educationalchemy. … if you share this report with most people, they will reply, “Well, that’s China. This is a democracy. It will
They’ve Got Trouble, Up There in North Dakota (Dintersmith Strikes Again)
Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Dintersmith rode into North Dakota via an August 2015 TEDx talk promoting his film Most Likely to Succeed. Greg Tehven,
The Battle in Seattle Against a Charter School Invasion
Originally published on The Progressive. Charter schools and other market-based forms of “school choice” have been touted as ways to make education more responsive to
