“Mission Readiness", Charles Parks, Council for a Strong America, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, educational technology / military training, gamification, gamified assessments, Gregory Chung, JB Pritzker, Jeremy Roberts, Pay for Success, ReadyNation, UCLA CRESST, workforce development, workforce metric1 Comment
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From Math to Marksmanship: Military Ties to Gamified Assessments

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Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. There is a difference between education and training. There is a difference between knowing just enough to carry out orders without questioning the chain of command and knowing enough to participate in civic … Continue reading From Math to Marksmanship: Military Ties to Gamified Assessments

Break the Ban, data dashboards, digital identity, digital identity systems linked to public assistance benefits, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, food insecurity, Gina Cornia of Utahans Against Hunger, Healthy eating incentive, hunger, Illinois Blockchain Taskforce, INET, Janis Dubno, neoliberal practices, Nudge - healthy choices, nutrition, outcomes-based contract, outcomes-based funding stream, Pay for Success, Pay for Success Fund, performance-based contract, Poverty, Ridge-Lane, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, ROI - return on investment, San Francisco Federal Reserve, Smart contracts - benefit eligibility, social impact investing, The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, third grade reading scores, white supremacyLeave a comment
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Test Scores and Child Hunger: The Cold Calculus of Pay for Success Predators

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Reposted with permission from Wrench in the Gears. Through outsourcing and the imposition of hard metrics, “what works” lobbyists intend to push the poor, and those teetering on the brink of poverty, into an abyss of impact-driven digital slavery. They’ll pull … Continue reading Test Scores and Child Hunger: The Cold Calculus of Pay for Success Predators

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Career Connected Learning, ESSA, Knowledgeworks, No Child Left Behind, North Dakota, North Dakota - ND 2186, OECD study in 2015, personalized learning, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Superintendent Kirsten Baesler, Ted Dintersmith, Tony Wagner, vocational trainingLeave a comment
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School Transformation Double Talk Threatens Students and Teachers

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Reposted with permission from Nancy Bailey’s Education Website. Empowered is a popular word. But in North Dakota they are handing schools over to Knowledgeworks, a foundation that will convert schools to technology.  The only way teachers will be empowered is if they sign on … Continue reading School Transformation Double Talk Threatens Students and Teachers

1871, a tech accelerator based in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, Arthur Rolnick, senior researcher at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, Becker (Milton) Friedman Institute for Economics, Buffett Early Childhood Fund, Center for the Economics of Human Capital Development, Connie Matsui - the San Diego Grantmakers, Dr. James Heckman, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Raymond Cattell - The Big Five Theory & Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, Education Synergy Alliance - Laura Kohn, First Five Years Fund, George Soros, High/Scope Perry Preschool Study, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO), Institute for New Economic Thinking - George Soros, JB Pritzker, Kaiser Family Foundation, Mind + Matter Studio - Suzanne Muchin, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Success, Penny Pritzker - Commerce Secretary in the Obama administration, Pritzker Children’s Initiative - JB Pritzker, Ready4K app, ReadyNation, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, ROI - return on investment, Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s campaign “Choose Children”, Social Emotional Learning SEL, social impact bonds, Stephen Durlauf, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, The Heckman Equation, The Invisible Heart - documentary, Waterford Upstart online preschool, whole child - data collection1 Comment
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Heckman and Pritzker Pitch Apps as Poverty “Solutions” Yielding a 13% Return on Investment

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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 their plans to create tools that will measure non-cognitive skills in service of outcomes-based contracts … Continue reading Heckman and Pritzker Pitch Apps as Poverty “Solutions” Yielding a 13% Return on Investment

ames Heckman, University of Chicago economics professor, Arthur Rolnick, senior researcher at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve, big data and the surveillance state, Blockchain, Blockchain sovereign identity, Chicago Child-Parent Centers, Chicago Longitudinal Study, Commission on Evidence-Based Policy Making, Decentralized Identifier (DID), early childhood education, economic precocity, financialization, Goldman Sachs, high quality preschool, High/Scope Perry Preschool Study, Human Capital Performance Bonds or HuCaps, Human Capital Research Collaborative in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Internet of Things, Investing in Kids Working Group, Milton Friedman, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, Money Ball for Government, Northern Trust, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Performance, Pay for Success, Pay for Success and Big Data, Pew Charitable Trusts, predictive analytics, predictive profile, Preschool, Pritzker, ReadyNation, Rob Grunewald, regional economic analyst, Robert Dugger, financial policy analyst and venture capitalist, Rothschild - "Non Non-Profit", Rothschild-Invest in Outcomes, San Francisco Federal Reserve, social impact bonds, social impact investing, The Invisible Heart - documentary, Twin Cities RISE!, WePlaySmart - smart tablesLeave a comment
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Making Childhood Pay: Arthur Rolnick, Steven Rothschild, and ReadyNation

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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 human needs of children. Rather financial interests that view children as cogs in a national … Continue reading Making Childhood Pay: Arthur Rolnick, Steven Rothschild, and ReadyNation

ACT’s Engage College Domains and Scales Overview, Angela Duckworth, big data and the surveillance state, Cambridge Analytica, Dr. Raymond Cattell - The Big Five Theory & Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, ETS’ SuccessNavigator assessment, Five Factors of Personality Theory ( OCEAN ), gamification, grit, Michael Kosinski - Facebook personality quizzes/games, personalized learning, preemptive personality, Racism1 Comment
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How Big Data Becomes Psy Ops and Tilts the World Towards its Own Aims: Next Stop, Public Education

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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 to control, predict and manipulate voters. If this data can sway major national elections and … Continue reading How Big Data Becomes Psy Ops and Tilts the World Towards its Own Aims: Next Stop, Public Education

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundaton, Common Education Data Standards, Council for a Strong America, data-driven pre-k, development impact bonds, early childhood education, Girl Scouts, Goldman Sachs, high quality preschool, KPMG, Learn Capital, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, Non-profits and NGOs, Omidyar Network, outcomes-based contracting, Pay for Success, Pre-K, Preschool, ReadyNation, San Francisco Federal Reserve, social impact bonds, Sorenson Media, The Front Project (formerly ReadyNation Australia), UNICEF, Universal PreK, World Bank - Global Education ReformLeave a comment
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Pre-K Profit: ReadyNation Hosts Global Business Leaders in New York City this November

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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 vast new areas of public services, including education and training at all levels from infants … Continue reading Pre-K Profit: ReadyNation Hosts Global Business Leaders in New York City this November

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Betsy DeVos: Best Villain EVER & Big Fan of the Swiss Model of Youth Apprenticeships & Career Connected Learning. Wait, What?

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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 joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear … Continue reading Betsy DeVos: Best Villain EVER & Big Fan of the Swiss Model of Youth Apprenticeships & Career Connected Learning. Wait, What?

American Alliance of Museums, biometric data, Brilliant.org, Collective Shift - LRNG Program, Eastside Audubon, Future Ready, Google, Google’s Eric Schmidt Data is the New Oil, IMS Global, Institute of the Future, Kirkland Parks Foundation, Kirkland, WA, KiTE STEM challenge, KiwiCo, Knowledgeworks, Lake Washington District, MacArthur Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Pacific Science Center, personalized learning, STEM, Tin Can API, workforce data badgesLeave a comment
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Tracking Students: Google Rolls Out “Anytime, Anywhere” Learning in Kirkland, WA Parks This Spring

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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 device? Should they be looking at flora and fauna, or screens? Students, parents, teachers, and … Continue reading Tracking Students: Google Rolls Out “Anytime, Anywhere” Learning in Kirkland, WA Parks This Spring

Badge Alliance, Blackboard, Bloomberg’s What Works Cities, Career Connected Learning, Chicago Summer of Learning, City of LRNG, Clinton Global Initiative, Collective Shift - LRNG Program, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), digital badges, Digital On Ramps, Digital Promise, Drexel University, edX, ETS’ SuccessNavigator assessment, federated citizen in the cloud, gamification, gig economy, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), HIVE learning networks, human capital, Human Capital Investments in Education, K-12 LinkedIn Data Badges, Knack - predictive HR gaming platform, Learning Ecosystem, Lisa Nutter - Sidecar Social Finance, LRNG - Digital On Ramps, McCarthur Foundation - Collective Shift, Michael Nutter - What Works Cities, Microsoft, Mozilla Open Badges, Online Reputation Management in the Gig Economy, Pearson, Philadelphia’s Promise Zone initiative, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Professional Examination Service and Council for Aid to Education, The Afterschool Alliance, workforce data badges, Workforce.IO, WorkReady, WorkReady Playlist1 Comment
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Badges Find Their Way to San Jose, Philadelphia (and the Point Defiance Zoo)

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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 children and educators collaborate in real-time, face-to-face, as a community of learners. Instead, 21st century education … Continue reading Badges Find Their Way to San Jose, Philadelphia (and the Point Defiance Zoo)

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A New Campaign! Classrooms, Not Computers: Stop Educating for Profit

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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 create actions to eliminate the mining, tracking, and surveillance of student data by government and corporate entities. … Continue reading A New Campaign! Classrooms, Not Computers: Stop Educating for Profit