[Sit back and feast on this cornucopia of “insider-trading” in Indiana Education. Is it just me or is there just an odd linguistic “reality” called forth in this partnership? “Indian(a)” and “Turkey” equals an (immigrant) Pilgrim conquest of the “free market” in education? Which group is instructing which in the use of a fish to […]
Corporate Foxes in the IN DOE Henhouse: The Chain School Gospel of Jeb Bush, Jon Hage and WalMart

When the Indiana Charter School Board recently approved two new Charter Schools USA schools to open in Indianapolis, the corporate school honeymoon was on. The East Indianapolis Charter Academy and the South Indianapolis Charter Academy, Charter Schools USA claimed, would be “feeder schools” for students to eventually enter the three other Indiana public schools the […]
Lessons Learned? Pearson Royals Aided by Indiana Arnolds

I felt compelled to post this in the hopes that you might take it and show it to your principals, your superintendents, your school board members and your state school board members. What follows is a fact but also a truth. Rare to find them together these days. This is not “credible research” it is […]
People ARE Markets for Improvement: Simple, Banal, Evil

It is clear by now (by now, by now, right?) as Goldman Sachs continues to rake in cash and continues to occupy top government roles determining policy, as Oil companies continue to destroy land and fund wars and receive government contracts to do so, as the US is set to offer the management of drone […]
Parent Revolution: Not Your Parents, Not a Revolution

INDIANA CORPORATE SCHOOL UPDATES FOR JANUARY 22, 2012 Once again, ISTA’s Nate Schnellenberger wishy-washes around fighting off the Indiana corporate school reformers, this time in response to the fake parent trigger bill. Nate says “We think that it should be 51 percent of the parents and teachers and educators should have a say.” Nate, the parent trigger […]
Martin’s Monsters–Highlighting the Latest from the Education Apocalypse

Doug Martin, always on the look-out for “news” from Liar’s Club, Education Division, sent us a few links to explore. What becomes clear, or is always clear, is that these folks are rank propagandists–simply look at the terms they use in making their case. But maybe more importantly, they are very well-funded and very well-connected. […]
Imperial Philanthropy: Using Education Reform to Buy the Earth and Sky

Editor’s note: Doug Martin’s work supplies a kind of corrective to the simple “top-line” story and understanding of the education reform movement. It can be understood to be “about” management and assessment to enforce a worldview where production is only quantifiable and quality must ape the measurements of assessment; and that’s the kindest way to […]
The Crony Corruption of the Indiana Charter School Board: Mining Kids for Cash

(The following is a letter Doug Martin recently sent to the Indiana Charter School Board, which is now taking comments concerning their corporate school reform agenda. Take the opportunity to email them and let them know you do not approve of selling our kids off to the privatizers invading our state. Their email address is […]