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Jeb Bush's Very Bad, Terrible, Horrible Week; by Diane Ravitch

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Jeb Bush prides himself on being a master of technology. He was one of the main movers behind a report called "Digital Learning NOW!," which was underwritten by a score of technology companies. Many of those same companies are sponsors of Bush's Foundation for Educational Excellence, and he has actively promoted replacing teachers with technology. A reporter in Maine traced the links between Bush and his sponsors and won a major journalism award for this story. But technologically speaking, this was a bad week for Jeb Bush. First, in an effort to demonstrate transparency, he released a trove of private emails, not knowing that he was making public the emails, addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases, social security numbers of people who had corresponded with him. Then, he had another tech problem. He hired some guy to be his campaign's technology director who... just read the link Di
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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