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The Summit for Corporate Reformers vs. Teachers Who CLIMB Summits by Nancy Baily

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Bailey describes the pseudo summit taking place in San Diego, where people who have never taught discuss how to reinvent education for fun and profit. These self-acclaimed experts have not struggled to teach in gritty, overcrowded classes, nor dealt with the trauma that some children bring to school.,or had to  use unproven curriculum.  Nor have they had to face the reforms that, ironically, they and their ilk created.  Read her list at the end of her post. It is a who’s who of the Disruption Industry, assembled in one place to celebrate themselves and the damage they have done to schools, students, and teachers across the nation. The National Summit On Education Reform    want to replace democratic public schools with technology, ending schools and teaching as we know it. They will have children sitting in front of screens for instruction in warehouse charters, or at home all day.

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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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