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Title: No Child


1
No Childs Behind Left
  • Testing the Butts Off
  • Americas School Children
  • A Primer

2
  • If an unfriendly, foreign power had attempted to
    impose on America the mediocre educational
    performance that exists today, we might well have
    viewed it as an act of war.
  • A Nation At Risk
  • 1983

3
  • Prologue

4
The History Lesson
  • 1930s and the Radicals
  • Admit college students based on
  • academic merit instead of family status.
  • The Education Testing Service goal
  • End elitist-based admissions.
  • ETS develops the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

5
While in Iowa
  • Radical E.F. Lindquist
  • Wants testing to identify those who need
  • extra help, so that all can succeed.
  • Opposes sorting by narrow academic standards.
  • Those same standards because of their rigidity
    are thwarting and damaging to all other kinds of
    capacity.
  • E.F. Lindquist, 1930s

6
Tests The Great American Equalizer
  • SAT Home in the East
  • Tests to sort worthy few by academic merit.
  • ACT Home in West
  • Tests to identify needs of the many for placement
    resulting in success for all.

7
The Power of a Prankster
  • Reynold Johnson, Science Teacher
  • His Markograph Machine makes scoring millions of
    tests possible.

8
  • Stanley
  • Kaplan
  • Test Preparation
  • For Fun and Profit.

9
Thou Shalt Honor Thy Test.
  • Nutrition
  • Parents vocabulary and education
  • Books in the Home
  • Time watching television
  • Number of parents in the home
  • Native Language

10
  • Current Events

11
ESEA Left Behind
  • Old Elementary Secondary Education Act.
  • Mostly funding for high-poverty schools
  • Class Size Reduction
  • Reading Aides
  • Technology
  • Teacher Training

12
What we needed
  • More.

13
What we got.
  • Really Pretty Words.
  • Standards.
  • Accountability.
  • Closing the Achievement Gap.

14
Opening Pandoras Box
  • Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing
    Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing
    Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing
    Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing
    Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing
    Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing
    Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing Testing
    Testing Testing Testing Testing, etc.

15
AYP Failure School Miss One
16
AYP Failure School Miss All
17
A Tale of Two Schools
Florida Failed School
Florida A School
18
It was the Best of SchoolsIt was the Worst of
Schools.
  • 68 of Florida Schools were ranked A or B by
    Governor Bush.
  • 77 of Florida Schools were ranked Failed AYP
    by President Bush

19
TMY (The Magical Year)2014!
  • The Good News
  • No more Adequate Yearly Progress formulas!
  • The Bad News
  • 100 Perfect or Fail.

20
The voices on our side are growing!
  • From the NAACP.
  • To the Utah State Legislature.

21
  • A Look in the Crystal Ball.

22
Follow the
  • Ka Ching.

23
  • Education can become the
  • same dynamic, for-profit industry that the
    health care industry has become.
  • Business Cashing in on Learning
  • Mark Walsh, Education Week
  • November 24, 1999

24
The Future of Local School Privatization.
  • Community Education Partners

25
Do the Math.
  • Guaranteed Minimum 2,500 kids
  • _at_ per student x 9,000
  • Contract on Kids
  • 22,500,000

26
  • The longer the kids stayed in the program, the
    worse their academic performance was.
  • Findings by Tom Kellow
  • Houston District Official
  • With responsibility for tracking test data
  • Making (Up) the Grade, Houston Press, April 6,
    2000

27
Conflict of Interest?We report. You decide.
  • The fact that Larry Marshall can do consulting
    with vendors to the district...is a testament to
    what has become a sort of vendor pimp cult in the
    public school system in Texas.
  • George Scott
  • Local Citizen Watchdog
  • Houston Press, March 6, 2003

28
The Future of State School Privatization.
  • Edison Schools, Inc.

29
  • With a rigorous curriculum, a longer day and a
    longer year, that should produce better results,
    but to my surprise, it didnt.
  • They were doing similarly or slightly worse.
  • Professor Gary Miron
  • Western Michigan University
  • The Nation, Vol 278, Issue 10, 2004

30
  • The Friends Family Plan

31
St. Petersburg TimesSept. 26, 2003
  • Was there no Enron
  • stock left to buy?

32
  • We shouldnt be making decisions based on
    politics.
  • Governor Jeb Bush
  • Miami Herald, Nov. 13, 2003

33
The Future ofFederal School Privatization.
  • K12.com

34
They get by with a Little Help from their Friends
  • Secretary of Education Rod Paige,
  • former K12.com advisory board
  • Associate Deputy, Dept of Ed. Michael Petrilli,
  • former K12.com vice president
  • Deputy Secretary William Hansen,
  • former K12 vice president of community
    partnerships
  • Chief Deputy Gene Hickocks former deputy Charles
    Zogby,
  • left to join management team of K12.com
  • Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett,
  • co-founder of K12.com

35
  • Epilogue

36
  • You have a big cake, and you put it under the
    sink and then wonder why the cockroaches are in
    your kitchen. ..
  • You've got to throw the cake in the trash so that
    the cockroaches don't have something to come
    for."
  • Grover Norquist
  • The Progressive January 2004 Issue

37
  • The NEAhas a lot of money for campaign
    contributions they have activistsin every
    political district. . . . They are
    everywhere.""School choice allows children and
    money to leave the system, and that means there
    will be fewer public teacher jobs, lower union
    membership, and lower dues.
  • Terry Moe,
  • Senior Fellow Hoover Institution
  • and co-author of Politics, Markets, and
    America's Schools

38
We have to lead more than our members.
  • It must be our mission to lead communities.

39
  • Just as the Coke brand would be devastated if
    someone found a rats head in a drink,
    (tax-raising) Republicans are the rats heads in
    the Coke bottle.
  • Grover Norquist
  • Wall Street Journal
  • February 20, 2004

40
Every Adorable Grandchild
  • Deserves a
  • Great
  • Public
  • School.

41
  • When youre up to your neck in manure,
  • Its no time to duck.
  • Harry S Truman

42
  • Notes
  • A Nation at Risk An Open Letter to the American
    People, David Gardner, chair of the National
    Commission on Excellence in Education, April 26,
    1983
  • Lemann, Nicholas, The Big Test, The Secret
    History of American Meritocracy, (New York
    Farrar, St. Raus Giroux) 1999
  • Federal testing mandates a demolition derby,
    St. Petersburg Times editorial, June 2004
  • Reports on feasibility of reaching AYP
    Connecticut Education Assn. study, April 2004
    Minnesota Office of Legislative Auditor study,
    2004 California Dept of Education study, 2004.
  • Invest in Equality, The Leadership Conference
    on Civil Rights, www.civilrights.org
  • The Broken Promise of Brown, Julian Bond, NAACP
    Education Summit speech, Topeka, Kansas, May 15,
    2004
  • Growing Chorus of Voices Opposing Provisions of
    NCLB Act, NEA Great Public Schools Report, July,
    2004
  • Ka-Ching Businesses Cashing in on Learning,
    Mark Walsh, Education Week, November 24, 1999
  • Making (Up) The Grade, Wendy Grossman, Houston
    Press, April 6, 2000
  • Learning Curve, Wendy Grossman, Houston Press,
    October 5, 2000
  • 180 Days in the Hole, Margaret Downing, Houston
    Press, April 19, 2001
  • W. and the Use of Testing Numbers Racket, by
    Stephen Metcalf, The New Republic, Feb. 6, 2001
  • Million-Dollar Babies, Margaret Downing,
    Houston Press, June 27, 2002
  • Purchasing and Contract Management, Texas
    School Performance Review, Dallas Independent
    School District, June 2001
  • Ending its Contract with For-Profit Alternative
    Center Will Cost District 10 Million, Tawnell
    Hobbs, The Dallas Morning News, June 12, 2002
  • A Paige from the Past?, Jennifer Mathieu,
    Houston Press, March 6, 2003
  • Paige Chief Announces Departure, Erik Robelen,
    Education Week, September 10, 2003
  • Federal Grant Involving Bennetts K12, Inc.
    Questioned, by David Hoff Michelle Davis,
    Education Week, Vol 23 No. 43, July 28, 2004
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