NYC settled a class action suit in 2024 against College Board for selling student data to third-party vendors.
Other states followed suit.
Maybe someone should alert Letitia James.
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States have been opting out of the SAT because of the shady tactics used by Coleman to increase profits by exploiting student privacy.
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States have been moving away from the SAT and opting for the ACT because CB has been scraping and selling student data to third-party vendors for years.
NYC settled with them in April 2024 for violating student privacy for profit.
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It seems like the challenge is a bit of a “tragedy of the commons.”
Parents, generally, support public education so long as they have children attending a public school.
Afterwards, they want to pay lower state and local taxes, which is how schools are funded.
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Student Achievement Partners (SAP) is your missing link. It was founded by Sue Pimental, Jason Zumba AND David Coleman:
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Well, JWT is now a professor at the illustrious UAT, a university founded by conceived by Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, et al. (Click on the link.)
And, David Coleman is a failson.
uatx.webflow.io/history
The SEL market is exactly what you think it is…
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David Conley is widely credited for the current college and career readiness framework.
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"A narrow definition [college and career readiness] is easier to measure and may be useful at a state level as a gross indicator of readiness but is far less useful at the individual student level."
Conley defines CCR as "the level of preparation a student needs in order to enroll and succeed - without remediation - in a credit-bearing course at a postsecondary institution..."
The point of career and college readiness (CCR) standards is not to prepare individual students for the workplace but to hold schools accountable for scores on state-level standardized tests.
We should place CCR in the context of its evolution by quoting those responsible for its use.
Every 10 years, old ideas are rebranded to sell new books.
A more constructive instructional paradigm than DI would be deliberate practice (Ericsson et al.,1993).
The early grit studies examined performance of experts in fields like chess and spelling bee competitions, which require a high degree of self-directed practice.
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HQIM is the rebranding of evidence-based teaching which replaced the “scientifically-based research” of NCLB through ESSA.
The article below is better titled as “The Unrealized Promise of an Instructional Placebo.”
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Conley is credited for popularizing the concept of college readiness, which of course traces its origin to A Nation At Risk (1983). It became next big thing in the early 2000s with financial support from Bill Gates and his efforts to get us ready for rigor.
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Let’s start the essay with the CCSSO in 2017 promoting HQIM and link it to the Common Core, also promoted by the CCSSO.
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He was, more importantly, a key contributor to the National Reading Panel (NRP), which introduced the five pillars of reading instruction and serves as the foundation for the “Science of Reading.”
The NRP was also used to support NCLB and Reading First.
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It’s less about AP Scores, and more about the students who are not enrolled in the AP agenda, if we read between the lines.
Take out the lowest performing groups and everything is just fine.
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During an SEL lesson, middle school students were asked to stand if they were proud of their grades at this point in the quarter.
One seventh grade student sat and said:
“Grades are a social construct determined by your socioeconomic status and the wealth and education of your parents.”
Yes, imagine how much more learning could take place in classrooms with more chalk, crayons and construction paper and fewer screens, machines and schemes to trap children on hand held devices.
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HQIM have been leaching into the curricular ecosystem since ESSA.
There is a collective amnesia that whitewashes how bad things were getting before COVID.
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Worth revisiting this thread with a little investigative reporting:
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PISA results since 2000 have barely budged in reading and math for students in the US and UK despite the shift towards research-based instructional strategies (RBIS).
RBIS only work when aligned to measurable outcomes.
In other words, RBIS is just teaching to the test.
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Or, you could just read up on the bios of the committee members to the Phoenix Declaration to see what "truth and goodness" means to the Heritage Foundation.
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Erika Donalds is married to Bryon Donalds, who rose to prominence in Florida politics through his involvement in the Koch-funded Tea Party movement.
Erika Donalds started her own business which provides financial management services to charter schools aligned with the CLT. https://www.heritage.org/staff/erika-donalds
Erika Donalds is married to Byron Donalds, a US representative in Florida. https://www.businessobserverfl.com/news/2020/oct/22/florida-charter-school-leader-targets-expansion/
Source: https://erikadonalds.com/
No need for credentials to see the grift and grab going on here - or to serve on the drafting committee of the Phoenix Declaration.
Erika Donalds is listed as a contributor to the drafting committee.
Her qualifications:
Married to a congress person
Running a CLT-aligned edtech company
Drafting committee of the Phoenix Declaration. https://www.heritage.org/phoenix-declaration Robert Pondiscio has had many thoughts over the years.
One of the guiding principles of the Phoenix Declaration: https://www.heritage.org/phoenix-declaration
Book published by Robert Pondiscio and Marian Salzman.
Biography of Pondiscio's co-author: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Various/dp/0380786613
The Phoenix is a symbol of rebirth and regeneration.
Hence, it has a past.
Let's look back at the former lives of the drafters of this document to see how they have encouraged excellence in youth.
For example, Robert Pondiscio coauthored the "Girl's Guide" in 1996.
He is now at AEI.
General Education in a Free Society was published in 1945.
Note who is given the privilege to open on the free society.
Page 3 of "General Education in a Free Society": "Youth is the time when the character is being molded and easily takes any impress one may wish to stamp on it."
Page 4 of GEFS: "Taken as a whole, education seeks to do two things: help young persons fulfill the unique, particular functions in life which it is in them to fulfill, and fit them so far as it can for those common spheres which, as citizens and heirs of a joint culture, they will share with others."
It is also not a good book for a lot of reasons, as stated on page four of the text - offering a deterministic vision of education that will "help young persons fulfill the unique, particular functions in life which it is in them to fulfill, and fit them..."
A liberal arts education for whom?
“literacy crises are always strategic: they perform certain kinds of ideological work by giving a name to and thereby mastering (rhetorically if not actually) cultural anxieties released by demographic shifts, changes in the means of production, new relations and conflicts between classes and groups of people, and reconfigurations of cultural hegemony” Link below: https://compositionforum.com/issue/56/new-illiteracy/
Literacy crises are less about what HOW children read and more about WHO writes the books and WHAT those books are about.
It's good to go back to WHEN the literacy crisis narrative was last rekindled to understand WHY we are headed back to a place WHERE books are banned and thoughts are censored.
This article should be titled "How flawed reporting taught millions of adults to panic over neoliberal education reforms that have failed another generation of children."
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The NCTE article does not address how Hanford failed to place proficiency levels on state-level assessments in the context of states adopting the Common Core standards and aligning state assessments to these more "rigorous" benchmarks.
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The CCSS addresses print concepts and phonological awareness. https://corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ELA_Standards1.pdf
The CCSS address phonics, word recognition and fluency. https://corestandards.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ELA_Standards1.pdf
Or, can you point to where phonics instruction was dropped in the CCSS?
For all its flaws, the CCSS explicitly states students should:
"know and apply grade-level phonics and word
analysis skills in decoding words"
The CCSS is aligned to the five pillars of reading instruction of the NRP.
"In 1845, Mann had members of his Board of Education prepare and administer written exams to students in the Boston schools that the local schoolmasters had not seen. The examiners then used the test results to harshly criticize the teachers and the quality of education students were receiving. Teachers countered that the written questions had little to do with what students had been taught. In the resulting bitter clash, some teachers were fired and school board members were sent packing." https://ed.lehigh.edu/news/2013/history-standardized-testing
Panic is endemic to the origins of public education.
It is driven by an industry of crisis created by a business community that resists contributing to the long-term well-being of the working class.
Taxes are always too high.
Workers are always unskilled.
Teachers are always to blame.
