Online Charter Schools = Outsourcing Public Education / Privatizing Education
It is interesting to see that there folks who don’t agree with the neo-liberal and neo-conservative proponents of K-12 online learning starting to use more rhetoric in their commentary. For example,...
View ArticleUncritical Media Acceptance Without Question
Over the past few months, I’ve used this blog to be more critical about the neo-liberal and neo-conservative proponents of K-12 online learning. However, one of the groups that I haven’t taken to task...
View ArticleProposed Legislative Changes In Virginia
I guess today will be a legislative kind of day. Last week (or maybe at the end of the week before), the Governor of Virginia announced a number of sweeping educational reforms that were going to be...
View ArticleBet You Didn’t Dream This!
This came through my Twitter stream over the weekend and the original cartoon can be found at http://susanohanian.org/show_nclb_cartoons.php?id=759. Any of my more artistic readers want to adapt this...
View ArticleVA Modifies Graduation Requirements – Must Complete A Virtual Course
Last month I spoke of the proposed legislative changes in Virginia. A day or two ago, this was posted to the iNACOL forums. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?121+sum+SB489 I haven’t read...
View ArticleEducational Reform – Canadian Style
This came to me via the ASCD Worldwide Edition SmartBrief. Why have schools in Ontario succeeded? Educators, parents and experts tell blogger Larry Ferlazzo why schools in Ontario, Canada, have had...
View ArticleThe American Politics of Canadian Health Care – Education Edition
Someone in Facebook or Google+ posted this article on Friday… The American Politics of Canadian Health Care She’s back. Shona Holmes, the Hamilton, Ontario native who became a poster child for the...
View ArticleProfessor Michael Barbour presents on “Opposing the Dominant K-12 Online...
If you happen to be in the Detroit area on Wednesday, I’d invite you all to come. Tagged: cyber school, education, educational reform, high school, research, virtual school
View ArticlePolitical Fact Checker: Online Learning Edition
This came through my inbox yesterday morning courtesy of my Google News alert for virtual school. Chattanooga senator slaps virtual school company for “results at bottom of the … PolitiFact One of the...
View ArticleProfessor Michael Barbour presents on “Opposing the Dominant K-12 Online...
This reminder showed up in my inbox yesterday afternoon. For those who may be in the Detroit area… Tagged: cyber school, education, educational reform, high school, research, virtual school
View ArticleCommentary: School Reform, But From Whose Perspective?
This came across my radar screen a few days ago… Public K-12 schooling is a popular subject in all forms of media these days, with the majority of coverage highly critical of both the professionals who...
View ArticleEDTECH597 – Discussion Entry: Question For Educational Reformers…
As I mentioned in the EDTECH597 – Week 4 entry for my EDTECH597 – Blogging In The Classroom course, I wanted to post a sample of a discussion entry. This entry has been brewing (or stewing) with me for...
View ArticleWebinar Reminder – Respondus Monitor: Integrity in Online Testing
From today’s inbox… Online testing allows students to take exams from home or even the other side of the world. But how do you ensure the integrity of online exams and prevent cheating? The answer is...
View ArticleSchool Choice, Blogging And Publicity
So last week I received the following message: Hi, Michael! My name is XXXXX and I work for the XXXXX as their online outreach coordinator. We are hosting a conference in XXXX November #th and #th and...
View ArticleWe Must Reclaim It
Speaking of not doing a good job of explaining why the things we are fighting for are important… This came my way on Thursday… Michael, This is the tale of two visions. Join us in Reclaiming the...
View ArticleJohn Hattie – Why Are So Many Of Our Teachers And Schools So Successful?
I wanted to sit on this until the holidays were finished to make sure that people noticed. I’ve spoke about John Hattie on several occasions on this blog. Simply put, Hattie has done more research...
View ArticleYour Tax Dollars At Work
Some time ago, I saw the following two entries in my RSS reader from Blog for Arizona.com. K12 Inc. spent $21.5 million on ads in 2012 Your online charter school tax dollars at (political) work These...
View ArticleYour Tax Dollars At Work: Ohio Edition
Not to pick on just K12, Inc., let’s post an Ohio edition of Your Tax Dollars at Work. Shortly before the holidays, Diane Ravitch alerted me to a Charter Founder in Ohio Makes Large Political...
View ArticleDue Process Unconstitutional?
From Sunday’s inbox… The most disappointing thing is that the US Secretary of Education has been largely silent on or tacitly supportive of this decision! Michael, On Tuesday morning, teachers across...
View ArticleEDTECH537: Discussion Entry – Key Questions That Policymakers Should Ask...
As I mentioned in the EDTECH537 – Week 4 entry for my EDTECH537 – Blogging In The Classroom course, I wanted to post a sample of a discussion entry. Approximately 12 years ago, the Center on...
View ArticleEntry #10,000 – NYTimes: Teaching Is Not a Business
This is the 10,000th entry on this blog – wow! I have to say wow because I would never have guessed that I had done that much (even if many of the entries are just copied and pasted). I figured that...
View ArticleThis Is Our Fight
Seems appropriate for Labour Day… Dear Michael, The very first Labor Day was created to acknowledge and honor working people who aspired to the American dream and fought for a better life for...
View ArticleDon’t Miss: The Civil Rights Issue of Our Time at #EIE14
So this showed up in my inbox last week and I felt the need to comment. While I don’t disagree with the sentiment – education is the civil rights issue of our time, there is nothing Jeb Bush and his...
View ArticleAttack Strategies From Educational Reform Proponents
This entry was originally posted under the title Tactics of The Neo-Liberals/Conservatives in K-12 Online Learning – Part Two and is being re-posted as a part of my participation in Increase Your...
View ArticleEDTECH537 – Discussion Entry: Why Do They Get Away With It?
On Monday, in my Week 3 entry, I indicated that today I would post a discussion entry to model for my EDTECH537 students. So… Last week some time I came across a blog entry entitled “No, educators and...
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