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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,...

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Uncritical 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...

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Proposed 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...

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Bet 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...

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VA 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...

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Educational 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...

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The 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...

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Professor 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

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Political 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...

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Professor 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

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Commentary: 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...

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EDTECH597 – 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...

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Webinar 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...

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School 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...

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We 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...

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John 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...

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Your 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...

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Your 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...

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Due 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...

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EDTECH537: 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...

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Entry #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...

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This 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...

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Don’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...

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Attack 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...

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EDTECH537 – 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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