Month: June 2013

• Pawns of Industrialists and Financiers: Anti-Democracy Movement Gripping Education?

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  June 10, 2013

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  Accountability, Charter Schools, Community-Based Accountability

  Cloaking Inequity is back! I am now stateside from a hiatus to attend meetings at the Brazilian Senate in Brasilia. I am addicted to pão de queijo. A few photos from the signing of a new collaborative agreement Brazil and the University of Texas at Austin. Speaking of the Senate… As young children, Americans are inculcated with…

  

• Harkin proposal for revision of NCLB has arrived

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  June 4, 2013

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  Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  Harkin has released his Strengthening America’s Schools Act of 2013. A re-authorization of ESEA and revision to NCLB. I will try to produce Cloaking Inequity’s analysis in the next few days. Press release: http://lnkd.in/nZJjKT Bill: http://lnkd.in/mrG3Ns Bill summary: http://lnkd.in/DvA3pY See Cloaking Inequity’s posts on high-stakes testing and accountability. I am in Brazil for meetings at the Senate in…