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Here's A Great Stock Tip For You All!

September 18, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

If you want to make a lot of money and screw over millions of children, particularly inner-city children, all at the same time (and who doesn’t want to do that?), then join my favorite Governor Paul LePage and invest heavily in on-line learning. Studies have shown on-line learning to be a total sham when it […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Ed Tech, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Gates Foundation, Joseph K., Rupert Murdoch, Walton Foundation, Wireless Generation

LAUSD Superintendent of Schools John Deasy Must Go

April 2, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Joseph K. is a 24-year veteran of LAUSD, a former mentor teacher twice named a Johns Hopkins University Teaching Fellow, who now teaches poor, inner-city children who wake up every morning in their gang-ridden, drug-infested neighborhoods at five a.m. to catch the bus by six. He teaches the old-fashioned way – by ignoring standardized test […]

Filed Under: Budgets, Federal Policy, Los Angeles, Parents, School Districts, Students Tagged With: Joseph K., LAUSD, Miramonte

History Should Be Honest, by Joseph K.

February 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Joseph K. relates how an assessment of his teaching through a quick 3-minute observation can lead to snap judgments, many of them superficial and wrong, about his overall effectiveness as a teacher and the entirety of his lesson plan.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Administrators, Joseph K., LAUSD

Blood Money*

August 26, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

By Joseph K. We are being asked (key word “asked”) to be trained (key word “trained”, like dogs,) by Pearson “Learning” August 29th and 30th. Pearson is going to pay us. Make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, the money they are going to pay us is blood money. And the blood money they are going […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, Los Angeles, NCLB, Research Tagged With: Joseph K., Pearson

No Crime Left Behind

July 23, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Joseph K. asks if we’d fire oncologists who lose 50% of their patients to cancer, or police officers who fail to eradicate all crime. That’s the twisted Kafka-esque logic of No Child Left Behind, says this longtime public school teacher.

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy, NCLB Tagged With: Joseph K., Save Our Schools

Introducing Four New Contributors to K12NN

July 16, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Two teachers, a student, and an independent scholar of religion and the First Amendment join K12NN as contributors.

Filed Under: Educators, Students Tagged With: Joseph K., Rachel Tabachnick, Seasoned Teacher, ZombieX

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Federal Policy

Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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