No Childs Behind Left

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No Childs Behind Left

• Testing the Butts Off
• Americas School Children
• A Primer

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• If an unfriendly, foreign power had attempted to
  impose on America the mediocre educational
  performance that exists today, we might well have
  viewed it as an act of war.
• A Nation At Risk
• 1983

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• Prologue

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The History Lesson

• 1930s and the Radicals
• Admit college students based on
• academic merit instead of family status.
• The Education Testing Service goal
• End elitist-based admissions.
• ETS develops the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

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While in Iowa

• Radical E.F. Lindquist
• Wants testing to identify those who need
• extra help, so that all can succeed.
• Opposes sorting by narrow academic standards.
• Those same standards because of their rigidity
  are thwarting and damaging to all other kinds of
  capacity.
• E.F. Lindquist, 1930s

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Tests The Great American Equalizer

• SAT Home in the East
• Tests to sort worthy few by academic merit.
• ACT Home in West
• Tests to identify needs of the many for placement
  resulting in success for all.

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The Power of a Prankster

• Reynold Johnson, Science Teacher
• His Markograph Machine makes scoring millions of
  tests possible.

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• Stanley
• Kaplan
• Test Preparation
• For Fun and Profit.

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Thou Shalt Honor Thy Test.

• Nutrition
• Parents vocabulary and education
• Books in the Home
• Time watching television
• Number of parents in the home
• Native Language

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• Current Events

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ESEA Left Behind

• Old Elementary Secondary Education Act.
• Mostly funding for high-poverty schools
• Class Size Reduction
• Reading Aides
• Technology
• Teacher Training

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What we needed

• More.

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What we got.

• Really Pretty Words.
• Standards.
• Accountability.
• Closing the Achievement Gap.

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Opening Pandoras Box

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AYP Failure School Miss One
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AYP Failure School Miss All
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A Tale of Two Schools
Florida Failed School
Florida A School
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It was the Best of SchoolsIt was the Worst of
Schools.

• 68 of Florida Schools were ranked A or B by
  Governor Bush.
• 77 of Florida Schools were ranked Failed AYP
  by President Bush

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TMY (The Magical Year)2014!

• The Good News
• No more Adequate Yearly Progress formulas!
• The Bad News
• 100 Perfect or Fail.

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The voices on our side are growing!

• From the NAACP.
• To the Utah State Legislature.

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• A Look in the Crystal Ball.

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Follow the

• Ka Ching.

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• Education can become the
• same dynamic, for-profit industry that the
  health care industry has become.
• Business Cashing in on Learning
• Mark Walsh, Education Week
• November 24, 1999

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The Future of Local School Privatization.

• Community Education Partners

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Do the Math.

• Guaranteed Minimum 2,500 kids
• _at_ per student x 9,000
• Contract on Kids
• 22,500,000

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• The longer the kids stayed in the program, the
  worse their academic performance was.
• Findings by Tom Kellow
• Houston District Official
• With responsibility for tracking test data
• Making (Up) the Grade, Houston Press, April 6,
  2000

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Conflict of Interest?We report. You decide.

• The fact that Larry Marshall can do consulting
  with vendors to the district...is a testament to
  what has become a sort of vendor pimp cult in the
  public school system in Texas.
• George Scott
• Local Citizen Watchdog
• Houston Press, March 6, 2003

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The Future of State School Privatization.

• Edison Schools, Inc.

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• With a rigorous curriculum, a longer day and a
  longer year, that should produce better results,
  but to my surprise, it didnt.
• They were doing similarly or slightly worse.
• Professor Gary Miron
• Western Michigan University
• The Nation, Vol 278, Issue 10, 2004

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• The Friends Family Plan

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St. Petersburg TimesSept. 26, 2003

• Was there no Enron
• stock left to buy?

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• We shouldnt be making decisions based on
  politics.
• Governor Jeb Bush
• Miami Herald, Nov. 13, 2003

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The Future ofFederal School Privatization.

• K12.com

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They get by with a Little Help from their Friends

• Secretary of Education Rod Paige,
• former K12.com advisory board
• Associate Deputy, Dept of Ed. Michael Petrilli,
• former K12.com vice president
• Deputy Secretary William Hansen,
• former K12 vice president of community
  partnerships
• Chief Deputy Gene Hickocks former deputy Charles
  Zogby,
• left to join management team of K12.com
• Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett,
• co-founder of K12.com

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• Epilogue

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• You have a big cake, and you put it under the
  sink and then wonder why the cockroaches are in
  your kitchen. ..
• You've got to throw the cake in the trash so that
  the cockroaches don't have something to come
  for."
• Grover Norquist
• The Progressive January 2004 Issue

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• The NEAhas a lot of money for campaign
  contributions they have activistsin every
  political district. . . . They are
  everywhere.""School choice allows children and
  money to leave the system, and that means there
  will be fewer public teacher jobs, lower union
  membership, and lower dues.
• Terry Moe,
• Senior Fellow Hoover Institution
• and co-author of Politics, Markets, and
  America's Schools

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We have to lead more than our members.

• It must be our mission to lead communities.

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• Just as the Coke brand would be devastated if
  someone found a rats head in a drink,
  (tax-raising) Republicans are the rats heads in
  the Coke bottle.
• Grover Norquist
• Wall Street Journal
• February 20, 2004

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Every Adorable Grandchild

• Deserves a
• Great
• Public
• School.

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• When youre up to your neck in manure,
• Its no time to duck.
• Harry S Truman

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• Notes
• A Nation at Risk An Open Letter to the American
  People, David Gardner, chair of the National
  Commission on Excellence in Education, April 26,
  1983
• Lemann, Nicholas, The Big Test, The Secret
  History of American Meritocracy, (New York
  Farrar, St. Raus Giroux) 1999
• Federal testing mandates a demolition derby,
  St. Petersburg Times editorial, June 2004
• Reports on feasibility of reaching AYP
  Connecticut Education Assn. study, April 2004
  Minnesota Office of Legislative Auditor study,
  2004 California Dept of Education study, 2004.
• Invest in Equality, The Leadership Conference
  on Civil Rights, www.civilrights.org
• The Broken Promise of Brown, Julian Bond, NAACP
  Education Summit speech, Topeka, Kansas, May 15,
  2004
• Growing Chorus of Voices Opposing Provisions of
  NCLB Act, NEA Great Public Schools Report, July,
  2004
• Ka-Ching Businesses Cashing in on Learning,
  Mark Walsh, Education Week, November 24, 1999
• Making (Up) The Grade, Wendy Grossman, Houston
  Press, April 6, 2000
• Learning Curve, Wendy Grossman, Houston Press,
  October 5, 2000
• 180 Days in the Hole, Margaret Downing, Houston
  Press, April 19, 2001
• W. and the Use of Testing Numbers Racket, by
  Stephen Metcalf, The New Republic, Feb. 6, 2001
• Million-Dollar Babies, Margaret Downing,
  Houston Press, June 27, 2002
• Purchasing and Contract Management, Texas
  School Performance Review, Dallas Independent
  School District, June 2001
• Ending its Contract with For-Profit Alternative
  Center Will Cost District 10 Million, Tawnell
  Hobbs, The Dallas Morning News, June 12, 2002
• A Paige from the Past?, Jennifer Mathieu,
  Houston Press, March 6, 2003
• Paige Chief Announces Departure, Erik Robelen,
  Education Week, September 10, 2003
• Federal Grant Involving Bennetts K12, Inc.
  Questioned, by David Hoff Michelle Davis,
  Education Week, Vol 23 No. 43, July 28, 2004