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To Attract Investors, Pearson Boasts of Success in Acquiring State, PARCC and RTTT Contracts

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

Education giant, Pearson is bragging to potential investors about how well they did last year, and how well they expect to do next year. While admitting that  ”state funding pressures and the transition to Common Core assessments continued to make market conditions tough … Continue reading →

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Pearson Looked for Test Graders on Texas Craigslist

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

You just can’t make this stuff up. By now, many Texans are familiar with the backlash against the over-testing of our students in public schools. Most of this backlash has focused on the amount of tests being given and the … Continue reading →

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Does the FLDOE Work for Jeb Bush’s Foundation?

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

Today’s release of emails from a DC watchdog indeed provided some troubling revelations. Among these were arranging travel and reimbursements for FLDOE staffers and examples of clear advocacies for their corporate donors. But more than anything else, the sheer volume of … Continue reading →

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Florida’s Dysfunctional Charter School Laws On Display in Orlando Scandal

Posted on December 2, 2012 by

Orlando Sentinel (login required) reporter Lauren Roth has this: The failed Orange County charter school that gave its principal a payout of $519,000 in taxpayer dollars after closing in June also paid her husband more than $460,000 during a five-year period, … Continue reading →

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Rick Scott: “Should we get rid of the FCAT and just go with the ACT?”

Posted on September 12, 2012 by

Maybe Rick Scott really has seen the light. After meeting with parents and teachers in Boca Raton yesterday, Sun Sentinel reporter Anne Geggis reported this: For his first year-and-a-half in office, Gov. Scott seemed at odds with many parents and … Continue reading →

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“Florida DOE Has Abdicated its Accountability Role to Pearson”

Posted on August 18, 2012 by

Within a blistering critique of Gerard Robinson’s tenure as Florida’s education commissioner, Osceola school board member Jay Wheeler make an astonishing observation about the role that  testing giant Pearson plays in Florida’s education system. Writes Wheeler in Around Osceola: Additionally the … Continue reading →

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Jeb Bush Covers ZZ Top on His US Ed Reform Rock Tour Show in Mississippi

Posted on August 8, 2012 by

ZZ Top’s tribute to Mississippi blues icon Howlin’ Wolf, My Heads in Mississippi opens thus: I’m shufflin’ thru the Texas sand, But my head’s in Mississippi. I’m shufflin’ thru the Texas sand, But my head’s in Mississippi. The blues has got … Continue reading →

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How Come Jeb Bush’s Foundation No Longer Lists Pearson As a Donor?

Posted on August 7, 2012 by

UPDATE: Link to old Bush donor list that included Pearson Foundation  here. This blog has made lots of hay over the fact that Pearson was one of the financiers of Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education. An October 9, … Continue reading →

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Pearson’s Latest Embarrassment: 7000 NYC Kids Wrongly Blocked From Walking

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

From the Huffington Post: More than 7,000 New York City elementary and middle school students were wrongly banned from attending their graduation ceremonies after education officials mistakenly thought the students had failed state exams, the New York Post reports. The … Continue reading →

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“State Blinded By Its Devotion to School Testing”

Posted on July 24, 2012 by

Tampa Bay Times columnist John Romano takes the latest breakdown in Florida’s test-dominated accountability system and leads to where fault really lies. Florida’s education policy-makers are obsessively devoted to standardized tests. The state’s devotion to standardized testing is admirable. It … Continue reading →

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