Month: August 2016

Lab Rats for America, A Kafkaesque Version of Our Future by Peter Greene

Peter Greene: Lab Rats for America, A Kafkaesque Version of Our Future
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-ledger-lab-rat-america.html
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 The Ledger: Lab Rat America Oh my God. Oh my effing God.  If you want to see where Competency Based Education, data mining, the cradle to career pipeline, the gig economy, and the transformation into a master and servant class society all intersect– boy, have I got a video for you. Spoiler alert: this is also one way that public education dies.
Your Ledger account tracks everything you’ve ever learned in units called edublocks.
Your profile displays all the blocks you’ve earned. Employers can use this information to offer you a job or a gig that matches your skills.
The Ledger will track the money you make from those gigs and use it to evaluate the edublock sources; ultimately every edublock source will carry a rating that shows which sources led to people earning the most money. Because in the world of the Ledger, money is the ultimate yardstick by which all value is measured. You can even market yourself as a commodity, bartering for free edublocks by offering a share of your future earnings in return. https://archive.is/WZDDC

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The Billionaire’s Burden By SomeDam Poet

“The Billionaire’s Burden” (based on “The White Man’s Burden”, by Rudyard Kipling”)

 
Take up the Billionaire’s burden,
Send forth the tests ye breed
Go bind your schools to test style,
To serve his market’s need;
The weight of heavy VAMness,
On captive folk and mild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half teacher and half child.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden,
In patience to abide,
To veil the scheme for teach-bots,
The prime intent to hide;
With coded speech of Orwell,
You really must take pains
To make a hefty profit,
And see the major gains.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden,
The public schools to fleece—
Fill full the days with testing
And Common Core disease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end that you have sought,
Destroy the Opt-out movement
Lest work be all for naught.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden,
A tawdry rule of Kings,
The toil of IT keeper,
The sale of software things.
The data ye shall enter,
On privacy to tread,
To make a “decent” living,
Until they all are dead.
Take up the Billionaire’s burden
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought he us from bondage,
From stupid blissful night?”
Take up the Billionaire’s burden,
Ye dare not stoop to less—
So fulminate ‘gainst Apple
To cloak your Siri-ness;
And strategize in whispers,
For all ye leave or do,
Or silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh Diane on you!
Take up the Billionaire’s burden,
Have done with childish ways—
The Kindergarten playing,
The test-less former days
Come now, to join Reform-hood,
The pride of Duncan years
Cold, edged with Gates-bought wisdom,
The plan of Billionaires!
 

“Pattern for Success”

Gates dropped out
Which bred success
Little doubt
That dropout’s best
Design a test
That none can pass
And Gates’ success
Is theirs at last!
 

“Who voted for that?”

Who voted for Walton?
Who voted for Gates?
Who voted for Galt
an Ayn Randian fates?
Who voted for testing?
Who voted for tools?
Who voted for nesting
The charters in schools?
Who voted for Duncan?
Who voted for Eva?
Who voted for Coleman?
And Campbell, the diva?
Who voted for billions
For testing online?
Who voted for millions
Of children in line?
Who voted for Races
And waivers and none?
And judges and cases
That nonsense has won?
Who voted for Kings
And for all the Court fools?
Who voted for things
That are wrecking our schools?
#Accountability, #Billionaires, #Charter Schools, #Common #Core, #Corporate #Reformers, #Education Industry, #Education Reform, #Privatization, #Testing

1023 Clinton Foundation is F^cked

Clinton Foundation investigator, Charles Ortel http://charlesortel.com/
Chairman of DNC used the Clinton Foundation
http://wallstformainst.libsyn.com/charles-ortel-clinton-foundation-crooked-hillary-in-more-trouble
Charles wanted to come back in after his last interview 2 months ago and give listeners an update on his Clinton Foundation investigation and also discuss this article about how the FBI may have a mutiny go investigate the Clinton Foundation http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-12…
Jason and Charles discuss how come Corrine Brown is facing over 300 years in prison for setting up a fake charity and stealing $800k with charges of wire fraud, mail fraud and solicitation while Hillary Clinton is protected by the DOJ.
Listen as Charles talks about how the Clinton Foundation may now be investigated by many US states, the IRS and foreign governments.