I hope you remember seeing
Joshua Katz's fabulous TED talk, where he lacerated the fake reformers who are assailing hard-working teachers, smothering children with standardized tests, and privatizing public education for fun and profit. Josh is a math teacher in Orange County, Florida.
Great news! Joshua Katz is running for school board in Orange County, Florida. That board is thinking of bringing in TFA. They need a real educator on the board.
The nonpartisan election is August 26.
Give as generously as you can. I will when he has a donations page not on Facebook.
I have urged him on Twitter to start a website for donations that is not on Facebook, since I do not go on FB.
I wrote this about his TED talk:
"He shows how our present "toxic culture of education" is hurting kids, stigmatizing them as early as third grade by high-stakes standardized testing, while the vendors get rich.
"He connects the dots: the testing corporations get rich while our children suffer. He names names: Pearson, McGraw-Hill, ALEC, and more.
"The high-stakes tests demoralize many children, label them as worthless, demand "rigor," while ignoring the children before us, their needs and their potential. As he says, we are judging a fish by whether he can climb a tree and labeling him a failure for his inability to do so. We ignore the development of non-cognitive skills, of character and integrity, as we emphasize test scores over all else. By trying to stuff all children into the same standardized mold, we are hurting them, hurting our society, and benefiting only the for-profit corporations that have become what he calls "the super-villains" of education."
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