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Christian Nationalists Oppose Separation of Church and State
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By Thomas Ultican 11/7/2024 Christian nationalists are hard at work ridding the US of that pesky first Amendment or as Thomas Jefferson stated it, “A wall of separation between church and state.” W…
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on Nov 7
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Privatized Schools Will End Democracy
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By Thomas Ultican 10/30/2024 America’s founders believed in a need to educate the populace, especially second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. They believed that the only way …
on Oct 31
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More Proof: Charter School Experiment FAILED
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By Thomas Ultican 10/25/2024 Two new reports detail the high closure rates of charter schools and the negative effect of school closures on students. In 2020, Network for Public Education (NPE) pro…
on Oct 26
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By Thomas Ultican 10/20/2024 Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and The 74 are lying about education gaps to promote “school choice.” The 74’s October 10 headline says, “In Cities With School Choic…
on Oct 20
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Education Support, More Harm than Help
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By Thomas Ultican 10/10/2024 In California, we have the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assist Team (FCMAT – pronounced fick-mat) which is more often the bane of its clients than a help. It is a quasi…
on Oct 18
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Science of Learning; an Education Fraud
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By Thomas Ultican 10/2/2024 On September 24, The 74 headline read, “What Happens When a 48K-Student District Commits to the ‘Science of Learning’ – In Frederick County, Maryland, test scores …
on Oct 2
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Destroy Public Education Proponent Advocates Vouchers
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Late in March (2018), the Center for American Progress (CAP) released a report on vouchers. CAP, a neoliberal leaning think tank, sums up Their report with this quote, “How bad are school vouchers …
on Sep 25
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Moneyed People Attack Wilmington Schools
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By Thomas Ultican 9/23/2024 July 10th the Christina school board voted, at 2:45 AM, to remove popular Superintendent Dan Shelton. The seven member board split 4 to 3. It seems that Shelton’s opposi…
on Sep 24
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Polikoff Makes NCLB Type Accountability Call
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By Thomas Ultican 9/17/2024 An article by Professor Morgan Polikoff, University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, is a throwback to the No Child Left Behind era. His article’s p…
on Sep 17
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Another Oklahoma Education Blunder
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By Thomas Ultican 9/8/2024 Under the suspect leadership of Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters, the education department released testing results he described as “tremendo…
on Sep 8
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By Thomas Ultican 9/1/2024 Less than 2% of Americans are born with gender-dysphoria, a mismatch between gender identity and their own personal sense of gender. Republican culture-warriors have made…
on Sep 1
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San Diego School Board Election 2024
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By Thomas Ultican 8/26/2024 This year, unlike 2022, when several school board candidates appeared anti-public education and divisive, the current crop is mostly sincere public school advocates. Som…
on Aug 27
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By Thomas Ultican 8/13/2024 Biden administration’s update for Title IX of the national education law was scheduled for implementation on August 1st. However, a coalition of bigots and creepy right …
on Aug 15
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Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual
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By Thomas Ultican 8/5/2024 Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider just published The Education Wars. In their 2020 book, A Wolf at the School House Door, the focus was the rightwing and neoliberal a…
on Aug 7
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Kamala Harris and Public Education
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By Thomas Ultican 7/31/2024 Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, has a good record with public education. Her opponent, who appointed Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education, disagrees and …
on Jul 31
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Hyped AI New Personalized Learning
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By Thomas Ultican 4/25/2024 In education today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and personalized learning are the same thing. AI has been around for 70 years and is the technology that drove personali…
on Jul 31
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The Undermining of Rhode Island Public Schools
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By Thomas Ultican 7/23/2024 Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island’s unpopular governor, appointed the clearly unqualified Angélica Infante-Green as Commissioner of Education, in 2019. That was the year befor…
on Jul 24
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SOUTHLAKE INTOLERANCE fueled by Christian Nationalism
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By Thomas Ultican 7/14/2024 Mike Hixenbaugh’s They Came for the Schools tells the story of a suburb of Dallas, purposefully divided by Christian nationalists. He shared a magazine story claiming, “…
on Jul 15
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By Thomas Ultican July 4, 2024 Valerie Strauss introduced America to Karen McKeegan Fraid and her That Way Madness Lies blog in 2013. In the pre-corporate billionaire-owned Washington Post, Strauss…
on Jul 5
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By Thomas Ultican 6/28/2024 Inspire Charter Schools looked like the next district attorney target when Sean McManus and his A3 charter empire were officially charged with “Theft of Public Funds.” K…
on Jun 29
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By Thomas Ultican 6/15/2024 At the dawn of the 19th century, a need to educate the masses was becoming more apparent. Political leaders, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, called for taxpayer-support…
on Jun 25
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All Charter District Opens Public School
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By Thomas Ultican 6/9/2024 New Orleans Public Schools, aka Orleans Parish School District (OPSD), became America’s first and only all charter school district in 2017. After hurricane Katrina, the s…
on Jun 23
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Sex Discrimination Education Law
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By Thomas Ultican 6/2/2024 Joe Biden promised, when running for president, to undo the damage to Title IX implemented during the Trump and DeVos era. The 1972 amendment to the US education law enac…
on Jun 3
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A Conversation on the Science of Reading
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By Thomas Ultican 5/27/2024 Two eminent professors of instruction and literacy teamed up to write “Fact-Checking the Science of Reading.” P David Pearson of UC Berkeley and Robert J. Tierney of Uni…
on May 27
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Henry Barnard and the Department of Education
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By Thomas Ultican 5/21/2024 In 1867, Henry Barnard was appointed as the first Commissioner of the new US Department of Education. Today that position is called Secretary of Education. The Departmen…
on May 22
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A Call for Segregation, Exclusion and Caste
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By Thomas Ultican 5/8/2024 Republicans, following the lead of Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo, are out to end Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs. The world’s richest man, Elon Mu…
on May 9
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By Thomas Ultican 5/1/2024 Neoliberals joined with libertarians to “reform” public education. Their tools were big money and propaganda distributed by media outlets like The 74, support by The Walt…
on May 2
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By Thomas Ultican 4/19/2024 I am sure you’ll be shocked to your core but there are some really bad people out there trying to end publicly-financed free education. Since the beginning to the 21st m…
on Apr 20
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By Thomas Ultican 4/10/2024 Laurene Powell Jobs controls Amplify, a kids-at-screens education enterprise. In 2011, she became one of the wealthiest women in the world when her husband, Steve, died.…
on Apr 11
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Fan of Standards-Based Grading?
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By Thomas Ultican 4/2/2024 With the new century, public education encountered virulent standards, standards-based testing and a call for standards-based grading (SBG). While schools were inundated …
on Apr 2
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Standards Based Education is Bad Education Theory
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By Thomas Ultican 3/10/2015 While discussing a student’s next class schedule with an outstanding student counselor, I learned my colleague had become dependent on testing data to place her students…
on Mar 30
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Sketchy Epic Cyber Charter Has Gone National
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By T. Ultican 5/4/2019 Epic is the business name for Oklahoma’s indigenous and fastest growing virtual charter school chain. In 2015, they moved beyond Oklahoma opening a business in Orange County,…
on Mar 29
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By Thomas Ultican 3/27/2024 Don Shalvey, with his self-selected twitter handle @dooWopDon, passed away March 16th, succumbing to a lengthy battle with brain cancer. During his long education-center…
on Mar 27
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Bad Governance with Education Vouchers
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By Thomas Ultican 3/19/2024 February 26, a Maricopa County Grand Jury indicted six people, including three employees of Arizona’s education department, for forgery, fraud and money laundering. The…
on Mar 20
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Subterfuge and Learning Loss Baloney
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By Thomas Ultican 3/12/2024 Crazy pants Eric Hanushek claims COVID “learning-loss” could cost American students $31 trillion in future earnings. He burst onto the education world’s conscientiousnes…
on Mar 13
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Public Education Attack Measured
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By Thomas Ultican 3/7/2024 A new report from Network for Public Education (NPE) concludes, “The war on public education has always been a part of Christian nationalism” (Page 32). NPE graded Americ…
on Mar 7
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By Thomas Ultican 6/10/2020 The New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF) is the Swiss army knife of public school privatization. It promotes education technology development, bankrolls charter school creati…
on Mar 5
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Stalled California Charter Schools
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By Thomas Ultican 2/29/2024 In California, from 2021 to 2023, 31 new charter schools opened but 63 closed. Since inception in 1994, charter school enrollment grew ever year until 2021. For the firs…
on Mar 2
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Time to Leave International PISA Testing
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By Thomas Ultican 2/20/2024 February began with Progressive Policy Institute and The 74 teaming up for a Webinar on PISA math test results, declaring “Historically Underperforming PISA Scores are a…
on Feb 29
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School Moms Battle for Public Education
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By Thomas Ultican 2/11/2024 Leading into the 2020-2021 school year, I started hearing about parents protesting mask mandates. It did not make sense. Soon, open schools now protests started in San D…
on Feb 12
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Promotion of Education Savings Accounts aka Vouchers
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By Thomas Ultican 2/4/2024 Propaganda Rag, The 74, continuously endorses their billionaire funders’ agendas. On January 23, they were passing on lies about Education Savings Accounts (ESA), another…
on Feb 4
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Father of Progressive Education Movement
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By Thomas Ultican 1/28/2024 John Dewey called Colonel Francis Wayland Parker, “more than any other person… the father of the progressive education movement.” True, his 1902 passin…
on Jan 28
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Billionaire Science-of-Reading Support
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By Thomas Ultican 1/21/2024 National Center on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released an unreviewed report (1-16-2024) on state laws, about teaching reading inadequacy. That day, The 74 ran an article abo…
on Jan 23
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John Eaton, Hero of American Education
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By Thomas Ultican 1/15/2024 John Eaton (1829 – 1906) was a clergyman, soldier, philanthropist, journalist, educator, and statesman. He was born to a farmer in Sutton, New Hampshire and attend…
on Jan 22
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By Thomas Ultican 1/9/2024 The Walton family (Tax Id: 13-3441466), Jonathon Sackler (Tax Id: 13-4119735), Lynn Schusterman (Tax Id: 73-1312965) and other billionaires fund The 74 Media, Inc. It has…
on Jan 20
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Questioning Mastery Learning and Growth Mindset
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By Thomas Ultican 7/6/2021 This summer the Los Angeles Unified School District is offering professional development and a salary point credit to teachers for taking the “Mastery Learning̶…
on Jan 8
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Dallas Chamber of Commerce Disrupts Dallas Schools
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By T. Ultican 2/20/2019 Since 2012, the business community in Dallas has aggressively asserted control over Dallas Independent School District (DISD). For the first time, running for one of the nin…
on Jan 7
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Hoover Institute 2023 “A Nation at Risk” Address
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By Thomas Ultican 1/1/2024 Amazingly, Hoover Institute marked 40+ years of “A Nation at Risk” (ANAR) by glorifying it. They published a 300+ page book, in November, claiming it was the stick that s…
on Jan 1
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Panic! Pandemic Learning Loss!
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By Thomas Ultican 12/17/2023 Wal-Mart family’s propaganda rag, The 74, says those not hysterical over learning loss wear rose-colored glasses and damaged students are doomed, losing billions in fut…
on Dec 17
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By Thomas Ultican 12/9/2023 Current president of Carnegie Foundation, Tim Knowles, from the University of Chicago and founding director of Teach for America, is vigorously trying to upend the Carne…
on Dec 9