Monthly Archives: February 2017

Explore Homeschooling Options Info Session

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Why Privacy Matters

A number of articles related to privacy, student privacy, data collection, and data mining are posted on this site.  If interested, you can do a search using the search box in the right hand column. The other day, a friend … Continue reading

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The New Transgender Dear Colleague Letter and Power of the States

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On Wednesday, February 22, 2017, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (ED) and the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ) sent out a Dear Colleague letter to every public school in the country. This is … Continue reading

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The Endgame of Corporate Reform, Part 3: Online Learning, Social, Emotional Learning and the Department of Defense

This article was originally posted on Seattle Education and re-posted here with permission from the author.  This is the final post of a three part series by Dora Taylor. This is the third and final post in the series. Part … Continue reading

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The endgame of corporate reform in public school education, Part 2: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and the Federal Government

This article was originally posted on Seattle Education and re-posted here with permission from the author.  This is the second in a three part series by Dora Taylor. Editor’s Note: 2.12.2017 The Washington State House Education Committee will be taking an … Continue reading

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The endgame of corporate reform in public school education: Part 1, What do Betsy DeVos and Seattle Public School’s IT Lead John Krull have in common?

This article was originally posted on Seattle Education and re-posted here with permission from the author.  This is the first of a three part series by Dora Taylor. “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were … Continue reading

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WA State House Bill 1518: “The Summer Step-Up Act” re: Social Emotional Learning: Why are we experimenting on low income four-year old’s?

This article was originally posted on Seattle Education and re-posted here with permission from the author.  Coming soon will be articles in a three part series from the same author, Dora Taylor. I took a deep dive into the realm … Continue reading

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Common Core got the process wrong

Richard Innes has posted a video on the Bluegrass Institute website. Based on his experience, he shows how a quality standards based education program differs from the approached used by the folks behind the Common Core. The video is called … Continue reading

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