I have been nipping at the heels of Achieve for a flawed draft attempting to push their corporate world-view into public schools. The board of Achieve is made up of "leading" state governors and high level businessmen.
You can squeeze crap into a platinum tube trimmed with gold, but when you squeeze it out, it still stinks.I may be unfair. It may be that no committee can create the kind of document a teacher needs to effectively teach to a specific group of kids.
When you're ready to listen, give one of us a call....
Here's a list of their contributors:
The Battelle Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Boeing Company
Brookhill Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Cisco Foundation
The GE Foundation
IBM Corporation
Intel Foundation
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
The Joyce Foundation
Lumina
MetLife Foundation
Nationwide
Noyce Foundation
The Prudential Foundation
Sandler Foundation
State Farm Insurance Companies
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Is heel nipping a step up or down from ankle biting?
Dear Tom,
I need to consult Chris Cerf on that one. =)
Many of the NGSS writers are science teachers. The NGSS are sponsored in part by the NSTA. The perspectives of science teachers have hardly been overlooked or excluded.
Also, I would have found it odd if business leaders had not been involved in the process. They don't control the process, but society clearly has an economic interest in the nature and quality of science education.
If you search for a conspiracy in any context, you'll find one. My question to you as a scientist would be, "How can your claim of subterfuge be falsified with empirical evidence?"
Dear Thing 1 (if that's who you are),
Um, it's about teaching science, not about creating workers. Public schools exist to promote a functioning republic, not to make a profit.
Not sure what you mean by "control the process" since Achieve is managing the NextGen development.
I'm not claiming conspiracy, I'm just reporting what you can read on Achieve's own website. I made no claim of subterfuge. It's all out in the open.
Calling this a "conspiracy" is like calling a bed of clams a conspiracy. They do what they do quietly, openly, and without a thought to the consequences. (No doubt they'd like me to clam up.)
=)
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