Sir please Add this email to science stf manjusha patil Ghs shiradawad ta chikodi. [email protected]. On Jan 13, 2016 7:20 AM, "Gurumurthy K" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes Ravi sir. The same forces are supporting privatisation in India also. > > For example see the support for ppp everywhere. > School choice, voucher system are other methods to privatise. > > We need to resist privatisation and also promote government / public > schools > > In bengaluru South3, ghs are preparing banners highlighting school > infrastructure, strengths and achievements , so public is aware. > > Regards > Guru > On Jan 12, 2016 8:44 PM, "Ravikumar Ganiger" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sir, >> >> Very thought provoking. Do you feel such pro-privatisation lobbies >> really are happening in India too? Thanks for sharing such an educative >> article. >> >> With regards, >> >> >> Shri. RAVIKUMAR G. GANIGER. >> Ass. Master (PCM Kannada) >> Govt. High School MAIGUR(RC) >> Tal- Jamkhandi, Dist- Bagalkot >> Karnataka State, INDIA-587301. >> Mobile - +91 98 45 978080. >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Gurumurthy K <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The article is about how the public (Govt) schools in America are being >>> damaged by pro-privatisation lobbies. Some of this is already true in >>> India. Teachers, teacher educators and education administrators and policy >>> makers must read this article to understand the need for a public education >>> system and the dangers of privatisation >>> >>> regards >>> Guru >>> >>> Tuesday, 12 January 2016 / TRUTH-OUT.ORG >>> A Primer on the Damaging Movement to Privatize Public Schools >>> Friday, 08 January 2016 00:00 By Marion Brady, The Washington Post | >>> Op-Ed >>> >>> When, about 30 years ago, corporate interests began their highly >>> organized, well-funded effort to privatize public education, you wouldn't >>> have read or heard about it. They didn't want to trigger the debate that >>> such a radical change in an important institution warranted. >>> >>> If, like most pundits and politicians, you've supported that campaign, >>> it's likely you've been snookered. Here's a quick overview of the >>> snookering process. >>> >>> The Pitch >>> >>> Talking Points: (a) Standardized testing proves America's schools are >>> poor. (b) Other countries are eating our lunch. (c) Teachers deserve most >>> of the blame. (d) The lazy ones need to be forced out by performance >>> evaluations. (e) The dumb ones need scripts to read or "canned standards" >>> telling them exactly what to teach. (f) The experienced ones are too set in >>> their ways to change and should be replaced by fresh Five-Week-Wonders from >>> Teach for America. (Bonus: Replacing experienced teachers saves a ton of >>> money.) (g) Public ("government") schools are a step down the slippery >>> slope to socialism. >>> >>> Tactics >>> >>> Education establishment resistance to privatization is inevitable, so >>> (a) avoid it as long as possible by blurring the lines between "public" and >>> "private." (b) Push school choice, vouchers, tax write-offs, tax credits, >>> school-business partnerships, profit-driven charter chains. (c) When >>> resistance comes, crank up fear with the, "They're eating our lunch!" >>> message. (d) Contribute generously to all potential resisters - academic >>> publications, professional organizations, unions, and school support groups >>> such as PTA. (e) Create fake "think tanks," give them impressive names, and >>> have them do "research" supporting privatization. (f) Encourage investment >>> in teacher-replacer technology - internet access, iPads, virtual schooling, >>> MOOCS, etc. (e) Pressure state legislators to make life easier for >>> profit-seeking charter chains by taking approval decisions away from local >>> boards and giving them to easier-to-lobby state-level bureaucrats. (g) >>> Elect the "right" people at all levels of government. (When they're >>> campaigning, have them keep their privatizing agenda quiet.) >>> >>> Weapon >>> >>> If you'll read the fine-print disclaimers on high-stakes standardized >>> tests, you'll see how grossly they're being misused, but they're the key to >>> privatization. The general public, easily impressed by numbers and >>> mathematical razzle-dazzle, believes competition is the key to quality, so >>> want quality quantified even though it can't be done. Machine-scored tests >>> don't measure quality. They rank. >>> >>> It's hard to rank unlike things so it's necessary to standardize. That's >>> what the Common Core State Standards do. To get the job done quickly, Bill >>> Gates picked up the tab, important politicians signed off on them, and >>> teachers were handed them as a done deal. >>> >>> The standards make testing and ranking a cinch. They also make making >>> billions a cinch. Manufacturers can use the same questions for every state >>> that has adopted the standards or facsimiles thereof. >>> >>> If challenged, test fans often quote the late Dr. W. Edward Deming, the >>> world-famous quality guru who showed Japanese companies how to build better >>> stuff than anybody else. In his book, "The New Economics," Deming wrote, >>> "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it." >>> >>> Here's the whole sentence as he wrote it: "It is wrong to suppose that >>> if you can't measure it, you can't manage it - a costly myth." >>> >>> Operating the Weapon >>> >>> What's turned standardized testing into a privatizing juggernaut are >>> pass-fail "cut scores" set by politicians. Saying kids need to be >>> challenged, they set the cut score high enough to fail many (sometimes >>> most) kids. When the scores are published, they point to the high failure >>> rate to "prove" public schools can't do the job and should be closed or >>> privatized. Clever, huh? >>> >>> The privatizing machinery is in place. Left alone, it'll gradually >>> privatize most, but not all, public schools. Those that serve the poorest, >>> the sickest, the disabled, the most troubled, the most expensive to educate >>> - those will stay in what's left of the public schools. >>> >>> Weapon Malfunction >>> >>> Look at standardized tests from the kids' perspective. Test items (a) >>> measure recall of secondhand, standardized, delivered information, or (b) >>> require a skill to be demonstrated, or (c) reward an ability to >>> second-guess whoever wrote the test item. Because kids didn't ask for the >>> information, because the skill they're being asked to demonstrate rarely >>> has immediate practical use, and because they don't give a tinker's dam >>> what the test-item writer thinks, they have zero emotional investment in >>> what's being tested. >>> >>> As every real teacher knows, no emotional involvement means no real >>> learning. Period. What makes standardized tests look like they work is >>> learner emotion, but it's emotion that doesn't have anything to do with >>> learning. The ovals get penciled in to avoid trouble, to please somebody, >>> to get a grade, or to jump through a bureaucratic hoop to be eligible to >>> jump through another bureaucratic hoop. When the pencil is laid down, >>> what's tested, having no perceived value, automatically erases from memory. >>> >>> Before You Write… >>> >>> If you want to avoid cranking out the usual amateurish drivel about >>> standardized testing that appears in the op-eds, editorials, and syndicated >>> columns of the mainstream media, ask yourself a few questions about the >>> testing craze: (a) Should life-altering decisions hinge on the scores of >>> commercially produced tests not open to public inspection? (b) How wise is >>> it to only teach what machines can measure? (c) How fair is it to base any >>> part of teacher pay on scores from tests that can't evaluate complex >>> thought? (d) Are tests that have no "success in life" predictive power >>> worth the damage they're doing? >>> >>> Here's a longer list of problems you should think about before you write. >>> >>> Perspective >>> >>> America's schools have always struggled - an inevitable consequence, >>> first, of a decision in 1893 to narrow and standardize the high school >>> curriculum and emphasize college prep; second, from a powerful strain of >>> individualism in our national character that eats away support for public >>> institutions; third, from a really sorry system of institutional >>> organization. Politicians, not educators, make education policy, basing it >>> on the simplistic conventional wisdom that educating means "delivering >>> information." >>> >>> In fact, educating is the most complex and difficult of all professions. >>> Done right, teaching is an attempt to help the young align their beliefs, >>> values, and assumptions more closely with what's true and real, escape the >>> bonds of ethnocentrism, explore the wonders and potential of humanness, and >>> become skilled at using thought processes that make it possible to realize >>> those aims. >>> >>> Historically, out of the institution's dysfunctional organizational >>> design came schools with lots of problems, but with one redeeming virtue. >>> They were "loose." Teachers had enough autonomy to do their thing. So they >>> did, and the kids that some of them coached brought America far more than >>> its share of patents, scholarly papers, scientific advances, international >>> awards, and honors. >>> >>> Notwithstanding their serious problems, America's public schools were >>> once the envy of the world. Now, educators around that world shake their >>> heads in disbelief (or maybe cheer?) as we spend billions of dollars to >>> standardize what once made America great - un-standardized thought. >>> >>> A salvage operation is still (barely) possible, but not if politicians, >>> prodded by pundits, continue to do what they've thus far steadfastly >>> refused to do - listen to people who've actually worked with real students >>> in real classrooms, and did so long enough and thoughtfully enough to know >>> something about teaching. >>> This piece was reprinted by Truthout with permission or license. It may >>> not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source. >>> >>> Marion Brady >>> >>> Marion Brady is a longtime teacher; school administrator; nationally >>> distributed newspaper columnist; consultant to states, foundations and >>> publishers; contributor to academic journals; and author of courses of >>> study, textbooks and professional books. His most recent is What's Worth >>> Learning? published by Information Age Publishing. His website is >>> www.MarionBrady.com. >>> >>> >>> IT for Change, Bengaluru >>> www.ITforChange.net >>> >>> -- >>> 1. If a teacher wants to join STF, visit >>> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Become_a_STF_groups_member >>> 2. For STF training, visit KOER - >>> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php >>> 4. For Ubuntu 14.04 installation, visit >>> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Kalpavriksha >>> 4. 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