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Sharon Higgins
Oakland, CA
Sharon is a wife and mother living in Oakland, CA. Once upon a time she worked as a critical care R.N. and was also a ceramic artist. She became obsessed with certain school and social issues as a result of using her city’s public schools.
From 2001 to 2008, Sharon spent seven eye-opening years at her local public middle school where she was employed as a parent coordinator. Now she spends much of her time reading, researching, thinking, and writing, then posts the product of those efforts on a blog, “The Perimeter Primate.”
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Sharon commented on the article |A better proposal for the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, known temporarily during the Bush Administration as the "No Child Left Behind Act," or NCLB), is in a report just released by the Broader Bolder Approach @ http://www.boldapproach.org/report_20090625.html. Unless you want more of the same, only under a different label, you need to get the word out about this wise and well-developed alternative plan.
As for the comment that Demo4EdReform Joe Williams made above, he was stupid to use the New Coke analogy. This was a TOTAL marketing fiasco described by Malcolm Gladwell in "Blink."
You can bet that Tom Vander Ark, another Demo4EdReform schemer-friend of Duncan's and a professional edu-marketing and branding specialist who specializes in the manipulation of public perceptions, is busy working with Williams and Duncan on NCLB's rebranding. The intent of rebranding is NOT to modify content or approach, but to trick the public. For instance, Blackwater, the distained private military company, was recently rebranded as "Xe."
Obama's selected educational team is deeply connected to those corporate powers that had a light bulb moment in the 1980's about how much money businessmen could make by tapping into the education of our nation's children. They have been working with laser focus and firm intent to discredit the public education system while simultaneously creating the network for their new-system of "public" education. Millions and millions of dollars have been devoted to this cause, and less savvy, low-income communities have been their intentional targets.
By the way, both Arne Duncan and deputy chief of staff Matthew Yale are closely connected to John Rogers, a Chicago tycoon who supported Obama from his early beginnings. Yale worked as Rogers' VP (http://www.arielinvestments.com/) and Duncan has known him for years, starting with attending the same private high school. Rogers is the person who gave Duncan his first job after he returned from his basketball years in Australia. http://perimeterprimate.blogspot.com/2009/05/linda-darling-hammond-didnt-play.html
Early on, the edu-corporatists hooked onto Duncan, and now Duncan regularly boasts about the results of the experiments they implemented. Fortunately, a group of Chicago activists are trying to get the truth out. http://www.pureparents.org/
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