Comments for The Secret Revolution http://secretrevolution.us It's Really Not Much of a Secret... or a Revolution Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:48:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Anil Dash is Part of the Revolution by Bryan Alexander http://secretrevolution.us/secret/34/#comment-16 Bryan Alexander Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:48:58 +0000 http://secretrevolution.us/?p=34#comment-16 That was fun, especially when he moved away from celebrities. Good exercise. That was fun, especially when he moved away from celebrities. Good exercise.

]]> Comment on What Belongs in the Revolutionary’s Tool Box? by Nick Kearney http://secretrevolution.us/secret/14/#comment-14 Nick Kearney Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:08:35 +0000 http://secretrevolution.us/?p=14#comment-14 Not so much tools, perhaps, as what they are used to do. Access to research and other convincing data is vital. For example, Cindy Lutenbacher today on Common Core: "In creating these standards, Achieve, the governors and the school officials ignored the vast body of truly independent research that shows such “standards” and their inextricably linked standardized testing are worse than folly and are sending our children in the exact opposite direction of what they need".* This vast body of independent research needs to be accessible and highly visible, so they can't ignore it. It needs to be very easily located. However comfortable you may be with tagging and distributed information, if your opponents don't "get " that concept, your message is likely to be ignored. *http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2010/06/26/corporate-role-in-common-core-standards-ought-to-be-exposed-who-appointed-bill-gates-emperor-of-education/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog Not so much tools, perhaps, as what they are used to do. Access to research and other convincing data is vital. For example, Cindy Lutenbacher today on Common Core: “In creating these standards, Achieve, the governors and the school officials ignored the vast body of truly independent research that shows such “standards” and their inextricably linked standardized testing are worse than folly and are sending our children in the exact opposite direction of what they need”.* This vast body of independent research needs to be accessible and highly visible, so they can’t ignore it. It needs to be very easily located. However comfortable you may be with tagging and distributed information, if your opponents don’t “get ” that concept, your message is likely to be ignored.

*http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2010/06/26/corporate-role-in-common-core-standards-ought-to-be-exposed-who-appointed-bill-gates-emperor-of-education/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog

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