Comments on: What Belongs in the Revolutionary’s Tool Box? http://secretrevolution.us/secret/14/ It's Really Not Much of a Secret... or a Revolution Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 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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