What the Plan is for Your Child's Education?

Here's an event you might consider attending:

Parents Across America Presents Alison McDowell 
"Future Ready Schools: How Silicon Valley is Reshaping Our Schools"
Saturday, March 25th from 10:30 am to noon at the Lake City library branch., 12501 28th Avenue, NE
This talk is free and open to the public.
Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, schools across the country have been destabilized by ongoing austerity budgets and punitive data-driven policies. Meanwhile, an alternative infrastructure of digital education has been quietly developed and refined through public-private partnerships set up between the Defense Department’s Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, technology companies, and higher education interests.
 
Alison has served as an elected parent representative on the School Advisory Council. She was a state-level contact for United Opt Out for three years, working locally with Opt Out Philly, the Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools, and the Caucus of Working Educators to raise awareness around issues with high-stakes testing, particularly as it relates to ongoing school privatization efforts.

Recently, she has turned her attention to the forces behind implementation of digital-curriculum and data-driven “personalized” learning across the nation. Her research is available at Wrench in the Gears.

https://wrenchinthegears.com/


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