Peter Gow, Trying to Further Education and Educators

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On Outsourcing: Lunch, the New SAT, and Why We Need Independent Curriculum

On March 6, 2014   /   AP, assessment, College Board, curriculum, food service, Independent Curriculum Group, independent schools, new SAT, NotYourFathersSchool, outsourcing, SAT, standardized testing  

When I was a child at my father’s school, the barber, the dry-cleaner, and the linen truck were the primary outside service providers. I remember the happy day Pop inked the contract with a food service company, in one gesture removing his most vexatious operational burden. Pretty […]

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Profit and Profiteering in Education

On December 17, 2013   /   business investment, educational technology, entrepreneurship, for-profit schools, independent schools, NotYourFathersSchool, public schools, schools, standardized testing, students, textbooks  

Lately I was gently (and privately) chided for expressing skepticism about the role of business enterprises—the people who sell us our computers, our textbooks, our desks, our apps, our standardized tests, our paper towels, and our trays of ravioli—in schools. Can’t live without ’em. Gotta have ’em. […]

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF TRADITIONAL LANDS

I here affirm that the offices from which I work are situated on lands that have a very long and continuing history as a locus of residence, livelihood, traditional expression, and exchange by the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mohawk, Wabanaki, Hohokam, O’odam, Salt River Pima, and Maricopa people. The servers for this website are situated on Ute and Goshute land. We make this acknowledgment to remind ourselves, our educational partners, and our friends of our shared obligation to acknowledge and work toward righting the inequities and injustices that have alienated indigenous peoples from the full occupation and utilization of these spaces.