1. Start Here - Big Picture
1.1. Going Public:(Documentary in Progress)
1.2. Connecting the dots
1.3. The major players
1.3.1. Broad Exposed
1.3.1.1. ALEC and the education reform agenda
1.3.1.1.1. Corporate Reform organizations
1.3.1.1.2. DOE emails reveal connection to Gates, Murdoch, etc.
1.4. America's education crisis and who stands to gain
1.5. Diane Ravitch video
1.5.1. Rise Above the Mark: Documentary
1.6. ALEC exposed
1.6.1. Which CEO made $5 million stealing your child's lunch money?
1.6.1.1. Privatizing schools
1.6.2. Creating a scheme to deem public schools "educationally bankrupt"
1.7. It's time to wake up America
1.8. Challenging Corporate Education Reform & Ten Hopeful Signs of resistance
1.9. Let's apply the lessons of NCLB to the Common Core
1.10. What happens when profits drive reforms?
1.11. Bill Gates: Selling Bad Advice to Public Schools
1.12. Why 'School Reform' is a Misnomer
1.13. US vs High Achieving Nations
2. Alternatives: There is a Better Way
2.1. Education in Finland
2.1.1. Dan Rather Report
2.1.2. Canadian Radio Broadcast
2.1.3. Ted Talk: GERM that kills schools
2.1.4. Finnish Lessons
2.1.5. What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's Success
2.1.6. The Children Must Play
2.2. Create a Design
2.3. Alternate teacher evaluation model
2.3.1. research PAR
2.4. An Open Letter to Bill Gates: Why Not Measure This?
2.5. Zinn Education Project
2.6. In Support of the Whole Child
3. Major Movements Across the Nation
3.1. Seattle Boycotts
3.2. Opting out in NY
3.2.1. Long Island Principals - Open Letter opposing evaluating teachers with VAM
3.3. Madison, NJ superintendent speaks out
3.4. More than 130 Massachusetts professors and researchers urge less reliance on standardized tests
3.5. Is Texas ending standardized testing
3.5.1. Robert Scott (TX) Blasts Common Core-Video
4. Reform Topics
4.1. High Stakes Testing
4.1.1. What's Wrong? (Infographic)
4.1.2. PARCC Testing Expense
4.1.2.1. Cost to Piscataway
4.1.2.1.1. Cost to Jackson
4.1.3. The end is coming
4.1.4. Definition of high stakes testing
4.1.5. Biggest testing scandal of all
4.1.6. Feds cut funding - but testing will survive
4.1.7. Testing Mandates Flunk Cost-Benefit Analysis
4.1.8. Complete List of Problems with High Stakes Testing
4.2. New Teacher Evaluation Models
4.2.1. NY - 19 Legislators
4.2.2. Teacher Evaluation: getting it right takes time
4.2.3. Ed Reform 101: Teachers
4.2.4. How to evaluate dentists (a metaphor on teacher evaluation)
4.2.5. Letter from Assessment Experts
4.3. Common Core
4.3.1. Gates financed common core
4.3.2. The not so common core standards: implications for all
4.3.3. Susan Ohanian blasts the common core
4.3.4. Choking on the Common Core Standards
4.3.5. Opposition to Common Core Grows Across the Political Spectrum
4.3.6. Common Core Nationally Imposed - Timeline
4.4. Poverty
4.4.1. Bill and Arne's Misguided Adventure: An Open Letter
4.4.2. How to address poverty
4.4.3. Will more Gatesian measurements improve education for the poor?
4.4.4. Study shows growing education gap between rich and poor
5. Who profits?
5.1. Pearson
5.1.1. No Educator Left Behind: Pearson, Leading Scorer of Standardized Tests, Subpoenaed