GERM Warfare: Stopping the Global Education Reform Movement
No one has been more effective at describing and fighting the spread of GERM than Pasi Sahlberg, the Finnish educator now working to reform...
Category : Global Education Reform Movement (GERM)
Denisha Jones: First, Protect Childhood and Children from Harm
Denisha Jones was recently invited to give a lecture at Sarah Lawrence College, and she turned it into this article. She describes the corporate...
Pasi Sahlberg: GERM Is In Retreat
The great Finnish scholar Pasi Sahlberg coined the term GERM to represent the Global Education Reform Movement. GERM is the advance of markets, standardization, choice,...
Alan Singer: Beware the World Bank and Its Alliance with Pearson
Alan Singer writes here about the alliances of the World Bank with the leaders of global greed. The World Bank transmits What Pasi Sahlberg Calls...
Nancy Bailey: Betsy DeVos is an Agent of GERM and She is UnAmerican
Nancy Bailey reports on Betsy DeVos’ trip to Europe and what she learned: Nothing. She returned convinced that American education sucks, which is what she...
Jack Hassard: Education and Resistance to Authoritarianism
Jack Hassard, professor of science education, assesses creeping authoritarianism and the growing resistance to it among educators. “The authoritarianism of standardization has spread harm...
Pasi Sahlberg Moving to Australia to Battle GERM
Pasi Sahlberg, the great Finnish educator, has accepted a major research post at the well-funded Gonski Institute of Education in Australia. He will have...
The Horror: Here Comes Baby PISA, Testing 5-Year-Olds
The testing monster is coming for our children. Helge Wasmuth of Mercy College in New York writes here about the full-steam-ahead plan for international testing...
Phil Cullen: New Zealand Leads the World!
Phil Cullen of Australia is a zealous critic of his nation’s national testing and accountability regime. He wrote about this important news from New Zealand,...
Denisha Jones: When All Else Fails, Save Childhood
Denisha Jones, a professor of early childhood education at Trinity Washington University, gave this talk at Sarah Lawrence College this past summer. Please read her...