Education

Barbara Byrd-Bennett Timeline, with Annotations

August 1996 -- November 1998: Supervising Superintendent of the Chancellor's District in New York City (from her resume: The Chancellor's District serves as a national model for turnaround school efforts)

November 1998 -- February 2006: As Cleveland Schools CEO, Byrd-Bennett defended the use of Compass Learning and other "drill and kill" programs, telling a Baltimore Sun reporter, "I would argue that there is very little intervention (for struggling students) that isn't rote..."

February 2006 --March 2009: Superintendent-in-Residency for Harcourt School Publishers....She resigned this position to take job with Detroit Public Schools....

March 2006--2009: Superintendent Executive Coach, Broad Superintendent Academy.

October 2006--2009: Executive Officer New Leaders for New Schools, Washington D. C. Take a look at the list of participants at the 2010 New Schools Summit...Arne Duncan to the Walton Family Foundation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the Fisher Fund, K12 Inc, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation...

August 2008: Speaker at the Democratic National Convention in Denver...

April 2009. Byrd-Bennett named trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Common Core Curriculum Mapping Project,

April 2009. AFT Launches AFT Innovation Fund; Byrd-Bennett chairs board

April 4, 2010 Harcourt launches a partnership with Detroit Public Schools (Byrd-Bennett was superintendent in residency for Harcourt School Publishers. Then she was hired as Detroit's chief academic and accountability officer. Now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has received a contract for the largest single deal ever.) Just a coincidence...

lots more here...hard-core deformer, in at the foundation.

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