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Florida charter schools’ track record at issue in expansion
jacksonville.com - Florida Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson said Tuesday the state application for opening charter schools doesn’t need to address performance. The application doesn’t take into account whether ...
Why the school progress reports and NYC education reporters deserve a big fat “F”
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Gary Rubinstein, a math teacher at Stuyvesant, totally outclasses the numerous education reporters in this city in his analysis of the recent school grades. He shows via this graph to the right an...
Shanker Blog » The Ratings Game: New York City Edition
shankerblog.org - Gotham Schools reports that the New York City Department of Education rolled out this year’s school report card grades by highlighting the grades’ stability between this year and last. That is, the...
Crisis in the UK education system « theputneydebates
theputneydebates.wordpress.com - In today’s Guardian, columnist Deborah Orr proclaims that there is a literacy crisis in the UK. Her method is not particularly scientific; it is based on the observation that rioters failed to loot...
The Sky is Falling: Preparing for a 2% Tax Cap - Finding Common Ground
blogs.edweek.org - "The sky is falling. I saw it with my eyes. I heard it with my ears. Some of it fell on my tail." Chicken LittleMany educators have spent the past couple of years dealing with the realities of our ...
Redefining Teachers as True Professionals
leftyparent.com - So why is it that doctors play a key role in running the institutions (hospitals) where they practice their profession and defining what constitutes quality practice, but teachers generally don’t? ...
Cribsheet 26.10.11 | Education | guardian.co.uk
guardian.co.uk - Nick Gibb… he's been told. Photograph: Getty Images Teachers and lecturers have descended on parliament this morning to lobby MPs about pension changes. What's got seven teaching unions united in a...
Nearly Half of States Link Teacher Evaluations to Tests
online.wsj.com - BY STEPHANIE BANCHERO Nearly two-thirds of states have overhauled policies in the last two years to tighten oversight of teachers, using techniques including tying teacher evaluations to student te...
A Mobile Game Puts New York City Teachers in Hero's Tights – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 25, 2011, 4:58 p.m. A typical superhero throws punches, not paperclips, but a typical superhero is also not a New York City public school teacher. A new game, The Teachers of New York City, ch...
From Charlotte, a vision for NYC’s second try at parent training
gothamschools.org - The parent training program that Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott promised to launch last night would be new to New York City. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. In 2009, over the objections o...
Longer school day or smaller class size?
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Research you can use "Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has voiced a preference for expanding school days and years to increase instructional time over reducing class sizes." -- EdweekWhy do Arne ...
Waking up the sleepy heads at IEA headquarters on Edwards Street in Springfield. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Something must have set off some bells on Edwards Street in Springfield, home of the IEA state leadership. For weeks we got the Alfred E. Newman treatment. What, me worry? The Party Line from chief...
Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis of Black Secondary Student Attrition from KIPP, Other Private Charters, and Urban Districts
escholarship.org - eScholarship requires Javascript to be enabled in your browser. Citation Vasquez Heilig, Julian; Williams, Amy; McNeil, Linda McSpadden; & Lee, Christopher. (2011). Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis...
While they’re stealing teacher pensions. How the 1% lives. « Fred Klonsky's blog
preaprez.wordpress.com - Reinsdorf’s sweet deal at U.S. Cellular Field gets even sweeter | Government | Crain’s Chicago Business. White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf pays the State of Illinois $1.5 million a year for using The...
Pa. senate approves plan for taxpayer-funded school-tuition vouchers | Philadelphia Inquirer
philly.com - Posted on Thu, Oct. 27, 2011 HARRISBURG - The push for school choice cleared its first major legislative hurdle - but not its last - when the state Senate voted Wednesday to provide taxpayer-fund...
Overcrowding leads to busing angst at PS 194 in Bronx
nydailynews.com - Viorel Florescu for News A long line of parents and students wait in line to register at PS 194 in the Bronx. About 20 years after parents and community leaders fought for a new school in Westchest...
Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting
huffingtonpost.com - NEW YORK -- When New York City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stood up to face a full Seward Park High School auditorium on the Lower East Side Tuesday evening, he found himself confronted by th...
A Day in the Life at Francis Lewis High School – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Oct. 26, 2011, 8:20 a.m. Principals these days are expected to be a little bit of many different things: manager, educator, financial whiz, social worker, enforcer, data analyst, cheerleader and co...
A critique of the NEPC report on K-12 online learning – Educational Insanity
edinsanity.com - I have great respect for the folks at the National Educational Policy Center. In particular, I hold Gene Glass and Kevin Welner in very high regard; they are genuine, world-class scholars. But, I t...
Corporate School Reform and 10 Hopeful Signs of Resistance « Rethinking Schools Blog
rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com - On Oct. 1, 650 people attended the 4th annual Northwest Teachers for Social Justice conference in Seattle. Rethinking Schools editor Stan Karp gave a well-received talk on “Challenging Corporate E...
Mayor's schools set students up for failure when it comes to college preparation, but more graduate
nydailynews.com - Exclusive Ken Goldfield for News Schools founded by Mayor Bloomberg aren't properly readying students for college. Schools founded by the Bloomberg administration are failing to prepare students fo...
Walcott outlines new initiatives to involve parents in schools
gothamschools.org - Outside, an organizer lobbies security to let protesting parents inside; In the auditorium, the audience was far more subdued than last night. The Department of Education will replicate other citie...
MinnPost - Franken mixes math, mirth and education
minnpost.com - By Beth Hawkins | Published Wed, Oct 26 2011 8:36 am Courtesy of Al FrankenSen. Al Franken addresses a class at Patrick Henry High School.On Tuesday, Sen. Al Franken stood before a whiteboard at Mi...
Walcott Takes it On the Hop « Raginghorseblog
raginghorse.wordpress.com - Officially it was billed as the Chancellor’s Conversation On Raising Standards In the Classroom and Chancellor Dennis Walcott was to welcome the audience and Common Core Standards presenter and co–...
Oakland parents, teachers march to protest school closures | Local: In Oakland
blog.sfgate.com - Editor's note: This is an SFGate.com Neighborhood Blog. These blogs are not written or edited by SFGate or the San Francisco Chronicle. The authors are solely responsible for the content. Teachers,...
Woeful state of science instruction
toped.svefoundation.org - By California elementary school teachers feel unprepared, under-resourced, unsupported, and under pressure when it comes to teaching science. As a result, they spend scarcely any time on the subjec...
California Schools Bring Breakfast Out Of The Cafeteria And Into The Classroom
huffingtonpost.com - This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.Every morning in Sarah McKerr's third-grade class at Foster Elementary School in Compton, students turn in their homework and file back to thei...
Concentrated Corporate Control Is Evidence Of Oligarchy
firedoglake.com - Picture of a financial oligopoly (image: D. Garcia, using a program called "Cuttlefish") I’ve read the paper, The Network of Global Corporate Control, and I think it is convincing evidence of the u...
New York's Mayor Bloomberg joins fray over control of state school board
nola.com - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who kicked off his own controversial reform effort in New York City schools almost a decade ago, is now jumping directly into the fray over public education in New...
The Maddow Blog - 'The American dream was that anyone could make it. That is no longer the dream'
maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com - President Obama went to Denver yesterday, where he talked about steps he's taking to help make student loans more bearable, and where he asked for young people's support. He was introduced by a col...
This Week In Education: Five Best Blogs: Souvlaki For Everyone!
scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - Just say No! EdNext: The Harkin-Enzi bill “lowers the bar,” says the Times, and “backs away from requiring states to have clear student achievement targets for all schools.” What Our Kids Is Doing...
How to be More Student Centered and Driven « Outside the Cave
stephenlazar.com - By Stephen Lazar, on October 27th, 2011 Cross posted from my Critical Friends Group blog, where our monthly writing prompt was, “What is something you are currently struggling with in your practice...
Bill would allow more Michigan 'cyber' schools
boston.com - LANSING, Mich.—Michigan would allow more "cyber" charter schools under legislation narrowly approved Thursday by the Republican-led state Senate, one of many measures lawmakers are considering to e...
The Mitchell 20 - Teacher in a Strange Land
blogs.edweek.org - A year ago, we were waiting for Superman, according to the national media. This year, we've been introduced to the realities of the American Teacher--but policymakers are still counting on base eco...
DCPS Teachers: Conversation with the Chancellor: The Future of the D.C. Teaching Profession
mommyactivist.blogspot.com - Conversation with the Chancellor: The Future of the D.C. Teaching ProfessionJoin us for an exciting conversation with D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson on how to develop, support, and ...
Thursday November 3rd for an Empowerment Circle
mommyactivist.blogspot.com - DC GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING ON CLOSING MORE SCHOOLS! · Did you know that the Deputy Mayor for Education (De’Shawn Wright) has hired a Chicago based firm to do a study on how DC neighborhoo...
OWS in Allentown, Youngstown, Toledo « Beaver County Blue
beavercountyblue.org - Occupying the Rust Belt: In Three Deindustrialized Cities, Protesters Find Friendly Cops, Determination and Despair Americans here are beaten down. But in occupations around the country they have f...
Quick Hits (10.27.11)
quickanded.com - Square one. The New York Times editorial board criticized federal lawmakers’ attempt at reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education (ESEA) Act, which earned committee approval last week. T...
Occupy Wall Street, Work-Family Conflict and the 99% « MomsRising Blog
momsrising.org - The Occupy Wall Street movement has been sweeping the globe and captivating the media this month. With the message “We are the 99%,” American protesters are drawing attention to the frustrating gr...
Keeping Busy At The Hechinger Report
scholasticadministrator.typepad.com - October 27, 2011 | Posted At: 04:36 PM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Foundation Follies , Media Watch Wondering what the Hechinger Institute/Report has been up to recently ? Me, too. There...
DOE Spokesperson Clarifies Robinson’s Comments Regarding Charter School Performance | Scathing Purple Musings
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - DOE Spokesperson Clarifies Robinson’s Comments Regarding Charter School Performance | Scathing Purple Musings:DOE Spokesperson Clarifies Robinson’s Comments Regarding Charter School Performanceby B...
Quick News Updates
saveseattleschools.blogspot.com - The Governor has laid out her proposed cuts to the budget. For K-12 education there is some sort of accounting sleight of hand to not paying the schools a $330M payment one day and waiting until th...
Update: Revised data on high school acceptance rates
thenotebook.org - We have received new numbers on high school admissions rates. After the publication of this year's Fall Guide, we heard from several administrators that a chart showing odds of being accepted to se...
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Longer school day or smaller class size? Longer school day or smaller class size?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Longer school day or smaller class size?:Longer school day or smaller class size?Research you can use "Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has voiced a preference for ...
Bay Area News Group announces it will retain East Bay mastheads
insidebayarea.com - The Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and several other East Bay newspapers will retain their own mastheads, and the Tribune will open two new community media laboratories in Oakland, executives ...
DIVERSE MAGAZINE Education Headlines
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Higher Education Headlines: NEWSCollege Board: Despite Higher Tuitions, Young Adults Increasingly Attending Collegeby Jamaal Abdul-Alim , October 26, 2011The College Board reports that, despite sta...
The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education
whatworks.wholechildeducation.org - Virtually every study that has examined the role of the classroom teacher in the process of educating students has come to the same conclusion: an effective teacher enhances student learning more t...
More, Better Early Education Could Help
huffingtonpost.com - This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students Far Behind Under English-Only Methods, here. and...
Follow-up to #Rhee’s speaking engagements and major bank, big big bank « At the Chalk Face
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Follow-up to #Rhee’s speaking engagements and major bank, big big bank « At the Chalk Face:Follow-up to #Rhee’s speaking engagements and major bank, big big bankby Chalk Face on October 27, 2011See...
The Washington Post Picks Up On Michelle Rhee's $35K Kent State Speech
stateimpact.npr.org - Alex Wong / Getty ImagesFormer D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee speaks at a 2010 press conference. The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss picked up on our Oct. 10 story on former D.C. pu...