Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts

Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top AM Posts

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Eva Moskowitz Whines About Others Lack Of Ethics

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 2 minutes ago

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Eva Moskowitz Whines About Others Lack Of Ethics:Eva Moskowitz Whines About Others Lack Of Ethicsby noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)Oh poor little Eva Moskowitz. I feel so sorry for her. I am sure right now she is pouting, whining, wondering why no one, except her emasculated husband Eric Grannis loves or cares for her.Anna Phillips, since she is now in the employ of the New York Times and actually doing reporting and not aggregating, reported this past Wednesday, October ... more »

ESEA "Did You Ever Have to Make up Your Mind?" #EDreform

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 2 minutes ago

Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 2 minutes ago

Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite PostsSave Seattle Schools Community Blog: Times Picks Up on Pledge Stance at JSISBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-20 minutes agoSave Seattle Schools Community Blog: Times Picks Up on Pledge Stance at JSIS:Times Picks Up on Pledge Stance at JSISby Melissa Westbrook(Update: It is with great sorrow that I pass on the news of the sudden death of Senator Scott White who was found dead in a hotel room while attending ... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Standards: The Crocodile Sickness Our Students will Suffer

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 2 minutes ago

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Standards: The Crocodile Sickness Our Students will Suffer:Common Core Standards: The Crocodile Sickness Our Students will Sufferby stlgretchenSend the following blog by Susan Ohanian to your school district superintendent and school board members. Then:Ask them their opinion.Ask them to read the texts (Appendix A and B) listed on the Common Core Standards.Ask them why they, as the superintendent and Board members, cannot determine their own district curriculum for the students.Ask them if they feel comfortable ... more »

STOP & FRISK HAS GOT TO GO! Solidarity with #occupyharlem. | OccupyWallSt.org #ows

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 2 minutes ago

STOP FRISK HAS GOT TO GO! Solidarity with #occupyharlem. | OccupyWallSt.org:STOP FRISK HAS GOT TO GO! Solidarity with #occupyharlem.Posted Oct. 22, 2011, 6:35 p.m. EST by OccupyWallStA new uncompromising movement against NYPD's notorious Stop Frisk program began yesterday as hundreds of demonstrators marched from the Harlem State Office Building to Harlem’s 28th precinct. At the station, Cornel West, author and Princeton professor, Carl Dix of the Revolutionary Communist Party, Rev. Stephen Phelps, interim senior minister of Riverside Church, and dozens ... more »

NYC Public School Parents: Video: Yong Zhao on how high-stakes testing is damaging our schools

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 2 minutes ago

NYC Public School Parents: Video: Yong Zhao on how high-stakes testing is damaging our schools:Video: Yong Zhao on how high-stakes testing is damaging our schoolsby Leonie HaimsonCheck out Yong Zhao's terrific (and funny!) presentation on October 12, along with the question and answer session, co-sponsored by Class Size Matters, GEM, Time out From Testing, and Parents Across America.Prof. Zhao is the nation's most eloquent critic of high-stakes testing and discusses how the current education reform agenda is taking our nation's ... more »

What is a Democratic-Free School? | Lefty Parent

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 2 minutes ago

What is a Democratic-Free School? | Lefty Parent:What is a Democratic-Free School?by Cooper ZaleWhen most people think of a “school”, particularly a school for young people, the image of kids sitting behind desks with a teacher at the front leading the class (as the “sage on the stage” as they say) generally comes to mind. Somewhere down the hall from this and other classrooms is an “office” including administrative staff and particularly the school principal who runs the school, including ... more »

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Times Picks Up on Pledge Stance at JSIS

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 11 hours ago

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Times Picks Up on Pledge Stance at JSIS:Times Picks Up on Pledge Stance at JSISby Melissa Westbrook(Update: It is with great sorrow that I pass on the news of the sudden death of Senator Scott White who was found dead in a hotel room while attending a leadership conference. There was no evidence of foul play and an autopsy will be performed to find the cause of death. Senator White, who had two small children, ... more »

An Urban Teacher's Education: Responding to the PARCC and Common Core (Modified)

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 11 hours ago

An Urban Teacher's Education: Responding to the PARCC and Common Core (Modified):Responding to the PARCC and Common Core (Modified)by James BoutinLast spring, when I was teaching at a small school in the Bronx, I caused an unnecessary ruckus by posting my thoughts about a presentation my staff received on the looming impacts of PARCC and Common Core implementation. The post was shared by Gotham Schools, in the Digest for Grassroots Education, and was disseminated to many UFT chapter leaders. I ... more »

All Education Matters: #OWS: The Mayors List

Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 11 hours ago

All Education Matters: #OWS: The Mayors List:#OWS: The Mayors Listby Cryn JohannsenBefore I headed up to Tulsa, Oklahoma last weekend to meet occupiers there, I had a long conversation with author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich about ways in which we could help out. Barbara had a splendid idea, after I mentioned the arrests in various cities the night before. "Let's put together a mayors list, a list of all their contact numbers," she said.So we got to work. Barbara forwarded ... more »