Fail - Feature Story - Local Stories - November 17, 2011 - Sacramento News & Review
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Fail - Feature Story - Local Stories - November 17, 2011 - Sacramento News Review:FailTest scores are mixed, costs are high and teachers are pissed. Why critics say Sacramento city school reform could …By Cosmo Garvin cosmog@newsreview.comRead 5 reader submitted commentsThis article was published on 11.17.11.Full disclosure:Reporter Cosmo Garvin’s wife is a teacher in the Sacramento City Unified School District.School districts all over the country are struggling to turn around “failing schools.” It’s a harsh label, but the pressure to ...more »
TEACHERS – RECORD YOURSELF « Teachers Fight Back
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TEACHERS – RECORD YOURSELF « Teachers Fight Back:TEACHERS – RECORD YOURSELFby alkleenI saw a news item which showed a video of a special education teacher screaming at one of his students. Another horrible example of a teacher caught in an unprofessional act.I have a suggestion for teachers everywhere. It’s an excellent idea to record yourself as you teach. Record yourself at various times of the week and the day. Listen to the recording at home and see if there are ... more »
Schools Matter: Great Reporting in The Nation on the Big Online Biz in K-12
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Schools Matter: Great Reporting in The Nation on the Big Online Biz in K-12:Great Reporting in The Nation on the Big Online Biz in K-12by Jim HornGreat reporting. An introductory clip:Lee Fang | November 16, 2011This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of “virtual ... more »
Jersey Jazzman: Scrubbing Reformy Rhetoric
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Jersey Jazzman: Scrubbing Reformy Rhetoric:Scrubbing Reformy Rhetoricby DukeDerrell Bradford's most infamous performance, where he admitted that he is all about "advancing the people that advance the reforms, not the reforms themselves," is no longer freely available on YouTube. It is now a "private" video.Gosh, whatever could he have said that would be embarrassing to a man who says those who oppose his views (like me) are guilty of caring less about student achievement than he does?Well, we still have the ... more »
Students Arrested & Pepper Sprayed at Occupy UC Davis Camp (VIDEOS) - Davis, CA Patch #ows
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Students Arrested Pepper Sprayed at Occupy UC Davis Camp (VIDEOS) - Davis, CA Patch:Students Arrested Pepper Sprayed at Occupy UC Davis Camp (VIDEOS)from Davis Patch: Latest Articles Like Davis Patch on Facebook to stay updated. The Occupy protest in the UC Davis quad swelled rapidly after the group was quietly removed from Mrak Hall this week. On Friday, Chancellor Katehi warned that police would remove the camp if it was not cleared out by 3pm.Safe to say, it was not. ... more »
Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN #edreform #sosmarch
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Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN:Top Content this WeekTop Content Rank1TEDxManhattanBeach - Thomas Suarez - iPhone Application Developer. . .and 6th GraderAdded by Thomas Whitby on November 11, 20112Diane Ravitch CNN InterviewAdded by Thomas Whitby on October 8, 20113Alfie Kohn on Feel-Bad EducationAdded by Andrew Neuendorf on October 13, 20114Bloom's Digital Taxonomy PREZIAdded by Thomas Whitby on October 17, 20105It's Not On The TestAdded by Thomas Whitby on August 19, 20116twitter 102 for educatorsAdded by Thomas Whitby on ... more »
Brain Crush - Dana Goldstein
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Brain Crush - Dana Goldstein:Brain Crushby Dana GoldsteinWith all the reading I'm doing for my book proposal, there is one person who I think deeply got the various dysfunctions of the American school system and, more importantly, the American cultural conception of education itself: Richard Hofstader. If you haven't already, you should really read Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. It is one of those eerie experiences where you feel the work could have been written today--Penn State scandal!--but it dates to ... more »
NYC Public School Parents: video: Occupy Wall St. as sung by Frank Sinatra #ows
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NYC Public School Parents: video: Occupy Wall St. as sung by Frank Sinatra:video: Occupy Wall St. as sung by Frank Sinatraby Leonie HaimsonInspirational and brutal; this brilliant video by Casey Neistat with a soundtrack of the classic Kander and Ebb theme shows one side of the story. Hopefully I will figure out how to edit my less violent footage and post it this weekend!Popout
A Retro-Rocketship to the Future: Corporate Education Reform Blasts Off in Silicon Valley | Dailycensored.com
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A Retro-Rocketship to the Future: Corporate Education Reform Blasts Off in Silicon Valley | Dailycensored.com:A Retro-Rocketship to the Future: Corporate Education Reform Blasts Off in Silicon ValleyWritten by Adam BessieEducation, MediaNov 18, 20110diggShareRocketship is blasting off in Silicon Valley, with great fanfare – and no, it’s not a new tech start up, propelled by the genius of another 22-year old wunderkind who has invented the latest, most innovative way to virally spread videos of silly cats playing pianos. Yet, looking ... more »
Shared Governance Is Awesome, But It Wouldn’t Have Saved Penn State « Student Activism
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Shared Governance Is Awesome, But It Wouldn’t Have Saved Penn State « Student Activism:Shared Governance Is Awesome, But It Wouldn’t Have Saved Penn Stateby Angus JohnstonMichael Bérubé, an incisive observer of the American campus scene, observes the Penn State scandal from an extraordinary perspective. Berube is not just a Penn State scholar, he holds a professorship endowed by Joe Paterno. He has discussed Moby Dick with JoePa, and disability issues with Paterno’s wife — a longtime supporter of the Special ... more »
Robert Reich (Stop the Austerity Train Wreck! The biggest...) #ows
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Robert Reich (Stop the Austerity Train Wreck! The biggest...):Stop the Austerity Train Wreck! The biggest question right...PopoutStop the Austerity Train Wreck! The biggest question right now on Planet Washington is whether the congressional supercommittee will reach an agreement. That’s the wrong question. Agreement or not, Washington is on the road to making budget cuts that will slow
Momsrising: Momsrising
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Momsrising: Momsrising:Expanding Access to Care for Young Adults Through the Right Outreach and Enrollment StrategiesBrian Burrell at MomsRising Blog - 3 minutes agoThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) marked a historic expansion of access to health care for many people, and the federal and state exchanges will be a large part of that reform. Ideally, low- and middle-income consumers will buy insurance with subsidies through online health benefit exchanges, where they can compare the price, quality, and benefits [...]SC Medicaid Director ... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: MO Chamber of Commerce Comes to the Wedding Late and Sits on the Wrong Side of the Church
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Missouri Education Watchdog: MO Chamber of Commerce Comes to the Wedding Late and Sits on the Wrong Side of the Church:MO Chamber of Commerce Comes to the Wedding Late and Sits on the Wrong Side of the ChurchEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookTalk about being late to the party. The MO Chamber of Commerce announced it's 2012 legisltive agenda. With an overall focus on the worker they have also announced the need to focus on education,“We can pass business friendly ... more »
“Income achievement gap” almost double black-white achievement gap | EdSource Extra!
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“Income achievement gap” almost double black-white achievement gap | EdSource Extra!:“Income achievement gap” almost double black-white achievement gapNovember 17th, 2011 | 5 CommentsBy Louis Freedberg ~ EdSource ExtraPhoto by Jennifer KiernanIn a dramatic illustration of the impact of income inequality on how children do in school, the achievement gap between children from high and low income families is far higher than the achievement gap between black and white students, a pathbreaking research report from Stanford University has shown.The report by ... more »
All Things Education: In Defense of Flipping the Classroom & the Lecture
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All Things Education: In Defense of Flipping the Classroom the Lecture:In Defense of Flipping the Classroom the Lectureby Rachel LevyThere's been a lot lately about "flipping the classroom," a teaching method where students are to view a lecture at home --ostensibly on-line--of their teacher presenting key concepts while saving doing harder and trickier homework-type assignments for in class. This idea appeals to me and I've been somewhat surprised that so many other education peeps out there whom I follow don't ... more »
Marian Wright Edelman: Cuts in Education: A Failing Choice
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Marian Wright Edelman: Cuts in Education: A Failing Choice:Marian Wright Edelman: Cuts in Education: A Failing Choiceby Marian Wright EdelmanAristotle got it right when he said, “All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” Once upon a time America professed to believe in a strong public education system—at least for some children. And we still talk about public education as the great equalizer and ... more »
Poor Students With Poorly Educated Parents More Disadvantaged In U.S. Than Other Countries
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Poor Students With Poorly Educated Parents More Disadvantaged In U.S. Than Other Countries:Poor Students With Poorly Educated Parents More Disadvantaged In U.S. Than Other CountriesFirst Posted: 11/18/11 12:33 PM ET Updated: 11/18/11 01:24 PM ETIntuitively, a child's academic performance is likely higher if he or she has highly educated parents, and lower if the child has less educated parents. A new report confirms that's true, but reveals that American children of poorly educated parents do a lot worse than their ...more »
Don’t believe the education “reformers” - Salon.com
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Don’t believe the education “reformers” - Salon.com:Don’t believe the education “reformers”Public schools are better than we think and efforts to quantify teacher performance are typically destructiveBY GENE LYONS (Credit: iStockphoto/RonTech2000)TOPICS:EDUCATIONThree mildly heretical thoughts about American education: First, given the impossible assignment we’ve given them—an egalitarian mission in a nation rapidly growing more stratified by income and class—American public schools are probably doing a better job than they ought to be. One big reason is greater professionalism amon... more »
The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education
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The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:We Aren't the Only Ones Concerned About MovementNovember 18th, 2011 by Sean SladeInterestingly, yesterday ASCD SmartBrief came out with the results of an Ed Pulse survey on which school health issue is of primary concern for schools and districts. The results showed physical activity and movement during the school day as a key concern among ASCD SmartBrief readers, second to bullying and other safety concerns. Just over 20 percent of respondents listed physical ... more »