Alert From the Sacramento Comprehensive High School Coalition
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From the Sacramento Comprehensive High School Coalition:An update is in order for anyone hopeful that the Sac High campus might be reclaimed for use as a pedestrian-friendly comprehensive high school. A sizable group of families from the West Campus community oppose any move that re-locates, or significantly expands their campus and culture. When combined with St. HOPE's vigorous defense of the Sac High campus, it would appear that the "swap" option faces two very well-organized, and determined opponents.For residents in ... more »
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts #ows #edreform
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Education Research Report: Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early InterventionBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-32 minutes agoEducation Research Report: Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Intervention:Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Interventionby Jonathan KantrowitzΩEaster Seals new report -- Our Nation’s Children at Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Intervention -- gives a sense for how well each state takes care of its youngest children with disabilities and delays. The fact is: infants and ... more »
Remainders: Bronx school tells parents to stop airing its issues | GothamSchools
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Remainders: Bronx school tells parents to stop airing its issues | GothamSchools:Remainders: Bronx school tells parents to stop airing its issuesby Philissa Cramer, at 9:00 pmP.S. 24 in the Bronx told families to stop telling the school’s troubles to the press. (Bronx Press Politics)A teacher discovers an error in an automatically graded Regents grade from last year. (NYCDOENuts)A teacher reports with glee that social studies exams might be resurrected. (Mr. D’s Neighborhood)Mike Petrilli: Though sometimes wrong, Diane Ravitch’s arguments are ... more »
Response: Several Ways Teachers Can Create A Supportive Environment For Each Other - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher
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Response: Several Ways Teachers Can Create A Supportive Environment For Each Other - Classroom QA With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher:« How Can Teachers Create A Supportive Environment For Each Other? | MainResponse: Several Ways Teachers Can Create A Supportive Environment For Each OtherBy Larry Ferlazzo on November 29, 2011 2:36 PMS.H. asked:Our school culture has a growing sense of [unhealthy] competitiveness. I believe a lot of this stems from the fact that our administration does not recognize (or ... more »
Schools Matter: Got 4K? Start Teaching Today--in Texas
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Schools Matter: Got 4K? Start Teaching Today--in Texas:Got 4K? Start Teaching Today--in Texasby Jim HornOnline and for-profit teacher "preparation," another innovative job creating strategy from the job creators who created Rick Perry. A clip from the Hechinger Report:iteachTEXAS, begun in 2003, is the first for-profit, non-university based alternative certification program to expand across state lines, with the newly created iteachU.S. operating programs in Louisiana and Tennessee. Additional offshoots will soon come to Michigan and at least two other states.Diann Huber, ... more »
Is Relentless Test Prepping a Constructive Response? « City School Stories
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Is Relentless Test Prepping a Constructive Response? « City School Stories:Is Relentless Test Prepping a Constructive Response?by fmurphyTeacher StoriesSubmitted by Teacher Man on November 29, 2011My principal recently made it very clear to me that the only written works produced by my 7th and 8th grade students worthy of display, are their constructed responses. In the Philadelphia School District and in my school especially, children are regularly expected to write these limiting and repetitive responses per the direction of our ...more »
Unofficial #OWS Occupy Wall Street Anthem Lupe Fiasco - The End Of The World
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Unofficial #OWS Occupy Wall Street Anthem Lupe Fiasco - The End Of The World (Unofficial #OWS People are standing up to corruption, greed and evil.http://imgur.com/a/U4FR4 ++++ http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/Original video: http://vimeo.com/32742517 - SSWIDTMSCopyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use t... more »
Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions | The Dissenter #OWS
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Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions | The Dissenter:Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with OpinionsBy: Kevin Gosztola Tuesday November 29, 2011 3:02 pm Tweet24 In what appears to be his first television interview on the subject, Kamran Loghman, the developer of weapons-grade pepper spray and the policy for its use by US police departments, appeared onDemocracy Now! to condemn how police forces have been using ...more »
Education Research Report: Income & Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) for School Districts
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Education Research Report: Income Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) for School Districts:Income Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) for School Districtsby Jonathan KantrowitzΩThe U.S. Census Bureau, with support from other Federal agencies, created the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program to provide more current estimates of selected income and poverty statistics than those from the most recent decennial census.Estimates are created for school districts, counties, and states. The main objective of this program is to provide updated estimates of income and poverty statistics ... more »
Education Research Report: Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Intervention
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Education Research Report: Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Intervention:Children At Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Interventionby Jonathan KantrowitzΩEaster Seals new report -- Our Nation’s Children at Risk: A State-by-State Report on Early Intervention -- gives a sense for how well each state takes care of its youngest children with disabilities and delays. The fact is: infants and toddlers in nearly every state continue to fall behind, many will never catch up. Yet, with the right investment ... more »
The Failure of Desegregation in Baltimore City Schools: An Interview with Morgan State's Ray Winbush · Stories · Baltimore Fishbowl
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The Failure of Desegregation in Baltimore City Schools: An Interview with Morgan State's Ray Winbush · Stories · Baltimore Fishbowl:THE FAILURE OF DESEGREGATION IN BALTIMORE CITY SCHOOLS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN STATE'S RAY WINBUSH1 Tags: city schools, race relations, segregationDr. Raymond WinbushPublished November 29, 2011 by Edit BarryWhat happens when Baltimore talks about race? City mom Edit Barry finds out when she calls Dr. Raymond Winbush -- director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University and author ... more »
Support PURE! PSAT for 11-29-11: Support PURE!
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Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » PSAT for 11-29-11: Support PURE!:PSAT for 11-29-11: Support PURE!by adminThey wanted PURE to go away – but instead we went national!It’s been a difficult few years for a scrappy, outspoken group like PURE in a city like Chicago, where it’s considered near-treason to question the emperor’s fashion sense.Unfortunately, the Chicago “model” of high-stakes testing, teacher-bashing, failing to fund schools adequately, and attacking democratically-run local public education has gone national. Thanks to ... more »
Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for World Revolution #ows
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Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for World Revolution:War Profiteers Meet Tomorrow In NYC. They Wont Be Alone.OccupyWallSt at OccupyWallSt News - 1 hour ago[image: Walmart] Tomorrow, the Aviation Week and Credit Suisse will be holding their 17th annual Aerospace Defense Finance Conference in NYC. These war profiteers export death in the name of defense. They have obscene influence over our democracy with politicians in their pockets and hundreds of lobbyists working congress. They sell arms to to the 1% ... more »
IEA: Michigan teachers under attack. See something. Say something. « Fred Klonsky
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IEA: Michigan teachers under attack. See something. Say something. « Fred Klonsky:IEA: Michigan teachers under attack. See something. Say something.by Fred KlonskyLast April I caught hell for criticizing IEA Communication Director Charlie McBarron.In your blog, you make much of the inclusion of a particular link to an item in the daily news summary.McBarron thought I was out of line to suggest that the IEA website feature called In the News was wrong for linking without comment to an attack on ... more »
School Tech Connect: Fun With Standards
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School Tech Connect: Fun With Standards:Fun With Standardsby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)This is from one of the groups that's trying to figure out the brave new world of 24/7 assessment, based on the CCS.There's an entire layer of people for whom these distinctions are the be-all. I've never met anyone who actually teaches children in schools who thinks that the constant rewriting of standards has any practical effect on anything or anyone. Seriously, read the distinction between old standard C and new ... more »
A Letter to the PTA from a Parents Across America Member | Seattle Education
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A Letter to the PTA from a Parents Across America Member | Seattle Education:A Letter to the PTA from a Parents Across America Memberby seattleducation2011Hello, PTA leaders!I am a parent with two children in Portland Public Schools. I have been a PTA member for five years and recently came onto our PTA board as a legislative co-chair. I am writing to see if there is any possibility of the PTA dropping its affiliation and funding from the Gates Foundation. I ... more »
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Afternoon Posts #ows #edreform
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The Educated Reporter: Chicago Teachers Speak Up On Using Student Test Scores in EvaluationsBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-33 minutes agoThe Educated Reporter: Chicago Teachers Speak Up On Using Student Test Scores in Evaluations:'Chicago Teachers Speak Up On Using Student Test Scores in Evaluationsby Emily RichmondThe teachers union in the nation's third-largest school district have concerns about using student test scores as a measure of an educator's effectiveness, according to this story from the Chicago Tribune. It's worth noting ... more »
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Questions for Jean-Claude Brizard
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Questions for Jean-Claude Brizard:Questions for Jean-Claude Brizardby Mike Klonsky“We have to take immediate action this year. . . . Too many of our students are in what I call an educational emergency room.’’ -- J.C. BrizardWith today's announcement by Brizard, that 10 more Chicago schools were being "turned around," complete with mass firings of faculty and staff and the contracting of new management groups to take them over, a few questions come to mind.
Duncan Calls for Urgency in Lowering College Costs - NYTimes.com
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Duncan Calls for Urgency in Lowering College Costs - NYTimes.com:Duncan Calls for Urgency in Lowering College CostsBy TAMAR LEWINPublished: November 29, 2011RECOMMENDTWITTERLINKEDINSIGN IN TO E-MAILPRINTREPRINTSSHAREEducation Secretary Arne Duncan in a speech Tuesday pushed higher education officials to “think more creatively — and with much greater urgency — about how to contain the spiraling costs of college and reduce the burden of student debt on our nation’s students.”RelatedCollege Graduates’ Debt Burden Grew, Yet Again, in 2010(November 3, 2011)A new Web venture ... more »
The Educated Reporter: Chicago Teachers Speak Up On Using Student Test Scores in Evaluations
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The Educated Reporter: Chicago Teachers Speak Up On Using Student Test Scores in Evaluations:'Chicago Teachers Speak Up On Using Student Test Scores in Evaluationsby Emily RichmondThe teachers union in the nation's third-largest school district have concerns about using student test scores as a measure of an educator's effectiveness, according to this story from the Chicago Tribune. It's worth noting (again, and even again) that there is no consensus among researchers as to the best way to factor in standardized test ... more »
