Monday, July 11, 2011

Schools Matter: The Business Roundtable's PIE: Post-Partisan Corporatism at Its Most Virulent

The Business Roundtable's PIE: Post-Partisan Corporatism at Its Most Virulent

by Jim Horn

What is PIE? If you don't know, you should. They are behind pipsqueaks like Jonah Edelman and his little charade group. They have 25 members of the PIE Network located in 18 states, and they are buying starving legislatures left and right and center. Get to know them, and never turn your back.

The PIE [Policy Innovators in Education] Network is guided by five national education policy organizations that span the ideological spectrum, but share common commitments to education reform. These leading thinkers recognize the important work that state advocacy organizations play in moving policy to implementation.Our policy partners fuel reform on a national level, disseminate critical research that helps advocates win support, and offer guidance and expertise

Cyberbullies, beware | The Education Report

Cyberbullies, beware

By Katy Murphy
Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 4:51 pm in politics, safety and discipline, violence.

Bullying is grounds for suspension or expulsion in California, whether it’s done face to face or through electronic media. And if there was any doubt that Facebook and other social networks came under the state’s definition of electronic media, there isn’t anymore.

Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose) introduced the Cyber Bully Prevention bill, AB 746, this year. Not surprisingly, it won bipartisan support and faced little opposition before Gov. Jerry Brown signed it on Friday, according to anews release from Campos’s office. (I wouldn’t imagine many politicians would vote against an anti-bullying bill, even if they didn’t like it, though some did.)

The new rule takes effect in January. Here it is: Cyber bully prevention law

Does anyone at your school or your child’s school monitor social networks? Have

SpongeBob, in first interview, talks education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

SpongeBob, in first interview, talks education

by Valerie Strauss

Nickelodeon’s new Made-for-Twitter SpongeBob SquarePants adventure gives me an excuse to give you another chance to read my exclusive interview with SpongeBob (just in case you missed it, and I know most of you did). SpongeBob’s Twitter adventure, called “The Ice Race Cometh: A Twitter-Tale,” will run from Tuesday through Friday.

The adventure is the first to be written by the SpongeBob crew exclusively for Twitter. It begins with a tweet from Bikini Bottom’s Action News about an entrepreneur offering 1 million clams to whoever wins a sleigh race. That starts a fury of tweets that can be tracked via a Twitter List or a custom tab on the SpongeBob Facebook page. The adventure ends on Friday just before the start of a new regular episode called “Frozen Face Off.”

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: At the AFT conference in D.C #TCH11 .

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: At the AFT conference in D.C.

At the AFT conference in D.C.

NYT reports: Amid one of the most contentious periods in recent memory for teachers’ unions, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, on Monday called for education reform that emanates from teachers and their communities, rather than from “those who blame teachers for everything.”

In an interview afterward, Weingarten condemned the Atlanta situation but pointed to the role of the local teachers’ unions in helping uncover it. The cheating itself, she said, was a byproduct of when “targets become more important than learning” and of a

Sounds Like Things Are Hoppin’ At The AFT Conference! | Larry Ferlazzo #TCH11

Sounds Like Things Are Hoppin’ At The AFT Conference! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

Sounds Like Things Are Hoppin’ At The AFT Conference!

by Larry Ferlazzo

It sounds like they had at least two great speeches at the American Federation of Teachers Conference today.

One was from Randi Weingarten, the AFT President. You can read her entire speech here, and The New York Times’ article about it here. This was my favorite quote:

“Let’s refuse to be defined by people who are happy to lecture us about the state of public education — but

Shadowboxing [To 50K and Beyond] | The Jose Vilson

Shadowboxing [To 50K and Beyond]

by Jose

Golden Gloves Boxer, Shadow Boxing

Writing these days has been an exercise in shadowboxing, fighting myself on the way to the completion of this first manuscript. Similar to my blog, I decided to stay away from topics that could hurt my professional aspirations and / or provide any openings about my past or present love life. Unlike my blog, however, I will discuss events that actually happened in my classroom and school that merit further discussion. It’s less a

NYC Public School Parents: As teachers are excessed, the bureaucracy continues to grow....

As teachers are excessed, the bureaucracy continues to grow....

by Leonie Haimson

As news spreads of large numbers of teachers are being “excessed” throughout the system because of the budget cuts, DOE is still hiring new “teams” of “talent coaches” (under the titles ofSenior Educational Research, Evaluation & Program Planning Specialist, Liii-Ea40),: each of whom will coach school leaders (6-8 schools) on implementation of a pilot teacher evaluation and development system, under the supervisions of “lead talent coaches”. Salaries will be $97,199 per year.

Talent “coaches” will engage with “network-based Talent Managers” to “inform development of systems and tools to support teacher evaluation and development across a network of 20 schools.”

· DOE is also hiring “lead talent coaches” (under the title of Senior Educational Research, Evaluation & Program Planning Specialist, Liv-Ea40) to “coach school leaders” and to

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The Triumph of Illusion and Spectacle: the Rise of Illiteracy in America

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Triumph of Illusion and Spectacle: the Rise of Illiteracy in AmericaThe Triumph of Illusion and Spectacle: the Rise of Illiteracy in Americaby SOURCE on JULY 11, 2011 · 0 COMMENTSin AMERICAN EM...

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“My special child, pushed out of Kindergarten at a NYC charter school"

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Here is the story of Karen Sprowal and her son Matthew, that Mike Winerip of the NY Times writes about here. While charter schools have advertised themselves as open to all students through random ...

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2009 report identified dozens of PA schools for possible cheating

thenotebook.org - by Benjamin Herold and Dale Mezzacappa Dozens of schools across the city and state were flagged in a study of 2009 state standardized test scores that sought to use statistical analysis to ferret o...

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Reflecting on the Cuny cPAR Institute « Cooperative Catalyst

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Reflecting on the Cuny cPAR Institute « Cooperative CatalystReflecting on the Cuny cPAR Instituteby Kevin CrouseI had the opportunity to attend the critical Participatory Action Research (PAR) Inst...

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ASCD 2011 Fall Conference on Teaching & Learning #ASCD

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - FallConference2011MainRegisterTravel/HotelsSessionsPre-ConsHandoutsGeneral InfoEnhancing Teacher Effectiveness = Improving Student LearningOctober 28–30, 2011Rio All-Suite Hotel, Las Vegas, Nev.Vir...

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Jonah story makes it to the Washington Post. « Fred Klonsky's blog

preaprez.wordpress.com - Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post dedicated her column to the Edelman story today.It’s not often that we hear education reformers bragging in public about how they got the better of a teacher’...

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Prescribed Failure:Atlanta Schools Cheating | Dissident Voice

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Prescribed Failure | Dissident VoicePrescribed Failureby Jack RandomWelcome to Lake Wobegone where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average.– Ga...

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Braun: Advocates of privatized education want to end public schools

blog.nj.com - Do supporters of privatized schooling — including Gov. Chris Christie — really want to destroy public schools? Is even asking the question an exercise in political hyperventilating?It’s a charge fr...

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Just a Teacher - Rick Hess Straight Up

blogs.edweek.org - Note: Zak Champagne, an award-winning teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, is guest-posting this week.I have been a classroom teacher for thirteen years in Jacksonville, Florida. I have taught hundred...

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A Tabloid Shame, Exposed by Earnest Rivals

nytimes.com - The phone-hacking scandal that is mushrooming in Britain, with arrests, skullduggery and influence peddling, would be a delicious story for The News of the World if it were not about the newspaper ...

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As Debt Talks Threaten Medicare, Social Security, Study Finds U.S. Spending $4 Trillion on War

democracynow.org - In one of his first public events since being held under house arrest, WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange appeared in London Saturday for a conversation with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žiže...

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Hacks/Hackers: YouTube's API and the news

californiawatch.org - California Watch and Center for Investigative Reporting staffers, including web producer Suzanne Yada and distribution and online community manager Meghann Farnsworth, will attend this first-person...

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The disappearing black middle class - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - BY JESSE WASHINGTON July 10, 2011 12:24AM Princeton Professor Cornel West (center) eagerly shakes the hand of President Barack Obama in June 2010. Today, West calls Obama “a black mascot of Wall St...

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World Population Day - Population Expected to Exceed 7 Billion

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 5:45 pm, July 11, 2011 Photo Credits: World Population Day In October the world’s population is expected to exceed 7 billion. While many people are living longer and healthier lives, t...

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GOP Presidential Hopefuls In Spotlight For Slavery, Anti-Gay Remarks

progressillinois.com - Election season is still budding, but some presidential hopefuls from the GOP are already wilting under the political spotlight. Today, people are talking about Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum b...

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School Tech Connect: Stranger and Stranger...

schooltechconnect.com - This site has become muckraker central. Go a head and read the gross Edelman apology, and then tell me if Edelman doesn't remind you a bit of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I'm talking about the abilit...

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Cash receipts $350 million behind

blogs.sacbee.com - What You Should Know About Comments on Sacbee.comSacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the right to de...

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Atlanta Cheating Scandal: Is axe coming down at APS today? Will Hall lose title? | Get Schooled

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Is axe coming down at APS today? Will Hall lose title? | Get SchooledIs axe coming down at APS today? Will Hall lose title?4:36 pm July 11, 2011, by Maureen DowneyA reader told me that he heard a r...

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nypost.com - Michael Goodwin Finally, there is a third investigative unit, the Auditor General, which also reports to Walcott. The aide says after analyzing data, it is auditing "60 schools concerning credit re...

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Krugman to Teachers' Union: You're Not to Blame for the Economic Crisis - Dana Goldstein

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Krugman to Teachers' Union: You're Not to Blame for the Economic Crisis - Dana GoldsteinKrugman to Teachers' Union: You're Not to Blame for the Economic Crisisby Dana GoldsteinPaul Krugman just fin...

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VIDEO: 'The dream of the United States is at stake'

teamsternation.blogspot.com - The War on Workers is the new civil war of our age, according to Patrick Bauer, the Democratic Minority Leader in the Indiana Assembly. When extremists in the Indiana Legislature tried to pass rig...

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News Corp. Shareholders in Class Action Over Hacking - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media

blogs.forbes.com - MediaJul. 11 2011 - 10:47 am | 2 views | 0 recommendations |By JEFF BERCOVICI Rupert Murdoch standing by embattled News International CEO Rebekah Brooks. Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylifeAs if...

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Mayor Emanuel cuts government credit cards from 500 to 30 - Chicago Sun

suntimes.com - By Fran Spielman City Hall Reporter/fspielman@suntimes.com July 11, 2011 1:25AM Mayor Rahm Emanuel | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times Updated: July 11, 2011 1:42AM Mayor Rahm Emanuel is cutting from 500 to ...

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Two Sides of an Ugly Coin: Dwindling Government Aid and Employment - Politics

theatlanticwire.com - Business pages nationwide are still reeling from last week's dismal employment numbers. As the third month of lower-than-expected growth settles in, and as the future of the nation's own financial ...

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