I have so many reasons swimming around my head as to why I am marching for our public schools. But here are some of the main reasons I am attending the Save Our Schools March and conference next Saturday in Washington, DC. To find out more about the march go to their site. I invite you all to join me to speak up for our schools and our children.
1. Testing has been proven to be an unreliable measure of what is happening in the classroom. To fire, rate, reward and punish teachers and schools on this
nypost.com - A test-run of a new teacher evaluation system set to be phased in this fall rated a whopping 18 percent of participating teachers as "ineffective" -- a designation that can get even tenured teacher...
parentsacrossamerica.org - Jul 22, 2011 leoniehaimson As an educator and strategic planning facilitator over the past four decades, Tom Olson has advised 13 different states on their education reform efforts, and has consult...
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Below is a press release from Mona Davids of the NYC Parents Union. Just a few months ago, Assemblymember Hakeem Jeffries from Brooklyn sponsored legislation in Albany that would require a one yea...
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - Earlier today I stumbled across this brilliant post by RiShawn Biddle over at Dropout Nation. Biddle boldly claims: Despite the arguments (and the pretty charts) of such defenders as Rutgers’ Bruce...
nydailynews.com - Timothy A. Clary/Getty The education department will test students in dance, among other art forms. The City Department of Education wants to judge how well students can cut a rug, paint a picture ...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Gotham shorts « JD2718Gotham shortsby jd2718I’ve been more or less off-line for a month, and haven’t looked closely at Gotham Schools in even longer. A hot day is a good time for A/C and a return.1...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Tom Olson, another former Stand for Children member, speaks out « Parents Across AmericaTom Olson, another former Stand for Children member, speaks outby leoniehaimsonAs an educator and strategic p...
miamiherald.com - TAMPA – The two Miami-Dade high schools threatened with closing will stay open for at least another year. On Tuesday, the state Board of Education voted to give Miami Edison and Miami Central senio...
gothamschools.org - The Department of Education official in charge of opening and closing schools has proposed drinking to the news that some of his plans can go forward. In an email to at nearly 80 top-ranking DOE em...
gothamschools.org - by Philissa Cramer PS 9 parents say the city’s space use plans don’t do their job if they’re written in legal language. (EdVox) A Teaching Fellows exec and a teacher delayed their same-sex marriage...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Klein's DC, NYC Work Prep For News Corp Scandal : NPRKlein's DC, NYC Work Prep For News Corp Scandalby THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWhen Joel Klein left his post as head of New York City schools to join Rup...
thinkprogress.org - This week, the so-called Gang of Six — composed of Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Mark Warner (D-VA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Kent Conrad (D-ND) — released the ...
thinkprogress.org - Last September, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin answered critics who predicted that the movement would soon peter out: “The Tea Party movement is here to stay.” Seven months later, ...
today.msnbc.msn.com - The Justice Department is readying subpoenas as part of a probe into allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. attempted to hack into phones of Sept. 11 victims, the Wall Street Journal reported...
schooltechconnect.com - How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? So, I went for a long ride through the Loop tonight, after posting that last Edelman subclip, and I guess I need help resolving some questions. Here's what ...
schooltechconnect.com - Just messing with Youtube's video editor. I'm liking it better than Jaycut. I've decided to work with the lovely and charming Jonah Edelman while discovering the limits of Youtube. All I've done h...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Some guy named Farley says, "Hyatt is sorry."CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hyatt hotels apologized Friday for an incident in which heat lamps were turned on above workers on strike at a Chicago hotel, when...
nytimes.com - “Bury your mistakes,” Rupert Murdoch is fond of saying. But some mistakes don’t stay buried, no matter how much money you throw at them. Time and again in the United States and elsewher...
chicagotribune.com - July 15, 2011 Kirkland & Ellis is bullish on real estate — not actual property, but rather deals and dealmakers. July 1, 2011 Every two weeks, a group of out-of-work lawyers meets in downtown Chica...
robertreich.org - The very idea that Social Security might be on the chopping block in order to pay the ransom Republicans are demanding reveals both the cravenness of their demands and the callowness of the opposit...
dailykos.com - In winter, it can be awfully nice to walk by a luxury hotel that has heat lamps over its entryway. It would be less nice on a day with temperatures over 90 degrees and a heat index over 100 degrees...
wildaboutmath.com - From the BBC:Food scientists at the UK’s University of Leeds have developed a formula for making the perfect piece of toast. The equation – which details butter and toast temperature – took three m...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Gotham shorts « JD2718Gotham shortsby jd2718I’ve been more or less off-line for a month, and haven’t looked closely at Gotham Schools in even longer. A hot day is a good time for A/C and a return.1...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Tom Olson, another former Stand for Children member, speaks out « Parents Across AmericaTom Olson, another former Stand for Children member, speaks outby leoniehaimsonAs an educator and strategic p...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - NYC Public School Parents: Say it Ain't So, Hakeem! Jeffries flip-flops on charters and school closingsSay it Ain't So, Hakeem! Jeffries flip-flops on charters and school closingsby Leonie HaimsonB...
schooltechconnect.com - How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? So, I went for a long ride through the Loop tonight, after posting that last Edelman subclip, and I guess I need help resolving some questions. Here's what ...
schooltechconnect.com - Just messing with Youtube's video editor. I'm liking it better than Jaycut. I've decided to work with the lovely and charming Jonah Edelman while discovering the limits of Youtube. All I've done h...
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