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Big Education Ape: STOP Starving America’s Public Schools | Protest LAUSD CUTS

Big Education Ape: Starving America’s Public Schools | OurFuture.org:



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Starving America’s Public Schools

How Budget Cuts and Policy Mandates Are Hurting Our Nation’s Students

By Jeff Bryant
Campaign for America's Future
October 13th, 2011
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Critics of America’s public schools always seem to start from the premise that the pre-kindergarten-through-12th-grade public education system in this country is failing or in crisis.
This crisis mentality is in stark contrast to years of survey research showing that Americans generally give high marks to their local schools. Phi Delta Kappa International and Gallup surveys have found that the populace holds their neighborhood schools in high regard; in fact, this year’s survey found that “Americans, and parents in particular, evaluate their community schools more positively than in any year since” the survey started.
How could there be such a disconnect between a national narrative about public education and opinions about local schools? The two contradictory narratives draw on completely different sources of evidence.
Debate about public education on the national level generally draws on evidence from macro-sources of data: scores from standardized testing, reports on the nation’s dropout rates, samplings from various student populations, and comparative assessments in various subject areas. But people get their school news from far more local, personal, and qualitative sources — from hometown newspapers, from local television and radio broadcasts, from neighbors, and
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School Tech Connect: Dear Toni Preckwinkle

School Tech Connect: Dear Toni Preckwinkle:

Dear Toni Preckwinkle

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)
You've lost my vote. Whoever runs against you, even if it is a Tea Party lunatic, I will vote for that person.

I hadn't really read the background of the suburban/county attack on Chicago's elected pension boards. If I had known Preckwinkle was in on it, I would have called her out loudly and publicly at the Labor Day rally, where she said some nice words about average Americans. It turns out that these average Americans aren't elite enough for Toni Preckwinkle. Where and whenever I see her next, I will boo loudly until I am removed. I highly recommend
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Big corporate money coming in to suppress community voices in DPS school board election | DeFENSE

Big corporate money coming in to suppress community voices in DPS school board election | DeFENSE:

Big corporate money coming in to suppress community voices in DPS school board election

by defensedenver

Well, the campaign finance reports are in, and just as we’ve suspected, corporate Denver, Stand for Children and DFER are coming to the rescue for their slate.

Kind of puts everything into perspective, right?

Give to the pro-community campaigns, or volunteer, today.
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Schools Matter: Wake County Lame Duck Segregationists Hustle to Approve Anti-Diversity Plan

Schools Matter: Wake County Lame Duck Segregationists Hustle to Approve Anti-Diversity Plan:

Wake County Lame Duck Segregationists Hustle to Approve Anti-Diversity Plan

by Jim Horn
Despite an election that has changed the face of the Tea Party controlled school board, and despite public questions and appeals to go slow, the defeated school board chair, Ron Margiotta, has put the new anti-diversity plan on next Tuesday's school board agenda.

Mobilize the stop the premature vote that defies the wishes of Wake County voters. From News Observer Oct. 13:
RALEIGH The three newly elected Democratic school board members, echoing many who spoke at a public hearing today, said Tuesday is too early for a final vote on Wake County schools’ sweeping new student assignment plan -- even if the delay puts off the plan for a school year.

District 8 representative-elect Susan Evans, who defeated chairman Ron Margiotta in Tuesday’s
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Book Giveaway: Creating the Opportunity to Learn … by Boykin and Noguera | The Jose Vilson

Book Giveaway: Creating the Opportunity to Learn … by Boykin and Noguera | The Jose Vilson:

Book Giveaway: Creating the Opportunity to Learn … by Boykin and Noguera

by Jose

Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap by A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera

Hello and welcome to this installment of The Jose Vilson Book Giveaway, where I’ll do my best to offer the latest and greatest books I can scrounge up … and all for free.

< whooping and hollering here >

This week, I’m offering a book for any and all contestants who wish to participate. Before I continue, though …

The rules are as follows:

1. Leave a comment at the bottom of this post with the words: “You can’t stop my go. I been born to be where I am.”

2. Hit “Like” in my fan page Jose Vilson (and leave the same comment on my page!).

That’s IT!

The last day to enter your comment is Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 11:59pm. A winner will be randomly selected from all the commenters. Multiple entries are not allowed. Once you win, I’ll contact you directly with further details. Please make sure you respond quickly (within 48 hours of my choosing the winner), or you’ll lose the drawing.

The book I’m giving away in this entry is Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap by A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera. I reviewed the book recently and I like it already. Here’s a few things I said then:

“To a teacher, some of these strategies seem obvious, but they don’t settle for the seemingly understood or ostensible. They dig deeper into the psychology of these strategies and why they’re so important. Unlike some research reviewers who settle for just aggregating their colleagues’ work, Boykin and Noguera hope to make a meaningful discourse in which all can participate. Unlike some researchers who only speak in professorial language when bringing up suggestions about their work, this duo prefers to clearly define and explicate these rather complex ideas in a clear and concise manner. The one piece that some educators might have asked for from Boykin and Noguera is the how, meaning how the ideas they proffer look like for the average teacher on a day-to-day basis. While there are some specific examples of these models in the book, the day-to-day narratives of how these practices look like daily would be useful if not necessary.”

It’s got real talk. Also included is actual advice from students. A well-rounded book in my opinion.

For more information, ASCD has:

· Select sample chapters from the book here;
· A free study guide that goes along with the book here; and
· A recorded Talks with an Author interview featuring Wade and Pedro here;

I’ve added this as my first full book on my iPad, so you know it’s good. Good luck to all the contestants!

ASCD in no way sanctioned this giveaway, but because I’m a rebel, I’m having it anyways. Yes sir!

Jose, who’s got a few more like these …

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L.A. Unified adds test score measure to school report cards - latimes.com

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L.A. Unified adds test score measure to school report cards

The report cards produced by Los Angeles Unified to allow parents and the public to evaluate the performance of district schools now include a new feature that measures the performance of a school's standardized test scores from year to year, district officials announced Thursday.

The measurement -- academic growth over time -- shows how much students’ performance improved or decreased in each grade in English and math compared to the previous year's exam scores. The district said the measure offers a fuller view of school performance.

L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy said the addition of this data allows educators and parents to have an

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Big Education Ape: 10-13-11 PM Parents Occupy Wall Street: Family sleepover EDition #OWS

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