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Free the Columbia 100. Keep cops off campus.
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The movement protesting U.S. support for Israel’s Gaza War shows no sign of
going away. In fact, it grows larger every day.Fred Klonsky in Retirement
is a ...
3 hours ago
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Florida: DeSantis Signs Bill to Limit Book Bans and Adds a Sugarplum for
Charter Schools
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Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill limiting the ability of non-parents to
initiate book bans. That’s a step forward since any crank was free to
challenge ...
3 hours ago
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The strategy behind never-ending war
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US could have backed peace talks in Ukraine. Yesterday it was the only NO
vote in UN on recognizing Palestinian statehood.
4 hours ago
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PA: Far Right Law Group Comes To Meadville
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Crawford Central School District has joined the ranks of school districts
in Pennsylvania considering anti-LGBTQ policies.
And while their name didn't come...
4 hours ago
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How to Raise Ethical, Caring Children
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Most of us want to raise children who are ethical and caring. Indeed, when
surveyed 96 percent of us say that this is a "very important, if not
essentia...
4 hours ago
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Forced birth is local, pt. 1: what is the rape exception protocol, Sheriff
Judd?
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Individual local police officers are the new real-time gatekeepers of the
"rape, incest, and human trafficking" exceptions to 6-week forced birth in
a stat...
8 hours ago
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Teaching Is a Grind Peppered with Joyful Moments (Bill Ferriter)
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This post appeared in Bill Ferriter’s blog, “The Tempered Radical.” In
his blog, he describes himself as follows: “Bill Ferriter has about a dozen
titles—S...
10 hours ago
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Adolescents: almost 17% experience weight-related bullying online, almost
70 percent of Twitter users reporting being bullied
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The freely available article in *PLOS ONE*:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299830
*Each additional hour of social...
18 hours ago
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Memorial Stadium Open House - Done on the Downlow?
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I am going to sit in on the brief Board "special meeting" today on the
process of curriculum adoption in Washington State. I did ask about any
attached ...
19 hours ago
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The Super 20
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What follows are thumbnail sketches of the 20 applicants who want to be the
next Superintendent of Duval County Public Schools. Before beginning, I
want to...
21 hours ago
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SPI Hosts California Apprenticeship Summit
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State Superintendent Thurmond hosts California Apprenticeship Summit to
connect California’s youth to high-wage opportunities.
21 hours ago
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Hear about how you can protect your child from having their data sold by
College Board & ACT
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Online Forum: No More Student Data Sales!
*WHEN*
May 06, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8pm
*WHERE*
Online via Zoom: register here: bit.ly/5_6_24_webinar
Test companies...
1 day ago
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What is White Christian Nationalism and How Is It Affecting Public
Education Today?
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Our politics and our national ethos seem to have gone awry, and a lot of
people blame it on something called Christian nationalism or white
Christian natio...
1 day ago
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Bibliography for History Posts on This Blog
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I remember when school reformers insisted the biggest problem
in education was that teachers didn't come from the best colleges.
Bibliography
VER...
1 day ago
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Episode # 97—Please repost and spread the word
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Episode #97: Again, Winter with Mark Nowak
1 day ago
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The Unintended Multiverse of Black Widow’s Origin
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[Header Panel from Tales of Suspense (v1) 57; Don Heck, artist] After
writing a blog series on Black Widow, I searched for an opportunity to turn
that work...
2 days ago
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Where’s the “Evidence” in State-Mandated Science of Reading Programs?
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Last I looked, thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have signed
reading laws (Schwartz 2024). Parents, educators, school administrators,
and ...
2 days ago
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What He Means
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2 days ago
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Urgent! send a message to your legislators now – no backdoor deal on
mayoral control!
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April 15, 2024 Last week the State Education Department released an
excellent report, summarizing the public testimony at the borough hearings
and in writi...
3 days ago
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Gotcha!
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“We’re from where we’re from,” she says back. “Scars are part of the deal,
aren’t they?” ― Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians It’s amazing,
how ...
4 days ago
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Earth Day Is On April 22nd – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
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Earth Day is on April 22nd. You might be interested in The Best Earth Day
Sites.
5 days ago
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Jobs’ Reading Scam
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By Thomas Ultican 4/10/2024 Laurene Powell Jobs controls Amplify, a
kids-at-screens education enterprise. In 2011, she became one of the
wealthiest women i...
1 week ago
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TN Taliban Votes to Arm Teachers
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As parents, students, and teachers lined the gallery with signs calling for
gun regulations in a state where are none, a bill sailed through the State
Se...
1 week ago
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Where I Agree with Katherine Westerhold
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In February 2023, former Louisiana state superintendent John White’s wife,
Katherine Westerhold, was in the news because their home security system
capture...
1 week ago
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Guess Who’s NOT Coming to School!
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American students are skipping school in record numbers, a crisis that is
so acute that it became the lead story in The New York Times recently, as
well as...
1 week ago
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THE EVOLUTION OF OUR SPECIES
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As I considered writing this blog, I did not want to write a piece that
painted a dystopian future for humanity. I felt that the blog should, first
and for...
1 week ago
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Why Do My Groceries Cost So Much?
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Giant corporations and billionaires want to keep their taxes low and the
prices we pay high. That’s why they want Trump back in office. In 2004, I
was a si...
1 week ago
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Critical Race Theory Is About You, and All of Us
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Recently, Christina Cross, a Black woman sociologist at Harvard, found her
work at the crosshairs of the same person who brought us the bastardization
of...
2 weeks ago
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THE UNSETTLING INFLUENCE OF TRUMP AND MAGA ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE
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*THE UNSETTLING INFLUENCE OF TRUMP AND MAGA ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE*
*TRUMP RHETORIC IS LITERALLY CAUSING HIS FOLLOWERS TO LOSE THEIR MINDS AND
THEIR FR...
2 weeks ago
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Grow Your Own Teachers? A BustED: Pencils Podcast
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Julian Vasquez Heilig and Laura Dinehart join Dr. Tim to discuss how
Western Michigan University is ‘Growing Their Own’ teachers, without test
tubes or sci...
2 weeks ago
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Grassroots Education Network- March 2024 Newsletter
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The NPE Grassroots Education Network is a nationwide network of over 195
grassroots organizations that have joined together to preserve, promote,
improve...
2 weeks ago
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Happy Easter
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Blessings
2 weeks ago
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UFT Welfare Fund nest egg – bigger than most nests
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A nest egg. A rainy day fund. A reserve. Back up. We all have some, or
would like some. In case things go sideways, a way to pay some bills in the
meantime...
3 weeks ago
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March (2024) Useful Parent Engagement Resources
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“Gentle parenting” seems to be based on sound child psychology principles,
but these techniques may not be as effective for more serious challenging
behavi...
3 weeks ago
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PCSP comments on how the privacy protections in the proposed COPPA regs
should be improved
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See below comments that PCSP and attorney Zephyr Teachout submitted to the
Federal Trade Commission, urging them to strengthen their proposed student
priva...
4 weeks ago
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Focused: Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a
School Leader
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INTRODUCTION Focus, focus, and focus! Focus is what this book is about.
Here we aim to help school leaders understand what they should focus on and
why. We...
4 weeks ago
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Let’s recall just how bad a president Trump was!
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For the record, concerning Covid:, this is from Quora: ———- President Trump
tweeted that 17,000 people died from Swine Flu under Obama. How does this
compa...
1 month ago
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March 5, 2024: The time for delay has passed
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It is time to open the ballot sitting on my kitchen counter. Only, the more
I learn of politics, the…
The post March 5, 2024: The time for delay has pass...
1 month ago
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More Allegations Of Sexual Abuse From The Early Days Of KIPP NYC
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[Note: This post draws from an interview I conducted with an anonymous
source who identifies as a KIPP alum from the late 1990s. I consider this
person cre...
1 month ago
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A Change of Plans
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Last September, in a piece titled Where We Expect To Retire, I informed
folks that we were planning to move to Kendal Crosslands Communities, the
Crossla...
1 month ago
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Dr. Kriznar explains why birthday parties and so much more are now on the
chopping block.
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I am kind of grosseed out at her explanation so I am not going to comment
now, but I wanted anyone interested to see it.
This is her responce after I wr...
1 month ago
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Wisdom from the Sage of Mount Vernon
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Words of wisdom appropriate to our time. …from George Washington, America’s
first President, on President’s Day. (Edited and updated from a previous
post) ...
1 month ago
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Book Review: “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good
Billionaire”
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By Anthony Cody What impact has Bill Gates had on the world since he
launched the most wealthy tax-exempt foundation in the world? We finally
have a book t...
2 months ago
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We are making a CPESS documentary!
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In 2020, I was approached by Deborah Meier and Jane Andrais and I decided
we should document the story of Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS).
This ...
2 months ago
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Radical Eyes for Equity: Media Misreads Reading Science (Again)
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Radical Eyes for Equity: Media Misreads Reading Science (Again)
For more than five years, mainstream media has been obsessed with two false
but compelling...
2 months ago
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From Asa to A. Phillip: Nothing But a ‘Sigma’ Man by Mark Anthony Neal
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Richard Avedon, *A. Philip Randolph, Founder, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, New York City, April 8, 1976*
*From Asa to A. Phillip: Nothing But a...
3 months ago
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2023 In Review And What’s To Come In 2024
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2023 is almost complete and it was a busy, challenging, rewarding, and fun
year. The news of the world was sometimes too much to watch. Countries were
dest...
3 months ago
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Could This Be Gadfly’s End? Top 12 Articles From 2023 Read By Fewer Than
Ever
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After 9 years of pounding my head against the wall - well, it seems like
the wall is winning.
3 months ago
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Volunteer in 2024
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Be the change, volunteer and make the difference! Let’s face it, the world
is in turmoil, and divisive politics in our country is threatening our
democracy...
3 months ago
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Israel’s War on Gaza Is Also a War on History and Education
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Israel's war on Gaza is also a war on children--and just like the attempts
to ban discussion of race and gender in U.S. classrooms, Israel aims to
censor h...
4 months ago
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The Sky is Falling, or is it?
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Well, this is the first anniversary of the introduction of Generative AI in
the form of ChatGPT to the world of education. Before it was a week old,
over o...
4 months ago
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Redesigning School Governance: Beyond Mayoral Control
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From time to time the legislature passes a bill with a sunset provision,
unless the law is reauthorized by a specific date the law reverts to the
law it re...
5 months ago
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20 Best Mph Programs In New York, NY (2023 Updated)
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20 Best Mph Programs In New York, NY 1. Pace University Rating: (4.2 )
Address: One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038...
The post 20 Best Mph Programs In...
6 months ago
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POSTPONED: Florida’s Impact on Social Studies
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POSTPONED: discussion with Florida and DC educators and advocates on the
impact of Florida's new laws
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7 months ago
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Lying Liars of the NYC DOE
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The APPR travails continue.
When last I blogged I shared how my principal, XXXXXXXX XXXXX of PS XXX did
an end run around me. I was refused to be obser...
9 months ago
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Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why:
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The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us
in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we
wer...
10 months ago
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What is the Most Important Subject in School?
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In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the question of which subject
reigns supreme has been a topic...
10 months ago
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Metaphors in ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
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In this article, we will explore the powerful use of metaphors in Martin
Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” ...
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1 year ago
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All My New Writing is on Substack
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Come check it out . . . samchaltain.substack.com
1 year ago
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What ever happend to John Deasy, the Man From Gates?
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* Here's an update on Deasy from 2020*
By Thomas Ultican 7/29/2020
April 21, the Stockton Unified School District (SUSD) board accepted John
Deasy’s let...
1 year ago
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Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force
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I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago
Public Schools Truancy Task Force, a body mandated by state legislation.
The meetin...
1 year ago
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Skin Deep
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She spends so much time on her outward appearance. There is never a hair
out of place. Her makeup is perfect and her clothes are stylish and match
to ...
1 year ago
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Tennis Memories from a Time When Racism and Anti-Semitism Still Prevailed
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I learned tennis at a public park in Brooklyn- Lincoln Terrace- where the
teaching pro was a mailman named Phil Rubell. Almost all the kids who took
lesson...
1 year ago
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There Is A Teacher Shortage.Not.
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THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not
that teachers don’t want to teach. It’s not that there aren’t enough
teachers cer...
1 year ago
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Reason #1 to pick Dr. Grace over Mr. Walters: The future we’ve already seen
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In 2014, Oklahoma voters corrected the mistake we made in 2010. In 2022,
let’s not make the mistake in the first place. Elect Dr. April Grace
instead. She ...
1 year ago
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*Defeating the Purpose of Education*
*Most people would agree that the primary purpose of education is to
prepare children for a good and productive life. ...
1 year ago
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THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. NOT!
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There is a teacher shortage.And just to be sure you understand, it's not
that teachers don't want to teach.It's not that there aren't enough
teachers certi...
1 year ago
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Abortion: Only For Those Who Need It!
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NOTE: This post contains my opinions on Catholicism based on my experiences
as a child in the 1960's and 70's. Take what you like and leave the rest. I
m...
1 year ago
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Want to know the condition of a Philly school building? New map to help.
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[image: Two students walk by a Philadelphia school building.] Aging
infrastructure has been an issue for Philadelphia schools for years. A new
interactive...
1 year ago
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Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then
start writing!
The post Hello world! first appeared on Just another WordPress site.
1 year ago
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What can we learn by modeling existing variations in school spending and
outcomes? (Reprise)
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There are those in the ed reform world who would tell us that existing
public schools and districts are simply inefficient in their use of
existing funding...
2 years ago
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STREET LIFE
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My mom told me, “You should treat all people equally, but don’t bring a
“colored” into the house.” I believed …
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2 years ago
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Schools Matter: Reflecting on Green Dot’s Disastrous Locke Takeover
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*“Green Dot came and made it into more of a jail.” — Chris*
My history of opposing the Green Dot Charter School Corporation back when I
was an activist i...
2 years ago
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Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane
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Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama
have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's primer *Fun
with...
2 years ago
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On the Edge of Silence
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the
fundamen...
2 years ago
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The Howlers of History and How We Must Reclaim the Narrative
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“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is
proof against all judgments and which cannot fail to keep a man in
everlasting ignor...
2 years ago
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Have You Heard Has a New Website
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TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at
www.haveyouheardpodcast.com to find our latest episodes and our entire
archive. And be sure to check out...
2 years ago
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Follow me at Substack
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I've moved. Follow me at Substack
I'm now posting regularly at Substack. You can subscribe for free to my new
Edu/Pol blog at michaelklonsky.substack.com
...
2 years ago
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I’ve moved.
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I’m on Substack now. Five bucks a month to subscribe.
2 years ago
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On Remote Teaching and Learning In an Ongoing Pandemic
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Some recent stories I've been thinking about (all emphases mine). Tennessee:
Gov. Bill Lee’s administration is getting pushback in Memphis on new
Tenness...
2 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights
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The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are
being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined
to win...
2 years ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights
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The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are
being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined
to win...
2 years ago
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Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College
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[image: colorful classroom pattern]
*; Credit: shuoshu/Getty Images*
Cory Turner | NPR
New rules kick in today that will help aspiring teachers pay for c...
2 years ago
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Major victory over a corporate charter school chain and their trade
association
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Original post at Robert’s page on Medium. On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, I got
my second big win in court against a charter school corporation. It was
also a ...
3 years ago
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Tips Akses Situs Judi Qq Tanpa Perlu Takut Nawala
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Kegiatan berjudi slot melalui situs judi qq online, sekarang sudah
dilakukan oleh banyak penjudi Indonesia. Tentu, Kamu yang sedang membaca
artikel ini a...
3 years ago
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CEJ’s Virtual Mayoral Candidate Forum; Racial Justice in Public Schools
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On Thursday, February 18th, over 1,000 students, parents, educators,
community members, and activists alike, joined CEJ to hear the mayoral
candidates’ vis...
3 years ago
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GA run-offs need your help!
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Extremely important. Volunteer if you can. Thank you if you are already
doing so. Out of state opportunities here: Ralph …
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3 years ago
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Pandemic Teaching – What’s up?
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Responding to the call from Pocketful of Primary to answer questions about
how teaching during the pandemic is going.
3 years ago
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The Threat of Integration
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I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles
for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction
with th...
3 years ago
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New Teacher Evaluation Report Released by the Network for Public Education
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A new report on current teacher evaluation systems throughout the US was
just released by the Network for Public Education. The report is titled,
“Teachers...
3 years ago
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www.job-applications.com
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https://www.job-applications.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-job-application/
3 years ago
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Teacher Creates National Database Tracking COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools
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Kansas educator Alisha Morris's online coronavirus news-tracker goes viral,
now hosted on a new NEA website.
3 years ago
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School Year 2020-21: We Are Asking the Wrong Questions
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It is perfectly understandable that many in our country want public school
buildings to be open for in person instruction this year. Among the many
hardshi...
3 years ago
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Correction for July 10th Post on School District Audit
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On July 10, 2020 we published a post “School District Caught Manipulating
Attendance Records to Get More Money” which incorrectly cited Valley Park
School ...
3 years ago
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We fight for a democracy worthy of us all!
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The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa
in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and
it’s up...
3 years ago
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A Citizens’ Rebellion 2020
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The United States began to form after the rebellion against the King of
England when the settlers in the colonies along the eastern coast reacted
to the in...
3 years ago
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Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-income
Students Will Shortchange At-risk Kids
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Low-income Seattle students began to pick up bagged lunches in March after
their school closed. Karen Ducey/Getty Images Derek W. Black, University of
Sout...
3 years ago
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A Fundamental Redesign of Our Schools
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I climbed the hill leading up to one of my favorite coffee shops in Seattle
this morning to enjoy a coffee while taking in a phenomenal view of the
city o...
3 years ago
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The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69
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I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this
afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved
ones. We ar...
3 years ago
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Thoughts on schooling in the era of COVID-19
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Well, a whole lot has changed since I returned to blogging a month and half
ago. In case you didn't notice, and I'm sure everyone reading this did,
there's...
4 years ago
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What are You Going to Do when Disaster Capitalism Knocks on the
Public-School Door?
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“Schools will be closed until at least April 20, after the upcoming spring
break, but could stay closed for significantly longer, Mr. de Blasio said.”
Whe...
4 years ago
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Let The Next Round Of Anti-Semitic Ads Begin
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All four pro-public education candidates came in first in their LAUSD
school board elections, but two will face run-offs in November.
4 years ago
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NAEP scores and "the science of reading"
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*Sent to US News. They just informed me that they no longer publish
letters to the editor. *
*Re: “National reading emergency” November 12*
*[https://www...
4 years ago
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2019 NAEP Scores: Achievement Gap or …?
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Here you go: A ‘Disturbing’ Assessment: Sagging Reading Scores,
Particularly for Eighth-Graders, Headline 2019’s Disappointing NAEP Results
NAEP 2019: Re...
4 years ago
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Cara Menang Bermain Judi Bola Online
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Bermain judi bola online tentu saja memiliki kesenangannya tersendiri baik
itu mendapatkan keuntungan maupun ketika menantikan hasil skor pada sebuah
perta...
4 years ago
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What Cory Booker isn’t telling us about the Newark water crisis.
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BY GUY STERLING Guy Sterling, a longtime resident of Newark and a member of
the Newark Water Group, spent almost 30 years as reporter with The
Star-Ledger ...
4 years ago
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A Storm is Coming! (…again)
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A new Commissioner will have as much impact on our state ed system as a new
meteorologist will have on …
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4 years ago
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JerseyCAN Can't Hide From Opioids Crisis Billionaire Founder
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[image: Image result for jerseycan]
NJ Spotlight needs to stop giving space to billionaire-backed corporate
reform groups like JerseyCAN. JerseyCAN does n...
4 years ago
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Déjà vu: 2019 ELA Assessment: Dear Board of Regents
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Dear Board of Regents,
I have copied below an email I sent to you almost a year ago, after the
2018 ELA assessment's computer-based testing failures and mo...
5 years ago
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This Week in Education Organizing - February 15, 2019
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Coalition for Education Justice to Release Report on CRE
Eighty-five percent of public school students in New York City are Black,
Latinx, or Asian and y...
5 years ago
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Black Lives Matter at Schools National week of Action: Feb 4 - Feb 8
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Join the National Week of Actions for Black Lives Matter at Schools.
Starting Monday, February 4th educators in cities across the country will
draw closer...
5 years ago
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The World According to Michelle Rhee
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The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run
education in America! Michelle Rhee is the founder of StudentsFirst, The
New T...
5 years ago
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13 Things I Learned While Blogging for Education Week
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This is the 500th blog I've written as the Teacher in a Strange Land, for
Education Week Teacher. As it turns out, it's also my final blog for
EdWeek. Here...
5 years ago
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Blockchain: Life on the Ledger
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Originally posted on Wrench in the Gears:
I created this video as a follow up to the one I prepared last year on
Social Impact Bonds. It is time to examine...
5 years ago
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New York Times piece on '68 Democratic Convention Protest
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‘The Whole World Is Watching’: The 1968 Democratic Convention, 50 Years
Later
On Aug. 28, 1968, violent clashes in Chicago between demonstrators and the
...
5 years ago
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My Letter to the NYS Board of Regents and Commissioner Elia Regarding ESSA
Opt Out Provisions
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commissioner@nysed.gov Regent.cashin@nysed.gov ESSARegComment@nysed.gov
Regent.Rosa@nysed.gov Regent.Reyes@nysed.gov Regent.Chin@nysed.gov
Regent.Young@n...
5 years ago
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Corruption on Top of Corruption: How Rahm’s Response to Sexual Abuse of
Students Reveals His Core Function
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Rahm Emanuel’s response to the Chicago Tribune investigation that found CPS
failed to protect hundreds of students from sexual abuse is cowardly. It
is co...
5 years ago
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New Local Businesses in Sacramento
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Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can
be accomplished with footwork, perseverance and knowledge. One must learn
the loc...
5 years ago
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3rd Grade Reading: Who is Failing?
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Education Trust Midwest has just released its study on third grade reading
and, predictably, the results aren’t great. This study uniquely compares
Michiga...
6 years ago
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Why Poetry? Why Now? – a poem from Linda Christensen and an invitation
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My dear friend Dr. James Avington Miller Jr. sent me a phenomenal book on
poetry called Rhythm and Resistance – Teaching Poetry for Social Justice.
Here is...
6 years ago
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Opting out of the Dinosaur (end of year test)
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Today I sent in a second letter to refuse PARCC/CMAS for my son, Luke. The
first email I sent at the beginning of the year was not sufficient as they
requi...
6 years ago
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Resurrection
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I realized it's Lent, but this blog, bless Jesus Christ, can't wait.
Ok, so with that said, I plan to discuss Class Action suits in existence,
as well as w...
6 years ago
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Chicago Collegiate Charter School Must STOP Expansion Plans
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So I did a little digging into Chicago Collegiate Charter Schools, the
tiny school looking to expand into the empty Kohn Elementary School
building. A sch...
6 years ago
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IDEA Is Still The Law Of The Land
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know the US Department of
Education (USDOE) rescinded 72 Dear Colleague and other letters of
explanation to ...
6 years ago
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Education Is a Civic Question
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In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah
Meier and Harry Boyte urge readers to put the energy, talents, wisdom, and
hard w...
6 years ago
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Education reform should come from within by Wendy Lecker
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In her latest Stamford Advocate commentary piece, education advocate Wendy
Lecker observes, Education reform should come from within. Wendy Lecker
write...
6 years ago
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Site News: New Home for Education News & Commentary
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Quick! Get over there! The daily education news roundup and education
commentaries that you're probably looking for are now being published over
at The Gra...
6 years ago
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An Open Letter to NC Lawmakers
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An Open Letter to NC State Lawmakers and NC State Superintendent Mark
Johnson: I am a NC native, voter, and public school teacher. I am
addressing you all ...
6 years ago
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CANCER IS BACK AND THIS TIME IT HURTS RIGHT OFF THE BAT!
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APRIL IS STILL POETRY MONTH AND LIBRARY MONTH. MANY WONDERFUL THINGS TO
CELEBRATE.
But in the middle of the month I received some bad news about my ca...
6 years ago
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My Next Bestseller)
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My next bestseller) Prologue I just finished
watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, “The Secret”. The
film p...
7 years ago
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Farewell, Sleep
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Today is the official last day of my spring break. I've done a scientific
survey: My natural bedtime is 2 AM, and my natural wake up time is 9:41
AM. Tom...
7 years ago
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IBO REPORT: NYC Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted!
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*New York City Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted!*
Although the preliminary budget forecast of charter school enrollment is
lower than project...
7 years ago
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Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/2/2017
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Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/1/2017 Education Bloggers Daily
Highlights Courtesy of Big Education Ape A special thank you to education
blogger Mik...
7 years ago
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Attitude Determines Altitude* (*conditions apply)… and the Importance of
Humane District Themes
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It has been a tumultuous few years in the South Brunswick community,
specifically the South Brunswick School District. All you have to do is
google the dis...
7 years ago
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Capturing the Spark
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It’s been a long time since InterACT was an active education blog, though I
remain quite proud of what we did here. Those of us who wrote blog posts
here h...
7 years ago
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Prison Gerrymandering: Incarceration Weakens Vulnerable Voting Communities
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One person equals one vote: seems simple enough. Unfortunately, that hasn’t
worked out for many Americans throughout history, specifically women and
peop...
7 years ago
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Random Musings and Observations. . . .
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I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular
readers no doubt noticed but did not hassle me about it. Thank you for
that. Sinc...
7 years ago
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Tweets by sharonoak
7 years ago
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WTU Peterson Slate: Not a 1 Woman Dictatorship
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Candi Peterson & GeLynn Thompson
Candidates for WTU Prez & GVP 2016By Candi Peterson, WTU Gen. Vice President
*Statements or expressions of opinions herein...
7 years ago
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WHY SCHOOL START TIMES PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN KIDS’ SUCCESS
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Teens are severely sleep-deprived. This needs to change. Rebecca Klein
Editor, HuffPost Education| https://t.co/zInVJoy29W evgenyatamanenko via
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7 years ago
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Feminism-in-Schools Featured at First International Girls’ Studies
Association Conference
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Leaders in the feminism-in-schools movement recently made history at the
inaugural International Girls’ Studies Association (IGSA) conference when
we were ...
7 years ago
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MY NEW BLOG
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My new blog will consist of fictitious headlines, meant to be a blend of
humor and satire. I apologize ahead of time if any other satirical site has
simila...
7 years ago
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Thank you
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Dear Readers,
Thank you for visiting *The Perimeter Primate*. This blog is being retired
for the time being. Although I no longer post here, I do still s...
8 years ago
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GLSEN Massachusetts Educator Retreat
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*GLSEN Massachusetts Educator Retreat*
*SAVE-THE-DATEMarch 8-10, 2019 • Provincetown, MA*
The GLSEN Massachusetts Educator Retreat in Provincetown is a s...
8 years ago
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I am Retiring
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I have some news: I am retiring from the PBS NewsHour and Learning Matters.
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other
conte...
8 years ago
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Flaws at the Heart of Current Education Reforms
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Originally posted on Creative by Nature:
“Teaching is an art form rooted in the wise and careful use of educational
research and assessment tools. When gove...
9 years ago
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Joanne Barkan: One of my favorite writers on #EdReform…
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I’ve been going through some of my Twitter “favorites” and retweeting them.
I thought I would pass on to you some information about one of my favorite
writ...
9 years ago
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Pay Teachers Less to Improve School Efficiency - hmmm!
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As I was reading through education news on several of the news sites I
regularly visit, I came...
9 years ago
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Kimberly Olson, Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2005
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Kimberly D. Olson, Colonel, USAF (retired), is currently the Executive
Director of *Grace After Fire*, an online social support network for women
veteran...
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Education Research Report
Education Research Report:
Ω The vast majority of American middle schools and high schools sell what are known as “competitive foods,” such as soft drinks, candy bars, and chips, to children. The relationship between consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks and snacks and childhood obesity is well established, but it remains unknown whether competitive food sales in schools are related to unhealthy weight gain among children. The authors of this study examined this association using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class. They found that children’s weight gain between fifth and ei... more » Ω This article examines two critical questions related to equality of educational opportunity. First, does the academic advantage that was observed in Catholic high schools more than two decades ago continue to hold for contemporary students in Catholic middle schools? Second, how closely do different school sectors adhere to the common school ideal? Answers to these questions are central to efforts to reduce educational inequalities. The study reported here relies on data from sixth- and eighth-grade students in the Chicago School Study, a longitudinal survey of Chicago public s... more » Ω Persistent school segregation means not only that children of different racial and ethnic backgrounds attend different schools but also that their schools are unequal in performance. This study documents the extent of disparities nationally in school performance between schools attended by whites and Asians compared with those attended by blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans. It further examines the geography of school inequality in two ways. First, it analyzes the segregation of students between different types of school profiles based on racial composition, poverty, and met... more » Ω While contracts are an indispensable tool in the modern workplace, a new study has found that they may also be very effective in contemporary classrooms. According to a new article published in SAGE Open, courses in which students design their own course based on a contract lead to both higher grades and higher student satisfaction than traditional points-based courses. The article, "Use of Contract Grading to Improve Grades among College Freshmen in Introductory Psychology," details this study. Researchers Dana Lindemann and Colin Harbke assigned a total of 40 college freshmen e... more » Ω School leadership doesn't just happen. Effective principals employ five key practices, according to The School Principal as Leader: Guiding Schools to Better Teaching and Learning, a Wallace Foundation Perspective that distills lessons from school leadership projects and major research studies supported by the foundation since 2000. "After more than a decade of investment in school leadership, we can confirm the empirical link between school leadership and improved student achievement. We hope that this Wallace Perspective can contribute a new and deeper understanding of effectiv... more » Ω * New report shows 778,000 students attend schools operated by private education management organizations – more than 40 percent of all students in charter schools* *A mere 27 percent of U.S. online schools run by for-profit companies achieved Adequate Yearly Progress * Across the nation, almost 300 private companies referred to as “education management organizations” are taking a big bite out of the public school apple. According to a new report, EMOs now operate 35 percent of all public charter schools, and these schools account for more than 40 percent of all charter school stu... more » Ω Do teachers think like salesmen or assembly line workers? Does a financial reward tied to a production goal or sales target motivate teachers to teach better, and do students benefit from these financial incentives? The answer is that few or no gains come from such teacher incentives. This is because pay-for-performance schemes don’t respond to what teachers care most about, but other incentives might be much more successful, according to Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity, issued today by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) at the University of C... more » Ω This policy brief revisits the long and storied literature on whether money matters in providing a quality education. Increasingly, political rhetoric adheres to the unfounded certainty that money doesn’t make a difference in education, and that reduced funding is unlikely to harm educational quality. Such proclamations have even been used to justify large cuts to education budgets over the past few years. These positions, however, have little basis in the empirical research on the relationship between funding and school quality. The brief, discusses selected major studies on thr... more » Ω Preparing for Change, a National Perspective on Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning. The early stages of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative were largely occupied with debates over the merits of the standards and the feasibility of their adoption by the states. As the movement has matured, the focus of attention has shifted toward issues related to practical implementation, such as the readiness of teachers to actually enact the new standards in the classroom. To gauge state progress toward implementing the CCSS, Education First and the Editorial Pro... more » Ω Some two decades into the grand national experiment with charter schools, how much do we really know about them? Not all that much. And not nearly as much as we easily could, say researchers from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences. Writing in the journal Science, UC San Diego educational economist Julian Betts and Richard Atkinson, president emeritus of the University of California and former director of the National Science Foundation, find that most studies of charter schools "use unsophisticated methods that tell us little about causal effects.... more » Ω *Maryland Ranks First for Fourth Straight Year* *Special Theme Explores American Education from a Global Perspective Grades and Highlights Reports Issued for All 50 States and D.C.* The nation and many states face continuing challenges in delivering a high-quality education to all students, according to Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools. In addition to the in-depth package of articles on this year's theme, Quality Counts 2012 offers fresh data and analysis from the EPE Research... more » Ω The U.S. Department of Education has released state-specific reports profiling first-year progress on comprehensive education reform under Race to the Top. The reports document reform efforts underway in Delaware, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Tennessee, the 12 grantees that secured Race to the Top funding in 2010 through the competition's first two phases. State Reports StateReport*Delaware*Year 1 Report [image: download files] PDF (2.35M)*District of Columbia*Year 1 Report [image: download files] PDF (... more » Ω The goal of the National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K–12 is to provide clear, consistent and straightforward guidance on the essential minimum, core content for sexuality education that is developmentally and age-appropriate for students in grades K–12. The development of these standards is a result of an ongoing initiative, the Future of Sex Education (FoSE). Forty individuals from the fields of health education, sexuality education, public health, public policy, philanthropy and advocacy convened for a two-day meeting in December 2008 to create a st... more » Ω Three-fourths of preschool-age children in the United States attend child care, and many are not getting enough outdoor physical activity, which may be due in part to parental and societal values about injury prevention and kindergarten readiness. The study, “Societal Values and Policies May Curtail Preschool Children’s Physical Activity in Child Care Centers,” will be published in the February 2012 Pediatrics and published online Jan. 4. A team led by Kristen Copeland, MD, division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a Robert ... more » Ω The Eastern view of parenting, as defined by best-selling author and self-described “tiger mother” Amy Chua, is that children should be pushed to excel at all costs. Parents needn’t worry about their happiness, she argues, only their success. But now a Michigan State University scholar is refuting that theory. In her research, Desiree Baolian Qin – who, like Chua, is a Chinese mother – found that high-achieving Chinese students were more depressed and anxious than their white counterparts. And contrary to the tiger mother philosophy, Qin said, a child’s happiness is vitally impor... more » Ω The latest installment of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Creating Sound Policy for Digital Learning series investigates one of the more controversial aspects of digital learning: How much does it cost? In this paper, the Parthenon Group uses interviews with more than fifty vendors and online schooling experts to estimate today's average per-pupil cost for a variety of schooling models, traditional and online, and presents a nuanced analysis of the important variance in cost between different school designs. These ranges—from $5,100 to $7,700 for full-time virtual schools, and... more » Ω **This report presents an in-depth discussion of the analytical methods and findings from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project’s analysis of classroom observations. A nontechnical companion report describes implications for policymakers and practitioners. Together, these two documents on classroom observations represent the second pair of publications from the MET project. In December 2010, the project released its initial analysis of measures of student perceptions and student achievement in Learning about Teaching: Initial Finding...more » Ω TEACHER VALUE-ADDED AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN ADULTHOOD Many policy makers advocate increasing the quality of teaching, but there is considerable debate about the best way to measure and improve teacher quality. One method is to evaluate teachers based on their impacts on students’ test scores, commonly termed the “value-added” (VA) approach. A teacher’s value-added is defined as the average test-score gain for his or her students, adjusted for differences across classrooms in student characteristics such as prior scores. School districts from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles have be... more » Ω Refuting assumptions and statements by opponents and proponents alike about the state of America’s charter schools, The Center for Education Reform released today an unprecedented analysis of and data documenting the high level of accountability that marks the nation’s charter schools. The report, The State of Charter Schools: What We Know – and What We Do Not – About Performance and Accountability, finds that charter schools historically have experienced a 15 percent closure rate. The report is the first-ever national analysis regarding the number of charter schools that have cl...more » Ω Children could learn valuable lessons in moral citizenship, such as making moral judgements and informed choices, through taking part in philosophical dialogue, according to researchers at Strathclyde. A study of more than 130 primary and secondary pupils found that taking part in practical philosophy sessions improved the children’s listening skills, gave them greater respect for other people, encouraged them to consider other perspectives and ideas they may not otherwise have thought about and helped them analyse problems so that they are thought through before making decision... more »