Schools Matter: With 99% of the People, Why Can't We Get 2/3 of the States
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Schools Matter: With 99% of the People, Why Can't We Get 2/3 of the States:With 99% of the People, Why Can't We Get 2/3 of the Statesby Jim HornDuring this political season, corporations are taking their turns lining up to sponsor political debates whose results are then made made entirely meaningless and irrelevant by subsequent unlimited blasts of negative ads that serve to buy the candidate most likely to prostrate himself completely at the feet of American plutocrats. Since the ... more »
Parents – watch out for parent trigger proposals in your state « Parents Across America
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Parents – watch out for parent trigger proposals in your state « Parents Across America:Parents – watch out for parent trigger proposals in your stateby pureparentsPAA member Caroline Grannan recently posted this update on the parent trigger, explaining that, despite well-funded propaganda, there are no successful parent trigger programs. The Parent Revolution, which pushed the California parent trigger law, has apparently abandoned the strategy.Yet parent trigger proposals are popping up all over the country, including Florida. Details in this PAA ... more »
RheeFirst! » Are D.C. school officials hiding test data?
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RheeFirst! » Are D.C. school officials hiding test data?:Are D.C. school officials hiding test data?by adminNote: Although these tests occurred in 2011, one year after Rhee’s departure from DC, the DC school personnel that administered them are the same personnel and system that she put in place.Written by Jay Mathews for The Washington Post. Read the entire article here.“Is this an intentional effort to deny parents, voters and taxpayers the information they need to judge the integrity of D.C. test ... more »
Misunderstanding & Misrepresenting the “Costs” & “Economics” of Online Learning « School Finance 101
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Misunderstanding Misrepresenting the “Costs” “Economics” of Online Learning « School Finance 101:Misunderstanding Misrepresenting the “Costs” “Economics” of Online Learningby schoolfinance101The Fordham Institute has just released its report titled “The Costs of Online Learning” in which they argue that it is incrementally cheaper to move from a) brick and mortar schooling to b) blended learning and then c) fully online learning.http://www.edexcellencemedia.net/publications/2012/20120110-the-costs-of-online-learning/20120110-the-costs-of-online-learning.pdfAccompanying this report is... more »
In Bad Faith | Edwize
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In Bad Faith | Edwize:In Bad Faithby Leo CaseyThere is but one conclusion that can be drawn from the NYC Department of Education’s last minute walk out of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system for 33 schools placed in the Transformation and Restart models: it was always Tweed’s intention to refuse to enter into an agreement for teacher evaluations.Part of the evidence for this conclusion comes from the conduct of NYC DOE officials during negotiations. Throughout the month of December, ... more »
Blue Jersey:: Dear NJEA: You Break It, You Buy It
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Blue Jersey:: Dear NJEA: You Break It, You Buy It:Dear NJEA: You Break It, You Buy Itby: Jersey JazzmanTue Jan 10, 2012 at 12:30:00 PM ESTLast evening, the New Jersey Senate passed the Urban Hope Act by a margin of 53-3:The charter school pilot bill designates three failing school districts - in Trenton, Camden and Newark - as renaissance school districts. The bill enables one or more nonprofit entities to apply to the state to supplant the existing non-performing schools ... more »
John Thompson: No Excuses Reformers Find Plenty of Them for NCLB - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
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John Thompson: No Excuses Reformers Find Plenty of Them for NCLB - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher:John Thompson: No Excuses Reformers Find Plenty of Them for NCLB by Anthony CodyGuest post by John Thompson.On the 10th anniversary of "the lost decade," produced by No Child Left Behind, we will read plenty of explanations of why the law did little good, and often did great harm to poor children of color. Ironically, the rationale for NCLB was that educators had ...more »
Selling Schools Out | Corporate Accountability | The Investigative Fund
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Selling Schools Out | Corporate Accountability | The Investigative Fund:Selling Schools OutBY LEE FANGTHE NATIONNOVEMBER 17, 2011Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.EmailContact usPrintShareIN CONJUNCTION WITHSee this story at its source »MICROSOFTBill Gates and Rupert Murdoch, two of the tycoons who stand to benefit from a wave of school privatization laws, at a Microsoft CEO Summit in 2009.If the national movement to "reform" public education through vouchers, charters and ... more »
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Schools Matter: Why not try the obvious first?Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-1 minute agoSchools Matter: Why not try the obvious first?:Why not try the obvious first?by skrashenWhy not try the obvious first?Sent to the Chicago Tribune, Jan 9, 2012According to one principal, students need a longer school day so they can catch up in reading (“Chicago schools to begin longer days Monday,” Jan 9).We can get much bigger gains spending less money and with much less work, with ... more »
This Week In Education: Video: What The Nation's "Best" Teachers Have To Say
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This Week In Education: Video: What The Nation's "Best" Teachers Have To Say: Thompson: Building On Disaggregationby john thompsonNCLB supporters have been celebrating the law's tenth anniversary by savaging the educators who had the temerity to challenge the self-evident righteousness of data-driven accountability. Opponents have been citing NCLB's failure to improve student performance, while recounting the damage it did to the children it was supposed to help. Jack Jennings's take on NCLB in Education Week best exemplifies the retrospectives by ... more »
Parents catching up under No Child Left Behind - Featured Stories - Modbee.com
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Parents catching up under No Child Left Behind - Featured Stories - Modbee.com:Parents catching up under No Child Left BehindBy Nan Austin naustin@modbee.com E-Mail Printreprint or license0 CommentsText Size: Parents were supposed to get power under the No Child Left Behind Act to recognize failing schools and choose to leave them or help fix them.But too often all the schools in low-income neighborhoods are on federal watch lists. Few parents move their children to higher performing schools when given the ... more »
State senators pass a teacher effectiveness bill with blessing of Rhee’s group: Are they trying to irk teachers? | Get Schooled
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State senators pass a teacher effectiveness bill with blessing of Rhee’s group: Are they trying to irk teachers? | Get Schooled:State senators pass a teacher effectiveness bill with blessing of Rhee’s group: Are they trying to irk teachers?6:18 pm January 9, 2012, by Maureen DowneyI am perplexed why the first official state press release on an education reform bill out of the Georgia Senate quotes an official from StudentsFirst, the education advocacy group created by former Washington school chancellor Michelle ... more »
Diane Ravitch To Discuss NY School Reform in Cobble Hill - Carroll Gardens, NY Patch
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Diane Ravitch To Discuss NY School Reform in Cobble Hill - Carroll Gardens, NY Patch:Diane Ravitch To Discuss NY School Reform in Cobble HillThe bestselling author will be speaking at PS 29 on Tuesday, January 10.By Gwen RuelleEmail the authorJanuary 9, 2012 Email Print Comment Upload Photos and VideosDiane Ravitch will be discussing her newest bestseller, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, tommorrow evening at PS 29 in Cobble ... more »
What’s missing from education reform debate - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
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What’s missing from education reform debate - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:What’s missing from education reform debateby Valerie StraussThis was written by Mark Naison, professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University in New York and chair of the department of African and African-American Studies. He is also co-director of the Urban Studies Program, African-American History 20th Century. This first appeared on the blog With A Brooklyn Accent.Read full article Virginia governor pushes questionable ed reformsValerie ... more »
Schools Matter: Why not try the obvious first?
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Schools Matter: Why not try the obvious first?:Why not try the obvious first?by skrashenWhy not try the obvious first?Sent to the Chicago Tribune, Jan 9, 2012According to one principal, students need a longer school day so they can catch up in reading (“Chicago schools to begin longer days Monday,” Jan 9).We can get much bigger gains spending less money and with much less work, with an approach that children will like a lot better than staying in school longer: Invest ... more »
Florida’s budget solution: Ban the kids - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com
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Florida’s budget solution: Ban the kids - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com:Florida’s budget solution: Ban the kids BY FRED GRIMMFGRIMM@MIAMIHERALD.COMMiamiHerald.com/columnistsPondering the budget Gov. Scott sent to the Legislature, I’m overcome with something similar to the sentiment suffered by adults in the lobby of Disney World’s Animal Kingdom Lodge.One admires the soaring thatched ceiling, huge wooden beams, hard-carved furnishings, faux African artifacts and the wild (or at least wildish) animals roaming the grounds, and lament that this could be one of the ... more »
What’s Wrong With Walcott? « JD2718
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What’s Wrong With Walcott? « JD2718:What’s Wrong With Walcott?by jd2718by Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher, JFK HS, and former Bronx High School UFT District Rep“I’m not going to remove him, but he knows he cannot have any similar type of comments. He is on a very strict line as far as his behavior,” said Walcott, who added that some school staffers want Chase to remain in his post.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx-principal-fire-outrageous-machine-comments-photocopier-article-1.1002357#ixzz1iy5ky7opFollowing the deplorable moral standards of his predecessors ... more »
Parents’ Rights in Prince William County Schools « PWC Education Reform Blog
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Parents’ Rights in Prince William County Schools « PWC Education Reform Blog:Parents’ Rights in Prince William County SchoolsJanuary 9, 2012 — pwceducationreformCan parents review the information the public schools hold about them and their children? Can they access their child’s locker? Can the public schools distribute a student’s information outside the local school district without the parents’ consent, for instance to the state or federal Department of Education or other organizations / institutions?The first, can parents review the information PWCS ... more »
School Tech Connect: Low Morale?
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School Tech Connect: Low Morale?:Low Morale?by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)I can't imagine why.Can you imagine trying to teach anything worthwhile while having these stupid pacing guides shoved down your
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Ed Reform Marches On In Washington State
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Ed Reform Marches On In Washington State:Ed Reform Marches On In Washington Stateby Melissa WestbrookLisa Macfarlane, who helped co-found LEV, has moved on and is now the head of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) with this modest-sounding goal:"..a political organization focused on encouraging a more productive conversation within the Democratic Party on the need to fundamentally reform public education. DFER operates at all levels of government to educate elected officials and support reform-minded candidates for public ... more »