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2012-Mar-2
Mother Crusader: NJDOE Conducts A Careful And Stringent Approval Process? Now THAT Is Funny!Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-4 minutes agoMother Crusader: NJDOE Conducts A Careful And Stringent Approval Process? Now THAT Is Funny!:NJDOE Conducts A Careful And Stringent Approval Process? Now THAT Is Funny!by darciecimaI had a bit of an outburst when I read this in today's NJDOE press release:Under the Christie Administration, the Department has strengthened charter operations by:Following a careful and stringent three-stage review and approval ...
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2012-Mar-1
Sac City board votes to keep A.M. Winn Elementary open - Education - The Sacramento Bee:Sac City board votes to keep A.M. Winn Elementary openShareBy Melody Gutierrezmgutierrez@sacbee.comPublished: Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 10:17 pmLast Modified: Thursday, Mar. 1, 2012 - 10:36 pmSacramento Unified School District school board members voted to keep A.M. Winn Elementary School open, although many trustees acknowledged school closures need to be considered in the cash-strapped district.Students, parents and teachers of the Rancho Cordova school celebrated the ...
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2012-Mar-1
Making Learning Relevant for the Whole Child « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:Making Learning Relevant for the Whole Childby ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost submitted by Tim Magner, executive director of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), the leading national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. Magner has had an extensive career in education, serving most recently as the vice president of Keystone for KC Distance Learning as well as the director of ...
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2012-Mar-1
Anti charter school resolution passed by The Nova Project PTSA | Seattle Education:Anti charter school resolution passed by The Nova Project PTSAby seattleducation2011Resolution from The Nova Project PTSA(also referred to as Nova High School)The Nova Project is an alternative public high school in Seattle that is committed to equitable education for all students. Our community believes that fully funded public education is fundamental to the survival of our democracy and collective well-being. We call upon all citizens to demand adequate ...
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2012-Mar-2
Schools Matter: Education: Quick Takes:Education: Quick Takesby P. L. ThomasI'll avoid the pitfall of quoting Polonius about brevity (hint: Polonius is a blowhard being satirized by Shakespeare and not passing on pearls of wisdom). So instead, I'll credit Stephen Krashen [1] for his dedication to brief commentary on education reform. Here are a couple quick takes on education worthy of deeper and genuine consideration:• My home state of South Carolina has a long history of creating controversy around issues large ...
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2012-Mar-2
Shanker Blog » A Look At The Education Programs Of The Gates Foundation:A Look At The Education Programs Of The Gates Foundationby Ken LibbyOur guest author today is Ken Libby, a graduate student studying educational foundations, policy and practice at the University of Colorado at Boulder.The Bill Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest philanthropic organization involved in public education. Their flexible capital allows the foundation to change course, experiment and take on tasks that would be problematic for other organizations.Although ...
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2012-Mar-2
Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!: Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!Published by Coopmike48 – 7 news spotters todayNext update in about 10 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONSOCIETYSTORIESBUSINESSCRIMEWORLD#EDU#SOSCHAT A Civil Right to Unionizenytimes.com - FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progres...mikeklonskyBorn to Not Get Bulliednytimes.com - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. When she was in high school, Lady Gaga says, she ...
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2012-Mar-2
Steinberg back with API alternative | Thoughts on Public Education:Steinberg back with API alternative - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guessby John Fensterwald - Educated GuessRebuffed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg is back with another academic accountability bill, this time giving the governor lots of latitude to help redefine how to measure schools’ performance. SB 1458 needs to be vague, because, at this point, no one but Brown professes to know what he ...
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2012-Mar-2
NYC Educator: Christopher and the Measure of a Teacher:Christopher and the Measure of a Teacherby NYC Educator -by special guest blogger Citizen DoeThe release of Teacher Data Reports in NYC has focused attention on evaluating teachers with the use of numbers derived from complicated algorithms that are said to measure the “value” teachers “add” to their students. These algorithms pivot on the use of student test scores.Numbers do tell stories, and the public is being told that it can trust ...
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2012-Mar-2
The Educated Reporter: When States Cut Education Funding, Parents Pay the Price:When States Cut Education Funding, Parents Pay the Priceby Emily RichmondThe Occupy Education movement is in full swing across the country, with protestors holding walkouts and sit-ins at public colleges and universities, and demanding funding be restored from preschool through graduate school.The budget cuts have been particularly deep in California, where students are worried about the potential long-term damage to the extensive network of public colleges and universities, as ...
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2012-Mar-1
Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!: Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!Published by Coopmike48 – 7 news spotters todayNext update in about 11 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONSOCIETYSTORIESPOLITICSBUSINESSHEALTH#SIGNON#OCCUPYED Born to Not Get Bulliednytimes.com - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. When she was in high school, Lady Gaga says, she was thrown into a trash can. The culprits were boys down the block, she told me in an interview on Wednesday in...arneduncanA promise to education and other liestucsoncitizen.com - Katie Dabney, an administrator in the Vail School District ...
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2012-Mar-1
Making Learning Relevant for the Whole Child « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:Making Learning Relevant for the Whole Childby ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost submitted by Tim Magner, executive director of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), the leading national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. Magner has had an extensive career in education, serving most recently as the vice president of Keystone for KC Distance Learning as well as the director of ...
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2012-Mar-1
Anti charter school resolution passed by The Nova Project PTSA | Seattle Education:Anti charter school resolution passed by The Nova Project PTSAby seattleducation2011Resolution from The Nova Project PTSA(also referred to as Nova High School)The Nova Project is an alternative public high school in Seattle that is committed to equitable education for all students. Our community believes that fully funded public education is fundamental to the survival of our democracy and collective well-being. We call upon all citizens to demand adequate ...
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2012-Mar-1
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Democracy Now!:Democracy Now!by Mike KlonskyOccupy Education: Teachers, Students Fight School Closings, Privatization, Layoffs, RankingsPopout
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2012-Mar-1
Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!: Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!Published by Coopmike48 – 7 news spotters todayNext update in about 10 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONSOCIETYSTORIESPOLITICSBUSINESSADULT#EDREFORM#SIGNON Teacher Cheating Scandals Spur Obama Administration Call To Address Growing Problemhuffingtonpost.com - The first time Bob Wilson, a former DeKalb County, Georgia, district attorney, interviewed educators suspected of cheating on exams in 56 Atlanta schools, he got nothing. The second time, armed wit...DianeRavitchNorth Dakota school superintendent Wayne Sanstead retiringbismarcktribune.com - After more than 46 years in ...
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2012-Mar-1
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-29 #soschat #ReclaimingReformBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-13 minutes agoCalif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB Waiver - Politics K-12 - Education WeekBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-26 minutes agoCalif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB Waiver - Politics K-12 - Education Week:Calif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB WaiverBy Michele McNeil on February 29, 2012 3:03 PMBy Sean CavanaghCalifornia is continuing to hold out ...
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2012-Feb-29
Calif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB Waiver - Politics K-12 - Education WeekBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-26 minutes agoCalif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB Waiver - Politics K-12 - Education Week:Calif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB WaiverBy Michele McNeil on February 29, 2012 3:03 PMBy Sean CavanaghCalifornia is continuing to hold out on pursuing a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act, citing its objections to the Obama administration's requirements of ...
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2012-Feb-29
Teacher Cheating Scandals Spur Obama Administration Call To Address Growing Problem:Teacher Cheating Scandals Spur Obama Administration Call To Address Growing Problemby Joy ResmovitsThe first time Bob Wilson, a former DeKalb County, Georgia, district attorney, interviewed educators suspected of cheating on exams in 56 Atlanta schools, he got nothing. The second time, armed with information, lawyers and Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents, the teachers began to crack.By last summer, the investigation by Wilson and his colleagues gave Atlanta the notoriety of ...
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2012-Feb-29
Modern School: Only Slavery Can Save a School When Funding Dries Up?:Only Slavery Can Save a School When Funding Dries Up?by Michael DunnTilden Middle School in Philadelphia lost a number of teachers to budget cuts this year, as well as a secretary, noontime aides, and money for their before- and after-school programs. Despite the cuts, they managed to add a grief-counseling program, which may have helped kids deal with the loss of favorite teachers axed as a result of the ...
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2012-Feb-29
Calif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB Waiver - Politics K-12 - Education Week:Calif. Seeks its Own Version of an NCLB WaiverBy Michele McNeil on February 29, 2012 3:03 PMBy Sean CavanaghCalifornia is continuing to hold out on pursuing a waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act, citing its objections to the Obama administration's requirements of states that want that flexibility.Instead, the state is considering asking federal officials for its own brand of flexibility from the law—without having ...
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2012-Feb-29
The True Story of Pascale Mauclair | Edwize:The True Story of Pascale MauclairFeb. 28, 20124:14 pmby Leo Casey 18 CommentsFiled under:EducationWithin hours of the publication of the Teacher Data Reports (TDRs) last Friday, the UFT began to hear stories of teachers and their families being hounded by news reporters from the New York Post.On Friday evening, New York Post reporters appeared at the door of the father of Pascale Mauclair, a sixth grade teacher at P.S. 11, the Kathryn Phelan ...
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2012-Feb-29
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2012-Feb-29
How goes today's planned sickout in DISD? | Dallas ISD Blog | dallasnews.com:How goes today's planned sickout in DISD?by Tawnell Hobbs/ReporterToday is the day for the planned sickout announced last month by an anonymous Dallas ISD teacher. The teacher, known as "Mr. Jones," has implored his colleagues on his blog to call in sick today (Leap Day) to protest a decision by DISD trustees to extend the teacher workday by 45 minutes with no increase in pay. Over the weekend, ...
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2012-Feb-29
Seeking Practical Uses of the NYC VAM Data??? « School Finance 101:Seeking Practical Uses of the NYC VAM Data???by schoolfinance101A short while back, in a follow up post regarding the Chetty/Friedman/Rockoff study I wrote about how and when I might use VAM results, if I happened to be in a decision making role in a school or district:I would want to be able to generate a report of the VA estimates for teachers in the district. Ideally, I’d like to ...
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2012-Feb-29
Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!: Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!Published by Coopmike48 – 8 news spotters todayNext update in about 10 hoursSee all articlesHEADLINESEDUCATIONSOCIETYPOLITICSSTORIESBUSINESSLEISURE#TWILL#CORPREFORM Jonny Cohen and Green Shieldsmakeitbetter.net - return to Make A Difference Local Treasures Apr 2010 | By Susan B. Noyes | TAGS: May 2010 magazine, Jonny Cohen, Green Shields, Susan B Noyes Jonny Cohen was taking everything in the house ap...arneduncanGary Rubenstein Demonstrates That the NYC ‘Value Added’ Measurements are Insane « GFBrandenburg's Bloggfbrandenburg.wordpress.com - Gary ...
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2012-Feb-29
Lid's off divided Sacramento school board - Education - The Sacramento Bee:Lid's off divided Sacramento school boardShareBy Melody Gutierrezmgutierrez@sacbee.comPublished: Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1AFor more than two years after he was hired, Sacramento City Unified Superintendent Jonathan Raymond delayed closing under-enrolled schools even as the district cut nearly $43 million to deal with funding shortfalls.Raymond said he wanted to find a way to base school closures on data, such as low enrollment and facility condition, ...
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2012-Feb-29
Missouri Education Watchdog: Arne Duncan Surrounded by Conspiracy Theorists. Oh, the Horror!:Arne Duncan Surrounded by Conspiracy Theorists. Oh, the Horror!by stlgretchenUtah lawmakers are reconsidering the implementation of Common Core standards by the State Board of Education. South Carolina is looking to possibly rescind its Common Core implementation and Arne Duncan did not take kindly to that state debating whether to reclaim its constitutional right to educate its own citizens.Duncan called such a notion from South Carolina lawmakers "a conspiracy theory ...
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2012-Feb-28
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2012-Feb-28
The Facts About Charter Schools - www.togetherwesoar.orgBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-21 minutes agowww.togetherwesoar.orgThe Facts About Charter SchoolsCharter schools are out-of-state, for-profit corporations that make personal profits from education tax dollars. The introduction of charter schools to Alabama will take nearly $200 million a year from our neighborhood public schools. Yet, major studies prove that charter schools fail to provide a better alternative to existing neighborhood public schools. Our kids can’t afford to lose another $200 million every year ...
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2012-Feb-28
Daily Kos: Education data matters when it can be used against teachers, but Michelle Rhee retains Teflon coat:Education data matters when it can be used against teachers, but Michelle Rhee retains Teflon coatbyLaura ClawsonFollowforDaily Kos LaborShareNew PERMALINK19 COMMENTS(Iris Harris—U.S. Department of Commerce)Two stories once again highlight how the supposedly data-driven corporate-style education reform is actually driven by ideology, with no data too shoddy and suspect to be held up against teachers or as a victory for "reform," and no amount ...
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2012-Feb-28
Missouri Education Watchdog: Excellence vs Equity in the Classroom. Inflammatory Classroom Techniques?:Excellence vs Equity in the Classroom. Inflammatory Classroom Techniques?by stlgretchen"Heresy! I say, "Heresy"! Focusing on "excellence" rather than "equity" in math education?"A fellow traveler in education circles sent and remarked (above) on an article from Educational Leadership praising the long discarded teaching technique of ability grouping in the classroom: A school in Arizona was able to curb the exodus of its top students to nearby charter schools by
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2012-Feb-28
Performance Ratings for Charter School Teachers Is Made Public – SchoolBook:Performance Ratings for Charter School Teachers Is Made Publicby Anna M. PhillipsPerformance ratings for 217 New York City charter school teachers were made public on Tuesday but city officials cautioned that because of missing information, the reports cannot be used to objectively compare the quality of a public school versus charter school education.The controversial ratings cover math and English teachers of grades four to eight at 32 charter schools. These ...
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2012-Feb-28
The Academic Service-Learning Answer to Student Engagement « The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education:The Academic Service-Learning Answer to Student Engagementby ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost submitted by Teri Dary, co-chair of whole child partner the National Coalition for Academic Service-Learning (NCASL) and service-learning consultant at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. At NCASL, she leads collaborative efforts to advance academic service-learning in the school setting among state-level service-learning experts. Connect with Dary through the NCASL website and follow her ...
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2012-Feb-28
You’ve Been VAM-IFIED! Thoughts ( Graphs) on the NYC Teacher Data « School Finance 101:You’ve Been VAM-IFIED! Thoughts ( Graphs) on the NYC Teacher Databy schoolfinance101Readers of my blog know I’m both a data geek and a skeptic of the usefulness of Value-added data specifically as a human resource management tool for schools and districts. There’s been much talk this week about the release of the New York City teacher ratings to the media, and subsequent publication of those data ...
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2012-Feb-28
Arthur Camins: Why are Education Innovations Always Slip Slidin' Away? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher:Arthur Camins: Why are Education Innovations Always Slip Slidin' Away?by Anthony CodyGuest post by Arthur Camins.Slip slidin' awaySlip slidin' awayYou know the nearer your destinationThe more you're slip slidin' awayPaul SimonThe current narrative for improving education in the United States is based on two undeniable charges and several simple and compelling solutions.The current charges: Despite decades of effort we have failed to substantially ...
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2012-Feb-28
How to Demoralize Teachers - Bridging Differences - Education Week:How to Demoralize Teachersby Diane RavitchDear Deborah,Two weeks ago, New York state's highest court ruled that the New York City Department of Education could release for public scrutiny the value-added ratings of teachers of mathematics and English in grades 4-8. Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, joined by other media, had filed a "freedom of information" request to obtain the testing data, and the United Federation of Teachers opposed their release, saying ...
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2012-Feb-28
NY principal: Teacher scores inaccurate at my school - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:NY principal: Teacher scores inaccurate at my schoolby Valerie StraussThe information below comes from Elizabeth Phillips, principal of P.S. 321 in Park Slope, N.Y., about how badlythe newly released rankings of New York City public school teachers reflect the reality at her school. Phillips wrote that she is “absolutely sick” about the public release of the Teacher Data Reports (TDR) of some 18,000 teachers based ...
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2012-Feb-28
Virtual Lobby Day Tuesday. School board members can do it too. « Fred Klonsky:Virtual Lobby Day Tuesday. School board members can do it too.by Fred KlonskyThe IEA may not be mobilizing people to go to Springfield. But teachers in this area want to go anyway. So we’re looking into getting a bus (maybe two) and heading down to the Capitol after Spring break.Sometimes things are too important to be left to those in charge.But today is today. Time to send ...
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2012-Feb-27
State board re-examines statewide rights for charters | California Watch:State board re-examines statewide rights for chartersFebruary 9, 2011 | Corey G. JohnsonThe State Board of Education will hold a public hearing today to discuss what has become a thorny question: Under what circumstances should a charter school company be allowed to bypass local district control and operate statewide?The board has granted statewide status to three charter school organizations since 2006: High Tech High, Pacific Technology School and Aspire Public Schools.The ...
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2012-Feb-27
Enforcement Chief at Postsecondary Bureau to Resign - The Bay Citizen:Enforcement Chief at Postsecondary Bureau to ResignResignation comes after The Bay Citizen revealed the bureau failed to properly oversee state's for-profit schoolsTEXT SIZE A A ABy JENNIFER GOLLAN on February 27, 2012 - 6:34 p.m. PSTstart discussionScreen shot from California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools Annual ConferenceKaren Newquist speaks to the California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools' Annual Conference in Oct. 2011.The administrator in charge of policing the state’s for-profit ...
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2012-Feb-27
Video: The Occupy Seattle Public Education Work Group Invites the Gates Foundation to a Policy Throwdown | Seattle Education:Video: The Occupy Seattle Public Education Work Group Invites the Gates Foundation to a Policy Throwdownby seattleducation2011Seattle Protest and March for Public EducationMarch 1 National Day of Action for EducationBanks got bailed out, students and teachers got sold out!Thursday, March 12:45pm – Gather at Westlake Park3:30pm – March to the Gates Foundation Headquarters (5th Mercer)4:15pm – Rally, teach-in, and grade-in led by ...
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2012-Feb-27
NYC Public School Parents: Why public shaming of teachers is exactly what the corporate reformers want -- with nationwide implications for our public schools:Why public shaming of teachers is exactly what the corporate reformers want -- with nationwide implications for our public schoolsby Leonie HaimsonThe NYC teacher data reports were released on Friday; and it’s no surprise that Rupert Murdoch's NY Post was the first out of the gate to name and shame a teacher with a low rating. Sunday’s ...
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2012-Feb-27
Outrage Spreads Throughout New York City And State At The Sell-out of Members' Rights By The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) - ParentAdvocates.orgBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-6 minutes agoParent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.org:Outrage Spreads Throughout New York City And State At The Sell-out of Members' Rights By The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) And the Unity CaucusNYC UFT officers are members of Unity, not the UFT. Yet Mike Mulgrew, President of the UFT has the authority to bargain for ...
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2012-Feb-26
Parent Advocates - ParentAdvocates.org:Outrage Spreads Throughout New York City And State At The Sell-out of Members' Rights By The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) And the Unity CaucusNYC UFT officers are members of Unity, not the UFT. Yet Mike Mulgrew, President of the UFT has the authority to bargain for all members, and has at his side Attorneys Carol Gerstl, Adam Ross, Richard Iannuzzi (NYSUT) and NYC NYSUT Chief Claude Hersh. The recently released teacher evaluation data is sending a ...
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2012-Feb-26
Reading List: VAM (Value Added Measures) - Sacramento City Teachers AssociationBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-1 hour agoReading List: VAM (Value Added Measures) - Sacramento City Teachers Association:Reading List: VAM (Value Added Measures)Formula for deriving a teacher’s value added score in New York CityOne of the biggest topics in education lately has been the use of Value added measures also known by the acronym, VAM. In recent days, New York has been roiling in controversy with the release of ...
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2012-Feb-26
Education Dept.’s Washington Schools Inquiry - NYTimes.com:Amid a Federal Education Inquiry, an Unsettling SightPablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press; Alex Wong, via Getty ImagesA spokesman for Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left, cautioned against the presumption of guilt in an investigation of Washington schools under the direction of Michelle Rhee.By MICHAEL WINERIPPublished: February 26, 2012RECOMMENDTWITTERLINKEDINCOMMENTSSIGN IN TO E-MAILPRINTSINGLE PAGEREPRINTSSHAREWhat was Arne Duncan doing sharing the stage with Michelle Rheeat a recent education conference?News, data and conversation about education in New York.Join us on ...
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2012-Feb-26
Reading List: VAM (Value Added Measures) - Sacramento City Teachers Association:Reading List: VAM (Value Added Measures)Formula for deriving a teacher’s value added score in New York CityOne of the biggest topics in education lately has been the use of Value added measures also known by the acronym, VAM. In recent days, New York has been roiling in controversy with the release of teacher reports (more at New York Teacher Ratings Released — “At Best Unwise, At Worst Absurd”). The release ...
