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Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans - NorthJersey.com
Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans - NorthJersey.com: Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans by Nancy Kearney Senate turns to partisan fight over student loans SUNDAY MAY 6, 2012, 9:49 AM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS PAGES: 1 2 > DISPLAY ON ONE PAGE | PRINT | E-MAIL WASHINGTON — The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over federal student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other. [image: The U.S. Capitol building is seen in Washington.] AP PHOTO The U.S. Capitol building is seen in Washington. With Co... more »
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Yong Zhao: Common Core = Uncommon Profits
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Yong Zhao: Common Core = Uncommon Profits: Yong Zhao: Common Core = Uncommon Profits by Mike Klonsky University of Oregon professor Yong Zhao is an author and critic of current corporate reform policies in education. His new book, *World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students,* will released by Corwin Press in August. The book includes three elements of an excellent education: personalized learning/student autonomy, product-oriented learning, and the globe as the campus. Anthony Cody interviews Yong on his Living in Dial... more »
Local superintendents voice concern about state commission - chicagotribune.com
Local superintendents voice concern about state commission - chicagotribune.com: Local superintendents voice concern about state commission - [image: Email] - [image: print] - Comments 0 - Share0 - - - Reena SinghWatertown Daily Times, N.Y. 6:50 a.m. CDT, May 5, 2012 School districts and the state government have been butting heads for the past three years as aid dropped and standards rose. However, officials in Albany may make more of an effort to address the issues superintendents face daily. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced a new education commissio... more »
Private interests vs. school reform: It’s time to fight - Philly.com
Private interests vs. school reform: It’s time to fight - Philly.com: Private interests vs. school reform: It’s time to fight May 04, 2012 - - - Share on emailShare on printShare on redditMore Sharing Services - - - - LAST WEEK, the Philadelphia School District announced plans to completely overhaul itself and close more than 40 public schools next year. By closing the schools, for what it describes as considerable financial, academic, and safety concerns, the district claims that it will be able to restructure in ways that are m... more »
Yong Zhao Interview: Will the Common Core Create World-Class Learners? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Yong Zhao Interview: Will the Common Core Create World-Class Learners? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Yong Zhao Interview: Will the Common Core Create World-Class Learners? By Anthony Cody on May 6, 2012 10:32 AM University of Oregon professor Yong Zhao's 2009 book Catching Up or Leading the Way sent a jolt through our educational system. He questioned the use of tests and "accountability" from the unique perspective of someone educated in China, now living - and raising children - in the USA. His next book is due out soon, so I asked him to share some thoughts about... more »
Why Local Public Schools Should Not Be Turned Over to Charter School Companies to Run - Wait, What?
Why Local Public Schools Should Not Be Turned Over to Charter School Companies to Run - Wait, What?: Why Local Public Schools Should Not Be Turned Over to Charter School Companies to Run by jonpelto Late last week, Representative Gary Holder-Winfield of New Haven and most of the members of the General Assembly’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus held a press conference to speak out about Governor Malloy’s “education reform” legislation. These legislators, some of the finest and most dedicated in the General Assembly, had important things to say about the “education reform” debate. D... more »
Education Report: Election week and political dissent within the Oakland teachers union - Inside Bay Area
Education Report: Election week and political dissent within the Oakland teachers union - Inside Bay Area: Education Report: Election week and political dissent within the Oakland teachers union By Katy Murphy Oakland Tribune Posted: 05/06/2012 12:00:00 AM PDT This is a sampling of The Education Report, Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog. Read more atwww.IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/KatyMurphy. May 1: It's election week for the Oakland teachers union, and that has extra significance this year. Betty Olson-Jones, the Oakland Education Association president sin...more »
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Do you have customers, or students in your classroom and school?
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Do you have customers, or students in your classroom and school?: Do you have customers, or students in your classroom and school? by alicemercer [image: House Rules] Someone on #edchat on twitter posted a quip that was hard to figure out about auto repair shops and how we didn’t get to know our “customers” in education. Twitter is like a cocktail party, and I definitely walked into that conversation mid-way, so he might have been making an excellent point, but I really do not like using the word “customer” to describe the families that we s... more »
Daily Kos: An Alternative to the Common Core
Daily Kos: An Alternative to the Common Core: An Alternative to the Common Core by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) For much of our modern era, our culture thought of the human heart as a machine that would wear out after a given number of heart beats. People with heart disease were put in bed to prolong their lives. That is a quote from this op-ed in the Ogden Utah Standard-Examiner, which I am going to urge you to read. The author is Lynn Stoddard, a retired educator from Utah now in his 80s, who is perhaps best known for his development some 25 years ago of an approach called Edu... more »
A City Education: Teaching the Value of Education Beyond State Tests - Education - GOOD
A City Education: Teaching the Value of Education Beyond State Tests - Education - GOOD: A City Education: Teaching the Value of Education Beyond State Tests by Liz Dwyer [image: testpreptutoring] *In our A City Education series, two City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the achievement gap and ending the dropout crisis.* "Why are we still meeting? The test is over," one of my English Language Arts students asked me during a recent tutoring session. He and his classmates had completed three days of New York State... more »
The Innovative Educator: Using Cell Phones to Support Student Engagement & Achievement in Speaking and Listening
The Innovative Educator: Using Cell Phones to Support Student Engagement & Achievement in Speaking and Listening: Using Cell Phones to Support Student Engagement & Achievement in Speaking and Listening by noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen) Cell phones are a terrific tool to support student engagement and achievement in speaking and listening. Here are some ways that teachers are using cell phones to do just that by using tools like Google Voice and Voki and functions like video. *Oral Reports* There are many great tools to capture voice with cell phones. Google voice is one such... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Stanford Business Common Sense Study, Innovative Teachers (Homeschooling Parents) and #firearneduncan in the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 05.06.12
Missouri Education Watchdog: Stanford Business Common Sense Study, Innovative Teachers (Homeschooling Parents) and #firearneduncan in the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 05.06.12: Stanford Business Common Sense Study, Innovative Teachers (Homeschooling Parents) and #firearneduncan in the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 05.06.12 by stlgretchen Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for 05.06.2012. Some visual soundbites from twitter: - Stanford Business creates video on how intervention strategies can help children in school. *Listen carefully.* Parse it down into co... more »
“the period of invisible punishment” | The G Bitch Spot
“the period of invisible punishment” | The G Bitch Spot: “the period of invisible punishment” by G Bitch One theorist, Iris Marion Young, relying on a famous “birdcage” metaphor, explains it this way: If one thinks about racism by examining only one wire of the cage, or one form of disadvantage, it is difficult to understand how and why the bird is trapped. Only a large number of wires arranged in a specific way, and connected to one another, serve to enclose the bird and to ensure that it cannot escape *[184]*. This, in brief, is how [the system of mass incarceration] works: The W... more »
From pineapples to small schools, alum Mike Klonsky's work is no small talk | University of Illinois at Chicago | College of Education
From pineapples to small schools, alum Mike Klonsky's work is no small talk | University of Illinois at Chicago | College of Education: From pineapples to small schools, alum Mike Klonsky's work is no small talk *Professor Michael Klonsky teaches in the College of Education at DePaul University in Chicago. He also serves as the national director of the Small Schools Workshop, and on the national steering committee of Save Our Schools, a national movement dedicated to supporting public schools. Klonsky has blogged, spoken and written extensively on school reform issues with a focus ... more »
Inside the Academy: Diane Ravitch
DIANE RAVITCH is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She is also a nonresident senior research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Ravitch, a member of the National Academy of Education, has previously taught at Teachers College, Columbia University and lectured widely in Europe and Asia on issues of democracy and civic education. Serving as an advocate for public education through government service, Ravitch championed the creation of voluntary state and national standards as the Assistant Secretary of Education ... more »
Schools Matter: ExxonMobil Ads for Corporate Education Reform
Schools Matter: ExxonMobil Ads for Corporate Education Reform: ExxonMobil Ads for Corporate Education Reform by Jim Horn ExxonMobil is one of the chief sources of ad revenue that feeds the obscenely-inflated cash prizes of the PGA. The Masters--brought to you by ExxonMobil, Jim Nance croons, from all the Augusta National Golf Club, the entirely pristine, manicured, and all-male bastion just miles from a ghosty and deserted streets downtown Augusta that even the panhandlers have deserted. During the past week, I've seen 2 ads during PGA events from ExxonMobil's new campaign... more »
Back at the Red Line. Why I’m a sucker to Tony. « Fred Klonsky
Back at the Red Line. Why I’m a sucker to Tony. « Fred Klonsky: Back at the Red Line. Why I’m a sucker to Tony. by Fred Klonsky On Friday I’m back at the Red Line Tap. There’s Tony at the bar. Tony is always at the bar, so that’s not a surprise. “You look like crap,” says Tony. “Let me buy you one.” “Long week,” I say. “Seven days, like always,” says Tony, who has no permanent relationship with the capitalist system that I am of
Opportunity Knocks - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher
Opportunity Knocks - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Opportunity Knocks by Nancy Flanagan Here's a new one for the ol' Reformy Thesaurus: the "Opportunity Culture" in education. Sure sounds good, doesn't it? Who doesn't want our American kids to have more opportunities in life? Except--oops--this campaign, rolled out by Public Impact, is actually about opportunities for "teacherpreneurs" to make more money by teaching oversized classes--and of course, for school districts to seize that same opportunity to save money through "innovative" staffing models. How di... more »
In controversial move, LAUSD's Deasy wants to raise high-school graduation requirements - LA Daily News
In controversial move, LAUSD's Deasy wants to raise high-school graduation requirements - LA Daily News: In controversial move, LAUSD's Deasy wants to raise high-school graduation requirements By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer Posted: 05/05/2012 05:22:47 PM PDT Updated: 05/05/2012 05:24:44 PM PDT Students in teacher James Schwagle's physics lab at Francis Polytechnic High School in Sun Valley do an experiment to graph velocity vs. time. The LAUSD board is set next week to consider a change in the curriculum that would require every student to take college-prep classes to graduate.... more »
Paul Vallas, vassal and executioner of public schools: Dateline New Orleans, Haiti and Philadelphia | Dailycensored.com
Paul Vallas, vassal and executioner of public schools: Dateline New Orleans, Haiti and Philadelphia | Dailycensored.com: Paul Vallas, vassal and executioner of public schools: Dateline New Orleans, Haiti and PhiladelphiaWritten by Danny WeilEducation, World NewsMay 5, 2012 0digg Share Readers might remember the distasteful case of gun-for-hire, former Superintendent of the Philadelphia School District and New Orleans School District, Paul Vallas and his erstwhile dismantling of New Orleans’ school district after Hurricane Katrina. Vallas was on hand to help fire the entire New Or... more »
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