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In election year, how to teach democracy - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
In election year, how to teach democracy - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: In election year, how to teach democracy By Valerie Strauss This was* written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University. A version of this was published on his Edutopia blog , and he also publishes a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal.* ** By Mark Phillips School’s out. Politics is in. Five months of presidential political combat lie ahead. It’s time to consider the challenge of effectively educating kids to be active part... more »
The Fraud Continues « Diane Ravitch's blog
The Fraud Continues « Diane Ravitch's blog: The Fraud Continues by dianerav Secretary of Education Arne Duncan likes to boast of the success of the turnaround model, in which the principal is fired along with at least half the staff or the school is closed. “We can’t wait,” say the reformers. Here is a report from a turnaround school. This email came today from a high school math teacher in a “turnaround” school: * Pushing teachers to pass everyone is a widespread practice now. Anyone who has more than a 15% failure rate in a class, not hard to do in math, is called dow... more »
WORKING LIST! Why Testing & Privatization are Harmful – Not Helpful – to Public Education – by Dov Rosenberg (Reblogged) « Continuing Change
WORKING LIST! Why Testing & Privatization are Harmful – Not Helpful – to Public Education – by Dov Rosenberg (Reblogged) « Continuing Change: WORKING LIST! Why Testing & Privatization are Harmful – Not Helpful – to Public Education – by Dov Rosenberg (Reblogged) by gatorbonbc WORKING LIST! Why Testing & Privatization are Harmful – Not Helpful – to Public Education *by Dov Rosenberg on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 1:12pm · (Reblogged)* * * *High stakes tests & charter schools make public schools less effective:* * A) High stakes tests do not effectively gauge student ability, are ha... more »
Outgoing Seminole County Superintendent Blasts Legislature, Florida’s Ed Accountability System | Scathing Purple Musings
Outgoing Seminole County Superintendent Blasts Legislature, Florida’s Ed Accountability System | Scathing Purple Musings: Outgoing Seminole County Superintendent Blasts Legislature, Florida’s Ed Accountability System by Bob Sikes Telling the *Orlando Sentinel *that “we have an accountability system that is going to fall apart like a house of cards,” retiring Seminole superintendent of schools Bill Vogel criticized state leaders for “making up the rules as they go along” without listening to educators. Yowza. Vogel, superintendent of Seminole County schools, has a reputation as a ... more »
Potter Williams Report: Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee Running Interference for Foreign Staffed Charters in TN
Potter Williams Report: StudentsFirst CEO Running Interference for Foreign Staffed Charters in TN: POTTER WILLIAMS REPORT: STUDENTSFIRST CEO RUNNING INTERFERENCE FOR FOREIGN STAFFED CHARTERS IN TN STUDENTSFIRST CEO RUNNING INTERFERENCE FOR FOREIGN STAFFED CHARTERS IN TN So, let’s get this straight. The CEO of a billion dollar education nonprofit lobbying organization tries to influence a governor on an education bill while her ex-husband runs the state public schools system. StudentsFirst CEO Michelle Rhee recently penned a letter to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam ...more »
Muskegon Heights plan to charter schools, cut $12-million deficit may be a first | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Muskegon Heights plan to charter schools, cut $12-million deficit may be a first | Detroit Free Press | freep.com: Muskegon Heights plan to charter schools, cut $12-million deficit may be a first [image: Charter Schools - Dividing Communities since 1991] The emergency manager for Muskegon Heights Public Schools is taking an unprecedented approach to eliminate the district's severe debt -- one of the worst deficits among Michigan's schools -- by chartering the entire west Michigan district. It's a first-of-its-kind maneuver in Michigan and one that others are watching with curio... more »
Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky
Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky: Sunday links. by Fred Klonsky *John Dillon’s vocabulary of the week:* Collective bargaining. As the numbers of unionized workers decreases so does the income of working people. People try to tell me we don’t need unions any more. I say, now more than ever. *Apple* needs a union. *Here’s a video on Chicago’s campaign for an elected school board.* If we can elect the people who filter the lake water for us to drink, why can’t we be trusted to pick the people who run our public schools? *Freya Reese answers the question, “What’s wrong with merit pay?”* EV... more »
Awareness Grows that High Stakes Tests Are Failing to Prepare Students for College | Scathing Purple Musings
Awareness Grows that High Stakes Tests Are Failing to Prepare Students for College | Scathing Purple Musings: Awareness Grows that High Stakes Tests Are Failing to Prepare Students for College by Bob Sikes From reporter Chris Umpierre in the *Fort Myers News-Press*: For many Southwest Florida students, receiving a high school diploma isn’t the end of their high school education. About 70 percent of Edison State College’s incoming freshmen have to take at least one remedial course to learn the skills they should have learned in high school. About 50 percent of Hodges University’s i... more »
Ohio's 2002 Teacher of the Year on Charter schools | OhioDaily
Ohio's 2002 Teacher of the Year on Charter schools | OhioDaily: Ohio's 2002 Teacher of the Year on Charter schools Submitted by Derek K on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:42am. So John Kasich likes to go around touting experts. He based his push for increased fees on Ohio's new casinos, because experts told him he should get much more from them. Ohio's 2002 Teacher of the Year recently weighed in on charter schools. She called them a lousy investment. One would think that a teacher of the year might know a little about education. Think John Kasich will listen? Here's the letter originally pos... more »
'Education for Sale': Gannett Louisiana series explores public-school reform | The Town Talk | thetowntalk.com
[image: A sign outside BeauVer Christian Academy in DeRidder notes that "sholarship" applications are available at the school. BeauVer Christian has received initial approval from the state for 119 vouchers in Louisiana's Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program.] 'Education for Sale': Gannett Louisiana series explores public-school reform | The Town Talk | thetowntalk.com: 'Education for Sale': Gannett Louisiana series explores public-school reform Education is big business in Louisiana, as it is elsewhere. A sign outside BeauVer Christian Academy in DeRidder notes... more »
Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee: Quality of Public Education ‘Liar’ - CNBC.com - US Business News - CNBC
Michelle Rhee: Quality of Public Education ‘Dire’ - CNBC.com - US Business News - CNBC: Michelle Rhee: Quality of Public Education ‘Dire’ Published: Friday, 22 Jun 2012 | 10:46 PM ET Text Size By: Bruno J. Navarro Producer - Twitter 11 LinkedIn 4 Share Tooga | Getty Images ------------------------------ The state of public *education* in the United States is at a critical point, and the nation cannot wait any longer to improve the system, StudentsFirst founder and CEO *Michelle Rhee*said Friday. “Ii don’t think there is any one cause for the problems we face ... more »
Obama marks 1972 law lifting education barriers to girls | Reuters
Obama marks 1972 law lifting education barriers to girls | Reuters: Obama marks 1972 law lifting education barriers to girls [image: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida June 22, 2012. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque]WASHINGTON | Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:46pm EDT (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, marking the 40th anniversary of landmark legislation that lifted barriers to girls and women in education and school sports, said on Saturday the law had achieved far-reaching gains in improving equality between the sexes. In an op-e... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Lean to the Right or Left; Common Core is a Disaster...The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.24.12
Missouri Education Watchdog: Lean to the Right or Left; Common Core is a Disaster...The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.24.12: Lean to the Right or Left; Common Core is a Disaster...The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.24.12 by stlgretchen Common Core is a bipartisan disaster. The Left & Right have sold us out. Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for 06.24.12. This week will consist of a reposting of Susan Ohanian's excellent blog entitled *School-Standards Pushback: Conservative Groups Oppose National 'Common Core' as an Intrusion on States.* Susan has corresponde... more »
Five Harmful “Reform” Ideas « Diane Ravitch's blog
Five Harmful “Reform” Ideas « Diane Ravitch's blog: Five Harmful “Reform” Ideas by dianerav When you read Bruce Baker’s work, you hear a fresh and thoughtful voice in the education debates. I wish that President Obama was listening to him instead of the number-crunchers now in control of the U.S. Department of Education. Bruce Baker is an economist of education at Rutgers University. Unlike many economists, he was a teacher in public and private schools before he became an academic. So he has a depth of knowledge and understanding and empathy that many others in his field lack. In ... more »
Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics
Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics: It’s called an abuse of power… by jonpelto But the real question is why won’t Governor Malloy, Mayor Finch or Malloy’s Education Commissioner, Stefan Pryor, pick up the phone and simply say…”enough, just stop it.” Tomorrow night, Bridgeport’s illegally appointed Board of Education will vote to extend the contract for Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s $229,000, part-time, interim Superintendent of Schools. Vallas’ contract presently runs through Dec... more »
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Reflections on SocialEdCon (formerly EduBloggerCon)
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Reflections on SocialEdCon (formerly EduBloggerCon): Reflections on SocialEdCon (formerly EduBloggerCon) by alicemercer [image: 100_7643] * Photo Credit: 100_7643 by greatnews, on Flickr *It’s been three years since I’ve attended ISTE (it was called NECC last time I came in D.C.), and three years since I attended an EduBloggerCon (now renamed SocialEdCon to reflect how the medium is moving beyond blogs). Fortunately, I live in California near Steve Hargadon (who does much of the organizing for these events), and I can attend activities he do... more »
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Diane Ravitch's blog *LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG * *Diane Ravitch's blog* [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] The Perils of Privatization dianerav at Diane Ravitch's blog - 2 hours ago Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has an important article in the New York Times. Krugman reflects on a major investigative series in the newspaper about privatized prisons in New Jersey, run by for-profit corporations.. The prisons described in the articles are akin to “hell on earth — an understaffed, poorly run system, with a demoralized work force...” [...] Gal... more »
Schools Matter: Elevator Speech on Harm of High Stakes Testing
Schools Matter: Elevator Speech on Harm of High Stakes Testing: Elevator Speech on Harm of High Stakes Testing by Judy Rabin Doug Rosenberg posted this on Facebook and I think it's going viral. WORKING LIST! Why Testing & Privatization are Harmful - Not Helpful - to Public Education by Dov Rosenberg on Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 10:12am * * *A*) High stakes tests & charter schools make public schools less effective. *High stakes tests do not effectively gauge student ability, are harmful to children, and make public schools less effective.* *B) Less than 20% of privately-managed... more »
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Digital Educators Needed For 21st Century Digital Learners!
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Digital Educators Needed For 21st Century Digital Learners!: Digital Educators Needed For 21st Century Digital Learners! by Lisa M About ten years ago, I took a course in instructional technology and fell in love. There is absolutely no way I could go back to teaching the way I used to. I realize I am fortunate. I teach in a school with laptops, (even though I would love Ipads), we have two computer labs, and approximately 4-5 classroom computers in each room. But, we didn't always have these resources, and I still found a way, to not only educat... more »
School Tech Connect: Social Media Brain Rot
School Tech Connect: Social Media Brain Rot: Social Media Brain Rot by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman) Spent the day with a book. Let me just say this one little thing sorta kinda related to ed technology. My nose I'm a person who reads a lot of books. If you can't find my nose, it's because it's in a book somewhere. But I'm also a social media person. I blog, I check my Twitter feed every 32 seconds. I learn about the world outside of Rogers Park from social media. What I find is that it's much easier for me to start a new book if I've been reading books immediately prior. If I... more »
A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policies | Seattle Education
A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policies | Seattle Education: A Parent Guide to the Broad Foundation’s training programs and education policies by seattleducation2011 This was originally posted on the Parents Across America website by Leonie Haimson. It’s an excellent overview of the influence of Eli Broad on our educational system. I added the photo’s. Dora *The question I ask is why should Eli Broad and Bill Gates have more of a say as to what goes on in my child’s classroom than I do? * Sue Peters, co-editor Seattle Education and founding... more »
Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s Laughable Attempt to Insert Herself Into Florida High-Stakes Test Fight | Scathing Purple Musings
Michelle Rhee’s Laughable Attempt to Insert Herself Into Florida High-Stakes Test Fight | Scathing Purple Musings: Michelle Rhee’s Laughable Attempt to Insert Herself Into Florida High-Stakes Test Fight by Bob Sikes From Rhee’s controversial *StudentsFirst *web site: (For background information, please read this recent Tampa Bay Times opinion editorial by speaker-designate Will Weatherford of the Florida House of Representatives where he discusses the importance of accountability and testing.) Florida has led the nation in its efforts to establish strong systems of accountabilit... more »
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