Big Education Ape 2nd Banana
Recap of Last Week's Best Post
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 7 hours ago
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Axelrod's old firm behind 'Infrastructure Trust', Citibank, and attacks on CTU: Axelrod's old firm behind 'Infrastructure Trust', Citibank, and attacks on CTU by Mike Klonsky Obama, Emanuel & AxelrodWell, mercy me! Look who's behind those ads blasting the CTU. Why, it's ASGK Public Strategies and AKPD, David Axelrod's old firms. An embarrassed Axelrod is claiming that he no longer has any connection to the firms since he sold them in 2009, when he became Obama's Senior White House Advisor. But he's still very much connected (the A stands for Axelrod)... more »
OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly
OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries
Local educators fume as the daily publishes its latest salary database
As the Weekly first reported on our Navel Gazing news blog in late October, an Orange County Register editorial project that relies on the names, campuses and salaries of all 72,000 public-school workers in the county for a database of about 37,000 of those employees is riling many instructors.
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Sunnyvale university CEO indicted on visa fraud charges - Inside Bay Area: Sunnyvale university CEO indicted on visa fraud charges By Lisa M. Krieger and Molly Vorwerck Staff writers Posted: 08/02/2012 05:12:15 PM PDT Updated: 08/02/2012 07:03:20 PM PDT Striking a blow at a Silicon Valley school that attracted foreigners with student visas, federal agents on Thursday raided Sunnyvale's Herguan University and charged its CEO with visa fraud. The indictment marks the second time federal officials have ensnared a Bay Area university in a growing effort to catch up with schools that ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 1 hour ago
Campbell Brown Slams Unions At Teachers' Expense | Crooks and Liars: Campbell Brown Slams Unions At Teachers' Expense 0 comments By karoli I suppose the one good thing to come out of this is that Campbell Brown, who has absolutely no business talking about education in any way, finally reveals herself as the stealth Romney campaign advisor we have all known she is. Before I discuss her despicable effort to "Willy Horton" the American Federation of Teachers and President Randi Weingarten in particular, let's just review who Campbell Brown is. She is a long-gone CNN White House corr... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: Gabby Douglas: No Virtual Charter Needed: Gabby Douglas: No Virtual Charter Needed by Duke Big, big props to Gabby Douglas for bringing back the gold to the US of A! I'd like to point out that Gabby is home schooled by a different family than her own. Such is the way of the olympian, a life few families will ever understand. Chris Cerf says we need virtual charter schools to serve kids like Gabby. Well, she seems to have done just fine without K12 Inc's help, thank you. The fact is that kids like Gabby are very, very rare - that's why they get gold medals. We a... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
This could be huge: Embedded flaw in high stakes test renders it useless in Texas | Seattle Education: This could be huge: Embedded flaw in high stakes test renders it useless in Texas by seattleducation2011 *They say that everything grows big in Texas and I must say that this could go into that category.* From the New York Times, A Serious Design Flaw Is Suspected in State Tests: The students’ improved grasp of mathematical concepts stunned Walter Stroup, the University of Texas at Austin professor behind the program. But at the end of the year, students’ scores had increased onl... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
Undocumented students await rules on deferred deportation | EdSource Today: Undocumented students await rules on deferred deportation ** August 1st, 2012 | Add a Comment | By Kathryn Baron Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on google_plusone More Sharing Services Hundreds of thousands of undocumented students and young adults in California, brought to this country when they were very young, will learn a little more today about their likelihood of remaining in the United States legally for at least two years. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), par... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 6 hours ago
Teacher union boss bends to school reform winds - Yahoo! News: Teacher union boss bends to school reform winds[image: Reuters]By James B. Kelleher | Reuters – 18 hrs ago - - - 1 - - Email - Print RELATED CONTENT - [image: American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten testifies during the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing on economic recovery and job creation options on Capitol Hill in Washington October 29, 2008. REUTERS/Mitch Dumke] American Federation of Teachers … DETROIT (Reuters) - In the maelstrom of criticism s... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 13 hours ago
A Math Teacher and Dad Comments on Khan Academy (Jerry Brodkey) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Math Teacher and Dad Comments on Khan Academy (Jerry Brodkey) by larrycuban *Jerry Brodkey teaches at Menlo-Atherton High School in Menlo Park, California. He has been a public secondary school teacher since 1975, and has taught most of the subjects in Social Studies and Mathematics. He now teaches remedial algebra and Advanced Placement Calculus. His undergraduate degree was from Rice University (BA 1974), and has graduate degrees from Stanford (MA 1976, Ph.D.... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 55 minutes ago
An Urban Teacher's Education: SOS Conference 2012 Day 1: SOS Conference 2012 Day 1 by James Boutin I am back this year for the Save Our School Conference at the Marriott Wardman hotel in Washington, DC. I found last year's conference very inspiring, and wrote about it here, here, and here. The format was a little different this year. Starting on a Friday afternoon, and jumping straight into sessions, I first attended a session about confronting the issue of race with students in the classroom. There, having been presented with a number of scenarios in which race might come up in ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 7 hours ago
Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market: - Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading - Enable Social Reading - i Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market *Reuters* | Posted: 08/02/2012 10:16 am Updated: 08/02/2012 12:18 pm [image: Share on Google+] [image: Privatizing Public Schools] By Stephanie Simon NEW YORK, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The investors gathered in a tony private club in Manhattan were eager to hear about the next big thing, and education consultant Rob Lytle was happy to oblige. ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 minutes ago
Sacramento Press / Mayor Kevin Johnson's use of private/public partnerships raises questions about transparency: Mayor Kevin Johnson's use of private/public partnerships raises questions about transparency by Jared Goyette I'm just taking out the trash Sacramento Democratic party chairwoman Kerri Asbury's call for city probe into use of office space in City Hall by nonprofits run by Mayor Kevin Johnson started a predictable row between the two, but it also raised important questions about the role these nonprofits play in public policy and the degree to which they are subject to t... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Key Florida US Representative Calls For Duncan to Investigate State’s Test-Obsessed Accountabilty System | Scathing Purple Musings: Key Florida US Representative Calls For Duncan to Investigate State’s Test-Obsessed Accountabilty System by Bob Sikes From Lauren Roth of the *Orlando Sentinel:* U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, a Tampa Democrat, has asked U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to step in and investigate Florida’s school accountability sytem, and particularly the state FCAT tests. “We need some accountability for Florida’s accountability system,” Castor said. She said the high... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 1 hour ago
Why Research on 21st Century Skills Matters | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights: Why Research on 21st Century Skills Matters by Tim Magner *Editor’s Note: Our guest blogger today is Tim Magner, Executive Director of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21).* Despite many education experts, business leaders, and higher education professionals joining the bandwagon to implement and highlight 21st century skills and helping define the now 10-year old 21st century skills movement, there’s been an important missing element: Research in the arena of 21st century sk... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 4 hours ago
Whites Need Not Apply For School Vouchers In Richland Parish?: Whites Need Not Apply For School Vouchers In Richland Parish?Posted by: Tom Bonnette on Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 15:11 [image: Black and White Cats] facebook twitter email pinterest Tagged with: Bobby Jindal Eric Holder Racism Richland Parish School Choice School Reform vouchers So, are only black kids in failing schools going to be eligible for vouchers in Richland Parish? That seems like a logical assumption if you take what’s going on in Louisiana’s Public School Choice policy in Richland and a... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 4 hours ago
Our New Book On Teaching English Language Learners Is Out Three Weeks Early! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…: Our New Book On Teaching English Language Learners Is Out Three Weeks Early! by Larry Ferlazzo My new book, *“The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels,*” (co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski), now available — three weeks earlier than scheduled! Electronic versions, though, may not be available until the original publishing date — August 20th — but they might be out earlie... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, local Democratic Party at odds over nonprofits' City Hall presence - Sacramento City News - The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, local Democratic Party at odds over nonprofits' City Hall presence By Ryan Lillis rlillis@sacbee.com Published: Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1B Last Modified: Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2012 - 5:15 pm He may be a Democrat (or Not). He may have just won re-election. But Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson apparently still has a long way to go to impress the local Democratic Party. In the latest sign of how fract... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 8 hours ago
Teachers Don't Suck !: I'm Not At All Suprised - How About You?: I'm Not At All Suprised - How About You? by Walt S. I read this letter on the Internet and thought my readers might be interested too. For the last couple of years THE BEAST (a.k.a our anger-management disordered Governor) has been going after the NJEA and public school teachers in general. Now one of the new things he has implemented was a brand new evaluation procedure that would evaluate tenured and non-tenured teachers twice to four times a year. The school districts were told that they had to chose one of 4 e... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 10 hours ago
Daily Kos: When the Obvious Isn’t True: What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education?: When the Obvious Isn’t True: What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education? byplthomasEdDFollow 9 PERMALINK2 COMMENTS The last decade has included some powerful and harsh narratives about U.S. public education and its teachers: Public schools are failing, particularly in international comparisons; that failure is primarily caused by “bad” teachers and corrupt teachers’ unions; and teacher education, historically weak, does little to help correct the low quali... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 11 hours ago
The Other Kids Growing Up in the Bronx « Diane Ravitch's blog: The Other Kids Growing Up in the Bronx by dianerav Mark D. Naison is a professor at Fordham University, where he teaches African-American studies. He is principal investigator of the Bronx African American history project. He writes a blog, “With a Brooklyn Accent.” This is his latest: *Not Every Bronx Tale Has a Geoffrey Canada Ending* *In his memoir, Fist, Knife Stick Gun, Geoffrey Canada describes growing up on Union Avenue in the Morrisania section of the Bronx as a harrowing experience- a place where bullies terro... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
The 30th Edition Of The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival Is Up! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…: “What Parents and Educators Want from Assessments” by Larry Ferlazzo What Parents and Educators Want from Assessments is the title of an Edutopia blog post today from Anne O’Brien. It’s about a recent report on assessment, which I’ve previously posted about — see “What Parents & Educators Want from Student Assessments.” Anne makes some very interesting points. It’s worth reading the entire post, but here are a couple of excerpts: *A survey commissioned by the Northwest Evaluation Assoc... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
A Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: How Do We Build the Teaching Profession? | Impatient Optimists: [image: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation] A Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: How Do We Build the Teaching Profession? ANTHONY CODY , IRVIN SCOTT July 30, 2012 *This post originally appears on **Anthony Cody's blog, Living in Dialogue. It is the first post in a weekly series of posts, over the next five weeks, between teacher Anthony Cody, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Irvin Scott, Deputy Director in the College Ready program.* Two weeks ago I traveled to Seat... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
The Gates Foundation Responds: How do we Build the Teaching Profession - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: The Gates Foundation Responds: How do we Build the Teaching Profession from Living in Dialogue by Anthony Cody *Guest post by Irvin Scott.* This is a response to Anthony Cody's post of a week ago, Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: How do we Build the Teaching Profession. This is also posted at the Gates Foundation's Impatient Optimist blog. [image: IrvinScott2.jpg] Tough, complicated issues like education often don't get the kind of debate they deserve. People who ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Schools Matter: Instead of worrying about applying the standards, we should be resisting them. To do this, we have to work together.: Instead of worrying about applying the standards, we should be resisting them. To do this, we have to work together. by skrashen The Common Core Standards is a tsunami that will destroy all of us unless it is stopped. It is going to cost billions, bleeding money from where it is badly needed and it will soon impose what can only be described as an astonishing amount of testing. All this is happening under false pretenses. There is no evidence that o... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 4 hours ago
Sacramento Press / Mayor Kevin Johnson Helping Shape Democratic Platform: Mayor Kevin Johnson Helping Shape Democratic Platform by Steven Maviglio Mayor Kevin Johnson traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota last Friday to speak before the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, which is charged with drafting the party's stance on key issues facing the nation. The platform will be voted on by Democratic delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte in September, which Johnson also will attend. With his remarks, Mayor Johnson represented the Democratic mayors ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 5 hours ago
All Things Education: So You Think You Can Be an Entrepreneur?: So You Think You Can Be an Entrepreneur? by Rachel Levy A couple of months ago, there was a twitter exchange between Diane Ravitch and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's press secretary Justin Hamilton about entrepreneurship. Ravitch blogged about it here and there was an especially good summary of it on an *Ed Week* blog here. My own tweet was: @EDPressSec @DianeRavitch I think you mean public intellectual--remember those? Entrepreneur is something different. — Rachel Levy(@RachelAnneLevy) May 19, 2012 Certainly... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 9 hours ago
The Algebra dispute. « Fred Klonsky: The Algebra dispute. by Fred Klonsky I knew my math teacher friends would not be happy when I tweeted agreement with the Sunday NY Times article by Andrew Hacker questioning whether Algebra was necessary. And they weren’t happy. Soon my Facebook page was filled with counter arguments. My friend Arthur posted a response by Daniel Willingham to Hacker’s NY Times column which defended algebra.
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 11 hours ago
Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Let the Children Play! by dianerav In response to Stephen Krashen’s post about the likely expansion of testing in the near future, as well as federal interest in tests for “infants, toddlers, and preschoolers,” a reader sent this urgent plea: *LET THE CHILDREN PLAY!!!!!* *There was a time when children went to school for kindergarten to learn how to learn. They worked on hand-eye coordination, figure ground discrimination, and other necessary skills. They also learned to listen in a group and play togethe... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 20 hours ago
Netflix to settle out of court: CEO Reed Hastings Educational Role model New Orleans | Dailycensored.com: Netflix to settle out of court: CEO Reed Hastings Educational Role model New Orleans by Danny Weil The case was filed in The United States district Court, Northern District Court of California, San Jose District in California ( http://www.videoprivacyclass.com/Portals/0/Documents/In%20Re%20Netflix%20Privacy%20Litigation%20Preliminary%20Approval%20Order.pdf) as a putative class action suit brought by former Netflix subscribers, Jeff Milans and Peter Comstock (collectively “Pla... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
The Educated Reporter: Girls and STEM Education: Still Waiting For Lift-Off: Girls and STEM Education: Still Waiting For Lift-Off by Emily Richmond When Sally Ride was preparing to become America’s first female astronaut, she had to field some particularly tough questions: Would she be packing a bra or menstrual supplies? Did she worry her reproductive organs might be damaged by space flight? Looking back at those interviews with Ride, who was 61 when she died July 23 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, the sexist tenor of the queries is almost comical. But as Ride was quoted... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 6 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: Michelle Rhee: Astroturfer: Michelle Rhee: Astroturfer by Duke Diane Ravitch posted a few days ago about an email that went out to some Floridians from StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's reformyist lobbying group. The email offered people a chance to win a restaurant gift card if they posted reformy comments at various websites about education news stories. As Parents Across Americadescribes it: *Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst is well known for its deceptive tactics of posting** seemingly **harmless petitions calling to an end to student bullying, for example, or opposi... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 7 hours ago
Mario Savio. Berkeley. December 2, 1964. « Student Activism: Mario Savio. Berkeley. December 2, 1964. by Angus Johnston Mario Savio. Because Mario Savio.
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 9 hours ago
History of Pension Plans: History of Pension Plans [image: grant-parents] The earliest private pension plans in the United States were those of the American Express Company in 1875 and of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1880. During the next 50 years approximately 400 plans were established - mostly in railroad, banking, and public-utility firms. Pension development in manufacturing was slower, since this was still a young industry with relatively few aged employees. Insurers entered the pension business with the issuance of the first group annuity contract by the Metropolitan L... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 10 hours ago
Personalization and Responsibility | Connected Principals: Personalization and Responsibility July 29, 2012 By David Truss [image: Andy Hargreaves 'The 4th Way' - Pyramid by David Truss] George Siemens wrote the Duplication theory of educational value about higher education, but I am going to share a quote from this with a couple adaptations for K-12 public education: *“Let me posit a duplication theory of education value: if something can be duplicated with limited costs, it can’t serve as a value point for [public education]. Content is easily duplicated and has no value. What i... more »
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coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 7 hours ago
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Axelrod's old firm behind 'Infrastructure Trust', Citibank, and attacks on CTU: Axelrod's old firm behind 'Infrastructure Trust', Citibank, and attacks on CTU by Mike Klonsky Obama, Emanuel & AxelrodWell, mercy me! Look who's behind those ads blasting the CTU. Why, it's ASGK Public Strategies and AKPD, David Axelrod's old firms. An embarrassed Axelrod is claiming that he no longer has any connection to the firms since he sold them in 2009, when he became Obama's Senior White House Advisor. But he's still very much connected (the A stands for Axelrod)... more »
OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly
OC Register Is Hot for Teacher . . . Salaries
Local educators fume as the daily publishes its latest salary database
As the Weekly first reported on our Navel Gazing news blog in late October, an Orange County Register editorial project that relies on the names, campuses and salaries of all 72,000 public-school workers in the county for a database of about 37,000 of those employees is riling many instructors.
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Sunnyvale university CEO indicted on visa fraud charges - Inside Bay Area: Sunnyvale university CEO indicted on visa fraud charges By Lisa M. Krieger and Molly Vorwerck Staff writers Posted: 08/02/2012 05:12:15 PM PDT Updated: 08/02/2012 07:03:20 PM PDT Striking a blow at a Silicon Valley school that attracted foreigners with student visas, federal agents on Thursday raided Sunnyvale's Herguan University and charged its CEO with visa fraud. The indictment marks the second time federal officials have ensnared a Bay Area university in a growing effort to catch up with schools that ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 1 hour ago
Campbell Brown Slams Unions At Teachers' Expense | Crooks and Liars: Campbell Brown Slams Unions At Teachers' Expense 0 comments By karoli I suppose the one good thing to come out of this is that Campbell Brown, who has absolutely no business talking about education in any way, finally reveals herself as the stealth Romney campaign advisor we have all known she is. Before I discuss her despicable effort to "Willy Horton" the American Federation of Teachers and President Randi Weingarten in particular, let's just review who Campbell Brown is. She is a long-gone CNN White House corr... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: Gabby Douglas: No Virtual Charter Needed: Gabby Douglas: No Virtual Charter Needed by Duke Big, big props to Gabby Douglas for bringing back the gold to the US of A! I'd like to point out that Gabby is home schooled by a different family than her own. Such is the way of the olympian, a life few families will ever understand. Chris Cerf says we need virtual charter schools to serve kids like Gabby. Well, she seems to have done just fine without K12 Inc's help, thank you. The fact is that kids like Gabby are very, very rare - that's why they get gold medals. We a... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
This could be huge: Embedded flaw in high stakes test renders it useless in Texas | Seattle Education: This could be huge: Embedded flaw in high stakes test renders it useless in Texas by seattleducation2011 *They say that everything grows big in Texas and I must say that this could go into that category.* From the New York Times, A Serious Design Flaw Is Suspected in State Tests: The students’ improved grasp of mathematical concepts stunned Walter Stroup, the University of Texas at Austin professor behind the program. But at the end of the year, students’ scores had increased onl... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
Undocumented students await rules on deferred deportation | EdSource Today: Undocumented students await rules on deferred deportation ** August 1st, 2012 | Add a Comment | By Kathryn Baron Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on google_plusone More Sharing Services Hundreds of thousands of undocumented students and young adults in California, brought to this country when they were very young, will learn a little more today about their likelihood of remaining in the United States legally for at least two years. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), par... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 6 hours ago
Teacher union boss bends to school reform winds - Yahoo! News: Teacher union boss bends to school reform winds[image: Reuters]By James B. Kelleher | Reuters – 18 hrs ago - - - 1 - - Email - Print RELATED CONTENT - [image: American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten testifies during the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee hearing on economic recovery and job creation options on Capitol Hill in Washington October 29, 2008. REUTERS/Mitch Dumke] American Federation of Teachers … DETROIT (Reuters) - In the maelstrom of criticism s... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 13 hours ago
A Math Teacher and Dad Comments on Khan Academy (Jerry Brodkey) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: A Math Teacher and Dad Comments on Khan Academy (Jerry Brodkey) by larrycuban *Jerry Brodkey teaches at Menlo-Atherton High School in Menlo Park, California. He has been a public secondary school teacher since 1975, and has taught most of the subjects in Social Studies and Mathematics. He now teaches remedial algebra and Advanced Placement Calculus. His undergraduate degree was from Rice University (BA 1974), and has graduate degrees from Stanford (MA 1976, Ph.D.... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 55 minutes ago
An Urban Teacher's Education: SOS Conference 2012 Day 1: SOS Conference 2012 Day 1 by James Boutin I am back this year for the Save Our School Conference at the Marriott Wardman hotel in Washington, DC. I found last year's conference very inspiring, and wrote about it here, here, and here. The format was a little different this year. Starting on a Friday afternoon, and jumping straight into sessions, I first attended a session about confronting the issue of race with students in the classroom. There, having been presented with a number of scenarios in which race might come up in ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 7 hours ago
Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market: - Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading - Enable Social Reading - i Privatizing Public Schools: Big Firms Eyeing Profits From U.S. K-12 Market *Reuters* | Posted: 08/02/2012 10:16 am Updated: 08/02/2012 12:18 pm [image: Share on Google+] [image: Privatizing Public Schools] By Stephanie Simon NEW YORK, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The investors gathered in a tony private club in Manhattan were eager to hear about the next big thing, and education consultant Rob Lytle was happy to oblige. ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 minutes ago
Sacramento Press / Mayor Kevin Johnson's use of private/public partnerships raises questions about transparency: Mayor Kevin Johnson's use of private/public partnerships raises questions about transparency by Jared Goyette I'm just taking out the trash Sacramento Democratic party chairwoman Kerri Asbury's call for city probe into use of office space in City Hall by nonprofits run by Mayor Kevin Johnson started a predictable row between the two, but it also raised important questions about the role these nonprofits play in public policy and the degree to which they are subject to t... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Key Florida US Representative Calls For Duncan to Investigate State’s Test-Obsessed Accountabilty System | Scathing Purple Musings: Key Florida US Representative Calls For Duncan to Investigate State’s Test-Obsessed Accountabilty System by Bob Sikes From Lauren Roth of the *Orlando Sentinel:* U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, a Tampa Democrat, has asked U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan to step in and investigate Florida’s school accountability sytem, and particularly the state FCAT tests. “We need some accountability for Florida’s accountability system,” Castor said. She said the high... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 1 hour ago
Why Research on 21st Century Skills Matters | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights: Why Research on 21st Century Skills Matters by Tim Magner *Editor’s Note: Our guest blogger today is Tim Magner, Executive Director of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21).* Despite many education experts, business leaders, and higher education professionals joining the bandwagon to implement and highlight 21st century skills and helping define the now 10-year old 21st century skills movement, there’s been an important missing element: Research in the arena of 21st century sk... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 4 hours ago
Whites Need Not Apply For School Vouchers In Richland Parish?: Whites Need Not Apply For School Vouchers In Richland Parish?Posted by: Tom Bonnette on Wednesday, August 1, 2012, 15:11 [image: Black and White Cats] facebook twitter email pinterest Tagged with: Bobby Jindal Eric Holder Racism Richland Parish School Choice School Reform vouchers So, are only black kids in failing schools going to be eligible for vouchers in Richland Parish? That seems like a logical assumption if you take what’s going on in Louisiana’s Public School Choice policy in Richland and a... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 4 hours ago
Our New Book On Teaching English Language Learners Is Out Three Weeks Early! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…: Our New Book On Teaching English Language Learners Is Out Three Weeks Early! by Larry Ferlazzo My new book, *“The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels,*” (co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski), now available — three weeks earlier than scheduled! Electronic versions, though, may not be available until the original publishing date — August 20th — but they might be out earlie... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, local Democratic Party at odds over nonprofits' City Hall presence - Sacramento City News - The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, local Democratic Party at odds over nonprofits' City Hall presence By Ryan Lillis rlillis@sacbee.com Published: Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1B Last Modified: Tuesday, Jul. 31, 2012 - 5:15 pm He may be a Democrat (or Not). He may have just won re-election. But Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson apparently still has a long way to go to impress the local Democratic Party. In the latest sign of how fract... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 8 hours ago
Teachers Don't Suck !: I'm Not At All Suprised - How About You?: I'm Not At All Suprised - How About You? by Walt S. I read this letter on the Internet and thought my readers might be interested too. For the last couple of years THE BEAST (a.k.a our anger-management disordered Governor) has been going after the NJEA and public school teachers in general. Now one of the new things he has implemented was a brand new evaluation procedure that would evaluate tenured and non-tenured teachers twice to four times a year. The school districts were told that they had to chose one of 4 e... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 10 hours ago
Daily Kos: When the Obvious Isn’t True: What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education?: When the Obvious Isn’t True: What’s Really Wrong with Teacher Quality and Teacher Education? byplthomasEdDFollow 9 PERMALINK2 COMMENTS The last decade has included some powerful and harsh narratives about U.S. public education and its teachers: Public schools are failing, particularly in international comparisons; that failure is primarily caused by “bad” teachers and corrupt teachers’ unions; and teacher education, historically weak, does little to help correct the low quali... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 11 hours ago
The Other Kids Growing Up in the Bronx « Diane Ravitch's blog: The Other Kids Growing Up in the Bronx by dianerav Mark D. Naison is a professor at Fordham University, where he teaches African-American studies. He is principal investigator of the Bronx African American history project. He writes a blog, “With a Brooklyn Accent.” This is his latest: *Not Every Bronx Tale Has a Geoffrey Canada Ending* *In his memoir, Fist, Knife Stick Gun, Geoffrey Canada describes growing up on Union Avenue in the Morrisania section of the Bronx as a harrowing experience- a place where bullies terro... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
The 30th Edition Of The ESL/EFL/ELL Blog Carnival Is Up! | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…: “What Parents and Educators Want from Assessments” by Larry Ferlazzo What Parents and Educators Want from Assessments is the title of an Edutopia blog post today from Anne O’Brien. It’s about a recent report on assessment, which I’ve previously posted about — see “What Parents & Educators Want from Student Assessments.” Anne makes some very interesting points. It’s worth reading the entire post, but here are a couple of excerpts: *A survey commissioned by the Northwest Evaluation Assoc... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
A Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: How Do We Build the Teaching Profession? | Impatient Optimists: [image: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation] A Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: How Do We Build the Teaching Profession? ANTHONY CODY , IRVIN SCOTT July 30, 2012 *This post originally appears on **Anthony Cody's blog, Living in Dialogue. It is the first post in a weekly series of posts, over the next five weeks, between teacher Anthony Cody, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Irvin Scott, Deputy Director in the College Ready program.* Two weeks ago I traveled to Seat... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
The Gates Foundation Responds: How do we Build the Teaching Profession - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: The Gates Foundation Responds: How do we Build the Teaching Profession from Living in Dialogue by Anthony Cody *Guest post by Irvin Scott.* This is a response to Anthony Cody's post of a week ago, Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: How do we Build the Teaching Profession. This is also posted at the Gates Foundation's Impatient Optimist blog. [image: IrvinScott2.jpg] Tough, complicated issues like education often don't get the kind of debate they deserve. People who ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Schools Matter: Instead of worrying about applying the standards, we should be resisting them. To do this, we have to work together.: Instead of worrying about applying the standards, we should be resisting them. To do this, we have to work together. by skrashen The Common Core Standards is a tsunami that will destroy all of us unless it is stopped. It is going to cost billions, bleeding money from where it is badly needed and it will soon impose what can only be described as an astonishing amount of testing. All this is happening under false pretenses. There is no evidence that o... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 4 hours ago
Sacramento Press / Mayor Kevin Johnson Helping Shape Democratic Platform: Mayor Kevin Johnson Helping Shape Democratic Platform by Steven Maviglio Mayor Kevin Johnson traveled to Minneapolis, Minnesota last Friday to speak before the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, which is charged with drafting the party's stance on key issues facing the nation. The platform will be voted on by Democratic delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte in September, which Johnson also will attend. With his remarks, Mayor Johnson represented the Democratic mayors ... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 5 hours ago
All Things Education: So You Think You Can Be an Entrepreneur?: So You Think You Can Be an Entrepreneur? by Rachel Levy A couple of months ago, there was a twitter exchange between Diane Ravitch and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's press secretary Justin Hamilton about entrepreneurship. Ravitch blogged about it here and there was an especially good summary of it on an *Ed Week* blog here. My own tweet was: @EDPressSec @DianeRavitch I think you mean public intellectual--remember those? Entrepreneur is something different. — Rachel Levy(@RachelAnneLevy) May 19, 2012 Certainly... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 9 hours ago
The Algebra dispute. « Fred Klonsky: The Algebra dispute. by Fred Klonsky I knew my math teacher friends would not be happy when I tweeted agreement with the Sunday NY Times article by Andrew Hacker questioning whether Algebra was necessary. And they weren’t happy. Soon my Facebook page was filled with counter arguments. My friend Arthur posted a response by Daniel Willingham to Hacker’s NY Times column which defended algebra.
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 11 hours ago
Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Let the Children Play! by dianerav In response to Stephen Krashen’s post about the likely expansion of testing in the near future, as well as federal interest in tests for “infants, toddlers, and preschoolers,” a reader sent this urgent plea: *LET THE CHILDREN PLAY!!!!!* *There was a time when children went to school for kindergarten to learn how to learn. They worked on hand-eye coordination, figure ground discrimination, and other necessary skills. They also learned to listen in a group and play togethe... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 20 hours ago
Netflix to settle out of court: CEO Reed Hastings Educational Role model New Orleans | Dailycensored.com: Netflix to settle out of court: CEO Reed Hastings Educational Role model New Orleans by Danny Weil The case was filed in The United States district Court, Northern District Court of California, San Jose District in California ( http://www.videoprivacyclass.com/Portals/0/Documents/In%20Re%20Netflix%20Privacy%20Litigation%20Preliminary%20Approval%20Order.pdf) as a putative class action suit brought by former Netflix subscribers, Jeff Milans and Peter Comstock (collectively “Pla... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
The Educated Reporter: Girls and STEM Education: Still Waiting For Lift-Off: Girls and STEM Education: Still Waiting For Lift-Off by Emily Richmond When Sally Ride was preparing to become America’s first female astronaut, she had to field some particularly tough questions: Would she be packing a bra or menstrual supplies? Did she worry her reproductive organs might be damaged by space flight? Looking back at those interviews with Ride, who was 61 when she died July 23 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, the sexist tenor of the queries is almost comical. But as Ride was quoted... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 6 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: Michelle Rhee: Astroturfer: Michelle Rhee: Astroturfer by Duke Diane Ravitch posted a few days ago about an email that went out to some Floridians from StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's reformyist lobbying group. The email offered people a chance to win a restaurant gift card if they posted reformy comments at various websites about education news stories. As Parents Across Americadescribes it: *Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst is well known for its deceptive tactics of posting** seemingly **harmless petitions calling to an end to student bullying, for example, or opposi... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 7 hours ago
Mario Savio. Berkeley. December 2, 1964. « Student Activism: Mario Savio. Berkeley. December 2, 1964. by Angus Johnston Mario Savio. Because Mario Savio.
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 9 hours ago
History of Pension Plans: History of Pension Plans [image: grant-parents] The earliest private pension plans in the United States were those of the American Express Company in 1875 and of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1880. During the next 50 years approximately 400 plans were established - mostly in railroad, banking, and public-utility firms. Pension development in manufacturing was slower, since this was still a young industry with relatively few aged employees. Insurers entered the pension business with the issuance of the first group annuity contract by the Metropolitan L... more »
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 10 hours ago
Personalization and Responsibility | Connected Principals: Personalization and Responsibility July 29, 2012 By David Truss [image: Andy Hargreaves 'The 4th Way' - Pyramid by David Truss] George Siemens wrote the Duplication theory of educational value about higher education, but I am going to share a quote from this with a couple adaptations for K-12 public education: *“Let me posit a duplication theory of education value: if something can be duplicated with limited costs, it can’t serve as a value point for [public education]. Content is easily duplicated and has no value. What i... more »