Big Education Ape - Mid Day Banana Break
New Struggle, Deep Roots
This is a little bit off my beat but I'm running it.
A couple years ago I decided to re-engage with the world outside my house, and ever since then I've been running into the most interesting people.
They're all joined in this fight to defend public education.
Heartland Media just posted this interview with Mike Klonsky, who's one of the national voices in this struggle, and who's been in the streets during the most important moments of the modern progressive movement. It's a hell of an interview.
I'm posting it because it makes me think about the deep roots under the movement to save the schools. It's a
A couple years ago I decided to re-engage with the world outside my house, and ever since then I've been running into the most interesting people.
They're all joined in this fight to defend public education.
Heartland Media just posted this interview with Mike Klonsky, who's one of the national voices in this struggle, and who's been in the streets during the most important moments of the modern progressive movement. It's a hell of an interview.
I'm posting it because it makes me think about the deep roots under the movement to save the schools. It's a
U.S. grant funds $20,000 teacher bonuses at 'high-need' L.A. schools
LAUSD plans to give $20,000 bonuses to up to 80 "effective" science, technology, math, engineering and special ed teachers who agree to teach at 40 high-need schools under a new federal grant. Credit: Tami Abdollah/KPCCLos Angeles Unified Schools Superintendent John Deasy said that a $49 million federal grant awarded to the district this week to improve teacher effectiveness will help pay for a new multiple-measure teacher evaluation system and more professional development programs, including a bonus for certain teachers at high-need
Activists concerned about school suspensions plan a series of events
Students rally against the LAUSD ticketing system for minors. Credit: Vanessa Romo/KPCCA national coalition of youth groups, educators and advocacy organizations is launching the 3rd Annual National Week of Action on School Pushout starting tomorrow.
Events in Los Angeles and Long Beach will take place from Sept. 28 – Oct. 6.
S.C. State Senator Mike Fair Warns About Common Core Testing
South Carolina State Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville) wrote an op/ed for The State where he warned that South Carolina could regret their new student testing scheme via the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) that accompanies the state’s adoption and implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
He writes:We belong to a consortium of states called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which the federal government is paying to develop computerized tests aligned with the national
Common Core Standards for Learning Supports: Looking for Feedback from All Concerned about Equity of Opportunity
Post written by Howard Adelman, PhD, and Linda Taylor, PhD, codirectors of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School Mental Health Project/Center for Mental Health in Schools. This post was originally featured on the James B. Hunt Jr. Institute blog, The Intersection.
When policymakers introduce another initiative for education reform, the press to implement the new initiative
When policymakers introduce another initiative for education reform, the press to implement the new initiative
L.A. UNIFIED AND CHARTER GROUPS WIN FEDERAL TEACHER EVALUATION GRANTS
by Howard Blume | LA Times/LA Now | http://lat.ms/SI5Iot September 28, 2012 | 7:00 am :: The Los Angeles Unified School District and three local charter-school groups have won federal grants to develop their teacher and principal evaluation systems, the U.S. Department of Education has announced. L.A. Unified, California’s largest school system, will receive $16 million, one of the largest
GOV. BROWN SIGNS LAW LIMITING ROLE OF STUDENT TESTS IN API SCORES – Signs 19 Ed ills, Vetoes 5
SB 1458 broadens how the Academic Performance Index will be calculated. Test results will now account for just 60% of a high school's API score. By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/SEpelP September 27, 2012, 12:56 a.m. :: California's key measure of public school quality will be redefined to lessen the impact of standardized test scores under a bill signed into law Wednesday
A New, Single Home for ED Data
Starting today, the data sets and content you’re used to seeing on data.ed.gov can be found on education.data.gov.(Developers: Please note that the 16 available education data APIs were already hosted by data.gov. These URLs did not change and existing applications using these APIs should not be affected.)
Why the move?
In addition to saving the costs associated with hosting and maintaining a separate education data website, merging the information on data.ed.gov into the existing Data.gov Education Community will allow researchers, developers, and interested members of the public to meet all their education data needs in one central location.
Originally, we created the separate data.ed.gov portal because we wanted to provide the public with advanced
Teachbad and Student: A Moment
After my interview on WAMU/NPR, I heard from a number of former students. This is the first one I got: Hi Mr Gwynn, I’m not entirely sure if you remember me, but I was a former student of yours. So this morning, I was in the car on my way to work listening to NPR as usual and to my surprise I heard your name and I immediately recognized you as my awesome and definitely memorable high school history teacher. I commanded everybody in the car to be silent because I just had to hear what you had Read more […]
Why I’m Starting a School – Part 1
Despite the lack of updating, I’ve actually written a bunch over the past couple of months about starting a school. Some of it is being published on Gotham Schools. The first piece went up this week.
In early January, a friend told me she knew someone great who had just been approved by the Department of Education to open a new school. When I emailed Kate Burch to find more about her school, I was skeptical. Having joined Bronx Lab in its second year and experienced the challenges of growing and sustaining a school, I swore I would only join a school in its infancy if the conditions were otherwise perfect.You can read the whole thing here.
Yet Kate’s plan for Harvest Collegiate was perfect — and perfect for me.
Idaho teachers leave in bigger numbers, but more being certified
More than 1,800 teachers left during the last school year, up from 716 two years ago.