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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: CHICAGO SCHOOL-CLOSING QUOTABLES
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: CHICAGO SCHOOL-CLOSING QUOTABLES: CHICAGO SCHOOL-CLOSING QUOTABLES by Mike Klonsky School closers Babbitz & Byrd-Bennett *“CPS needs to make sure it’s not fixing what isn’t broken. The District must not shutter schools that, though technically underutilized, are vibrant hubs of community activity housed in high-quality buildings, and that serve as an anchoring force in their neighborhoods.” *-- *Commission on School Utilization*, Interim Report, Jan. 10th *“We know that in the past we haven’t done a terrific job of tracking students and understandin...more »
It’s politics – not asbestos that clouds UConn's downtown Hartford move - Wait, What?
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It’s politics – not asbestos that clouds UConn's downtown Hartford move - Wait, What?: It’s politics – not asbestos that clouds UConn’s downtown Hartford move by jonpelto There must be big money and politics at play behind UConn’s downtown move. Or as they say at the Legislative Office Building – “You can small a rat with this one.” On Wednesday the Hartford Business Journal wrote, “The University of Connecticut’s relocation of its West Hartford campus to downtown Hartford has hit a stumbling block as the office building the school is targeting for relocation in Constitution Plaz... more »
Shanker Blog » The Cartography Of High Expectations
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Shanker Blog » The Cartography Of High Expectations: The Cartography Of High Expectations by Matthew Di Carlo In October of last year, the education advocacy group ConnCAN published a report called “The Roadmap to Closing the Gap” in Connecticut. This report argues that the state must close its large achievement gaps by 2020 – that is, within eight years – and they use to data to argue that this goal is “both possible and achievable.” There is value in compiling data and disaggregating them by district and school. And ConnCAN, to its credit, doesn’t use this analysis as a blatant ... more »
Brown lashes out at regulators and testers, makes case for his reforms | EdSource Today
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Brown lashes out at regulators and testers, makes case for his reforms | EdSource Today: Brown lashes out at regulators and testers, makes case for his reforms ** January 24th, 2013 | 2 Comments | By John Fensterwald Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on print More Sharing Services With a caustic critique of excessive testing and overregulation and a fervent call for respecting the “dignity and freedom of teachers and students,” Gov. Jerry Brown laid out the case for returning primary control of education to local hands and distributing state money equitably in his... more »
We Must Provide Equal Opportunity in Sports to Students with Disabilities | ED.gov Blog
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We Must Provide Equal Opportunity in Sports to Students with Disabilities | ED.gov Blog: We Must Provide Equal Opportunity in Sports to Students with Disabilities Posted on January 25, 2013 by Arne Duncan Playing sports at any level—club, intramural, or interscholastic—can be a key part of the school experience and have an immense and lasting impact on a student’s life. Among its many benefits, participation in extracurricular athletic activities promotes socialization, the development of leadership skills, focus, and, of course, physical fitness. It’s no secret that sports helped ... more »
Joy Resmovits: Jerry Brown Makes Veiled Hit On EdSec Arne Duncan? Harnessing Teachers' Voices: Ed Today
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Joy Resmovits: Jerry Brown Makes Veiled Hit On EdSec Arne Duncan? Harnessing Teachers' Voices: Ed Today: Jerry Brown Makes Veiled Hit On EdSec Arne Duncan? Harnessing Teachers' Voices: Ed Today by Joy Resmovits *Did Jerry Brown Just Ding Arne Duncan?* In his State of the State address yesterday, Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) talked a bit about federalism and education policy. He proposed a new funding formula and called for more local control. (Some background: his more customized No Child Left Behind waiver was rejected by the U.S. Education Department). Then it got a little sni...more »
Strong Unions Help Power Maryland to No. 1 Education Ranking | NEA Today
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Strong Unions Help Power Maryland to No. 1 Education Ranking | NEA Today: Strong Unions Help Power Maryland to No. 1 Education Ranking by twalker *By John Rosales* In 2002, the Maryland General Assembly adopted the Bridge to Excellence in Public Schools Act to phase-in increases to school funding with the goal of providing an equitable, quality education regardless of a student’s zip code or background. At the time, the *New York Times*called the bill “historic.” After 10 years, it can also be referred to as an investment that has paid off big time. For the fifth year in a row, Mary... more »
#optout why an how in #pennsylvania. « @ the chalk face
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#optout why an how in #pennsylvania. « @ the chalk face: #optout why an how in #pennsylvania. by Timothy D. Slekar Why Opt Out of PSSAs? After 11 years of PSSAs, childhood anxiety disorders have dramatically risen. Our children have been denied a fully comprehensive education (reductions or elimination of history, science, art, music, phys ed). Our children are being used to provide data that will label our children, teachers, school, administrators, and community a failure. Our tax money (our money) has been diverted to testing and data management companies instead of schools ... more »
Mythbusting the Common Core « PWC Education Reform Blog
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Mythbusting the Common Core « PWC Education Reform Blog: Mythbusting the Common Core by pwceducationreform Mythbusting the Common CoreJanuary 25, 2013 — pwceducationreform The pressure on Virginia to adopt the Common Core State Standards is intense, with the CCSS’s supporters actively spreading false information, grossly exaggerating it’s success, and misrepresenting who is behind the CCSS. Virginia isn’t likely to last long under such intense pressure, so us plain folk need to arum ourselves with knowledge and share our opinions with our state delegation. Here’s the first of a se... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Standards and Martin Luther King
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Standards and Martin Luther King: Common Core Standards and Martin Luther King from Missouri Education Watchdog by stlgretchen Add this phrase: *COMMON IS EXCEPTIONAL* I received the email below from a teacher about the President's inauguration, Martin Luther King and Common Core standards: **************************************************************************** This week, President Obama will be sworn into office as the 45th President of the United States of America. As a history teacher, I was elated to learn he would be placing his... more »
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 1-25-13 Diane Ravitch's blog
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Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Jersey Jazzman to NY Taxpayers: Thank You! by dianerav Jersey Jazzman wrote to thank the taxpayers of New York, whose dollars subsidize his blog via advertising by Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy network (formerly known as Harlem Success Academy). JJ notes that this charter chain spends millions of dollars each year on recruitment, advertising, public relations, and marketing. This is a necessary business expense to drum up thousands of applications for a small number When Students Awaken, Everything Wi... more »
Is computer-delivered education equivalent to one with a flesh-and-blood teacher and hands-on experiences? | Get Schooled
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Is computer-delivered education equivalent to one with a flesh-and-blood teacher and hands-on experiences? | Get Schooled: Is computer-delivered education equivalent to one with a flesh-and-blood teacher and hands-on experiences? by Maureen Downey [image: computer (Medium)]Shannon Howrey is assistant professor of literacy education at Georgia Gwinnett College and parent of three school-aged children. In her first op-ed for the Get Schooled blog, she writes about the spread of MOOCs, massive open online courses delivered over the Internet to anyone who enrolls without charge. MOOCs... more »
OUSD board stands firm on American Indian charter school recommendation - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools
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OUSD board stands firm on American Indian charter school recommendation - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools: OUSD board stands firm on American Indian charter school recommendation Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 1:21 pm in 1 Comment The Oakland school board voted 6-1 last night to issue a “notice of intent to revoke” the charters for three schools run by American Indian Model Schools: American Indian Public Charter School (6-8), American Indian Public Charter School II (K-8) and American Indian Public High School. The next hearing will be Feb. 13. The fi... more »
Teachers Hate Rick Scott « Tangerine, Florida
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Teachers Hate Rick Scott « Tangerine, Florida: Teachers Hate Rick Scott by 5redherrings [image: 385221_444444598961834_57741864_n] Via Firing Rick Scott Governor Rick Scott’s PR stunt today indicates nothing more than that Scott has made a habit out of cutting funding and then at a later date getting publicity for restoring it. We saw this song and dance when he cut $1.3 billion from public education funding in 2011 and then a year later touted a billion dollar promise to those very same schools. It is just another slight in a series of insults for middle class Floridians. The gove... more »
Tony Bennett, State Board Wants More Capital Outlay For Charter Schools, None for Public Schools | Scathing Purple Musings
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Tony Bennett, State Board Wants More Capital Outlay For Charter Schools, None for Public Schools | Scathing Purple Musings: Tony Bennett, State Board Wants More Capital Outlay For Charter Schools, None for Public Schools by Bob Sikes From the* Bradenton Times*: BRADENTON — In 2012, charter schools were narrowly unsuccessful in getting a state bill passed to require public school districts to give charter schools some of their local property tax revenue, though they received about $55 million for school construction through Governor Scott’s controversial decision to give them all ... more »
The real problem with multiple-choice tests
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The real problem with multiple-choice tests: The real problem with multiple-choice tests Posted by Valerie Strauss on January 25, 2013 at 6:00 am - [image: Smaller Text] [image: Larger Text] Text Size - Print - Reprints - Share: - - - More » Q) What is one responsibility that modern Presidents have NOT described in the Constitution? (From the 2010 NAEP exam) a) Commanding the armed forces b) Proposing an annual budget to Congress c) Appointing Supreme Court justices d) Granting pardons One of the biggest c... more »
Creating, Tinkering, Inventing and Imagining Our Way to the Top | toteachornototeach
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Creating, Tinkering, Inventing and Imagining Our Way to the Top | toteachornototeach: Creating, Tinkering, Inventing and Imagining Our Way to the Top by aristotlethewise *Creating, Tinkering, Inventing and Imagining Our Way to the Top* by Dori Roberts [image: tinker-tom]If you were to peek through the door of most preschool classrooms or observe young children playing at home, you would likely find kids creating, tinkering, inventing and imagining. Their hands would be busy and their minds would be racing a hundred miles a minute with all different types of creative possibilities: A... more »
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Tests, typos and video tape
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Tests, typos and video tape: Tests, typos and video tape by Mike Klonsky The website parents were sent to instead of a similar URL for information on Illinois testing standards.BBB's email notification to parents, warning them of a probable decline in student test scores, led instead, to an erotic website. Pretty hilarious when you consider all the possibilities. But most likely, just a typo on the part of a secretary -- an errant *l* in the website address that leads us to this ISBEL site instead of to ISBE. But you can bet the CEO's overstaffed Dam... more »
Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 1-24-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
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*Nite Cap UPDATE**UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE* An eloquent letter of support for the MAP test boycott from the teachers at Roosevelt High School by seattleducation2011 Wednesday/January 23, 2012 This We Believe: Teachers, parents, students, school board members and the administration of Seattle Public Schools owe Garfield High School teachers their gratitude and thanks for speaking the truth. We believe that any reprimand or negative consequences … Continue reading → “On Parents, Better To Coax Or Coerce?” by Larry Ferlazzo Here’s an interesting article from a group called The Cen... more »
Alfie Kohn and Pasi Sahlberg Blogathon « Cooperative Catalyst
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Alfie Kohn and Pasi Sahlberg Blogathon « Cooperative Catalyst: Alfie Kohn and Pasi Sahlberg Blogathon by joebower I am putting out a call for people to participate in an Alfie Kohn and Pasi Sahlberg Blogathon.[image: kohnsalhlbergcartoon] This blogathon is in response to the “Creating a great school for all - an evening with Alfie Kohn and Pasi Sahlberg,” Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at Red Deer College in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada. Click here for tickets. Rather than have Alfie Kohn and Pasi Sahlberg simply show up and talk for a couple hours just so we can all go back to work the n... more »
Ed Notes Online: Change the Stakes: Backing the Seattle Teachers
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 13 hours ago
Ed Notes Online: Change the Stakes: Backing the Seattle Teachers: Change the Stakes: Backing the Seattle Teachers by ed notes online There's been a wealth of support for the test boycotters and now the Superintendent is threatening the teachers. I don't have time but I'm sure you an google the links as loads of email is flowing into the Superintendent. Here is a letter of support written for the teachers by Change the Stakes and MORE member Diana Zavala for our NYC based Change the Stakes Group. Diana is also a parent opt-outer for her kids. Dear Superintendent Banda, It has c... more »
UPDATE: Ed Tonight Students With Disabilities Have Right To Play School Sports, Obama Administration Tells Schools
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 14 hours ago
Students With Disabilities Have Right To Play School Sports, Obama Administration Tells Schools: Detroit School Closures, Kristof On Pre-K: Ed Tonight by Joy Resmovits *Today In School Closures...* Detroit is slated to close even more schools, reports CBS. Enrollment in the Motor City has dwindled from 150,000 to a projected 40,000. "A deficit elimination plan obtained by The Detroit News says the district will close 28 schools [by 2016]," CBS reports. "The closures are expected to save DPS about $13.4 million in operating expenses, but hundreds of district employees will be out o... more »
H.R.320: Student Support Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
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H.R.320: Student Support Act - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: H.R.320 Student Support Act To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers. H.R.320 - Student Support Act To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to States for assistance in hiring additional school-based mental health and student service providers. view all titles (2) ... more »
Three Card Monte, Nekritz style. « Fred Klonsky
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 15 hours ago
Three Card Monte, Nekritz style. « Fred Klonsky: Three Card Monte, Nekritz style. by Fred Klonsky [image: nekritz] *Three-card Monte, also known as the Three-card marney, Three-card trick, Three-Way, Three-card shuffle, Menage-a-card, Triplets, Follow the lady, Les Trois Perdants (French for Three Losers), le Bonneteau, Find the lady, Bola bola or Follow the Bee is a confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money, on the assumption that they can find the money card among three face-down playing cards. It is the same as the shell game except tha... more »
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: A trip down memory lane with Oakland’s “American Indian” charter schools & Ben Chavis
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 15 hours ago
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: A trip down memory lane with Oakland’s “American Indian” charter schools & Ben Chavis: A trip down memory lane with Oakland’s “American Indian” charter schools & Ben Chavis by The Perimeter Primate Last evening Oakland Tribune education reporter Katy Murphy sent out this tweet: *Oakland school board just voted 6-1 to issue "notice of intent to revoke" to three American Indian charters. Final decision in March.* It seems apropos to take a look back at some memorable news stories about those schools. 11/14/2001 *“Beating a New Kind of Drum.*” *East Bay Expre... more »
Debunking Misconceptions: “The Common Core is State-Led” | Truth in American Education
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Debunking Misconceptions: “The Common Core is State-Led” | Truth in American Education: Debunking Misconceptions: “The Common Core is State-Led” by Shane Vander Hart I thought that I would start a series on common misconceptions related to the Common Core State Standards. I don’t know how frequently I’ll come back to this series, but as these misconceptions come up or as I hear them I want to address them. The first is one that I hear quite frequently and I was told was a misconception repeated in the Iowa House Education Committee meeting the other day when the Common Core was... more »
Louisiana Educator: COMPASS Revisions; Still a Wacky System
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Louisiana Educator: COMPASS Revisions; Still a Wacky System: COMPASS Revisions; Still a Wacky System by Michael Deshotels I watched the video presentation this week by the DOE explaining the COMPASS changes approved by BESE last week. I concluded that the changes could have been explained just as well in about 3 minutes instead of the boring 34 minutes . Here is all I got from the presentation: The rating system has been changed to allow 20% of the teachers evaluated by VAM to be considered highly effective instead of the original 10%. Also, starting next year, teachers rated b... more »
UPDATE: Tips from the Trenches: Administration — Whole Child Education
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Tips from the Trenches: Administration — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG [image: Stephen Sroka] Tips from the Trenches: Administration January 24, 2013 by Stephen Sroka *During the last few months, I have had the chance to talk with several speakers who strongly affected their audiences. I started to think about the remarkable leaders with whom I have worked over the years and how they have made huge differences with their incredible wisdom, insight, and actions. I contacted some of them and asked them to comment on working in education in these difficult times. I asked ... more »
UPDATE: Latest FLDOE Finding + Republican Texas House Says No to Jeb Bush on Testing | Scathing Purple Musings
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 16 hours ago
Republican Texas House Says No to Jeb Bush on Testing | Scathing Purple Musings: Latest FLDOE Finding: Poverty and Race Didn’t Matter in Teacher Evaluation Scores by Bob Sikes From Associated Press reporter Bill Kaczor in the *Miami Herald*: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Studies show students’ race and socio-economic status have virtually no correlation with their teachers’ performance evaluation scores, a top Florida education official told a legislative panel Thursday. Teachers are being evaluated during the current school year for the first time using what’s known as a value-added model.... more »
UPDATE: You Get What You Pay For + The Sky Will Soon Be Falling, Again + School Tech Connect: Nekritz vs. Martire
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School Tech Connect: Nekritz vs. Martire: You Get What You Pay For by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman) Ben Joravsky goes right to the heart of it. And I'd note that CPS uses charters to take care of a community's educational needs during the time poor people are moving out and wealthier people are moving in. At which point they create a regular public school with unionized teachers who get paid a decent salary, because as everyone knows, you get what you pay for. I actually don't care. Nothing can dissuade me from starting Tim Tech Charter. Like this blog, my school will The Sk... more »
Letter to the SCUSD Board of Education: | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education
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Letter to the SCUSD Board of Education: | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education: Letter to the SCUSD Board of Education: by Kate_Lenox [image: Home] For the past ten years, the Sacramento City Unified School District has closed schools piecemeal, even when attempting to put a process like a 7-11 committee in place. Now with its back against the wall financially, the district believes it must close a large number of schools to remain solvent. To address the declining enrollment and over capacity in the district, planning should have begun by considering the be... more »
Diane in the Evening 1-24-13 Diane Ravitch's blog
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Diane Ravitch's blog: Teachers at Roosevelt HS Support Colleagues at Garfield by dianerav Forty-Three Roosevelt High School teachers (colleagues in Seattle Public Schools with Garfield High School teachers) signed this Letter of Support (on Jan. 23, 2012) for GHS teachers and a call to for expedient dismissal of the MAP exam because it has not proven to be useful or reliable. (PDF of original with signatures available upon request). This We Believe: Teachers, parents, students, school board members and the administration of Seattle Public Schools owe Detroit: 28 More Schools Wi... more »
Torlakson Reacts to State of the State - Year 2013 (CA Dept of Education)
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Torlakson Reacts to State of the State - Year 2013 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Reaction to Governor's State of the State Address SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today issued the following statement regarding Governor Brown's State of the State Address: "With today's State of the State Address, as in his budget, Governor Brown kept his promise to make school funding his top priority. "While it will take years for our schools to recover what they have lost, I applaud the Governor for putting California on the path tow... more »
January 23, 2013: State Board of Education votes to require more standardized testing! - Wait, What?
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January 23, 2013: State Board of Education votes to require more standardized testing! - Wait, What?: January 23, 2013: State Board of Education votes to require more standardized testing! by jonpelto When the Connecticut State Board of Education met yesterday to approve their 2013 legislative agenda, a primary initiative was to expand the state’s mandatory standardized testing program to include all Connecticut students in the 11th grade. As of now, the state’s absurd mandatory Connecticut Mastery standardized testing extravaganza begins in grade three and runs through the CAPT ... more »
Best Questions: Someday Happens, Part Two — Whole Child Education
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Best Questions: Someday Happens, Part Two — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG [image: Molly McCloskey]Best Questions: Someday Happens, Part Two January 24, 2013 by Molly McCloskey Four years ago on the inauguration of the first African American president of the United States, we titled our*Whole Child Newsletter* "Someday Happens," reflecting a T-shirt I saw at the ceremonies that day. Today, independent of political views, I'm wondering when someday will happen for the millions of kids promised a "free and appropriate public education." While that phrase was first introdu... more »
California Governor Jerry Brown Decries Testing: "Distant Authorities Crack the Whip" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
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California Governor Jerry Brown Decries Testing: "Distant Authorities Crack the Whip" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: California Governor Jerry Brown Decries Testing: "Distant Authorities Crack the Whip" by Anthony Cody In today's State of the State speech, (available here) California Governor Jerry Brown continued to blaze a path in a new direction on education reform. He explicitly rejected the dominant reform paradigm which closely manages schools through test scores, and embraced local control, which he argued for using a concept called "subsidiarity." He also ... more »
Gionni Crawford – How students with disabilities can succeed in college - Student Voice
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Student Voice: Gionni Crawford – How students with disabilities can succeed in college by admin If you are a college student with a disability, whether it is cognitive or physical, it is important that you understand your rights. You must learn to embrace self-advocacy, which is, effectively communicating and asserting your rights and interests as a student with a documented disability. As a college student with a cognitive disability myself, I understand that there are other students, like me, who need guidance and reassurance to pursue higher education. A few years ago, I was st... more »
UPDATE: SPS Librarians also Speak Out on MAP Seattle Schools Community Forum: District Continues to Overbuild?
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Seattle Schools Community Forum: District Continues to Overbuild?: SPS Librarians also Speak Out on MAP by Melissa Westbrook From our friends at the Stranger Slog, what librarians are saying: *Laurie Amster-Burton, who spoke on behalf of librarians, says she actually switched schools in part because of how invasive MAP testing had become in regard to library time and space. The district has told educators that it thanks them for their concern but it needs time to work out a solution, but Amster-Burton says that these problems have existed for years, and educators have been bringing... more »
Bernardine Dohrn Retiring (from Norhtwestern Law School, but not from the work ahead) « Bill Ayers
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Bernardine Dohrn Retiring (from Norhtwestern Law School, but not from the work ahead) « Bill Ayers: Bernardine Dohrn Retiring (from Norhtwestern Law School, but not from the work ahead) by billayers Bernardine Dohrn, founder and former director of the Children and Family Justice Center (CFJC), Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern Law School, will retire from the Center and Law School on August 31, 2013. For more than twenty years, Bernardine has been the CFJC’s visionary leader and champion in the struggle for justice for youth. She has advocated for fair sentencing for children, for... more »
In These 19 States, Teachers Can Still Spank Kids
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In These 19 States, Teachers Can Still Spank Kids: In These 19 States, Teachers Can Still Spank Kids This may change in North Carolina, but what about the rest of the U.S.? By Suzi Parker January 23, 2013 Comment [image: In These 19 States, Teachers Can Still Spank Kids] In November 2012 in front of the Supreme Court, Paula Flowe of New York City draws attention to a bill in Congress that would outlaw corporal punishment in schools. (Photo: Roll Call/Getty Images) If John Tate, a North Carolina State Board of Education member, has his way, North Carolina will no longer allow teacher... more »
UPDATE: How to opt your student out of the MAP® test + Seattle Superintendent threatens punitive actions against boycotting teachers: a Seattle teacher responds, others around the country write letters in protest | Seattle Education
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Seattle Superintendent threatens punitive actions against boycotting teachers: a Seattle teacher responds, others around the country write letters in protest | Seattle Education: How to opt your student out of the MAP® test by seattleducation2011 *There has been a request for information on how to opt out of the MAP test in Seattle. To follow is an update of a post that Sue wrote in 2010 on opting your student out of the test.* To opt-out of the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP®) test, parents/guardians need to write a short e-mail or letter to their child’s principal, teachers... more »
UPDATE: FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Thursday, January 24, 2013
coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Fensterwald: ACLU warns it will sue state over 20,00 unserved English learners Education Headlines *Thursday, January 24, 2013* Students choose extra, not exodus, as Stockton USD lowers credit requirementThis year, it seemed more conceivable than ever that there could have been an early exodus from Stockton Unified of high school students who had more than enough credits to graduate ahead of time. Rowland High begins major renovationsThe modernization project is funded by a $118 million construction bond passed in 2006. ACLU takes... more »
UPDATE: NEA President: Seattle Teachers Stand Against Flawed Testing a “Defining Moment” | NEA Today
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NEA President: Seattle Teachers Stand Against Flawed Testing a “Defining Moment” | NEA Today: NEA President: Seattle Teachers Stand Against Flawed Testing a “Defining Moment” by twalker *By Tim Walker* The boycott by teachers in Seattle over the district-mandated Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) standardized test has attracted national attention and an outpouring of support from educators, students, and parents from across the country. In perhaps the first instance anywhere in the nation, teachers at Garfield High on January 9 decided unanimously to refuse to administer the tes... more »
FIGHTBACK The Hi-Stakes Testing Madness Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública:
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Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: FIGHTBACK The Hi-Stakes Testing Madness: FIGHTBACK The Hi-Stakes Testing Madness by Black Educator *8 Ways For Parents to Fight * *the Hi-Stakes Testing Madness* National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing - *Sign Now!* Submitted by fairtest on April 23, 2012 FairTest, 12 other organizations, and prominent individuals have drafted the following a national Resolution on High-Stakes Testing. We call organizations and individuals to endorse it. We also encourage people to write letters and get organizations to endors... more »
Demand a Moratorium on School Closures & Co-locations - NY-GPS
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Demand a Moratorium on School Closures & Co-locations - NY-GPS: - Take Action - Demand a Moratorium on School Closures & Co-locations! Demand a Moratorium on School Closures & Co-locations! Over the past 12 years, the Bloomberg administration has closed 140 schools. 60% of new elementary and middle schools have performed *worse* than the ones they replaced. Simultaneously, the Mayor's Dept. of Education has forced public schools to co-locate with charter schools, often resulting in huge inequities in classroom resources within individual school buildings. None of the Mayor... more »
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