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Schools Matter: Can You Please Pull Back the Curtains?

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Schools Matter: Can You Please Pull Back the Curtains?: Can You Please Pull Back the Curtains? by Storm It has occurred to me that we are wasting our time. Culture, economics, government, any and all of our organizing institutions, are against the individual "becoming" fully a thinking and feeling being...something more than an animal, but also something more than an animal with a modicum of mind. That is, it seems to me that most of us have done little more growing into the vast spaces of our becoming than simply thinking we are "selves" and that we are "special" because of i... more »

Dance! « Seattle Education

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Dance! « Seattle Education: Dance! by seattleducation2011 [image: Dance3] This post is dedicated to my daughter and all of the mothers, daughters, nieces, cousins, aunts and grandmothers in the world. February 14th was the day of 1 Billion Rising. From Democracy Now The original video Dance! « Seattle Education:

Daily Kos: So why do hedge funds so favor charter schools?

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Daily Kos: So why do hedge funds so favor charter schools?: So why do hedge funds so favor charter schools? by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) Allow me to quote Deep Throat, as played by Hal Holbrook in "All the President's Men" - "Just follow the money" - Embedded in the middle of an Alternet story by Kristin Rawls titled Corporations Advise School Closings, While Private Charters Suck Public Schools Away are several paragraphs that help explain why hedge funds and other corporate interests are so enamored of charter schools. Please continue to see what I mean. Thanks to a litt... more »

21st Century Skills: Deeper Learning is Essential Ingredient for Success | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights

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21st Century Skills: Deeper Learning is Essential Ingredient for Success | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights: 21st Century Skills: Deeper Learning is Essential Ingredient for Success by Tarsi Dunlop Deeper learning will ensure students possess transferable knowledge, or the ability to use their knowledge and skills to solve problems and navigate new situations. As a 21st century skill set, it should be a core element of the public education academic experience. A recent report from the National Research Council, *Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferab... more »

More Challenges to Kirp’s “Miracle” Narrative – @ the chalk face

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More Challenges to Kirp’s “Miracle” Narrative – @ the chalk face: More Challenges to Kirp’s “Miracle” Narrative by plthomasedd [image: @TCF on Blog Talk Radio] While researching and writing two books on key education issues, school choice (*Parental Choice?*) and poverty’s impact on education (*Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.*), I discovered the importance of and then committed significant sections of both works to examining the intersection of research on education and the media. The disturbing picture I uncovered was that the so-called liberal media failed the education debate repe... more »

Florida’s School-to-Prison Pipeline is Largest in the Nation | Alternet

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Florida’s School-to-Prison Pipeline is Largest in the Nation | Alternet: Florida’s School-to-Prison Pipeline is Largest in the Nation More than in any other state, students in Florida are being arrested for incidents that once would have merited a trip to the principal's office. Photo Credit: DenisNata | Shutterstock.com *February 13, 2013* | *Reprinted with permission of Colorlines.com. For more news from a racial justice perspective, sign up to receive weeklyColorlines Direct.* It used to be that getting in a schoolyard fight meant a trip to the principal’s office—detention, ma... more »

Special Report: Class Struggle - How charter schools get students they want | Reuters

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Special Report: Class Struggle - How charter schools get students they want | Reuters: Special Report: Class Struggle - How charter schools get students they want - - inShare - Share this - - Email - Print Related News - Charter schools put parents to the test 7:08am EST Analysis & Opinion - Pre-K would be an economic winner for America - Compliance is today’s slogan for upcoming law graduates, conference speakers say Related Topics - Investing and Taxes Simplified » - Special Reports » [image: Teresa Villanueva (L) and her 11-year-ol... more »

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 2-15-13 Diane Ravitch's blog

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Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Paul Thomas: Do Not Become a Zombie by dianerav Paul Thomas, our collective voice of conscience, explains the way that zombies take control. When your leaders are zombies, do not follow them. They will make you a zombie too. How can you recognize a zombie? They talk about data, not individuals. They always say they put “kids first” or The Corporate Reform Cult of Rhetoric and Riches by dianerav To understand the tentacles of corporate reform, you must read this post Here Mercedes Schneider continues her re... more »

High School Allows Same-Sex Valentines After Controversy | toteachornototeach

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High School Allows Same-Sex Valentines After Controversy | toteachornototeach: High School Allows Same-Sex Valentines After Controversy by aristotlethewise [image: il_570xN.418841119_kqqz]*Utah High School Reverses Policy, Allows Same-Sex Valentines* By Meredith Bennett-Smith A Utah high school has reversed course this week, after controversy arose over a potential ban on same-sex Valentine’s Day messages. The issue at Copper Hills High arose earlier this month, when members of the school’s choir handed out fliers announcing that there would be “No Same-sex Delivery” of their sing... more »

Shame on districts seeking to perpetuate funding advantages | EdSource Today

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Shame on districts seeking to perpetuate funding advantages | EdSource Today: Shame on districts seeking to perpetuate funding advantages ** February 14th, 2013 | Add a Comment | By John Affeldt Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on print More Sharing Services [image: John Affeldt] John Affeldt Kudos to Jerry Brown for proposing to end the inequities in California school funding – and shame on the districts that seek to fossilize the advantages they have enjoyed for decades now. Brown is the first governor in recent times to acknowledge what the education community... more »

The Innovative Educator: Strengthen the home-school connection right from your phone with Cel.ly

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The Innovative Educator: Strengthen the home-school connection right from your phone with Cel.ly: Strengthen the home-school connection right from your phone with Cel.ly by noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen) ** School guidance counselor Willyn Webb says that Cel.ly has made a positive improvement for her school’s Parent Accountability Committee (PAC) which meets once per month. *Celly is a free, mobile social network that works via group texting. It is instant, private, and secure. There is never an exchange of personal cell phone numbers, yet everyone is connected in the ways th... more »

Open letter to Arne Duncan from Chicago teachers

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Open letter to Arne Duncan from Chicago teachers: Open letter to Arne Duncan from Chicago teachers Posted by Valerie Strauss on February 15, 2013 at 4:00 am - [image: Smaller Text] [image: Larger Text] Text Size - Print - Reprints - Share: - - - More » Arne Duncan (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) A coalition of teachers from public and private schools — including the school that Education Secretary Arne Duncan attended as a child and where President Obama’s daughters were enrolled before they moved to ... more »

When you want the right answer, ask the right question… Take the Survey - Wait, What?

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When you want the right answer, ask the right question… Take the Survey - Wait, What?: When you want the right answer, ask the right question… Take the Survey by jonpelto Yesterday, ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group released the results of a “public opinion survey” that determined that Connecticut voters overwhelming support Governor Malloy’s “education reform” proposals. The poll was done by Global Strategies Group, the company that Roy Occhiogrosso, the Governor’s former chief advisor returned to last month. According to a memo released by the Global Strategies Group, “T... more »

Did Don Gaetz Get the OK From Jeb Bush to Slow Accountability Reforms? | Scathing Purple Musings

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Did Don Gaetz Get the OK From Jeb Bush to Slow Accountability Reforms? | Scathing Purple Musings: Did Don Gaetz Get the OK From Jeb Bush to Slow Accountability Reforms? by Bob Sikes So the most powerful lobbyist in Florida who strangely doesn’t have to register as one, made a trip to Tallahassee to talk education with legislators. This from Michael Van Stickler in the* Miami Herald* on Jeb Bush’s little visit: Bush hasn’t visited the Capitol since 2010, so he was asked why he was meeting with lawmakers. Bush said as the head of the non-profit Foundation for Excellence in Educati... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The closing of Jay Cooke Jr. High

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The closing of Jay Cooke Jr. High: The closing of Jay Cooke Jr. High by Mike Klonsky Philly activists pack a City Council hearing on school closures. (City Paper) Now it's Cooke K-8 in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia. I was transferred there in 1956, when it was Cook Jr. High, because I was a white kid, one of the last in my North Philly neighborhood, about to attend all-black, segregated Fitzsimons Jr. High. But after a minor scuffle with a group of kids over lunch money (mine), the system decided that the all-white Cooke would be a better pl... more »

Jersey Jazzman: What's Wrong With Paterson?

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Jersey Jazzman: What's Wrong With Paterson?: What's Wrong With Paterson? by Duke *Paterson: home of reformyness, and Lou Costello!* Paterson is the third-largest city in New Jersey. It's one of the poorest cities in America with a nearly 40% child poverty rate. Its schools have been under state control for 22 years. *And Paterson is now, apparently, the new center of reformyness here in New Jersey.* Start with the pressure teachers in Paterson are feeling to accept merit pay. According to the local teachers union, the latest contract offer is unprecedented in that it calls for *... more »

UPDATE: Daniel Biss’ fuzzy math + From Chicago’s teachers: Dear Secretary Duncan + Welcome to Bizarro World, Mr. President. « Fred Klonsky

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Welcome to Bizarro World, Mr. President. « Fred Klonsky: Daniel Biss’ fuzzy math. by Fred Klonsky [image: IMG_0031] *“I may not know about the constitution, but I know math,”* State Senator Daniel Biss told us at the town hall he and State Representative Robyn Gabel held in Wilmette last week. Biss, a formeer math professor at the University of Chicago, never fails to mention his math credentials when making his proposals to ignore the state’s pension promises and obligations. It appears he may not know much about the constitution or his pension math. Following the Pension Summit ca... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: Missouri Files Anti-Common Core House Bill

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Missouri Files Anti-Common Core House Bill: Missouri Files Anti-Common Core House Bill by stlgretchen FIRST REGULAR SESSION HOUSE BILL NO. 616 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY ------------------------------ INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BAHR (Sponsor), JONES (110), KOENIG, FUNDERBURK, SPENCER, LANT, SCHARNHORST, CURTMAN, BRATTIN, PARKINSON, FRAKER, MARSHALL, CRAWFORD, FITZWATER, JONES (50) AND DIEHL (Co-sponsors). 0394L.01I ... more »

THE ASSAULT: ON PUBLIC EDUCATION, ON TEACHERS, AND ON DUE PROCESS by Susan Lee Schwartz - Perdaily.com

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THE ASSAULT: ON PUBLIC EDUCATION, ON TEACHERS, AND ON DUE PROCESS by Susan Lee Schwartz - Perdaily.com: THE ASSAULT: ON PUBLIC EDUCATION, ON TEACHERS, AND ON DUE PROCESS by Susan Lee Schwartz by Leonard Isenberg [image: Susan Lee Schwartz 1.jpeg] *(Mensaje se repite en Español)* * * *Many years have passed, Lenny Isenberg, since you and I talked about breaking the enormous silence that surrounds the assault on teachers, -- the first round in ending the national institution of public education. In order to lie and rewrite history, an uninformed ignorant citizenry is required. To c... more »

Mother Crusader: The Paterson Collegiate Charter School Application, Ascend and Sabis, Part IV

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Mother Crusader: The Paterson Collegiate Charter School Application, Ascend and Sabis, Part IV: The Paterson Collegiate Charter School Application, Ascend and Sabis, Part IV by darciecima This is last of a four part series about the Paterson Collegiate Charter School Application. In Part III we explored how lead founder Steven Wilson figured out how to exploit New Markets tax credits to build a charter empire. Today we will look at the program Wilson is offering the people of Paterson, in exchange for the public funds he will receive. Community and Parent Involvement First, i... more »

Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 2-14-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

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*Nite Cap UPDATE**UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE* *Black History Month February 2013* How Are You Going to Spend Your Half-Week Off? by NYC Educator I'm not bitter about losing the mid-winter recess. After all, I had big fun the week of October 29th, walking through a foot of water to get to what was left of my house. It was great being homeless for six weeks, and the least I can do for Mayor Bloomberg is give up a frivolous family vacation. I've no doubt my students will be thrilled to come in as well. As if that's not enough, the DOE, in its infinite wisdom, has decreed that June... more »

#edreform - Shake Your Money Maker

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*Shake Your Money Maker * [image: Mayor Bloomberg Your Money Sucks! (Learn More click picture)]

H.R.510: Transition toward Excellence, Achievement and Mobility through Education Act of 2013 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 13 hours ago

H.R.510: Transition toward Excellence, Achievement and Mobility through Education Act of 2013 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: H.R.510 Transition toward Excellence, Achievement and Mobility through Education Act of 2013 Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Education programs funding - 10 minutes ago To amend the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to make improvements to the individualized education program under that Act and facilitate the transition of children with disabilities to adulthood, and for other purposes. Bill Introduced: H.R.497 America Works... more »

School Tech Connect: Joe Moore: He Wants A Charter At Gale

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School Tech Connect: Joe Moore: He Wants A Charter At Gale: Joe Moore: He Wants A Charter At Gale I can't keep doing this..... I don't know how to describe this feeling to all the suburban people who really aren't paying attention to the CPS closings. You basically have to go to battle with the system night after night after night. My colleagues go home after work--- I prep for war. Gale had a lovely evening tonight. Craig Benes came out to bask in an evening of not getting yelled at. He wears expertly tailored pants; I never noticed that before. Skinny pants, even. I wish I coul... more »

Mission Hill Chapter Two: Singing the Same Song | The IDEA Blog

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Mission Hill Chapter Two: Singing the Same Song | The IDEA Blog: Mission Hill Chapter Two: Singing the Same Song by Dana Bennis in *Blog* *This is a guest post by Laura Thomas, Director of the Antioch Center for School Reform. Laura is currently involved in research around the experiences of students and educators in rural environments, particularly in the areas of social justice. Additionally, she is continuing her work in the study of school change (particularly resistance to change) as well as student advocacy and engagement in the change process.* “This little light of mine/... more »

Report: Unfair Funding – How Charter Schools Win & Traditional Schools Lose

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Report: Unfair Funding – How Charter Schools Win & Traditional Schools Lose: Report: Unfair Funding – How Charter Schools Win & Traditional Schools Lose FEBRUARY 14, 2013 BY STEPHEN DYER LEAVE A COMMENT [image: unfairfundinghomepage]*Research Overview* Innovation Ohio has analyzed data from the Ohio Department of Education that demonstrates that the way charter schools are funded in this state has a profoundly negative impact on the resources that remain for the 1.6 million kids in Ohio’s traditional public schools. In the vast majority of cases — even in many urban school districts ... more »

Last Stand for Children First: School Closings Offer Opportunities for Students to Learn a Trade

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Last Stand for Children First: School Closings Offer Opportunities for Students to Learn a Trade: School Closings Offer Opportunities for Students to Learn a Trade by Last Stand for Children Commentary by Representative Jack Kimble (R-CA, 54) Unfortunately, it's very easy for parents to get angry over school closings. After all, neighborhood schools can be sanctuaries in a neighborhood of boarded up and abandoned buildings and the school community can be a family for children whose own parents are unable to provide them with the stability every child deserves. This is a nationwi... more »

Big Education Ape - SPECIAL Mid Day Banana Break 2-14-13 #soschat #edreform

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*Big Education Ape - Mid Day Banana Break* Most of the 129 schools on The Mayor’s list to close are on the south and west side. by Fred Klonsky From the CTU Black Caucus: [image: 823553_450245221712114_1759762809_o] Indiana Bill Will Mandate Assessment and Public Input of Common Core by Shane Vander Hart *The Indianapolis Star* spun yesterday’s vote on SB 193 in the Indiana Senate Education and Career Development committee as a sign that the state will likely keep the Common Core State Standards. I disagree. This coming Tuesday the full Indiana Senate will vote on the bill. This ... more »

Big Data and Little Kids: "Assessment" in Obama's Pre-K Plan - Dana Goldstein

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Big Data and Little Kids: "Assessment" in Obama's Pre-K Plan - Dana Goldstein: Big Data and Little Kids: "Assessment" in Obama's Pre-K Plan by Dana Goldstein Via Twitter, I'm seeing a lot of anxiety about the part of President Obama's new universal preschool proposal that calls for "comprehensive data and assessment systems" to track student progress and program quality. I know what you're thinking: *Standardized tests for four-year olds? *And I agree, it is absurd to imagine toddlers filling in Scantron bubbles. But that isn't at all what the administration has ever meant when i... more »

UPDATE: Obama in Decatur on pre-k: ‘Give all of our kids that chance.’ | Get Schooled

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Obama in Decatur on pre-k: ‘Give all of our kids that chance.’ | Get Schooled: Obama in Decatur on pre-k: ‘Give all of our kids that chance.’ 2:40 pm February 14, 2013, by Maureen Downey Here is the text of the Obama speech. The President deviated now and then but this is essentially what he said today in Decatur: Hello, everybody! Well, it is great to be in Georgia! Great to be in Decatur! I can’t imagine a more romantic way to spend Valentine’s Day — (laughter) — than with all of you, with all the press here. Actually, Michelle says hello. She made me promise to get back i... more »

Sacramento Press / 'Our families walk their students to school'

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Sacramento Press / 'Our families walk their students to school': 'Our families walk their students to school'by Karen Wilkinson, published on *February 13, 2013* at *4:40 PM* The crowd listens as a school official speaks. While Washington Elementary School is the smallest school in the district, you wouldn't know it by the amount of impassioned community members that spoke up Wednesday night to oppose a plan to shut its doors. Hundreds of parents, teachers, students and education supporters criticized the Sacramento City Unified School District's plan, calling it unfair and a dir... more »

How Can Teachers Overcome Depression and Strife? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

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How Can Teachers Overcome Depression and Strife? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: How Can Teachers Overcome Depression and Strife? by Anthony Cody A message sent via Twitter tells the tale. "My fellow teacher residents and I are going through deep strife and depression right now and I'm holding a healing session tomorrow evening. Any meditative or healing resources you can share? Anything will do!" The pressures we are subjecting teachers to are taking a toll. When our leaders hold schools responsible for overcoming poverty, teachers sometimes feel as if their work i... more »

Diane in the Evening 2-14-13 Diane Ravitch's blog

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Diane Ravitch's blog: Do You Like Bloomberg’s Education Policies? by dianerav Here is a chance to make your voice heard. Crain’s New York is running an opinion poll, asking which of Bloomberg’s policies the next mayor should get rid of. Bloomberg has promoted high-stakes testing, charter schools, school closings, co-locations of charters, and evaluation of teachers by test scores. Class sizes are at their highest in fourteen years. Express your views here. Setting the Record Straight About Central Park East by dianerav After I posted about the NYC DOE decision to place a new cha... more »

Schools Matter: Why Does Corporate Ed "Reform" and Arne Duncan Love the GA Model for Early Childhood?

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Schools Matter: Why Does Corporate Ed "Reform" and Arne Duncan Love the GA Model for Early Childhood?: Why Does Corporate Ed "Reform" and Arne Duncan Love the GA Model for Early Childhood? by Jim Horn Today the President is in Georgia trying to sell the corporate plan that he has bought for early childhood education in America. Everyone at ED is hot for the Georgia Model. Why? Could it have anything to do with the fact that Georgia does not require a Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, or even a Bachelors Degree? Could it be related to Georgia's market friendly mo... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Obama will deliver another speech tomorrow in Chicago. But why?

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Obama will deliver another speech tomorrow in Chicago. But why?: Obama will deliver another speech tomorrow in Chicago. But why? by Mike Klonsky I know there's a lot of people glad that the Obama is coming to Chicago to focus on the gun violence epidemic plaguing the city since Rahm took office. But I think Obama's people may be making a mistake by sending him here on Friday. He's scheduled to speak at Hyde Park High School, no doubt surrounded by the mayor and his gaggle of Democratic Party pols -- maybe the most corrupt and most hated group of inglo... more »

Edwin Portugal – California, The Next Leader in Education - Student Voice

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Student Voice: Edwin Portugal – California, The Next Leader in Education by admin The education reform community (almost) unanimously agrees that Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) has failed students. This law has put a large emphasis on standardized testing and “accountability” while ignoring the individual needs of students, educators, and the schools themselves. When Obama came into office, education reformers were optimistic that his administration would reverse some of the adverse effects of NCLB. Obama’s “Race to the Top”, however, turned out to be a re-hash of the same f... more »

Press Release | National Association for the Education of Young Children | NAEYC

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Press Release | National Association for the Education of Young Children | NAEYC: Early Childhood Education Focus in State of the Union Applauded by NAEYC House and Senate Reintroduction of NAEYC Recommendations Expected Shortly Early Childhood Education Focus in State of the Union Applauded by NAEYC House and Senate Reintroduction of NAEYC Recommendations Expected Shortly *WASHINGTON*—The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the nation’s leading voice on high-quality early childhood education for children from birth through age 8, issued the following... more »

Happy Valentine’s Day to the Superheroes of Scarleteen «

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Happy Valentine’s Day to the Superheroes of Scarleteen «: Happy Valentine’s Day to the Superheroes of Scarleteen by Angus Johnston [image: Scarleteen, sex ed for the real world] I’ve known about Scarleteen for a few years now, and I’m still bowled over by them. Scarleteen is a sexuality education and advice organization for young people, and it’s absolutely incredible. It’s a website with a huge library of great information. It’s a set of online forums where young folks can go to ask hard questions and get thoughtful answers. It’s a Twitter feed and Facebook page with tens of thousa... more »

Louisiana Educator: Attack on Public Education Continues

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Louisiana Educator: Attack on Public Education Continues: Attack on Public Education Continues by Michael Deshotels As most educators are now aware, the attack on public education in Louisiana is expected to intensify greatly this year. This is happening despite the fact that public schools across the state have made great progress in raising state test scores and improving the graduation rate. Apparently the reformers were not satisfied with your efforts. Jindal, White and now Roemer want nothing less than complete privatization of our K-12 school system.See these amazing revelat... more »

FCMAT »Cali Education Headlines Thursday, February 14, 2013

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FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: [image: Mayor Bloomberg Your Money Sucks! (Learn More click picture)][image: MAYOR BLOOMBERG YOUR MONEY Cant Buy My Vote! (LEARN MORE CLICK PICTURE)] Education Headlines *Thursday, February 14, 2013* Education roundup: District superintendent Hearron retiringKip Hearron is retiring as superintendent of the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District. State bill would shrink school superintendents' severance payA California legislator wants to shrink considerably the severance pay for California school superintendents. Monterey teac...more »

UPDATE: Obama’s education vision + Our movement is against closing any public school + How can you mend a broken heart? « Fred Klonsky

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How can you mend a broken heart? « Fred Klonsky: Obama’s education vision. by Fred Klonsky [image: 1220905044-large] *Community organizer, Barack Obama.* *“… to redesign America’s high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy. And we’ll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering and math, the skills today’s employers are looking for to fill the jobs that are there right now and will be there in the future.” – *President Obama, State of the Union I ... more »

Fact Sheet President Obama’s Plan for Early Education for all Americans | The White House

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Fact Sheet President Obama’s Plan for Early Education for all Americans | The White House: Fact Sheet President Obama’s Plan for Early Education for all Americans “In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children…studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, form more stable families of their own. We know this works. So let’s do what works and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind.” ... more »

Connecticut’s House Republicans step forward to protect open, fair and accountable government - Wait, What?

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Connecticut’s House Republicans step forward to protect open, fair and accountable government - Wait, What?: Connecticut’s House Republicans step forward to protect open, fair and accountable government If you found that hard to read, imagine how hard it was to write… But it is true. Last week, the leader of the House Republicans blasted Governor Malloy’s plan to undermine Connecticut’s watchdog agencies. Representative Cafero observed that Governor Malloy’s budget proposal is, “…an attempt to undermine the public’s right to know what is going on within government.” Cafero adde... more »

Student 'zombies' march on R.I. Department of Education in protest / Video | Breaking News | providencejournal.com | The Providence Journal

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Student 'zombies' march on R.I. Department of Education in protest / Video | Breaking News | providencejournal.com | The Providence Journal: Student 'zombies' march on R.I. Department of Education in protest / Video Comments 22 February 13, 2013 5:27 pm By Linda Borg PROVIDENCE JOURNAL VIDEO / ANDREW DICKERMAN A group of Providence high school students, some with zombie makeup, protest against the rigid use of NECAP tests that determines eligibility for graduation. PROVIDENCE -- Spattered with blood, their eyes blackened, their T-shirts torn, a line of teenaged zombies zigzagged t... more »

Stand for Children’s Litzow is at it again. This time he wants to grade schools…so they can be closed and turned into charter schools « Seattle Education

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Stand for Children’s Litzow is at it again. This time he wants to grade schools…so they can be closed and turned into charter schools « Seattle Education: Stand for Children’s Litzow is at it again. This time he wants to grade schools…so they can be closed and turned into charter schools by seattleducation2011 Stand for Children’s Litzow is at it again. This time he wants to grade schools…so they can be closed and turned into charter schools From the WSSDA Legislative Update - *SSB 5328 would create a pilot program school A-F grading system for the 2013-14 school year, with... more »

Shanker Blog » Revisiting The "Best Evidence" Theory Of Charter School Performance

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Shanker Blog » Revisiting The "Best Evidence" Theory Of Charter School Performance: Revisiting The “Best Evidence” Theory Of Charter School Performance by Matthew Di Carlo Which, *on the whole*, show modest or no differences in test-based effectiveness between charters and comparable regular public schools. Among the more persistent arguments one hears in the debate over charter schools is that the “best evidence” shows charters are more effective. I have discussed this issue before (as have others), but it seems to come upfrom time to time, even in mainstream media coverage. The ... more »

#commoncore for adults: A new and untapped market? – @ the chalk face

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#commoncore for adults: A new and untapped market? – @ the chalk face: #commoncore for adults: A new and untapped market? by Timothy D. Slekar According to the National Center for Education Statistics adult illiteracy in America is *kind of a problem.* Look at this graphic! [image: Illiterate-America-800 copy] Hey Common Core purveyors! Here’s an untapped market. What are you waiting for? These people need your help! Just use your vast resources and lobby Congress! All you need is a Common Core mandate to experiment on

Report questions impact of Brown’s finance formula on career tech | EdSource Today

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Report questions impact of Brown’s finance formula on career tech | EdSource Today: Report questions impact of Brown’s finance formula on career tech ** February 14th, 2013 | Add a Comment | By Susan Frey Share on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on print More Sharing Services In proposing to give school districts almost all of their money with no strings attached, Gov. Jerry Brown is confident that local school boards and superintendents are best able to make the right decisions so that all students can graduate ready for college and work. A report released today byPolic... more »

On Extremism, Inconsistency, and Uncertainty - Bridging Differences - Education Week

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On Extremism, Inconsistency, and Uncertainty - Bridging Differences - Education Week: On Extremism, Inconsistency, and Uncertainty by Deborah Meier *This is Alfie Kohn's final post with Deborah Meier on Bridging Differences. A new blogger joins Deborah next week.* Dear Debbie, I'm tempted to continue talking about competition with you, trying to hash out whether it (like conflict) is really inevitable, and asking what message we send to kids when we permit or even endorse activities that pit them against one another. But I was intrigued by your more general comments about consist... more »

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