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Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools

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Now is the time to fight for what is right. It's never to late to go back to the times of building- NOT destroying! Support the Chicago Students Organizing to Save our Schools on a student-led city-wide Boycott on April 24TH (2ND Day of PSAE) to send the message to Rahm Emanuel and CPS Board of Education- that CPS students are Under-resourced, Over Tested, and Fed UP! Now is the time to fight for what is right! CSOSOS is calling on all Chicago Students to fight for our schools!

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The Stakes Is High For Assessment [Collaborateurs]

by Jose Vilson

De La Soul’s Stakes Is High

In my latest post at the new Collaborateurs blog (formerly known as Future of Teaching), I bring up a small group of people (including Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, David Johns) to task about assessment:

It’s not that I disagreed with him per se. While the argument he made was generic enough that everyone could agree, I felt the general tenor of his argument made it seem like teachers aren’t “in” on what he’s talking about. His argument hinges on the idea that the resistance to the current political climate stems from teachers not wanting to assess children. It’s a weird argument since I 

The Brave and the Frightened Cowards

by Democurmudgeon

Sal Castro: Inspiration to a Generation

by Dr. Roberto Rodrigeuz

It feels like we have entered an era of turbulence.
On a personal level, my thoughts are about life-long Los Angeles educator Sal Castro. He passed away a few days ago. How do you explain who he was to someone who never knew him?
In a way, he was like LA Times journalist Ruben Salazar, who was killed in 1970 in East Los Angeles. Castro had a similar impact, but he did not die then. He inspired a generation. Most people know of him through the 

Good and Bad Behavior in the School Building

by Kris Nielsen

Short post tonight.  I’m a little weary, as are the thousands of students and parents and teachers who have successfully gotten through the refusal of ELA part of the New York State tests.
Even more tired are the students who took that test.  As my fellow writers (coworkers?) at The Chalk Face have shown many times, these tests are the definition of chaos and poorly managed advertising.  The worst we’ve seen in years.  Our kids are being beaten down by this mess.
And you know something?  I don’t think that’s an accident.  I think it’s a glimpse into the future.
Anyway.  That’s not why I’m writing this post.  I want to share with you the way that we feel about many of the 

To Jesse Owens, all children were champions, the famed Olympian

To Jesse Owens, all children were champions, the famed Olympian’s daughter said Tuesday evening, trying to save the West Pullman school named for her father from the Chicago Public Schools’ closing list. Jesse Owens Community Academy is one of 54 schools proposed for closing, and …

NYSED: We want your vomit laced test.

by Chris Cerrone

To follow up on Tim Slekar’s post: State test puke policy trumps parents refusal attempt,  listen to a teacher describe how the New York State Education Department handles a student’s sudden illness.

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Actual “puke procedures” obtained by @the chalkface

by Timothy D. Slekar

We looked and looked and looked.  And look what we found.  Real “puke procedures.”

Well, we really didn’t find them.  The “puke procedures” below were sent to us by a REAL teacher from a REAL school.

Teachers administering or proctoring the STATE exams are to do the following in the event of a 

Walcott’s ‘Poem in Your Pocket’ pick echoes boss’s 2010 verse

by Geoff Decker

Unlike his boss three years ago, Chancellor Dennis Walcott stuck to Emily Dickinson’s original script today while reading to a crowd on national Poem in Your Pocket Day.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg brought the springtime literary event to New York City in 2002 in conjunction with National Poetry Month. He has made a tradition out of plastering his own verses all over the city in celebration of the event — at awards ceremonies (2011), on Times Square billboards (2012), and, this year, in the pages of Metro New York.

In 2010, Bloomberg again read a poem of his own creation, but drew inspiration from Dickinson’s “‘Hope’ is The

Remainders: Chicago union chief refines her bat mitzvah speech

by Philissa Cramer

• Chicago union chief Karen Lewis’s bat mitzvah speech ties education politics into Torah. (Shalom Rav)
• A Swiss school’s lesson in technology use: Focus on what goes into the iPad, not what comes out. (Slate)
• The first version of the test that later became the SAT included a section on “artificial language.” (Atlantic)
• Across the country, day care programs are basically unregulated, sometimes dangerous. (New Republic)
• Haimson and Ravitch present the education view in a review of Mayor Bloomberg’s New York. (Nation)
• The UFT endorsed Corey Johnson to fill the City Council seat Christine Quinn is leaving. (Daily Politics)
• The Republican National Committee is taking a stand against the Common Core standards. (Slate)
• A city teacher gets why a teacher might ask students to write like they were Nazis. (View from the Bronx)
• Who created Michelle Rhee? Was it Rhee, we, they, or U? John Merrow wants to know. (Taking Note)
• David Coleman, Common Core creator, is among the 100 most influential people in the world. (TIME)
• Sol Stern questions if New York’s education leaders even understands the Common Core. (City Journal)