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The pieces are all starting to come together. ..and the picture ain’t good | Crazy Crawfish’s Blog

MAY

2013

by Crazy Crawfish – Thanks to Lefty, Dave Lefkowith, John White’s data scam is starting to take on a clearer shape. I just got another document from good ole Lefty from another new vendor called Cambium Education and Sopris Learning. It appears John White is planning to provide all of our student data to yet another inBloom-like vendor ...

Break out the hip waders: Rep. Seabaugh’s surreptitious involvement in VAM ‘fix’ scheme gets deeper and deeper | Louisiana Voice

MAY

2013

by tomaswell – More information about the 14-minute telephone conversation between Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White and State Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R-Shreveport) is emerging that reveals a concerted but complicated effort by White to placate Seabaugh’s demand that evaluation scores be adjusted upward for three teachers at South Highlands Elementary School. Even as he ...

Online Charter School Hopes to Escape fromLimbo | New Jersey Spotlight

MAY

2013

by John Mooney – The nation’s largest online education company, K12 Inc., is once again registering kids and offering jobs to teachers for the debut of New Jersey’s first virtual charter school – all without knowing if the school will even open. Related Links Cyber Charter Challenge: How Does State Watch Over What It Can’t ...

Jersey Jazzman: Think-Tanky Thinking

MAY

2013

by Jersey Jazzman – And so now we come to the heart of the matter: the burden of proof. Because it’s one thing to play around with numbers and pose questions and even publish your musings; I do it all the time. That’s good clean fun and a great way to put off mowing the ...

“Don’t Believe the Hype” | EduShyster

MAY

2013

by Susan Altman who attends Oxford University where she is pursuing a master’s degree in International and Comparative Education and Business Management. – Many of my classmates in business school assume that education reform is a good thing. Accountability! Improvement! Closing the Achievement gap! Usually they know some Teach for America alums (who are now lawyers), ...

Common Core [sic] Standards | Susan Ohanian.org

MAY

2013

by Susan Ohanian – I applaud the Hoosiers Against the Common Core for identifying themselves as “a single issue education advocacy group.” Too many people worry about what else Common Core opponents might believe in. Let’s join CCSS opponents in getting rid of the Common Core and then all go our separate ways. Here’s the ...

Dear Jennifer: Dissent is the Vibrancy of our Democracy | Cloaking Inequity

MAY

2013

by Julian Vesquez Helilig – First, I should say that most of the protest at the speech was silent. There were probably 20-30 people holding up signs that said “Not in my name.” Second, I should say that the boos that welcomed him were relegated to about 15-20 people out of perhaps 3,000 in attendance. ...

New TFAers read a Top 10 list on Letterman | Gary Rubinstein’s Blog

MAY

2013

by Gary Rubinstein – On Letterman the other day, the top 10 category was: Top 10 reasons I’ve decided to become a teacher. Reading the reasons were ten brand new 2013 corps members. So of course it is pretty ironic that out of all the perspective teachers in the country who could have been chosen ...

An Appeal to UTLA: Please Help Monica Ratliff | Diane Ravitch’s blog

MAY

2013

by Diane Ravitch – Dear UTLA Members: I am writing to urge you to throw your full support behind the candidacy of Monica Ratliff for the Los Angeles school board race. Monica deserves and needs your help. I know you endorsed both her and her opponent. I am calling on you to help your colleague. ...

Can We Agree to a New Approach to SchoolImprovement? – @ The Chalk Face knows Schools Matter

MAY

2013

by John Thompson – PBS’s first education TED talk began with the promise that it would not play the blame game. The great presentations that followed raise the question of what could be accomplished if they obeyed that policy, stopped pointing fingers, and promoted “win win” methods of school improvement. A previous post, “What if ...

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