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Judge’s Reversal of Bullying Ruling Upheld by State Education Chief
Cerf agrees that conflict between two students didn’t meet anti-bullying law’s criteria.
Guest Post: Stanford Ed School Dean Claude Steele on Stereotype Threat in Academics
EWA's 66th National Seminar, held at Stanford University, took place earlier this month. We asked some of the journalists attending to contribute posts from the sessions. The majority of the content will soon be available at EdMedia Commons. Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing a few of the posts, including the ones from our keynote sessions. Nanette Asimov, higher education reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, is today's guest blogger.
Consider this mystery: Black students and other subjects of negative stereotyping, like girls in math class, typically score lower than their peers on exams—even if they are demonstrably smart and grew up in privileged
Consider this mystery: Black students and other subjects of negative stereotyping, like girls in math class, typically score lower than their peers on exams—even if they are demonstrably smart and grew up in privileged
Education and a Path to the Middle Class
Education and a Path to the Middle Class
by Jack Gardner
The future of America’s middle class looks clouded right now. With a steady decline in median household income, a growing number of Americans dropping out of the workforce, and approximately 6 million young Americans largely disconnected from mainstream society (not in school, unemployed), the facts are alarming. When you factor in a contentious political environment that appears paralyzed, there is a growing perception that a middle class lifestyle will be unachievable for many Americans.
As bad as the picture looks – and arguably the threat to the middle class is America’s greatest long-term challenge – there are a number of actions we can take to help address the problem, to include adopting a fiscal policy that grows the economy and generates middle class jobs. But the most significant action we can take to advance the health of the nation’s middle class is to dramatically improve the skill level of our workforce. And on a grand scale. To do this, we not only need to revitalize and refocus our public education system. but also need to establish a direct link between education, the development of relevant skills, and the contemporary job
by Jack Gardner
The future of America’s middle class looks clouded right now. With a steady decline in median household income, a growing number of Americans dropping out of the workforce, and approximately 6 million young Americans largely disconnected from mainstream society (not in school, unemployed), the facts are alarming. When you factor in a contentious political environment that appears paralyzed, there is a growing perception that a middle class lifestyle will be unachievable for many Americans.As bad as the picture looks – and arguably the threat to the middle class is America’s greatest long-term challenge – there are a number of actions we can take to help address the problem, to include adopting a fiscal policy that grows the economy and generates middle class jobs. But the most significant action we can take to advance the health of the nation’s middle class is to dramatically improve the skill level of our workforce. And on a grand scale. To do this, we not only need to revitalize and refocus our public education system. but also need to establish a direct link between education, the development of relevant skills, and the contemporary job
Bill Introduced: S.897 Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act
A bill to prevent the doubling of the interest rate for Federal subsidized student loans for the 2013-2014 academic year by providing funds for such loans through the Federal Reserve System, to ensure that such loans are available at interest rates that are equivalent to the interest rates at which the Federal Government provides loans to banks through the discount window operated by the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.
Lessons from Finland and Wisconsin – @ The Chalk Face knows Schools Matter
by PLThomasEDD – Many of us who are lifelong educators find clinging to our optimism a difficult challenge. But two recent pieces may signal hope, a light at the long and dark tunnel of corporate education reform built on false claims and flawed solutions. While I urge you to read and share widely the two ...read more
Pennsylvania launches full frontal assault on Education at all levels. – @ The Chalk Face knows Schools Matter
by Timothy D. Slekar – Great news all around for corporate reformers. Now we have Ronald (I have no clue) Tomalis put in charge of destroying PAs higher education system and Dr. WIlliam E. (never been a teacher) Harner in charge of carrying out the Broad mission of public education reform through scorched earth policy ...read more
Monty Neill: Building Effective Campaigns for Testing Reform – Living in Dialogue – Education Week Teacher
by Anthony Cody with a guest post from Monty Neil, the Executive Director of Fair Test – Part three of a three part series. – It will take public education, incessant pressure, and massive public resistance to win reforms to our current damaging test policies. We need to define clear, widely supported goals. And we need ...read more
Latino Activists Declare Victory Over Texas Ethnic Studies Law
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices
They fought the law, and they won.
The Texas activist organization known as Librotraficante celebrated a victory last week over state lawmakers that wanted to put the squeeze on ethnic studies.Conservative State Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston) raised a fury among Latino activists and professors with a proposal to exempt ethnic studies and other college classes from counting toward the fulfillment of state history requirements, but gained little support for the effort. With just two weeks to go before the Texas legislative session winds to a close, Senate Bill 1128 has yet to get voted out of the Senate High Education Committee.
“Logistically speaking, it would be very difficult for it to pass at this point,” Logan Spence, a spokesman for
“Pro-English” Group Launches Campaign Against Immigration Reform
By Buzz Feed
WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham is the first target of a new broadcast ad campaign from an anti-immigration reform group with reported ties to the white nationalist movement.
The minute long radio ad campaign by ProEnglish, comes at a particularly bad time for opponents of comprehensive reform: last week the Heritage Foundation was forced to sack a researcher for his racially tinged comments about Latinos and there are growing questions about the anti-reform movement’s connections to radical population growth groups.
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What's Happening In New York City's Schools? Leonie Haimson speaking in NW Bronx on Saturday
What's Happening In New York City's Schools?
Guest Speaker:Leonie Haimson
of Class Size Matters
High-Stakes Testing
Charter Schools
Class Size Increases
School Closures
Are Our Kids Getting Hurt?
Where: Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club
304 West 231st St., Bronx (betw.Tibbett & Irwin)
When: Saturday, May 18, 12:30 PM
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Pennsylvania launches full frontal assault on Education at all levels.
From the Notebook: Ronald Tomalis will step down as Pennysylvania’s education secretary at the end of the month, Gov. Corbett announced today in a statement. He is to be replaced by Cumberland Valley schools chief William Harner. Tomalis, who served as the state’s top education official for two years, will become a special adviser to […]
NY: Calling on You to Stop Field Testing
In three weeks, students at over 3,600 schools in New York State will receive a nasty surprise. They mistakenly believe that, for this school year at least, they are done taking tests. When they least expect it, the number 2 pencils and bubble sheets will reappear. When I was in elementary school, June brought Field […]
Trust a Teacher. By John Stoffel
An assumption exists that teachers are against high-stakes testing because they don’t want to risk evaluation. It continues that if teachers are not evaluated by testing data, they will have no incentive to do their job well. If teachers fail to do their job, then a generation of young children faces a bleak future. What […]
Parenting with ADHD
Today I’m writing for Momsrising in support of National Women’s Healthcare Week. Why do women need their own healthcare week you might ask? Head shaking—because if mom gets sick who will remember that you only like your macaroni and cheese with rotini pasta? Or that the reason you refuse to wear those perfectly nice pants is a matter of pride (those buttons are hard!) rather than outright defiance.Women. Y’all need us healthy. But what is a woman/mom to do when her illness cannot be cured? I’m a lateish 30s, stay-at-home mom with ADHD. I wasn’t diagnosed until my mid-twenties, long after college, long after I had successfully managed a department of people at a retail store and shortly after I started working in a
Once Again, Chris Christie Is a Massive Fraud
Absolutely unbelievable:
Gov. Chris Christie has warned potential investors there is no guarantee the state will make its required pension payments in future years, an admission that underscores a looming financial crisis he and future governors face as retirement costs are expected to explode before the decade ends.
The disclosure, buried in a 156-page bond prospectus for investors, also casts doubt on one of the key commitments Christie and leading
The teachers union in San Jose’s Evergreen elementary district, where contract talks have been stalled since October, is talking about what to expect in a labor strike.
Thirteen people were cited with unlawful assembly after disrupting a UC Regents meeting in Sacramento.
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Let’s Build a Lemonade Stand, Kids!
Students’ Response to School Budget Cuts
Notes from the Field
Submitted by Angela Chan
When I decided to teach, I believed that the betterment of our nation depends on growing compassionate and caring citizens, and on creating an engaged citizenry that must include even those who live in the poorest communities. As a public and as a nation, we have determined education to be so important to the common good that we would collectively fund it for all children. I thought, what better way to invest my life and energy than to be a public servant, to do the important work of educating our young, and not just to do this work anywhere, but to commit to those communities and schools with the least resources.
The last few years of budget cuts to public education has shaken my belief that our country and political leaders
Notes from the Field
Submitted by Angela Chan
When I decided to teach, I believed that the betterment of our nation depends on growing compassionate and caring citizens, and on creating an engaged citizenry that must include even those who live in the poorest communities. As a public and as a nation, we have determined education to be so important to the common good that we would collectively fund it for all children. I thought, what better way to invest my life and energy than to be a public servant, to do the important work of educating our young, and not just to do this work anywhere, but to commit to those communities and schools with the least resources.The last few years of budget cuts to public education has shaken my belief that our country and political leaders
Thompson Tries to Draw a Line Between Him and Bloomberg on Education
In a 23-minute speech on Wednesday, William C. Thompson Jr. laid out his vision for education.
Did I Have a Dream or Did The Dream Have Me?
"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" Peart, Neil, from the song Nocturne off of Vapor Trails 2002.
There I was the other night about 3 AM, lying in my bed, my cat sleeping ever so peacefully at my
feet, my wife with the cold cream covering her face and the curlers covering her hair, sawing wood ever so unquitely. Me? I'm lying wide awake, in a cold sweat, and not knowing if I had a dream, the dream had me, or was whisked away to some other dimension and made part of a vision. All I know is the setting was my school.
Was it all just fantasy? Reality? A warning? Or some combination thereof? All I am sure of is it took place in
There I was the other night about 3 AM, lying in my bed, my cat sleeping ever so peacefully at my
Was it all just fantasy? Reality? A warning? Or some combination thereof? All I am sure of is it took place in
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