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Study: career-based teaching leads to more motivated students | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC

Study: career-based teaching leads to more motivated students | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC: Study: career-based teaching leads to more motivated studentsJed Kim | July 25th, 2013, 6:00amThe James Irvine Foundation released an interactive infographic on Linked Learning on July 22, 2013.Students who attend a high school where study plans are based on preparing for a specific career are more likely to g

by mike simpson / 1h 

NYC Educator: On the "Worst" Schools

NYC Educator: On the "Worst" Schools: On the "Worst" SchoolsA link at Gotham Schools today declares "The worst schools in Buffalo, as in NYC, are routinely flooded with the neediest students." I went to the link in question, which repeatedly described the Buffalo schools as "failing," including the quotes. In fact, the article clearly stated the city and  Reformy John King were "stacking the deck"

by mike simpson / 1h 

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 7-25-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all:   How Do You Measure Dedication?Recently the American School Counselors Association held a conference in Philadelphia. At one session, the NCAA representatives explained the requirements for young athletes to become eligible for scholarships. A woman stood in line to ask a specific question. The person who shared this story with me

by mike simpson / 2h 

Advocates: Start spending new money now on high-needs students | EdSource Today

Advocates: Start spending new money now on high-needs students | EdSource Today: Advocates: Start spending new money now on high-needs studentsJuly 25th, 2013 | Add a Comment | By John FensterwaldShare on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing ServicesPhoto from FlickrTwo dozen organizations advocating for disadvantaged students wrote county and school district superinten

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Countering Florida GOP Leaders Defense of the Common Core | Truth in American Education

Countering Florida GOP Leaders Defense of the Common Core | Truth in American Education: Countering Florida GOP Leaders Defense of the Common CoreFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Jane Robbins on July 25, 2013 • 0 CommentsThis is American Principles Project’s response:Five former Florida Republican Party leaders have urged the state GOP to ignore the parents and tea

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Hedge-fund billionaire Cohen big player in charter schools. Fraud scandal could bring him down.

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Hedge-fund billionaire Cohen big player in charter schools. Fraud scandal could bring him down.: Hedge-fund billionaire Cohen big player in charter schools. Fraud scandal could bring him down.Whenever I read about some crooked hedge-fund billionaire mired in scandal, I always check to see if and how they're involved with charter schools. I rarely come up empty.

by mike simpson / 2h 

Missouri Education Watchdog: Kindergarten Hijacked Due to Common Core Standards? Early Educators Warned About This Three Years Ago.

Missouri Education Watchdog: Kindergarten Hijacked Due to Common Core Standards? Early Educators Warned About This Three Years Ago.: Kindergarten Hijacked Due to Common Core Standards? Early Educators Warned About This Three Years Ago.A mother made a youtube video showing the kindergarten work mandated by Common Core standards.  Watch this video "Kindergarten Hijacked" by Sara Wottawa:Is this moth

by mike simpson / 2h 

The cost of child poverty: $500 billion a year

The cost of child poverty: $500 billion a year: The cost of child poverty: $500 billion a yearBy Valerie Strauss, Published: July 25 at 6:00 amE-mail the writer0CommentsMoreThe United States has the second-highest child poverty rate among the world’s richest 35 nations, and the cost in economic and educational outcomes is half a trillion dollars a year, according to a new report by the Educational

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Reform Fairytales | Crazy Crawfish's Blog

Reform Fairytales | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Reform FairytalesPosted on July 25, 20130The sheer audacity of John White’s Louisiana Department of Education never ceases to impress me. They are more than willing to make any argument that suits their purposes regardless of the facts or previous arguments they have made. They are not afraid to lie to the media, parents, and even judges believing that no

by mike simpson / 2h 

Democratizing the Public School System Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Democratizing the Public School SystemBy Kathy Emery and Eric Mar-- http://urbanhabitat.orgWhenever popular education is mentioned, Paolo Freire is usually the first name that comes to mind.1 But students of democratic pedagogy in the United States have plenty of home grown examples of their own to study. John Dewey, for example, w

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7-25-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face

SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Congress Set to Profit from Student Loan Rates Determined by Wall Street SwindlersIf you ever wonder how the Feds are going to pay for the new era of non-risk corporate welfare farming, charter schools, preschools, for-profit college subsidies, military contractors, corporate welfare spy firms, etc., Congress has a plan.  One drop in that national cash reserve for

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The Educated Reporter: Guest Post: K-12 Opportunity Gaps and Out-of-School Factors

The Educated Reporter: Guest Post: K-12 Opportunity Gaps and Out-of-School Factors: Guest Post: K-12 Opportunity Gaps and Out-of-School FactorsWith President Obama focusing on the struggles of the middle class -- and those working to reach it -- in a speech at Knox College on Wednesday, it seems like a good time to catch up on a valuable discussion on the opportunity gap which took place at EWA's

by mike simpson / 10h 

LAUSD parents, teachers fight mainstreaming of disabled kids - LA Daily News

LAUSD parents, teachers fight mainstreaming of disabled kids - LA Daily News: LAUSD parents, teachers fight mainstreaming of disabled kidsBy Barbara Jones, Staff WriterPosted:   07/24/2013 07:24:44 PM PDTUpdated:   07/24/2013 07:47:02 PM PDT Protesters line Balboa Boulevard in front of the office of LAUSD board member Tamar Galatzan, Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Parents and Teachers United for Action

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ETS Explores the Link Between Poverty and Education - Higher Education

ETS Explores the Link Between Poverty and Education - Higher Education: ETS Explores the Link Between Poverty and EducationJuly 24, 2013 | Category: News,Subfeature | :     inShare        by Jamaal Abdul-AlimBruce Baker, professor of educational theory, policy and administration at Rutgers, discusses isolation and segregation in education at ETS forum.WASHINGTON — To change the life trajectory of

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Senate leader tries to ban use of lesson plans in Texas schools | Education Blog

Senate leader tries to ban use of lesson plans in Texas schools | Education Blog: Senate leader tries to ban use of lesson plans in Texas schoolsBy Terrence Stutztstutz@dallasnews.com7:50 pm on July 24, 2013 | Permalink810The chairman of the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday filed a bill that prohibits use of a controversial series of lesson plans in Texas schools – even though hundreds of d

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7-24-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:Randi Weingarten Proves She's an Ed Deformer, Mulgrew and UFT Should Condemn Her......but it will not happen because Mulgrew and Unity are totally aligned with her.I won't get into the details given other bloggers hammering Randi:Pissed off teacher: Union Should Stick To Defending Teachers -     When a person hires a lawyer, the lawyer does not decide whether the person is guil

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S.1334: Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

S.1334: Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013 - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: S.1334 - Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013A bill to establish student loan interest rates, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)OverviewActions & VotesNews (0) & Blogs (0)Comments (0)Bill's ViewsToday:11Past Seven Days:34All-Time:34 Introduced SenatePasses HousePasses PresidentSigns  07/

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Senate Approves College Student Loan Plan Tying Rates to Markets - NYTimes.com

Senate Approves College Student Loan Plan Tying Rates to Markets - NYTimes.com: By JEREMY W. PETERSPublished: July 24, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday approved a bipartisan plan that would tie interest rates for college student loans to the financial markets, bringing Congress close to finally resolving a dispute that caused rates to double on July 1.But the 81-18 vote, which drew overwh

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Nite Cap 7-24-13 #BATsACT #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPTODAYMissouri Education Watchdog: Join this #stopcommoncore Telephone Conference Thursday, July 25Missouri Education Watchdog: Join this #stopcommoncore Telephone Conference Thursday, July 25: Join this #stopcommoncore Telephone Conference Thursday, July 2

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Join this #stopcommoncore Telephone Conference Thursday, July 25

Missouri Education Watchdog: Join this #stopcommoncore Telephone Conference Thursday, July 25: Join this #stopcommoncore Telephone Conference Thursday, July 25Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook“Stop Common Core Conference Call"Common Core State Standards in education have garnered a growing degree of attention from all sides of the educational policy field in the last several mon

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Growing coalition pushes for new kind of Philly teachers contract | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Growing coalition pushes for new kind of Philly teachers contract | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Growing coalition pushes for new kind of Philly teachers contractby thenotebook on Jul 24 2013 Posted in Latest news="" style="color: rgb(76, 153, 72); cursor: pointer; float: left; padding: 0px 2px;">Share on emailCOMMENTS (5)PRINTby Tom MacDonald for NewsWorksA group calling itself the Coali

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Big Education Ape - SPECIAL Mid Day Banana Break 7-24-13 #soschat #edreform

SPECIAL Mid Day Banana BreakOpposition to bad ideas isn’t ‘defending the status quo’Gary Rubinstein says: It is not fair to label a group of people who include me, Diane Ravitch, Anthony Cody, Katie Osgood, Jersey Jazzman, EduShyster, and so many others as ‘status quo defenders’ just because the changes that we think would improve the education system are not the exact same changes that people who

by mike simpson / 18h 

Diane in the Evening 7-24-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Teacher: Predatory Uses of Data Endanger ChildrenThis teacher blogger takes issue with the opinion article written by Kerrie Dallman, the president of the Colorado Education Association, supporting inBloom, a project of Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch. She writes: “Aside from your support of inBloom in Colorado and the glaring ethics

by mike simpson / 18h 

Does Principal, DR Alison Coviello; PhD of PS 154 in the Bronx Believe in Students First? southbronxschool.com

http://www.southbronxschool.com: Does Principal, DR Alison Coviello; PhD of PS 154 in the Bronx Believe in Students First? Does Principal, DR Alison Coviello; PhD. care as much as she claims she does about the students of PS 154, or does she have some nihilistic agenda to rid the school of teachers she does not care for no matter the cost and damage to the students?Now the type of teachers that ar

by mike simpson / 20h 

The Detroit Bankruptcy & K-12 Schooling :: Frederick M. Hess

The Detroit Bankruptcy & K-12 Schooling :: Frederick M. Hess: The Detroit Bankruptcy & K-12 Schoolingby Frederick M. Hess  •  Jul 24, 2013 at 1:44 pmCross-posted from Education WeekSo, while I was en route to Detroit on Thursday, I got word that the city had filed for bankruptcy. It was strange. While the story was all over the airport televisions and the hotel newspapers, I encountered ba

by mike simpson / 20h 

Health Insurance for Children Only

Health Insurance for Children Only: Health Insurance for Children OnlyJuly 11, 2013 by Ed Leave a CommentIn an uncertain world, the right health insurance for children is more than a good idea, but a requirement. And with the costs of quality medical care rising each and every day, dependable coverage is simply a must. After all, children will have to go to the doctor’s more frequently and the rig

by mike simpson / 20h 

Charter School Market Share And Performance

Shanker Blog » Charter School Market Share And Performance: Charter School Market Share And PerformancePosted by Matthew Di Carlo on July 24, 2013One of the (many) factors that might help explain — or at least be associated with — the wide variation in charter schools’ test-based impacts is market share. That is, the proportion of students that charters serve in a given state or district. There ar

by mike simpson / 21h 

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Equitable funding for schools

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Equitable funding for schools: Equitable funding for schoolsThe budget is supposed to treat every school fairly, but there are five schools singled out for unfair treatment. The Board should address this unfairness - which clearly violates policy and the strategic plan - when they vote to today to adopt a budget for the coming school year.As always, the annual budg

by mike simpson / 21h 

One Roof, Two Schools | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights

One Roof, Two Schools | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights: One Roof, Two SchoolsBy American School Counselor Association on July 24, 2013By Kwok-Sze Wong, Ed.D., Executive Director, American School Counselor Association (ASCA)My daughter, Tori, attended two high schools. Like most of her friends, she was very active. She was in the National Honor Society, the Chinese Honor Societ

by mike simpson / 21h 

7-24-13 Connected Principals | Sharing. Learning. Leading.

Connected Principals | Sharing. Learning. Leading.: It’s called leadership…Let’s be honest with each other for a moment. Let’s take back all the fake smiles and friendly little emails. Let’s tell all the cute puppies to go home and cast aside all the colorful rainbows… Sometimes people just don’t care what you think. They could honestly care less about your opinion and your existence (or lack ther

by mike simpson / 21h 

Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics

Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics: Bridgeport’s Kenneth Moales Jr. goes off the deep end; passes out flyer attacking CT Post and their lead reporterCategories: Bridgeport CT Post Kenneth Moales Malloy Mayor Bill Finch Paul VallasTags: BridgeportConnecticut PostKenneth Moales Jr.MalloyMayor

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Choosing Democracy: Sacramento District Insists on closing public schools

Choosing Democracy: Sacramento District Insists on closing public schools: Sacramento District Insists on closing public schoolsThe  Sacramento City school district is  closing  seven elementary schools, disproportionately hurting students in low-income and predominantly minority neighborhoods.In response, twelve students and their parents filed a civil rights lawsuit, asking a federal court to bl

by mike simpson / 21h 

While under investigation, why hasn’t Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles been placed on paid administrative leave? | Education Blog

While under investigation, why hasn’t Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles been placed on paid administrative leave? | Education Blog: While under investigation, why hasn’t Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles been placed on paid administrative leave?By Matthew Haagmhaag@dallasnews.com9:39 am on July 24, 2013 | Permalink1302Dallas ISD’s Office of Professional Responsibility investigates hundreds o

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7-24-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: DFER Hedge Fundie Supports Eliot SpitzerEliot Spitzer is turning into the DFE/education reformie candidate this year. Not only has Eliot Spitzer hired a former Students First p.r. hack to be his campaign spokesman, but one of the head honchos at the hedge fundie-backed Democrats For Education Reform is backing Spitzer for comptroller:Hedge-funder Boykin Curry has sent out an

by mike simpson / 22h 

NYC Public School Parents: FAQ on inBloom Inc.: what is the state and your school district doing?

NYC Public School Parents: FAQ on inBloom Inc.: what is the state and your school district doing?: FAQ on inBloom Inc.: what is the state and your school district doing?A shorter version of this FAQ was published in Schoolbook yesterday; please go leave a comment.  A pdf version of the below you can download  is here.  And please make your voices heard by sending a letter to your school board, you

by mike simpson / 22h 

Cali Education Headlines Wednesday, July 24, 2013

FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Fensterwald: Irritation or two aside, charter leaders pleased with new funding systemEducation HeadlinesWednesday, July 24, 2013Belleview Elementary School answers grand juryBelleview School District will review its hiring and job assignment policies at the recommendation of the Tuolumne County Grand Jury, the school board promised Monday in

by mike simpson / 22h 

Common Core academic standards failing the test? - POLITICO.com

Common Core academic standards failing the test? - POLITICO.com: Is Common Core failing the test?

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Morning Wink 7-24-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #edreform #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYStates Move to Protect Teachers from Cyberbullying | NEA TodayStates Move to Protect Teachers from Cyberbullying | NEA Today: States Move to Protect Teachers from CyberbullyingJuly 24, 2013 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesLeave a CommentBy Helen YoshidaIn December 2012, the first and only law in the nation that criminalizes cyberbull

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