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James Baldwin said it best: 

"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."

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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

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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 / 2h 

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 / 4h 

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

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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

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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 / 5h 

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

by mike simpson / 6h 

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

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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

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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 / 6h 

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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States Move to Protect Teachers from Cyberbullying | NEA Today

States 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 cyberbullying of teachers by students went into effect in North Carolina. Under the “School Violence Prevention Act of

by mike simpson / 7h 

Hot for teacher? Keep it to yourself. | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com

Hot for teacher? Keep it to yourself. | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com:  Get Schooled: Hot for teacher? Keep it to yourself.A judge ruled against a Michigan college student who penned a class journal entry titled "Hot for Teacher" about how sexually attracted he was to his creative writing instructor. After the Detroit area college suspended student Joseph Corlett,  he sued. On Tuesday, U.S. District

by mike simpson / 7h 

Name Games with ESEA Reauthorization | Lily's Blackboard

Name Games with ESEA Reauthorization | Lily's Blackboard: Name Games with ESEA ReauthorizationJul 23rd, 2013 by Lily.Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed another bad bill with a good name.  We all remember the last time.  No Child Left Behind.  Good name.But angelic names always hide their devils in the details, and what we’ve come to know as No Child Left Untested has devastated st

by mike simpson / 7h 

Dream Defenders Announce Their Own Special Session » Dream Defenders

Dream Defenders Announce Their Own Special Session » Dream Defenders: DREAM DEFENDERS ANNOUNCE THEIR OWN SPECIAL SESSIONJuly 23, 2013By DreamDefendersin Uncategorized3 CommentsDREAM DEFENDERS RESPOND TO FLORIDA GOVERNOR’S REFUSAL TO HOLD A “SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION” BY CONVENING OUR OWNToday we marked the one-week anniversary of #TakeoverTuesday of the Florida statehouse by announcing plans to

by mike simpson / 7h 

Promise Programs Offer Hope to Students - Student Loan Ranger

Promise Programs Offer Hope to Students - Student Loan Ranger (usnews.com): Promise Programs Offer Hope to StudentsBy EQUAL JUSTICE WORKSJuly 24, 2013 RSS Feed PrintA group of anonymous donors launched Kalamazoo Promise in 2005 to provide full tuition for public school students in the community.The cost of postsecondary education in America has risen so high it is unaffordable for many to pursue t

by mike simpson / 8h 

Perspective on PARCC’s Price

The Quick and the Ed » Perspective on PARCC’s Price: 024 Jul 2013by Chad AldemanCategories: Accountability and Standards, College and Career Readiness, Data Testing Assessment,Education Finance, K-12 EducationTuesday was a bad news day for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), one of two federally funded consortia creating new assessments aligned to the Commo

by mike simpson / 8h 

A Sociological Eye on Education | Why the NCTQ ratings won’t have much influence, now or later

A Sociological Eye on Education | Why the NCTQ ratings won’t have much influence, now or later: Why the NCTQ ratings won’t have much influence, now or laterHow time flies. It’s been scarcely a month since the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its inaugural ratings of teacher-preparation programs across the country. Already, NCTQ is gearing up for next year’s model, envisioning an

by mike simpson / 8h 

7-24-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Road Trip Week 2Todd Mertz’s Illinois pension update.By Todd Mertz For the most part, nothing new or significant came out of the three planned Pension Conference Committee meetings. At this time, there are no meetings scheduled. But you can be sure there is work going on behind closed doors. Actuaries

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7-24-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face

SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: No PARCCingHave your heard about the PARCC Asseesments?  The Partnership for Assessment for Readiness for College and Careers is a collection of 22 states that will be producing a series of Common Core aligned exams.  The PARCC Assessments are scheduled to begin in the 2014-15 school year. Promotion for the PARCC consortium has begun just as […]by Chris Cerrone / 3

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Pro School Choice Scholar Urges Georgia to Drop Common Core, Too | Scathing Purple Musings

Pro School Choice Scholar Urges Georgia to Drop Common Core, Too | Scathing Purple Musings: Pro School Choice Scholar Urges Georgia to Drop Common Core, TooPosted on July 24, 2013by Bob Sikes      Rate ThisOne of the nation’s most widely read education writers is Maureen Downey of theAtlanta Journal Constitution. In her continued reporting on Georgia’s decision to drop PARCC tests, Downey included

by mike simpson / 9h 

After 70 years as a nonprofit, GED test switching to for-profit venture | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC

After 70 years as a nonprofit, GED test switching to for-profit venture | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC: After 70 years as a nonprofit, GED test switching to for-profit ventureJed Kim | July 24th, 2013, 6:00amDiane Orson/WNPRDonald Desmond teaches Abdesa Bustina to use a computer at the New Haven Adult and Continuing Education Center. The new GED will be offered only on computer.For more than 70 years,

by mike simpson / 9h 

Jersey Jazzman: NY Daily News: "Lie To Your Wife? Shame! Lie To Cops & Teachers? Meh..."

Jersey Jazzman: NY Daily News: "Lie To Your Wife? Shame! Lie To Cops & Teachers? Meh...": NY Daily News: "Lie To Your Wife? Shame! Lie To Cops & Teachers? Meh..."NY Daily News, July 24, 2013:Anthony Weiner led all New Yorkers to believe that he stopped recklessly, immaturely and compulsively sexting after his resignation from Congress in abject humiliation. Lie.Weiner reinforced the messag

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 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: A New Film That Celebrates the Success of Public SchoolsIn this essay, Peter Dreier contrasts the films of the corporate reformers with a new film that shows the struggles, challenges, and successes of an American public school. Dreier usefully follows the money behind the corporate-funded films “Waiting for Superman” and “Won’t Ba

by mike simpson / 10h 

Irritation or two aside, charter leaders pleased with new funding system | EdSource Today

Irritation or two aside, charter leaders pleased with new funding system | EdSource Today: Irritation or two aside, charter leaders pleased with new funding systemJuly 24th, 2013 | Add a Comment | By John FensterwaldShare on twitterShare on facebookShare on emailShare on printMore Sharing ServicesStudents at Rocketship Mosaic charter in San Jose discuss a book they’ve been reading. Credit: John Fe

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Born to think and learn | Deborah Meier on Education

Born to think and learn | Deborah Meier on Education: Born to think and learnPosted on July 24, 2013 by nicholasmeierDear readers,The NY Times followed up its piece on STEM jobs and the causes of unemployment (see below) with one on testing: “The Trouble With Testing Mania.” (Sunday, July 14, p. 10) The editorial headline is the best thing about it, but it opens a few more doors for us among poten

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7-24-13 teacherken at Daily Kos

teacherken at Daily Kos: Thoughts from a Conservative on issues relevant to todayWhen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, from 1770 All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and ba

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Editorial: Forget the lawyers, focus on the students - Editorials - The Sacramento Bee

Editorial: Forget the lawyers, focus on the students - Editorials - The Sacramento Bee: Editorial: Forget the lawyers, focus on the studentsBy the Editorial BoardPublished: Wednesday, Jul. 24, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 14ASacramento attorney Mark Merin alleged in closing remarks to a lawsuit, filed on behalf of a dozen students and their parents, that in the transition caused by seven elementary scho

by mike simpson / 10h 

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Rahm's Civic Committee pals pushed Moody's & S&P to lower IL bond rating

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Rahm's Civic Committee pals pushed Moody's & S&P to lower IL bond rating: Rahm's Civic Committee pals pushed Moody's & S&P to lower IL bond ratingRahm Emanuel claims that he's been forced to close schools, demolish school budgets and fire thousands of teachers because the city is broke. Why is the city broke? Rahm says it's because of a pension c

by mike simpson / 10h 

NYC Educator: Only City Teachers Should Be Fired for Nothing, Implies Daily News

NYC Educator: Only City Teachers Should Be Fired for Nothing, Implies Daily News: Only City Teachers Should Be Fired for Nothing, Implies Daily NewsI was pretty surprised to find this story in the Daily News today. Apparently a teacher in Merrick, Long Island appeared shirtless in some stupid reality show, and resigned under pressure from administration. The News appears sympathetic to his cause,

by mike simpson / 10h 

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: "Progressive" Ald. Moore, one of Rahm's toadies, now under FBI investigation

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: "Progressive" Ald. Moore, one of Rahm's toadies, now under FBI investigation: "Progressive" Ald. Moore, one of Rahm's toadies, now under FBI investigationMoore (left) has become one of the mayor's boys. Ald. Joe Moore was once considered to be a "progressive" who stood up once in a while, to the Daley machine and owed his allegiance to the people in his community. Bu

by mike simpson / 10h 

Louisiana Educator: School Reform Based on Bad Comparisons

Louisiana Educator: School Reform Based on Bad Comparisons: School Reform Based on Bad ComparisonsLast Sunday CNN aired a one hour show featuring reporter Morgan Spurlock as part of  the Inside Man series where he attempted to compare the U S public education system to the public system in Finland. Spurlock in this report also attempted to investigate why Finnish students have been judged to be th

by mike simpson / 10h 

K-12 News Network | CCSS Tests: KIds Need a Three Year Moratorium From Penalties For Many Good Reasons #TEACH13

K-12 News Network | CCSS Tests: KIds Need a Three Year Moratorium From Penalties For Many Good Reasons #TEACH13: CCSS Tests: KIds Need a Three Year Moratorium From Penalties For Many Good Reasons #TEACH13admin July 24, 2013 Common Core, Curriculum, Ed Tech, Parents, State Education Law, The Testing Industry 0On Monday, July 22, I appeared as a guest of AFT TEACH 2013′s town hall on Common Core Sta

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A teacher gets depressed: a real story in comics

A teacher gets depressed: a real story in comics: A teacher gets depressed: a real story in comicsBy Valerie Strauss, Published: July 24 at 4:00 amE-mail the writer1CommentsMoreThe following is a highly unusual post — not only in form but in subject matter. David Lee Finkle, a middle-school teacher in Florida who draws the comic strip “Mr. Fitz” for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, writes and illus

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Kansas BOE Member: Next Generation Science Standards Development Non-Transparent | Truth in American Education

Kansas BOE Member: Next Generation Science Standards Development Non-Transparent | Truth in American Education: Kansas BOE Member: Next Generation Science Standards Development Non-TransparentFiled in Education at State Level, Next Generation Science Standards by Shane Vander Hart on July 23, 2013 The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ken Willard, a member of the Kansas State Board of Education,

by mike simpson / 19h 

State rushes first of Local Control money out to schools SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources

SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: State rushes first of Local Control money out to schoolsBy Tom ChorneauWednesday, July 24, 2013A total of $26.7 billion is going out from the controller’s office by July 31, which represents the first regular installment for the fiscal year as well as about $2.1 billion for LCFF activities.But with the money, districts are also being warned that adju

by mike simpson / 19h 

Seattle Schools Community Forum: TFA in Washington State: No Surprise to Us

Seattle Schools Community Forum: TFA in Washington State: No Surprise to Us: TFA in Washington State: No Surprise to UsVia Mirmac 1, there is this public disclosure e-mail that is quite telling but of no surprise to anyone who reads this blog.  We asked these questions from the start.  From the e-mail (italics Dr. Ginsberg's, bold mine):1) Whose interests are we serving and, related to this questi

by mike simpson / 19h 

Mothers of Dead Children

Mothers of Dead Children « MomsRising Blog: Mothers of Dead ChildrenPosted July 23rd, 2013 by Valerie YoungMothers are driven to protect their children. It’s innate. When the very laws we live by allow our children to die, with bullets buried in the bodies we birthed and love, our  hearts explode in rage and pain that transforms us and makes of us something distinctly other than that which we were

by mike simpson / 19h 

Nite Cap 7-23-13 #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 CAPTODAYAFT Research is a Call-to-Action: Testing is Out of Hand, Costly. | The Classroom SoothAFT Research is a Call-to-Action: Testing is Out of Hand, Costly. | The Classroom Sooth: AFT Research is a Call-to-Action: Testing is Out of Hand, Costly.Posted on 

by mike simpson / 23h

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