Big Education Ape: Nite Cap 7-28-13 #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 CAP

TODAY

Choosing Democracy: Closing Schools, Faulting Teachers in Sacramento

Choosing Democracy: Closing Schools, Faulting Teachers in Sacramento: Closing Schools, Faulting Teachers in SacramentoJuly 25, 2013By Seth Sandronskyand Duane CampbellSeth Sandronsky's ZSpace PageOfficially, a budget shortfall for the Sacramento City Unified School District caused closure of seven elementary schools. Marcos Bretón, a columnist for The Sacramento Bee, weighed in with this: “I hones

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Conservative Christian group blames falling SAT scores on lack of school prayer | The Raw Story

Conservative Christian group blames falling SAT scores on lack of school prayer | The Raw Story: Conservative Christian group blames falling SAT scores on lack of school prayerThe American Family Association of Kentucky believes school prayer has something to do with SAT scores and the AIDS epidemic.Right Wing Watch reported that the conservative Christian group recently launched apetition calling

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Diane in the Evening 7-28-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Connecticut Policy Institute Responds to Critical CommentIn one of the comments on the blog, a reader posted critical comments about the Connecticut Policy Institute. The executive director of the institute, Ben Zimmer, asked me for the opportunity to respond. I agreed. I checked the webpage of the CPI, and note that it is in favor

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Journalists and their funders: Whose job is it to measure impact, and how should it be done? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Journalists and their funders: Whose job is it to measure impact, and how should it be done? » Nieman Journalism Lab: Journalists and their funders: Whose job is it to measure impact, and how should it be done?Nonprofit journalism legend Chuck Lewis on setting benchmarks for the impact of nonprofit news: “The idea of fixing a single standard that everyone’s going to adhere to — talk about herding

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The Apollo Group and its for-profit University of Phoenix is bilking teacher pension funds, taxpayers and students for hundreds of millions of dollars | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News: The Apollo Group and its for-profit University of Phoenix is bilking teacher pension funds, taxpayers and students for hundreds of millions of dollarsBy Danny Weil on Ju

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: From the Washington State PTA

Seattle Schools Community Forum: From the Washington State PTA: From the Washington State PTAWAPTA will no longer have a lobbyist at the Legislature. Expect to be asked to send someone from your school/region to the Legislature to testify; it will become more important than ever.Dear WSPTA Members: As you may have heard, WSPTA took action this week to align our staffing and expenditures with our

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Alabama Home Schooled and Private Schooled Students Don't Want to Live in This Village of Government Regulations

Missouri Education Watchdog: Alabama Home Schooled and Private Schooled Students Don't Want to Live in This Village of Government Regulations: Alabama Home Schooled and Private Schooled Students Don't Want to Live in This Village of Government RegulationsEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookThe State Board tried to seal the fate of home and private school students to be under public

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Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » NCLB Twitter Chat

Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » NCLB Twitter Chat: TweetsTwitter18mSusan DuFresne1 @GetUpStandUp2@skrashen @TCBGP @symphily @plthomasEdD Please join me & @NiaWaPo tonight 8 pm EST #NCLB #ESEA LIVE Chat, use #postback hashtag.Retweeted by Gail RichmondExpand8mSusan DuFresne1 @GetUpStandUp2@KarenLewisCTU @CTULocal1 @fklonsky @mikeklonsky Please join me & @NiaWaPo tonight 8 pm EST #N

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Outing Bloggers and Correcting Misconceptions | PWC Education Reform Blog

Outing Bloggers and Correcting Misconceptions | PWC Education Reform Blog: Outing Bloggers and Correcting MisconceptionsJuly 28, 2013 — pwceducationreform In recent months / years Prince William County has seen a number of local citizen activists create blogs to inform or inflame the public on issues affecting our county government. Folks like The Sheriff and The Derecho have joinedVirginia Virt

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The Intricate Plot That Is Common Core | deutsch29

The Intricate Plot That Is Common Core | deutsch29: The Intricate Plot That Is Common CoreJuly 28, 2013If anyone tells you that Common Core (CCSS) is a “state-led” effort, “developed by teachers,” that person is either misinformed or attempting to deceive you.Mona McDermott of United Opt Out has mapped the organizations behind CCSS. She presents discussion of their interwoven involvements in this

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Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education | Randi Weingarten

Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education | Randi Weingarten: Reclaiming the Promise of Public EducationPosted: 07/28/2013 11:40 am The idea that teachers have the summer off is something of a myth. I recently spent a few days with several thousand teachers -- not at the beach, but at TEACH, the AFT's largest gathering of educators focused on their professional practice and growth. Teachers spent

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Jersey Jazzman: More "Teachers Get Summers Off" Nonsense

Jersey Jazzman: More "Teachers Get Summers Off" Nonsense: More "Teachers Get Summers Off" NonsenseIt's one of my favorite reformy memes: "Teachers get summers off!" Today's version comes to us via Matt Yglesias:There are few more cherished nostrums in American life than the importance of equal opportunities. Unfortunately, one of them is the importance of summer vacation. It's a cheap way of doing

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7-28-13 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.: Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:Road Trip Week 2Joravsky on Rahm and pensions.Ben Joravsky in the Reader: Now that the cuts are official, Emanuel is blaming them on the teachers—or at least the $400 million contribution he has to make to

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SUMMER 2013, part one | Bill Ayers

SUMMER 2013, part one | Bill Ayers: SUMMER 2013, part oneUntil the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers’ sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.** Ella Baker 1). Summer, 2013I felt the double blow to my gut before my head could reasonably catch up: the 1965 Voting Rights Act—a crowning achievement of the classica

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Short Notes: Intersectionality of Race and Gender via Questlove - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson

Short Notes: Intersectionality of Race and Gender via Questlove - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: Short Notes: Intersectionality of Race and Gender via Questloveby JOSE VILSON on JULY 28, 2013Questlove, of the RootsA few notes:This graphic is what I try to tell people about teachers. We work all summer, just not necessarily with kids. [Upworthy]I didn’t have the heart to read this before, but Q

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TEACHER ENSLAVEMENT BEGINS, AND N. CAROLINA LEADS THE WAY | Teachers Fight Back

TEACHER ENSLAVEMENT BEGINS, AND N. CAROLINA LEADS THE WAY | Teachers Fight Back: TEACHER ENSLAVEMENT BEGINS, AND N. CAROLINA LEADS THE WAYleave a comment »Corporate Ed Reform Success? Let the enslavement of teachers begin, and where better to start then in N. Carolina ? North Carolina governor Pat McCrory, a Republican, signed a budget bill Friday that eliminated teacher tenure, did away with aut

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Seabring News Sun: “Somewhere along the way, standardized testing became downright irrational” | Scathing Purple Musings

Seabring News Sun: “Somewhere along the way, standardized testing became downright irrational” | Scathing Purple Musings: Seabring News Sun: “Somewhere along the way, standardized testing became downright irrational”Posted on July 28, 2013by Bob Sikes Rate ThisThe editors of the News Sun blame Tallahassee:After improvement in 2012, this year’s school grades are a major disappointment. The ent

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The secretive corporate outfit behind ‘Stand Your Ground’ | The Great Debate

The secretive corporate outfit behind ‘Stand Your Ground’ | The Great Debate: The secretive corporate outfit behind ‘Stand Your Ground’By Joanne Doroshow APRIL 13, 2012 Email PrintinShareALEC | LOBBYING | TRAYVON MARTINFor many years, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been a particularly influential organization that has promoted the agenda of corporate America and the political

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Why the racist history of the charter school movement is never discussed

Why the racist history of the charter school movement is never discussed: Why the racist history of the charter school movement is never discussedBy Christopher Bonastia, AlterNetAs a parent I find it easy to understand the appeal of charter schools, especially for parents and students who feel that traditional public schools have failed them. As a historical sociologist who studies race and polit

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Morning Wink 7-28-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #edreform #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSTODAYPerdido Street School: State, City Data Prove Charter Schools Serve Fewer High Needs StudentsPerdido Street School: State, City Data Prove Charter Schools Serve Fewer High Needs Students: State, City Data Prove Charter Schools Serve Fewer High Needs StudentsBen Chapman in the NY Daily News:Charter schools score higher than city-operated schools by man

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Perdido Street School: State, City Data Prove Charter Schools Serve Fewer High Needs Students

Perdido Street School: State, City Data Prove Charter Schools Serve Fewer High Needs Students: State, City Data Prove Charter Schools Serve Fewer High Needs StudentsBen Chapman in the NY Daily News:Charter schools score higher than city-operated schools by many measures — but they serve a less challenging population, with fewer needy students, the latest state numbers show.Publicly funded, private

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The Rise and Fall of Kevin Johnson

The Rise and Fall of Kevin Johnson: The Rise And Fall Of Kevin Johnson By George E. CurryNNPA Editor-in-ChiefNEWS ANALYSISWASHINGTON (NNPA) – Kevin Johnson, the former All-Star point guard for the Phoenix Suns, was in a zone. A year ago, the California native was re-elected to a second term as mayor of Sacramento, his hometown. In 2014, he is scheduled to assume the presidency of the U.S. Confere

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School reform begs for economic diversity - City & Region - The Buffalo News

School reform begs for economic diversity - City & Region - The Buffalo News: School reform begs for economic diversityBy Donn Esmonde | News Senior Metro Columnist | Google+on July 27, 2013 - 4:59 PMinShareI wish John King and his cohorts would just come clean.State Education officials are smart people. They know that, no matter what programs they force-feed to Buffalo schools stuffed with po

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Opinion: N.J. education chief 'is driving a stake through the heart of public education by his maniacal insistence on perpetual testing' | NJ.com

Opinion: N.J. education chief 'is driving a stake through the heart of public education by his maniacal insistence on perpetual testing' | NJ.com: http://unitedoptout.com/Opinion: N.J. education chief 'is driving a stake through the heart of public education by his maniacal insistence on perpetual testing'By Frank BreslinWelcome to New Jersey, Land of Standardized Testing and Education’s Brave New

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 7-28-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Children or Lab Mice?A teacher in Broward County writes: “I am tired of hearing about data. We teach CHILDREN, every time I hear about the data, I feel like they think we are training lab mice,”by dianerav / 19minHow “Reformers” Are Lowering Standards for EducatorsA reader sent the following commentary on reformers’ efforts to lowe

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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: The Power of Truth: A CT Post Editorial observes …“Board ignoring responsibilities”OUTLAW?Bridgeport’s faux superintendent of schools, Paul Vallas, and Board of Education Chairman Kenneth Moales Jr. are two of the leading characters in the charade that ha

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Early high school graduation programs gain traction | toteachornototeach

Early high school graduation programs gain traction | toteachornototeach: Early high school graduation programs gain tractionby Kimberly RaileyEarly graduation as an optionAlmost half of the states allow students to complete high school in fewer than four years. States without policies may allow local school districts to graduate students early.Lindsay Kast had a different experience in high schoo

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Critics question billion-dollar tutoring program - Education - The Sacramento Bee

Critics question billion-dollar tutoring program - Education - The Sacramento Bee: Critics question billion-dollar tutoring programBy Melody Gutierrezmgutierrez@sacbee.comPublished: Sunday, Jul. 28, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 1ACommunity college student Ernesto Fajardo was looking for a seasonal job two years ago when a friend told him about an opening at a federally subsidized tutoring company.After

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Debate looms over how to spend money for high-needs students - LA Daily News

Debate looms over how to spend money for high-needs students - LA Daily News: Debate looms over how to spend money for high-needs studentsBy Barbara Jonesbarbara.jones@dailynews.com@LADNschools on TwitterPosted: 07/27/2013 11:33:35 PM PDTUpdated: 07/27/2013 11:43:43 PM PDT CALIFORNIA EDUCATION SPENDING: 49th in the nation: Main story | Los Angeles | Long Beach | South BayAs school districts st

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YESTERDAY

Education programs funding - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress

Education programs funding - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: H.R.2706 Literacy Education for All, Results for the Nation ActTo establish a comprehensive literacy program, and for other purposes.17min Bill Introduced: S.1306 No Child Left Inside Act of 2013A bill to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in order to improve environmental literacy to better prepare

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California national rank on per-pupil spending abysmal, but tide is poised to change - LA Daily News

California national rank on per-pupil spending abysmal, but tide is poised to change - LA Daily News: California national rank on per-pupil spending abysmal, but tide is poised to changeBy Rob Kuznia, Staff Writerrob.kuznia@dailybreeze.com l @robkuznia on TwitterPosted: 07/27/2013 10:59:52 AM PDTUpdated: 07/27/2013 03:48:13 PM PDT Teacher Mark Duvall's Torrance High classrom is packed with 43

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Perdido Street School: Why Gates, Buffett and So Many Other "Philanthropic Givers" Are Part Of The Problem

Perdido Street School: Why Gates, Buffett and So Many Other "Philanthropic Givers" Are Part Of The Problem: Why Gates, Buffett and So Many Other "Philanthropic Givers" Are Part Of The ProblemFrom Peter Buffett, son of Warren Buffett:The Charitable-Industrial ComplexBy PETER BUFFETTI HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of phil

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Nite Cap 7-27-13 #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 CAPTODAYDiane in the Evening 7-27-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Are Teachers to Blame for Achievement Gap Between Black and White Students?Joy Resmovits,

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