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Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living Things - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Common Core Tests are Not Good for Children or Other Living ThingsBy Anthony Cody on August 13, 2013 10:09 AMLast week I wrote an essay that suggested that the entire obsession with test score-based accountability is a scam, aimed at discrediting public education in order to create opp

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Jason Stanford: Is a Wall Street crash coming to public schools? | The Baxter Bulletin | baxterbulletin.com

Jason Stanford: Is a Wall Street crash coming to public schools? | The Baxter Bulletin | baxterbulletin.com: Jason Stanford: Is a Wall Street crash coming to public schools?Just like AAA ratings on mortgage-backed securities led to Wall Street’s 2008 disaster, a rash of accountability scandals might be precursors to a similar public school crash. After years of promises that test-driven accountabi

by mike simpson / 43min 

8-13-13 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: America’s Most Un-American Tradition: Racial ProfilingCategories: Connecticut Community Party Connecticut General Assembly Malloy Racial ProfilingTags: Connecticut Community PartyConnecticut General AssemblyMalloyRacial ProfilingA court decision in New Yo

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New York State Of Mind

Shanker Blog » New York State Of Mind: New York State Of MindPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on August 13, 2013Last week, the results of New York’s new Common Core-aligned assessments were national news. For months, officials throughout the state, including New York City, have been preparing the public for the release of these data.Their basic message was that the standards, and thus the tests based up

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NYC Educator: More Vital Info on the Perfidy of Teachers

NYC Educator: More Vital Info on the Perfidy of Teachers: More Vital Info on the Perfidy of TeachersToday's Rise and Shine at Gotham led me to yet another hard-hitting education story from the Daily News. Apparently, some website that hooks up young women with "sugar daddies" claims to have attracted 472 teachers since last year. Naturally the claim is not verified. As I learned from the rash of C

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Q &A with Leroy Clemons: Nearly 50 years after Freedom Summer, education is key to change in Mississippi | Hechinger Report

Q &A with Leroy Clemons: Nearly 50 years after Freedom Summer, education is key to change in Mississippi | Hechinger Report: Q &A with Leroy Clemons: Nearly 50 years after Freedom Summer, education is key to change in MississippiBy Liz WillenLeroy Clemons, president of the Neshoba County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was only two years ol

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8-13-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: McGraw Hill Loses Regents Exams, NYCDOE Makes Students Retake The TestsJust outrageous:Students from a Chelsea high school have to retake their English Regents exams today after their original tests fell off the back of a truck on their way to be graded, the teachers union said last night. The United Federation of Teachers said about 75 11th-grade students from Chelsea Caree

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8-13-13 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.: The in box. Support for Logan Square TIF – Schools rally Sunday.From Will Guzzardi: Many of you joined with us in our struggle this past winter to keep Brentano Elementary open. Principal Salgado and the rest of the Brentano family are thrilled that the school will be opening its doors for another sch

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Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan | MLive.com

Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan | MLive.com: Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan LANSING -- Prominent education expert and Common Core opponent Diane Ravitch is one of several high-profile witnesses scheduled to testify Wednesday on the standards before a Michigan House subcommittee studying the math and language arts guidelines.Ravit

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-13-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Chile: The Most Pro-Market School System in the World, Part 2This is the second is a series of three articles written by Professor Mario Waissbluth of Chile for this blog. In this series, he describes the school system in Chile, which is based on testing and choice. Chile´s Education (II): The results of the most neoliberal system

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Educating Our Teachers — A Community’s Unappreciated Right | toteachornototeach

Educating Our Teachers — A Community’s Unappreciated Right | toteachornototeach: Educating Our Teachers — A Community’s Unappreciated Right by Murali BalajiGrowing up in the Philadelphia suburbs, I was often peppered with questions from both classmates and teachers about my religion. A teacher asked me once if Hindus performed animal sacrifices while numerous classmates — including friends — asked

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Indiana District Abandons A-F Grading System; Are Others About to Follow? | Scathing Purple Musings

Indiana District Abandons A-F Grading System; Are Others About to Follow? | Scathing Purple Musings: Indiana District Abandons A-F Grading System; Are Others About to Follow?Posted on August 13, 2013by Bob SikesFrom 21Live reporters Rachel Martin and Eric Dutkeywicz:Fort Wayne Community Schools will no longer use a statewide A-F performance system to determine schools’ achievement.The school board

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8-13-13 teacherken at Daily Kos

teacherken at Daily Kos: Eugene Robinson asks "What NSA reforms?"In this Washington Post op ed Robinson notes The modest reforms Obama proposed do not begin to address the fundamental question of whether we want the National Security Agency to log all of our phone calls and read at least some of our e-mails, relying on secret judicial orders from a secret court for permission. The president indica

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LAUSD- STILL ROTTEN TO ITS "COMMON CORE" - Perdaily.com

LAUSD- STILL ROTTEN TO ITS "COMMON CORE" - Perdaily.com: LAUSD- STILL ROTTEN TO ITS " rel="bookmark" href="http://www.perdaily.com/2013/08/lausd--still-rotten-to-its-common-core.html">(Mensaje se repite en Español)Barbara Jones is not a reporter, but rather an unquestioning conduit for the Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) irrational propaganda that clearly has no basis in fact. In her

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One Teacher's Perspective: A Lesson George Zimmerman Never Learned

One Teacher's Perspective: A Lesson George Zimmerman Never Learned: A Lesson George Zimmerman Never LearnedUsually I trend toward indifference on high-profile court cases, like the George Zimmerman trial, when the constant media coverage kicks in.However, this case was different. I was and continue to be enthralled on many levels.My anger toward Zimmerman and his supporters persists. Regardless of

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Are reformers reviving ‘reading wars’?

Are reformers reviving ‘reading wars’?: Are reformers reviving ‘reading wars’?By Valerie Strauss, Published: August 13 at 4:00 amE-mail the writer0CommentsMoreMary Sullivan reads at Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library in 2012. (By Katherine Frey / The Washington Post)In June a group called the National Council on Teacher Quality published ratings of teacher education schools that garnered a lot

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Clergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott

Clergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott: Clergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott, say “$50 Million not Enough!”Touting Moses as the first Civil Rights Leader, Pastors calls for an “Exodus Experience”www.techbookonline.comClergy Calls for Philadelphia School Boycott, say “$50 Million not Enough!”Touting Moses as the first Civil Rights Leader, Pastors calls for an “Exodus Experience”Accord

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Stop And Frisk These Test Scores - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson

Stop And Frisk These Test Scores - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: Stop And Frisk These Test Scoresby JOSE VILSON on AUGUST 12, 2013Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray KellyI’d rather have a tall glass of “innocent until proven guilty,” whether it’s about my standing as a citizen in NYC or my students’ test scores.This month has been rather unsuccessful for Mayor Bloomberg and two

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Part Three: Summer, 2013 | Bill Ayers

Part Three: Summer, 2013 | Bill Ayers: Part Three: Summer, 2013Until 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 BakerA dominant narrative in contemporary school reform is once again focused on exclusion and disadvantage, race and class, Black and white. “Across the US,

by mike simpson / 12h 

Portland Association of Teachers considers unfair labor practice complaint as negotiations continue at anemic pace | OregonLive.com

Portland Association of Teachers considers unfair labor practice complaint as negotiations continue at anemic pace | OregonLive.com: Portland Association of Teachers considers unfair labor practice complaint as negotiations continue at anemic pace Contract negotiations for Portland Public Schools and the Portland Association of Teachers continued its sluggish pace Monday, with the union threatenin

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AFT Nows Asks for Bennett’s Florida Emails | Scathing Purple Musings

AFT Nows Asks for Bennett’s Florida Emails | Scathing Purple Musings: AFT Nows Asks for Bennett’s Florida EmailsPosted on August 12, 2013by Bob SikesFrom Orlando Sentinel reporter Leslie Postal:The AFT’s president, Randi Weingarten, is to be in Miami this afternoon and will speak about the email request then.The union wants a wide-range of emails from players not specifically linked to the Bennett

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Online Learning: How do We Achieve it? Join the Discussion Tonight 8:30 EST/7:30 CST #StuVoice Student Voice

Student Voice: Online Learning: How do We Achieve it? Join the Discussion Tonight 8:30 EST/7:30 CST #StuVoice Have you ever been sitting in class or online, listening to your teacher, and not understanding anything? Gotten into a program you can’t afford?Technology, specifically the internet, has proven to be extremely helpful to students that run into these problems. There are thousands of resour

by mike simpson / 14h 

Sometimes, you just have to cry…

Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Sometimes, you just have to cry…: Sometimes, you just have to cry…It was a difficult week. Once again I find myself at the center of school reform in my professional life. I won’t go into a lot of detail, but car issues have affected my transportation choices on and off this summer, and last week brought more troubles. When a friend asked a group of us to a

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Dewhurst supports parent group in CSCOPE lawsuit | Education Blog

Dewhurst supports parent group in CSCOPE lawsuit | Education Blog: Dewhurst supports parent group in CSCOPE lawsuitBy Terrence Stutztstutz@dallasnews.com5:12 pm on August 12, 2013 | Permalink120Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst gave his support Monday to a group of parents who have gone to court to block use of a controversial series of lesson plans in a central Texas school district. Dewhurst said parents

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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."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPTODAYGet in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for Parents | ED.gov BlogGet in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for Parents | ED.gov Blog: Get in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for ParentsPosted on August

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Get in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for Parents | ED.gov Blog

Get in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for Parents | ED.gov Blog: Get in Gear for the New School Year: Back-to-School Tips for ParentsPosted on August 12, 2013 by Guest BloggerIt’s almost that time of year again. Yes, in a few weeks school will be back in session. Is your child ready to succeed? Are you ready to help?It’s a fact: Parents who play an active role in their children’

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Philadelphia Schools Should Remain Closed Until Fully Funded, Some Parents Say

Philadelphia Schools Should Remain Closed Until Fully Funded, Some Parents Say: Philadelphia Schools Should Remain Closed Until Fully Funded, Some Parents SayPosted: 08/12/2013 3:22 pm EDT  |  Updated: 08/12/2013 4:54 pm EDTThe parents of Philadelphia are in limbo. While back to school season has come to be reviled, Philadelphians are praying that it'll arrive in their city as planned.Philadelphia

by mike simpson / 17h 

Join me and guest Dr. Camika Royal live on Wednsday at 2:00 PM | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

Join me and guest Dr. Camika Royal live on Wednsday at 2:00 PM | Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Join me and guest Dr. Camika Royal live on Wednsday at 2:00 PMI’m doing another Spreecast show this Wednesday and I’m excited to announce a very special guest, Dr. Camika Royal.  She is awesome and definitely one of the wisest voices in the education discussion today.  She is often on Huffington Post Live, and

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Open Letter to the Media, Politicians, Reformers, B/Millionaires, and Celebrities | the becoming radical

Open Letter to the Media, Politicians, Reformers, B/Millionaires, and Celebrities | the becoming radical: Open Letter to the Media, Politicians, Reformers, B/Millionaires, and CelebritiesPosted on August 12, 2013 by plthomaseddFirst, some context for the problem with education reform and how we discuss the topic.Cindy Scoppe, associate editor at The State, addresses grading schools, drawing severa

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Diane in the Evening 8-12-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Will LA Mayor Choose Corporate Reformer to Advise Him?This Los Angeles parent explains why parents are alarmed by the prospect that the new mayor Eric Garcetti might choose Thelma Melendez, one of Arne Duncan’s deputies as his advisor. She writes: “In making this appointment, the Mayor should follow his creed to lead by listening a

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Take Back Our Schools Conferences Fall 2013

Missouri Education Watchdog: Take Back Our Schools Conferences Fall 2013: Take Back Our Schools Conferences Fall 2013Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook For those who want to learn more about Common Core, student data collection and what they can do to reclaim local authority over education, we have three regional conferences planned for this fall. Check outMOAgainstCommonCore.com

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ASCD Kicks off August Recess Campaign — Whole Child Education

ASCD Kicks off August Recess Campaign — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGASCD Kicks off August Recess CampaignAugust 12, 2013 by Melissa MellorDon't let your senators go on vacation! Take time during the August recess to ask your senators to become cosponsors of S.1063, the Effective Teaching and Leading Act. This important bill supports induction and mentoring programs and enhances ongo

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Jeff Bezos's Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms

Jeff Bezos's Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms: Jeff Bezos's Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education ReformsMonday, 12 August 2013 13:22By Lee Fang, The Nation | Reportfont size   Print Email ptufts / Flickr)" src="http://www.truth-out.org/images/2013_June_Images/2013.8.12.Bezos.Main.jpg">Jeff Bezos answers questions at Startup School. (Photo: ptufts / Fli

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools; New Appointments Announced

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools; New Appointments Announced: Seattle Schools; New Appointments Announced (I have very mixed feelings about these appointments.  Both men have good education skills.Mr. Wright is the more worrisome of the two.  He has close ties with the Gates Foundation. He got onto the board of the Alliance for Education just nine months after he moved to Seattle a

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Fake Passage

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Fake Passage: Fake PassageChicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy on Thursday echoed Byrd-Bennett’s sentiments that officials aren’t starting from scratch, saying: “It’s not a new concept in the city of Chicago for school kids to cross gang lines on their way to school. Kids have been doing it for quite some time even when the schools were open. -- Sun-TimesWith 2 weeks

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Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team

FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: STAR test questions and answers posted to social media at 16 schoolsEducation HeadlinesMonday, August 12, 2013S.J. school warned over cellphone pic of STAR testAn East Union High student in Manteca put the school on a short list of 16 statewide threatened with sanctions for snapping a cellphone picture of a standardized test question and then

by mike simpson / 21h 

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Children on Medicare are prescribed anti-psychotic drugs at 4 times rate of those privately insured

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Children on Medicare are prescribed anti-psychotic drugs at 4 times rate of those privately insured: Children on Medicare are prescribed anti-psychotic drugs at 4 times rate of those privately insuredDrug makers for years have been making billions marketing antipsychotic and antidepressents for use in schools and foster homes on children with behavioral issues.N

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Proposed Constitutional Amendment Aims to Secure Parent Rights | Heartlander Magazine

Proposed Constitutional Amendment Aims to Secure Parent Rights | Heartlander Magazine: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Aims to Secure Parent RightsAugust 10, 2013KATHLYN SHIRLEYKathlyn Shirley writes from Washington, DC. (read full bio)EMAILShare on linkedinPrintEmailRep. Mark Meadows has proposed amending the U.S. Constitution to guarantee parents have the supreme right of educating, caring for

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Promethean Plan: A Teacher on Fulfilling the Intent of the Common Core

Promethean Plan: A Teacher on Fulfilling the Intent of the Common Core « The Core Knowledge Blog: LinkedInFacebookTwitterEmailPromethean Plan: A Teacher on Fulfilling the Intent of the Common Coreby Guest BloggerAugust 12th, 2013Tags: common core standards, Mark AndersonPosted in No category | No Comments »By Mark AndersonMark Anderson, who became a NYC Teaching Fellow after working in retail and

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Corporate Education Reform Goes to College: San Francisco is the “Chicago of Higher Education”

Corporate Education Reform Goes to College: San Francisco is the “Chicago of Higher Education”: Corporate Education Reform Goes to College: San Francisco is the “Chicago of Higher Education”by JIM MILLER on AUGUST 12, 2013 · 0 COMMENTSin CULTURE, ECONOMY, EDUCATION, LABOR, UNDER THE PERFECT SUNBy Jim MillerThis summer few people outside of the Bay Area probably noted what was one of the most impor

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How come officials could predict results on new test scores?

How come officials could predict results on new test scores?: How come officials could predict results on new test scores?By Valerie Strauss, Published: August 12 at 10:45 amE-mail the writerNew scores from standardized tests   aligned with the Common Core State Standards were released earlier this month in New York, and, as expected, the number of students who did well plummeted. This decline was

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Common Core may create common problem for Georgia and other... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com

Common Core may create common problem for Georgia and other... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: Common Core may create common problem for Georgia and other states: Lower test scores COMMENT(5) 0 4 5 19View Larger Testing costsPrevious PostsBack to school for most kids: But where are the rest? August 12, 2013Should APS hold off opening any charter schools until pensions lawsuit is resolved? August 9,

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Teachers Spend Own Money On Necessity Items For Their Students: Report

Teachers Spend Own Money On Necessity Items For Their Students: Report (SLIDESHOW): Teachers Spend Own Money On Necessity Items For Their Students: Report (SLIDESHOW)Many teachers routinely spend money out of their own pockets on necessity items for their students, according to a nationwide survey conducted byAdoptAClassroom.org.The organization surveyed 1,188 K-12 teachers from public, private an

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Public Schools: The Victims, Not the Cause, of Massive Inequality | janresseger

Public Schools: The Victims, Not the Cause, of Massive Inequality | janresseger: Public Schools: The Victims, Not the Cause, of Massive InequalityA couple of years ago Paul Reville, then Massachusetts Education Secretary declared: “Some want to make the absurd argument that the reason low-income youngsters do poorly is that, mysteriously, all the incompetency in our education systems has coinciden

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Morning Wink 8-12-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #edreform #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYCHICAGO DEMOCRAT ACTIVIST HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER: COMMON CORE A MASSIVE FRAUD Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación PúblicaCoalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: CHICAGO DEMOCRAT ACTIVIST HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER: COMMON CORE A MASSIVE FRAUD   Paul Horton is a Democrat, a political activist, and a Chicago high s

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