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8-29-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Memphis Commercial Appeal Ignores Cuts to Worker Salaries/Benefits to Pay for Charter School Empire and Other CorpEd PrioritiesPolicy elites of Shelby County are in search for more tax money for corporate welfare education projects.   For pre-K, there is a plan to increase the burden on the poor, who now pay almost 10 percent in local and state sales tax, which inc
by mike simpson / 15min 
The Educated Reporter: Student Absenteeism: Turning More Eyes Toward Empty Desks
The Educated Reporter: Student Absenteeism: Turning More Eyes Toward Empty Desks: Student Absenteeism: Turning More Eyes Toward Empty DesksThere's a truism in education circles: Kids can't learn if they're not in class. But the problem of absenteeism – particularly when it’s chronic – is one that experts say is too often missing from the debate over how to boost student achievement and turn around
by mike simpson / 18min 
First, Do No Harm: That Includes the Media | the becoming radical
First, Do No Harm: That Includes the Media | the becoming radical: First, Do No Harm: That Includes the MediaPosted on August 29, 2013 by plthomaseddPublic education in the U.S. suffers under a powerful intersection of politics, the media, and the public. As I have too often documented, misinformation tends to be reinforced among all three of these forces.The role of media, as Alfie Kohn has exami
by mike simpson / 49min 
8-29-13 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.: Illinois House pension bombers? Primary them! Will Guzzardi for State Rep.  Will Guzzardi. Will Guzzardi announced today that he is running for State Representative from my district. The incumbent is Toni Berrios. She is the daughter of the corrupt boss of the Cook County Democratic Party, Joe Berrios
by mike simpson / 51min 
The Gates Money and Common Core | Truth in American Education
The Gates Money and Common Core | Truth in American Education: The Gates Money and Common CoreFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on August 29, 2013 • 0 CommentsMercedes Schneider has a fabulous audit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spending on Common Core.  In particular I want to highlight money spent on advocacy and advancing the Common Core.Let us now consider ma
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Teenager Expresses Her Thoughts about Common Core through Art and Language.
Missouri Education Watchdog: Teenager Expresses Her Thoughts about Common Core through Art and Language.: Teenager Expresses Her Thoughts about Common Core through Art and Language.Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookDon't get caught in the riptide of bad education reform.  Get out of that school of fish!A 13-year old girl drew this poster about her feelings on Common Core and is r
by mike simpson / 2h 
Obama’s Jim Crow Education System | FrontPage Magazine
Obama’s Jim Crow Education System | FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Jim Crow Education SystemAugust 29, 2013 By Arnold Ahlert 4 Comments 13 Print This PostIn his speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington, President Obama hypocritically bemoaned the current state of education, saying that many Americans face a “fortress of substandard schools and diminish
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-29-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Do Civil Rights Groups Want More High-Stakes Testing?A group called the Campaign for High School Equity made news the other day when it criticized Arne Duncan’s NCLB waivers and complained that the waivers might reduce the amount of high-stakes testing for poor and minority students. Mike Petrilli at the conservative think tank Tho
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Q&A with Rick Miller: California district waivers mean tougher accountability, but less focus on tests | Hechinger Report
Q&A with Rick Miller: California district waivers mean tougher accountability, but less focus on tests | Hechinger Report: Q&A with Rick Miller: California district waivers mean tougher accountability, but less focus on testsBy Sarah AmandolareDozens of states have been granted waivers from No Child Left Behind since 2011, when the Obama administration adopted a more flexible approach to t
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8-29-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Anybody But Quinn People Give Christine Quinn A Nice Parting GiftFrom Politicker:Advocates hoping to swing the election by urging voters to elect “Anybody but Quinn” gathered across the street from the closed St. Vincent’s Hospital this evening for a get-out-the-vote rally they billed as an early “retirement party” for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.The event–which inc
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Clinton Ties Common Core With Civil Rights | Truth in American Education
Clinton Ties Common Core With Civil Rights | Truth in American Education: Clinton Ties Common Core With Civil RightsFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on August 29, 2013 • 0 CommentsYesterday former President Bill Clinton spoke at the “Let Freedom Ring” rally at the Lincoln Memorial that commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington led by Dr. Martin Luther Ki
by mike simpson / 3h 
Program for forgiveness of loans not easy to use | toteachornototeach
Program for forgiveness of loans not easy to use | toteachornototeach: Program for forgiveness of loans not easy to useWASHINGTON — More than 33 million workers qualify to get their student loans forgiven because they work in schools, hospitals or city halls, but too few take advantage of the options because the programs are overly complicated and often confusing, the government’s consumer advocat
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How Teach For America recruits get preference for teaching jobs
How Teach For America recruits get preference for teaching jobs: How Teach For America recruits get preference for teaching jobsBy Valerie Strauss, Published: August 29 at 6:00 amE-mail the writer2CommentsMoreThis story takes place in Bridgeport, Conn., but the same thing is happening around the country. It’s about how Teach For America corps members are given preference over well-trained teachers
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mantra of the corporate reformers: 'Teachers Wanted -- No Experience Necessary'
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mantra of the corporate reformers: 'Teachers Wanted -- No Experience Necessary': Mantra of the corporate reformers: 'Teachers Wanted -- No Experience Necessary'Noel Price teaching a class at YES Prep. Throughout YES Prep’s 13 schools, teachers have an average of two and a half years of experience. (NYT)From the Times to Edweek, it seems like planted stories abound, h
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When students bring family guns to school, shouldn't parents... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com
When students bring family guns to school, shouldn't parents... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: When students bring family guns to school, shouldn't parents be held accountable? COMMENT(4) 0 1 0 2RelatedView Larger A Spalding County preschooler brought a loaded gun to his elementary school Tuesday. Is he responsible or are his parents?Previous PostsState offers new test-out option for high school ex
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8-28-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Julie Cavanagh Analyzes Teacher Evaluation OptionsIf only our current union leadership could communicate to teachers how best to protect themselves in what is going to be a very challenging and dangerous school year for everybody - students, teachers and administrators - as well as Julie Cavanagh does. ....Perdido Street School blogDecide to get involved:  I am convinced the overw
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Kimble's Corner: Congressman Kimble Salutes Martin Luther King's Dream
Kimble's Corner: Congressman Kimble Salutes Martin Luther King's Dream: Congressman Kimble Salutes Martin Luther King's DreamThis is not an actual picture of Congressman Kimble with Martin Luther KingToday, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's march on Washington D.C.  This is an important milestone in American history that we shortchange if we only look at it in terms of rac
by mike simpson / 12h 
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Why Do I Have to TEACH Reading?
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Why Do I Have to TEACH Reading?: Why Do I Have to TEACH Reading?I watched my kids today after we came in from Recess and loved what I saw.They were sprawled all over the room. Some were in the Sponge Bob duct taped "used to be my sons'"video chairs. Some sat on the fluffy pink and aqua bean bags I purchased in Five Below. (They were on sale.:)) Others grabbed the
by mike simpson / 12h 
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: "Expose the Gulen Movement" Protest and Conference
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: "Expose the Gulen Movement" Protest and Conference: "Expose the Gulen Movement" Protest and ConferenceTwo upcoming, related events, a protest and a conference, will provide Americans with an opportunity to learn more about the Gulen Movement. The protest is an excellent opportunity for those in the NYC, NJ, and PA area to speak out against Gulen charter school expansion.Thes
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WTF Big Brother? Glendale school district to monitor students' social media posts - latimes.com
Glendale school district to monitor students' social media posts - latimes.com: Glendale school district to monitor students' social media postsComments0EmailShare0Two Crescenta Valley High School students add touchups to an image on their monitor. The Glendale Unified school board hired a company to monitor students' public posts on social networks, sparking mixed response from students. (Glendal
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Nite Cap 8-28-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change
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 CAPTODAYMotivation is the Key to Success Student VoiceStudent Voice: Motivation is the Key to Success A recent Gallup poll shows that 76% of elementary school students,  61% of middle schoolers, and only 44% of high school students feel engaged in their schoo
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Motivation is the Key to Success Student Voice
Student Voice: Motivation is the Key to Success A recent Gallup poll shows that 76% of elementary school students,  61% of middle schoolers, and only 44% of high school students feel engaged in their schools, indicating a drop in students’ interest in school as they stay in the education system longer. Furthermore, an even more recent poll shows that only 3 out of 10 Americans feel actively engage
by mike simpson / 16h 
Civilization 2.0 – The Facilitation Edition | Lefty Parent
Civilization 2.0 – The Facilitation Edition | Lefty Parent: Civilization 2.0 – The Facilitation EditionAugust 28th, 2013 at 13:03For five-thousand years human civilization has been about a small privileged elite mostly directing the activity of the rest of us. The bankruptcy of this approach to human society, if not evident previously, became brutally so in the 20th Century when some of the most “
by mike simpson / 16h 
Diane in the Evening 8-28-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Juan Gonzalez: Harlem Success Academy Suspends LosersIn this article in the New York Daily News, award-winning investigative journalist Juan Gonzales examines the high suspension rates at the Harlem Success Academy charter schools of Eva Moskowitz. Gonzales writes: “Success Academy, the charter school chain that boasts sky-high stu
by mike simpson / 16h 
Remarks by the President at the "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington | The White House
Remarks by the President at the "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington | The White House: Remarks by the President at the "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on WashingtonLincoln Memorial3:07 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  To the King family, who have sacrificed and inspired so much; to President Clinton; President
by mike simpson / 17h 
Did Bill Clinton smack critics of school reform in March on Washington speech?
Did Bill Clinton smack critics of school reform in March on Washington speech?: Did Bill Clinton smack critics of school reform in March on Washington speech?By Valerie Strauss, Published: August 28 at 4:19 pmE-mail the writerDid former president Bill Clinton smack critics of school reform in his speech Wednesday during the 50th-anniversary observance of the 1963 March on Washington?Here’s what he
by mike simpson / 18h 
8-27-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Bridgeport overlooks trained Connecticut residents to hire 31 new Teach for America recruitsLast Monday night, Paul Vallas, Bridgeport’s faux superintendent of schools revealed that he had hired another 31 Teach for America recruits to staff Bridgeport’s schools this year.   Few, if any of the recruits come from Connecticut and none went a Connecticut college or university to become a
by mike simpson / 18h 
Just a Darn Minute, School Tells Commission Courthouse News Service
Courthouse News Service: Just a Darn Minute, School Tells CommissionBy REBEKAH KEARN ShareThis      SACRAMENTO (CN) - The California Commission on Professional Competence ordered a school to rehire, with back pay, a P.E. teacher it suspended for biting a special education student and punching him in the face, the Sacramento school district claims in court.     Sacramento City Unified School Distri
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Learning From The 1963 March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom
Shanker Blog » Learning From The 1963 March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom: Learning From The 1963 March On Washington For Jobs And FreedomPosted by Shanker Institute Staff on August 28, 2013Today marks the actual calendar day of the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In honor of that day, we republish Al Shanker’s tribute to A. Philip Randolph, the director
by mike simpson / 18h 
Racial Inequity Undeniable in U.S. | the becoming radical
Racial Inequity Undeniable in U.S. | the becoming radical: Racial Inequity Undeniable in U.S.Posted on August 28, 2013 by plthomaseddAbout the historical approaches to addressing poverty, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in 1967:In addition to the absence of coordination and sufficiency, the programs of the past all have another common failing — they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by firs
by mike simpson / 18h 
The Smartest Kids | Deborah Meier on Education
The Smartest Kids | Deborah Meier on Education: The Smartest KidsPosted on August 28, 2013 by debmeierThanks Alfie for responding in the Huffington Post with the same startled reaction I had at the front page review in last Sunday’s NY Times book review Likely to Succeed, written by Annie Murphy Boyd about a book entitled The Smartest Kids in the Wold and How they Got That Way, by Amanda Ripley .
by mike simpson / 18h 
Why The Alarm Is Going Off About Students Learning English As A Second Language | WLRN
Why The Alarm Is Going Off About Students Learning English As A Second Language | WLRN: Why The Alarm Is Going Off About Students Learning English As A Second LanguageShareTweetE-mail0 CommentsPrintBy TIM PADGETTFull disclosure: My wife is a bilingual teacher and my children grew up speaking English and Spanish. But you don’t need those factors in your life to have a vested interest in how well th
by mike simpson / 21h 
Strong Schools Can Withstand Teacher Turnover? | A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues
Strong Schools Can Withstand Teacher Turnover? | A "Fuller" Look at Education Issues: Strong Schools Can Withstand Teacher Turnover?Posted on August 28, 20130A recent NY Times article about young, inexperienced teachers and teacher turnover focused on the YES Prep charter schools. In that article, Wendy Kopp, the founder of Teach for America, stated, “Strong schools can withstand the turnover of t
by mike simpson / 22h 
8-28-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Amanda Ripley, Believe Her or Not!Since Amanda Ripley was assigned to do the Time story with Michelle Rhee on her broom, she has been the darling of CorpEd.  And with no study of education (BA in Government, Cornell) and no schooling in Journalism (BA in Government, Cornell), she is perfectly suited for the task of taking the latest bullshit from […]5 by Jim Horn /
by mike simpson / 22h 
Parents United statement on teacher concessions | Parents United for Public Education
Parents United statement on teacher concessions | Parents United for Public Education: Parents United statement on teacher concessionsPosted on August 28, 2013 by PARENTSUNITEDPHILALeave a commentThis morning, the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) made the tough decision to agree to a wage freeze and health care contributions. Parents United for Public Education stands with Philadelphia t
by mike simpson / 22h 
Half of Teachers Report Hunger Is a Serious Problem in Their Classrooms
Half of Teachers Report Hunger Is a Serious Problem in Their Classrooms: Half of Teachers Report Hunger Is a Serious Problem in Their ClassroomsA new study comes with some new solutions.Teachers spend $37 a month of their own money buying food for hungry students.That’s $300 a school year or roughly five tanks of gas.“Child hunger is a serious problem that negatively affected my students' self-est
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The vultures after our schools | SocialistWorker.org
The vultures after our schools | SocialistWorker.org: The vultures after our schoolsLee Sustar reports on the latest fronts in the corporate school reformers' offensive.August 27, 2013Students and parents on the march against school closures in Chicago (Sarah-ji)ONE YEAR after the successful Chicago teachers' strike stunned the corporate education reformers, public schools are once again under the
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Not the same public schools I went to | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Not the same public schools I went to | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Not the same public schools I went toby thenotebook on Aug 28 2013 Posted in Commentary="" style="color: rgb(76, 153, 72); cursor: pointer; float: left; padding: 0px 2px;">Share on emailCOMMENTS (1)PRINTby Kia HintonI live in the same house in Southwest Philadelphia that I grew up in. My kids go to the same public schools
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Philadelphia Teachers’ Union Willing To Accept Pay Freeze, Pay Into Health Care
Philadelphia Teachers’ Union Willing To Accept Pay Freeze, Pay Into Health Care « CBS Philly: Philadelphia Teachers’ Union Willing To Accept Pay Freeze, Pay Into Health CareAugust 28, 2013 6:18 AMShare on email37View Comments(PFT president Jerry Jordan, left, addresses teachers’ rally outside school district headquarters on August 22, 2013. Credit: Mike DeNardo)Reporting Mike DeNardoFiled UnderCom
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Missouri Education Watchdog: A New Atmosphere in Jefferson City Around Common Core?
Missouri Education Watchdog: A New Atmosphere in Jefferson City Around Common Core?: A New Atmosphere in Jefferson City Around Common Core?Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookYesterday, the House Interim Committee on Improving Government Responsiveness, Efficiency and Accountability met to talk about Common Core, among other agenda items. Chaired by Representative Sue Allen (R-100)
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Cali Education Headlines Wednesday, August 28, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Monica Ratliff, the new teacher on boardEducation HeadlinesWednesday, August 28, 2013$1.5M on class supplies? Scratch thatLodi Unified School District officials are apologizing to the public for a typographical error that could have led some to believe that trustees approved a near $1.5 million increase to school site budgets when they meant
by mike simpson / 23h 
FY2014 Budget Book + Rally at the Board of Education TODAY - August 28th
Chicago Teachers Union | Rally at the Board of Education Tomorrow - August 28th: Rally at the Board of Education Tomorrow - August 28th08/27/2013Tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug 28th, the CTU will be supporting parents and community members as they rally for high quality schools at 125 S. Clark from 10 AM to 11 AM.  Please attend if you can and wear CTU red.
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Non-profits join forces to oppose campaign spending bill SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources
SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: Non-profits join forces to oppose campaign spending billBy Kimberly BeltranWednesday, August 28, 2013A large coalition of non-profit organizations that includes education groups has come together to protest legislation that would prohibit them from using public resources for campaign purposes.The proposal also calls for groups that receive at least 2
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Morning Wink 8-28-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYThe Two Cultures of Educational Reform - NYTimes.comThe Two Cultures of Educational Reform - NYTimes.com: The Two Cultures of Educational ReformBy STANLEY FISHStanley Fish on education, law and society.TAGS:BOK, DEREK, BOWEN, WILLIAM, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET,DELBANCO, ANDREW,EDUCATION, KOLLER, DAPHNEAbout halfway through
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