Big Education Ape: Nite Cap 8-3-13 #BATsACT #thankateacher #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 CAP

TODAY

Daily Kos: Why?: Why?byteacherkenFollow Sometimes I think about certain things I perceive or encounter that upset me and ask that simply question -Why?Therein begins a process of expanding my understanding, and thus my humanity.In December of 1956 in the Miami airport I saw my first whites only sign and asked my motherWhy?From that came awareness, that was honed the following Fall with the events

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I stand with the IEA and with the NCAE. | Fred Klonsky

I stand with the IEA and with the NCAE. | Fred Klonsky: I stand with the IEA and with the NCAE.AUGUST 3, 2013North Carolina Moral Monday protest in June.I’ve always been a proud member of the Illinois Education Association.Never prouder than this week to read their statement in support of our brothers and sisters in North Carolina.The president, vice president and executive director of the North C

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Five Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (and Ones That Will) Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Five Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (and Ones That Will)By Jeff Bryant, Campaign for America's Future Op-EdWednesday, 31 July 2013-- truthout.orgThe following is from a talk given at a meeting of the Young Elected Officials last week in Washington, D.C.Thanks for having me here today. I'm feeling a little out of co

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Perdido Street School: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core Opponents

Perdido Street School: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core Opponents: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core OpponentsThere's a steady barrage of attacks against the Common Core coming from the right these days.Just this week we have Michelle Malkin

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On Vallas and Education Reform: CT Post’s Hugh Bailey calls it like it is…(again!) - Wait, What?

On Vallas and Education Reform: CT Post’s Hugh Bailey calls it like it is…(again!) - Wait, What?: On Vallas and Education Reform: CT Post’s Hugh Bailey calls it like it is…(again!) Once again, Hugh Baily has produced a commentary piece worthy of national attention.In it, Bailey writes, “Bridgeport didn’t ask to be a microcosm for the national education debate, but that’s part of the deal when a

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Alliance for Education Continues Drive to Shape the Seattle School Board

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Alliance for Education Continues Drive to Shape the Seattle School Board: Alliance for Education Continues Drive to Shape the Seattle School BoardThe Alliance recently had an press "event" during a national urban school board directors convention held here in Seattle in late July. The theme of the convention was "Building Educational Communities to Close the Achie

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Jersey Jazzman: Bennett Whines About "Tone"

Jersey Jazzman: Bennett Whines About "Tone": Bennett Whines About "Tone"From one guy who impugns the motives of teachers and their unions...No one has been a bigger critic of Chris Christie than yours truly. But if you go back through this blog, you'll find I've never once made a crack about his weight. Part of that is simple decency; part is my being close to Christie's age and knowing first hand

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Council PTSA Clarifies Fundraising Issue

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Council PTSA Clarifies Fundraising Issue: Seattle Council PTSA Clarifies Fundraising IssueNot completely (more on that at the end) but better. (Notes in red are mine.)From SCPTSA;Why the sudden change in policy of the new 10% fee for fundraising on school grounds by the district?It not really a new policy, but more accurately a policy the district should h

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Saturday coffee. | Fred Klonsky

Saturday coffee. | Fred Klonsky: Saturday coffee. Indigenous Chicago cuisine. Yesterday’s humidity is gone and it is a beautiful Saturday morning in Chicago. Half the Brooklyn family contingent is in town, including my grandkids. Yesterday we introduced the grandchildren to indigenous Chicago food: A Chicago hotdog at the Weiner’s Circle on Clark Street. I overlooked their decision to eschew the

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Opening the tap on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: KIDS BULLIED FOR YEARS MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Opening the tap on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: KIDS BULLIED FOR YEARS MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISON: Opening the tap on the School-to-Prison Pipeline: KIDS BULLIED FOR YEARS MORE LIKELY TO GO TO PRISONBY JANICE WOOD, ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR.PSYCH CENTRAL NEWS (THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION) REVIEWED BY JOHN M. GROHOL, PSY.D. | HTTP://BIT.LY/16R

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Bad Week for The Anthony's: 2 Summer Hot Dogs #Cheats4Change

Bad Week for The Anthony's: 2 Summer Hot Dogs 2nd Banana 8-3-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #soschat #p2 #1uBIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANA RECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to richesSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to riches School Report Cards? Not In Our Name. | Parents United

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: The selling of Chicago

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The selling of Chicago: The selling of ChicagoCFO Lois Scott refuses to reveal specifics of Midway privatization. Like Daley's selling of the city's parking spaces, Rahm is doing his sell-off of Midway Airport in the dark, until after the deal is done.He's using the manufactured pension crisis to justify the further looting and burning of Chicago the same way t

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Oregon helps lead the way in online testing | OregonLive.com

Oregon helps lead the way in online testing | OregonLive.com: Oregon helps lead the way in online testingView full sizeTom Birch, a student at Western Governors University, takes a tax accounting final exam at his Southeast Portland home. He drapes his windows and aims a web cam at his face and hands so a remote proctor can see that he is not cheating on the all-important exam.Betsy Hammond / The

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Missouri Education Watchdog: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right Wingers

Missouri Education Watchdog: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right Wingers: Economics Assignment Questions Educational Local Control and Radical Far Right WingersEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookWhat are your college students learning? This is from an Economics Assignment at Lansing (MI) Community College : What do you think the aim of t

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2nd Banana 8-3-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #soschat #p2 #1u

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANA RECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to richesSpecial Big Education Ape Salute to Tony Bennett Greatest Hits- rags to riches School Report Cards? Not In Our Name. | Parents United for Public EducationSchool Report Cards? Not In Our Name. | Parents United for Public Education: School Report Cards? Not In Our

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Morning Wink 8-3-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #edreform #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSTODAYThis Week 8-3-13 SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACESCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Have you heard of Blue Engine? Well, take a seat.I want you to read the following poem by Shel Silverstein, one that is the inspiration for a new “reformy” organization called Blue Engine. The little blue engine looked up at the hill. His light was weak, his whistle was s

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This Week 8-3-13 SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE

SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Have you heard of Blue Engine? Well, take a seat.I want you to read the following poem by Shel Silverstein, one that is the inspiration for a new “reformy” organization called Blue Engine. The little blue engine looked up at the hill. His light was weak, his whistle was shrill. He was tired and small, and the hill was tall, And his face blushed […]by Chalk Face, Ph

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-3-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Reader: How Will Privatization Improve Education?This comment was posted by a reader: A HUMBLE OPINION ON THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD How will privatization of our school system over the presently run public school system be certain to have any effect on education let alone making education improve by having students achieve better g

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A-to-F grading systems for public schools get new scrutiny - The Washington Post

A-to-F grading systems for public schools get new scrutiny - The Washington Post: A-to-F grading systems for public schools get new scrutiny News this week that Tony Bennett, the former Indiana education commissioner, quietly altered the state grade for a charter school founded by a campaign donor has raised questions about validity of the trendy A-to-F grading system used in more than a dozen sta

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Will L’affaire Bennett Finally Shine the Light on Charter Schools USA? | Scathing Purple Musings

Will L’affaire Bennett Finally Shine the Light on Charter Schools USA? | Scathing Purple Musings: Will L’affaire Bennett Finally Shine the Light on Charter Schools USA?When Tampa Tribune reporter William March was sourcing a piece on the controversy over email exchanges Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education had with state education departments, he contacted Charter Schools USA. March

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Youth Organizing in Seattle | Classroom Struggle

Youth Organizing in Seattle | Classroom Struggle: Youth Organizing in Seattle One area we try to take seriously in organizing is working with youth. So it’s always great to see examples of youth stepping up, like this example from Seattle in protests around the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s killer. Read the full article here: http://creativitynotcontrol.wordpress.com/2013/08/0

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This Week's NPE News Briefs 8-3-13 ← from The Network for Public Education

NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:YESTERDAYBush, the Florida BOE, and Leadership Post-Bennett | Scathing Purple MusingsPosted on August 2, 2013 by Bob Sikes Today’s Florida Board of Education emergency meeting was suitably somber. While voting unanimously to appoint Pam Stewart as the interim commissioner a solid decision - this takeaway stood out. Consider this from Kathleen

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-3-13

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FITFlorida Education Chief Tony Bennett Resigns Over How A ‘C’ Became An ‘A’Tony Bennett stepped down after reports that, while directing Indiana schools, he upped the grade of a charter school reportedly run by a major GOP donor. It's a blow to attempts to grade schools. By Stacy Teicher Khadaroo, Staff writer /

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… 8-3-13 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAY“Parents Add Heft to Bond, Tax-Measure Campaigns”Parents Add Heft to Bond, Tax-Measure Campaigns is an Education Week article worth reading. Here’s an excerpt: Though the specifics may differ from community to community, parents throughout the country are increasingly becoming advocates for

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This Week's Education Research Report 8-3-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTGallup Poll: Only 35% of New Teachers Fully Engaged in Their Job, Drops Even Lower in Later YearsAccording to a new Gallup Poll, U.S. teachers for grades K-12 with less than one year of experience are the most engaged at work, at 35.1%. Engagement drops to 30.9% for teachers who have been on the job for one to three years and falls furt

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All Week 8-3-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: YBrian Jones interviewed by Reclaiming the Conversation on Education“The students, the learners themselves have to have power.” Brian P. Jones Saw this on Tumblr this morning and wanted to disseminate it. Last spring I participated in a conference at Barnard College called Reclaiming the Conversation on Education. At one point, someone pulled me into a classr

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 7-27-13 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGTODAYThe Biggest Loser in the Bennett Scandal?This is a terrific commentary on the Bennett fiasco, written by Valerie Strauss. Who is the biggest loser? Could it be the man behind the curtain who decided that testing would make kids smarter? The one who turned choice into a battle cry? The guy who invited for-profit chart

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YESTERDAY

Tony, Florida and Indiana - Foundation for Excellence in Education

Tony, Florida and Indiana - Foundation for Excellence in Education: Tony, Florida and IndianaAugust 01, 2013 • The EdFly Blog“I actually like to floss.”Neil RuddockNeil@ExcelInEd.orgSo many things have been said and written about Charles Anthony Bennett this past week. Reports surrounding his involvement in Indiana’s A-F grading system have been everywhere and extended well beyond the realm of ed

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Join me at the Education for Democracy convention Aug. 7 in Madison Parents United for Responsible Education

Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Join me at the Education for Democracy convention Aug. 7 in Madison: Join me at the Education for Democracy convention Aug. 7 in MadisonI’ll be part of the opening plenary for the Education for Democracy piece of the Democracy Convention next week in Madison, Wisconsin. The session will take place from 9 – 10:30 am on Wednesday, August 7 at

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IDEC 2013 Begins This Weekend | The IDEA Blog

IDEC 2013 Begins This Weekend | The IDEA Blog: IDEC 2013 Begins This WeekendPosted by Dana Bennis on Aug 02, 2013 - 11:43 AM The 21st Annual International Democratic Education Conference gets underway this Sunday August 4th in Boulder, Colorado. This marks the second time IDEC has been in the United States - the first being ten years ago in Troy, NY in 2003 - and it also marks another key gatherin

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Nite Cap 8-2-13 #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 CAPTODAYSouthern Poverty Law Center files complaint about Florida’s race-based student achievement plans | The Raw StorySouthern Poverty Law Center files complaint about Florida’s race-based student achievement plans | The Raw Story: Southern Poverty Law Cent

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