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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: LABOR DAY WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: LABOR DAY WEEKEND QUOTABLES: LABOR DAY WEEKEND QUOTABLESPres. Obama“I know well that we are weary of war. The American people have the good sense to know we cannot resolve the underlying conflict in Syria with our military.”  -- August 31st SpeechBritish historian, Tim Stanley“So we basically taught Obama to respect his own constitution.  No need to thank us, America

by mike simpson / 3min 

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.: You can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ to the unionYou can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ to the union.Happy Labor Day, the US Congress’ alternative to May Day. The politicians believed that May Day, which originated here in Chicago, had too rough and militant a content to it. And it had too many Reds involved. H

by mike simpson / 10min 

9-2-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School:  Andrew Cuomo Worries His Own Corruption Commission Will Investigate Him For CorruptionApparently Little Andy picked two people to head his Moreland Commission to investigate corruption who are just as hungry for career advancement and media attention as he is and now it's coming back to haunt him:Senior aides to Gov. Cuomo are increasingly worried that the Moreland Act Comm

by mike simpson / 17min 

A Parent's Guide to Corporate Education Reform: Why Rich Guys are Screwing Up Our Public Schools

A Parent's Guide to Corporate Education Reform: Why Rich Guys are Screwing Up Our Public SchoolsAKAREIGN OF ERROR. An incisive, comprehensive look at today’s American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools.I Got Mine and I Can'

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Labor Day 2013 Quotes, Sayings, Pictures, Images | Labour Day

Labor Day 2013 Quotes, Sayings, Pictures, Images | Labour Day: Labor Day Poems, Poetry For Kids, ChildrenLatest Collection of Labor Day Poems, Poetry For Kids, Children, Labor Day 2013 Short, Long Poems Quotes, Songs Lyrics In Hindi, English, Labor Day Poems For School Kids, Children, StudentsLabor Day Poems, Poetry For Kids, …Labor Day 2013 SMS Messages In EnglishBest Collection of Labor Day 2013

by mike simpson / 56min 

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-2-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Beth from Indiana: What Labor Day Means to MeA reader posted this comment about Labor Day: “Because my father, a lineman at the local electric company, was able to collectively bargain a contract, my sister, brother & I were able to live a middle class existence. My dad was able to send three kids to public universities in Indi

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9-2-13 Missouri Education Watchdog

Missouri Education Watchdog: You Get What You Pay For In NGALast year, Governor Paul LePage pulled out of the NGA... or so he thought. The Bangor Daily News reported that LePage pulled the state's membership in the National Governor's Association because they weren't receiving enough benefits for their membership dues to warrant remaining in the association. At the time Maine was paying $60k to be

by mike simpson / 1h 

What Should You Be Earning? | Economic Policy Institute

What Should You Be Earning? | Economic Policy Institute: What Should You Be Earning?  In honor of Labor Day, we made a little tool—based on our project inequality.is—that shows how much you would be making if wages had kept pace with productivity, a key indicator of an economy working for all.Economic inequality is a real and growing problem in America. Since the 1979, workers are working more, ma

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College Students Share Tips for Managing the Application Process - College Admissions Playbook

College Students Share Tips for Managing the Application Process - College Admissions Playbook (usnews.com): College Students Share Tips for Managing the Application ProcessBy CATHRYN SLOANESeptember 2, 2013 RSS Feed PrintHigh school seniors should aim to tackle small college application tasks weekly rather than attempting to do everything all at once.Each month, we ask current college students to

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NYC Educator: Happy Labor Day to All

NYC Educator: Happy Labor Day to All: Happy Labor Day to AllEnjoy your day off. Enjoy your weekend. Enjoy safety at your workplace. Enjoy your lunch break. Enjoy health and dental benefits.Enjoy overtime pay and child labor laws. Enjoy contractual protections and collective bargaining. Enjoy lack of racial and sexual discrimination. Enjoy not being fired for a bad haircut, for your religious belie

by mike simpson / 1h 

teacherken at Daily Kos

teacherken at Daily Kos: Krugman has a very good column for Labor Daytitled Love for Labor Lost and as he reminds us in the very beginning of the piece It wasn’t always about the hot dogs. Originally, believe it or not, Labor Day actually had something to do with showing respect for labor. He tells us of the origination of the celebration, after DEMOCRAT Grover Cleveland used 12,000 federal troops

by mike simpson / 1h 

9-2-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face

SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Is this TFA and Reality Israel stuff Anti-Semitic? I’m torn.There’s an article going around about a widow donating to TFA to provide some kind of field trip experience to Israel called Reality Israel. Here’s explanation of the trip via TFA’s website. It’s written by journalist Max Blumenthal and is making the rounds in leftist media like Alternet. When I first read

by mike simpson / 1h 

What is your school culture & climate like? Discuss on Monday, September 2nd at 8:30pm ET! Student Voice

Student Voice: What is your school culture & climate like? Discuss on Monday, September 2nd at 8:30pm ET!  Many of us have had close experiences with bullying, whether we were victims, onlookers, or bullies ourselves. The presence (or absence) of bullying contributes a lot to the culture and climate of a school community; however, it is only one of many important factors that make up the comm

by mike simpson / 1h 

9-2-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum: Ed Reform; Surging and Faltering

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Ed Reform; Surging and Faltering: Ed Reform; Surging and FalteringThe push is on to expand charters, TFA, student data and yet, more and more people (including some legislators) are finally saying, "What is going on here?"A highly acclaimed charter group in NYC were found to be trying to push out a child with disabilities - it was recorded on tape. From the Daily N

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Upcoming Campaign Events: 2013-2014 | Save Our Schools

Upcoming Campaign Events: 2013-2014 | Save Our Schools: Upcoming Campaign Events: 2013-2014Check out the SOS Campaign for Artful Resistance gatherings occurringaround the country!New YorkSaturn Series Poetry Reading & Open MikeWhere:            Revival – 129 East 15th Street    New York City, NY, 10003When:             September 2, 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.Contact:          Su Polo – supolo@rcn.c

by mike simpson / 1h 

The Start of School 2013

Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » The Start of School 2013: The Start of School 2013 It’s the start of another school year, and I must say I’m looking forward to it. August was a hard month outside of the classroom (read here formore), but I was starting to excited about this year starting at the end of July.I haven’t spent every waking hour this summer, or even in August, thinking about m

by mike simpson / 1h 

YESTERDAY

10 Online Resources To Learn Coding For Free

10 Online Resources To Learn Coding For Free: 10 Online Resources To Learn Coding For Free    No matter if you are a coding newbie or an expert willing to expand your horizon with new coding languages, these 10 free online resources to learn coding are interesting and meant for everyone! So say goodbye to classes and learn everything online!  Rate this news:   (3 Votes)Saturday, August 31, 2013:  

by mike simpson / 14h 

All Things Education: Reforminess: 120, Content-rich Curriculum: 45

All Things Education: Reforminess: 120, Content-rich Curriculum: 45: Reforminess: 120, Content-rich Curriculum: 45I saw this article in the Washington Post about DCPS's cutting the minimum recess for elementary students to 20 minutes day. It goes without saying that twenty minutes per day of recess for younger students is ridiculously inadequate. But here's what really caught my eye (emphasis mine

by mike simpson / 14h 

Save Our Schools | On the March to Save and Transform Schools

Save Our Schools | On the March to Save and Transform Schools:  A Word from the CripplesBy: Siduri Beckman Student, age 15 I’ve got something to say. It won’t take long Just as long as it took you to snatch everything away One fourth of the body is the leg You have crippled us Cursing us to hobble all of our lives. I cannot run cross-country on just one leg. Rip song off of our tongues to find son

by mike simpson / 15h 

Nite Cap 9-1-13 #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 CAPTODAY9-1-13 Ed Notes OnlineEd Notes Online: Real Politics: Will They Turn de Blasio into Mark Green and make Lhota King?If De Blasio wins the runoff and then the nomination, there will be an attempt to "Mark Green" him. But I don't think they will be able

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9-1-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: Real Politics: Will They Turn de Blasio into Mark Green and make Lhota King?If De Blasio wins the runoff and then the nomination, there will be an attempt to "Mark Green" him. But I don't think they will be able to do that easily.Most interesting would be a run-off with Thompson -- watch the unions battle that one out. But all along some of us have watched the machinations -- ie,

by mike simpson / 16h 

Diane in the Evening 8-9-1-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Replies to Randall HendeeIn an earlier post, retired high school English teacher Randall Hendee expressed his opposition to the Core Knowledge curriculum, which contains specific knowledge that students are expected to learn. Here, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., the founder of the Core Knowledge curriculum, responds to Hendee.

by mike simpson / 16h 

Teachers For Social Justice: Popular Education Pieces are Available for Download - Spread the word!

Teachers For Social Justice: Popular Education Pieces are Available for Download - Spread the word!: Popular Education Pieces are Available for Download - Spread the word!SEPTEMBER 1, 2013 LEAVE A COMMENTTSJ has created Popular Education Pieces that set forth a vision of what public schools should look like while connecting the dots of between many of the corporate style "reforms" that are in oppo

by mike simpson / 16h 

One Teacher's Perspective: Just in Time for Labor Day, A New Employee Handbook

One Teacher's Perspective: Just in Time for Labor Day, A New Employee Handbook: Just in Time for Labor Day, A New Employee HandbookA big deal to many Janesville school employees, but a sidebar note in the local paper (and just in time for Labor Day!) was the unanimous board approval of the school district’s employee handbook this past week. As noted in my last posting, the Janesville’s teachers un

by mike simpson / 16h 

Labor Day 2013 & Teachers - Musical Media For Education

Labor Day 2013 & Teachers - Musical Media For Education: Labor Day 2013 & Teachersposted 30 minutes agoThis Labor Day Musical Media for Education (MME) honors public school teachers. To make the holiday more meaningful, please peruse the linkography below, a critique of changes currently threatening the teaching profession in the US."EDUCATION REFORM"/PRIVATIZATION & TEACHERS IN THE US

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Online Degrees Are a Waste of Money!! | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News

Online Degrees Are a Waste of Money!! | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News: Online Degrees Are a Waste of Money!!By Danny Weil on September 1, 2013 5:26 pm / no comments On-line degrees are not only a waste of money, but they fail to provide any meaningful learning.  While they are boasted to be about ‘getting a degree’ at one’s own leisure and isolated in

by mike simpson / 21h 

Seattle teachers, district reach agreement - SFGate

Seattle teachers, district reach agreement - SFGate: Seattle teachers, district reach agreementUpdated 9:14 am, Sunday, September 1, 2013 SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle teachers and the school district have reached a tentative contract agreement.The district says they came to agreement early Sunday and that the Seattle Education Association plans to vote on the proposed contract on late Tuesday afternoon.

by mike simpson / 21h 

9-1-13 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.: Labor Day Weekend reads.  Why is Teach For America sending its teachers on Israel junkets? What would Muhammad do? A rebutall to Obama’s war argument. The continuing chaos in Rahm’s Chicago. They call us Chiraq. Rahm’s De Paul basketball arena? I swear I will never step foot in the joint. You make tha

by mike simpson / 21h 

Teaching in a Dystopic State ! : Teachers Are Threatened With the Loss of Something They No Longer Have ??

Teaching in a Dystopic State ! : Teachers Are Threatened With the Loss of Something They No Longer Have ??: Teachers Are Threatened With the Loss of Something They No Longer Have ??"That’s why we organize ourselves to fight for our profession"When NJEA supported the de facto elimination of the tenure law I don't see it as "fighting for our profession".In the 70s this kind of thing would have been

by mike simpson / 22h 

9-1-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tentative agreement reachedThe SEA announced that, as of 12:18am, they have a tentative agreement with the school district. Details to follow.From the SEA web site:We have a tentative agreement!The Seattle Education Association and Seattle School Board bargaining teams reached a tentative agreement early Sunday morning. SEA members will reviewing the agreement and

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: JUDGE DELAYS RELEASE OF LOS ANGELES TEACHER RATINGS

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: JUDGE DELAYS RELEASE OF LOS ANGELES TEACHER RATINGS: JUDGE DELAYS RELEASE OF LOS ANGELES TEACHER RATINGSCalifornia Law - Constitutional Right to PrivacyCalifornia Constitution, Article 1, section 1.The state Constitution gives each citizen an "inalienable right" to pursue and obtain "privacy.BY TERESA WATANABE, LOS ANGELES TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/131CZO3A

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Some inferior charter schools use loopholes to stay open | The Columbus Dispatch

Some inferior charter schools use loopholes to stay open | The Columbus Dispatch: Some inferior charter schools use loopholes to stay openThere is a rule about bad charter schools in Ohio: They can’t stay open if they don’t improve.There’s also a confusing truth: Sometimes charters don’t get better and they don’t close.Some schools have avoided the state’s charter-closing laws after enrolling more

by mike simpson / 23h 

Emails detail formation of school voucher plan | The Journal Gazette

Emails detail formation of school voucher plan | The Journal Gazette: Emails detail formation of school voucher planTOM LoBIANCO | Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana education overhaul that launched the nation’s broadest school voucher program and brought sweeping changes to how teachers and schools are evaluated angered thousands of teachers and made lightning rods of then-Gov. Mitch Dani

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How to Get an Autographed Copy of “Reign of Error” | Diane Ravitch's blog

How to Get an Autographed Copy of “Reign of Error” | Diane Ravitch's blog: How to Get an Autographed Copy of “Reign of Error”If you would like to get an autographed copy of “Reign of Error,” you can order it through the Network for Public Education.If you want it to be personalized, with a greeting to you, you can order that too.All proceeds benefit the Network for Public Education. I am contribut

by mike simpson / 23h 

9-1-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face

SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Tim Tebow and the “Hard Work” Myth: No Excuses? | the becoming radicalTim Tebow and the “Hard Work” Myth: No Excuses? | the becoming radical.by plthomasedd / 8min All Week 8-31-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week 8-10-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTERThe Lingering Legacy of Segregation | the becoming radica

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The sad thing about Labor Day

The sad thing about Labor Day: The sad thing about Labor DayBy Valerie Strauss, Published: September 1 at 10:31 amE-mail the writer0CommentsMorefreepik.comLabor Day is traditionally marked with parades and other celebrations, a time for Americans to take a break from their jobs and honor the historic role that the labor movement played in the creation of the middle class, the rise of living standa

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9-1-13 Wait What?

Wait What?: Feet flat on the floor, hands folded on the desk and eyes on me…“While I am teaching, I want to see you in ready position…Being in ready position to learn means feet flat on the floor, hands folded on the desk and eyes on me.”  – A new fifth grade teacher at the new Jumoke Academy at Dunbar School. First came the Jumoke Academy, a Hartford based, discipline […]The post Feet flat on the

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NYC Educator: Reformy John Unveils Bold New Initiative

NYC Educator: Reformy John Unveils Bold New Initiative: Reformy John Unveils Bold New Initiativeby special guest blogger Faith Humperdink fromGothamCharterSchoolsExclusive to GothamCharterSchools, NY State Schools Commissioner Reformy John King, in conjunction with the NY Department of Education, has released the formula for rating city teachers.Since no one actually understands any of the math in

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Morning Wink 9-1-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYNYC Public School Parents: Mayor's PEP Members, Rogovin & Lewis, Press for Crony ContractNYC Public School Parents: Mayor's PEP Members, Rogovin & Lewis, Press for Crony Contract: Mayor's PEP Members, Rogovin & Lewis, Press for Crony ContractMayoral members of the Panel for Educational Policy secured the minimum number of votes toapprove a

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2nd Banana 8-31-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post

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