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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-28-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Do You Need a Laugh Today? Read This.Julian Vasquez Heilig is the most creative blogger I know in terms of his brilliant combination of flashy graphics, research, and informed commentary. Here he describes the century-long battle between the managerial elites—who believe that schools can be improved by data, management, mandates an
9-28-13 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.: Saturday coffee. With my new hearing aids. My t-shirt reads Keep Retirement Weird. It’s a play off of the Keep Austin Weird and Keep Portland Weird t-shirts that have become popular. Retirement is weird. Not in a bad way. It just keeps presenting surprises. A few years before I retired I found my he
Safe Passage routes rife with sex offenders - Chicago Sun-Times
Safe Passage routes rife with sex offenders - Chicago Sun-Times: Safe Passage routes rife with sex offendersBY LAUREN FITZPATRICK Education Reporter September 28, 2013 12:10AM01Share2713A Safe Passage sign is posted near a building on Washington Blvd., where a registered sex offender lives along the route for children walking to De Priest Elementary School on Chicago's West Side. | Jessica Kosciel
9-28-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: Teaching as relationship - a personal reflectionAn incident yesterday is very much on my mind. In my STEM Policy class we were talking about possible projects for which students could do Policy Briefs (their deliverables at the end of the semester course). One young lady, a junior like all the other students, had decided to dispose of her original idea and explore anothe
9-28-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: The Google Cloud Monster Ate My GraphicsMulgrew Waves Goodbye To BloombergMulgrew on mayor: "We can all take comfort from the fact that Bloomberg will soon be only a bad memory to the people who care about schools"— Lisa Fleisher (@lisafleisher) September 27, 2013Alas, with all the concessions Mikey Mulgrew and his boss, Randi Weingarten, made to Bloomberg and the
9-28-13 Radical Scholarship
Radical Scholarship: How Bill Gates Views the World (And Why It’s a Problem) – @ THE CHALK FACEHow Bill Gates Views the World (And Why It’s a Problem) – @ THE CHALK FACE1 by P. L. Thomas / 3h YESTERDAYDisaster Capitalism and Charter Schools: Revisiting New Orleans Post-KatrinaDisaster Capitalism and Charter Schools: Revisiting New Orleans Post-Katrina1 by P. L. Thomas / 18h Words and Deeds: The U.
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 9-28-13 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYRepublican Strategy On Debt Ceiling Is Ridiculous Strategy, But Provides Perfect Classroom Lesson On “Compromise”I learned about the importance of compromise in my nineteen year community organizing career prior to becoming a teacher, and I’ve shared a fair amount about it at The Best Posts
This Week's Education Research Report 9-28-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTSchool outreach program may reduce African-American student mobilityOutreach programs that build relationships between families and schools may reduce the number of students who change schools for reasons other than grade promotion, according to a new study from researchers at Rice University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Col
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-28-13
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FITBROWN VETOES SB 344 (Padilla) TO ADD MORE ACCOUNTABILITY TO LOCAL CONTROL FUNDING FORMULABy Kimberly Beltran | SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources http://bit.ly/1bcSMxE Friday, September 27, 2013 :: In a signal to school officials that the Brown administration is unlikely to burden districts with ad
NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education 9-28-13
NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:NPE News BriefsHow Bill Gates Views the World (And Why It’s a Problem) | @ THE CHALK FACESEPTEMBER 28, 2013 BY PLTHOMASEDD Money is power. Power is money. Bill Gates has too much of both. Valerie Strauss gets it—that Bill Gates is not what education needs: “Education reform should not be driven by private philanthropists with their own agenda
9-21-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Schools MatterAre Americans reading less?Sent to the New York Daily News, Sept. 27, 2013The Daily News reported that "Less than half of Americans read for fun last year, National Endowment for the Arts survey shows" (Sept. 26).This is not quite accurate.The NEA reported that 54.5% of those surveyed said they read at least one book last year, nearly identical to the resul
All Week 9-28-13 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week 8-10-13 @ THE CHALK FACE This is why the Tea Party can shove their anti #commoncore sentiment #tcotTea Party zealots have been rather late to the party, actually. In only the last few months or so have they sought fit to propose anything related to education other than abolishing all public schools and the Department of Education. The latter of the t
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 9-28-13 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGPhilly Teacher: May 100% of Your Students Score Proficient by 2014!This was written by Raniel Guzman, who is a teacher in the School District of Philadelphia and an adjunct professor at Esperanza College of Eastern University: May 100 % of your students score proficient or above on standardized tests by 2014.
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Want to Destroy Public Schools? Education Nation’s Got an App for That! | educationalchemy
Want to Destroy Public Schools? Education Nation’s Got an App for That! | educationalchemy: Want to Destroy Public Schools? Education Nation’s Got an App for That!Posted: September 26, 2013 in Uncategorized 0Seriously?Everybody. Stop the presses! It’s here!The solution to all of the social, economic, and pedagogical ills that have been plaguing our “failing” schools for decades! What is it you ask
E. D. Hirsch Sees His Education Theories Taking Hold - NYTimes.com
E. D. Hirsch Sees His Education Theories Taking Hold - NYTimes.com: E. D. Hirsch Sees His Education Theories Taking HoldBy AL BAKERPublished: September 27, 2013Enlarge This ImageMichael Nagle for The New York TimesTeachers in Brooklyn training in a curriculum from E. D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge Foundation.Enlarge This ImageAndrew Shurtleff for The New York TimesMr. Hirsch.Invitations to speak have
Four decades of failed school reform - The Washington Post
Four decades of failed school reform - The Washington Post: Four decades of failed school reformAstrid Riecken/For The Washington Post - English teacher Pat Welsh looks back on the fads that came and wentBy Patrick Welsh, Friday, September 27, 10:28 AM E-mail the writerPatrick Welsh retired in June after 43 years teaching English at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria.Erika Dietz was overwhelm
Diane Ravitch: Unless Teachers Write the Tests, They Won't Improve Anything | New Republic
Diane Ravitch: We Need More Teacher-Designed Tests | New Republic: Unless Teachers Write the Tests, They Won't Improve AnythingBY DIANE RAVITCHEzekiel Emanuel argues that more tests make students smarter, a proposition which is not as simple as it sounds. The validity of his claim comes down to such questions as "who writes the tests," "how quickly are the results reported," an
With A Brooklyn Accent: How to Avoid What Works Best in Motivating Students
With A Brooklyn Accent: How to Avoid What Works Best in Motivating Students: How to Avoid What Works Best in Motivating StudentsIn all the literature coming out of the US Department of Education, why is it I never see reference to the one thing I know that works in motivating students, but especially students in high needs communities- individual attention from a teacher, coach, arts instructor, s
Nite Cap 9-27-13 #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 CAPTODAYSchool board member accused of possible wrongdoing in foreign student recruitmentSchool board member accused of possible wrongdoing in foreign student recruitment: SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ACCUSED OF POSSIBLE WRONGDOING IN FOREIGN STUDENT RECRUIT
School board member accused of possible wrongdoing in foreign student recruitment
School board member accused of possible wrongdoing in foreign student recruitment: SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ACCUSED OF POSSIBLE WRONGDOING IN FOREIGN STUDENT RECRUITMENTIf there's new money to be made -- particularly from China -- someone is going to find a way to exploit it.What the hell is going on in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District? A recent investigation in the school's international
Diane Ravitch Visiting California | InterACT
Diane Ravitch Visiting California | InterACT: Diane Ravitch Visiting CaliforniaSEPTEMBER 27, 2013tags: California, diane ravitch, Stanfordby David B. Cohen Video clip from Diane Ravitch’s talk in Sacramento, 1/20/12.For readers in California, there are several upcoming opportunities to hear Diane Ravitch at public events.Friday, 9/27 – SacramentoSaturday, 9/28 – BerkeleyMonday, 9/30 – StanfordTues
Complaint Against Science Standards Filed in Federal Court | Truth in American Education
Complaint Against Science Standards Filed in Federal Court | Truth in American Education: Complaint Against Science Standards Filed in Federal CourtFiled in Next Generation Science Standards by truthed on September 27, 2013 • 0 Comments225(Topeka, KS) On September 26 Citizens for Objective Public Education, Inc. (COPE) filed suit in federal court against the Kansas State Board of Education and the
Student hackers lead L.A. schools to halt major iPad initiative
Student hackers lead L.A. schools to halt major iPad initiative: Student hackers lead L.A. schools to halt major iPad initiativeBy Valerie Strauss, Published: September 27 at 4:23 pmE-mail the writer0CommentsMore(David Paul Morris / Bloomberg)The $1 billion initiative by the Los Angeles public schools district to give an iPad to all 650,000 students and teachers for home use has hit a snag that, i
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: How did this guy get hired by Arne Duncan? He had a guy.
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: How did this guy get hired by Arne Duncan? He had a guy.: How did this guy get hired by Arne Duncan? He had a guy.Jesus Alanis sentenced to 20 years in Stateville. How did this child molester/pornographer land a high-paying job working for Arne Duncan at the top of the Chicago Public Schools system? That's an easy one.The same way Arne Duncan got his own job. He had
9-27-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Leonie Haimon Goes to School and Finds Tweedie Implementation of Common Core Is a Disaster MovieSo, amongst all the inherent faults of the Common Bore, we have the totally inept Walcott-led Tweedies showing once again that they would find getting out of a paper bag a significant challenge.Heeeeere's Leonie:I toured school yesterday where majority of students are ELLs, either in du
No More Help With Homework? | NEA Today
No More Help With Homework? | NEA Today: No More Help With Homework?September 27, 2013 by egraham Filed under Featured News, Top Stories, UncategorizedLeave a CommentBy Cindy LongAccording to research, half of parents struggle to help their kids with homework, but many educators would rather have their students figure it out on their own and have parents help them develop good study and research
Cali Education Headlines Friday, September 27, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: L.A. Unified reports 71 iPads are missingEducation HeadlinesFriday, September 27, 2013San Diego County teachers caught cheating on state testsThree San Diego County schools are among more than two dozen in California to get stripped of their state test rankings over allegations that teachers blatantly cheated or violated protocols for adminis
Common Core rollout in Louisiana a 'train wreck,' state Democrats say | NOLA.com
Common Core rollout in Louisiana a 'train wreck,' state Democrats say | NOLA.com: Common Core rollout in Louisiana a 'train wreck,' state Democrats sayAfter a notable silence on Louisiana's implementation of Common Core, the state Democratic Party has come out swinging, calling the rollout "a train wreck" and criticizing the state for not providing educators with the tools they need to b
NYC Public School Parents: Almost a quarter of a million students sitting in classes so large they violate the union contract
NYC Public School Parents: Almost a quarter of a million students sitting in classes so large they violate the union contract: Almost a quarter of a million students sitting in classes so large they violate the union contractYesterday, Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, along with Manhattan Borough President Stringer (who will also be our next City Comptroller) and Cl
Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead Wrong | Alternet
Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead Wrong | Alternet: Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead WrongDespite dramatic improvements in educational achievement over 30 years, reformers insist on the rhetoric of America's "failing schools." Here's why they're wrong.Photo Credit: Rubenstein via Wikimedia Comm
Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead Wrong | Alternet
Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead Wrong | Alternet: Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead WrongDespite dramatic improvements in educational achievement over 30 years, reformers insist on the rhetoric of America's "failing schools." Here's why they're wrong.Photo Credit: Rubenstein via Wikimedia Comm
Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead Wrong | Alternet
Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead Wrong | Alternet: Joel Klein Claims "K-12 Isn't Working" -- But the Facts Prove Him Dead WrongDespite dramatic improvements in educational achievement over 30 years, reformers insist on the rhetoric of America's "failing schools." Here's why they're wrong.Photo Credit: Rubenstein via Wikimedia Comm
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good news, rich people
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good news, rich people: Good news, rich peopleThere are still openings for your extra-special child at the new, 9-story, Oman-based Gem Academy (and a gem it is) downtown on S. Water St. And if you apply now, tuition is only about $30K. Caviar lunch is extra.Rahm Emanuel is at it again. His game plan is to blame every school budget cut, every teacher he fires and sch
Choosing Democracy: Jose Montoya, activist, poet, artist, teacher, ally, friend
Choosing Democracy: Jose Montoya, activist, poet, artist, teacher, ally, friend: Jose Montoya, activist, poet, artist, teacher, ally, friendJose Montoya, Sacramento poet, activist and artist. RIP. – Ally, Friend, Teacher.Stephen MagagniniJose Montoya, one of the most influential and inspirational figures in California Chicano history, died Wednesday, Sept. 25 . He was 81. One of Sacramento’s poe
Brown vetoes bill to add more accountability on new school funding SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources
SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: Brown vetoes bill to add more accountability on new school fundingBy Kimberly BeltranFriday, September 27, 2013In a signal to school officials that the Brown administration is unlikely to burden districts with additional compliance requirements tied to the new Local Control Funding Formula, the governor on Thursday vetoed legislation that would have
Morning Wink 9-27-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSTODAYCorporate Education Reform Hit Man is paid school-foundation consultant - Our Colorado News: Lone Tree Voice: NewsHigh-profile speaker is paid school-foundation consultant - Our Colorado News: Lone Tree Voice: News: Corporate Education Reform Hit Man is paid school-foundation consultantDouglas County School Board president says donations fund outside
