Sunday, September 22, 2013

Nite Cap 9-22-13 #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 CAP


TODAY

LAUSD- NO COMMON CORE WITHOUT COMMON SENSE - Perdaily.com
LAUSD- NO COMMON CORE WITHOUT COMMON SENSE - Perdaily.com: LAUSD- NO COMMON CORE WITHOUT COMMON SENSE(Mensaje se repite en Español)For a change, let me suspend my disbelief and assume that Superintendent John Deasy and those running the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and other underachieving school districts like it around the country are actually interested in turning things around i
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An Indiana Parent Writes to NBC's Education Nation: Why Only Present One Side of a Public Debate? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
An Indiana Parent Writes to NBC's Education Nation: Why Only Present One Side of a Public Debate? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: An Indiana Parent Writes to NBC's Education Nation: Why Only Present One Side of a Public Debate?By Anthony Cody on September 22, 2013 4:23 PMSeveral weeks ago I wrote a post asking if NBC News would once again be relying on the Gates Foundation for the &
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From By Any Means Becessary (BAMN): Join Me in Sponsoring a Student to March on the U.S. Supreme Court to Restore Affirmative Action on October 15, 2013 | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News
From By Any Means Becessary (BAMN): Join Me in Sponsoring a Student to March on the U.S. Supreme Court to Restore Affirmative Action on October 15, 2013 | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News: From By Any Means Becessary (BAMN): Join Me in Sponsoring a Student to March on the U.S. Supreme Court to Restore Affirmative Action on October 15, 2013By Danny Weil o
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Week in Class: Week Three 2013
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week in Class: Week Three 2013: Week in Class: Week Three 2013 A routine has settled with the class, but all is not perfect, which is as one would expect at this point. Still the signs are good. I feel like there is a good base to build on with this group. The class is both productive and both want to learn and please me (not a requirement on my part–but st
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Shocking Video: Howard County Parent Arrested At Education Forum
Shocking Video: Howard County Parent Arrested At Education Forum « CBS Baltimore: Shocking Video: Howard County Parent Arrested At Education ForumTOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — A Howard County man faces criminal charges after refusing to keep quiet at a state education forum.Pat Warren reports—the confrontation was recorded and is raising questions.The forum was held Thursday night in Towson. The Department
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9-22-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: OSPI Doesn't Spot-Check State TestsThe Seattle Times has quite the lengthy article about how Washington State could have a cheating scandal, but doesn't know it, because OSPI doesn't do spot-checks on student tests. I read this article waiting for some evidence to show itself but it didn't.  I'm not saying the theory is wrong but apparently, not that many districts
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9-22-13 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.: Sunday reads.On the road to Three Oaks, Michigan for dinner last night. Rahm announces “rapid-fire” construction plans. If I were Rahm, I’d pick another term. Millions spent on “differentiated instruction” professional development and changes in teacher evaluations. And there’s nothing data driven abo
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Wide racial gap persists in education testing | The Columbus Dispatch
Wide racial gap persists in education testing | The Columbus Dispatch: Wide racial gap persists in education testing By  Collin BinkleyThe Columbus Dispatch Sunday September 22, 2013 8:05 AMComments: 1 Enlarge ImageEven if they come from affluent families or attend highly rated schools, black students in Ohio continue to lag far behind their white peers in school, according to a Dispatchanalysis o
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March, rally in Milwaukee seek support for public education
March, rally in Milwaukee seek support for public education: March, rally in Milwaukee seek support for public educationMichael McLoone / for the Journal SentinelStudents, parents, active and retired educators and school administrators, clergy, civil rights groups and community leaders particitpate in an education march and rally Saturday in Milwaukee.By Steve Schultze of the Journal SentinelSept.
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Remarks by the President at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Awards Dinner | The White House
Remarks by the President at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Awards Dinner | The White House: Remarks by the President at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Phoenix Awards DinnerWashington Convention CenterWashington, D.C.9:09 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, CBC! (Applause.) Thank you so much, everybody. Please, have a seat, have a seat. Michelle and I are happy to be here wi
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Short Notes: The Learning Styles Nonsense - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson
Short Notes: The Learning Styles Nonsense - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: Short Notes: The Learning Styles Nonsenseby JOSE VILSON on SEPTEMBER 22, 2013in JOSEA few notes:Please do like my page on Facebook if you haven’t already. The conversations there are heating up. [Facebook]Dan Willingham called learning styles crap a long time ago, but this article explores the idea anyways. [Scientific
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9-22-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Kid falls through skylight at EcksteinAll I know about this is what I read in the paper. But I am curious. What were kids doing on the roof at Eckstein? How could one of them be so foolish as to fall through a skylight?by Charlie Mas / 17min  Seattle Schools Community Forum: Ravitch versus Rhee; a Solid Comparison of Books and ViewsSeattle Schools Community Forum:
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Mother Crusader: My Unedited Review Of Diane Ravitch's Reign Of Error
Mother Crusader: My Unedited Review Of Diane Ravitch's Reign Of Error: My Unedited Review Of Diane Ravitch's Reign Of ErrorThe edited version of my review can be found at WHYY's NewsWorks New Jersey. Quotes from Diane Ravitch and Helen Gym were cut from my original for length.Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error May Awaken the Sleeping Giant in the Education Reform Debate -- Public School ParentsIt wasn
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Morning Wink 9-22-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-22-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why DC Scores IncreasedEmma Brown of the Washington Post explains that DC test scores in math reached a historic high point because of a decision by DC officials. But the math gains officia
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-22-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why DC Scores IncreasedEmma Brown of the Washington Post explains that DC test scores in math reached a historic high point because of a decision by DC officials. But the math gains officials reported were the result of a quiet decision to score the tests in a way that yielded higher scores even though D.C. students got far fewer m
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9-22-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Judge Carmen Lopez explains the Lopez v. Vallas case…Former Connecticut Superior Court Judge Carmen Lopez is not only a leading advocate for public education but she is a true champion when it comes to standing up and speaking out on the most important issues facing our communities, our state and our nation. Born in Puerto Rico, a life-long resident of Bridgeport, a lawyer, […]The post
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solidaridad: EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation's big scam
solidaridad: EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation's big scam: EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation's big scamFirst published on Echo Park Patch on September 20, 2013 "If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform."
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9-22-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Trinational protest at Mexican Consulate in solidarity with CNTEProtesting education neoliberalism across borders. En solidaridad con Los maestros de Mexico! #lausd pic.twitter.com/t8sunJeLP6— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) September 21, 2013 On Friday, September 20, 2013 the Trinational Coalition To Defend Public Education organized a demonstration in front of the Mexican Consulate
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9-22-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: This Week In Web 2.0In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth sharing, I’ve recently begin a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” It’ll be a short compilation of new decent sites that are worth noting, but maybe not necessarily worth a separate post and generally — though not alway
by mike simpson / 9h 
9-22-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Thanks to General Diane Ravitch for the Shout Out on Preaching to the ChoirIs Diane Ravitch the George Washington of the educational revolutionary wars? Can we call it World War D (for Deform)? Can we get Max Brooks to write that story?As I would expect Diane Ravitch took the point I was trying to make in my column this week in The Wave about and extended it to a place I myself wa
by mike simpson / 9h 
Governments Lie! | Bill Ayers
Governments Lie! | Bill Ayers: Governments Lie!I know, it’s not big news.But Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and Anonymous bring us fresh examples everyday—governments lie casually, gratuitously, aimlessly, and viciously.All governments lie some of the time; some governments lie all of the time. The role of any honest or self-respecting journalist (thank you Amy Goodman!) is to find out what th
by mike simpson / 9h 
9-22-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: EPSLP: College Ready? Alliance Charter Corporation’s big scamFirst published on Echo Park Patch on September 20, 2013 “If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform.” — Professor Diane Ravitch “However, within this market, competition
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9-22-13 With A Brooklyn Accent
With A Brooklyn Accent:  The Contradiction at the Heart of Corporate School Reform- That NBC's "Education Nation" IgnoreCorporate Education Reformers want teachers to be scripted, monitored, and continuously evaluated to assure their performance is up to standard. They also want to radically improve the quality of the nation's teaching force. Unfortunately, the first goal-- which they ar
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“Word Magic,” Education, and Market Forces | the becoming radical
“Word Magic,” Education, and Market Forces | the becoming radical: “Word Magic,” Education, and Market ForcesPosted on September 22, 2013 by plthomaseddWriting about writing instruction, Lou LaBrant, in “The Individual and His Writing” (Elementary Education, 27.4, April 1950) sounded an alarm about “word magic”:There is other sematic knowledge with which our students should become familiar. They s
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9-22-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Stephanie Simon Takes On Some Education Reform MythologyThe Stephanie Simon article at Politico on why public schools may not be failing is up now and it is a good one.She busts some cherished education reformer myths in it - including how the Chinese are kicking are asses in tests:A new video about the failures of public schools making the rounds on social media starts by i
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Difficult students an "outcast group, thrown into an abyss" by New Orleans charters
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Difficult students an "outcast group, thrown into an abyss" by New Orleans charters: Difficult students an "outcast group, thrown into an abyss" by New Orleans chartersAt many N.O. charter schools, including Sci Academy, plenty of teachers last for less than two years.Here's the real deal on New Orleans charter schools as documented by Daily
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H.R.2880: To require the Secretary of Education to use the excess revenue generated from the William D. Ford... OpenCongress
H.R.2880: To require the Secretary of Education to use the excess revenue generated from the William D. Ford... OpenCongress: H.R.2880 - To require the Secretary of Education to use the excess revenue generated from the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program to carry out the Federal Pell Grant Program.view all titles (1)OverviewActions & VotesNews (0) & Blogs (0)Comments (0)Bill's Vie
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Why Arne Duncan is threatening to withhold funds for poor kids
Why Arne Duncan is threatening to withhold funds for poor kids: Why Arne Duncan is threatening to withhold funds for poor kidsBy Valerie Strauss, Published: September 21 at 10:58 amIt’s hard to decide  which of the following aspects of the U.S. Education Department’s fight with the state of California over standardized testing is worse:* Education Secretary Arne Duncan is threatening to withhold s
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A panel on Common Core. An irate parent. An arrest. Who went... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com
A panel on Common Core. An irate parent. An arrest. Who went... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: A panel on Common Core. An irate parent. An arrest. Who went too far?Previous PostsSororities at University of Alabama offer bids to black womenSeptember 21, 2013All eyes on pre-k when Arne Duncan and U.S. business leaders converge here MondaySeptember 20, 2013Banning an American classic in a NC district:
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Falling Down The Rabbit Hole Kafka Style With EngageNY southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Falling Down The Rabbit Hole Kafka Style With EngageNYI did it. I emailed EngageNY asking to to opt out my son of any and all data collected and/or to distributed. I had first called (518-474-5922) the office ofCurriculum and Instruction at NYSED. I asked whom can I speak to in regard to my request. After several minutes of being put on hold I was told that EngageN
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Nite Cap 9-21-13 #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 CAPTODAYPaul Horton: The Chicago Tribune's School Voucher Campaign: The Road to Gatopia III" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week TeacherPaul Horton: The Chicago Tribune's School Voucher Campaign: The Road to Gatopia III" - Living in Dial
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