Nite Cap 9-28-13 #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 CAP

TODAY

Wait What?

Wait What?: Malloy/Pryor; It is time to come clean on “Special Deal” Steven AdamowskiWhy did the Malloy Administration rush through hiring Steven Adamowski? Why did Adamowski start in his new state position even before the State Board of Education voted to extend his appointment as Special Master for the Windham and New London school systems? It turns out the answer, at least in part, can be found

by mike simpson / 38min 

Insider Information: “We Have to Get to Where Parents Aren’t Questioning.” | United Opt Out National

Insider Information: “We Have to Get to Where Parents Aren’t Questioning.” | United Opt Out National: INSIDER INFORMATION: “WE HAVE TO GET TO WHERE PARENTS AREN’T QUESTIONING.”Sometimes we get lucky and have an insider within the corporate regime. When we receive information we feel it’s important to share it with everyone who is fighting to save our public schools.If you are wondering where we re

by mike simpson / 44min 

What Colleges Will Teach in 2025 | toteachornototeach

What Colleges Will Teach in 2025 | toteachornototeach: What Colleges Will Teach in 2025America must resolve the conflict between knowledge and know-howBy Jon MeachamReports on what supposedly educated Americans know—and more sensationally, don’t know—come along fairly regularly, each more depressing than the last.A survey of recent college graduates commissioned by the American Council of Trustees

by mike simpson / 45min 

The Dangerous Politics of Ed-Tech

The Dangerous Politics of Ed-Tech (Investment): The Dangerous Politics of Ed-Tech (Investment)by AUDREY WATTERS on 27 SEP, 2013I.A curious yet significant event in ed-tech occurred last week. A tome of some importance was released – and no, I don’t mean the publication of either Ron Paul’s or Diane Ravitch’s new book.I’m talking about a 118-slide presentation by Whitney Tilson (PDF). The investor,

by mike simpson / 2h 

9-28-13 Saturday Matinée Special Corporate Reform School Girls News Breakout

Saturday Special Corporate Reform School Girls News BreakoutTODAYWading in to the Opt Out Movement | Twin Cities Daily PlanetWading in to the Opt Out Movement | Twin Cities Daily Planet: Wading in to the Opt Out MovementBy Sarah Lahm, Eyes on EducationSeptember 27, 2013OPT-OUT/REFUSAL GUIDES FOR EACH STATEOpt-Out/Refusal Guides for each State | United Opt Out National: Yesterday, my seventh grade

3 by mike simpson / 3h 

Wading in to the Opt Out Movement | Twin Cities Daily Planet

Wading in to the Opt Out Movement | Twin Cities Daily Planet: Wading in to the Opt Out MovementBy Sarah Lahm, Eyes on EducationSeptember 27, 2013OPT-OUT/REFUSAL GUIDES FOR EACH STATEOpt-Out/Refusal Guides for each State | United Opt Out National: Yesterday, my seventh grade daughter took the MAP (Measuring Academic Progress) test at her school. She wasn’t supposed to, because she is on an “Opt Out

by mike simpson / 3h 

Closing Down the Government – for Profit: Part 1, Schools and Testing | Reclaim Reform

Closing Down the Government – for Profit: Part 1, Schools and Testing | Reclaim Reform: Closing Down the Government – for Profit: Part 1, Schools and TestingPosted on September 28, 2013by Ken PrevitiClose down the government? School systems are not broke. Pension systems are not broke. Healthcare is not broke. The USA is not broke. They are all being broken in order to profit the very, very few.Th

by mike simpson / 4h 

The Sacramento Bee (McClatchy Newspaper) Covers Diane Ravitch visit to Sacramento and her New Best Selling Book "Reign of Error"

3 by mike simpson / 4h 

Alan Singer, critic of corporate influence on education, to speak at Cortland | syracuse.com

Alan Singer, critic of corporate influence on education, to speak at Cortland | syracuse.com: Alan Singer, critic of corporate influence on education, to speak at CortlandAlan Singer, an outspoken critic of corporate influences on education, will speak at SUNY Cortland on Tuesday.Singer, an education professor at Hofstra University, will focus on Pearson Inc., a multinational company headquartered

by mike simpson / 5h 

Students Last: The Big Box Charter School

Students Last: The Big Box Charter School: The Big Box Charter SchoolStudents wear name tags andWalmart blue vestsArkansas - The Walton family of Walmart fame has decided to open their own chain of for-profit charter schools. The first "Big Box Charter School" (BBCS) will be located in Bentonville, Arkansas which also serves as Walmart's corporate headquarters.BBCS CEO P. Louis Bergoff a

3 by mike simpson / 5h 

9-28-13 Jersey Jazzman

Jersey Jazzman: Why Isn't Diane Ravitch On My TV?So it's now official: Diane Ravitch's new book, Reign of Error, is a New York Times bestseller, debuting at #10 on the hardcover non-fiction list. Congratulations to Diane on this outstanding literary achievement. In contrast, Michelle Rhee's book of last spring, Radical, never made it on to the NY Times list. It did terribly in the Amazon.com sales

by mike simpson / 5h 

An Urban Teacher's Education: On Common Core

An Urban Teacher's Education: On Common Core: On Common CoreThree years ago, when I first investigated the idea of the Common Core State Standards, I thought they were a pretty good idea. Among their attributes, I admired that the CCSS were:- clear and skill-based- capable of offering a more meaningful way of assessing schools- likely to lead to new research around what skills are predictive of su

by mike simpson / 5h 

Philanthropy: The Corpocracy’s Insurance Policy | Dissident Voice

Philanthropy: The Corpocracy’s Insurance Policy | Dissident Voice:  Philanthropy: The Corpocracy’s Insurance PolicyHush, all you serfs Take this cash Don’t do anything rash And stay off our turfs For over 200 years might and money have kept the powerful in power in America. Throughout her history America’s organized, powerful few have exploited the unorganized, powerless many and militarily claime

by mike simpson / 6h 

2nd Banana 9-28-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2 #1u

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANA RECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool - NYTimes.comDisruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool - NYTimes.com: "Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool"Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational ToolIf you were to walk into my sister’s house in Los Angeles,

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

Morning Wink 9-28-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-28-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane 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. H

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

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

by mike simpson / 7h 

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

by mike simpson / 7h 

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

by mike simpson / 7h 

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

by mike simpson / 7h 

The Google Cloud Monster Ate My Graphics

The Google Cloud Monster Ate My Graphics(and my homework)

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

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

by mike simpson / 8h 

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.

by mike simpson / 8h 

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

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

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

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

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

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

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

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

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

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

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

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

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.            

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

YESTERDAY

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

by mike simpson / 18h 

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

by mike simpson / 21h 

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

3 by mike simpson / 22h 

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

by mike simpson / 22h 

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

by mike simpson / 22h 

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

1 by mike simpson / 23h 

2nd Banana 9-28-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post 
2nd Banana 9-21-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post 

2nd Banana 9-14-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post

Nite Cap 9-27-13 

Nite Cap 9-26-13 

Nite Cap 9-25-13 

Nite Cap 9-24-13 

Nite Cap 9-23-13

Nite Cap 9-22-13 

Nite Cap 9-21-13

Nite Cap 9-19-13

Nite Cap 9-18-13