Nite Cap 10-20-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #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 CAP

TODAY 

Needs Improvement | EduShyster

Needs Improvement | EduShyster: Needs ImprovementPosted on October 20, 2013Former DC principal and whistle blower Adell Cothorne says don’t believe the hype about IMPACT.The verdict is in and the results are unanimous: Washington DC’s IMPACT teacher evaluation system is a smashing success, successfully separating the highly effective wheat from the underperforming chaff—and sending the latter scra

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“Residential Segregation and School Closures” Choosing Democracy

Choosing Democracy: The Black Parallel School Board Southeast Village Neighborhood AssociationPresentsA Community Forum featuringDr. Jesus Hernandez, sociology professor at UC Davis“Residential Segregation and School Closures”  Free and open to the public!!!Thursday, October 24, 2013 from 5:30pm -8:00pmGeorge Sim Community Center, 6207 Logan Street, Sacramento, CA  95824Our Co-Sponsors: (partial l

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Everything you think is important in college admissions is wrong

Everything you think is important in college admissions is wrong: Everything you think is important in college admissions is wrongBY VALERIE STRAUSSOctober 20 at 3:37 pm(Illustration by Hieronymus)A number of recent articles have addressed the relative importance of some of the information used in the college application process. Taken as a group, these articles call into question just about every

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10-20-13 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: Comrpehensible instruction AND peer-interactionRe: "An English-plan outcry," October 20: Sent to the LA Times, Oct 20Both sides are right in the LAUSD debate over English development: Decades of research tells us that we acquire language when we understand what we hear and read. Our goal is thus to provide both comprehensible instruction and peer interaction.A solution is

by mike simpson / 3h 

NYC Educator: If Your Supervisor Isn't Crazy, Part 2

NYC Educator: If Your Supervisor Isn't Crazy, Part 2: If Your Supervisor Isn't Crazy, Part 2I wasn't intending to continue this, but it now occurs to me that if your supervisor isn't crazy, there's no need whatsoever for this wretched new evaluation system. Actually, if your supervisor isn't crazy, it won't necessarily take 4-6 observations to determine what goes on in your classroom. For one thin

by mike simpson / 3h 

K-12 News Network | LAUSD: Deasy’s iPads for All, At What Cost?

K-12 News Network | LAUSD: Deasy’s iPads for All, At What Cost?: LAUSD: Deasy’s iPads for All, At What Cost?admin October 20, 2013 Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry 0Warning….coming soon to a school district near you:  iPads for all – paid for by voter approved construction bonds!!!!Yes, it’s true and it’s happening right now in Los Angeles.    Los Angeles

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NYC Public School Parents: Comments on the city's Contract for Excellence plan from CEC District 2

NYC Public School Parents: Comments on the city's Contract for Excellence plan from CEC District 2: Comments on the city's Contract for Excellence plan from CEC District 2Dear Chancellor Walcott,We, the Community Education Council District 2, submit this letter to register, yet again, our objections on the Contracts for Excellence Proposed Plan FY14. We remain firmly committed to the letter and th

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Sunlight as disinfectant: Why the Common Core deserves a loud and untidy debate | Hechinger Report

Sunlight as disinfectant: Why the Common Core deserves a loud and untidy debate | Hechinger Report: Sunlight as disinfectant: Why the Common Core deserves a loud and untidy debateBy Liz WillenIt isn’t always easy to hear complaints and misunderstandings about the Common Core, new standards meant to increase critical thinking and problem-solving skills in the nation’s 100,000 public elementary and

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Dear Gov. Tom Corbett, stop hurting Pennsylvaia schools | MSNBC

Dear Gov. Tom Corbett, stop hurting Pennsylvaia schools | MSNBC: Dear Gov. Tom Corbett, stop hurting Pennsylvaia schoolsMelissa Harris-Perry’s “Open Letter” goes out to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett. “You hurt some of the most vulnerable in your state and got nothing out of it.”

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Wisconsin Professor Testifies Against Common Core | deutsch29

Wisconsin Professor Testifies Against Common Core | deutsch29: Wisconsin Professor Testifies Against Common CoreOctober 20, 2013In this 20-minute youtube video, Dr. Duke Pesta of the University of Wisconsin offers some informative background on the origins of Common Core (CCSS), including CCSS funding; on the lack of teacher and professor involvement in CCSS development; on the limited input of st

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Peg with Pen: Teaching Strategies GOLD Parent Refusal Letter

Peg with Pen: Teaching Strategies GOLD Parent Refusal Letter: Teaching Strategies GOLD Parent Refusal LetterPlease see my first post regarding GOLD if you are unfamiliar with this assessment. Also, please see our early childhood guide if you are interested in gathering parents to help them in fighting these corporate initiatives. I promise to have this letter uploaded to our website atUnited Opt O

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Elected school trustees in Bay Area's poorest performing district paid most - ContraCostaTimes.com

Elected school trustees in Bay Area's poorest performing district paid most - ContraCostaTimes.com: Elected school trustees in Bay Area's poorest performing district paid mostBy Thomas Peele tpeele@bayareanewsgroup.comPOSTED:   10/20/2013 06:45:58 AM PDT | UPDATED:   ABOUT 3 HOURS AGO How much does your local school district pay its elected trustees for their service?The answer has nothing to do w

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PD Roadblocks: Control, Compliance, and Permission. | My Island View

PD Roadblocks: Control, Compliance, and Permission. | My Island View: PD Roadblocks: Control, Compliance, and Permission.October 20, 2013 by tomwhitbyWhen I think of Professional Development for teachers in the traditional sense, I am more and more convinced that being connected as an educator is more effective in accomplishing the goal of professionally developing. The biggest roadblock to teache

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10-20-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: MY LATEST BOOK"Classroom Management Q&As: Expert Strategies for Teaching" is an edited compilation from my Ed Week teacher advice column, along with new materials.Great Video Clips For ELLs: “The 25 Most Suspenseful Movies Ever Made”Flavorwire has just posted The 25 Most Suspenseful Movies Ever Made – with vid

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Cutting Through The Fog of Student Achievement | Connected Principals

Cutting Through The Fog of Student Achievement | Connected Principals: Cutting Through The Fog of Student AchievementOctober 20, 2013By Johnny BevacquaThis post was originally posted on Figuring It Out by J. Bevacqua I recently had the opportunity to spend two days working with  and listening to John Hattie and his team at Visible Learning unpacking his research on what has the greatest impact on

by mike simpson / 7h 

Common Core: The growing ‘slip’ between rhetoric and implementation

Common Core: The growing ‘slip’ between rhetoric and implementation: Common Core: The growing ‘slip’ between rhetoric and implementationBY VALERIE STRAUSSOctober 20 at 11:00 amJohn King (http://www.nysed.gov/)I recently posted a piece, headlined “How New York’s education commissioner blew it big time,” by award-winning Principal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York about  John King’s

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10-20-13 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.: The in box. “So much for public input.”Fred, It seems at the stakkeholders meeting on Thursday, Oct. 17 (at least for representatives of retirees in the CIP program, though I’m sure there was a similar meeting for “stakeholders” for TRIP), that SUAA bought into the everything is going to be fine, now

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Two Visions | Randi Weingarten

Two Visions | Randi Weingarten: Two VisionsPosted: 10/20/2013 9:30 amIf you had $50,000 or more to invest in the privatization of public education, you could have been welcome at a recent meeting in Philadelphia of self-described school reformers. But if you're an educator or parent interested in strengthening public education, you'd be out of luck, because that closed-door meeting was limited to

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Morning Wink 10-20-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAY10-20-13 Wait What?Wait What?: The Blogger EduShyster’s Article: “Steve Perry Talks to White People”If you’ve read  yesterday’s post, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” (aka the Steve Perry story) and reviewed the other Wait, What? blog posts on Hartford, Connecticut’s Capital Prep Principal, Steve Perry, you have a pretty good sense of

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10-20-13 Wait What?

Wait What?: The Blogger EduShyster’s Article: “Steve Perry Talks to White People”If you’ve read  yesterday’s post, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” (aka the Steve Perry story) and reviewed the other Wait, What? blog posts on Hartford, Connecticut’s Capital Prep Principal, Steve Perry, you have a pretty good sense of how this self-righteous, holier than thou, bully handles himself.

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School vouchers: What you're saying | The Daily News Journal | dnj.com

School vouchers: What you're saying | The Daily News Journal | dnj.com: School vouchers: What you're sayingThis week, the Daily News Journal posted this question on Facebook and dnj.com: Should the next session of the Tennessee General Assembly approve a school-voucher program for the state? Why?Comments:Jimmy White: Yes because the schools any many areas are failing!Bob Schultz: Yes. Allows paren

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-20-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: A Brilliant Post Wherein “Hamlet” Exposes the Guilty Conscience of NY’s KingWe have heard numerous calls for NY’s Commissioner of Education John King to resign. He disrespects parents. He brooks no dissent. He accuses them of refusing to engage in dialogue after they sit patiently through his hour-plus monologue. And when they boo

by mike simpson / 9h 

10-20-13 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: This Year, Boston is the Epicenter for Public School DestructionToo bad.  You missed it. No, not my birthday.  You still have time to prepare for that.  (Hint: it’s the 9th day after the New Year starts.) What you missed was the Annual National Summit on Education Reform, held by Jeb Bush and his anti-public-school reform group, Foundation for Excellence in Education (up is down,

by mike simpson / 9h 

10-20-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Why Won't NYSED Commissioner John King Hold A Common Core Meeting In NYC?.@jessicabakeman pl ask Tisch or King why no forums out of 16 to take place in NYC where 1/3 of all students reside— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) October 19, 2013Surely Bloomberg and Walcott can provide the same NYPD cops they have at the PEP rubber stamp meetings to make sure NYSED Commissioner John

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. UNIFIED’S ENGLISH LEARNER ACTION UPSETS PARENTS, TEACHERS

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. UNIFIED’S ENGLISH LEARNER ACTION UPSETS PARENTS, TEACHERS: L.A. UNIFIED’S ENGLISH LEARNER ACTION UPSETS PARENTS, TEACHERSAs the district moves to enforce a policy of grouping pupils of similar English fluency ability together, those opposed protest.BY TERESA WATANABE, LA TIMES | HTTP://LAT.MS/1EAU9RH5:54 PM PDT, October 19, 2013  ::  Luis Gaytan, t

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The DC IMPACT Study Results : Already Obsolete | deutsch29

The DC IMPACT Study Results : Already Obsolete | deutsch29: The DC IMPACT Study Results : Already ObsoleteOctober 20, 2013In October 2013, researchers Thomas Dee of Stanford University and James Wyckoff of the University of Virginia published (or somehow made public) a working paper on limited aspects of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) teacher evaluation system, IMPACT, which was in

by mike simpson / 9h 

Common Core: Substandard educational scheme. Georgia can do... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com

Common Core: Substandard educational scheme. Georgia can do... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: Common Core: Substandard educational scheme. Georgia can do better. Previous PostsFulton Commissioner: District abandons South Fulton students with its move northOctober 19, 2013Sexist and racist texting in school. Wasn't students. It was superintendent. October 19, 2013Druid Hills Charter Cluster: Dig dee

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With A Brooklyn Accent: The Rise of the Badass Teachers Association- A Brief History

With A Brooklyn Accent: The Rise of the Badass Teachers Association- A Brief History: The Rise of the Badass Teachers Association- A Brief HistoryThe Badass Teachers Association began as a modest attempt to capitalize on the energy of a parent led test revolt that took place in New York during the Spring of 2013 and turned, unexpectedly into a huge protest movement by teachers across the nationIn

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SES IS A MESS: After Misuse, a Push to Continue Tutoring Mandate | The Texas Tribune

After Misuse, a Push to Continue Tutoring Mandate | The Texas Tribune: After Misuse, a Push to Continue Tutoring Mandateby Morgan SmithOctober 20, 20131 Comment Comment Republish Email Tweet RecommendEnlargephoto by: Douglas YoungThis is the fourth story in a series on how the state spent millions tutoring its poorest students — and has little to show for it. Find the first story here, the second

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YESTERDAY

The PUBLIC ENEMY Rainbow Tour Rolls On with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers | Bill Ayers

The PUBLIC ENEMY Rainbow Tour Rolls On with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers | Bill Ayers: THE PUBLIC ENEMY RAINBOW NATIONAL TOUR ROLLS ON!The PUBLIC ENEMY Rainbow Tour Rolls On with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill AyersTuesday, October 22nd7:00pm – Common Good Books38 S. Snelling AvenueSt. Paul-Minneapolis, MNWednesday, October 23rd7:00pm – Left Bank Books399 N. Euclid AvenueSt. Louis, MOFriday, October

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The Death of math | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

The Death of math | Gary Rubinstein's Blog: The Death of mathGalileo once wrote “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”  It is said that over the door of Plato’s Academy were the words “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter.”  Indeed, the word ‘Mathematics’ comes from Ancient Greek meaning ”that which is learnt.”Few people love Mathematics more than I do.  What music

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Week in Class: Week Seven 2013 from Cursive to Keyboarding

Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week in Class: Week Seven 2013 from Cursive to Keyboarding: Week in Class: Week Seven 2013 from Cursive to Keyboarding This week, I’ve been thinking about writing. The process of writing that happens in the brain, how that is translated into a fine-motor activity to express those thoughts, and how to do this effectively with students.With the switch-over t

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Asian American youth speak out for immigration reform

Asian American youth speak out for immigration reform: ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH SPEAK OUT FOR IMMIGRATION REFORMElevate the voices of Asian American youth in the immigration debateAsian American youth! You have a stake in immigration reform. Chicago's Fighting Youth Shouting Out for Humanity (FYSH) -- a social justice-oriented youth leadership council of the Korean American Resource and Cultural Cente

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Nite Cap 10-19-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #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 CAPTODAYAuthor Neil Gaiman for U.S. education secretary?Author Neil Gaiman for U.S. education secretary?: Author Neil Gaiman for U.S. education secretary?BY VALERIE STRAUSSOctober 19 at 3:30 pmNeil Gaiman. (Artwork by Michael Cavna)Neil Gaiman is th

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