Nite Cap 10-26-13 #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."

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Coop Goes to High School Part 7 – Song & Dance | Lefty Parent

Coop Goes to High School Part 7 – Song & Dance | Lefty Parent: Coop Goes to High School Part 7 – Song & DanceOctober 26th, 2013 at 13:38Me and my Ado Annie in OklahomaThey say that the only two things you can be sure of in life are death and taxes.  But for most every kid, the one thing you can be sure of is going to school, which for me was a taxing and at times felt like a near-death exp

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Two awesome tech leadership webinars for our Connected Educator Month book club | @mcleod

Two awesome tech leadership webinars for our Connected Educator Month book club | @mcleod: Two awesome tech leadership webinars for our Connected Educator Month book clubOCTOBER 26, 2013 BY SCOTT MCLEOD 0 COMMENTSIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to this blog via e-mail or my RSS feed. I also am on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!0Share on Tumblr00inShareAt 7pm Eastern on Monday, October

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10-26-13 Saturday Matinée Special Corporate Reform School Girls News Breakout

Saturday Matinée Special Corporate Reform School Girls News BreakoutNite Cap 10-25-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2James 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 CAPTODAYPCSGP-13 RFA Training Webinar October 15, 2013PCSGP-13 RFA Training Webinar October 15, 2013 (CA Dept of Education): PCSGP-

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The case against school privatization Diane Ravitch | MSNBC

The case against school privatization | MSNBC: The case against school privatizationFormer Asst. Secy. of Education under President George H.W. Bush, Diane Ravitch, discusses why she became a critic of “No Child Left Behind” after supporting it, and she discusses her new book “Reign of Error.” LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 10-26-13 -13 Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIA

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Breach of Trust | Deborah Meier on Education

Breach of Trust | Deborah Meier on Education: Breach of TrustPosted on October 26, 2013 by debmeierDear readers,There’s always at least one superbly interesting article in Commonwealth magazine. This week it’s a book review written by David Kennedy of Stanford University. The book, Breach of Trust, is by David Bacevich, The book’s subtitle: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, is

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Help Us Choose Final Twitter Chat On #cpchat | Connected Principals

Help Us Choose Final Twitter Chat On #cpchat | Connected Principals: Help Us Choose Final Twitter Chat On #cpchatOctober 26, 2013By Patrick LarkinOur topic for the final twitter chat of Connected Educator Month and National Principals Month will be crowd-sourced. Please take a moment to offer your input below!We are grateful to the National Association of Secondary School Principals (@NASSP) and t

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“Out, damned spot; out, I say.” — Melinda Gates, we call your power to account. | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates

“Out, damned spot; out, I say.” — Melinda Gates, we call your power to account. | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates: “Out, damned spot; out, I say.” — Melinda Gates, we call your power to account.Posted on October 26, 2013by Teachers'LettersToBillGates“What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?”–Lady MacbethMrs. Gates:At the National Conference of State Legislatures on

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Investigators reveal Eli Broad's under-the-table support for right-wing groups

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Investigators reveal Eli Broad's under-the-table support for right-wing groups: Investigators reveal Eli Broad's under-the-table support for right-wing groupsNew York TimesWell-known corporate chiefs, including power philanthropist Eli Broad, funded illegal "dark money" contributions to groups in the Koch brothers' political networkthat were involved i

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Latest Update on Malcolm X Plan From MPS | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Latest Update on Malcolm X Plan From MPS | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: Latest Update on Malcolm X Plan From MPSFiled under: MPS Buildings — millerlf @ 10:55 am From MPS PortalMPS, Developers detail Phase One of Malcolm X redevelopmentPlan would include IB middle school and affordable housingThe Milwaukee Public Schools and 2760 Holdings, LLC will develop a robust public/private par

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International Test Scores Predict Nothing | Diane Ravitch

International Test Scores Predict Nothing | Diane Ravitch: International Test Scores Predict NothingUh-oh! Another study has appeared warning that we are falling behind other nations on international standardized tests.The National Assessment Governing Board released the results of a study comparing the performance of U.S. states to nations that participated in the 2011 TIMSS.Students in most U.S.

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2nd Banana 10-26-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2 #1u

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST PARENT POLITICAL PICKS: The Network For Public Education | NPE endorses Cynthia Briscoe Brown and Mary Palmer for Atlanta School BoardThe Network For Public Education | NPE endorses Cynthia Briscoe Brown and Mary Palmer for Atlanta School Board: NPE endorses Cynthia Briscoe Brown and Mary Palmer for Atlanta School Boardadmin October 22, 20

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Negative VORP: Politics, Teacher Evaluation, and Poverty

Negative VORP: Politics, Teacher Evaluation, and Poverty: Politics, Teacher Evaluation, and PovertyWORDS TO THE WISENever try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. There's been a lot going on the past few days, almost all of it relative to the big Stand4KidsNM rally yesterday. That rally is why I'm sitting here writing this, rather than Teachscaping as I should be.ASIDE:

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The real 21st-century problem in public education

The real 21st-century problem in public education: The real 21st-century problem in public educationBY VALERIE STRAUSSOctober 26 at 10:00 am(By Charles Rex Arbogast/ AP)There are plenty of problems in public education, but here’s the biggest, from Elaine Weiss, the national coordinator for the Broader Bolder Approach to Education, a project of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute that recognize

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Morning Wink 10-26-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYAlbert Shanker on Charters: 1988 | Diane Ravitch's blogAlbert Shanker on Charters: 1988 | Diane Ravitch's blog: Albert Shanker on Charters: 1988 In the hagiography of the charter school movement, we often hear that Albert Shanker was one of the original proponents of the idea. Shanker was president of the American Federation of Teachers, and his impri

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Albert Shanker on Charters: 1988 | Diane Ravitch's blog

Albert Shanker on Charters: 1988 | Diane Ravitch's blog: Albert Shanker on Charters: 1988 In the hagiography of the charter school movement, we often hear that Albert Shanker was one of the original proponents of the idea. Shanker was president of the American Federation of Teachers, and his imprimatur is supposed to persuade people that charters have a progressive patina.This is ironic, because 9

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Hey Parents of Harrison, New York!! George Carlin Knew About It All Along!! southbronxschool.com

http://www.southbronxschool.com: Hey Parents of Harrison, New York!! George Carlin Knew About It All Along!!Bear with me, trying to make a point to the document I am about to share.Not trying to be redundant, but rememberabout a month ago I posted this George Carlin video? But let's cut those words down and look at the really important and scary stuff George Carlin had to say. The big wealthy busi

by mike simpson / 10h 

John Thompson: Michelle Rhee's DC IMPACT Value Added System Drives Teachers Out - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

John Thompson: Michelle Rhee's DC IMPACT Value Added System Drives Teachers Out - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: John Thompson: Michelle Rhee's DC IMPACT Value Added System Drives Teachers OutBy Anthony Cody on October 23, 2013 4:01 PMGuest post by John Thompson.A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper, National Bureau of Economic Research James Wyckoff's and Thoma

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Kimble's Corner: Saving Halloween from the Atheists and Pagans

Kimble's Corner: Saving Halloween from the Atheists and Pagans: Saving Halloween from the Atheists and Pagans              The forces of radical atheism are at war with more than Christmas.   Even Halloween is frequently under attack by those who would tell you that it's a Pagan holiday.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  One need look no further than Mexico to see that their Halloween tra

by mike simpson / 10h 

Daily Kos: Something has to give

Daily Kos: Something has to give: Something has to givebyteacherkenFollowThere is an inherent tension — and obscenity — in the wildly divergent fortunes of the rich and the poor in this country, especially among our children. The growing imbalance of both wealth and opportunity cannot be sustained. Something has to give.That is the final paragraph of Billionaires' Row and Welfare Lines, the column

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School Performance Scores finally out? | Methodical, Musical Mathematician’s Musings | Crazy Crawfish's Blog

School Performance Scores finally out? | Methodical, Musical Mathematician’s Musings | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Crazy Crawfish's BlogZesty Louisiana Education PoliticsSchool Performance Scores finally out? | Methodical, Musical Mathematician’s MusingsPosted on October 26, 20130Here is some thoughtful analysis from a local mathematician on the insanity and arbitrariness of LDOE’s latest SPS score rel

by mike simpson / 10h 

SBE Agenda for November 2013 - State Board of Education

SBE Agenda for November 2013 - State Board of Education (CA Dept of Education): SBE Agenda for November 2013Agenda for the California State Board of Education (SBE) meeting on November 6-7, 2013.State Board MembersMichael W. Kirst, PresidentIlene W. Straus, Vice PresidentSue BurrCarl CohnBruce HoladayAida MolinaPatricia A. RuckerNiki SandovalTrish WilliamsJesse Y. Zhang, Student MemberVacancySecre

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10-26-13 Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Society

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership SocietyTesting companies hit the jackpot on Common CoreThe market for testing products and services is booming and could continue to surge over the next few years, according to industry analysts and company officials, who say that growth is being fueled by the shift toward common-cor

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10-26-13 Wait What?

Wait What?:            And meanwhile, Capital Prep’s Steve Perry missed 19% of school days so far this yearAccording to records on file with the Hartford Board of Education, Capital Prep Principal Steve Perry, who describes himself as “America’s most trusted educator,” missed 15 school days or 19 percent of the work schedule so far this school year. According to the City of Hartford school adminis

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10-26-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumMann Building - Not ClosedI'm thinking it was a lot of smoke and mirrors on the part of BOTH the "tenants" and the district, these so-called negotiations.  Because that building is wide open, being used in multiple areas, has advertised activities and classes and well, just doesn't look like a building that is shut down in pr

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10-26-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineUFT Used $250K COPE Money to Support GamblingThe United Federation of Teachers deposited $250,000 in the account from two of its political action funds.... Capital NYThanks to Jeff Kaufman for this.Oh what fun. Having COPE money spent not on fighting ed deform but promoting gambling. I didn't know Paul Egan liked the dice so much. I took a shot in a recent Wave colu

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10-26-13 Jersey Jazzman

Jersey Jazzman:Reformy Cures, For the Right PriceIt sure is a funny coincidence: the people who bray the loudest that our schools suck always seem to have the cure - for the right price: Diane, these problems are of long standing (and you know this as a historian of education). Indeed, these weaknesses also exist in private and charter schools. Some of the most boring and fear-inducing teaching I

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10-26-13 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.: Fred Klonsky | Daily postsThe move to Medicare Advantage. The good, the bad and the ugly.There wouldn’t be as big a problem if the timeline wasn’t so short. Illinois state retirees feel pressed and pressured to make decisions that have a major impact on their health and health care. I have been deluge

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10-26-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Perdido Street SchoolJohn King Says NYSED Won't Help Teachers Who Were Rated Using Faulty DataJessica Bakeman at Capital NY reports that NYSED Commissioner King says SED will do nothing to help teachers who were rated using erroneous data:ALBANY—The state Education Department is telling teachers whose evaluations were based on faulty data they will have to deal with their lo

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10-26-13 Radical Scholarship

Radical Scholarship:When a “Visit” Trumps Expertise and Experience: A New DealI have already addressed the distortions and outright misinformation in a new piece on Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools. But a few issues raised in this claim of a “softer” side to “no excuses” practices need to be addressed more fully. I have discovered that “no excuses” advocates now routinely push any

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 10-26-13 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYVideo: “Think Back: America’s Immigration Debate”Think Back: America’s Immigration Debate is a new short video from The New York Times. It describes past efforts to restrict immigration to the United States. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Immigration In The United States

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This Week's Education Research Report 10-26-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTPreschoolers’ emotion knowledge indirectly contributes to early school successDifferences in emotion knowledge by children’s age, gender, and socioeconomic risk status, as well as associations of emotion knowledge with executive control, social competence, and early classroom adjustment, were investigated in this study. On emotion knowl

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 10-26-13

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT  Senator Raises Questions About Protecting Student Data“Putting the sensitive information of students in private hands raises a number of important questions about the privacy rights of parents and their children.” By NATASHA SINGER, New York Times | http://nyti.ms/Hm8aNF October 22, 2013, 12:01 pm :: A lawmake

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NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education 10-26-13

NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:NPE News BriefsBombshell: Eli Broad Secretly Funded Anti-Public School, Anti-Union Initiatives | Diane Ravitch’s blogA state investigation revealed the identities of donors to a secret fund to oppose an initiative that would increase funding to public schools and to support an initiative to weaken the unions’ political influence. Among the do

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10-26-13 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter:  Schools Matter All WeekUnited Way of Central Indiana to Start the Mitch Daniels/Dennis Bakke/Bart Peterson Handouts to the Corporate School Wealthyby Doug MartinWhile some United Way branches across the Hoosier state are investing in early learning initiatives like Success by Six, the United Way of Central Indiana, now run by former Mitch Daniels, Dennis Bakke, and Bart Peterson o

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All Week 10-26-13 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE 2013 Louisiana School Letter Grades: Recovery School District Gains NothingOn October 23, 2013, John White released the long-awaited, capriciously calculated 2013 Louisiana school performance scores (SPS) and letter grades. In this “official” LDOE graphic, he attempts to sell the public on the “new,” “simpler” SPS/ letter grade formu

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 10-26-13 -13 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGBill Gates Explains Why His High School Experience Was So GreatAll students should have the high school experience that Bill Gates had. A wonderful campus with a rich curriculum, experienced teachers (79% with advanced degrees), small classes, excellent arts programs, great sports activities, up-to-date science laboratori

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Nite Cap 10-25-13 #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 CAPTODAYPCSGP-13 RFA Training Webinar October 15, 2013PCSGP-13 RFA Training Webinar October 15, 2013 (CA Dept of Education): PCSGP-13 RFA Training Webinar October 15, 2013The following is a transcript of the Public Charter Schools Grant Program (PCS

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