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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Nite Cap 10-29-13 #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

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BREAKING: Deasy offers to resign in Feb, stay available as consultant in proposed settlement #lausd
BREAKING: Deasy offers to resign in Feb, stay available as consultant in proposed settlement Saint Deasy Flash Mob Crest Fallen
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Education ‘Reform’ Is Wrecking Our Schools | Alternet
Education ‘Reform’ Is Wrecking Our Schools | Alternet: Education ‘Reform’ Is Wrecking Our SchoolsDevelopmentally inappropriate tests, aimed at students as young as Kindergarten, are undercutting any gains the Common Core might help us make.Photo Credit: Levent Konuk via Shutterstock.comOctober 22, 2013  |   The latest news stories from the brave frontiers of a movement known as “education reform”
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Education Research Report: Challenging Common Core the Research: A Reanalysis of Text Complexity
Education Research Report: Challenging Common Core the Research: A Reanalysis of Text Complexity: EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTChallenging Common Core the Research: A Reanalysis of Text ComplexityThis study offers an independent analysis of third- and sixth-grade reading textbooks used throughout the past century. Contrary to the authors of the English Language Arts component of the Common Core State
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The Recovery School District (RSD) Optical Illusion | deutsch29
The Recovery School District (RSD) Optical Illusion | deutsch29: The Recovery School District (RSD) Optical IllusionOctober 29, 2013The charter-promoting organization, New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) wants its charters to prosper. Its website proudly advertises a hefty $25 million grant from the Arnold Foundation– as in John Arnold, former Enron trader who made off with $3 billion while most em
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Jeff Bryant Compares Duncan–Hess and Harris-Perry–Ravitch Videos | janresseger
Jeff Bryant Compares Duncan–Hess and Harris-Perry–Ravitch Videos | janresseger: Jeff Bryant Compares Duncan–Hess and Harris-Perry–Ravitch VideosPosted on October 29, 2013 by janressegerIn his weekly column for the Education Opportunity Network (a project of the Campaign for America’s Future and the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign), Jeff Bryant compares and contrasts videos that represent th
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Choosing Democracy: More students, fewer teachers- it is called austerity
Choosing Democracy: More students, fewer teachers- it is called austerity: More students, fewer teachers- it is called austerityThe Teacher Gap: More Students and Fewer Teachershttp://www.epi.org/publication/teacher-gap-students-teachers/Portside Date: October 25, 2013Author: Heidi ShierholzDate of Source: Wednesday, October 23, 2013Economic Policy InstituteOver the last five years, government emp
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10-29-13 Whole Child Education - Putting Early Childhood Education into Action
Putting Early Childhood Education into Action — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGPutting Early Childhood Education into ActionOctober 29, 2013 by ASCD Whole Child BloggersA whole child approach to education ensures that each child, in each school, and in each community is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. With our interactive Whole Child Examples Map tool, you can find e
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NYC Public School Parents: Press conference and Senate hearings on Common Core, testing & privacy
NYC Public School Parents: Press conference and Senate hearings on Common Core, testing & privacy: Press conference and Senate hearings on Common Core, testing & privacyIt was a long day today at Senator Flanagan's hearings on the Common Core, testing and privacy.My written testimony is here.  Other testimonies are linked to here, where hopefully the webcast will be posted soon.  Meanwhile
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NYC Educator: Reformy King John Pretends to Listen
NYC Educator: Reformy King John Pretends to Listen: Reformy King John Pretends to ListenI watched the hearings last night broadcast over the internet from Port Chester, NY. It appeared to me that parents there, while not raising their voices quite as much, had precisely the same concerns as the Poughkeepsie parents Reformy John labeled "special interests." The standards, they said, were
by mike simpson / 1h 
What Do ‘Better Tests’ Look Like? | NEA Today
What Do ‘Better Tests’ Look Like? | NEA Today: What Do ‘Better Tests’ Look Like?October 29, 2013 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top Stories1 CommentBy Tim WalkerAs U.S. schools prepare to leave bubble tests behind to enter a new era in assessments,educators everywhere hope and expect that lawmakers and districts get it right. After a decade of punitive, narrow high-stakes testing, educator
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Clemson, Education Department focus on rural dropouts | Clemson University, South Carolina
Clemson, Education Department focus on rural dropouts | Clemson University, South Carolina: Clemson, Education Department focus on rural dropouts2Published: October 29, 2013image by: National Dropout Prevention CenterCLEMSON — Clemson University’s National Dropout Prevention Center/Network and Clemson Broadcast Productions will help the U.S. Department of Education analyze and enhance rural dropou
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10-29-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadWhen the Silas Potter incident was exposed, naturally I was following it very closely.  But when Potter took a plea, I was less interested and so forgot that one of his co-conspirators was going to trial.  According to the Times Potter and David Johnson are turning on each other.    Mr. Johnson is on trial for 42 counts of theft.What is slightly
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Cali Education Headlines Tuesday, October 29, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: L.A. schools improved, but Deasy fell short of ambitious goalsEducation HeadlinesTuesday, October 29, 2013Bond financier pleads in South CountyA central figure in the South County schools corruption case has pleaded guilty to two felony charges of conspiracy to bribe officials and board members.Greenfield seeks schools chiefThe Greenfield Uni
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The Great Wall of Excellence | EduShyster
The Great Wall of Excellence | EduShyster: The excellence express heads to ShanghaiReader: that sound you hear is the excellence express touching down after a whirlwind trip to China to extract that country’s closely-held recipe for secret sauce. And talk about an all-star tour: our tour guide was none other than Teach for America founder Wendy Kopp, who practically invented excellence. But is the
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Bobby Jindal is clearly not running for President | Crazy Crawfish's Blog
Bobby Jindal is clearly not running for President | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Crazy Crawfish's BlogZesty Louisiana Education PoliticsBobby Jindal is clearly not running for PresidentPosted on October 29, 20130Recent articles have been cropping up about speculating that Bobby Jindal is running for President of the United States in 2016. Jindal has repeatedly denied these rumors as premature, ridiculou
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The Education Reform Conversation We Need Vs. The One We Have
The Education Reform Conversation We Need Vs. The One We Have:The Education Reform Conversation We Need Vs. The One We HaveThis past week, two videos captured just about everything you need to know about the status of the movement known as “education reform.The first filmic event was a staged encounter between two prominent advocates for what is conventionally thought of to be “opposing points of
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Who Can We Boycott?: Who Benefits From or Invests in Pearson and Teach for America? | Cloaking Inequity
Who Can We Boycott?: Who Benefits From or Invests in Pearson and Teach for America? | Cloaking Inequity: Who Can We Boycott?: Who Benefits From or Invests in Pearson and Teach for America?Who Can We Boycott?: Who Benefits from or Invests in Pearson and Teach for America?.Common Core’s Corporate Relations with Pearson and Teach for America (TFA)by Michelle Maher, Ph.D.Diane Ravitch’s new book Reign
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When you are Rich, there is no Limit/Law to what you can Buy: Bloomberg, Gates each put $1 million behind pro-Amendment 66 campaign - The Denver Post
Bloomberg, Gates each put $1 million behind pro-Amendment 66 campaign - The Denver Post: Bloomberg, Gates each put $1 million behind pro-Amendment 66 campaignBy Kevin SimpsonThe Denver PostPOSTED:   10/28/2013 02:45:46 PM MDT103 COMMENTS| UPDATED:   108 MIN. AGO FILE -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Andrew Burton, Getty Images North America)Oct 21:Colorado's Amendment 66 ignites battle o
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College-career readiness can include remediation rates, diploma quality SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources
SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: College-career readiness can include remediation rates, diploma quality By Tom ChorneauTuesday, October 29, 2013In the search to define and measure college and career readiness, state and local officials throughout the U.S. are looking at university remediation rates and early performance indicators of middle school students, according to a new study
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Think the law protects our children from bullying? Think again. | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Think the law protects our children from bullying? Think again. | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Think the law protects our children from bullying? Think again.by thenotebook on Oct 29 2013 Posted in Commentary="" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; padding: 0px 2px;">Share on emailMore Sharing ServicesCOMMENTS (0)PRINTby David J. Berney and Kevin GolembiewskiIt began in
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Louisiana Educator: Setting Up Public Schools for Failure
Louisiana Educator: Setting Up Public Schools for Failure: Setting Up Public Schools for FailureWere you encouraged by this year's significant improvement in school performance scores? Very few Louisiana public schools are rated “F” and many schools have moved up to “B” or “A”. The new SPS system combined with a huge push by local school administrators and teachers to improve student performance s
by mike simpson / 6h 
Common Core Standards Distract From Real Educational Reform - US News and World Report
Common Core Standards Distract From Real Educational Reform - US News and World Report: A Distraction from Real Education ReformThe emphasis on common standards is drawing attention away from bigger problemsBy ERIC HANUSHEKOctober 28, 2013 RSS Feed PrintComment ()inSharePolicymakers and reform advocates alike have rallied around introducing a set of national content standards, suggesting that this
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Will We Permit the Theft of Our Democracy? | janresseger
Will We Permit the Theft of Our Democracy? | janresseger: Will We Permit the Theft of Our Democracy?Posted on October 29, 2013 by janressegerThis past Sunday afternoon, I had occasion to watch democracy at work.  As I describe here, I was part of the audience in Fort Wayne, Indiana as a panel including the president of the state senate committee on public education, a member of the state school bo
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Morning Wink 10-29-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-29-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Virginia School Boards Pass Anti-Testing ResolutionsAccording to Valerie Strauss, about 30 of Virginia’s 130 local school boards have passed resolutions against excessive testing.  The sch
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-29-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Virginia School Boards Pass Anti-Testing ResolutionsAccording to Valerie Strauss, about 30 of Virginia’s 130 local school boards have passed resolutions against excessive testing.  The school boards say “there is “little research” that shows that students “will be better prepared to succeed in their careers and college” by taking t
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10-29-13 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.: Teachers getting rich of of their pensions? No. But Wall Street is.  Rhode Island’s Treasurer funnels state pension funds into the accounts of her hedge fund friends. David Sirota continues his great work exposing the nation’s pension thievery. In Pennsylvania, for instance, the state pension’s invest
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10-29-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Two More Excellent Halloween ResourcesJust when I think my The Best Websites For Learning About Halloween list can’t get much bigger, I find more excellent resources to add to it. Here are two more: Eek! 50+ Halloween Activities, Resources & Apps is by Shelly Terrell. Halloween Infographics: Treats For Any Lesson is fro
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10-29-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: The Charlotte Danielson Who Is Getting Rich on the Misuse of Her Intellectual PropertyCharlotte Danielson has built a fence between herself and the misuse of her teacher evaluation scholarship.   I call it scholarship rather than research because there is little hard evidence that her system works to improve teaching.  Even so, CorpEd has paid the Danielson Group millions to use he
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10-29-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Bullying by Numbers: Value-Added MeasuresIf you’ve been paying attention, you know that the evaluation focus for public education has moved quickly away from students and rapidly towards teachers and schools.  The propaganda is everywhere, and too many people are convinced by the mantra, “the greatest factor of student success is the teacher in the classroom.”  I don’t know who [
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10-29-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: The UFT Evaluation Team Sends An Email To UFT MembersDunno if you got this in your email box from Mikey Mulgrew and the "UFT Evaluation Team," but it arrived in my in-box this morning:Teachers across the city are facing significant challenges caused by the Department of Education's poor implementation of the new evaluation and development system. To resolve these p
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10-29-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Sarah Darer Littman among renowned authors to call out Obama on failure of corporate education reform lawsSarah Darer Littman, a fellow public education advocate, blogger and regular commentator here at Wait,What? is also an award-winning author of books for young people. Last week she and a number of other leading authors and illustrators wrote a powerful letter to President Obama abo
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Nov. 20 – OTL Education Action Summit in Albany, NY | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity
Nov. 20 – OTL Education Action Summit in Albany, NY | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity: Nov. 20 – OTL Education Action Summit in Albany, NYPosted on: Tuesday October 29th, 2013Join OTL allies from across New York for the Alliance for Quality Education's Education Action Summit on Nov. 20 in Albany! The event will include a day of trainings and wo
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Obama comes to Brooklyn. Warns students, 'the Chinese, Indians, Russians... are coming.'
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Obama comes to Brooklyn. Warns students, 'the Chinese, Indians, Russians... are coming.': Obama comes to Brooklyn. Warns students, 'the Chinese, Indians, Russians... are coming.'Obama arrives at JFK on route to BrooklynS.T.E.M. schools are the flavor of the month and President Obama took the opportunity, while stumping for Bill de Blasio (not that de Blasio needs it)
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In Memphis, city schools are at the epicenter of controversial changes | Hechinger Report
In Memphis, city schools are at the epicenter of controversial changes | Hechinger Report: In Memphis, city schools are at the epicenter of controversial changesBy Sarah CarrThis story also appeared at:MEMPHIS — Depending on who you talk to, Memphis is rapidly becoming one of the best cities to teach in America—or one of the worst.For Amanda Montgomery, a 24-year-old teacher, for instance, the tak
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A Call for a Return of Local Control in Education | Truth in American Education
A Call for a Return of Local Control in Education | Truth in American Education: A Call for a Return of Local Control in EducationFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on October 29, 2013• 0 Comments112Tom Pauken, a former member of the Texas Workforce Commission and now a Republican candidate in the Texas gubernatorial race, wrote a great piece in Hum
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7 Things Sex Education Should’ve Taught Us But Didn’t | toteachornototeach
7 Things Sex Education Should’ve Taught Us But Didn’t | toteachornototeach: 7 Things Sex Education Should’ve Taught Us But Didn’t By Mark MansonIt’s 2013 and two things are abundantly clear:Sex education matters, andCultures that believe sex is shameful screw everything up.The statistics are glaring. More pragmatic approaches to teenage sexuality (i.e., “Hey, you’re going to do what you’re going t
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Author Maya Angelou blasts Obama’s Race to the Top
Author Maya Angelou blasts Obama’s Race to the Top: Author Maya Angelou blasts Obama’s Race to the TopBY VALERIE STRAUSSOctober 29 at 5:00 amMaya Angelou (Photo by Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)Renowned author and poet Maya Angelou was one of more than 120 authors and illustrators who recently signed a letterto President Obama asking him to curb policies that promote excessive standardized tes
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4 Caution Lights For School Leaders | Connected Principals
4 Caution Lights For School Leaders | Connected Principals: 4 Caution Lights For School LeadersOctober 29, 2013By William ParkerZig Ziglar’s “wheel of life” is often referred to by leadership coaches, like Chris Locurto, because it represents a good visual of the competing interests in each of our lives.The thought goes, when the areas of our life are held in good balance, the ride is much smoothe
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Making Better Sense of Our Differences - Bridging Differences - Education Week
Making Better Sense of Our Differences - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Making Better Sense of Our DifferencesBy Deborah Meier on October 29, 2013 8:23 AMDear Mike,Amazing.  We've found important legislative reform we can both sign onto. (Even if it's not, perhaps, to either of our mutual self-interests!) Make inheritance taxes more draconian—enough to ease the way so that children don't g
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#NaNoPrep – are your WriMos ready?
#NaNoPrep – are your WriMos ready? « Teaching Between the Lines: #NaNoPrep – are your WriMos ready?If your students are participating in NaNoWriMo (in T – 3 days), then they are probably chomping at the bit to start writing.  There’s nothing like telling students they CAN’T write until a certain date to get them begging for permission to write!  If they have created their characters, crafted their
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LA schools superintendent review brings out political divides | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC
LA schools superintendent review brings out political divides | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC: LA schools superintendent review brings out political dividesAnnie Gilbertson | October 29th, 2013, 6:00amAFP/AFP/Getty ImagesA superintendent’s review is usually routine: board members check in on goals such as raising test scores and increasing graduation rates.But a public uproar has turned Superintendent J
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YESTERDAY

Funding facts from Ralph Martire Parents United for Responsible Education
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Funding facts from Ralph Martire: Funding facts from Ralph MartireJulie Woestehoff and Ralph Martire, Oct. 2013PURE was pleased to co-sponsor a forum on October 11, 2013, featuring state budget expert Ralph Martire, of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. The information he provided was important to share, so we have prepared the f
by mike simpson / 20h 
Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet - NYTimes.com
Warily, Schools Watch Students on the Internet - NYTimes.com: By SOMINI SENGUPTASAN FRANCISCO — For years, a school principal’s job was to make sure students were not creating a ruckus in the hallways or smoking in the bathroom. Vigilance ended at the schoolhouse gates.Now, as students complain, taunt and sometimes cry out for help on social media, educators have more opportunities to monitor stud
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Paul Horton: Pseudo Democracy: Duncan Double Dribbles in Chicago - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Paul Horton: Pseudo Democracy: Duncan Double Dribbles in Chicago - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Paul Horton: Pseudo Democracy: Duncan Double Dribbles in ChicagoBy Anthony Cody on October 28, 2013 8:32 PMGuest post by Paul Horton. You may have heard about the Common Core Forums in New York, otherwise known as "the attack of the special interests." New York Education Commis
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New school funding law sets first-time accountability for foster youth SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources
SI&A Cabinet Report – News & Resources: New school funding law sets first-time accountability for foster youthBy Kimberly BeltranTuesday, October 29, 2013New laws that ushered in California’s landmark Local Control Funding Formula call on the departments of social services and education for the first time to identify and share information about foster students with school districts.Schools
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Nite Cap 10-28-13 #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 CAPTODAYPro-66 campaign surpasses $10 million in contributions | EdNewsColoradoPro-66 campaign surpasses $10 million in contributions | EdNewsColorado: Pro-66 campaign surpasses $10 million in contributionsWritten by Todd Engdahl on Oct 28th, 2013.
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