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NYC Public School Parents: A very twittery Thanksgiving, thanks to StudentFirst NY -- and some not-so thankful respondents: A very twittery Thanksgiving, thanks to StudentFirst NY -- and some not-so thankful respondentsMichelle Rhee of StudentsFirstStudentsFirst was founded and is led by former DC chancellor Michelle Rhee andfunded primarily by hedge fund operators, the Walton Foundation and Wall St. financiers. She claims two million members, hyperbolic assertions that are oft repeated by credulous reporters, despite the fact that many of these "followers" landed on her mailing lis
What’s Good for Bill Gates Turns Out To Be Bad For Public Schools | Common Dreams: What’s Good for Bill Gates Turns Out To Be Bad For Public SchoolsAnd, actually, bad for Microsoft too, as we learned recentlyby David MorrisSchools have a lot to learn from business about how to improve performance, declared Bill Gates in an Op Ed in the Wall Street Journal in 2011. He pointed to his own company as a worthy model for public schools.Bill Gates foisted a big business model of employee evaluation onto public school, which his own company has since abandoned.“At Microsoft, we believed in giving our
Pope Francis Wins!Pope Francis denounces ‘trickle-down’ economic theories in critique of inequalityBy Zachary A. Goldfarb and Michelle Boorstein, Published: November 26 E-mail the writersPope Francis on Tuesday sharply criticized growing economic inequality and unfettered markets in a wide-ranging and decidedly populist teaching that revealed how he plans to reshape the Catholic Church.In his most authoritative writings as pontiff, Francis decried an “idolatry of money” in secular culture and warned that it would lead to “a new tyranny.” But he reserved a large part of his critique for what he
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2nd Banana 11-30-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2 #1u
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTNationalize the Walton Family Wealth on #BlackFriday | OccupyWallSt.orgNationalize the Walton Family Wealth on #BlackFriday | OccupyWallSt.org: Nationalize the Walton Family Wealth on #BlackFridayPosted 2 hours ago on Nov. 24, 2013, 1:37 p.m. EST by OccupyWallStTags: nationalize wealth, walmart, black fridayThe Walton Family is collectively
Morning Wink 11-30-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS mark as readOregon charter school founders Tim King, Norm Donohoe agree to repay state $475,000, are forever banned from charter school operations in Oregon | OregonLive.com21min How Philadelphia’s School Crisis Crushes Opportunity: Money and Stability Matter | janressegerHow Philadelphia’s School Crisis Crushes Opportunity: Money and Stability Matter | j
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog 11-30-13
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Phillipine Government S The typhoon that struckby Dennis Wu / 10h Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs reportThe unemployment rate suspiciously fell sharply right before the 2012 presidential election; now the facts have been revealed, the numbers were manipulated. Two years before the election an employee was caught fabricating data and a source says that this deceit was
Oregon charter school founders Tim King, Norm Donohoe agree to repay state $475,000, are forever banned from charter school operations in Oregon | OregonLive.com
Oregon charter school founders Tim King, Norm Donohoe agree to repay state $475,000, are forever banned from charter school operations in Oregon | OregonLive.com: Oregon charter school founders Tim King, Norm Donohoe agree to repay state $475,000, are forever banned from charter school operations in Oregon Tim King and Norm Donohoe, Clackamas-based founders of a chain of taxpayer-funded charter sc
How Philadelphia’s School Crisis Crushes Opportunity: Money and Stability Matter | janresseger
How Philadelphia’s School Crisis Crushes Opportunity: Money and Stability Matter | janresseger: How Philadelphia’s School Crisis Crushes Opportunity: Money and Stability MatterPosted on November 30, 2013 by janresseger“I had connections with teachers, it was relationships I built,” reports Othella Stanback, a Philadelphia high school senior whose high school was closed over the summer. She knows
teacherken at Daily Kos 11-30-13
teacherken at Daily Kos: mark as readA parent's response to Arne Duncanwho in continuing to attack those who oppose Common Core told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and thei
With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week 11-30-13
With A Brooklyn Accent: With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week mark as readLetter to President Obama on Education PolicyDear President Obama:As a scholar in African American History and a teacher and coach formore than 45 years- it is my unhappy duty to inform you that youreducation polcies have contributed to the lowest morale among teachers that I have seen in my lifetime, while failing to narr
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 11-30-13
The Answer Sheet:mark as readHow thinking like an engineer can help school reformArthur H. Camins, director of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., suggests a new way to make progress in education policy — through engineering design thinking. The ideas expressed in this article are his alone and do not represent Steven
11-30-13 Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Society All Week
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Societymark as readWe thought we were done with Vallas but... he's backLook out. Vallas is back in town. We tried to finish him off back in 2001 but...No sooner had I finished posting about how the Working Families Party and allies were running Paul Vallas out of Bridgeport, than I g
11-30-13 Wait What? All Week
Wait What?: mark as readMalloy continues to cashes in in Education Reform initiativeEarlier this week, CT Newsjunkie and other media outlets reported on the fact that the Connecticut Election Enforcement Commissioner had authorized an investigation into Governor Malloy’s potentially illegal campaign activities. As Hugh McQuaid of CT Newsjunkie reported, “Election enforcement officials agreed
11-30-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community Forum mark as readThe Third Rail in Education; ParentsNow we come to that third rail of education - parents. I have said this a lot in person but naturally, it's a dangerous subject. Just like the first rule of Fight Club is not talking about Fight Club, the first rule of parenting is you don't criticize others' parenting. Everyone has t
11-30-13 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes Online mark as readWhat about the reversals of the October co-locos by di Blasio or Will Eval Moskowitz Continue to be Coddled?Lets hope Bill DB's new administration moves in quickly to deliver us from Eva and her destructive ways ASAP.... Eva can afford to rent her own buildings w/ all the philanthropy and savings she has amassed..... Lisa Donlan, CEC1Is there a push fo
11-30 -13 Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week mark as readEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: @GovChristie to Teacher: "I Am Tired Of You People!"UPDATE: I posted this about 12 hours ago on a late Saturday night, and already it has over 30K hits. I've never seen blog traffic like this, especially on a weekend. Is it not obvious that there has been an enormous amount of frustration and anger building u
11-30-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky.mark as readNekritz: “We’re digging ourselves back in a hole.”Sun-Times:14min Keeping retirement weird.h On the road home. I80 through Penssylvania Gearing up for our pension fight on Monday.32min Democratic Party strategist David Ormsby:
11-30-13 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School mark as readOn The Commons: Bll Gates Is Responsible For The Teacher Evaluation MessNice post that puts all the pieces together - the VAM, the bell curve that ensures a certain number of "ineffectives" every year, how the new teacher evaluation systems are based on Microsoft's stack ranking system, how destructive stack ranking has been to Mic
11-30-13 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
THE BECOMING RADICALRadical Scholarship mark as readShould SC Increase Charter School Investment?Charter school advocates are calling for more investment from South Carolina, according to Jamie Self at The State (Columbia, SC): South Carolina’s public charter schools struggle to find and pay for space, and often end up without access to kitchens, libraries, or places for kids to play – a problem t
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 11-30-13 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAY mark as readThe Best Social Studies Sites Of 2013 – Part TwoThe annual “Best…” lists continue…. You can see my picks for the first six months of the year at what functions as Part One of this list: The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2013 – So Far. You might also be interested in: All My 2013
This Week's Education Research Report 11-30-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT mark as readPrivate Education Management Organizations Running Public Schools ExpandNEPC report finds 44% of charter school students in 2011-12 attended schools operated by EMOsA new National Education Policy Center report published today shows that across the nation, schools managed by for-profit firms such as K12 Inc, National Herita
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 11-30-13
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT mark as readHOW MUCH ARE iPADS REALLY HELPING KIDS IN CLASSROOMS? + ARE iPADS REALLY HELPING KIDS LEARN? + smf’s 2¢HOW MUCH ARE iPADS REALLY HELPING KIDS IN CLASSROOMS? - The drive to increase technology use in classrooms has many asking whether the investment is more fizzle than bang, and whether it’s too ea
NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education 11-30-13
NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:NPE News Briefs mark as readFour questions for NY Education Commissioner John King from a Maxwell professor | syracuse.comTo the Editor: State Education Commissioner John King will be holding a public meeting Tuesday at Fayetteville-Manlius High School. He has faced considerable criticism for a set of policies that embrace standardized testin
11-30-13 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Schools Matter All Week mark as readDisaster Capitalism, Dugger, Indiana, and the Fall of Community SchoolsBy Doug MartinAs Naomi Klein shows in her frightening book Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, for decades the big plan of America’s millionaires and billionaires and the government officials they buy with campaign money has been to slash taxes (“austerity"
All Week 11-30-13 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE mark as readShould SC Increase Charter School Investment?Should SC Increase Charter School Investment?. via Should SC Increase Charter School Investment?.2h Common Core Unrest Obvious in 17 StatesProponents of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are fond of saying that CCSS “has been adopted by 45 states and the District of Colum
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 11-30-13 -13 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG mark as readDo You Shop at Walmart? Don’t.If you are a parent of public school children; if you care about your local public schools; if you are a teacher or administrator or school board member, you should think twice before shopping at Walmart. The Walton Family Foundation spends nearly $200 million every year to unde
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Dr Alison Coviello of PS 154 in the Bronx Tells Students, "NO GYM FOR YOU!" southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Dr Alison Coviello of PS 154 in the Bronx Tells Students, "NO GYM FOR YOU!"The students of District 7, and most of the South Bronx are out of shape. Nearly 1 in 3 elementary students in the South Bronx are obese, 2 in 5 students are overweight. Many students do not exercise on a regular basis. Being overweight or obese increases the risk for many health p
Choosing Democracy: Papering Over Public K-12 School Reform- Michelle Rhee?
Choosing Democracy: Papering Over Public K-12 School Reform- Michelle Rhee?: Papering Over Public K-12 School Reform- Michelle Rhee?Papering Over Public K-12 School Reform By Seth SandronskyNational education reform advocate sought Calderon's influence | Al Jazeera AmericaNational education reform advocate sought Calderon's influence | Al Jazeera America: National education reform advocate sought
Nite Cap 11-29-13 #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 mark as readfor the love of learning: Private schools should not be publicly fundedfor the love of learning: Private schools should not be publicly funded: Private schools should not be publicly fundedThe Alberta School Board Association (ASBA)