Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Nite Cap 11-13-13 #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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David Coleman Again Demonstrates He Doesn’t Get Education | Truth in American Education
David Coleman Again Demonstrates He Doesn’t Get Education | Truth in American Education: David Coleman Again Demonstrates He Doesn’t Get EducationFiled in Common Core State Standards by Joy Pullman on November 13, 2013 • 0 Comments377Common Core architect and College Board President David Coleman recently joined a public forum to discuss “the next America.” His eight-minute speech gives a window into the ideas of those driving education in this country, which many Common Core critics have disagreed with all along.First is the central idea of college as a pathway to financial security. Coleman
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Broad Foundation names Bruce Reed – Vice-President Joe Biden's chief of staff – its new president | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC
Broad Foundation names Bruce Reed – Vice-President Joe Biden's chief of staff – its new president | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC: Broad Foundation names Bruce Reed – Vice-President Joe Biden's chief of staff – its new presidentMary Plummer | November 13th, 2013, 2:21pmCourtesy The White HouseBruce Reed, Vice President Joe Biden's chief of staff, has been named the new president of the Broad Foundation.The Broad Foundation is changing its leadership structure – Bruce Reed is leaving the Obama administration to become president of the education reform organization based in Los Angeles. Reed has been
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AFT chief Randi Weingarten fights hedge funds on pensions
AFT chief Randi Weingarten fights hedge funds on pensions: Teachers union fights hedge funds on pensions   Text Size   Published: Wednesday, 13 Nov 2013 | 1:02 PM ETBy: Matthew J. Belvedere | Producer, CNBC's "Squawk Box"Twitter39LinkedIn2ShareSad Loeb wouldn't meet pension trustees: WeingartenWednesday, 13 Nov 2013 | 8:49 AM ETDiscussing whether pension funds should invest in funds like Dan Loeb's Third Point, with American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten. She explains why Loeb had trouble with being transparent.The American Federation of Teachers union is taking o
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Mother Crusader: Diane Ravitch Is Public (Charter) Enemy Number One; or How Public Money Just Keeps On Feeding Private Greed
Mother Crusader: Diane Ravitch Is Public (Charter) Enemy Number One; or How Public Money Just Keeps On Feeding Private Greed: Diane Ravitch Is Public (Charter) Enemy Number One; or How Public Money Just Keeps On Feeding Private GreedI literally laughed out loud when I read the woefully misguided attempted take-down of Diane Ravitch in yesterday's Trenton Times.It was written by charter founder/lea
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Bolstering STEM: A Citywide Call to Action
Bolstering STEM: A Citywide Call to Action: Bolstering STEM: A Citywide Call to ActionPHILLYACTIVE™ (NEWS THAT GETS PHILLY ACTIVE) The City of Philadelphia Announces Touts Major Efforts to Increase STEM Education, Mentorship for Students. By Christopher “Flood the Drummer®” Norris11.12.13: Philadelphia – (Technology/Education): A week before City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson is to host a panel disc
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NYC Educator: In Which I Broaden My Horizons
NYC Educator: In Which I Broaden My Horizons: In Which I Broaden My HorizonsI'm the chapter leader of a very large school. As a consequence, people complain to me about everything. Why doesn't the faucet work in the ladies' room? How come the kid in my third row hasn't been suspended? Why can't you get us a new contract?I muddle through as best I can, and I get a little better at it each year. I h
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THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG 11-13-13 Authenticity to Support Common Core Instruction and Assessment — Whole Child Education
Authenticity to Support Common Core Instruction and Assessment — Whole Child Education: Authenticity to Support Common Core Instruction and AssessmentHow do we support our students in being career and college ready? This is not a new question, and educators continually struggle with what that even means. We leverage rigor and relevance as keys to prepare students for the post K–12 world, but what
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Early Steps to School Success - Save the Children
Early Steps to School Success - Save the Children: Early Steps to School SuccessJennifer Garner visits Save the Children Programs in California. Watch the video above.Make Preschool a PriorityTAKE ACTIONGrowing Up in AmericaAll children are born ready to learn, but for 16 million children living in poverty in America, they enter school unready to succeed.Actor Jennifer Garner visits with school ch
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School District court case opens up questions about 'pay to play' | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
School District court case opens up questions about 'pay to play' | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: School District court case opens up questions about 'pay to play'by Helen Gym on Nov 13 2013 Posted in Commentary="" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; padding: 0px 2px;">Share on emailMore Sharing ServicesCOMMENTS (0)PRINT“Pay to play” is a universally reviled practice in
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Cali Education Headlines Wednesday, November 13, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: LAUSD proposal to shift federal poverty money failsEducation HeadlinesWednesday, November 13, 2013New law makes it harder for parents to resist child vaccinesSchool nurses in Orange County are preparing for a new state law that will make it harder for parents to opt out of vaccinating their children.Palm Springs Unified School District consid
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Versions of the MMAC Proposal For New Orleans-Style “Recovery School District” Underway in Three Other States | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!
Versions of the MMAC Proposal For New Orleans-Style “Recovery School District” Underway in Three Other States | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: Versions of the MMAC Proposal For New Orleans-Style “Recovery School District” Underway in Three Other StatesFiled under: Recovery District — millerlf @ 10:20 am For the past two years, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce has bee
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11-13-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: KIRO-TV's Second Part of their Investigation into District SpendingKIRO ran the second part of their series last night.   This part was around the part of the district audit used by their team that dealt with use of district vehicles and gasoline.  I was interviewed and make a statement about being disappointed that the oversight isn't better.  This part is as sobe
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Educators Flunk the School Grading System in Indiana - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Educators Flunk the School Grading System in Indiana - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Educators Flunk the School Grading System in IndianaBy Anthony Cody on November 13, 2013 10:15 AMWhere is Tony when you Need Him?One of the legacies of corporate reformer Tony Bennett in Indiana is a system by which schools are assigned a letter grade, based largely on test scores. The State Board o
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Morning Wink 11-13-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS mark as readLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 11-13-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Glenda Ritz Comments on Governor’s Efforts to Dissolve Her OfficeGlenda Ritz was elected State Superintendent in Indiana last fall. She won more votes than Governor Mike Pence. She
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 11-13-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Glenda Ritz Comments on Governor’s Efforts to Dissolve Her OfficeGlenda Ritz was elected State Superintendent in Indiana last fall. She won more votes than Governor Mike Pence. She was elected by a bipartisan group of citizens who rejected the policies of Tony Bennett, who outspent her 10-1. Since her election, Governor Pence and t
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11-13-13 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. UNIFIED SCHOOLS PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH TRIMMED DOWN iPAD PLAN + smf’s 2¢A tense vote by sharply divided board allows the $1-billion initiative to continue and imposes additional oversight, including evaluation of impact on student achievement. Tuesday's L.A. Unified board meeting marked the first public appearance of Supt. John Deasy in an iPad
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11-13-13 Radical Scholarship
Radical Scholarship: Fahrenheit 451 | filmstvandlifeFahrenheit 451 | filmstvandlifeby P. L. Thomas / 1h empathyeducates – What We Know Nowempathyeducates – What We Know Now (and How It Doesn’t Matter)1 by P. L. Thomas / 3h School ™: Resist the Feed, Feed the Resistance | Automated Teaching MachineSchool ™: Resist the Feed, Feed the Resistance | Automated Teaching Machine1 by P. L. Thomas / 3h 11-1
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11-13-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Another Interesting Piece On “Bridge,” Pearson’s Third World School ModelEarlier this year I posted about a New York Times article that contrasted two companies with rapidly-growing models for private education in the Third World (see Really Interesting NY Times Article On Two Visions Of Education In Developing World — Pear
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11-13-13 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: Why Is Steve "Shaved Ham" Perry Speaking at Rutgers?As I mentioned before, America's foremost union basher, Steve Perry, is coming to Rutgers this week: KEYNOTE ADDRESS Why Aren’t Students Ready? Barriers to College Access for America’s Youth Thursday, 10:00 am–11:15 am, Livingston Student Center, Livingston Hall Speaker Dr. Steve Perry CNN Education Contributor; Principa
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11-13-13 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.: Squeezy couldn’t have found a better mate if had gone to eHarmony.com. Illinois’ working families need another choice.  Squeezy’s pick of Paul Vallas as his running mate was shocking to many. Not because the policies and practices of the former head of Chicago’s public schools are that different from
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11-13-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: If there is a Twitter Chutzpa Award – Steve Perry will win it easily!For months and months, Capital Prep’s principal Steve Perry has been using his twitter account to bully and attack anyone who opposes his corporate education reforms philosophy.  His Modus operandi has been nothing short of virtually continuous, obsessive, unrelenting tweets, many of which occurred during work hours.
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11-13-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Four things on which nearly all teachers agreeDo educators agree on anything these days? A few things, it turns out. Here’s a post on what those are, from Roxanna Elden,  a National Board Certified Teacher, speaker, and author. Her book, “See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers by Teachers“ is a funny, honest, practical guide widely used for teacher training and retention. By […]
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11-13-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: NY Parents Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It AnymoreWell it's about time. NY parents are finally raging against the Common Core and the  punitive high stakes testing that labels their children failures. Has this insanity finally reached a tipping point? Stay tuned.Watch the video coming out of this meeting last night and share it widely. "They also criticized the increased
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11-13-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: VA - AG all over but the recountwith everything else in the state reportedly in, Herring's lead over Obenshain had dropped from 117 to 106. Fairfax counted its provisionals 160-103, for a net pickup of 57. Added to 106, the margin is 163.   Fairfax has to certify by Midnight. Then the state has until November 25 to certify. Errors could in theory still be found. But by Vir
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11-13-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Louisiana School Letter Grades: The Games Reformers PlayLet me begin this post by stating that I am against the use of letter grades as a measure of school performance. Assigning a single letter grade to a school in order to determine school worth bespeaks the disguised agenda of privatization– nothing more. And yet, the grading of public schools abounds. Reformers insist that […
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11-13-13 With A Brooklyn Accent
With A Brooklyn Accent: Regents Chair Tisch and Chancellor King give a Lesson on How Not to Be a LeaderLast night's forum at Ward Melville HS in Suffolk County once again revealed why Regents Chair Merryl Tisch and Chancellor John King are poorly equipped to lead the public schools of New York State and why their actions, as well as their policies, have triggered one of the largest parent revolts
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11-13-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Good News From Tish JamesGood to hear her get very specific about education and where she would like to see the de Blasio administration go:Over the course of the campaign, de Blasio made some of his own educational priorities clear: universal pre-K, a plan to charge well-financed charter school networks to operate in public space, a moratorium on school closures, and the el
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Louisiana School Letter Grades: The Games Reformers Play | deutsch29
Louisiana School Letter Grades: The Games Reformers Play | deutsch29: Louisiana School Letter Grades: The Games Reformers PlayNovember 12, 2013Let me begin this post by stating that I am against the use of letter grades as a measure of school performance. Assigning a single letter grade to a school in order to determine school worth bespeaks the disguised agenda of privatization– nothing more.And
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“Public Schools Shakedown” Website Exposes Privatizers | janresseger
“Public Schools Shakedown” Website Exposes Privatizers | janresseger: “Public Schools Shakedown” Website Exposes PrivatizersPosted on November 13, 2013 by janressegerThe forces undermining public education don’t really take the trouble to publicize what they are doing.  It is all very quiet and very well funded. And if, in polite conversation, you mention the likes of ALEC—or Jeb Bush’s Foundation
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After-School Activities Make Educational Inequality Even Worse - Hilary Levey Friedman - The Atlantic
After-School Activities Make Educational Inequality Even Worse - Hilary Levey Friedman - The Atlantic: After-School Activities Make Educational Inequality Even WorseHow middle-class parents use soccer, ballet, and chess to solidify their children's advantage over othersIt’s not just what happens inside the classroom that determines a child’s status as an adult.  Accomplishments outside the classro
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I'm The M.E.T.H.O.D. Man (Classroom Questioning, Tiger Style) - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson
I'm The M.E.T.H.O.D. Man (Classroom Questioning, Tiger Style) - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: I’m The M.E.T.H.O.D. Man (Classroom Questioning, Tiger Style)by JOSE VILSON on NOVEMBER 12, 2013in JOSE, MR. VILSONWu Tang ClanNever be afraid to keep students at arms’ length from you work-wise.Therein lies the struggle right now with the immediacy of our work as educators. Too often, we torture our
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First Ever Open Educator Forum - southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: First Ever Open Educator ForumThis Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 6 PM a first ever Open Educator forum hosted by Francesco Portelos.Learn about true bullying and how to deal with the miscreants from Tweed.Learn about Rubber Rooms, the teacher discipline process.And all that other good stuff that has made the NYCDOE, Uncle Mike, Sock Puppet Walcott and over 1,000 p
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Bill Introduced: H.R. 3339: One Size Does Not Fit All in Education Ac - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
Education programs funding - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: H.R. 3339: One Size Does Not Fit All in Education ActTo prohibit the use of funds by the Department of Education relating to multistate academic content standards.5h mark as read  //  saveBill Introduced: H.R. 3325: Technology-Enabled Education Innovation Partnership ActTo award grants to improve equality of access to tech
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Vallas is Quinn's white knight with a "servant's heart"
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Vallas is Quinn's white knight with a "servant's heart": Vallas is Quinn's white knight with a "servant's heart"Gov. Quinn must think we are all idiots.Yesterday he described his newly-named running mate Paul Vallas as, a white knight — a school reform champion — who now would help focus his expertise on fixing the state’s pension crisis.Rahm, who
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They’ve got their talking points. Where are ours? | District Administration Magazine
They’ve got their talking points. Where are ours? | District Administration Magazine: They’ve got their talking points. Where are ours?Those who control the conversation call the shotsBy:Nancy LettsDistrict Administration, November 2013TestingI recently listened to a call-in show on a local National Public Radio station. The head of the state’s board of education was interviewed about the recent s
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Should non-native English speakers be taught separately?
Should non-native English speakers be taught separately?: Should non-native English speakers be taught separately?11/13/2013 by Being Latino Contributors Leave a Comment Los Angeles is now finding itself at the center of a controversy: the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)  has introduced a policy to separate non-native English speakers from native English speakers in elementary school c
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11-12-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: IN TWO DAYS! "Don't Tread on Educators" Open Forum Nov. 14In the midst of his endless and fascinating 3020a hearing Jordanna gets ready for afternoon nap(another session tomorrow and I believe Friday) Portelos doesn't stop fighting - for everyone. Which is what makes him so dangerous to Tweed legal, which had 3 lawyers the other day while they called two witnesses. Total
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Weingarten tops list of key figures in fight for pensions
AFT - A Union of Professionals - Weingarten tops list of key figures in fight for pensions: Weingarten tops list of key figures in fight for pensionsInstitutional Investor has put AFT President Randi Weingarten first in its inaugural ranking of the 40 most influential players in the fight for—and against—defined benefit pensions. Weingarten tops the list for her determination to see that AFT membe
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$1.25 Billion Going to Schools for Common Core - Year 2013
$1.25 Billion Going to Schools for Common Core - Year 2013 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces Second Half of $1.25 Billion Going to Schools for Common Core TransitionSACRAMENTO—Schools this week are receiving the second half of a $1.25 billion block grant from the state to support their move to the Common Core academic standards, State Superintendent of Public Inst
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Fight Common Core and Send Your Kids to School | Truth in American Education
Fight Common Core and Send Your Kids to School | Truth in American Education: Fight Common Core and Send Your Kids to SchoolFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on November 12, 2013 • 0 CommentsI’ve been debating whether or not I would write on an event called Don’t Send Your Child to School Day which is set to take place on November 18th as a protest against the Common Core S
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RFA: After School Education and Safety
RFA: After School Education and Safety (CA Dept of Education): Request for ApplicationsAfter School Education and SafetyDue: Friday, January 17, 2014The After School Education and Safety (ASES) Program is the result of the 2002 voter-approved initiative, Proposition 49. These programs are created through partnerships between schools and local community resources to provide literacy, academic enric
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Nite Cap 11-12-13 #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 readSorry, Nicholas Kristof, There’s Still No Proof School Reform HelpsSorry, Nicholas Kristof, There’s Still No Proof School Reform Helps: Sorry, Nicholas Kristof, There’s Still No Proof School Reform HelpsIt’s hard to know whether to l
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