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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

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"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."


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Choosing Democracy: Why Good Teachers Embrace Culture
Choosing Democracy: Why Good Teachers Embrace Culture: Why Good Teachers Embrace CultureMeeting students where they are often requires knowing, celebrating, and incorporating their cultural backgrounds.By Sophie QuintonArizona's attorney general called the program "propagandizing and brainwashing." An administrative law judge ruled that it "promotes racial resentment against 'Whites,' and advocates ethnic solidarity of Latinos."With that, the Tucson Unified School District's controversial Mexican-American studies courses shut down in 2011. Yet a University of Arizona study
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Mother Crusader: FIX IT! Because This IS NOT How We Do Things In Highland Park. Here, We RESIST!
Mother Crusader: FIX IT! Because This IS NOT How We Do Things In Highland Park. Here, We RESIST!: FIX IT! Because This IS NOT How We Do Things In Highland Park. Here, We RESIST!I've honestly never seen anything like what happened last night in my home town of Highland Park, New Jersey. Scores of Highland Park residents and union supporters came out Monday night to the auditorium at Bartle Elementary to protest layoffs of nine staff members at Highland Park's schools, including two top union officials. The school board and administration were literally surrounded by critics: So many people show
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RECAP: Beyond Borders #StuVoice Chat - Student Voice
Student Voice: RECAP: Beyond Borders #StuVoice Chat
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TODAY

Poll: New York Voters are Divided on Common Core | Truth in American Education
Poll: New York Voters are Divided on Common Core | Truth in American Education: Poll: New York Voters are Divided on Common CoreFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on November 19, 2013 • 0 CommentsSiena College released a poll yesterday on New Yorkers views of the Common Core and standardized testing.  806 registered voters were surveyed between Nove
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Will Political Centrists Go Outside Their Comfort Zones To Expand Pre-K Access?
Will Political Centrists Go Outside Their Comfort Zones To Expand Pre-K Access?: Will Political Centrists Go Outside Their Comfort Zones To Expand Pre-K Access?Building on President Obama’s “Preschool for All Initiative” proposed earlier this year – that would dramatically expand access to prekindergarten programs for 4-year olds – Democratic leaders in both chambers last week introduced the “Str
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NEA President Dennis Van Roekel Kicks off American Education Week | NEA Today
NEA President Dennis Van Roekel Kicks off American Education Week | NEA Today: NEA President Dennis Van Roekel Kicks off American Education WeekNovember 19, 2013 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesBy Anita MerinaNEA President Dennis Van Roekel travelled to Washington State to kick off the 92nd year of American Education Week, celebrating and honoring the hard work of public school e
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The price of testing | Edwize
The price of testing | Edwize: The price of testing Miss Education is in her second year teaching 4th grade in the Bronx. This year, she’s found herself deeply affected by the challenge of seeing her students struggle with standardized tests.In early October, I had to administer yet another pre-assessment to my students. I understood that my students were starting to feel frustrated and uncomforta
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Bill Ayers and the Radical “Spark”: Past and Present | Dissident Voice
Bill Ayers and the Radical “Spark”: Past and Present | Dissident Voice: Bill Ayers and the Radical “Spark”: Past and Presentby Alan Wieder / November 19th, 2013“They just don’t get it.” Yes, the phrase is overused, yet, all too appropriate when addressing the continuing critiques, from both the left and the right, of Bill Ayers. The recent publication of the second phase of his memoir, Public Enem
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11-19-13 THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG Common Core and Student Success: What Parents Can Do — Whole Child Education
Common Core and Student Success: What Parents Can Do — Whole Child Education: Common Core and Student Success: What Parents Can DoToday, as we look at the importance of parental involvement in education—as part of American Education Week's Parents Day—it is important to consider the role parents play in the Common Core State Standards' success. Like most other education initiatives, the Common Cor
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Pop Your Collar For Parent-Teacher Conferences [New York Times] - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson
Pop Your Collar For Parent-Teacher Conferences [New York Times] - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: Pop Your Collar For Parent-Teacher Conferences [New York Times]by JOSE VILSON on NOVEMBER 19, 2013in MR. VILSONA few weeks ago, I was invited to write for New York Times’ Room for Debate, a special web section of the Times dedicated to debating intense subjects of the week. This one was dedicated t
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solidaridad: Recolonizing Our Classrooms: The Race and Class Hypocrisy of Corporate Education Reform
solidaridad: Recolonizing Our Classrooms: The Race and Class Hypocrisy of Corporate Education Reform: Recolonizing Our Classrooms: The Race and Class Hypocrisy of Corporate Education ReformDIVERSITY FORUM THEMEUnequal by Design: Schooling the Poor and Students of Color in Today's Public Schools and UniversitiesNovember 20, 20133 – 5pm: Faculty & Grad Student PanelAcademic Senate ChambersPanel
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11-18-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open Thread From the Central District News, a trailer was released for a film, One Square Mile, that was shot throughout Seattle including Garfield High School.   Many recognizable sights and yay! Garfield. I learned that there is a subtropical storm brewing over the Central Atlantic about 600 miles off Bermuda. Melissa is showing signs of developing a tigh
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Sacramento Mark Hopkins/Meadowview Community Survey Results! Hmong Innovating Politics
Hmong Innovating Politics: Mark Hopkins/Meadowview Community Survey Results!2 notes
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Common Core confusion: Why a misunderstood reform needs crisis management | Hechinger Report
Common Core confusion: Why a misunderstood reform needs crisis management | Hechinger Report: Common Core confusion: Why a misunderstood reform needs crisis managementBy Liz WillenThe Common Core needs a public relations makeover — quickly.In the last few days, the new set of tougher math and English language standards for grades K-12 has suffered a spate of bad publicity that could undermine its
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New Report Shows How Test-and-Punish Texas Miracle Damaged Lives of 3 El Paso Teens | janresseger
New Report Shows How Test-and-Punish Texas Miracle Damaged Lives of 3 El Paso Teens | janresseger: New Report Shows How Test-and-Punish Texas Miracle Damaged Lives of 3 El Paso TeensPosted on November 19, 2013 by janressegerIn the early years after the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, we were told the law was going to bring the Texas Miracle to the whole country.  Supposedly, throu
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Is the Common Core Becoming a Fiasco? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Is the Common Core Becoming a Fiasco? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Is the Common Core Becoming a Fiasco?By Anthony Cody on November 19, 2013 8:18 AMAfter listening to one of my favorite episodes of This American Life, devoted to the concept of fiasco,   I am wondering if perhaps what we have with high stakes testing and the Common Core project is a fiasco on a grand scale.To begi
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Cali Education Headlines Tuesday, November 19, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Oakland charter school battle ragesEducation Headlines FCMAT provides links to California K-12 news stories as a service to the industry. However, some stories may not be accessible because of newspapers' subscription policies.Tuesday, November 19, 2013Wasco names new superintendentThe Wasco Union Elementary School District has promoted direc
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Happy American Education Week! | Lily's Blackboard
Happy American Education Week! | Lily's Blackboard: Raise Your Hand for Students this American Education WeekNEA's vicepresident Lily Eskelsen García kicked off our celebration of American Education Week. Join us as we celebrate public education and honor individuals who are making a difference in ensuring that every child receives a quality education.Kit Carson Elementary School, Las VegasNEA PUB
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Morning Wink 11-18-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS mark as readLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 11-19-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: EduShyster on John Arnold’s Hurt FeelingsEduShyster here recounts the sad tale of billionaire John Arnold, who apparently did not like my apology to him for a factual inaccuracy in
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 11-19-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: EduShyster on John Arnold’s Hurt FeelingsEduShyster here recounts the sad tale of billionaire John Arnold, who apparently did not like my apology to him for a factual inaccuracy in an earlier post. I made a factual error in a post on October 10. I said that he left Enron with $3 billion. That was an honest error on my part. I wrong
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11-19-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: Remember 150 years ago todaythese words were spoken: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met o
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11-19-13 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 Interactives On The Assassination Of John F. KennedyHere are two new interactives on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I’m adding them to The Best Online Resources About President John F. Kennedy: A Moment That Change Everything is a particularly impressive feature from The Washington Post. John F. Kennedy’s assassi
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11-19-13 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.: Joni Lindgren. “Voting against retirees will make you part of the bigger picture of what is wrong.”Senator It is immoral for legislators to vote against any unconstitutional bill when you sit comfortably and smuggly in Springfield or at your Thanksgiving table knowing your pensions and great health ca
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Celebrates 286 Schools as 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools | U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Celebrates 286 Schools as 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools | U.S. Department of Education: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Celebrates 286 Schools as 2013 National Blue Ribbon SchoolsSeven principals honored with Terrel H. Bell Awards for outstanding leadership NOVEMBER 19, 2013Contact:   Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov U.S. Secretary of E
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11-19-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: The Duncan Debacle: It’s Not (Just) about DuncanThe Duncan Debacle: It\’s Not (Just) about Duncan. via The Duncan Debacle: It’s Not (Just) about Duncan.by plthomasedd / 2h skip  //  saveAn Arne Duncan Reader: Let’s Have that ConversationWhile Secretary of Education Arne Duncan—career-long bureaucrat who has never taught and has no formal background in education—has created a cont
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11-19-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Steve Perry: A bully who fails to show up for work and his a history of using social media on public time:Later today, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra, Board of Education Chairman Matt Poland and their majority on the Hartford Board of Education are expected to try and push through a special deal to allow Capital Prep’s Steve Perry to shift from being a Hartford employee to the President
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11-19-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: ‘White suburban mom’ responds to Arne DuncanParent Ali Gordon has written an open letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan that starts like this: I am a white suburban mom, and I’m reaching out to you in an effort to explain what seems to be very confusing to you. Gordon’s letter (see below) is part of backlash that resulted from Duncan’s remarks on […]    100+ by Valerie Straus
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11-19-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: An Arne Duncan ReaderWhile Secretary of Education Arne Duncan—career-long bureaucrat who has never taught and has no formal background in education—has created a controversy over his swipe at "white suburban moms," the great irony comes from his equally vapid apology, in which he concludes: "Let’s get back to that conversation, because it’s an important one for our c
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11-19-13 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): The Duncan Debacle: It’s Not (Just) about DuncanIf Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has prompted outrage from a wide range of people, as Rebecca Klein reports, by invoking “white suburban moms,” as I have noted, the controversy is much more complex than “clumsy phrasin
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11-19-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Regents Cut Time To Take State Tests, But Not Length Of TestsIf Merryl Tisch, John King and Andrew Cuomo think this sort of thing is going to head off mor protests against their education reform agenda, they're delusional: The state Board of Regents, with testing policies drawing increasing public outcry, is shortening the time that students will have to take next spring's s
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Diane Ravitch Rebukes Education Activists’ ‘Reign Of Error’ | toteachornototeach
Diane Ravitch Rebukes Education Activists’ ‘Reign Of Error’ | toteachornototeach: Diane Ravitch RebukesEducation Activists’ ‘Reign Of Error’Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education, spent years advocating for an overhaul of the American education system. She supported the No Child Left Behind Act, the charter school movement and standardized testing.But Ravitch recently — and very
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A Quick Look At The DC Charter School Rating System
Shanker Blog » A Quick Look At The DC Charter School Rating System: A Quick Look At The DC Charter School Rating SystemPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on November 19, 2013Having taken a look at several states’ school rating systems  (see our posts on the systems in IN, OH, FL and CO), I thought it might be interesting to examine a system used by a group of charter schools – starting with the systemused
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Staying Focused During Difficult Times | Connected Principals
Staying Focused During Difficult Times | Connected Principals: Staying Focused During Difficult TimesNovember 19, 2013By William ParkerThe other day, I had someone tell me, “I would never want your job.”Optical Illusion (by student Daniel Eckenfels. Used with permission)On the one hand, that may be true. Sometimes the negatives can be overwhelming.When it comes to the part of my job involving stud
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Educating for Democracy-and Liberty - Bridging Differences - Education Week
Educating for Democracy-and Liberty - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Educating for Democracy-and LibertyBy Deborah Meier on November 19, 2013 8:32 AMRobert Pondiscio continues his conversation with Deborah Meier today.Dear Deborah,I'm sorry you didn't rise to my challenge to encourage combatants in the rhetorically charged edu-wars to come together on curriculum and instruction.  I hope we
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The Elephant in the Classroom | Ward 8 DC Teacher
The Elephant in the Classroom | Ward 8 DC Teacher: The Elephant in the Classroomby ANGEL CINTRON JR. • NOVEMBER 19, 2013When it comes to dealing with chronically disruptive students, everyone  – administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, and social service providers – must operate from the “same page.” Keeping chronically disruptive students in the classroom, as opposed to removing them from c
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Oakland charter school battle rages - SFGate
Oakland charter school battle rages - SFGate: Oakland charter school battle ragesJill TuckerUpdated 10:34 pm, Monday, November 18, 2013Students break for recess at Lazear Charter Academy in Oakland. Lazear, a public school that was closed by the school board last year, reopened as a charter campus after an appeal to the Alameda County Board of Education. Photo: Michael Macor, The ChronicleOakland
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NYC Educator: Secretary of Stupidity Arne Duncan
NYC Educator: Secretary of Stupidity Arne Duncan: Secretary of Stupidity Arne DuncanA few years back, Obama's basketball bud Arne Duncan opened his mouth, and out came words asserting that Katrina was the bestest thing ever to happen to education in New Orleans. This revealed several things. It spoke to a gross incomprehension, indifference, and insensitivity to human suffering. It also told us th
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Sec. Duncan's attempt to silence, intimidate Common Core critics was a miserable failure
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Sec. Duncan's attempt to silence, intimidate Common Core critics was a miserable failure: Sec. Duncan's attempt to silence, intimidate Common Core critics was a miserable failure“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their schoo
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YESTERDAY

Sabrina Joy Stevens • Arne Duncan isn't just mean. He's wrong.
Sabrina Joy Stevens • Arne Duncan isn't just mean. He's wrong.: Arne Duncan isn’t just mean. He’s wrong.People of all colors and parental statuses are right to be offended by Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent comments about “white suburban moms”. But beyond the sexist and racial (note that I didn’t say racist) implications of what he said, there’s another important point to be made that isn
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The Educated Reporter: To Boost Student Learning, Should Teacher Quality Trump Class Size?
The Educated Reporter: To Boost Student Learning, Should Teacher Quality Trump Class Size?: To Boost Student Learning, Should Teacher Quality Trump Class Size?When it comes to student success, “smaller is better” has been the conventional wisdom on class size, despite a less-than-persuasive body of research. But what if that concept were turned on its head, with more students per classroom – provi
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: An easy slide from Gates to Pearson
Schooling in the Ownership Society: An easy slide from Gates to Pearson: An easy slide from Gates to PearsonKate JamesA week ago I gave the example of Bruce Reed, the assistant to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, being named president of the Broad Foundation, to illustrate the easy movement between government, corporate reform and power philanthropy. Another e
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Arne Is Aiming for Damage Control But Just Can’t Seem to Get It Right | deutsch29
Arne Is Aiming for Damage Control But Just Can’t Seem to Get It Right | deutsch29: Arne Is Aiming for Damage Control But Just Can’t Seem to Get It RightNovember 18, 2013US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s tasteless remarks on Friday about the seeming inability of “White suburban mothers” to come to terms with their children’s limited intellectual ability as such is highlighted by the Duncan-be
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Some Kids 'Aren't Brilliant'? Arne Duncan Blunder Is Bigger Than It First Appears | Mercedes Schneider
Some Kids 'Aren't Brilliant'? Arne Duncan Blunder Is Bigger Than It First Appears | Mercedes Schneider: Some Kids 'Aren't Brilliant'? Arne Duncan Blunder Is Bigger Than It First AppearsPosted: 11/18/2013 10:15 am In May 2010, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at the first annual "Mom Congress" at Georgetown University. Duncan's goal, as reported on the USDOE website, was "to
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Architecture 101 Holiday Workshops | Seattle Education
Architecture 101 Holiday Workshops | Seattle Education: Seattle EducationArchitecture 101 Holiday WorkshopsTwice a year I advertise my classes on this website and that’s because it pertains to education and it also helps keep me afloat so that I can continue writing.I enjoy all of the classes I teach but this class is totally joyous and filled with excitement and fun for me and the students.Archit
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Nite Cap 11-18-13 #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 read11-18-13 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: Why Keeping Your Kids Home Sends the Wrong MessageToday, a protest took place, which was started by a New York State mom and was aggressively advertised as a move against the Common Core Sta
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