Saturday, November 2, 2013

Nite Cap 11-2-13 #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

TODAY

Madison City Council Should End Digital Divide In Budget | CAFFEINATED POLITICS
Madison City Council Should End Digital Divide In Budget | CAFFEINATED POLITICS: Madison City Council Should End Digital Divide In BudgetNOVEMBER 2, 2013      Rate ThisEvery now and then when I sit and talk with friends we travel back over the years and discuss how much has changed in the world due to technology.   We talk about typing our resumes and making copies at a library so to be able to ma
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Rethinking Schools: Charter Schools and the Future of Public Education | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!
Rethinking Schools: Charter Schools and the Future of Public Education | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: Rethinking Schools: Charter Schools and the Future of Public EducationFiled under: Charter Schools — millerlf @ 3:28 pm By Stan Karp Volume 28 No.1 – Fall 2013Somewhere along the way, nearly every teacher dreams of starting a school. I know I did.More than once during the 30 years I
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Jeb Bush donates to 4 Douglas County school board candidates - The Denver Post
Jeb Bush donates to 4 Douglas County school board candidates - The Denver Post: Jeb Bush donates to 4 Douglas County school board candidatesBy Zahira Torres and Karen CrummyThe Denver PostPOSTED:   11/02/2013 09:52:00 AM MDT16 COMMENTS| UPDATED:   21 MIN. AGO FILE - In this March 15, 2013 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during the Ronald Reagan Dinner at the 40th annual Conservativ
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11-2-13 Saturday Matinée Special Double Feature News Breakout
Saturday Matinée Special Corporate Reform School Girls News BreakoutSpecial Sneak Preview - Witch Hunter starring Campbell Brown - News BreakSpecial  Sneak Preview - Witch Hunter starring Campbell Brown  News BreakComing to a theater near you!Who's Really Behind Campbell Brown's Sneaky Education Outfit? | Mother JonesWho's Really Behind Campbell Brown's Sneaky Education Outfit? | Mother Jones: Who
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Robots or Aliens as Parents? Colleges Gauge Applicants’ Creativity - NYTimes.com
Robots or Aliens as Parents? Colleges Gauge Applicants’ Creativity - NYTimes.com: Nick Oxford for The New York TimesSam Endicott of Edmond, Okla., is applying to the University of Chicago, which is known for its offbeat essay prompts.By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAPublished: November 2, 2013
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WISE Summit and My Takeaway | My Island View
WISE Summit and My Takeaway | My Island View: WISE Summit and My TakeawayNovember 2, 2013 by tomwhitbyFor those who may be unaware, The WISE Summit is an education conference held each year in Doha, Qatar. The Qatar Foundation, which supports innovation in education around the world, sponsors it. It was my good fortune to be invited to attend last year along with my good friend and colleague Steve
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More on the Breaking Scandal: Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee and the Calderon Scanda - The Sacramento Bee
Capitol and California - Political, Government and Election News - The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, California: Rhee-lated $tory: Michelle Rhee answers Ravitch in New Bookal$o $ee Rhee-lated $tory: Excerpts from "Rhee The Art of the Deal" a new $tory about Corporate Education Reform and the Woman that make$ it Happen!Who is Michael Drobot? Leaked affidavit touches on embattled donorBy Jer
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Global Capitalism and its Anti-‘Human Face’: Organic Intellectuals and Interpretations of the Crisis - Online University of the Left
Global Capitalism and its Anti-‘Human Face’: Organic Intellectuals and Interpretations of the Crisis - Online University of the Left: 2 NOVGlobal Capitalism and its Anti-‘Human Face’: Organic Intellectuals and Interpretations of the CrisisPosted by carl4davidsonBy W. I. ROBINSONUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USAABSTRACT This article analyzes and theorizes the global crisis from the p
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2nd Banana 11-2-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2 #1u
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTCondoms for free at 22 city schoolscoopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 6 hours agoCondoms for free at 22 city schools: Condoms for free at 22 city schoolsThe district is installing dispensers over winter break at high schools with the highest rates of STDs. [image: Condom dispensers are going into 22 city high schools. The protection is free
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Wide gaps in DPS board fundraising persist in second campaign filings | EdNewsColorado
Wide gaps in DPS board fundraising persist in second campaign filings | EdNewsColorado: Wide gaps in DPS board fundraising persist in second campaign filingsWritten by Maura Walz on Nov 2nd, 2013. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.orgRhee-lated $tory: Michelle Rhee answers Ravitch in New Bookal$o $ee Rhee-lated $tory: Excerpts from "Rhee The Art of the Deal" a new $tory about Corporate Educat
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Morning Wink 1-2-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYThe mysterious case of LAUSD’s finances: Richard J. Riordan and Tim RuttenThe mysterious case of LAUSD’s finances: Richard J. Riordan and Tim Rutten: The mysterious case of LAUSD’s finances: Richard J. Riordan and Tim RuttenNow that the drama over the Los Angeles Unified School District’s superintendent is behind us, there are some other, deeper issue
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The mysterious case of LAUSD’s finances: Richard J. Riordan and Tim Rutten
The mysterious case of LAUSD’s finances: Richard J. Riordan and Tim Rutten: The mysterious case of LAUSD’s finances: Richard J. Riordan and Tim RuttenNow that the drama over the Los Angeles Unified School District’s superintendent is behind us, there are some other, deeper issues worth exploring.For example, ask anybody who’s looked at the budget for one of America’s urban school districts how muc
by mike simpson / 7h 
Overscheduled Children: How Big A Problem? (Bruce Feiler) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Overscheduled Children: How Big A Problem? (Bruce Feiler) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Overscheduled Children: How Big A Problem? (Bruce Feiler)Bruce Feiler is a writer who works at home. His latest book is “The Secrets of Happy Families.” This appeared in the New York Timeson October 11, 2013.The post reflects how highly educated, middle-class parents try to raise their
by mike simpson / 7h 
Daily Kos: Consider the following
Daily Kos: Consider the following: Consider the followingbyteacherkenFollowThanks to Citizens United, and other decisions, corporations may now spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our politics to their advantage and the advantage of their owners.Thanks to the DC Circuit decision yesterday authored by Janice Rogers Brown (appointed by G. W. Bush and approved despite the willingness of Dem
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With A Brooklyn Accent: Six Debating Points for CCSS Opponents
With A Brooklyn Accent: Six Debating Points for CCSS Opponents: Six Debating Points for CCSS Opponents 1. CCCS and the tests created to comply with them, cost money, and take money away from things that make school enjoyable and exciting like art, music, hands on science, and physical education. Worse yet, the money they removes go into the hands of for profit test companies 2. They discriminate a
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The Answer Sheet 11-2-13
The Answer Sheet:Catholic scholars blast Common Core in letter to U.S. bishopsAbout 130 Catholic scholars around the country have signed a hard-hitting letter to U.S. Catholic bishops denouncing the Common Core State Standards as doing “a grave disservice to Catholic education” and urging the bishops  to ignore the standards or, in the more than 100 dioceses that have already adopted them, to give
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11-2-13 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 SocietyThey're packing 50 students into L.A. high school classesArne Duncan green-lighted it. Remember?"Class size has been a sacred cow and I think we need to take it on," Duncan told his pals at the American Enterprise Institute over croissants back in 2009. Now fast forw
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11-2-13 Wait What?
Wait What?:            Controversial Bridgeport billboard donated to Mayor FinchRaising Hale is a media project of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. Although Wait, What? and Raising Hale are miles apart on some philosophical issues, Raising Hale’s dedication to “uncovering government waste, fraud, and abuse in Connecticut” is impressive. Fellow investigative journalist and blogger, Zachary J
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11-2-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumGrowth Boundaries Announced (Round Three) - Bound for Glory or Bound for Unhappiness?(Note: readers started commenting on this at the Friday Open Thread.  I had thought to try to transfer their comments to this new thread but was unable to do so.  I created a new thread as to make this huge issue, front and center here. )From SPS:The r
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11-2-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineNorm's Speech at the PEP, October 30, 2013Charter school parents had their choice of sending their kids to school taken away when charters closed down their schools for a political rally. They are not public schools.1 by ed notes online / 1h YESTERDAYTeacher Questions Flushing HS Principal's Reduction of Passing Grade to 55it is the right of the principal to set the
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11-2-13 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman:UPDATED: 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 te
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11-2-13 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 postsKeeping retirement weird.Cyrus works for the National Park Service at the African Burial Grounds in lower Manhattan. Halloween seemed like the perfect reason to spend a few days in New York. Anne and I have never done Halloween with Lucy and Joey. Lucy is now ten years old. H
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11-2-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street SchoolBill De Blasio Meets With Rahm Emanuel To Talk "Transition And Urban Affairs"Sure Bill de Blasio had a union rally yesterday - but he also met with one of the more virulently anti-union Dems around:Bill de Blasio met with Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel this morning in New York City, according to sources familiar with the meeting.Emanuel and de Blas
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11-2-13 Radical Scholarship
Radical Scholarship:Guest column: S.C. schools have poverty problem | The Greenville News | greenvilleonline.comGuest column: S.C. schools have poverty problem | The Greenville News | greenvilleonline.com.by plthomasedd / 2h YESTERDAYCommon Core and Text Complexity: “It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!”Common Core and Text Complexity: “It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!”.by plthomasedd / 23h OCT 31remnant 37:
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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 11-2-13 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYThe Best Videos Of Tom Lehrer’s SongsReaders may or may not know about Tom Lehrer, the mathematician turned songwriter and performer who was particularly popular in the 1960′s (and who is still around today). His satirical songs poked fun at many topical subjects, and I still remember heari
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This Week's Education Research Report 11-2-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTSegregation in American schools still problematic, despite best effortsAs American schools struggle with issues of race, diversity and achievement, a new study in the American Sociological Review has split the difference in the ongoing discussion of resegregation. Yes, black, white and Hispanic students were less likely to share classro
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 11-2-13
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT  Principals Union: iPAD ROLLOUT SURVEY GENERALLY YIELDS POSITIVE RESULTSfrom The Associated Administrators of L.A. Weekly Update/Week of November 4, 2013 | http://bit.ly/1bJgX5V 31 October 2014  ::  At the request of Board Member Monica Ratliff, Chair of the Board’s Ad Hoc Common Core Technology Committee, AALA
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NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education 11-2-13
NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:NPE News BriefsCommon Core Ratings: “Hunger Games” More Complex Than “Grapes of Wrath”? | Diane Ravitch’s blogAn article by Blaine Greteman in The New Republic reports that “lexile ratings” have been assigned to various novels by the Common Core standards. Greteman is an English professor at the University of Iowa. Lexile ratings score readin
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11-2-13 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter:  Schools Matter All WeekHedge Fund Operative Gordon Hendry Joins Indiana State Board of Educationby Doug MartinJennifer Wagner : "I've heard it's (Diane Ravitch's Reign of Error) a lovely piece of fiction." When Mind Trust board member and Bill Bennett operative David Shane (wife of former Eli Lilly Endowment’s education consultant) recently stepped down from the Indiana
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All Week 11-2-13 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) DocumentsThere is more to a website than the information accessed by clicking its active links. This I learned years ago in my dealings with statistics software that utilizes both windows and code. Armed with such knowledge, yesterday I spent six hours combing the Louisiana Departm
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 11-2-13 -13 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGWhat Do Philadelphia Students Want?A high school student wrote this letter to Mark NAISON of the BATS, who sent it to me: Mr Naison: Hello, my name is Madeline Clapier. I am a senior at Constitution High School which is a school in Philadelphia that focuses on law and history. Currently, we as a school are facing massive
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YESTERDAY

If enough of the missing students turn up in charters, District budget worries would grow | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
If enough of the missing students turn up in charters, District budget worries would grow | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: If enough of the missing students turn up in charters, District budget worries would growby Dale Mezzacappa on Nov 01 2013 Posted in Latest news="" style="color: rgb(76, 153, 72); cursor: pointer; float: left; padding: 0px 2px;">Share on emailMore Sha
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Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Documents | deutsch29
Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) Documents | deutsch29: Ninety-five Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) DocumentsNovember 1, 2013There is more to a website than the information accessed by clicking its active links. This I learned years ago in my dealings with statistics software that utilizes both windows and code.Armed with such knowledge, yesterday I spent six hours com
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Nite Cap 11-1-13 #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 CAPTODAYIs PS 154 in the Bronx Safe for Students? southbronxschool.comhttp://www.southbronxschool.com: Is PS 154 in the Bronx Safe for Students?Lots going on at PS 154 in the Bronx that sources have shared with The Crack Team.Dr Alison Coviello; PhD
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