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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

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James Baldwin said it best: 

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


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Recommendation, Development of a Growth Model - Legislative Report
Recommendation, Development of a Growth Model - Legislative Report (CA Dept of Education): Recommendation, Development of a Growth Model - Legislative ReportReport to the Legislature: Recommendation on the Development of a Growth Model as Required by Education Code Section 52052.5(d).California Department of EducationReport to the Governor and Legislature:Recommendation on the Development of a Growth Modelas Required by Education Code Section 52052.5(d)Executive SummaryThis report is required by California Education Code (EC) Section 52052.5(d) that states the State Superintendent of Public In
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JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education? | Reclaim Reform
JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education? | Reclaim Reform: JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education?Posted on November 26, 2013by Ken PrevitiHow important are the arts in the education of your child?Here are three revealing quotations.“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judg
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Louisiana Educator: Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core
Louisiana Educator: Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core: Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common CoreThis is Part I of a Two Part ArticleHow The Common Core DevelopedThe Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12 education were adopted by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) in the Spring of 2010. Those standards
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North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!
North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For JusticeFiled under: Civil Rights Movement Today,Public Education — millerlf @ 2:22 pm In North Carolina, Republicans took the General Assembly
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: The wild expansion of privately-managed charters
Schooling in the Ownership Society: The wild expansion of privately-managed charters: Private Education Management Organizations Running Public Schools Expand –44 Percent of Charter School Students in 2011-12 Attended Schools Operated by EMOsNew report shows 908,000 students in 2011-2012 attended privately-managed schools in 35 states plus D.C. – a major increase from 733,000 enrolled a year earli
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Parents' Message to de Blasio #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
Parents' Message to de BlasioParents & students send a heartfelt message to the Mayor-Elect about high-stakes tests and the next NYC schools chancellor. Go to http://www.parentvoicesny.org to let de Blasio know you support this message too.
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11-26-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Charter Schools Are About Business, Not EducationFrom NEPC:NEPC report finds 44% of charter school students in 2011-12 attended schools operated by EMOs
Contact: William J. Mathis, (802) 383-0058, wmathis@sover.net
Jamie Horwitz, (202) 549-4921, jhdcpr@starpower.net
Gary Miron, (269) 599-7965, garmiron@gmail.comURL for this press release: http://tinyurl.com/nzhgjupBOULDER, CO (Nove
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11/26/2013 – Dec 9 Day Of Action
11/26/2013 – Dec 9 Day Of Action:  mark as read11/26/2013 – Dec 9 Day Of ActionNovember 26, 2013 Subscribe THIS WEEK:Record Number Of Homeless Students … Preschool Done Right … Following Common Core Money … Charters Undermine Public Education … Student Loans As Profit Center TOP STORY Dec. 9 Declared Day Of Action To Reclaim The Promise Of Public Education By Jeff Bryant “Americans everywhere are
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Vote for 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award | Cloaking Inequity
Vote for 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year Award | Cloaking Inequity: Vote for 2013 Educational Policy Turkey of the Year AwardCloaking Inequity seeks to illuminate popular and dominant ideologies that purport to foment equality and close the achievement gap. Often well-intentioned citizens support educational policy that claim to create a more inclusive and better quality education syste
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Be Thankful for Libraries | Taking Note
Be Thankful for Libraries | Taking Note: Be Thankful for Librariesby JOHN MERROW on 26. NOV, 2013 in 2013 BLOGSLike many of you, I gave thanks for our public schools and their teachers during American Education Week, which just ended. Now, during Thanksgiving week, I suggest we give thanks for our public libraries.First of all, they’re everywhere: “If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the ubiquity
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11-26-12 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadNews that President Smith-Blum fell on her way to a restaurant and broke her arm.  We wish her a speedy recovery.From The Guardian, kids of today can't run as fast as their parents.On average, it takes children 90 seconds longer to run a mile than their counterparts did 30 years ago. Heart-related fitness has declined 5% each decade since 1975, f
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Cali Education Headlines Tuesday, November 26, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Fensterwald: Top legislators join critics of proposed regs for new funding formulaEducation HeadlinesTuesday, November 26, 2013FCMAT 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.How Common Core State Standards are changing
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11-26-13 THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG Sharing Thanks on Twitter with Educators — Whole Child Education
Sharing Thanks on Twitter with Educators — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGSharing Thanks on Twitter with EducatorsNovember 26, 2013 by Tina BylandLast night, ASCD and an inspiring group of educators dedicated an entire hour to sharing the many things we are all thankful for over Twitter. The chat left me in an incredibly grateful mood. Whether you are thankful for your school community
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Morning Wink 11-26-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS mark as readLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 11-26-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Jason Stanford: What Texas Moms Can Teach Arne DuncanJason Stanford explains why it won’t be easy for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to “walk back” his insulting remarks about
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 11-26-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Jason Stanford: What Texas Moms Can Teach Arne DuncanJason Stanford explains why it won’t be easy for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to “walk back” his insulting remarks about “white suburban moms.” When defenders of the testing industry in Texas tried the same tactic, they succeeded in strengthening the backlash against high-s
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December 9 – National Day of Action for Great Public Schools | NEA Today
December 9 – National Day of Action for Great Public Schools | NEA Today: DAY OF ACTION FOR GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOLSMONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013WHAT IS THE DAY OF ACTION?On December 9th, educators, parents, community organizations and students are joining forces around the country to ensure quality public schools that are community led and student centered.Want to get involved?For more information, visit
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11-26-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “What Are The Unique Challenges Facing Male Teachers?”What Are The Unique Challenges Facing Male Teachers? is the new “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses in the comments there or here….by Larry Ferlazzo / 12min 11-25-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Te
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11-26-13 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.: Jim Broadway: A test of the rule of law.What are the details? What bill will be amended to become the new pension law? None of that information is available. We only know Madigan plans a one-day session of the House on December 3, and the Senate may be in December 3-4. It would seem, then, that the Ho
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11-26-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: The Opt-Outers: Focus on Change the Stakes in NY MagDespite some inaccuracies, overall a positive article featuring Change the Stakes parents and Jane Hirschman from Time Out From Testing. Here are some comments from the CTS listserve, some focused on one serious factual error in the piece.Article shows opposition NOT driven solely by white suburban moms... Leonie Haimson It was a
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11-26-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: the moral test of a governmentAs Congress considers more cuts to services for the poor, be these unemployment payments, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Payments, Medicaid reimbursement rates - what ever they may be, and to the rest of the social safety net, including Medicare and Social Security ..... I would like to remind them of one of the most important moral stateme
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11-26-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea TurtlesMisreading \”Grit\”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea Turtles. via Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea Turtles.by plthomasedd / 58min 11-25-13 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: Book Review: John Owens’ Confessions of a Bad TeacherI teach. I blog. I speak publicly.
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11-26-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Paul Vallas: $1,200 a day from the taxpayers of Illinois while collecting $900 a day from the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut.Hey, it’s not like we didn’t warn them… Governor Pat Quinn became Illinois’ chief elected official with a very narrow victory.  Arguably he won, in no small part, thanks too strong support from Illinois teachers. When Quinn picked Paul Vallas to be his r
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11-26-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: And now… Common Core tutorsIt was inevitable. First we got the Common Core State Standards, adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia and intended to raise the academic achievement of students everywhere. To assess whether that was happening, we got high-stakes standardized tests aligned with the Core, because, in today’s school reform world, standardized tests are the […
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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): Misreading “Grit”: On Treating Children Better than Salmon or Sea TurtlesRob McEntarffer (@rmcenta) Tweeted a question to me about my blog post, The Poverty Trap: Slack, Not Grit, Creates Achievement, asking: “can Grit research (Duckworth, etc) be used as a humanizing/em
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11-26-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Cuomo's Job Performance RatingsAfter a Siena poll showed Andrew Cuomo with a 44%-56% job performance rating last week, a new Quinnipiac poll released today shows a different story:New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who saw his job approval rating drop in Quinnipiac University polls in the first six months of the year, opens his reelection bid with a 62 - 25 percent approval r
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11-26-13 Truth in American Education
Truth in American Education: New York Principles Send An Open Letter to ParentsAn open letter signed by 545 Principals across New York State was addressed to the parents of elementary, middle, and high school students in New York.  They address several points:NYS testing has increased dramatically.The tests were too long.Ambiguous questions appeared throughout the exams.Children have reacted visce
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Let Senator Williams Know We Want Charter School Accountability, Stop Bill 1085. Join us at his office, | WeArePCAPS
Let Senator Williams Know We Want Charter School Accountability, Stop Bill 1085. Join us at his office, | WeArePCAPS: Let Senator Williams Know We Want Charter School Accountability, Stop Bill 1085. Join us at his office,
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Top legislators join critics of proposed regs for new funding formula | EdSource Today
Top legislators join critics of proposed regs for new funding formula | EdSource Today: Top legislators join critics of proposed regs for new funding formulaNovember 25th, 2013 | Add a Comment | By John FensterwaldIn a letter on Monday, leaders of the state Senate and Assembly criticized proposed regulations on state funding for the state’s neediest students as inconsistent with the intent of the
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ESEA Waivers And The Perpetuation Of Poor Educational Measurement
Shanker Blog » ESEA Waivers And The Perpetuation Of Poor Educational Measurement: ESEA Waivers And The Perpetuation Of Poor Educational MeasurementPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on November 26, 2013Some of the best research out there is a product not of sophisticated statistical methods or complex research designs, but rather of painstaking manual data collection. A good example is a recent paper by M
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Open Congress : Major Bill Actions Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: S. 1704: Affordable College Textbook ActA bill to expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students.4h skip  //  saveBill Introduced: H.R. 3538: Affordable College Textbook ActTo expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students.7h Bill Introduced: H.R. 3461: Strong Start for America's Childr
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NYC Educator: Oh, the Horror
NYC Educator: Oh, the Horror: Oh, the HorrorCharter school operators, who enroll about 6% of the city's students, are recoiling in shock from Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio's decision to represent the other 94% of city schoolchildren in his transition team. Don't they read Gotham Schools? If they did, they'd know that charters should be covered at least half the time, if not all the time.What is with
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Parents Make Better Teachers (Sara Mosle) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Parents Make Better Teachers (Sara Mosle) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Parents Make Better Teachers (Sara Mosle)Sara Mosle teaches writing at Philip’s Academy Charter School in Newark, N.J., and has written about education for Slate, the New York Times, and The Atlantic among other publications. This appeared in Slate, August 30, 2013.In a recent [New York Times] article,
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DeBlasio Appoints One of the Best Parent Advocates to Transition Team | janresseger
DeBlasio Appoints One of the Best Parent Advocates to Transition Team | janresseger: DeBlasio Appoints One of the Best Parent Advocates to Transition TeamPosted on November 26, 2013 by janressegerThe New York Daily News reports that New York City Mayor-Elect Bill DeBlasio has appointed Ms. Zakiyah Ansari to his 60 member transition team.  Ms. Ansari will be weighing in on matters as important as t
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'It Feels Like Education Malpractice' - Hope Reese - The Atlantic
'It Feels Like Education Malpractice' - Hope Reese - The Atlantic: 'It Feels Like Education Malpractice'What one woman learned from 10 years of teaching in a New York City public school Laurel Sturt was a 46-year-old fashion designer in New York City whose career trajectory took an unlikely shift one day on the subway. A self-proclaimed social activist, Sturt noticed an ad for a Teaching Fellows p
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Making learning authentic
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Making learning authentic: Making learning authenticWith attacks mounting on colleges of education, including from Sec. of Ed Arne Duncan, I'm happy to read the occasional story about good young teachers who learned their skills in good teacher training programs. Yesterday's piece in DNAinfo gives us a snapshot of 5th-grade teacher Heather Reed at Chicago's Pritzker
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Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 11-25-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
Nite Cap UPDATEUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATECORPORATE ED REFORMEF English Proficiency Index not the way to measure a nation's English language proficiencyIndex not a valid guide to English skills Published November 16, South China Morning PostI refer to the article by William Wang ("Hongkongers need to learn English from an early age", November 11). He makes the recommendation highlighted
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Ed Roundup for Week Ending 11-22-13 - Year 2013
Ed Roundup for Week Ending 11-22-13 - Year 2013 (CA Dept of Education): Education Roundup for Week Ending November 22, 2013SACRAMENTO—The California Department of Education (CDE) today issued this week's Education Roundup of education-related announcements of public interest.STEM Symposium ConcludesThe CDE's California Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Symposium came to a su
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Fast for Families
Fast for Families:  What we hope to accomplishThis year, we have come the closest ever to achieving real immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship. In June, the U.S. Senate passed a comprehensive, bipartisan immigration bill (S.744). Now, the House of Representatives has chance to complete the dream for 11 million aspiring Americans by addressing the moral crisis that is our broken immigrat
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Nite Cap 11-25-13 #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 readThe Network For Public Education | Grass Roots Report: Videos and account of hearings on the dangers of inBloom and private data-sharing in Albany and Chicago2min National Day of Action December 9th | WeArePCAPSNational Day of Action
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