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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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229 Million Children Are Officially Invisible - Ryan Jacobs - The Atlantic
229 Million Children Are Officially Invisible - Ryan Jacobs - The Atlantic: 229 Million Children Are Officially InvisibleAccording to a new report, the births of one in three kids under the age of five have not been registered. Registering babies at birth may be a routine, almost automated process in the United States, but it's a rarity in some impoverished nations in both South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report released on Tuesday by UNICEF. In all, there are nearly 230 million children in the world who are nameless and stateless. And they may languish in anonymity for a
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Education Deform – School-to-Prison Pipeline | Dissident Voice
Education Deform – School-to-Prison Pipeline | Dissident Voice: Education Deform – School-to-Prison Pipelineby Paul Haeder / December 11th, 2013As a preface here, as I have done many times as my role as writer for DV, I have to default to the local, as in, where you see fault lines and bright lines in a local situation, you can pretty much make the larger microcosmic statement about many things for a state, region, country, culture, what have you.The School to Prison Pipeline has been written about many, many times, and my hat goes off to some of those writers:The ACLU has it on its radar: ** 
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Interview with Fred van Leeuwen of Education International [Exclusive] - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson
Interview with Fred van Leeuwen of Education International [Exclusive] - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: Interview with Fred van Leeuwen of Education International [Exclusive]by JOSE VILSON on DECEMBER 11, 2013in JOSEFred van Leeuwen, Secretary General, Education InternationalI had the pleasure of talking to Fred van Leeuwen, General Secretary of Education International (EI), a 30-million member federation consisting of the world’s teachers unions and associations. [NB: NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and AFT President Randi Weingarten have seats on the executive board for this organization
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Why Connie Rice Is Partly Wrong - tomhayden.com - The Peace Exchange Bulletin
tomhayden.com - The Peace Exchange Bulletin - Why Connie Rice Is Partly Wrong: WHY CONNIE RICE IS PARTLY WRONG WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013 AT 1:11PM | EMAIL ARTICLE | SHARE ARTICLE | PRINT ARTICLEConnie Rice is a respected civil rights attorney who has decided to join the "dark side", as she jokingly calls it, by becoming a Los Angeles Police Department adviser. Working on the inside of
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Wisconsin Assembly Select Committee on Common Core State Standards Releases Report | Truth in American Education
Wisconsin Assembly Select Committee on Common Core State Standards Releases Report | Truth in American Education: Wisconsin Assembly Select Committee on Common Core State Standards Releases ReportFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on December 11, 2013 • 0 Comments81The Wisconsin Assembly Select Committee on Common Core State Standards yesterday rele
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Education Reform or Privatization? - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week
Education Reform or Privatization? - Walt Gardner's Reality Check - Education Week: Education Reform or Privatization?By Walt Gardner on December 11, 2013 7:14 AMWhen Noam Chomsky told an audience at Columbia University recently that education reform is "a euphemism for the destruction of public education," he stated a provocative view that other public intellectuals have expressed befor
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Cloudy with a Chance of Swedish Meatballs | EduShyster
Cloudy with a Chance of Swedish Meatballs | EduShyster: Cloudy with a Chance of Swedish Meatballs The totally true, tragicomic and almost-certain-to be-ignored cautionary tale of Sweden’s 30 year experiment with privatizing education…Pack your bags, reader, and prepare to stow your winebox in the overhead compartment. We’re headed on an adventure of the international variety. Our destination: Swed
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NYC Educator: An Edict from the King
NYC Educator: An Edict from the King: An Edict from the KingHello New York. It's me, your old pal John King. I've just returned from an invigorating  evening with the good folks at NYC. Now lots of people suggested that we were afraid to come here, but it was no problem whatsoever. After one nasty little person got up and spewed the same special interest nonsense I'd been hearing at the other foru
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Tim King, banned for life from running schools in Oregon, operates online school in Washington | OregonLive.com
Tim King, banned for life from running schools in Oregon, operates online school in Washington | OregonLive.com: Tim King, banned for life from running schools in Oregon, operates online school in WashingtonCharter school founder Tim King, who is banned for life from running taxpayer-funded schools in Oregon, is clear to continue running a state-funded online school in Washington, that state's dir
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NYC Public School Parents: Common Core forums last night in the Bronx and Brooklyn: what a difference!
NYC Public School Parents: Common Core forums last night in the Bronx and Brooklyn: what a difference!: Common Core forums last night in the Bronx and Brooklyn: what a difference!Me in the Bronx last night (credit: GothamSchools)Last night in the Bronx, only about 50-75 people showed up at the Regents Forum at Evander Childs HS.  The borough president, Ruben Diaz Jr., who started off the evening,
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The Making of Common Core Creation Stories: Myth or Fact? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
The Making of Common Core Creation Stories: Myth or Fact? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: The Making of Common Core Creation Stories: Myth or Fact?By Anthony Cody on December 11, 2013 1:50 PMPerhaps because Common Core standards originated in a secretive process, and were adopted with little public discussion, their origins have become a subject of great interest among educators. As
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12-11-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Clarity around the title "interim"Seattle Public Schools bureaucrats love to play word games. Their favorite word game is to re-define words. They do it for a variety of reasons. They have re-defined "task force" and "advisory committee" to evade control by Board policy. They have re-defined "program" and "service"
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Now THAT is what a Day of Action looks like! | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity
Now THAT is what a Day of Action looks like! | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity: Now THAT is what a Day of Action looks like!Posted on: Tuesday December 10th, 2013THANK YOU for an Exciting National Day of Action!Recap, photos, media stories & petition linkTo all the parents, students, teachers and community organizers who turned out across th
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Great SUPES Hustle now under investigation by the IG
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Great SUPES Hustle now under investigation by the IG: The Great SUPES Hustle now under investigation by the IGBack in July, I posted about Gary Solomon's SUPES Academy and their $20 million no-bid contract with CPS to facilitate some workshops and other activities with principals. As I reported then, there was a barrage of complaints from principals critical of t
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Why Corporate Ed Reformer'S Lies Are Better Than The Truth
WHY CORPORATE ED REFORMER'S LIES ARE BETTER THAN THE TRUTH (A SCIENTIFIC COMPARISON TEST)I. Credibility All Lies are designed to seem true. The expert liar carefully uses elements that seem probable and logical and are therefore easy to believe. On the other hand, The Truth is often illogical, wildly improbable and hard to explain. Lies are more believable than The Truth. II. Reliability The Truth
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Cali Education Headlines Wednesday, December 11, 2013
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Charter schools surge in state, nationEducation HeadlinesWednesday, December 11, 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.Kern High School District puts AEDs on high school campusesA year after a 15-year-old C
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The Educated Reporter: Bowl-Bound Colleges Punt on Graduating Black Football Players, Studies Show
The Educated Reporter: Bowl-Bound Colleges Punt on Graduating Black Football Players, Studies Show: Bowl-Bound Colleges Punt on Graduating Black Football Players, Studies ShowAs the nation’s top college football teams prepare to take the field for the elite bowl games, three new reports out this week raise similarly troubling concerns about dismal graduation rates for many of the black players con
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Randi Weingarten discusses: Is the US Education System in Trouble?
Education Nation: Is the US Education System in Trouble?: Is the US Education System in Trouble?Andrea Mitchell Reports //Dec. 9, 2013 // 1:23 PMNewly released data suggests American students haven’t improved over time when it comes to education. Randi Weingarten discusses.
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Morning Wink 12-11-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS mark as readTIME's Person of the Year 2013 Pope Francis, The People's Pope | TIME.comTIME's Person of the Year 2013 Pope Francis, The People's Pope | TIME.com: Pope Francis, The People’s PopeHe took the name of a humble saint and then called for a church of healing. The first non-European pope in 1,200 years is poised to transform a place that measures ch
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TIME's Person of the Year 2013 Pope Francis, The People's Pope | TIME.com
TIME's Person of the Year 2013 Pope Francis, The People's Pope | TIME.com: Pope Francis, The People’s PopeHe took the name of a humble saint and then called for a church of healing. The first non-European pope in 1,200 years is poised to transform a place that measures change by the centuryBy Howard Chua-Eoan and Elizabeth DiasTo read about TIME’s choice in Spanish and Portuguese, click below.El E
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 12-11-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: A Parent Reports on John King’s Stacked Forum in BrooklynNew York Commissioner John King held his first meeting in New York City on the rushed implementation of the Common Core and the tests whose cut score was set so high that only 31% of students across the state passed. Among English learners, only 3% passed. Among students with
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12-11-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: The 10 school districts with the most charter school studentsA new report on charter schools says that charter school enrollment around the country has grown 80 percent over the past five years — but represents only 5 percent of  total public school enrollment (a statistic that may seem surprising given all of the attention that school reformers give to charters). The report, whi
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12-11-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: State Department of Education continues to flaunt Connecticut’s Freedom of Information lawsThe Malloy administration, in general, and Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his State Department of Education, in particular, may very well go down as the least open and least transparent government entity since the adoption of the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act nearly forty years ago. By co
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12-11-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Seeking Equity: Not “If,” But “How” and “Why”Fiction offers avenues to Truth, often hard Truths, that remain closed or less often traveled otherwise. While many people associate Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, with themes addressing sexuality and gender, this novel also confronts readers with a vivid and insightful consideration of class, race, and cultural heritage.* Toward the m
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12-11-13 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Florida Council of 100Charter Schools USA’s Predicatable Rhetoric Over Hillsborough Board DecisionThe editors of the Tampa Bay Times write: …the board was right to follow the staff’s recommendation to reject the plan, because the sponsors were inconsistent about the lead
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12-11-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Video: Wild Cycling!Show English Language Learners this video and have them describe what they see — but be sure to warn them to try this at home!by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h hide  //  saveYESTERDAYThe Best Year In Review Features — 2013I’ve usually done two different types of “year in review” annual posts — one focusing on photo
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12-11-13 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.: Pension Thieves.  Greg Harris is a Democratic State Representative from the 13th District on Chicago’s north side. He targets older people, retired police, fire fighters, public service workers, public school teachers and state university employees. Approach with care. He should be considered a Republ
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12-11-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Substance: Chitown CEO Nixed in NYC!... Byrd Bennett strikes out in New York City as her slavish adherence to Rahm's school closing quota catches up with herChicago schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd Bennett completed her main assignment from Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the Board of Education's May 22, 2013 meeting when she recommended the gutting of the city's real public sch
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12-11-13 THE WHOLE CHILD BLOG Throughout December and January: Personalized Learning — Whole Child Education
Throughout December and January: Personalized Learning — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGThroughout December and January: Personalized LearningDecember 11, 2013 by Klea ScharbergHow do we help each student succeed? One promising way is to personalize learning and put each student at the center of her learning experience. Broader than individualized or differentiated instruction, persona
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12-11-13 With A Brooklyn Accent
With A Brooklyn Accent: The Regents and Collateral Damage- Thoughts from a Bronx Common Core ForumThe amount of "collateral damage" those who call themselves "School Reformers" are willing to endure in their quest to prepare children ( including those not yet born) ready to compete in the Global Economy never ceases to amaze me. They claim to be motivated by idealism and a pass
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12-11-13 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): Schools Matter: Seeking Equity: Not “If,” But “How” and “Why”Schools Matter: Seeking Equity: Not “If,” But “How” and “Why”: Fiction offers avenues to Truth, often hard Truths, that remain closed or less often traveled otherwise. While many people associate Middle...by P.
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12-11-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Contract Negotiations Between UFT and City In State HearingVia James Eterno and Jeff Kaufman at ICEUFT, there is a must read Reuters piece about the contract negotiations between the city and the UFT:With just three weeks remaining before his team cedes power to Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, Bloomberg's administration will cite accounting rules at a closed-door state hearing o
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Being Kevin Huffman
Shanker Blog » Being Kevin Huffman: Being Kevin HuffmanPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on December 11, 2013In a post earlier this week, I noted how several state and local education leaders, advocates and especially the editorial boards of major newspapers used the results of the recently-released NAEP results inappropriately – i.e., to argue that recent reforms in states such as Tennessee and D.C. are
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Mississippi’s child poverty rate is twice as high as Lithuania’s. Why are we OK with that? | Hechinger Report
Mississippi’s child poverty rate is twice as high as Lithuania’s. Why are we OK with that? | Hechinger Report: Mississippi’s child poverty rate is twice as high as Lithuania’s. Why are we OK with that?By Jake McGrawThis story also appeared at:Rethink MississippiHere’s a question. If the United States’s child poverty rate ranks second-worst among the world’s developed countries, and Mississippi has
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4LAKids - CHARTER SCHOOL GROUP WRITES REPORT THAT SAYS REGULAR SCHOOLS SUCK - 6 months later newspaper reports it as news
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: CHARTER SCHOOL GROUP WRITES REPORT THAT SAYS REGULAR SCHOOLS SUCK - 6 months later newspaper reports it as news: CHARTER SCHOOL GROUP WRITES REPORT THAT SAYS REGULAR SCHOOLS SUCK - 6 months later newspaper reports it as newsReport: In Silicon Valley, 'successful' schools fail poor and English-learning studentsBY SHARON NOGUCHI SNOGUCHI@MERCURYNEWS.COM |
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NY Times Series Is About Homelessness, Poverty, Inequality and Public Education | janresseger
NY Times Series Is About Homelessness, Poverty, Inequality and Public Education | janresseger: NY Times Series Is About Homelessness, Poverty, Inequality and Public EducationPosted on December 11, 2013 by janressegerThis week’s New York Times feature series, Invisible Child, about a gifted Brooklyn preteen and her life for several years in a decrepit homeless shelter with her parents and six sibli
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: D.C.'s Mayor Gray under fire for Rhee-ism without Rhee
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: D.C.'s Mayor Gray under fire for Rhee-ism without Rhee: D.C.'s Mayor Gray under fire for Rhee-ism without RheeLike President Obama, who campaigned as a critic of the war in Iraq but then continued many of George W. Bush’s military policies once in office, Gray ran as a skeptic of the reforms being implemented by Rhee but continued them under Henderson, who also has c
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YESTERDAY

A letter to the President: 'Teachers work in fear.' | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com
A letter to the President: 'Teachers work in fear.' | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: A letter to the President: 'Teachers work in fear.' Previous PostsCharter schools increase as more existing schools seek to 'convert.'December 10, 2013Snow day turns into bad day for Oregon football December 10, 2013Excuses, excuses: The lies students tell their teachersDecember 10, 2013By Maureen DowneyHere is a let
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OH THE HUMANITY – OUR STUDENTS AREN ‘T CHALLENGED ! | Teachers Fight Back
OH THE HUMANITY – OUR STUDENTS AREN ‘T CHALLENGED ! | Teachers Fight Back: OH THE HUMANITY – OUR STUDENTS AREN ‘T CHALLENGED !leave a comment »Chicago Tribune, you are hilarious. The Tribune is now boasting on page one how they obtained last year’s state school survey that was, “so provocative that the state withheld a full analysis of it from the public”.Here is an excerpt from the Tribune articl
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12-10-13 Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Budget Deal Reached!As we all know a budget deal has been the issue in the House and Senate BUT today a budget deal has been reached by the House and Senate budget negotiators averting any future government shutdown in January. The agreement eliminates about $65 billion in across-the-board domestic and defense cuts while adding an additional $25 billion in deficit reduc
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Patrick Kennedy, Welcome to the website for my Campaign for Sacramento County Supervisor, District 2.
Patrick Kennedy, Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Education, Area 7: Welcome to the website for my Campaign for Sacramento County Supervisor, District 2.For 23 years, I have committed myself to the service of my community, first as a neighborhood leader and volunteer parent of four wonderful daughters, then as a planning commissioner. And for the past five as a member of the Sacram
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Nite Cap 12-10-13 #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 read12-10-13 Schools Matter: Did AFT Offset Costs of Anti-Corporate Crusade with Corporate Cash?Schools Matter: Did AFT Offset Costs of Anti-Corporate Crusade with Corporate Cash?: Did AFT Offset Costs of Anti-Corporate Crusade with Corp
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