Nite Cap 12-15-13 #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."

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12-15-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: Change the Stakes end of year meeting - Tuesday 12/17, 5:30Join what promises to be a lively discussion about the issues and how we – as parents, teachers and students – can respond individually and collectively.....Change the Stakes Press Conference re: City Council Resolution on High-Stakes Testing - On December 9th, Change the Stakes participated in a press conference held on the steps of City Hall in support of Resolution 1394, which calls for high-stby ed notes online / 2min   12-14-13 Ed Notes Online WeekEd Notes Online: Ed Notes Online mark as readSusan's Saturday Morni

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Unpacking political contrition | BCS in Context

Unpacking political contrition | BCS in Context: Unpacking political contrition On the evening of Sep. 20, 2012, the Los Altos United Methodist Church held a facilitated “listening” and “healing” event in a well-meaning attempt to bring together reasonable minds on both sides of the increasingly bitter BCS-vs-LASD battle.This worthwhile peacemaking event was promoted by, among others, BCS Foundation Board Member Gil Ahrens, as a way to “lower the level of hostility”:“There will be an opportunity for everyone to speak and be heard on the question of: “How have you experienced the BCS-LASD confl

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Please Excuse Davontaye, He Suffers From Povertenza | Our Legaci

Please Excuse Davontaye, He Suffers From Povertenza | Our Legaci: PLEASE EXCUSE DAVONTAYE, HE SUFFERS FROM POVERTENZADear Judge,I know that Davontaye’s actions caused the deaths of four people. But please don’t give him life in prison. He suffers from Povertenza. You may not know about this condition but Povertenza is an illness that people from impoverished socio-economic backgrounds have.Due to the inability to access quality education and employment, Davontaye’s development has been stifled. This leads to poor decision making and I would further argue that since his neighborhood sees so muc

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TODAY

Misleading the Public | PWC Education Reform Blog

Misleading the Public | PWC Education Reform Blog: Misleading the PublicDecember 15, 2013 — pwceducationreform On Wendesday night the PWC School board will vote to approve the bids for building the 12th high school.  I suspect the votes will go in favor of the school plus the pool. Chairman Johns, Dr Otaigbe, Mrs Jessie, and Mrs Williams have all said they strongly support the pool.  Mrs Covingto

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DailyCensoredcom – Investing in for-profit college stocks: public pension funds aid and abet corporate crime

DailyCensored.com – Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal NewsInvesting in for-profit college stocks: public pension funds aid and abet corporate crime: Investing in for-profit college stocks: public pension funds aid and abet corporate crimeBy Danny Weil on December 15, 2013 9:14 pm / no comments The featured image is a picture of the home of the Murphys.  It is for sale for $27 mil

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12-15-13 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): GUEST POST: Literature, Young Adult Fiction, and the Common Core, Lauren GirouardLauren Girouard is a student in my first year seminar (writing intensive). Lauren is an avid reader—a Neil Gaiman fan—and when she chose to write about Common Core, I asked her permission to

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CPS releases charter proposals - chicagotribune.com

CPS releases charter proposals - chicagotribune.com: CPS releases detailed proposals for 21 charter campusesEmailChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel discusses at a Phalanx Family Services press conference the challenges both public schools and charter schools face in Chicago. (Posted on Aug. 6, 2013)By Noreen S. Ahmed-UllahTribune reporter8:36 p.m. CST, December 13, 2013Chicago Public Schools on Friday rel

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Former schools chief Tony Bennett finds new work

Former schools chief Tony Bennett finds new work: Former schools chief Tony Bennett finds new workFormer Indiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett is back in the public eye, helping to pitch a Common Core test to state education leaders four months after he resigned as Florida’s schools chief in the midst of a school grade-change scandal.ACT spokesman Ed Colby said Friday that Bennett will help

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12-15-13 The Answer Sheet

The Answer Sheet: How much teachers get paid — state by stateHow much do teachers across the United States get paid? Here is data, state by state, collected from the National Center for Education Statistics by Jon Boeckenstedt, associate vice president at DePaul University in Chicago. The data are for 2013 and represent the estimated average annual salary of teachers in public elementary and secon

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12-15-13 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: One Hundred KIPP 5th Graders in a Single Classroom on the Floor for a Week Until They "Earned" Their DesksKIPP spends a great deal of money promoting their brand of total compliance segregated charter schools as the tough love, no excuses solution for schooling in urban communities disabled by poverty and the lack of hope. KIPP and its billionaire supporters contend that

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¡QUEME LOS BARCOS!: Politics, Repercussions, and Cloaking Inequity | Cloaking Inequity

¡QUEME LOS BARCOS!: Politics, Repercussions, and Cloaking Inequity | Cloaking Inequity: ¡QUEME LOS BARCOS!: Politics, Repercussions, and Cloaking InequityFirst, let me say thank you for reading Cloaking Inequity. Since 2012, this labor of love focused on the inequities that are purposefully hidden in the educational policy discourse has been read by hundreds of thousands of people from 161 countri

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Student Prepares for Hunger Strike for Democracy in Education - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Student Prepares for Hunger Strike for Democracy in Education - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Student Prepares for Hunger Strike for Democracy in EducationBy Anthony Cody on December 15, 2013 11:40 AMOn Friday I asked the question "Who gets to decide what is taught in our schools?" and suggested that teachers and students ought to have the biggest role in these decisions.

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12-15-13 Jersey Jazzman

Jersey Jazzman: Will the Star-Ledger Editorial Board EVER Get Education Right?Once again, the Star-Ledger's editorial board can't get the basic facts about education correct; this time, it's the Newark teachers contract:Under the new system, 190 of the best teachers have received merit pay bonuses so far, in amounts ranging from $5,000 to $12,500. The greater bonuses went to those teaching hard-to

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12-15-13 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: Do you think charter schools “know how to do middle school really well?”According to DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson, charter schools “know how to do middle school really well.” When it comes to defining the phrase “really well,” are education reformers basing their narrative of quantity over quality, i.e. proficiency rates versus growth? What do you – @thechalkfacers – think? In

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A New Majority for Our Schools, Our Solutions | Randi Weingarten

A New Majority for Our Schools, Our Solutions | Randi Weingarten: A New Majority for Our Schools, Our SolutionsPosted: 12/15/2013 10:41 am It has the feel of Groundhog Day: Another international education comparison, another round of hand-wringing and finger-pointing, and then right back to the same policies. You know what they say about the definition of insanity.The latest results come from the

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When Private Firms Run Schools, Financial Secrecy Is Allowed - NYTimes.com

When Private Firms Run Schools, Financial Secrecy Is Allowed - NYTimes.com: By MORGAN SMITHPublished: December 14, 2013Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization. To join the conversation about this article, go totexastribune.org.Connect With Us on TwitterFollow@NYTNational for breaking news and headlines.Twitter List: Reporters and EditorsRedactions

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Morning Wink 12-15-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSmark as read12-15-13 Wait What?Wait What?: Numbers Don’t Lie, Unless Someone Wants Them To“Never in my career as a high school English teacher — as an instructor of reading and writing, as a purveyor of literature — have I been asked to collect more “student data” and create more “spreadsheets” than I have in the past several years.”  - Barth Keck Barth Ke

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12-15-13 Wait What?

Wait What?: Numbers Don’t Lie, Unless Someone Wants Them To“Never in my career as a high school English teacher — as an instructor of reading and writing, as a purveyor of literature — have I been asked to collect more “student data” and create more “spreadsheets” than I have in the past several years.”  - Barth Keck Barth Keck is an English teacher and […]The post Numbers Don’t Lie, Unless Someon

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Disrupting Innovation | educarenow

Disrupting Innovation | educarenow: Disrupting InnovationPosted on December 15, 2013 | Leave a commentThe buzz word everywhere is “innovation.”  You can’t avoid it.  And who wants to?  It means positive change, connotes growth and goodness.  It’s a wonderful word.  Who can possibly be against innovation?Right?So last week I went to the Michigan Innovative Schools Conference.  (The conference was a

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North Jersey mom bloggers meet to talk about their lives online and off - NorthJersey.com

North Jersey mom bloggers meet to talk about their lives online and off - NorthJersey.com: North Jersey mom bloggers meet to talk about their lives online and offSUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 2013, 9:34 AMBY  KARA YORIOSTAFF WRITERTHE RECORDPAGES: 1 2 > DISPLAY ON ONE PAGE | PRINT | E-MAILThe women greet one another like lifelong friends who are mid-conversation. A

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 12-15-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: What Happens When Educators Make Their Own Documentary?In 2011, Rocky Killion, the superintendent of schools in West Lafayette, Indiana, had an idea: What if we made our own documentary about the schools? What if we became our own production crew? What if we traveled the country and interviewed experts with our questions? They did

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12-15-13 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:  VOTE DELAYED TO JANUARY ON L.A. UNIFIED’S iPAD PROGRAMThe death of school board member Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte is being cited as the reason for delaying a vote on the next phase of the $1-billion iPad project in L.A. Unified. By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1cKbAG6 December 11, 2013, 6:37 p.m.  ::  Los Angeles Unified School District of

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12-14-13 Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog

Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Video Games?With the release of the Xbox1 and Ps4 I am not going to sit around and play fire emblem on my Ds. The go to games this holiday season (parents take note) are violence filled so good you'll want to slap your mama releases like Call of Duty: Ghost, Dead Rising 3, and Assassin's Creed. All of wich are Restricted, but the FTC found 70% of restricted games are ad

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12-15-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Study: Standardized Tests Don’t Measure “Fluid Intelligence”People might differ with my interpretation of a new study that has just come out (and I’d love to hear if you do), but it seems to me that it has found that standardized testing may measure how well a school is doing on training students on lower-level thinking ski

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12-15-13 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.: Votes.  Fred, I believe the original quote came from Stalin. His sense of humor ran in that direction, too. Monitoring election integrity has to be done everywhere, but in the Chicago Teachers Union’s major elections, the votes are counted by the American Arbitration Association, and in the Chicago Te

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12-15-13 Education Research Report

Education Research Report: Using Above-Level Testing to Track Growth in Academic Achievement in Gifted StudentsAbove-level testing is the practice of administering aptitude or academic achievement tests that are designed for typical students in higher grades or older age-groups to gifted or high-achieving students. Although widely accepted in gifted education, above-level testing has not been subj

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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: CATO Slams Michelle Rhee’s “Common Core Crud”H/T to Russ Walsh. CATO Institute scholar Neal McCluskey takes Michelle Rhee to the woodshed: I don’t dislike the oft-attacked Michelle Rhee. I don’t even know her. But I do dislike disingenuous or empirically anemic arguments

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12-14-13 teacherken at Daily Kos: 222 years ago today

Daily Kos: 222 years ago today: 222 years ago todaythe Bill of Rights was ratified and went into effect. We do not honor this day as we do Constitution Day, the day the Convention accepted the document that established our system of government. We should. George Mason would not sign the original because it lacked a Bill of Rights, and after all, he was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rig

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12-15-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Mary Pat Christie Isn't Laughing This WeekendThe George Washington Bridge traffic lane closures scandal in New Jersey just gets more and more troublesome for Governor Blustery himself, Chris Christie.In the beginning, when critics first began to ask questions about why Christie's Port Authority appointees closed lanes to the GWB on the NJ side in September for an alleged tra

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Sacramento City Unified trustees to consider transgender policy - Education - The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento City Unified trustees to consider transgender policy - Education - The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento City Unified trustees to consider transgender policyBy Loretta Kalblkalb@sacbee.comPublished: Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013 - 12:00 amSacramento City Unified School District trustees are poised this week to approve new guidelines designed to accommodate and protect transgender students.The policy,

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Get Up, Stand Up: Boycott FedEx for their Hypocrisy and Support of TFA | Cloaking Inequity

Get Up, Stand Up: Boycott FedEx for their Hypocrisy and Support of TFA | Cloaking Inequity: Get Up, Stand Up: Boycott FedEx for their Hypocrisy and Support of TFAToday a reader gave me the heads up that FedEx wants to make a $300,000 commitment to Teach For America (TFA). (See http://blog.van.fedex.com/countlesspossibilities) They will donate a dollar of every One Rate transaction (Their attempt t

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Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education | MyFDL

Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education | MyFDL: Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ EducationBy: Michelle Chen Saturday December 14, 2013 6:48 am  Tweet3  (Chicago Teachers Local Union 1/Flickr/Creative Commons)Originally published at In These TimesAfter years of being backed into a corner, on Monday public-school teachers stood up in defiance against what they see as their chief bully—budget-slashing school

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Nite Cap 12-14-13 #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 read4LAKids - BLACK TO SCHOOL?4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: BLACK TO SCHOOL?: BLACK TO SCHOOL? BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN  / CITYWATCHLA/ PUBLISHED BY THE LA PROGRESSIVE | HTTP://BIT.LY/1CJ3DRZDecember 13, 2013  ::  Los Angeles

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