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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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12-8-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Updated Seattle Schools Growth Boundaries InformationThis SPS page has updated documents and a "look-up" tool for you to see, based on your address, what your child's schools will be.by Melissa Westbrook / 40min  12-7-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum WeekSeattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community Forum mark as readEducation News RoundupI know that many of you do not read these Ed News Roundups.  I get it; there's a lot to do and read in a day.But understand this is to let you know what the REST of the country is experiencing so that (
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Shaky Grant From For-Profit Charter School Ensnares Miami Republican Sen. Anitere Flores | Scathing Purple Musings
Shaky Grant From For-Profit Charter School Ensnares Miami Republican Sen. Anitere Flores | Scathing Purple Musings: Shaky Grant From For-Profit Charter School Ensnares Miami Republican Sen. Anitere FloresPosted on December 8, 2013by Bob Sikes      Rate ThisSen. Anitere Flores (R-Miami) never met a piece of legislation that benefited the for-profit charter school industry she didn’t like. Just pay no attention to the little matter that she works for one. This week’s revelations that the one she works for  received a tax-payer funded grant marks the beginning of another episode in the shady rela
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O.E.C.D. Warns West on Education Gaps - NYTimes.com
O.E.C.D. Warns West on Education Gaps - NYTimes.com: By D. D. GUTTENPLANPublished: December 8, 2013LONDON — Like a school principal handing out a clutch of C grades, Andreas Schleicher unveiled the results from the latest round of the Program for International Student Assessment tests last week. For Britain, the United States and most of Western Europe, the results ranged from “average” to “poor.” British students, for example, scored exactly average in mathematics and slightly above average in reading and science. French students were slightly below average in science and slightly above in re
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TODAY

NYC Public School Parents: Update on our lawsuit vs. NYSED uploading any MORE personal student data to inBloom, and yet more evidence of the blatant disregard the state has for our children's privacy
NYC Public School Parents: Update on our lawsuit vs. NYSED uploading any MORE personal student data to inBloom, and yet more evidence of the blatant disregard the state has for our children's privacy: Update on our lawsuit vs. NYSED uploading any MORE personal student data to inBloom, and yet more evidence of the blatant disregard the state has for our children's privacyOn January 3 in Albany, the
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Will the Common Core be the Rosetta Stone for Corporate Reform? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Will the Common Core be the Rosetta Stone for Corporate Reform? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Will the Common Core be the Rosetta Stone for Corporate Reform?By Anthony Cody on December 8, 2013 4:42 PM In the year 1799, a French soldier discovered an ancient stone in Egypt that had been inscribed with a royal proclamation in the year 196 BC, in three languages; Ancient Greek, Demot
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12-8-13 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: The Mustache of Understanding Tries To Do EducationA couple of weeks ago, I noted that Tom Friedman - the NY Times's own Mustache of Understanding - was in danger of losing his Wanker-In-Chief title to Frank Bruni. The bald-faced food critic, you see, had attempted to opine on education, with predictably disastrous results; how could bushy-nosed Friedman ever top Bruni's stunning d
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Florida’s New Teacher Evaluation System Proving Itself A Huge Failure – All at the Cost of our Kids #ChaChing | Continuing Change
Florida’s New Teacher Evaluation System Proving Itself A Huge Failure – All at the Cost of our Kids #ChaChing | Continuing Change: Florida’s New Teacher Evaluation System Proving Itself A Huge Failure – All at the Cost of our Kids #ChaChingFrom Matt Reid, Editor of Florida Today: Somehow, 98 percent of teacher evaluations suggest we accomplished that, even though school grades dropped statewide. H
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12-8-13 With A Brooklyn Accent: Terry Pruess Announces Her Candidacy for Presidency of Broward Teachers Union- With My Endorsement
With A Brooklyn Accent: Terry Pruess Announces Her Candidacy for Presidency of Broward Teachers Union- With My Endorsement: Terry Pruess Announces Her Candidacy for Presidency of Broward Teachers Union- With My EndorsementFROM:  Terry Preuss, NBCT, Career Public Educator, BTU Executive Board Member, District Advisory Council Appointee @ www.terrypreuss.comFOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND PHOTOS CONTACT
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President of National Teachers Union to Take Part in Newark Schools Rally Monday - Schools - Newark, NJ Patch
President of National Teachers Union to Take Part in Newark Schools Rally Monday - Schools - Newark, NJ Patch: President of National Teachers Union to Take Part in Newark Schools Rally MondayLabor organizations, Newark mayor, school officials also participating in 'National Day of Action'Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. File photoRandi Weingarten, the president o
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Attorney Needed to Take on NYCDOE southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Attorney Needed to Take on NYCDOEFor those who read my blog  you will know I am in for a fight right now. I have been brought up on 3020a charges. I can't go too much into specifics, but I was set up to fail last school year.Right now I have my NYSUT attorney fighting for me, but I need an outside attorney to bring my case to Federal Court. I am not at liberty to s
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Thunderclap: Reclaim the Promise
Thunderclap: Reclaim the Promise: Reclaim the Promise“Reclaim the Promise of Public Education: Our Schools, Our Solutions! #ReclaimPublicEdhttp://thndr.it/1kg85rz”Join AFT in sharing this message together at the same time - automatically.SUPPORT WITHTWITTER FACEBOOK TUMBLRInvite friends     EmbedYou will allow Thunderclap to share this message once on your behalf, along with other supporters.If th
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Corporate America Might Need Common Core, But Our “Outputs” Don’t | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
Corporate America Might Need Common Core, But Our “Outputs” Don’t | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates: Corporate America Might Need Common Core, But Our “Outputs” Don’tPosted on December 8, 2013by Teachers'LettersToBillGates“Kill poverty not human beings.  Stop putting the value of money over the value of lives.” – Mahatma GandhiDecember 8, 2013Dear Allan Golston,This is in response to your editoria
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Welcome back, Coach – FL teacher and writer, Bob Sikes, has returned to the Blogosphere !!! #ColorMeHappy @bobsikes | Continuing Change
Welcome back, Coach – FL teacher and writer, Bob Sikes, has returned to the Blogosphere !!! #ColorMeHappy @bobsikes | Continuing Change: Welcome back, Coach – FL teacher and writer, Bob Sikes, has returned to the Blogosphere !!! #ColorMeHappy @bobsikesDecember 8, 2013Education      Rate ThisGOOD news !!!!Florida teacher and education blogger, Bob Sikes of Scathing Purple Musings has returned from
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12-8-13 teacherken at Daily Kos
teacherken at Daily Kos: Light a room with potatoes - reallyperhaps even charge your cell phone that way. Don't believe me?  Take a look at A Potato Battery Can Light Up a Room For Over a Month from Smithsonian.com How it works -   What the potato does is simply help conduct electricity by acting as what’s called a salt-bridge between the the two metals, allowing the electron current to move freel
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12-8-13 Connected Principals | Sharing. Learning. Leading.
Connected Principals | Sharing. Learning. Leading.: 4 (Digital) Habits That Will Make You More Creativecc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Eric E Castro Sir Ken Robinson’s talk on the notion that “schools kill creativity”, is the most viewed Ted Talk ever. The views and clicks do not only come from educators, but from people all over the world as we all have a vested interest in our students
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12-8-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: It's True; There is no Shame in Being a Public Education AdvocateWhether it's ed reform or just plain old reform, there is praise to be given to anyone who speaks up for public education.  I have respect for even those with whom I disagree because public education matters.(I do have less respect for those in ed reform who do not want to have a dialog unless you agr
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NYC Public School Parents: Carol Burris and Ethan Young on the Common Core and testing
NYC Public School Parents: Carol Burris and Ethan Young on the Common Core and testing: Carol Burris and Ethan Young on the Common Core and testingLast night, principal Carol Burris of South Shore High School on Long Island and Tennessee student Ethan Young were on the Huckabee Show on Fox News.  Carol was named principal of the year in New York State and is theauthor of a petition against the sta
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NYC Educator: Am I Growing Senile, or Is Tom Friedman Inadvertantly Pro-Teacher?
NYC Educator: Am I Growing Senile, or Is Tom Friedman Inadvertantly Pro-Teacher?: Am I Growing Senile, or Is Tom Friedman Inadvertantly Pro-Teacher?I'm not a big fan of NY Times columnist Tom Friedman. In fact, I'm not a big fan of any NY Times columnist, particularly when they write about education. Recently, even Paul Krugman, my favorite by far, has been whoring himself out writing pro-Common C
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Resist the Privatization of America
Why ALEC Lied About Failures at Public Schools » Resist the Privatization of America: Why ALEC Lied About Failures at Public Schools Sunday, 04 August 2013ALEC vs. Kids: ALEC’s Assault on Public Education. That’s the alarmingly accurate title of a new report that focuses on how the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) education task force has used a state-by-state report card to fabricate
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12-8-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Education innovation: A case study in what not to doThe $1 billion initiative by the Los Angeles public schools district to give an iPad to all 650,000 students and teachers for home use has been nothing short of a mess, plagued by poor planning and bad execution. You can read about it here. Here’s a new look at what went wrong from  Larry Cuban, a […]    by Valerie Strauss / 7mi
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Common Core’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings
Common Core’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings: Common Core’s Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost in FloridaPosted on December 8, 2013by Bob SikesThere’s a nifty little site I can  calculate the number of days it has been since my last post – 116 to be exact. More on my sabbatical later. But it seems ironic now that my last post on August 15th was  It’s Begun: F
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Give the Gift of Excellence | EduShyster
Give the Gift of Excellence | EduShyster: Give the Gift of Excellence 300 million ways to support Teach for America this holiday seasonHappy holidays, reader! Tis the time of year when our thoughts turn to the neediest among us, those that require just a little extra giving this season. I give you: the Philadelphia Public Schools Teach for America. You see, it takes a lot of those special Christma
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The Auditor: Christie, education leader go from friendly to foes again | NJ.com
The Auditor: Christie, education leader go from friendly to foes again | NJ.com: The Auditor: Christie, education leader go from friendly to foes againJust 13 months ago, Gov. Chris Christie and Randi Weingarten, national president of the American Federation of Teachers, were all smiles, appearing together on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe."The one-time foes praised each other for the bipartisan c
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12-8-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Democratic response to Malloy’s fundraising strategy is absurd and insulting…Over the past month, Governor Malloy’s strategy for raising money for his potential re-election bid has become increasingly clear.  Not only does he intended to take the millions in public financing but he is seeking to augment that amount with millions more in donation from those who do business with the stat
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12-8-13 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.: Sunday reads.  In a private office in the Thompson Center with no press allowed, Squeezy signs the #pension theft. Why are they smiling? Another battle by parents with CPS to keep a public school open. Now that he’s dead, and can cause no more trouble, Nelson Mandela is being mourned across the ideolo
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Morning Wink 12-8-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSmark as readLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 12-8-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: How to Evaluate a Teacher, ReallyThis is a terrific article that appeared on Huffington Post by Nicholas Ferroni. He speaks truths that every teacher will understand. This is what he
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 12-8-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: How to Evaluate a Teacher, ReallyThis is a terrific article that appeared on Huffington Post by Nicholas Ferroni. He speaks truths that every teacher will understand. This is what he did this week: This week of school, like every other week, was pretty normal: I gave out about fifty dollars to various students who didn’t have lunch
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12-8-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2013 – Part TwoAnother day, another  “The Best…” list….. You might also be interested in: The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELLs In 2013 – So Far The Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of ELL’s In 2012 — Par
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12-8-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Randi Munches on PISA“The crucial question we face now is whether we have the political will to move away from the failed policies and embrace what works in high-performing countries so that we can reclaim the promise of public education... Randi WeingartenIs she talking about the failed policies of the teacher unions without whose support NCLB or RTTT could have been enforced?I c
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12-8-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Mandela: Dishonored by Passive Radical MythMandela: Dishonored by Passive Radical Myth. via Mandela: Dishonored by Passive Radical Myth.by plthomasedd / 38min  All Week 12-7-13 @ THE CHALK FACE@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE  mark as readStand for Children Louisiana: Teachers “Like” Common CoreIt is very important to privatizing interests to promo
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12-8-13 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Beginning to Understand How CorpEd Came to Dominate the National Leadership of AFT and NEAA couple of piece from the vault, one video featuring Randi and Bill at the AFT Conference in Seattle, and just below that a piece of text that provides some background on the corporate takeover of leadership in AFT and NEA.Originally posted 7/13/13:Coming to understand that NEA and AFT have b
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12-8-13 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): Mandela: Dishonored by Passive Radical MythEarly in February 1990, my daughter, born March 11, 1989, spent an entire night vomiting. My wife and I were new parents, and we called our pediatrician multiple times, always urged to be patient and wait it out. By the morning,
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12-8-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Randi Weingarten And The Day Of ActionGates Foundation cash-flushed Randi Weingarten is advertising a "Day of Action" to save public education tomorrow.As I told Randi on twitter (a conversation you can see here), she's full of crap over this "save public education" stuff since she's done so much to wreck it herself - from signing off on the Race to the T
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A Day of Action for Our Students | Lily's Blackboard
A Day of Action for Our Students | Lily's Blackboard: A Day of Action for Our StudentsDec 8th, 2013 by LilysBlackboard.The December 9 Day of Action — a day when parents, students, educators and community leaders will hold events in more than 30 cities throughout the country to support public schools — got an early start in Austin, Texas, with a rally outside the state Capitol building.More than 30
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Teachers and students in Nyack, Yonkers to rally against education overhaul | The Journal News | lohud.com | lohud.com
Teachers and students in Nyack, Yonkers to rally against education overhaul | The Journal News | lohud.com | lohud.com: Teachers and students in Nyack, Yonkers to rally against education overhaulUnion leaders to join eventsTeachers unions will lead a series of rallies across the country Monday — including ones in Nyack and Yonkers — to decry an overemphasis on testing and demand more investment in
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YESTERDAY

What if Common Core Had Followed the Democratic Process? | deutsch29
What if Common Core Had Followed the Democratic Process? | deutsch29: What if Common Core Had Followed the Democratic Process?December 7, 2013On December 2, 2013, I posted a piece that focused on the governor-business hybrid nonprofit, Achieve, Inc. The post also included information on one of the “lead writers” of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Sue Pimentel.I followed the post on Decembe
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Nite Cap 12-7-13 #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 readSorry, Michelle Rhee, but our obsession with testing kids is all about money - Salon.comSorry, Michelle Rhee, but our obsession with testing kids is all about money - Salon.com: Sorry, Michelle Rhee, but our obsession with testing ki
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