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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Back to School "A Summer Song" Chad & Jeremy



Trees swayin' in the summer breeze
Showin' off their silver leaves
As we walked by

Soft kisses on a summer's day
Laughing all our cares away
Just you and I

Sweet sleepy warmth of summer nights
Gazing at the distant lights
In the starry sky

They say that all good things must end someday
Autumn leaves must fall
But don't you know that it hurts me so
To say goodbye to you
Wish you didn't have to go
No, no, no, no

And when the rain
Beats against my window pane
I'll think of summer days again
And dream of you

They say that all good things must end someday
Autumn leaves must fall
But don't you know that it hurts me so
To say goodbye to you
Wish you didn't have to go
No, no, no, no

And when the rain
Beats against my window pane
I'll think of summer days again
And dream of you
And dream of you
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ETS Study Examines Collision of Poverty and Education | NEA Today

ETS Study Examines Collision of Poverty and Education | NEA Today:

ETS Study Examines Collision of Poverty and Education

August 29, 2013 by twalker  
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By Angela Harvey
More than one in five children in the United States live in poverty, and a new report by the Education Testing Service (ETS) documents the devastating effect this crisis has on educational achievement.
Achievement gaps have continued to grow as the gulf between the richest and the poorest American families has widened, according to the report“Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward.” ETS is a nonprofit that develops, administers and scores tests and conducts educational research, analysis and policy studies. Richard J. Coley, executive director of the Center for Research on Human Capital and Education and Bruce Baker, a professor at Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, authored the report.
“While education has been envisioned as the great equalizer, this promise has been more myth than reality,” says Baker. “Not only is the achievement gap between the poor and the non-poor twice as large as the achievement gap between black and white students, but tracked differences in the cognitive performances of students in every age group show substantial differences by income or poverty status.”
The report spotlights an analysis of the average 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores for students in the fourth and eighth grades. Fourth-graders who were eligible for free lunch scored 29 points lower than those not eligible. Similar results were seen in eighth grade, where students eligible for free lunch scored 25 points lower.
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The ETS report also tracks the relationship between household incomes and SAT critical reading scores for seniors in 2012, 

 
Crowdsourcing Ideas For A Better School
Crowdsourcing tools are slowly working their way into the education policy world, designed to give teachers and district employees more say on big decisions that affect their school environment. A notable success story is the Poway Unified School District in San Diego  for building a site called InnovationU. The site called for all district employees to submit ideas that could help improve the saf
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Helping Teachers Get Healthier
Early in this millennium, public school systems began to expand programs to improve students’ health and to reduce childhood obesity. That public schools should advance healthy habits among children is simply good common sense. Federally subsidized healthy school breakfasts and lunches, physical education, and related health-promoting activities should be a regular part of the school day. But cons
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New Research Shows Why Sacramento School Benefits From Statewide ‘QEIA’ Reforms - California Teachers Association

New Research Shows Why Sacramento School Benefits From Statewide ‘QEIA’ Reforms - California Teachers Association:

New Research Shows Why Sacramento School Benefits From Statewide ‘QEIA’ Reforms

Contact: Mike Myslinski at 650-552-5324
Dean QEIA press conferenceHarmon Johnson Elementary, is flourishing and recently won a high-profile national award for excellence. It’s receiving extra resources from the state’s Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA) of 2006. The QEIA law targets low-income schools, like Harmon Johnson in the Twin Rivers Unified School District. Parental involvement and volunteering have soared at the school as well.
“With QEIA, we are finding new and effective ways to help our vulnerable students and to discover practices that all teachers can learn from,” said Vogel, president of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association. “New research shows that these proven reforms are leading to positive impacts in achievement, school reputation, school climate and parent engagement. This is exciting to see and watch.” 
Twin Rivers Superintendent Steven Martinez praised the promise of QEIA. “Harmon Johnson is the perfect example of utilizing additional QEIA resources appropriately -- by identifying students by name and by need, and aligning financial resources along with the human resources, where they really make a difference and significantly impact student achievement."
CTA sponsored the law, SB 1133, that created QEIA to settle a CTA lawsuit against former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger about funds owed to public schools. Over eight years, the program now targets about 400 at-risk schools with nearly $3 billion in proven reforms, such as smaller class sizes, better training for teachers and principals, quality professional development, more collaboration time, and more counselors in high schools. Several QEIA schools have won academic awards, and the turnaround program received international acclaim last year in a book by education reform researchers.
The new research is the first of five reports to be issued over the next year by Vital Research of Los Angeles and is based on in-depth case studies of dozens of QEIA schools. The highlights of the report, 
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Goodbye, API: Get ready for rough transition to better system of measuring schools | EdSource Today

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Say farewell to the API as you know it. Welcome to new era of accountability, with at least a couple years of confusion in between.
The release Thursday of the results on the state’s Academic Performance Index marks the end of a decade of judging student performance based on test scores alone. Within three years, California will have moved to a very different system in which scores on the newly introduced Common Core assessments and other state standardized tests will be but one spectrum in the prism for evaluating schools and districts.
There will be new, multiple measures that could include high school and middle school graduation rates, rates of absenteeism, reclassification of English learners, passage on Advanced Placement exams or a mix of other indicators.
How these measures will fit together – whether they can even be combined coherently in one index – will be the State Board of Education’s challenge.
In the law laying out the Local Control Funding Formula, legislators laid out eight priority areas for evaluating the effectiveness of a school, with says to measure them. Source: charter from the Legislative Analyst's Office report "An Overview of the Local Control Funding Formula," July 2013.
In the law laying out the Local Control Funding Formula, legislators laid out eight priority areas for evaluating the effectiveness of a school, with says to measure them. Source: charter from the Legislative Analyst’s Office report “An Overview of the Local Control Funding Formula,” July 2013. Click for clarity.
The Legislature gave the board until October 2015 to solve it in the law 
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: View from right field -- The 'civil rights movement' for school vouchers

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: View from right field -- The 'civil rights movement' for school vouchers:

View from right field -- The 'civil rights movement' for school vouchers


Finn (right) and his Fordham team.
As thousands marched in D.C. to commemorate Dr. Kings dream speak=h, Checker Finn and his boys at the right-wing Fordham Institute began spinning their own version of the civil rights movement. Their "dream" is all about the "right" to funnel money away from public schools to private companies and religious groups in the form of vouchers.

In the latest issue of The Flypaper, they bemoan the efforts of the Justice Dept. and  the Southern Poverty Law Center to overturn Louisiana's voucher program which has been found to reinforce school segregation.

Since the Fordham crew have absolutely no civil rights credibility of their own, they defer to a civil rights movement veteran from Alabama, Rev. H.K. Matthews, who has sadly lined up with Bobby Jindal in La. and former Florida schools chief
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#StuVoiceStories – Expanding the Chicago Student Union Student Voice

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#StuVoiceStories – Expanding the Chicago Student Union 


 Israel Munoz was born on the south side of Chicago to immigrant parents from Mexico. He has attended Chicago Public Schools his entire life and is a co-founder of the Chicago Student’s Union. Currently, Israel is a student at Fordham University in New York City, majoring in International Politics and Economics.
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It is the early morning of September 4th, 2012: the first day of my senior year at Kelly High School on Chicago’s south side. Pushing aside the heavy and windowless steel doors, I enter my school and I am greeted by security guards yelling “all metal off!!!” The sounds of clinging metal fill the room. I follow order and remove my belt and place my clear plastic backpack onto a conveyor belt which leads to an x-ray machine. I then walk through a metal detector; there are no beeps so I walk into a musty, overheated and overcrowded broken-down auditorium and wait about fifteen minutes until security allows students to enter the hallways: a typical morning at Kelly High School. Thank goodness this was my final year.
However, when I entered school that day, things were different. Some teachers were telling students that a strike was imminent. I took it as hype at first, thinking that the days of workers strikes were long gone, imprinted only as text on the worn out pages of our American History books.  But on the Monday of the next week, I saw what very few students have ever seen before: a mass mobilization of teachers – a sea of red shirts and chants surrounding every public school in the city. The unimaginable had happened and I, like thousands of students across the city, joined and supported our teachers on the picket lines in front of schools and throughout the streets of downtown. After all, we the students attend those schools every day and must hold it in our responsibility to fight for a higher quality education.
But during the aftermath of the strike, once things had calmed down and the typical “Kelly routine” took hold again, I had more time to reflect on my experience of the teachers strike that shook the nation. I noticed that countless students were on the front lines in full support of our teachers during the strike, but whenever the strike was mentioned on the news or even in conversations it was always about the teachers and never the students. Not that I wasn’t in full support of my teachers – their courageous stand for justice would change my life forever – but for me the strike was much different. For me, this strike was as much about the students as it
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API scores: Only about half of LA Unified charters meeting state performance goals | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC

API scores: Only about half of LA Unified charters meeting state performance goals | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC:

API scores: Only about half of LA Unified charters meeting state performance goals

Annie Gilberson | 
Lou Dantzler Preparatory Middle School

Annie Gilbertson

Lou Dantzler Preparatory Middle School was the second worst performing charter middle school in L.A. Unified in 2013. Administrators are trying to turn it around.
For decades, charter schools have been held out as one of the great hopes of public education — private institutions funded with taxpayer dollars, but free from some of the strictures that saddle traditional public schools.
And few school systems have embraced charters as much as the Los Angeles Unified School District has in recent years, with dozens of new charters routinely approved at board meetings.  
But school performance measures released Thursday show that charters are not a silver bullet. Only about half of Los Angeles Unified’s 228 charters have met the state-set goal of an Academic Performance Index of 800 or better. Those scores are based mostly on standardized tests students receive from grades 3 to 12, as well as high school exit exams.
L.A. Unified Superintendent John Deasy said he agrees that charters have to perform well. If they don't?
“We close them,” he said.
Districts have the power to revoke a charter’s license to operate. But according to interviews with state and district officials, L.A. Unified has seldom done so on purely academic grounds.
What does omit mean?
Lou Dantzler Prepatory Middle School sits behind cheerfully-painted, high metal gates in South Central Los Angeles. Its buildings are new and tidy. Students wear uniforms. 
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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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National expert on school reform to speak at UGA State of Education Conference | Online Athens
National expert on school reform to speak at UGA State of Education Conference | Online Athens: National expert on school reform to speak at UGA State of Education ConferenceBy UGA NEWS SERVICEpublished Wednesday, August 28, 2013Larry Cuban, a professor emeritus of education at Stanford University and a national expert on teaching and school reform, will be the keynote speaker at the University of
by mike simpson / 32min 
Report: Public schools more segregated now than 40 years ago
Report: Public schools more segregated now than 40 years ago: Report: Public schools more segregated now than 40 years agoBy Valerie Strauss, Published: August 29 at 3:49 pmE-mail the writerToday, African American students are more isolated than they were 40 years ago, while most education policymakers and reformers have abandoned integration as a cause.That reality is explained in a new report ca
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Diane in the Evening 8-29-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Our Thoroughly Insane Teacher Evaluation SystemThis is a letter from Arthur Goldstein to his colleagues at Francis Lewis High School in Queens, New York. Arthur is chapter chair of his school, where he teaches English language learners. He also had a terrific blog called NYC Educator. This is what he told the staff about the new te
by mike simpson / 2h 
NYC Educator: Chapter Leader Addresses Measures of Student Learning
NYC Educator: Chapter Leader Addresses Measures of Student Learning: Chapter Leader Addresses Measures of Student Learning-->Dear colleagues:Today our Measures of Student Learning Committee met to decide precisely how thoroughly invalid junk science measures will be used to rate teachers in our school. We had several choices. We based our choices on the information available to us, which was very
by mike simpson / 2h 
Lessons from L.A. | Scholastic.com
Lessons from L.A. | Scholastic.com: Lessons from L.A.What can school boards learn from the election upsets in the City of Angels?By Alexander Russo | Winter 2013PRINTEMAILEducation has always been political, and bipartisanship has often been superficial. But education has become more explicitly political in recent years. Battles that were once limited to partisan debates between liberals and conse
by mike simpson / 3h 
CAHSEE and APR Results - Year 2013
CAHSEE and APR Results - Year 2013 (CA Dept of Education): Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Reports ImprovedResults on High School Exit ExamAccountability Results Show Majority of California Schools Meet or Exceed State TargetSACRAMENTO—Students in the class of 2013 passed California's High School Exit Examination (CAHSEE) at the highest rate since the test was made a graduation requirement, with 95.5
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Charter operator owed its schools millions, but no one's checking its books :: News :: Philadelphia City Paper
Charter operator owed its schools millions, but no one's checking its books :: News :: Philadelphia City Paper: Charter operator owed its schools millions, but no one's checking its booksBy Daniel Denvir Published: 08/29/2013 | 3 Comments Postedjessica kourkounisEXTRA CREDIT: Aspira Inc. of Pennsylvania, headquartered on North Fifth Street, owed its publicly funded charter schools $3.3 million, ac
by mike simpson / 4h 
Continuing the fight for education in the South The Ed Show — MSNBC
Shows The Ed Show — MSNBC: Continuing the fight for education in the South
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Mother claims district offered family thousands to keep autistic son out of school | news10.net
Mother claims district offered family thousands to keep autistic son out of school | news10.net: Mother claims district offered family thousands to keep autistic son out of school
by mike simpson / 6h 
8-29-13 Wait What?
Wait What?: Think Bridgeport’s TFA issue is bad, try Windham’sAs reported yesterday and reprinted in today’s Washington Post, thanks to a deal between Paul Vallas and Nate Snow, the Executive Director for the Connecticut Chapter of Teach for America, Bridgeport hired another 31 TFA recruits this week.  The contract Vallas signed last spring committed the City of Bridgeport to hire 125 mostly out-o
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September Strategies to Foster a Successful Classroom Community — Whole Child Education
September Strategies to Foster a Successful Classroom Community — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGSeptember Strategies to Foster a Successful Classroom CommunityAugust 29, 2013 by ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost written byRachel LissyAs a professional development trainer with Ramapo for Children, an organization that provides youth programming and adult training for special needs students
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8-29-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Marni Campbell Leaving Seattle SchoolsMarni Campbell, Executive Director for the NW, is leaving to become the Executive Director of Instruction and Innovation in Highline School District for Susan Enfield.  (Oddly, the notice of her hiring just calls her "Executive Director of Schools" which sounds like a far larger post than for just a region.  Probably an oversig
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Morning Read: School CA Schools Moving Toward Segregation - LA School Report
Morning Read: School CA Schools Moving Toward Segregation - LA School Report:Post navigationPost navigationMorning Read: School CA Schools Moving Toward SegregationPosted on August 29, 2013 by LA School ReportPosted on August 29, 2013 by LA School ReportIn shadow of March on DC, schools increasingly segregated in CaliforniaFifty years after the March on Washington, a major challenge facing Califor
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Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: New LAUSD technology panel tackles details of iPad projectEducation HeadlinesThursday, August 29, 2013Stockton USD pays $65,000 over Amato aide firing disputeAvoiding the potential six-figure cost of going to trial, Stockton Unified has agreed to pay $65,000 to Matt George to settle a lawsuit filed in 2012 by the former second-in-command to c
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8-29-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Urban Ed Blog Takes Shot at Peter Cunningham....people on the other side will respond with public jeers and snickers and will invoke the children in order to marginalize these very real concerns and discredit the people who express them. This is how their kind always responds to criticism and dissent. ... Urban EdOur pal at Urban Education exposes Peter Cunningham, who used to wor
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The Philadelphia School Crush Saga
The Philadelphia School Crush Saga « City School Stories: The Philadelphia School Crush Saga A Teacher’s Point of ViewNotes from the FieldSubmitted by Joy of TeachingOver the summer I spent time in doctor’s waiting rooms  and began playing the online game sensation “Candy Crush Saga” to whittle away the time.  The game is based upon matching three similar colored candy pieces to reach certain goal
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Uncommon Sense to the Core | Lily's Blackboard
Uncommon Sense to the Core | Lily's Blackboard: Uncommon Sense to the CoreAug 29th, 2013 by Lily.I was talking to my neighbor the other day. On the front stoop, she introduced me to her friend who was visiting – a middle-school librarian from Maryland.I told her I worked with the NEA, and we talked a little shop. I asked, “So what are you doing to get ready for the school year.” She said, “Well, m
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NYC Public School Parents: Please contribute to help the final orphaned class at Christopher Columbus HS
NYC Public School Parents: Please contribute to help the final orphaned class at Christopher Columbus HS: Please contribute to help the final orphaned class at Christopher Columbus HScredit: GothamSchoolsHere is the somber request by an alumnae of Columbus HS in the Bronx to help students in the last graduating class at that school, being phased out by the DOE, receive college counseling and other
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A Point/Counterpoint Approach to Common Core Communication | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights
A Point/Counterpoint Approach to Common Core Communication | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights: A Point/Counterpoint Approach to Common Core CommunicationBy National School Public Relations Association on August 29, 2013By Jim Dunn, APR, Past President of the National School Public Relations Association(NSPRA)/Current Communication ConsultantThe battle lines seem to be drawn conc
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Morning Wink 8-28-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAY8-29-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk FaceSCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Memphis Commercial Appeal Ignores Cuts to Worker Salaries/Benefits to Pay for Charter School Empire and Other CorpEd PrioritiesPolicy elites of Shelby County are in search for more tax money for corporate welfare education projects.   For pre-K, there is a plan to increase the bur
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8-29-13 Schools Matter @ The Chalk Face
SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE: Memphis Commercial Appeal Ignores Cuts to Worker Salaries/Benefits to Pay for Charter School Empire and Other CorpEd PrioritiesPolicy elites of Shelby County are in search for more tax money for corporate welfare education projects.   For pre-K, there is a plan to increase the burden on the poor, who now pay almost 10 percent in local and state sales tax, which inc
by mike simpson / 8h 
The Educated Reporter: Student Absenteeism: Turning More Eyes Toward Empty Desks
The Educated Reporter: Student Absenteeism: Turning More Eyes Toward Empty Desks: Student Absenteeism: Turning More Eyes Toward Empty DesksThere's a truism in education circles: Kids can't learn if they're not in class. But the problem of absenteeism – particularly when it’s chronic – is one that experts say is too often missing from the debate over how to boost student achievement and turn around
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First, Do No Harm: That Includes the Media | the becoming radical
First, Do No Harm: That Includes the Media | the becoming radical: First, Do No Harm: That Includes the MediaPosted on August 29, 2013 by plthomaseddPublic education in the U.S. suffers under a powerful intersection of politics, the media, and the public. As I have too often documented, misinformation tends to be reinforced among all three of these forces.The role of media, as Alfie Kohn has exami
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8-29-13 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.: Illinois House pension bombers? Primary them! Will Guzzardi for State Rep.  Will Guzzardi. Will Guzzardi announced today that he is running for State Representative from my district. The incumbent is Toni Berrios. She is the daughter of the corrupt boss of the Cook County Democratic Party, Joe Berrios
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The Gates Money and Common Core | Truth in American Education
The Gates Money and Common Core | Truth in American Education: The Gates Money and Common CoreFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on August 29, 2013 • 0 CommentsMercedes Schneider has a fabulous audit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation spending on Common Core.  In particular I want to highlight money spent on advocacy and advancing the Common Core.Let us now consider ma
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Teenager Expresses Her Thoughts about Common Core through Art and Language.
Missouri Education Watchdog: Teenager Expresses Her Thoughts about Common Core through Art and Language.: Teenager Expresses Her Thoughts about Common Core through Art and Language.Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookDon't get caught in the riptide of bad education reform.  Get out of that school of fish!A 13-year old girl drew this poster about her feelings on Common Core and is r
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Obama’s Jim Crow Education System | FrontPage Magazine
Obama’s Jim Crow Education System | FrontPage Magazine: Obama’s Jim Crow Education SystemAugust 29, 2013 By Arnold Ahlert 4 Comments 13 Print This PostIn his speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Washington, President Obama hypocritically bemoaned the current state of education, saying that many Americans face a “fortress of substandard schools and diminish
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-29-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Do Civil Rights Groups Want More High-Stakes Testing?A group called the Campaign for High School Equity made news the other day when it criticized Arne Duncan’s NCLB waivers and complained that the waivers might reduce the amount of high-stakes testing for poor and minority students. Mike Petrilli at the conservative think tank Tho
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Q&A with Rick Miller: California district waivers mean tougher accountability, but less focus on tests | Hechinger Report
Q&A with Rick Miller: California district waivers mean tougher accountability, but less focus on tests | Hechinger Report: Q&A with Rick Miller: California district waivers mean tougher accountability, but less focus on testsBy Sarah AmandolareDozens of states have been granted waivers from No Child Left Behind since 2011, when the Obama administration adopted a more flexible approach to t
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8-29-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Anybody But Quinn People Give Christine Quinn A Nice Parting GiftFrom Politicker:Advocates hoping to swing the election by urging voters to elect “Anybody but Quinn” gathered across the street from the closed St. Vincent’s Hospital this evening for a get-out-the-vote rally they billed as an early “retirement party” for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.The event–which inc
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Clinton Ties Common Core With Civil Rights | Truth in American Education
Clinton Ties Common Core With Civil Rights | Truth in American Education: Clinton Ties Common Core With Civil RightsFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on August 29, 2013 • 0 CommentsYesterday former President Bill Clinton spoke at the “Let Freedom Ring” rally at the Lincoln Memorial that commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington led by Dr. Martin Luther Ki
by mike simpson / 11h 
Program for forgiveness of loans not easy to use | toteachornototeach
Program for forgiveness of loans not easy to use | toteachornototeach: Program for forgiveness of loans not easy to useWASHINGTON — More than 33 million workers qualify to get their student loans forgiven because they work in schools, hospitals or city halls, but too few take advantage of the options because the programs are overly complicated and often confusing, the government’s consumer advocat
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How Teach For America recruits get preference for teaching jobs
How Teach For America recruits get preference for teaching jobs: How Teach For America recruits get preference for teaching jobsBy Valerie Strauss, Published: August 29 at 6:00 amE-mail the writer2CommentsMoreThis story takes place in Bridgeport, Conn., but the same thing is happening around the country. It’s about how Teach For America corps members are given preference over well-trained teachers
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mantra of the corporate reformers: 'Teachers Wanted -- No Experience Necessary'
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Mantra of the corporate reformers: 'Teachers Wanted -- No Experience Necessary': Mantra of the corporate reformers: 'Teachers Wanted -- No Experience Necessary'Noel Price teaching a class at YES Prep. Throughout YES Prep’s 13 schools, teachers have an average of two and a half years of experience. (NYT)From the Times to Edweek, it seems like planted stories abound, h
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When students bring family guns to school, shouldn't parents... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com
When students bring family guns to school, shouldn't parents... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: When students bring family guns to school, shouldn't parents be held accountable? COMMENT(4) 0 1 0 2RelatedView Larger A Spalding County preschooler brought a loaded gun to his elementary school Tuesday. Is he responsible or are his parents?Previous PostsState offers new test-out option for high school ex
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8-28-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Julie Cavanagh Analyzes Teacher Evaluation OptionsIf only our current union leadership could communicate to teachers how best to protect themselves in what is going to be a very challenging and dangerous school year for everybody - students, teachers and administrators - as well as Julie Cavanagh does. ....Perdido Street School blogDecide to get involved:  I am convinced the overw
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Kimble's Corner: Congressman Kimble Salutes Martin Luther King's Dream
Kimble's Corner: Congressman Kimble Salutes Martin Luther King's Dream: Congressman Kimble Salutes Martin Luther King's DreamThis is not an actual picture of Congressman Kimble with Martin Luther KingToday, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's march on Washington D.C.  This is an important milestone in American history that we shortchange if we only look at it in terms of rac
by mike simpson / 20h 
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Why Do I Have to TEACH Reading?
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Why Do I Have to TEACH Reading?: Why Do I Have to TEACH Reading?I watched my kids today after we came in from Recess and loved what I saw.They were sprawled all over the room. Some were in the Sponge Bob duct taped "used to be my sons'"video chairs. Some sat on the fluffy pink and aqua bean bags I purchased in Five Below. (They were on sale.:)) Others grabbed the
by mike simpson / 20h 
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: "Expose the Gulen Movement" Protest and Conference
THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: "Expose the Gulen Movement" Protest and Conference: "Expose the Gulen Movement" Protest and ConferenceTwo upcoming, related events, a protest and a conference, will provide Americans with an opportunity to learn more about the Gulen Movement. The protest is an excellent opportunity for those in the NYC, NJ, and PA area to speak out against Gulen charter school expansion.Thes
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WTF Big Brother? Glendale school district to monitor students' social media posts - latimes.com
Glendale school district to monitor students' social media posts - latimes.com: Glendale school district to monitor students' social media postsComments0EmailShare0Two Crescenta Valley High School students add touchups to an image on their monitor. The Glendale Unified school board hired a company to monitor students' public posts on social networks, sparking mixed response from students. (Glendal
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Nite Cap 8-28-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change
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 CAPTODAYMotivation is the Key to Success Student VoiceStudent Voice: Motivation is the Key to Success A recent Gallup poll shows that 76% of elementary school students,  61% of middle schoolers, and only 44% of high school students feel engaged in their schoo
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