Latest News and Comment from Education

Show All

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Nite Cap 1-28-14 #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




How “School Choice” Has Failed Louisiana (Especially New Orleans) Parents | deutsch29
How “School Choice” Has Failed Louisiana (Especially New Orleans) Parents | deutsch29: How “School Choice” Has Failed Louisiana (Especially New Orleans) ParentsJanuary 28, 2014Advocates of the privatization of American public education have proclaimed the week of January 26, 2014, as “school choice week.” As such, they are celebrating the creation of their own lucrative bureaucracy, one that is an
by mike simpson / 4min 
Schools to Watch for 2014 - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)
Schools to Watch for 2014 - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Congratulates California's 2014 "Schools to Watch—Taking Center Stage" Model Middle SchoolsSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced that 11 high-performing California middle schools have been newly designated as model middle grades schools in the 2013
by mike simpson / 7min 
Some Noble charter school students are “turning to suicide as a way out” Parents United for Responsible Education
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Some Noble charter school students are “turning to suicide as a way out”: Some Noble charter school students are “turning to suicide as a way out”Katie Osgood at the BOE meeting. Substance photo by George SchmidtAt the January Board of Education meeting, teacher Katie Osgood called out the Noble charter school network for its extreme discip
by mike simpson / 25min 
SPECIAL Mid Day Banana Break 1-28-14 #RealEdTalk #edreform
Big Education Ape - Mid Day Banana BreakRich Kids of Northern VirginiaIts’ that time of year, when the feds, state, and local government’s prepare their budgets for the coming fiscal year.  Each year we hear different claims about the relative wealth and tax burden borne by residents in our jurisdictions, with the statistic cited generally the one that supports the argument of whomever is asking f
by mike simpson / 2h 
1-27-14 The Whole Child Blog - ED Pulse Poll Results: Will a Longer School Day and Year Better Prepare Students for Success? — Whole Child Education
ED Pulse Poll Results: Will a Longer School Day and Year Better Prepare Students for Success? — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGED Pulse Poll Results: Will a Longer School Day and Year Better Prepare Students for Success?January 28, 2014 by Kit Harris, ASCD ResearchASCD continually seeks to provide solutions to the challenges that face educators of all levels. A recentASCD SmartBrief ED
by mike simpson / 2h 
Send Arne Duncan to Mars!: A State of the Union wish list for liberals - Salon.com
Send Arne Duncan to Mars!: A State of the Union wish list for liberals - Salon.com: Send Arne Duncan to Mars!: A State of the Union wish list for liberalsWe asked left-of-center groups what they hope to hear in the president's speech tonight. Here are the best repliesPresident Obama’s address tonight will be closely watched by advocates on a wide range of issues, including some progressives who’ve
by mike simpson / 2h 
How to Steal Public Schools for Dummies (excerpts)
How to Steal Public Schools for Dummies (excerpts)Learn how to "Encourage" your local and state representative withlow upfront investments Learn Astroturf lobbyingto Beat Taxes and the IRSJust Like Michelle Rhee's Students first only BETTERAstroturf lobbying refers to political organizations or campaigns that appear to be made up of grassroots activists but are actually organized and run
by mike simpson / 3h 
1-28-14 LA School Report - USC Rossier offers new program for LA Unified charter teachers - LA School Report
USC Rossier offers new program for LA Unified charter teachers - LA School Report: USC Rossier offers new program for LA Unified charter teachersThe debate over what makes a good teacher can be, at best subjective and at worst litigious. (See Vergara v California, which got underway yesterday.) But USC’s Rossier School of Education may have cracked the code and is now partnering with Los Angeles U
by mike simpson / 4h 
GO RANDI: National teachers union leader joins protest of Newark school makeover | NJ.com
National teachers union leader joins protest of Newark school makeover | NJ.com: National teachers union leader joins protest of Newark school makeoverNEWARK — American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten returns to Newark tonight to join community members, parents and teachers to protest Superintendent Cami Anderson’s reorganization plan for the city’s schools.The protest will coinc
by mike simpson / 5h 
Morning Wink 1-28-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 1-28-14 Diane Ravitch's blog A site to discuss better education for all #EDCHAT #P2Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Houston Learned from Los Angeles What NOT to Do with TechnologyThe Los Angeles iPad program has become a national lesson in what NOT to do. Other districts, watching the slow-motion di
by mike simpson / 5h 
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 1-28-14 Diane Ravitch's blog A site to discuss better education for all #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Houston Learned from Los Angeles What NOT to Do with TechnologyThe Los Angeles iPad program has become a national lesson in what NOT to do. Other districts, watching the slow-motion disaster in L.A., are taking heed and planning their purchases and implementation of technology with greater care than was exercised in the nation’s se
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Commissioner Pryor and entourage are the biggest threat to Malloy’s Re-election…Considering Governor Dannel Malloy won the last gubernatorial election with less than 50% of the 1.2 million votes cast and his margin of victory was only 6,404 votes, virtually anything could cost him his re-election dreams. But forget the Republicans and their propensity to snatch defeat from the jaws of
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 @ The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: The hype and reality of ‘school choice’In case you missed any of the endless streams of announcements, it’s National School Choice Week, and advocates are staging thousands of events across the country to talk it up. There is even a school choice train making a whistle-stop tour across the country for rallies and other such goings-on to draw attention to a movement that has been
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadComing up on Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the MAP test boycott.  It's also the day that SEE (Social Equality Educators) are introducing their "Respect' slate of candidates to challenge the current SEA leadership.  They are having a forum on Thursday at Garfield Community Center.   Lead by Jesse Hagopian, a Garfield teacher who was
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: SKrashen: The Common Core: A Disaster for Libraries, A Disaster for Language Arts, a Disaster for American EducationSKrashen: The Common Core: A Disaster for Libraries, A Disaster for Language Arts, a Disaster for American Education: Stephen Krashen Knowledge Quest 42(3): 37-45 (2014). There never has been a need for the common core and there is no evidence ...by Robert D. Skeels .
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Florida Republican Lawmakers Devotion to STEM Conflicts With Their School Choice ObsessionThe nation’s supposed need for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) professionals drives much republican education policymaking in Florida. Governor Rick Scott turned a
by mike simpson / 6h 
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog 1-28-14
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Animal TestingAnimal Exploitation Now has recently exposed that the number of fines the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made for  "laboratory negligence" has gone up by 162% in the past 3 years. The group is claiming that the USDA is failing at its job of regulating labs and not protecting animals used for testing. All together 35 labs were fined and
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: This Week In Web 2.0In yet another attempt to get at the enormous backlog I have of sites worth , I’ve recently begin a regular feature called “The Week In Web 2.0.” (you might also be interested in The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education In 2013): Curriculet lets teachers assign what appears to be books in the public d
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Soup Kitchen and half a cola at Robyn Gabel’s office.This afternoon our chapter of IEA Retired, the Skokie Organization of Retired Educators (SORE) had planned another pension protest outside the Evanston district office of State Representative Robyn Gabel. We had planned to set up a soup kitchen and
by mike simpson / 6h 
FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Tuesday, January 28, 2014
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Trial over California teacher protection laws opensEducation HeadlinesTuesday, January 28, 2014FCMAT 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.Proposed changes at Salinas charter school have parents riledMiddle school ag
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"
Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": “Parents Should Demand Partnerships With Schools to Boost Achievement”Parents Should Demand Partnerships With Schools to Boost Achievement is a post over at Education Week reporting on a recent meeting of parent convened by the National Assessment Governing Board (they’re the ones who administer the NAEP tests, which I beli
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and EquityWhat We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and Equity. via What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and Equity.2 by plthomasedd / 1h 1-27-14 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: Bad Journalism, Test-Mania, and High Education: “A Flabbergasting Reality”About thirty years after the fabricated
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): What We Know (and Ignore) about Standards, Achievement, and EquityCalling for, establishing, and implementing high (or higher) standards has been a part of U.S. public education at least since the 1890s when the Committee of Ten called for higher standards for high schoo
by mike simpson / 6h 
1-28-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Regents Grading HellIf you're reading this post anytime around 7:30 AM when I had it scheduled to be posted, then you're reading it long after I left for my ELA Regents exam grading assignment.You see, the NYCDOE sent the teachers in my department to a school almost as far away from our school on the island of Manhattan as you can get without being:a) in the Bronxb) in the E
by mike simpson / 6h 
Accountability Bill: Privatization Driven | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!
Accountability Bill: Privatization Driven | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: Accountability Bill: Privatization DrivenFiled under: Charter Schools,Low Performing Schools — millerlf @ 10:01 am 4 features of the proposed Accountability Bill (SB 286/AB 379) are :1. Low performing schools will be closed or turned over to independent charter management organizations (CMO).2. The MPS Superint
by mike simpson / 6h 
The Public School Where Prayer Is Everywhere - Andrew Cohen - The Atlantic
The Public School Where Prayer Is Everywhere - Andrew Cohen - The Atlantic: The Public School Where Prayer Is EverywhereA Buddhist family has filed a lawsuit against Louisiana's Sabine Parish School Board for violating the First Amendment. David Goldman/AP ImagesA federal lawsuit filed last week in Louisiana contains some of the most startling allegations you will ever see against public school of
by mike simpson / 6h 
New slogan for state? “Georgia: Where it’s hot and clammy and... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com
New slogan for state? “Georgia: Where it’s hot and clammy and... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: New slogan for state? “Georgia: Where it’s hot and clammy and we’re still singing about your mammy.” Making the rounds this morning is a map that reflects the stereotypes of all the states based on Google searches that ask, “Why is State X so…….”A story and map in Huffington Post proclaim that the most f
by mike simpson / 6h 
Mayor de Blasio Defends Preschool and After-School Programs with Determination | janresseger
Mayor de Blasio Defends Preschool and After-School Programs with Determination | janresseger: Mayor de Blasio Defends Preschool and After-School Programs with DeterminationPosted on January 28, 2014 by janressegerNew York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio made the needs of young children and pre-adolescents the centerpiece of his election campaign last fall.   A promotional website describes a well fram
by mike simpson / 6h 
empathyeducates – Minority Kids Disproportionately Impacted By Zero-Tolerance Laws
empathyeducates – Minority Kids Disproportionately Impacted By Zero-Tolerance Laws: Minority Kids Disproportionately Impacted By Zero-Tolerance LawsPhotograph; Kyle Thompson, 15, of Farmington, Michigan was arrested and kicked out of school after a tug-of-war with a teacher over a note.By Halimah Abdullah | Originally Published at Cable News Network [CNN].Saturday, January 25, 2014(CNN) — A year a
by mike simpson / 6h 
Shanker Blog » Unionization And Working Poverty
Shanker Blog » Unionization And Working Poverty: Unionization And Working PovertyPosted by Ian Robinson on January 28, 2014Our guest author today is Ian Robinson, Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and in the Residential College’s interdisciplinary Social Theory and Practice program at the University of Michigan.Poverty is (by definition) a function of inadequate income relative to family or
by mike simpson / 7h 
One Teacher's Perspective: False Narratives Dogging Public Education
One Teacher's Perspective: False Narratives Dogging Public Education: False Narratives Dogging Public EducationIn annual class discussions about slave history, almost always some student asks, “Why didn’t slaves resist slavery?” Of course, this is a fallacious question. I do not blame the annual questioner since the premise is rooted in a false narrative retold many times in the historiography of
by mike simpson / 7h 
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago newest church-affiliated charter school
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago newest church-affiliated charter school: Chicago newest church-affiliated charter schoolSchool planner, Donnita TravisSometimes even cynical me can be found gasping at the audacity of Chicago's charter school hustlers. My latest gasp came after reading about the newest church-affiliated charter approved by the mayor's hand-picked school board last week, targe
by mike simpson / 7h 

YESTERDAY

1-27-14 Jersey Jazzman Jammin'
Jersey Jazzman: Can We Please Have Some Straight Talk About Charters?It was a reformy vortex last week when the Second Annual New Jersey School Choice Summit took place in Newark. After these fine reformy folks handed out yellow scarves to what appears to be a mostly empty room, it was time for noted education experts and experienced teachers Bob Bowden and Derrell Bradford to spout their pre-scri
by mike simpson / 16h 
Special Late Nite Cap EXTRA 1-27-14 #EDCHAT #P2 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk
Nite Cap EXTRAEXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRAUnion to hit Olney Charter with unfair labor practice chargePHILADELPHIA A union that has been involved in organizing teachers at Olney Charter High School is set to file an unfair labor practice charge Monday over a new social-media policy the union said was an attempt to silence staff.1min Portland teachers union supporters pack meeting, blast Superintendent
by mike simpson / 17h 
Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 1-27-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
Nite Cap UPDATEUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATECORPORATE ED REFORMRewards for reading aloud?To be published in the School Library JournalShould we provide rewards if parents read 1000 books aloud to their children ("Vivacious vocabulary," Jan. 2014)? Read-alouds are very pleasant for both parents and children. The vast majority of children say that they enjoy being read to: 97% in Walker and
by mike simpson / 19h 
 
Nite Cap 1-27-14 4 #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 CAPSummer Food Service Applications - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)Summer Food Service Applications - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education):State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Urges Agencies to Apply to Become Summer Food Service Program SponsorsSACRAME
by mike simpson / 23h 


Posted by at