StudentsFirst forming small donor campaign fund for local, state elections | EdSource Today: StudentsFirst forming small donor campaign fund for local, state electionsFebruary 10th, 2014 | Add a Comment | By John FensterwaldRhee-lated $tory: Michelle Rhee answers Ravitch in New Bookal$o $ee Rhee-lated $tory: Excerpts from "Rhee The Art of the Deal" a new $tory about Corporate Education R

FPPC targets Mayor Johnson, former City Council candidate - City Beat - The Sacramento Bee: FPPC targets Mayor Johnson, former City Council candidateBy Ryan Lillisrlillis@sacbee.comPublished: Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 11:22 amLast Modified: Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 - 11:34 amDonations that Kevin Johnson solicited for non-profits have once again gotten the mayor into trouble with the state’s political w

Wisconsin Assembly Version of Accountability Bill: AB-379 | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: Wisconsin Assembly Version of Accountability Bill: AB-379Filed under: Accountability laws — millerlf @ 4:37 pm The Senate accountability bill is SB-286.The Assembly version is AB-379. To see the Legislative Reference Bureau’s analysis and the full bill link to the the following PDF:AB -379Some n

Mayor Bill De Blasio Focuses on Community Schools in New York City — Whole Child Education: Mayor Bill De Blasio Focuses on Community Schools in New York CityFebruary 10, 2014 by ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost written by Martin J. Blank, Director and President, Coalition for Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership; and Shama S. Jamal, National Policy Emerson Fellow, Coalition

Seattle Schools Community Forum: What is the Purpose of Education, K-12 and Higher?Such a question.   I looked into this question when I was asked to speak about public education before a group of young early-leader Dems.  If you go back to the start of our country's history (even before we were a nation), it was about intellectual thought.  Being able to read was the key factor.  (The other key f

LA schools' superintendent to report on arts plan | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC: LA schools' superintendent to report on arts planMary Plummer | February 10th, 2014, 1:18pmTami Abdollah/KPCCSuperintendent John Deasy walks through an economics classroom at Los Angeles High School. Deasy is set to address the district's new arts education plan at Tuesday's school board meeting. The plan was released ove

NYC Public School Parents: Parents and Educators Outraged by Regents Unwillingness to Assume Responsibility and Change Course: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  February 10, 2014More information contact:Eric Mihelbergel (716) 553-1123; nys.allies@gmail.comLisa Rudley (917) 414-9190; nys.allies@gmail.comNYS Allies for Public Education www.nysape.orgParents and Educators Outraged by Regents Unwillingness to A

Davis: Abbott Should Settle School Finance Lawsuit | The Texas Tribune: Davis: Abbott Should Settle School Finance Lawsuitby Jay RootFeb. 10, 20143Comments Comment Republish Email Tweet RecommendEnlargegraphic by: Todd Wiseman / Laura Buckman / Bob DaemmrichState Sen. Wendy Davis, the leading Democratic candidate for governor, called on her likely Republican opponent Monday to use his power as Tex

Give Students A Chance by Getting to Know Them | Gatsby In L.A.: Give Students A Chance by Getting to Know ThemThis post is second in a series of one on one conversations with students in order to hear their stories.  Who are our students?  What does their education mean to them?  What effect do teachers have on them?Today’s interview is with Genesis, a student in Cynthia Castillo’s class at RISE

I’m Pro-Choice: Families Should Choose (not Schools, Districts, or the State) | Cloaking Inequity: I’m Pro-Choice: Families Should Choose (not Schools, Districts, or the State)Choice is a popular buzz word these days in educational policy. It seems more and more that the word is used when choices in education are actually being reduced— when in fact someone else is actually doing the choosing besi

15 Photos From the Massive Progressive Protest You Didn’t Hear About This Weekend | Blog, News & Notes | BillMoyers.com: 15 Photos From the Massive Progressive Protest You Didn’t Hear About This WeekendFebruary 10, 2014by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee32This post first appeared on ThinkProgress.Kathy Jones reacts during the closing remarks by Rev. William Barber at the Moral March on Raleigh on Fayettevill

New York's 50 Most Underfunded School Districts | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity: MA Allies Help Draft Guidelines to Curb SuspensionsOTL allies in Massachusetts played a huge role in passing a 2012 law known as Chapter 222 that required schools to provide educational resources to suspended students. Now, these same allies are playing a role in

Ed Notes Online: Breaking: Arthur Goldstein Runs for NYSUT VP Against Unity's Andy PallottaThis, ladies and gentleman, is an example of true grassroots unionism.  A rank and file teacher, who has been in his classroom teaching today, finding an avenue to make his voice heard.  Bottom up, member driven unionism at it’s finest.  Posted on the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association blog. I've be

TNSTAAFL – redqueeninla: TNSTAAFLWritten by redqueeninla in EducationThere’s no such thing as a free lunch.  Which includes even that Apple on teacher’s desk.Our superintendent John Deasy, the former deputy director of the Gates Foundation, has long framed education issues, from teacher evaluation to 1:1 personal computing, as a matter of “civil rights”.  First was touted the justification – sensi

Teachers For Social Justice: LSC Summit and Democracy in Education Rally: LSC Summit and Democracy in Education RallyFEBRUARY 10, 2014 LEAVE A COMMENTLocal School Council SummitThis Saturday, Feb 1510:00 AM - 2:00 PMWESTINGHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL3223 W. FRANKLIN BLVDSign up HERE to attend w/ TSJAnd we need volunteers: Email us to volunteer!* Tired of over-crowded classrooms, school closings & charte

Save Our Schools March – Get Behind this New Film Project: Get Behind this New Film ProjectPhiladelphia School Nursing Crisis is Focus of Sick Days Philadelphia, PA – A new multimedia documentary Sick Days: The Philadelphia School Nurse Shortage explores the impact of budget cuts on Philadelphia public schools, focusing on school nurses. [Sample photographs at bottom of release]Concentrating on th

NEA Supports Oregon Educators | NEA Today: NEA Supports Oregon EducatorsFebruary 10, 2014 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesBy Brenda ÁlvarezEducators want to remain in classrooms—teaching students—and they’ll go at great lengths to do so. In recent years, they have been shown to work with expired contract or work without pay to ensure students don’t miss an academic beat. At times

The Business of Vouchers vs What Works for Kids | Lily's Blackboard: The Busine$$ of Voucher$ vs. Choices that Work For KidsFeb 10th, 2014 by Lily.Years ago, I was talking with a lovely director of a lovely and elite private school about private school vouchers. She was touting what her school had to offer in terms of class sizes of 12, and science laboratories and technology rooms, and truly, it

Compton School Board urges parents to take part in policy making | California Forward: Compton School Board urges parents to take part in policy makingThis ain't your grandfather's Compton anymore. (Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library)One of the positive by-products of transparent government is that people can ensure that they know what is going on in their government. The end result should,

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Zimmer’s plan for District 1 vacancy facing a big voteThe LA Unified school board has an unusually long agenda for its monthly meeting on Tuesday, 39 items plus a handful of reports and updates. Each has consequences but few of them carry the import and emotional impact of Steve Zimmer‘s proposal to fill

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Why Illinois retired teachers should care about a progressive income tax.A couple of things you should know. First. If you write in Ralph Martire’s name because you are disgusted by the choices in Republican and Democratic primaries for Governor of Illinois, your vote won’t count.  That’s the law beca

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: NUMBER OF ARTS TEACHERS IN LA COUNTY DOWN 10%, IT IS LAUSD’s CUTS THAT DRAG DOWN COUNTY NUMBERSArts at the Core?: The Los Angeles Unified School District has lost about 200 full-time arts teacher positions since the 2010-2011 school year according to CDE.   Mary Plummer |  Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/1ggyaao Ken Scarboro/KPCC | Music teacher L

In Much of the NFL, Michael Sam Could Be Fired for Being Gay |: In Much of the NFL, Michael Sam Could Be Fired for Being GayFebruary 10, 2014 in StudentsI was listening to NPR’s Morning Edition earlier, and they were talking about Michael Sam. Sam, if you haven’t heard, is a running back for the University of Missouri’s football team, and yesterday he came out publicly as gay. He’s widely expected

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS2-10-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLarry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Here’s My NY Times Post On Valentine’s Day, PLUS A “Video Bingo” That Didn’t Get Included!My latest New York Times post for English Language Learners is on Valentine’s Day and idioms. It includes a stud

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Here’s My NY Times Post On Valentine’s Day, PLUS A “Video Bingo” That Didn’t Get Included!My latest New York Times post for English Language Learners is on Valentine’s Day and idioms. It includes a student interactive and teaching ideas. And here’s a “video bingo” activity that didn’t get included because of space limitatio

The Co-op That Changed The South | PopularResistance.Org: The Co-op That Changed The SouthEDUCATE! CIVIL RIGHTS, CO-OPS, RACISM, VIDEO By David J. Thompson, www.ncba.coopFebruary 9th, 2014 (284 VIEWS)  Powered by Translate1Above: Alice Wine at the Progressive ClubNote: The history of cooperatives and social change is intertwined throughout the life of the nation.  In this article, Cooperatives and

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Schneider: Updates on State-by-State Common Core Controversies: Part 3Mercedes Schneider here reports on the ongoing debates about Common Core standards and tests in the states. Links to the earlier posts are included in this one. The reason for the controversy is the lack of democratic process in imposing the standards. Imposing t

Wait What?: Oh for crying out loud – Pryor misses deadline for vital school safety report AGAIN!February 1, 2014 has come and gone and Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor has FAILED AGAIN to produce a mandatory report on bullying, school climate and how to make our schools safer. And this isn’t the first time that Stefan Pryor has failed to fulfill his legal obligations when i

The Answer Sheet: ‘The greatest line I never said’ — from college admissions counselorsMany college admissions counselors across the country communicate with each other through a listserv. Most often they share professional thoughts and advice, but every now and then, they have a little fun. Recently, one counselor, in an e-mail with the subject line “The Greatest Line I never Said,” asked others

Schools Matter: For Schools or Anything Else to Matter, We Must Do What Life Requires Now2 by Jim Horn / 11min hide  //  saveTaking Down Dixie's Last Political Stand in North CarolinaNorth Carolina is so everything that the current covey of Koch Brothers stooges in charge of the state are not: temperate, reasonable, accommodating, caring, committed to fairness. And just as Wake County reclaimed it

@ THE CHALK FACE: Progressivism and Whole Language: A ReaderProgressivism and Whole Language: A Reader. via Progressivism and Whole Language: A Reader.1 by plthomasedd / 21min hide  //  saveTwo Days After My Latest Post, The Boy From Florida Dies…http://theindignantteacher.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/two-days-after-my-latest-post-the-boy-from-florida-dies/Filed under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Progressivism and Whole Language: A ReaderIf you read a criticism of progressivism or whole language, I suspect you are reading one of two things: A misrepresentation of either so that the writer can attack the misrepresentation. Sometimes this is purposeful misrepresent

Perdido Street School: Today's Board Of Regents MeetingFrom the Daily Politics update this morning:From our Ken Lovett in Albany: * It’s not that often that a Board of Regents meeting can be called “much anticipated.” But give the controversy surrounding the implementation of the Common Core curriculum, today’s meeting could get interesting. Very interesting. State lawmakers on both sides of the a

Huge North Carolina Rally Protests Roll Back of Voting, Labor, Health, Education, and Civil Rights | janresseger: Huge North Carolina Rally Protests Roll Back of Voting, Labor, Health, Education, and Civil RightsPosted on February 10, 2014 by janressegerUnless you live in North Carolina or follow Twitter, where pictures were posted all weekend, you may have missed that nearly 100,000 people rallie

GoPublicSchool.com « An open discussion of public school issues. GoPublicSchool.com: New documentary takes on standardized testing, Common Core…Jaime Franchi in The Long Island Press… “The documentary Standardized: Lies, Money, and Civil Rights: How Testing is Ruining Public Education, the brainchild of producer and former teacher Daniel Hornberger, is a powerful artistic translation of this both

Lessons from Abroad: Singapore’s secrets to training world-class teachers | HechingerEd Blog: Lessons from Abroad: Singapore’s secrets to training world-class teachersSingapore has been a hot topic in education circles ever since it began to appear near the top of the pack of international assessments in math and science in the mid-90s. The country has been held up as an example of a place where e

V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: When Grit Hits the Fan: When Grit Hits the FanI am increasingly hearing the term "grit" thrown around in relation to education.  In January 2014, Michelle Obama elaborated on the concept (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/01/16/first-lady-michelle-obama-hosts-discussion-education).  Discussing some of the obstacles she managed to overcome in life, she said,

2014 Common Core Legislation Round-Up | Truth in American Education: Common Core Premises, Standards and Assessments Put Children at RiskThis is a guest post by Joan Landes.  She’s a Clinical Mental Health Counselor licensed to assess, diagnose and treat mental health and relational dysfunctions in individuals, couples and families. She has worked in various settings including residential treatmen

Summit High School: The skinny on the Gates-backed charter school set for Seattle, Brad Bernatek (remember him?) and a host of others | Seattle Education: Summit High School: The skinny on the Gates-backed charter school set for Seattle, Brad Bernatek (remember him?) and a host of othersBill Gates will be bringing yet another grand (failed) experiment onto public school children to Seattle soon.Re

NYC Educator: Fire Them All, Says Daily NewsThe Daily News gets one thing almost right in its otherwise deplorable editorial:It is insane for the New York City public school system to keep 1,200 unwanted teachers on the payroll, at a cost of more than $100 million annually.It's insane that they spend all that money without putting the teachers to work, that's for sure. And it would be very easy to

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES: WEEKEND QUOTABLES"Obamacare makes you lazy!" - Roy Blunt, US Senator, who will only work 126 days this year.Lorna Brett Howard, N.Y. Democratic activist...dismissed concerns that the tax increase [for Mayor deBlasio's proposed universal Pre-K] — a difference of $530 for every $100,000 in income over the threshold — was burdensome. “That i

Oakland middle school’s 9-hour school day is model program | EdSource Today: Oakland middle school’s 9-hour school day is model programFebruary 9th, 2014 | Add a Comment | By Susan FreyAndres McDade, an 8th grader at Elmhurst Community Prep in Oakland, plays a drum in the school’s expanded learning program. Credit: Citizen Schools.On a recent Thursday afternoon in Ashur Bratt’s class in Oakland, a

Common Core Opponents Rally in Georgia | Truth in American Education: Common Core Opponents Rally in GeorgiaFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on February 10, 2014 • 0 CommentsThere has been a concerned push over the last week to rid Georgia of the Common Core State Standards.  Northwest Georgia News covered a rally that was held last Tuesday at the

Schools Matter: The Party's OverOne of the great political feats of the late 20th Century was the manufacture by billionaires of a right-wing cabal of crackpots-under-contract so unabashedly fascist that anyone sane and still voting would be left with a single alternative, which, of course, is the now-familiar brand of corporate, anti-democratic dramaturgy known as the Democratic Party.It's time f

Are Corporate Education Reformers Like Young Earth Creationists? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Are Corporate Education Reformers Like Young Earth Creationists?By Anthony Cody on February 9, 2014 7:59 PMLast week a commenter calling himself DrSpector posted a response to John Thompson's essay about the Gates Foundation's Imaginary World of School Reform.In part, DrSpector said this

Deasy v. Deasy: The Two Faces of L.A.’s School Superintendent | MyFDL: Deasy v. Deasy: The Two Faces of L.A.’s School SuperintendentLast week’s testimony in the Vergara v. California trial raised many an eyebrow when Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent John E. Deasy testified on behalf of plaintiffs in a lawsuit whose defendants had originally included LAUSD.Despite its supp

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 CAPNYC Public School Parents: Justice denied! Slipshod and circular reasoning in the judge's decision on our inBloom lawsuit!NYC Public School Parents: Justice denied! Slipshod and circular reasoning in the judge's decision on our inBloom lawsuit!: