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Rivalry between Mayor de Blasio and Eva Moskowitz stretches beyond charter schools - NY Daily News
Rivalry between Mayor de Blasio and Eva Moskowitz stretches beyond charter schools - NY Daily News: Rivalry between Mayor de Blasio and Eva Moskowitz stretches beyond charter schoolsThe two figures share a heated, political rivalry that goes much deeper than the charter school issue they are currently fighting over. BRYAN SMITHMayor de Blasio and Eva Moskowitz are often fighting on opposing sides,
Judge rules that state Controller Thomas DiNapoli cannot audit charter schools - NY Daily News
Judge rules that state Controller Thomas DiNapoli cannot audit charter schools - NY Daily News: Judge rules that state Controller Thomas DiNapoli cannot audit charter schoolsManhattan Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin ruled DiNapoli did not have authority to audit any New York charter school.DAVID HANDSCHUHA judge ruled Thursday that state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli cannot audit New York chart
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 3-16-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Bloggers Propose the Fight of the CenturyThe bloggers at VAM have proposed what they call “the fight of the century” to replace “the fight of the century that wasn’t.” They refer to the debate that never happened between Michelle Rhee and me. They refer to efforts by Lehigh University to set up a debate between us on February 6, wh
3-16-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Teachers just never know (By Roger Conway)Valued Reader Roger Conway weighs in with a great letter, For all the words spoken and written about education “reform” and all the bloviating about teacher benchmarks and evaluations, very little is said about what and how teachers feel. And part of the reason for this is that teachers keep their most important feelings about what […]The post
3-16-14 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: Miami Herald: “Vouchers Please a Few, But Undercuts the Many”The Miami Herald became the latest large state daily to criticize the republican legislatures’ latest expansion of its school voucher program: Florida’s school vouchers, called the Tax Credit Scholarship progra
3-16-14 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.: Sunday reads. Maintenance costs for closed CPS schools cut by $300 million. Gates echoes union leaderships complaint of Common Core’s bumpy implementation. Or do they echo him? As living standards fall for seniors, signs of a Silver Revolution. Those of us who turned 20 in ’68 are 65 today. Investiga
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 3-16-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Mayor Garcetti’S Top Education Deputy Thelma MeléNdez Leaves City Hall For LausdBy Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Daily News | http://bit.ly/1iRcRkd 3/15/14, 6:31 PM PDT :: Just seven months after joining Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s administration, his top education deputy Thelma Meléndez is leaving to take a position at Los Angeles Unified School D
Geaux Teacher!: More White Lies from Louisiana
Geaux Teacher!: More White Lies from Louisiana: More White Lies from LouisianaMy letter to all members of the Louisiana House and Senate Education Committees:Ladies and Gentlemen of House and Senate Education: When legislation regarding PARCC assessments are presented before your committees, this information will be useful to prevent John White from pulling the wool over your eyes. I hope you ques
empathyeducates – Kansas Illegally Underfunds Poorer School Districts, Court Rules
empathyeducates – Kansas Illegally Underfunds Poorer School Districts, Court Rules: Kansas Illegally Underfunds Poorer School Districts, Court RulesKindergarten students in Kansas City, Kan., run during a physical education class at Frank Rushton Elementary School, which has a high percentage of poor and at-risk children. (John Hanna / Associated Press / January 9, 2014)Disparities in the public f
3-16-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Common Core Opponents Not "Drunk With Hysteria"The attempt to marginalize Common Core opponents and critics continues unabated these days, with newspaper editorial boards like the one at the Daily News accusing people who are against the Core of being "drunk with hysteria."A New Yorker writes a letter in respone to the Daily News to let them know why they
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Netflix education: Favoring markets over democracy
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Netflix education: Favoring markets over democracy: Netflix education: Favoring markets over democracyWhat's the No. 1 problem afflicting schools? According to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, it's elected school boards...Fickle voters create too much churn. You know, the darn democracy thing. So uncontrollable.-- San Jose Mercury NewsThanks to Diane Ravith for callin
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » A rose by another name…
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » A rose by another name…: A rose by another name…Sherman Dorn, unlike some of us, is a classy blogger. He had a recent poston the overuse of certain terms and created an Education Noise index. I was on the road at the time, but shot off a comment asking given the egregious excesses, what would you use to describe the behavior of Michelle Rhee.Dr. Dorn challe
New York’s ‘shoddy’ Common Core rollout puts special-needs students at risk; a veteran teacher demands a moratorium | Hechinger Report
New York’s ‘shoddy’ Common Core rollout puts special-needs students at risk; a veteran teacher demands a moratorium | Hechinger Report: New York’s ‘shoddy’ Common Core rollout puts special-needs students at risk; a veteran teacher demands a moratoriumBy Jennifer CurleyMy mother died suddenly last month and my father is in prison. There are five of us now from 8 to 17 years old who are essentially
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Colorado Dept. of Ed. & Your Child’s Data: The Golden Record | United Opt Out National
Colorado Dept. of Ed. & Your Child’s Data: The Golden Record | United Opt Out National: COLORADO DEPT. OF ED. & YOUR CHILD’S DATA: THE GOLDEN RECORD We bring to you a video featuring Dan Domagala, the Chief Information Officer of the Colorado Department of Education. Within this 14 minute video Domagala outlines clearly the broad plan to connect your child’s data in a longitudinal format t
The Administrative Tightrope and Finding Balance | Connected Principals
The Administrative Tightrope and Finding Balance | Connected Principals: The Administrative Tightrope and Finding Balanceby Tom Martellone • March 16, 2014 • 0 CommentsI wrote the following blog piece this past fall. As an administrator heading into spring, I felt that it was appropriate to publish this piece again, to not only remind myself about finding balance in my work, but to remind others
Study: Los Angeles charter schools outperform traditional district schools | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC
Study: Los Angeles charter schools outperform traditional district schools | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC: Study: Los Angeles charter schools outperform traditional district schoolsKristen Muller | March 15th, 2014, 4:04pmPhoto by Don Harder via Flickr Creative CommonsStanford University's Center for Research on Economic Outcomes (CREDO) issued a report Saturday that found charter school students in Lo
Nite Cap 3-15-14 #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 CAPSchooling in the Ownership Society: The privatization of science replaces public good with super-profitsSchooling in the Ownership Society: The privatization of science replaces public good with super-profits: The privatization of science replace
Schooling in the Ownership Society: The privatization of science replaces public good with super-profits
Schooling in the Ownership Society: The privatization of science replaces public good with super-profits: The privatization of science replaces public good with super-profitsINTEL billionaire Gordon Moore and his new Thirty Meter Telescope which will sit on a Hawaii mountain top.In Washington, budget cuts have left the nation’s research complex reeling. Labs are closing. Scientists are being laid
Geaux Teacher!: SBAC Test "NOT READY" as Scheduled!
Geaux Teacher!: SBAC Test "NOT READY" as Scheduled!: SBAC Test "NOT READY" as Scheduled!My letter to members of the Louisiana House Education Committee on the eve of hearing proposed legislation to return Louisiana education to Louisiana!Ladies and Gentlemen - "As teachers and school administrators learned on Friday, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test i
Arne Duncan, Instructional "Shifts" and the Bad Old Days - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher
Arne Duncan, Instructional "Shifts" and the Bad Old Days - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Arne Duncan, Instructional "Shifts" and the Bad Old DaysBy Nancy Flanagan on March 15, 2014 2:28 PMThe moment for teacher leadership is now...and I absolutely promise my support.Arne Duncan, yesterday. Hmm. I'd be a little less dubious about the Secretary's absolute pl
NPE: Time for Congressional Hearings into the Abuse of Standardized Testing
The Network For Public Education | Grassroots Toolkit: Time for Congressional Hearings into the Abuse of Standardized Testing: SAVE the DATE! Wednesday March 19th @NetworkPublicEd Twitter Storm 5-7 pm PDST Join us!Grassroots Toolkit: Time for Congressional Hearings into the Abuse of Standardized TestingGrassroots Toolkit: Time for Congressional Hearings into the Abuse of Standardized TestingMarch
Were Charter Teachers and Students Pressured to Rally for Charter Schools in Albany? | The Nation
Were Charter Teachers and Students Pressured to Rally for Charter Schools in Albany? | The Nation: Were Charter Teachers and Students Pressured to Rally for Charter Schools in Albany? On the first Tuesday in March, thousands of students, parents and teachers rallied at the New York state capitol in Albany to protest what the media quickly dubbed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “war” on charte
Arne Does Boston | EduShyster
Arne Does Boston | EduShyster: Arne Does Boston What a week, reader! The excellence express rolled into the Bay State, carrying some seriously career-ready cargo—none other than Arne Duncan himself. What do you mean you didn’t know anything about it??? Now ordinarily this is the point at which I would lambaste you for eschewing excellence in favor of conducting your own race to the bottom of the w
Measuring Privilege | educarenow
Measuring Privilege | educarenow: Measuring PrivilegePosted on March 15, 2014 | Leave a commentDiane Ravitch was recently interviewed in Salon on her thoughts on the current state of education reform. It’s a great interview with an appropriately prophetic title, Saying Goodbye to Public Education, so be sure to read it.Ravitch, very knowledgeable about testing and its effects, highlights here th
solidaridad: Not data-driven? Perhaps a key reason David Coleman excluded most literature from Gates Foundation's CCSS racket
solidaridad: Not data-driven? Perhaps a key reason David Coleman excluded most literature from Gates Foundation's CCSS racket: Not data-driven? Perhaps a key reason David Coleman excluded most literature from Gates Foundation's CCSS racketNot data-driven? Perhaps a key reason David Coleman excluded most literature from Gates Foundation's CCSS racketNot data-driven? Perhaps a key reason David Colem
Reflections on Teaching » Week 20-24: Where did the hours go? + Human Rights lesson done right…
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Week 20-24: Where did the hours go?: Week 20-24: Where did the hours go? So between a week up at Sly Park in the Sierra, parent conferences, and the craziness brought on my an early spring in California, I have become a very poor correspondent about goings on in my classroom. This is the time (before spring break) when it can become a grind, for the kids, a
Teaching & Learning Conference Presentation | InterACT
Teaching & Learning Conference Presentation | InterACT: Teaching & Learning Conference PresentationMARCH 15, 2014tags: #TLConf14, conference, NBPTS, presentationby David B. CohenGreetings to anyone who attended or is interested in our presentation at the Teaching & Learning Conference 2014. We’re glad to share what we’ve done, what we’ve learned, and what we’re still figuring out about
All Things Education: On strange bedfellows in ed reform skepticism
All Things Education: On strange bedfellows in ed reform skepticism: On strange bedfellows in ed reform skepticismLately, there has been some debate over whether progressives align themselves with the Tea Party to defeat the Common Core. I would argue that progressives should be skeptical of aligning ourselves with Tea Party at all because it is an affront to anti-racism and it may lead us to win
2nd Banana 3-15-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTStandardized testing: I opted my kids out. The schools freaked out. Now I know why.Standardized testing: I opted my kids out. The schools freaked out. Now I know why.: I Opted My Kids Out of Standardized TestsThen I learned a thing or two.By Lisa T. McElroy She's smiling because she knows taking the test may very well be easier than opting
Morning Wink 3-15-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSMother Crusader: Would Pete Seeger Perform At An Eva Moskowitz Rally?Mother Crusader: Would Pete Seeger Perform At An Eva Moskowitz Rally?: Would Pete Seeger Perform At An Eva Moskowitz Rally?I seriously can't believe I just had to write that title.Please, don't blame me, blame Laura Waters.In her latest opinion piece for NJ Spotlight she posits that Newar
