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
CURMUDGUCATION: Another Standards Anniversary
CURMUDGUCATION: Another Standards Anniversary: Another Standards AnniversaryI stumbled upon a government website that has a few things to say in support of the move to develop standards.It opens by pointing out that in airplane piloting and Olympic athletes, we want people who have been trained to the highest standards. Ditto with students.When we do not hold all students to high academic standard
Time for a Little Civil Disobedience | United Opt Out National
Time for a Little Civil Disobedience | United Opt Out National: TIME FOR A LITTLE CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Time for a Little Civil DisobedienceMarch is testing madness month in most areas around the country. Schools have been gearing up with “test pep rallies” and other nonsense trying to encourage motivation to test and redirect student and teacher anxiety away from the grim reality: that this new test
Common Core As “Technologically Necessary”: A Looming Shift In Sales Pitch? | deutsch29
Common Core As “Technologically Necessary”: A Looming Shift In Sales Pitch? | deutsch29: Common Core As “Technologically Necessary”: A Looming Shift In Sales Pitch?March 16, 2014The term Common Core is so negatively charged that Common Core State Standards (CCSS) proponents are trying their hardest to ditch the term– not ditch CCSS– just the term. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee suggested t
"Opting Out" with #JesseHagopian on Vimeo
Opting Out on Vimeo: "Opting Out" with #JesseHagopian on Vimeo Opting Out from Schoolhouse Live on Vimeo.Colorado Dept. of Ed. & Your Child’s Data: The Golden Record | United Opt Out NationalColorado 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
Opt Out Actions State by State with a Parent “Get Tough Guide” | Seattle Education
Opt Out Actions State by State with a Parent “Get Tough Guide” | Seattle Education: Opt Out Actions State by State with a Parent “Get Tough Guide”Drawing by Fred Klonsky, author of the Fred Klonsky blog.Excerpt from the Chicago Teachers Union position paper: Debunking the Myths of Standardized Testing.Corporate reform groups such as Advance Illinois and Stand for Children claim teachers are the ma
3-16-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools This WeekMonday, March 17thThe wearing o' the Green. Happy St. Patrick's Day.To note: signups for public testimony for the School Board meeting start at 8 am this morning. Tuesday, March 18thAudit&Finance Meeting from 4:30-6:30 p.m. AgendaWednesday, March 19thSchool Board meeting starting at 4:15 p.m. Agenda.I see a LOT of audit update items
My Brother’s Keeper | Bill Ayers
My Brother’s Keeper | Bill Ayers: My Brother’s KeeperThe announcement was unusually personal and many thought quite heart-felt: at the end of February President Obama introduced a White House initiative he called “My Brother’s Keeper,” designed, the administration claimed, to empower boys and young men of color to meet the challenges and overcome the obstacles to success that they face disproporti
Twitter Storm: Call for Congressional Hearings on Abuses of High-Stakes Testing | I AM AN EDUCATOR
Twitter Storm: Call for Congressional Hearings on Abuses of High-Stakes Testing | I AM AN EDUCATOR: Twitter Storm: Call for Congressional Hearings on Abuses of High-Stakes TestingBy I AM AN EDUCATOR on March 16, 2014I recently had the honor of presenting at the Network for Public Education’s first national conference in Austin, Texas, which brought together many of the people who inspire me most i
Louisiana Educator: Important Student Data Privacy Bills
Louisiana Educator: Important Student Data Privacy Bills: Important Student Data Privacy BillsFour important bills dealing with student data privacy will be considered by the Louisiana House Education Committee this Wednesday, March 19. If your State Representative is a member of the House Education Committee, you may want to send him/her an email expressing your opinion on student privacy. If you
VAMs “Contribute to Student Learning?” |
VAMs “Contribute to Student Learning?” |: VAMs “Contribute to Student Learning?” On Friday, The Florida Times-Union released an Opinion-Editorial (Op-Ed) titled “VAM Data Helps [sic] Contribute to Student Learning.” With curiosity, I thought this might be the first Op-Ed to suggest, hopefully with at least some evidence, that VAM-based data can be used in some type of formative way(s). The author
Marie Corfield: Rally for NJ Public Education Part l: It's the Poverty, Stupid!
Marie Corfield: Rally for NJ Public Education Part l: It's the Poverty, Stupid!: Rally for NJ Public Education Part l: It's the Poverty, Stupid!This is a story about a hospital in an inner city neighborhood that serves a very high population of low-income people of color. Many don’t have the resources to properly care for themselves. Unemployment is high, and many still don’t have health insurance
Video: “Parent Involvement Builds Academic Success” | Engaging Parents In School…
Video: “Parent Involvement Builds Academic Success” | Engaging Parents In School…: Video: “Parent Involvement Builds Academic Success”
Gates and Duncan Seek to Use Trust in Teachers to Promote Common Core - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Gates and Duncan Seek to Use Trust in Teachers to Promote Common Core - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Gates and Duncan Seek to Use Trust in Teachers to Promote Common CoreBy Anthony Cody on March 16, 2014 12:45 PMThis week, National Board certified teachers gathered in Washington for the National Board's annual Teaching and Learning conference. They were presented with a beguiling v
Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 2): Glorifying Educational Authoritarianism
Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 2): Glorifying Educational Authoritarianism: How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 2): Glorifying Educational Authoritarianism16 MARCH 2014 459 NO COMMENTauthoritarian: of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)authoritarianism: principle of blind submis
School voucher bill could triple money for politically... | www.mypalmbeachpost.com
School voucher bill could triple money for politically... | www.mypalmbeachpost.com: School voucher bill could triple money for politically connected groupPosted: 9:00 a.m. Sunday, March 16, 2014Email 0Facebook 0Twitter 0ShareThis NewBY JOHN KENNEDY - PALM BEACH POST CAPITAL BUREAUTALLAHASSEE — A proposal expanding private school vouchers in Florida could pour millions of dollars into a politicall
U.S. Inequality by Region | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!
U.S. Inequality by Region | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: U.S. Inequality by RegionFiled under: Inequality — millerlf @ 10:37 am NY Times 3/16/14Fairfax County, Va., and McDowell County, W.Va., are separated by 350 miles, about a half-day’s drive. Traveling west from Fairfax County, the gated communities and bland architecture of military contractors give way to exurbs, then to farml
Christie’s charter school nightmare: “White flight, and they’re bankrupting us” - Salon.com
Christie’s charter school nightmare: “White flight, and they’re bankrupting us” - Salon.com: Christie’s charter school nightmare: “White flight, and they’re bankrupting us”“We are creating separate but equal school systems,” Hoboken school board president warns SalonChris Christie (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)While New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie deals with burgeoning scandals surrounding accusat
Christie breaks the law. Again. | Bob Braun's Ledger
Christie breaks the law. Again. | Bob Braun's Ledger: Christie breaks the law. Again.Christie mug shot on the cover of TimeKids get busted for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Motorists are given tickets for burned-out brake lights. Small-time stuff, not even real crimes, but the municipal courts are jammed with it. Now, how about a governor—like, say Chris Christie–who consistently flout
3-16-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Videos Of The WeekIn yet another effort to get at my backlog of resources to share, I recently began this feature to share useful videos. I’ll still periodically highlight certain ones on their own, but the rest will be found on this regular post: Here’s an interesting video with Neil Degrasse Tyson that might, or might not
3-16-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and CancerThe Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer. via The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and Cancer.by plthomasedd / 1min All Week 3-15-14 @ THE CHALK FACE@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Bill Gates Tries to Fashion Teacher Suppor
3-16-14 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): The Self-Defeating South, Words Not Spoken: Racism as a Scar and CancerBorn and raised in a very small rural town in upstate South Carolina, I have lived my entire 53 years in the South. Most of that life has been spent teaching, and a large span of that career was in th
The Answer Sheet 3-16-14
The Answer Sheet: How three teachers are dealing with Common Core in classLove them or hate them, the Common Core State Standards in math and English/Language Arts are being implemented in classrooms in most of the country — in some places better than others. A nonpartisan organization called Young Education Professionals asked a few teachers how they are dealing with the new standards, and their
PCAPS To Launch Election Campaign for the Education Pennsylvania’s Children Deserve | WeArePCAPS
PCAPS To Launch Election Campaign for the Education Pennsylvania’s Children Deserve | WeArePCAPS: PCAPS To Launch Election Campaign for the Education Pennsylvania’s Children DeservePosted on March 16, 2014by wearepcapsOn March 29th the Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools will kick off a seven month campaign to make this year’s gubernatorial election about fully funded, quality sch
Morning Wink 3-16-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSRivalry between Mayor de Blasio and Eva Moskowitz stretches beyond charter schools - NY Daily NewsRivalry 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 t
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
