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
Researchers: One out of every 68 U.S. children has autism | The Raw Story
Researchers: One out of every 68 U.S. children has autism | The Raw Story: Researchers: One out of every 68 U.S. children has autismBy Agence France-PresseThursday, March 27, 2014 18:26 EDT One in 68 U.S. children has autism, a 30 percent rise over the last estimate released in 2012, health authorities said Thursday.The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised concern and sp
Media blocked from public 'strong mayor' forum - City Beat - The Sacramento Bee
Media blocked from public 'strong mayor' forum - City Beat - The Sacramento Bee: Media blocked from public 'strong mayor' forumBy Ryan Lillisrlillis@sacbee.comPublished: Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014 - 12:23 pmLast Modified: Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014 - 12:42 pmKJ Sez: No News for YouSacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson squaring off in a debate against former Mayor Heather Fargo, the woman he defeated to take of
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Next frontier for the charter school hustlers, 'Inner Ring' Suburbs
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Next frontier for the charter school hustlers, 'Inner Ring' Suburbs: Next frontier for the charter school hustlers, 'Inner Ring' SuburbsFor those of you who aren't fluent in post-racial-era reform/speak, inner-ringis code for black and Latino suburbs. As the inner cities become whitenized, with hundreds of thousands of African-Americans being pushed out because
Green Schools Recognized - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)
Green Schools Recognized - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces California's First "Green Ribbon" Recognition of Schools and DistrictsSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today named two schools and two school districts as California's inaugural "Green Ribbon Schools" (CA-GRS). The Superintendent's new init
Beware: A Hostile Takeover of ALL Dallas Public Schools is Underway | Cloaking Inequity
Beware: A Hostile Takeover of ALL Dallas Public Schools is Underway | Cloaking Inequity: Beware: A Hostile Takeover of ALL Dallas Public Schools is UnderwayHome Rule is an emerging story currently flying under the radar in the national and statewide Texas media. Millionaires and billionaire(s) are quietly funding a “Home Rule” hostile takeover attempt of all public schools in Dallas, Texas. Yes, t
solidaridad: Mother, Teacher, Coach. Sounds like the perfect candidate to steward our LAUSD school board
solidaridad: Mother, Teacher, Coach. Sounds like the perfect candidate to steward our LAUSD school board: Mother, Teacher, Coach. Sounds like the perfect candidate to steward our LAUSD school boardSherlett Hendy Newbill for LAUSD District 1 | Teacher Mother Coach
Creole food and courage: come to the Parents 4 Teachers fundraiser 4-9-14 Parents United for Responsible Education
Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Creole food and courage: come to the Parents4Teachers fundraiser 4-9-14: Creole food and courage: come to the Parents4Teachers fundraiser 4-9-14Please join Parents4 Teachers (I plan to!). You might consider paying for an extra ticket for one of the parents, students or teachers as well. Share the flyer, too!Celebration to Honor and Defend t
Teacher Describes How She Has Been Warned by School District Not to Speak Out Against Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog
Teacher Describes How She Has Been Warned by School District Not to Speak Out Against Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog: Teacher Describes How She Has Been Warned by School District Not to Speak Out Against Common CoreinShareThanks to Duane Lester from The Missouri Torch for bringing you a teacher’s Senate testimony in support of Missouri SB514 and 798. Susan Kimball, a kindergarten teach
Another year scraping together bare essentials | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Another year scraping together bare essentials | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Another year scraping together bare essentialsThe District needs $200 million just to avoid a new round of cuts for 2014-15. It is unclear where the funds might be found.by Dale MezzacappaShare on emailMore Sharing ServicesCOMMENTS (2)PRINTPhoto: Harvey FinkleAt a February meeting, parents, teachers and students
Change the Stakes | Because a Good Education Can’t Be Measured By a Test Score
Change the Stakes | Because a Good Education Can’t Be Measured By a Test Score: REFUSE THE TESTS!Number of NYC Parents Refusing State Tests Expected to Triple in 2014What began two years ago as a small pocket of resistance has burgeoned into a full-blown protest movement: public school parents are demanding an end to the excessive use of standardized tests and top-down, corporate-backed reforms.
3-27-14 The Whole Child Blog — The Grand Unifying Theory of Education — Whole Child Education
A Whole Child Education for Every Child: The Grand Unifying Theory of Education — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGA Whole Child Education for Every Child: The Grand Unifying Theory of EducationMarch 27, 2014 by Whole Child SymposiumIf our goal is a "whole child" education for every child, here are some essential questions: How should a modern school be managed and led in a wor
Where will the Progressive Democrats Stand? tomhayden com - The Peace Exchange Bulletin
tomhayden.com - The Peace Exchange Bulletin - Where will the Progressive Democrats Stand?: WHERE WILL THE PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS STAND?THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2014 AT 10:16AM | EMAIL ARTICLE | SHARE ARTICLE | PRINT ARTICLEDavid Graeber's “The Democracy Project” and Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, two standout books for recommended commentary. (Covers by Harvard University Press
New York City Parents Union Statement On City Schools Being The Most Segregated In The Country: “We Must End Education Apartheid In New York City”
New York City Parents Union Statement On City Schools Being The Most Segregated In The Country: “We Must End Education Apartheid In New York City”: New York City Parents Union Statement On City Schools Being The Most Segregated In The Country: “We Must End Education Apartheid In New York City”admin March 27, 2014 News, Press ReleasesYesterday, the Civil Rights Project at the University of Californ
Prescribed Format for 2014-15 Proposed BD - Correspondence (CA Dept of Education)
Prescribed Format for 2014-15 Proposed BD - Correspondence (CA Dept of Education): Dear County and District Superintendents, County and District Chief Business Officials, and Charter School Administrators:PRESCRIBED FORMAT FOR 2014–15 PROPOSED BUDGETS IN THE STANDARDIZED ACCOUNT CODE STRUCTUREEducation Code (EC) Section 52060(b)(2) requires that the public meeting at which a school district govern
3-27-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week
With A Brooklyn Accent: Where is The Human Touch?To me, one of the most powerful experiences in education is when a student comes back to the school they attended to visit with a teacher who had a large impact on them. This happens to me on a regular basis and it is one of the best parts of my job. But current education policies emanating from Washington are making this impossible. Not only are so
Helen Gym among 10 in country honored by White House for community organizing work | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Helen Gym among 10 in country honored by White House for community organizing work | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Helen Gym among 10 in country honored by White House for community organizing workby thenotebook on Mar 27 2014 Posted in Latest newsShare on emailMore Sharing ServicesCOMMENTS (1)PRINTHelen Gym, a staunch public education advocate and founder of Parents United for Public Educa
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Helen Gym -- Honored at White House as Champion of Change
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Helen Gym -- Honored at White House as Champion of Change: Helen Gym -- Honored at White House as Champion of ChangeGym is being honored by the White House next week. (ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer) Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Helen-Gym-to-be-honored-by-White-House.html#gOH8brjFTEKd7MVE.99CONGRATULATIONS to Philly public s
Why do Corporate Reformers Hate Democracy? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Why do Corporate Reformers Hate Democracy? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Why do Corporate Reformers Hate Democracy?By Anthony Cody on March 27, 2014 11:15 AMBack in the 1950s, we were told that the communists wanted to destroy democracy. I am not sure what the communists ever did to hurt democracy in America, but the corporate backers of charter schools are making some real headwa
3-27-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD
LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): 3 teachers get UTLA endorsements despite low money supportLast night’s vote By voting to endorse three candidates last night for the LA Unified’s District 1 board seat, the UTLA House of Representatives chose to back two teachers and a former teacher who have raised a combined $8,440 for their election ef
3-27-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: College Degrees and ROINot sure that ROI (return on investment) is really the best way to look at what college/university you pick but for some degrees, it could make a difference. The Atlantic has a comparison. Look at where UW is. It's important to be clear about what this study is telling us and what it's not telling us. The fact that the most valuable college
FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Thursday, March 27, 2014
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Charter school report was wrongEducation HeadlinesThursday, March 27, 2014Meeting postponed again, Sweetwater teachers picketMembers of the Sweetwater Education Association picketed outside the high school district’s administration office Tuesday to call attention to their contract situation, a day when a school board meeting was canceled due
Morning Wink 3-27-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSChoice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders? - Bridging Differences - Education WeekChoice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders? - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Choice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders?By Deborah Meier on March 27, 2014 10:03 AMDeborah Meier writes again to Robert Pondiscio of Democracy Prep.Dear Robert,We agree again—in defense of mess
Choice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders? - Bridging Differences - Education Week
Choice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders? - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Choice: For Shareholders or Stakeholders?By Deborah Meier on March 27, 2014 10:03 AMDeborah Meier writes again to Robert Pondiscio of Democracy Prep.Dear Robert,We agree again—in defense of messiness!I quote from a wonderful article by one of my favorite teachers, the late Alice Seletsky: "What I like about tea
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 3-27-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Karen Wolfe: Why Liberals Don’t Like the Common CoreKaren Wolfe, a parent in Los Angeles, tries to understand why liberals and progressives find themselves opposed to Common Core and lumped together with the Tea Party, with whom they otherwise have no agreement. While the Tea Party opposes the Common Core because they fear a federa
3-27-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: The war on students who are opted out of the Common Core TestFor weeks the Malloy administration has been engaged in an immoral and unethical campaign to mislead parents into believing they do not have the right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test of a test. Now it appears that some school districts are punishing those students who were [
3-27-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: The End of My Brief Acting Career: How to Succeed... Heads for Final WeekendSo I am a few days away from ending my preoccupation with this once in a lifetime theater experience, so bear with me. Even though in the play, I've managed to do a bunch of video. Here is one I shot Sunday when I had to miss the performance due to a party but got there in time to shoot part of Act II. Her
3-27-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: March Madness: Millions of kids being used as Common Core testing guinea pigsIf you think a bunch of college basketball teams facing off in a tournament is March Madness, consider this: Starting this week and going into June, more than 4 million students in 36 states and the District of Columbia are “field testing” (read it: being used as human guinea pigs) English and math stand
3-27-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: NYTimes Editorial Board Goes Soft on 4 Year OldsMaybe Brent Staples is getting sentimental in his middle age, but the Editorial Board is suddenly all misty-eyed about pre-K and kindergarten urban children being kicked out of school for any breach of the total compliance system perfected in the KIPP reform schools.I, too, worry about these children, but I worry, too, about the ones
3-27-14 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: The Desperate Attempt to Save Voucher Expansion BeginsMiami republican Erik Fresen “tweaked” voucher expansion. From Kathleen McGrory in the Miami Herald: ….late Wednesday, Rep. Erik Fresen combined the voucher language with a separate bill creating education savings acc
3-27-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Virtual Reality & EducationFacebook’s recent purchase of a virtual reality company has been in the news this week. I have to admit I hadn’t been paying much attention to it until I heard this segment on the PBS News Hour, Facebook invests in a virtual reality future with $2 billion Oculus Rift acquisition. I’ve embedded
3-27-14 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.: Revenue, revenue, revenue. And tax fairness.Bruce Rauner’s budget address. Illinois’ financial problem is rooted in a lack of sufficient revenue and tax fairness. Quinn’s budget address yesterday starts to acknowledge what we have said. He was right to call for keeping the 5% income tax place. Illino
Jeff Bryant and Amy Stuart Wells Show How Test-and-Punish Contributes to School Segregation | janresseger
Jeff Bryant and Amy Stuart Wells Show How Test-and-Punish Contributes to School Segregation | janresseger: Jeff Bryant and Amy Stuart Wells Show How Test-and-Punish Contributes to School SegregationPosted on March 27, 2014 by janressegerIn an important and insightful piece yesterday for the Education Opportunity Network, How ‘Education Reform’ Perpetuates Racial Disparity, Jeff Bryant examines a n
3-26-14 empathyeducates - A Common Core for All of Us
empathyeducates: Segregation. Integration. Desegregation – NY Schools Most Segregated In AmericaBy Lilly Workneh | Originally Published at The Grio. March 26, 2014 at 12:30 PM A recent study reveals that some states face a deeper racial divide in public schools than others – listing New York as the leading state with the most segregated schools in the […]by empathy / 7h 3-26-14 empathyeducates -
3-27-13 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: Poop SandwichIf you wanted to trick someone into eating poop, you would not just hand them a bowl of poop unless you also had a gun to point at the person's head.No, it would be easier to trick them by hiding the poop inside something yummy like soup or a casserole. Or you could make a poop sandwich. Just hide the poop between two perfectly good slices of tasty bread (white, rye, p
3-27-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Call Sheldon Silver And Ask Why Tests Only Count For TeachersI am glad that they are taking the high stakes from the CCSS tests away for two years for children.But they are keeping those stakes for teachers, so if you are a teacher in the New York State public school system, you may have 40% of your evaluation based upon a battery of performance assessments and state Common
New York State’s Extreme School Segregation:Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública
Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: New York State’s Extreme School Segregation:Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future New-York's-Extreme-School-Segregation-2014.pdfNew York has the most segregated schools in the country: in 2009, black and Latino students in the state had the highest concentration in intensely-segregated public schools (less than 10% white enroll
Don’t Miss! Rally for School Funding 3/27 and GOTV 3/29 | Parents United for Public Education
Don’t Miss! Rally for School Funding 3/27 and GOTV 3/29 | Parents United for Public Education: Don’t Miss! Rally for School Funding 3/27 and GOTV 3/29Posted on March 27, 2014 by PARENTSUNITEDPHILALeave a commentTODAY! Tax the Frackers, Fund our schools!(Editorial cartoon: John Cole)FUND OUR SCHOOLS/TAX MARCELLUS SHALE RALLYThursday, MARCH 27 @ 4 PM440 N. Broad Street (rain location, SDP auditorium
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: A retired educator speaks out. Quinn steps up.
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: A retired educator speaks out. Quinn steps up.: A retired educator speaks out. Quinn steps up.No vote was taken yesterday on the bill to abolish the state's ALEC-initiated Charter Commission. Maybe today. Word is that we need 3 more votes. Still time to call senators: Senator Mike Noland (D-Elgin) - (847) 214-8864 Senator Iris Martinez (D-Chicago) - (773) 463-0720 Se
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Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 3-25-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
Nite Cap UPDATEUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATECORPORATE ED REFORMWhat’s Going On In The Florida House? Did Someone Say Ethics? Charter School Concerns?FloriDuh is up to it again … Read more here: http://bobsidlethoughtsandmusings.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/floridas-most-obvious-charter-school-conflict-of-interest-to-date/by gatorbonbc / 26min I suggest that you will want to read Charles M. Blowin a colu
Uniform standards urged for reclassifying English learners | EdSource Today
Uniform standards urged for reclassifying English learners | EdSource Today: Uniform standards urged for reclassifying English learnersMarch 26th, 2014 | Add a Comment | By John FensterwaldSchool districts have discretion in determining when English learners can be reclassified as proficient in English, meaning they no longer need help in gaining fluency. But the different criteria that districts
Charter school report was wrong | UTSanDiego.com
Charter school report was wrong | UTSanDiego.com: Charter school report was wrong The growth of charter schools in San Diego was greatly exaggerated in a report issued three months ago by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, according to the organization that issued a corrected study on Wednesday.The group released a report in December claiming that the San Diego Unified School Distri
ONE Common Core Story: Melissa Wilkins "Deer Creek Parent: My Education Experience"
Melissa Wilkins "Deer Creek Parent: My Education Experience"
Another Defender of Eva Shows His Ignorance and Bias southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Another Defender of Eva Shows His Ignorance and BiasMy mother used to tell me two things;"Never argue with meshugah people and always wear clean underwear in case the New York Post drives a bus over you and all the lackeys that read that paper talk about what a poor mother I am for sending you out of the house in dirty underwear."Unfortunately, I did not
Chicago ‘Opt Out’ Mom Speaks up for Teachers and Kids at Chicago Board of Ed Meeting – Video | Continuing Change
Chicago ‘Opt Out’ Mom Speaks up for Teachers and Kids at Chicago Board of Ed Meeting – Video | Continuing Change: Chicago ‘Opt Out’ Mom Speaks up for Teachers and Kids at Chicago Board of Ed Meeting – VideoMarch 26, 2014Educationchicago, chicago schools, opt out, rousemary vega, schools,teachers, testing, unitedoptout Rate ThisChicago has got it going on …By it – I mean a huge ‘Opt Out’ movem
Ethan’s Law: Florida’s petty legislators refuse to use Ethan’s name | Reclaim Reform
Ethan’s Law: Florida’s petty legislators refuse to use Ethan’s name | Reclaim Reform: Ethan’s Law: Florida’s petty legislators refuse to use Ethan’s namePosted on March 26, 2014by Ken PrevitiPoliticians in Florida are dysfunctional, petty and cruel.When the story of the infliction of a mandated high stakes testing on a dying, blind, brain damaged child with cerebral palsy, Ethan Rediske, finally r
Coop’s Childhood Part 5 – Burns Park & Divorce | Lefty Parent
Coop’s Childhood Part 5 – Burns Park & Divorce | Lefty Parent: Coop’s Childhood Part 5 – Burns Park & DivorceMarch 26th, 2014 at 16:06While the events of the U.S. civil rights movement and theVietnam War were roiling the larger society, the first big event that I was privy to in our little family’s cataclysm was in early April of 1964 around my ninth birthday, bearing helpless witness to m
Nite Cap 3-26-14 #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 CAP3-26-14 The Whole Child Blog — Don't Settle for the Okey-Doke in a Third Narrative of American Education — Whole Child EducationDon't Settle for the Okey-Doke in a Third Narrative of American Education — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLO
