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
Badass Teachers Association
Badass Teachers Association: The Minion’s that Run BATsBy Marla Kilfoyle, General Manager of BATs Melissa Tomlinson, Asst. General Manager of BATsRecently, in a contentious thread on BATs, we were referred to as minions, and in another thread a few weeks back, we were referred to as “womenfolk.” In both of those threads there seemed to be some insinuation that Mark Naison ran BATs on a day to da
CURMUDGUCATION: How Did CCSS Happen?
CURMUDGUCATION: How Did CCSS Happen?: How Did CCSS Happen?My wife is a smart person, and great and committed teacher. But she rarely reads this blog because mostly she says that it's over her head. She's a reminder to me that for every one of us who have been wading in this stuff for what feels like ages, there are many other concerned professionals who feel like they just walked in on the second
Keep Fox News out of the classroom! Rupert Murdoch, Common Core and the dangerous rise of for-profit public education - Salon.com
Keep Fox News out of the classroom! Rupert Murdoch, Common Core and the dangerous rise of for-profit public education - Salon.com: Keep Fox News out of the classroom! Rupert Murdoch, Common Core and the dangerous rise of for-profit public educationRupert Murdoch and other moguls smell mega-riches in Common Core Standards. They can't be allowed to wreck schoolsERIN OSBORNE 1K 192 131 TOPICS
Standardized 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 out.Photo by iStock/ThinkstockDeciding to opt my two daughters out of Colorado standardized testing seemed like a no-brainer. We aren’t perma
CPS Teachers and Parents Boycott the ISATs - Gapers Block Mechanics | Chicago
CPS Teachers and Parents Boycott the ISATs - Gapers Block Mechanics | Chicago: CPS Teachers and Parents Boycott the ISATsBy Rachel AnspachIn a brave move last week teachers at Saucedo Scholastic Academy, a neighborhood school in Little Village, decided that they would protest administering the Illinois Standard Achievement Tests (ISAT). These teachers took a step in what may be a growing boycott o
More VAM scores controversy: Math oversight could cost teachers jobs, pay raises | members.jacksonville.com
More VAM scores controversy: Math oversight could cost teachers jobs, pay raises | members.jacksonville.com: More VAM scores controversy: Math oversight could cost teachers jobs, pay raisesBy Denise Smith Amos and Christopher Hong Fri, Mar 7, 2014 @ 6:07 pm | updated Sat, Mar 8, 2014 @ 12:01 pmDuval County gets one more 'A' high school after overlooked exam scores are appealedMore VAM scores contr
Comparing Indiana's "New" K-12 Math Standards with Common Core | Truth in American Education
Comparing Indiana's "New" K-12 Math Standards with Common Core | Truth in American Education: Comparing Indiana’s “New” K-12 Math Standards with Common CoreFiled in Common Core State Standards by Erin Tuttle on March 8, 2014 • 0 CommentsHoosiers Against Common Core has released the side by side comparison of the new Indiana math standards to the Indiana 2009 standards and the Common Core
Politics, parents and solutions: How to fix US schools? | MSNBC
Politics, parents and solutions: How to fix US schools? | MSNBC: Politics, parents and solutions: How to fix US schools?New York University’s Pedro Noguera, parent Regina Dowdell, Green Dot Schools’ Steve Barr, and Working Families Party’s Dan Cantor share varying viewpoints about charter schools, public schools and the debate in New York City.Behind the fight over charter schools in NYCNew York U
Paul Horton: In Defense of Books - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Paul Horton: In Defense of Books - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Paul Horton: In Defense of BooksBy Anthony Cody on March 8, 2014 1:06 PMGuest post by Paul Horton."The purpose of the storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." Brandon SandersonIn the Corporate Common Core's rush to create a snippet curriculum that sepa
Weekly Testing Resistance Roundup | GFBrandenburg's Blog
Weekly Testing Resistance Roundup | GFBrandenburg's Blog: Weekly Testing Resistance RoundupLast weekend’s Network for Public Education conference in Austin provided another boost for the growing power of campaigns to overhaul school testing policies — many plenaries and workshops addressed assessment issues. This week’s large batch of clips shows the breadth and depth of the movement.The Rising Ti
2nd Banana 3-8-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST Karen Lewis & John Kuhn on Vimeo @ #npeconferenceKaren Lewis & John Kuhn on Vimeo: Karen Lewis & John Kuhn Karen Lewis & John Kuhn from Vincent Precht on Vimeo.by mike simpson / 4h Schoolhouse Live Watch live streaming video NPE National Conference 2014Schoolhouse Live: Watch live streaming video from schoolhouselive at liv
Morning Wink 3-8-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSDavid R. Garcia, Warren Fletcher, Alex Caputo-Pearl, Arlene Inouye - Perdaily.comDavid R. Garcia, Warren Fletcher, Alex Caputo-Pearl, Arlene Inouye - Perdaily.com: The Great Boyle Heights UTLA Election BreakdownSeveral nights ago on March 5, 2014 the Boyle Heights City Hall hosted the finale of the presidential debate for this year's UTLA city wide electio
David R. Garcia, Warren Fletcher, Alex Caputo-Pearl, Arlene Inouye - Perdaily.com
David R. Garcia, Warren Fletcher, Alex Caputo-Pearl, Arlene Inouye - Perdaily.com: The Great Boyle Heights UTLA Election BreakdownSeveral nights ago on March 5, 2014 the Boyle Heights City Hall hosted the finale of the presidential debate for this year's UTLA city wide elections. Attendance was at capacity and every presidential candidate was there to answer four questions in a round robin sequen
How de Blasio’s Narrative Got Hijacked - NYTimes.com
How de Blasio’s Narrative Got Hijacked - NYTimes.com: How de Blasio’s Narrative Got HijackedLast week on the 64th day of his mayoralty, Bill de Blasio, criticized for his too hardy approach to snow days, for the slow pace of his appointments, for displays of petulance, achieved a predicted but still significant victory. The City Planning Commission unanimously approved a reimagining of the Domino
CURMUDGUCATION: College Loan Sharks
CURMUDGUCATION: College Loan Sharks: College Loan SharksPresident Obama is stumping for FAFSA again, the ubiquitous all-purpose college loan/family finances proctological exam that is the gateway to college financial aid.In a White House PR piece about the President's visit to Florida on Friday, Obama is quoted being concerned that we still need to get more students in college. “Unfortunately, the
3-8-14 THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog How School Design Affects School CultureEducation Week's 2013 Quality Counts report investigated the effect of a school's social and disciplinary environment on students' ability to learn and the educators responsible for teaching them. Watch this video to explore some of the ways to configure school design to supp
3-8-14 This Week in 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):LA Unified District 1 special election narrows to 9 candidatesThe original field of 13 candidates vying for the vacant LA Unified school board seat just got smaller. Thirteen candidates had expressed interest in the District 1 race, but at the 5 p.m. deadline today, only nine filed the required petitions t
Stephen Krashen Blog 3-8-14
SKrashen:Let's do some critical thinkingLet's do some critical thinkingSent to the Denver Post, March 7.The Douglas County school superintendent says that students should not just "compare and contrast" but "create and evaluate" and engage in critical thinking ("Educators to state: Let's go above common core," March 6).Agreed. Let's start by evaluating whether we shou
3-8-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week
With A Brooklyn Accent:With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All WeekAmerica's Top Colleges and Teach for Americai wonder what future historians will say about the nation's top colleges- especially the Ivies, Duke and Stanford,and the top public univerisites- enthusiastically welcoming a program that systematically undermines the teaching profession and provides replacement labor for cities trying to we
3-8-14 Open Congress : Major Bill Actions Education This Week - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress:Bill Introduced: H.R. 4081: To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Education or the Department of Justice from being used to provide postsecondary courses in prisons.To prohibit funds made available to the Department of Education or the Department of Justice from being used to provide postsecondary courses in prisons.2d MAR 05Bill Introduced:
3-8-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:Scathing Purple Musings Color me purple in Florida ALL WeekCharter Schools USA Blinks, Pulls Appeal for Controversial MacDill AFB SchoolFresh off the denial of their appeal by the state Charter School Appeals Commission, Charter Schools USA through it’s Florida Charter E
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog 3-8-14
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog:untitledPolice finally caught the most wanted criminal, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. He was known as the drug lord who escaped the police for a decade and has been finally caught. Guzmán was allegedly found in a hotel.. At first when the marines knocked on the door, El Chapo sneaked out through a hidden exit in a bathroom ,but however was still caught after he was captur
teacherken at Daily Kos This Week 3-8-14
teacherken at Daily Kos:teacherken at Daily Kos This Week"Slavery’s story is America’s story."That is the final line of Eugene Robinson's powerful Washington Post column, THe American Story of Slavery. I will offer blockquotes without hotlinks because you should read the entire column. Robinson begins by noting Hollywood has finally taken an unflinching look at slavery. It’s past time fo
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 3-8-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetThe manipulation of Social Emotional LearningWhat is Social Emotional Learning? According to the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, it involves the processes through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goa
3-8-14 Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Society All Week
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership SocietyuntitledA good questionGeorgia parent asks Pres. Obama, "Why don’t private schools adopt your test-based school reforms?" -- Washington PostMurphy's LawJim Broadway, who publishes Illinois School News Service, has a good post on Sen. Matt Murphy's (R-Palestine) bill
3-8-14 Wait What? All Week
Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekThe two “MUST READ” columns of the weekendFellow pro-pubic education advocates and commentators have done it again – with two more MUST READ pieces. Sarah Darer Littman with “The Brave New World of being ‘College and Career Ready” and Wendy Lecker with “A crisis of low standards” Wendy Lecker writes, Not poverty. Not inadequate resources. Not toxic stress. Not segre
3-8-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumSeattle School District Seeks Input on Math SelectionsFrom SPS:Elementary math instructional materials - We want your feedback!The elementary math adoption committee work has reached a critical stage. In looking to partner with parents and community to find the best possible math program for Seattle Public School students for the 2014-
3-8-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineSusan's Saturday SpecialHere is a collection for your weekend reading. I know the latest Common Core outrage is long but I hope you will read it with careful attention. This assault on first graders sits at the core of what corporate ed deform is all about.http://susanohanian.org/core.php?id=675Contrast this with Kate DiCamillo's wonderful memories of a read-aloud.W
3-8-14 Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekNJ Pays High Cost For Bad Teacher EvaluationNew Jersey's new teacher evaluation system -- code name: Operation Hindenburg -- is not cheap. Superintendents around the state have been warning us about this for a while: the costs of this inflexible system are going to impose a significant financial burden on districts, making this a wasteful, unfunded man
3-8-14 Fred All Week 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.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherKeeping retirement weird. International Women’s Day.Aunt Mary grabbed the live lake perch out of my hand and said, “You do it like this.” Aunt Mary proceeded to smack the fish’s head against a tree. My brother-in-law and I had bee
3-8-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekThe Lie That "Many Educators Support The Common Core Standards"Newsday has an article reporting parents protesting the CCSS outside of State Senator John "I Love The Common Core Because Michelle Rhee Loves The Common Core!" Flanagan's office yesterday.Flanagan makes pains in the article to say that he supports the CCSS, just thin
3-8-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
THE BECOMING RADICALRadical ScholarshipEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by SAT Reboot 2016: “Nonsense It All Is”Photograph by Angel Franco/The New York Times By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. March 6 , 2014 In the often cited scene near the end of Notting Hill when Anna Scott stands in William Thacker’s shabby book stor
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 3-8-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT Arne blinks! FEDERAL OFFICIALS END STAND OFF, GREEN-LIGHT CALIFORNIA TESTING PLAN Adolfo Guzman-Lopez | | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/1nqUNfr AP Photo | Education Secretary Arne Duncan talks about education reform during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, Friday, May 29, 2009. Dun
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 3-8-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYMore Updated Resources On Ukraine CrisisHere are new additions to The Best Resources On The Protests (& Crisis) In Ukraine: Breaking Away is a useful map from The Wall Street Journal. Teaching with the News: Ukraine, Russia and Crimea is by Diana Laufenberg. News and teaching resources
This Week's Education Research Report 3-8-14 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTInfants using known verbs to learn new nounsBefore infants begin to talk in sentences, they are paying careful attention to the way a new word is used in conversationsThere is a lot that 19-month-old children can't do: They can't tie their shoes or get their mittens on the correct hands. But they can use words they do know to learn new
3-8-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekIt's Time for Congress to Investigate High Stakes TestingMore than 400 educators, citizens, bloggers, activists and parents met in Austin, Texas for the first Annual Network for Public Education Conference. The press release just doesn't seem to be getting much press. Diane Ravitch was on the Ed Show last night on MSNBC. I suppose that's a start but the rea
All Week 3-8-14 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Predatory Reform Strikes Again: Kahn Academy and College BoardKahn Academy and College Board have joined forced to “revise” college SAT testing! And they’ve brought their buddies ALEC, Gates, and McKinsey along for the ride. Predatory reform strikes again. Kahn Academy is the darling of education “reformers” and entrepreneurs, spearh
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 3-8-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGThe Abject Failure of Michigan’s Educational Achievement AuthorityMichigan Governor Rick Snyder’s pet project is the Educational Achievement Authority, where the lowest-performing districts are clustered in a single entity managed by Superintendent John Covington, a Broad Academy graduate. The EAA has been funded not only
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Special Late Nite Cap EXTRA 3-7-14 #EDCHAT #P2 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk
Nite Cap EXTRAEXTRA EXTRA EXTRA EXTRAWhat'll Ya Say If Your Child Wants to be a Teacher One Day?I liken education blogs to Radio Londres, free wavelengths in a world of media largely controlled by corporate interests. Over these free "wavelengths," one senses solidarity in opposition to teacher denigration, standardized testing, the Common Core, the corporate takeover of education, data
Chris Hayes: College Board announces SAT overhaul + SAT scores trend with family income | MSNBC
College Board announces SAT overhaul | MSNBC: College Board announces SAT overhaulChris Hayes discusses the newly announced overhaul of the SATs with NYU’s Pedro Noguera, Seppy Basili of Kaplan Test Prep, and education activist Julie Cavanagh.SAT scores trend with family incomeWhy do kids whose parents earn more money do better on the SAT? nd his panel discuss.
Special Late Nite Cap UPDATE 3-6-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
Nite Cap UPDATEUPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATECORPORATE ED REFORMVIDEO – AFT President, Randi Weingarten, #NPEConference – Last 3 Minutes -Common Core Panel DebateAFT President, Randi Weingarten, on the Network for Public Education – Common Core Panel Debate – National Conference, Austin, Texas Closing 3 minutes of commentary.by gatorbonbc / 2h hide // saveAFT Pres Randi Weingarten Closing Comments
Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst: Education policy is becoming a new source of major campaign dollars.
Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst: Education policy is becoming a new source of major campaign dollars.: The Schoolyard Fight131110143Michelle Rhee’s new organization is giving millions to support conservative candidates in dozens of states.Three weeks before Tennessee’s August 2012 primary election, state Rep. John DeBerry Jr.’s Memphis-area district was flooded with $52,000 worth of get-out-the-vote
Nite Cap 3-7-14 #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 CAPResearch Study: Missing Data and VAM-Based Bias |Research Study: Missing Data and VAM-Based Bias |: Research Study: Missing Data and VAM-Based Bias A new Assistant Professor here at ASU, from outside the College of Education but in the College of
