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
Agenda April 30 and May 1, 2014 - Administration & Support (CA Dept of Education)
Agenda April 30 and May 1, 2014 - Administration & Support (CA Dept of Education): Agenda April 30 and May 1, 2014Advisory Commission on Special Education (ACSE) meeting agenda.Advisory Commission on Special Education MembersGina Plate, ChairVacant, Vice ChairFeda AlmalitiMildred BrowneMorena de Grimaldi Kristi HagansSomer HardingSara JochamBetty KarnetteMatt NavoLester PincuNancy PortilloMari
Common Core Critics Are Not Just Saying No | Truth in American Education
Common Core Critics Are Not Just Saying No | Truth in American Education: Common Core Critics Are Not Just Saying NoFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on April 15, 2014 • 0 Comments11Hess & McShane?Frederick M. Hess & Michael McShane wrote an an article for National Review yesterday. They contend that we must develop our own state-level versions of “repeal and repla
Help Elect RESPECT: Donate to support social justice union slate & Jesse Hagopian’s bid for president of the Seattle Education Association | I AM AN EDUCATOR
Help Elect RESPECT: Donate to support social justice union slate & Jesse Hagopian’s bid for president of the Seattle Education Association | I AM AN EDUCATOR: Help Elect RESPECT: Donate to support social justice union slate & Jesse Hagopian’s bid for president of the Seattle Education AssociationBy I AM AN EDUCATOR on April 15, 2014We need your help raising $1,000 to help us reclaim public
Poll Shows Philly Voters Down on Corbett and SRC, Up on Teachers | WeArePCAPS
Poll Shows Philly Voters Down on Corbett and SRC, Up on Teachers | WeArePCAPS: Poll Shows Philly Voters Down on Corbett and SRC, Up on TeachersPosted on April 15, 2014by wearepcapshttp://pft.org/docs/PhillySchoolPoll4152014.pdf
Russ on Reading: John Kuhn's Fear and Learning in America: A Review
Russ on Reading: John Kuhn's Fear and Learning in America: A Review: John Kuhn's Fear and Learning in America: A Reviewhttp://www.amazon.com/Fear-Learning-America-Teachers-Education/dp/0807755729John Kuhn is one part story teller, one part evangelist and one part passionate champion of public education. Through personal narrative, historical reference, sound research and righteous indignation he l
Another NYCDOE Educator Arrested for Speaking Up! southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Another NYCDOE Educator Arrested for Speaking Up!I should write this post as if it were a Twilight Zone episode.Imagine if you will a young, attractive, white female, first year teacher who unravels a string of corruption at her school and is sent without warning or knowing why to the Rubber Room. Soon she is terminated whilst the principal that she exposed for fin
IEA/NEA replay: Don’t throw away your vote. Choose the lesser of two evils. | Reclaim Reform
IEA/NEA replay: Don’t throw away your vote. Choose the lesser of two evils. | Reclaim Reform: IEA/NEA replay: Don’t throw away your vote. Choose the lesser of two evils.Posted on April 15, 2014by Ken PrevitiThis past weekend the Illinois Education Association Representative Assembly performed its meet-and-greet of the two opposing gubernatorial candidates. President Klickna and others decided to c
Charter Schools and the Destruction of Public Education
Charter Schools and the Destruction of Public Education: Charter Schools and the Destruction of Public EducationMonday, 14 April 2014 09:05By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report | Op-Ed(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Every injustice in American life can be laid at the feet of the richest people in the country and the politicians who do their bidding. Nowhere is that terrible dynamic more ob
A Refresher: What is Community-Based Accountability? | Cloaking Inequity
A Refresher: What is Community-Based Accountability? | Cloaking Inequity: A Refresher: What is Community-Based Accountability?How can we banish No Child Left Behind’s top-down and narrow paradigm? Local control has been a bedrock principle of public schooling in America since its inception. NCLB sent us in the opposite direction of this traditional notion. A return to a traditional locally based e
4-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadNow, for the second year in a row, the most objected to book in libraries is...Captain Underpants. Do these boys "defy" authority and do silly things? Yes. Do I think it needs a warning label, "Kids, don't try this at school?" Not really. (I even have a tiny Captain Underpants toy in my car who serves as my parking divin
4-15-14 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): Morning Read: Settlements to help LAUSD homeless, pendingSettlements pending for Los Angeles schools, homeless Pro bono organization Public Counsel has inked two class action settlements that would reinstitute funds to struggling schools and homeless residents in the Los Angeles area affected by Californi
SIG rewrite to come in 2015, guidance pending :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet
SIG rewrite to come in 2015, guidance pending :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: APRIL 15, 2014SIG rewrite to come in 2015, guidance pendingby Tom Chorneau(District of Columbia) Although big changes are coming to the nation’s largest school turnaround program, existing regulations still govern the use of some $500 million in School Improvement
Say What? Fordham Professor Co-Founds Teachers' Activist Group
Say What? Fordham Professor Co-Founds Teachers' Activist Group: Fordham Professor Co-Founds Teachers’ Activist GroupBAT’s Mark Naison.Photo by Janet Sassi An education activist group co-founded by Fordham professor Mark Naison, Ph.D., is growing by leaps and bounds, in no small measure because of its brassy title.Since the Badass Teachers Association was founded last June, the group has attracted
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: Fensterwald: At an East San Jose high school, students react to new Common Core testEducation HeadlinesTuesday, April 15, 2014FCMAT provides links to California K-12 news stories as a service to the industry. However, some stories may not be accessible because of newspapers' subscription policies.Centinela Valley school board to vote on inter
4-15-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Labeling, Sorting, Segregating: The History of Standardizing Tests in U. S. SchoolsMuch of the first sections of TMoE is dedicated to tracing out how tests came to be used as social sorting tools during our first Gilded Age when grand canyons of inequality between rich and poor had turned American cities into dangerous and unhealthy place. Below is a piece posted last week at Alter
4-15-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: National Teacher Day Is Coming-Up & Here Are Two Great Ways To Celebrate It On Social Media!National Teacher Day in the United States is always celebrated on the Tuesday in the first full week of May. World Teachers’ Dayis held annually on October 5th since 1994, celebrates teachers worldwide, and was started by UNESCO.
4-15-14 Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman: Education Law Center Fundraiser, This ThursdayThe Education Law Center is having their annual fundraiser, award ceremony, and wine/food tasting reception this Thursday, April 17. I'd like to encourage you all to attend.ELC is the driving force behind equitable funding for schools in New Jersey and elsewhere in the nation. It's only through their tireless efforts that New Jersey has
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 4-15-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Compare+Contrast: PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IS OVERRATED + TEACHERS OFTEN BLAME PARENTS FOR PROBLEM STUDENTS + smf’s 2¢Parental Involvement Is Overrated By KEITH ROBINSON and ANGEL L. HARRIS, OpEd in the New York Times | http://nyti.ms/1ilF0xt April 12, 2014, 2:32 pm :: Most people, asked whether parental involvement benefits children academically, would s
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WHITENING THE CITIES
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WHITENING THE CITIES: WHITENING THE CITIESEddie Farmer, 75, lives with belongings thrown on the curb after a foreclosure next door to his home in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. (Chicago Tribune)THE WHITENING OF THE CITIES...Soaring rents are driving poor and middle-class folks, especially African-Americans out of the cities. A major factor along with loss of
Morning Wink 4-15-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS4-15-13 Curmudgucation WeekCURMUDGUCATION: Insulating the NEAHow is it that NEA becomes so insulated from its members? After all, we are the union, right?My first big lesson in representative democracy came courtesy of the United Methodist Church. In the church structure, local churches are grouped into districts, and districts are grouped into larger regi
4-15-13 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION: Insulating the NEAHow is it that NEA becomes so insulated from its members? After all, we are the union, right?My first big lesson in representative democracy came courtesy of the United Methodist Church. In the church structure, local churches are grouped into districts, and districts are grouped into larger regions, and on and on to the national level. Theoretically all these lev
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 4-15-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Jack Schneider: Teachers Are Not the ProblemJack Schneider, a historian of education at Holy Cross University, deconstructs the claim that the biggest problem in education today is the quality of teachers. The clarion s of the Status Quo never tire of telling us that “great” teachers can turn every student into college-bound schola
4-15-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: How Bloomberg/Klein Undermined a Voluntary Integration Program on the Lower East SideLisa Donlan has been telling the story for many years. Now this recent report condemning the NYC school system as one of the most segregated in the nation validates what Lisa has been reporting. This is from Community Education Council 1 on the LES.Below are captions from NYS segregation report ta
The Choice for Munoz Marin -What Parents and the Community Need to Know | WeArePCAPS
The Choice for Munoz Marin -What Parents and the Community Need to Know | WeArePCAPS: The Choice for Munoz Marin -What Parents and the Community Need to KnowPosted on April 15, 2014by wearepcapsThe Choice for Munoz Marin -What Parents and the Community Need to Know Why does the District want to turn over Munoz-Marin to the charter school operator ASPIRA? Until this year, Renaissance schools, sch
4-15-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Foul shots in the classroom: A Fable (By Ann Policelli Cronin)As we celebrate UCONN’S [Remember it is not UConn] double national championships, it seems particularly appropriate to look back on a great commentary piece written by fellow columnist and pro-education advocate, Ann Policelli Cronin. Here piece entitle, “Foul shots in the Classroom: A Fable” first appeared in the CT Mirro
The Answer Sheet 4-15-14
The Answer Sheet: Testing resistance movement exploding around countryThe testing resistance movement is growing rapidly around the country and parents are opting out their children from high-stakes standardized tests in most states. What do test reformers want to accomplish? Monty Neill, executive director of FairTest, explains in this post. FairTest, or the National Center for Fair and Open Tes
4-15-14 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.: Union Democracy. Part II.The microphone is missing. A symbol of democracy in the IEA. Photo: Jerry Mulvihill. Jerry Mulvihill, a fifth grade teacher and IEA RA delegate tried to bring up the issue of the NEA and IEA’s support for the Common Core. But IEA President Cinda Klickna shut off the debate. Th
4-15-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"
Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": “More than 20% of [British] parents say they have been fined for unauthorised holidays”More than 20% of parents say they have been fined for unauthorised holidays is the headline of an article in the British newspaper The Guardian. Here’s how it starts: More than 20% of parents say they have been fined for taking their chil
4-15-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Pat Tillman (11/6/76 – 4/22/04): A Decade of ForgettingPat Tillman (11/6/76 – 4/22/04): A Decade of Forgetting. via Pat Tillman (11/6/76 – 4/22/04): A Decade of Forgetting.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical1 by plthomasedd / 1h 4-14-14 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: The Paradox of Race in the U.S.The Paradox of Race in the U.S.. via The Paradox of Race in the U.S..1 by
4-15-14 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): AlterNet: What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts EducationWhat We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education1 by plthomasedd / 3min hide // savePat Tillman (11/6/76 – 4/22/04): A Decade of ForgettingOn the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing,
4-15-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: How Cuomo Meddled Into The Moreland Commission ReportAnother story about just how much meddling the governor's office did into the Moreland Commission work:An assistant counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who professed himself to be the author of the NY SAFE Act, was ultimately selected as the lead writer of the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption’s December 2013 report a
Public Schools Enrich Communities by Helping to Save Indigenous Language and Culture | janresseger
Public Schools Enrich Communities by Helping to Save Indigenous Language and Culture | janresseger: Public Schools Enrich Communities by Helping to Save Indigenous Language and CultureIn graduate school over forty years ago I was fascinated when a Ph.D. candidate described his dissertation in the field of anthropological linguistics. His project was to live at the Northern Paiute Indian Reservatio
Calculator Directive for 8th-Graders Draws Concerns | The Texas Tribune
Calculator Directive for 8th-Graders Draws Concerns | The Texas Tribune: Calculator Directive for 8th-Graders Draws Concernsby Aamena AhmedApril 15, 2014 Comment Republish Email Tweet RecommendEnlargegraphic by: Todd WisemanAs the state integrates a directive that requires eighth-graders in Texas public schools to have graphing calculators forSTAAR testing, some poorer Texas school districts say t
Seattle Education | For the news and views you might have missed
Seattle Education | For the news and views you might have missed: Parents OPPOSE HR 10, the “Success and Opportunity Through Charter Schools” bill There is a bill titled “Success and Opportunity Through Charter Schools”, referred to as HR 10, to rewrite federal charter law that has strong backing by the House Education … Continue reading →by seattleducation20... / 6h The Opt-Out UpdateThe opt o
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"It’s all over but the shouting: Obamacare is working."
"It’s all over but the shouting: Obamacare is working.": "It’s all over but the shouting: Obamacare is working."byteacherkenFollow Email 16 Comments / 16 NewGOPSo say Eugene Robinson.That's the first line of Obamacare’s victory lap, his column for Tuesday's Washington Post.As he says in the paragraph that immediately follows,All the naysaying in the world can’t drown out mo
The Wallstreet Journal also Captures the ASA’s Recent Position Statement on VAMs |
The Wallstreet Journal also Captures the ASA’s Recent Position Statement on VAMs |: The Wallstreet Journal also Captures the ASA’s Recent Position Statement on VAMs Yesterday I released the second of two posts about the recent release of the American Statistical Association’s Position Statement about using VAMs for educational assessment and accountability. Below is a third post, as again warrante
At an East San Jose high school, students react to new Common Core test | EdSource Today
At an East San Jose high school, students react to new Common Core test | EdSource Today: At an East San Jose high school, students react to new Common Core testApril 14th, 2014 | 1 Comment | By John FensterwaldThe students in John Daniels’ U.S. history class at James Lick High School in East San Jose are a smidgen of the tens of thousands of juniors who are taking the Smarter Balanced Assessment
Jindal to Dump PARCC? | deutsch29
Jindal to Dump PARCC? | deutsch29: Jindal to Dump PARCC?April 14, 2014An April 14, 2014, nola.com article has Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal publicly saying he is “willing” to leave the Partnership for Assessment of College and Careers (PARCC)– and even the Common Core State Standards (CCSS):Gov. Bobby Jindal has said he is willing to withdraw Louisiana from a consortium of states developing the
4-14-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Why the Growing Opt Out Movement Puts Fear into the Antiquated Losers of Corporate Education Reform: Why the Growing Opt Out Movement Puts Fear into the Antiquated Losers of Corporate Education ReformI was chatting today with someone I had not seen in a while, and told them about my work in support of United Opt Out and how it could 6 percent of parents keeping their children home
Geaux Teacher!: Over schooled but Undereducated
Geaux Teacher!: Over schooled but Undereducated: Over schooled but UndereducatedA very good article by Luba Vangelova. Children have a greater capacity for imagination than adults because their minds haven't been dulled by rote "education." What if we capitalized on those imaginations?http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/04/to-advance-education-we-must-first-reimagine-society/RSA Anima
Nite Cap 4-14-14 #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 CAP4-14-14 The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child EducationRethinking Classroom Pedagogy in the Standards-Driven Classroom — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGRethinking Classroom Pedagogy in the Standards-Driven ClassroomApril 14, 2014 by ASCD
