James Baldwin said it best:
"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."
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Verdict Is In: The Final Draft of Indiana Proposed Standards Stink | Truth in American Education
Verdict Is In: The Final Draft of Indiana Proposed Standards Stink | Truth in American Education: Verdict Is In: The Final Draft of Indiana Proposed Standards StinkFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on April 18, 2014 • 0 CommentsOk some folks are now weighing in on the final draft of Indiana’s proposed academic standardsthat was released earlier thi
4-18-14 The Whole Child Blog — Engaging Curriculum: A Foundation for Positive School Culture — Whole Child Education
Engaging Curriculum: A Foundation for Positive School Culture — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGEngaging Curriculum: A Foundation for Positive School CultureApril 18, 2014 by ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost written by David HunterAs a curriculum designer who advocates for project-based learning, I strongly believe that curriculum plays a major role in the school culture but can often go u
The Dishonorable Andrew Cuomo Meets the Hedge Fund / Charter School Zombies * | Alan Singer
The Dishonorable Andrew Cuomo Meets the Hedge Fund / Charter School Zombies * | Alan Singer: The Dishonorable Andrew Cuomo Meets the Hedge Fund / Charter School Zombies *From May 4 to May 6, 2014 the Honorable Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State, is scheduled to be the Honorary Chairman at a three-day charter school/hedge fund extravaganza that is anything but honorable. Other celebrity "
Common Core Enthusiast Didn’t Get The Memo(s) | Missouri Education Watchdog
Common Core Enthusiast Didn’t Get The Memo(s) | Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Enthusiast Didn’t Get The Memo(s)Angie Hanlin needs to get her name on some distribution lists. There are a few important memos she seems not to have gotten.Ms. Hanlin was quoted in a Standard Democrat article this week supporting the Common Core Standards. I believe she truly enjoys the work she is doing to
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 4-18-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Same Fight, Another ArenaBy smf for 4LAKidsNews April 18, 2014 :: Apparently the way to fund a school bond campaign to relieve overcrowded conditions and fix aging facilities is to pack too-many like-minded potential donors into a too-small room, give them wine and cheese and canap̩s (and diet Coke) Рtell stories about the glory days of yesteryear and
HOW SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE CHANNELS BILL GATES | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing
HOW SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE CHANNELS BILL GATES | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing: HOW SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE CHANNELS BILL GATES Reading between Scholastic’s lines is easy. All you have to do is a “close read”. So lets do that together, shall we? You can find the article by clicking the link. Of course, following CC procedure, we will take excerpts and close read them to get to the hidden agendas. My
4-18-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: Malloy administration recruits “Dream Team” to sell Common Core to Connecticut teachersThe Malloy administration is implementing a new Common Core PR extravaganza. Initially Malloy and his team wanted to run a $1 million Connecticut taxpayer funded pro-Common Core advertising campaign. But when a political firestorm forced them to back down, the Malloy team came up with a different pub
Ed Tech Blueprint - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)
Ed Tech Blueprint - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Releases Education Technology BlueprintMILPITAS—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson's Education Technology Task Force released a new report today that outlines steps California should take to ensure education technology can be an effective, safe, and productive tool for learning over the ne
4-18-14 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: Insurance costs boosted superintendent payInsurance premium subsidy boosted superintendent’s pay to $772,457 An embattled South Bay school district leader, under investigation for his high compensation, now has a new issue to deal with: insurance premiums that should have been counted as tax
4-18-14 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): Paternalism, Old or New, Blinds22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. 24 But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the
New Network for Social Justice Unionism Seeks to Change the Labor Movement | PopularResistance.Org
New Network for Social Justice Unionism Seeks to Change the Labor Movement | PopularResistance.Org: New Network for Social Justice Unionism Seeks to Change the Labor MovementORGANIZE! WORKER RIGHTS AND JOBS, YOUTH By Roshan Bliss, www.PopularResistance.orgApril 18th, 2014 Powered by TranslateInterview with Michelle Gunderson co-founder of the Network for Social Justice UnionismEarlier this month
4-18-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: April’s Best Tweets — Part ThreeEvery month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to tho
4-18-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Friday Open ThreadPrinceton University has come to the conclusion that we don't really live in a democracy but that we are basically an oligarchy. No real surprise there - the rich are getting richer, the poor getting poorer and the people in-between worry about that their children won't even live at the same standard as they do. Just to be clear:An oligarchy is
4-18-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Opt Out Wave GrowingThe articles below are captured in one day of Google Alert for "opt out." The movement to end a century of miseducative, classist, and racist tests will not be denied. Town HallNY Schools Struggle Where to Put Students Who Opt Out of Standardized TestsTown HallA battle between parents and educators has erupted over standardized testing in the state of
teaching a class at Harvard
teaching a class at Harvard: teaching a class at HarvardbyteacherkenFollow Email 2 Comments / 2 NewWell, to be more accurate, this is about my experience of being a guest speaker for about half of a 3 hour class at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on April 16. As a side note, Wendy Kopp, who founded Teach for America, was the speaker in another class the previous day.The class is run
Against Standardization: Moving Beyond Taylor | educarenow
Against Standardization: Moving Beyond Taylor | educarenow: Against Standardization: Moving Beyond TaylorPosted on April 18, 2014 | Leave a commentI have a deep, viscerally negative response to standardization. It’s hard for me to articulate. It’s sometimes hard to understand. And honestly, I wish this wasn’t the case. It certainly would make things easier.A couple of weeks ago I stumbled into
Who is Benjamin Olagadeyo? | Bob Braun's Ledger
Who is Benjamin Olagadeyo? | Bob Braun's Ledger: Who is Benjamin Olagadeyo?From Linked-In a self-posted picture by Benjamin OlagayedoWho is Benjamin Olagadeyo? Or, for that matter, Samuel Taye Olagadeyo? Or Mary Olagadeyo? Or Bematolas Envinronmental Consulting, LLC? Bematolas appears to be an artificial name created out of the personal names–BEnjamin, MAry , Taye, andOLAgadeyo. Don’t you love a m
Russ on Reading: Attention, Not Retention
Russ on Reading: Attention, Not Retention: Attention, Not RetentionIf the CCSS test-based accountability leads to more student retention, we all will be the losers.So what happens if students don’t score in the proficient or better range in the upcoming tests aligned with the Common Core? In many states, either by law or by policy, students will be retained in their current grade. Retention in thi
The Endogeneity of the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Or, why do the girls get all the good teachers? | School Finance 101
The Endogeneity of the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Or, why do the girls get all the good teachers? | School Finance 101: The Endogeneity of the Equitable Distribution of Teachers: Or, why do the girls get all the good teachers?Posted on April 18, 20140 Rate ThisRecently, the Center for American Progress (disclosure: I have a report coming out through them soon) released a report in wh
Backseat Driving in the Clown Car | Academe Blog
Backseat Driving in the Clown Car | Academe Blog: BACKSEAT DRIVING IN THE CLOWN CAR Backseat driving in the clown car: that’s what pundits are about, today.In The New York Times, David Brooks tries to turn that around, making out that is those who disagree with him who have the red noses and squeeze horns. He mounts a defense of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) based on the idea that those he sh
History Repeats: Standards-based education reform of public schools has been tried before.
History Repeats | The Crucial Voice of the People: History RepeatsMany crossed this bridge before.Standards-based education reform of public schools has been tried before.Around 1913, the industrial “efficiency movement” focused public attention on outcomes but when educators attempted to “routinize teaching,” or standardize it, it didn’t work according to Robert J. Marzano and Jon S. Kendall in “
Privatizing struggling Milwaukee schools doesn’t pay off, report to be released April 24 says | Institute for Wisconsin's Future
Privatizing struggling Milwaukee schools doesn’t pay off, report to be released April 24 says | Institute for Wisconsin's Future: Privatizing struggling Milwaukee schools doesn’t pay off, report to be released April 24 saysPosted on April 16, 2014 by Tom Beebe in Education in the News | Comments are closedA new report reveals that legislative moves to convert struggling public schools in Milwauk
Morning Wink 4-18-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 4-18-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Mercedes Schneider Explains Common Core to Sol Stern, AgainSol Stern of the rightwing Manhattan Institute is a fierce advocate for the Common Core Standards. He is a journalist of great rhetoric
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 4-18-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Mercedes Schneider Explains Common Core to Sol Stern, AgainSol Stern of the rightwing Manhattan Institute is a fierce advocate for the Common Core Standards. He is a journalist of great rhetorical skill, not a classroom teacher or a scholar or researcher. Stern is a devotee of E.D. Hirsh Jr.’s Core Knowledge curriculum, and he thin
The Answer Sheet 4-18-14
The Answer Sheet: Arne Duncan dismisses critics: ‘Lots of drama, lots of noise’There he goes again. Education Secretary Arne Duncan went to New York recently and introduced state Education Commissioner John King at a function at New York University, calling him “a remarkable leader” and “as smart and as thoughtful as anyone working in this space.” As for the growing number of critics of King’s edu
4-18-14 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: Meet the New FCAT, Same as the Old FCATSunshine State News reporter Allison Nielson writes of FCATs last year with a paradox: “Parting is such sweet sorrow — sort of.” And also this: After a dramatic drop in FCAT writing scores in 2012, the State Board of Education alter
4-18-14 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.: Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Farewell letter.With Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Cartagena, Colombia. 2011. In 2011 Anne, our good friend Nathalie and I traveled to Cartagena, Colombia. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a home there. It is a walled compound by the sea. Locals complained how he rarely stayed there, altho
4-18-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Say Wha?Rhee Hubby Kevin Johnson Leads NBA Union Searchhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/sports/basketball/nba-players-reset-union-search-with-kevin-johnson-as-point-man.html?hpw&rref=sports&_r=0N.B.A. Players Reset Union Search With Kevin Johnson as Point ManHis tenure has not been free of controversy; in 2012, he was fined $37,000 by the Fair Political Practices Commissi
4-18-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Sol Stern and Common Core: Still DisconnectedOn April 6, 2014, I published this post, entitled, Sol Stern Thinks Common Core Is About Rich Curriculum. In the post, I rebutted another post of Stern’s entitled, A Sorry Attack on the Common Core. On April 17, 2014, Stern responded in this post entitled, The Real Common Core Story. Hardly the “real” story of the Common Core State Sta
4-18-13 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION: What Would Winning Look Like?The comment keeps coming (most recently from Rick Hess) that Common Core regime opponents can't just say "no" to the Core, that they must stand for something-- not just against something.I don't entirely agree. If a mugger approaches you and says, "I'm going to beat you up and take all your money," I will probably say, "I prefer
4-18-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: MTA/TWU Contract Agreement May "Set The Floor" For Other Contract Negotiations In City And StateFirst, some of the details of the contract:Under the MTA pact, members of the TWU Local 100 would receive retroactive pay increases of 1% for each of the past two years and 2% increases in each of the following three years. The deal would also give the union employees pa
4-18-14 Open Congress : Major Bill Actions ..Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress
Education - U.S. Congress - OpenCongress: Bill Introduced: S.Res. 419: A resolution recognizing the celebration of National Student Employment Week 2014 at the University of Minnesota Duluth.A resolution recognizing the celebration of National Student Employment Week 2014 at the University of Minnesota Duluth.5h hide // saveBill Introduced: S.Res. 418: A resolution to honor Gallaudet University,
Don’t Back Down | EduShyster
Don’t Back Down | EduShyster: Don’t Back Down An Open Letter to TFA: Don’t Back Down in NewarkDear Teach for America:As an alum of your program, I like to keep apprised of your goings-on. Though we may have our differences, I always try to appreciate your bolder efforts. So I’m thrilled to see you taking a valiant stand in Newark, where the district is preparing to can over a thousand teachers wit
Hucksterism In Education Exposed | janresseger
Hucksterism In Education Exposed | janresseger: Hucksterism In Education ExposedPosted on April 18, 2014 by janressegerI was serving on a panel at an evening event last week about the growth of privatization of education here in Ohio, when someone asked, “Why do parents grab at the chance to send their children to these schools? Most of them don’t do nearly as well academically as public schools.
3 End-of-the-School-Year Reminders | Connected Principals
3 End-of-the-School-Year Reminders | Connected Principals: 3 End-of-the-School-Year Remindersby William Parker • April 18, 2014 • 0 CommentsLast Saturday I drove my daughter to the local lake dam spillway to meet her teammates for a weekend track workout. After twenty minutes of warm-up running on the grassy path to the spillway and back, they lined up for drills. These included 12 sprints up an i
Sol Stern and Common Core: Still Disconnected | deutsch29
Sol Stern and Common Core: Still Disconnected | deutsch29: Sol Stern and Common Core: Still DisconnectedApril 17, 2014On April 6, 2014, I published this post, entitled, Sol Stern Thinks Common Core Is About Rich Curriculum. In the post, I rebutted another post of Stern’s entitled, A Sorry Attack on the Common Core.On April 17, 2014, Stern responded in this post entitled, The Real Common Core Story
NYC Educator: How to Solve Poverty
NYC Educator: How to Solve Poverty: How to Solve PovertyIt's tough to keep a job you like. I've managed to do it for almost three decades, but my daughter has not been so lucky. A few months ago, she went with my wife to try to join a new gym in our town, helped the staff translate for some Spanish-speaking customers, and then ended up with her very first job. She loved it, and was fairly gung-ho
Is a Chimp Smarter Than Campbell Brown? southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Is a Chimp Smarter Than Campbell Brown?She's baaaaaaaaaaaack!!!!The Bayou Schicksa otherwise known as Campbell Brown is back sharing what little grasp she has on reality with those she believes she lords over from her gilded perch.Campbell, who converted to Judaism for her husband, Iraq War provocateur and mass murderer, Dan Senor, has now come out with a website k
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Sun-Times editors know exactly what's wrong with 'turnaround' strategy
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Sun-Times editors know exactly what's wrong with 'turnaround' strategy: Sun-Times editors know exactly what's wrong with 'turnaround' strategyThe Sun-Times editorial board has things all figured out. They know exactly why Byrd-Bennett's "radical" plan to turn more schools over to the private turnaround operators at AUSL will be a disaster. They say so thems
The Center for American “Progress:” Really?!? |
The Center for American “Progress:” Really?!? |: The Center for American “Progress:” Really?!? The American Statistical Association recently released a position statement on VAMs–a statement that really should/could serve as one of a few “nail in the coffin” reports on VAMs. Others, however, continue to move forward with VAMS despite this position statement and all of its surrounding research.That
The Portland School Board's top 5 concerns about the Common Core | OregonLive.com
The Portland School Board's top 5 concerns about the Common Core | OregonLive.com: The Portland School Board's top 5 concerns about the Common CoreSteve BuelStephanie Yao Long | syao@oregonian.com Portland School Board members at their meeting on Wednesday voiced strong and wide-ranging opinions on the new Common Core student achievement standards, which take effect next school year.But nearly eve
Racism Without Racists: The School Resegregation Edition - The Jose Vilson
Racism Without Racists: The School Resegregation Edition - The Jose Vilson: Racism Without Racists: The School Resegregation Editionby JOSE VILSON on APRIL 17, 2014in JOSEThurgood MarshallToday, ProPublica released a special report on their website dedicated to the resegregation of America’s public schools. With the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision on May 17th approach
Teacher Wage Theft | Reclaim Reform
Teacher Wage Theft | Reclaim Reform: Teacher Wage TheftPosted on April 17, 2014by Ken PrevitiDiane Ravitch interrupted me to exclaim, “It’s plain THEFT!”As we spoke briefly before she made Sunday’s keynote presentation at this year’s Network for Public Education National Conference at the University of Texas in Austin in March, I was very surprised by the spontaneous, harsh verbal emphasis of her
Nite Cap 4-17-14 #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 CAPCalifornia Statewide Average Indirect Cost Rates - Indirect Cost Rates (ICR) (CA Dept of Education)California Statewide Average Indirect Cost Rates - Indirect Cost Rates (ICR) (CA Dept of Education): California Statewide Average Indirect Cost Rat
