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BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS

Schools Matter: KIPP Pre-Ks With 8-9 Hour DaysKIPP's segregated charter reform schools are widely known for their 10 hour days, plus 2 hours of homework each night. With tons of federal cash soon up for grabs for those who promise to replace the effect of poverty with cultural and character sterilization programs, KIPP has plans to take the lead in the 3-4 year old market. KIPP would like to sta

by mike simpson / 12min

5-11-14 Wait What?

Wait What?: On mythical state revenue and a Pelto candidacy for GovernorIn a column entitled, Malloy Finds Revenue in Land of Pretend, Hartford Courant columnist Kevin Rennie explores the “make believe” budget that passed the Connecticut General Assembly last week and the potential impact my possible candidacy for governor. Kevin Rennie, a lawyer and a former Republican state legislator, is one of

by mike simpson / 14min

5-11-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: For Mother’s Day, embrace the complicationsIt’s hard for me not to be slightly cynical on special days like this because they’re largely capitalist confections created by skilled marketers. Take a look at how far we’ve come from the original connotations of “Mother’s Day,” from the Zinn History Project. What began as a call to action, now we eat brunch and exchange […]1 by Shaun

by mike simpson / 15min

5-11-14 LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why Empathy for Children MattersA reader posted this comment: It is obvious that the designers and supporters of CCSS do not have empathy for children. Narcissism is on a spectrum and intensifies with chronic stress. This is evident in how the Common Core Environment has created systemic Narcissism from the top down: The antith

by mike simpson / 35min

5-11-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": “District of Columbia Expands Family-Engagement Program”District of Columbia Expands Family-Engagement Program is the title of an Education Week post. Here’s an excerpt: Twenty-one schools will participate in the parent partnership program during the 2014-15 school year. Each participating school receives a grant for up to

by mike simpson / 39min

5-11-14 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.: Mother’s Day.Mom could not be ambivalent about anything. Her two favorite colors were black and white. Mom had little patience for shades of gray. She hated the things she hated. She loved the things she loved. She loved my father for reasons I still don’t entirely understand. She loved her women frie

by mike simpson / 41min

5-11-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Four Good Links On Classroom InstructionHere are a number of relatively recent links on classroom instruction: Five Teaching Tips for Helping Students Become ‘Wild Readers’ is by Donalyn Miller, and appeared in Ed Week. What if we approached testing this way? appeared in The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Resour

by mike simpson / 43min

Don’t Blame the Internet: We Can Still Think and Read Critically, We Just Don’t Want to (Daniel Willingham) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Don’t Blame the Internet: We Can Still Think and Read Critically, We Just Don’t Want to (Daniel Willingham) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Don’t Blame the Internet: We Can Still Think and Read Critically, We Just Don’t Want to (Daniel Willingham)Daniel Willingham is a columnist for RealClearEducation and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. He also writes

by mike simpson / 43min

5-11-14 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: New Budget Leaves Florida 50th of 50 States in Per Pupil FundingLooks like all that back-slapping by republican legislators and happy talk about public schools being a “big winner” was poppycock. St. Augustine Record reporter Marcia Lane explains: When Superintendent Joe

by mike simpson / 49min

5-11-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs

With A Brooklyn Accent: On the "Civil Rights" Defense of Common CoreIt is a grave error to portray the Common Core Standards as a Civil Rights measure opposed largely by right wing fanatics seeking to undermine pubic education. Not only does this offend people on the right whose views on education and social policy it caricatures, it offends liberals and people on the left who have view

by mike simpson / 51min

5-11-13 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION: Mixing With PoliticsThere's a great line, usually attributed to Rev Gene Carlson of Wichita, about religious getting involved in politics:When you mix religion and politics, you get politics.His point was that while you may think that political power gives you leverage you need to engineer the social changes you want (in Carlson's case, conservative Christian changes), politics alw

by mike simpson / 54min

5-11-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Daily News Goes After The Little Charter School Crooks But Leaves Big Ones Like Moskowitz And Kenny AloneOne of the lines you sometimes here from charter school proponents and supporters - charters must be free from the same regulations as public schools so they can do their magical "innovation" thing.Of course a lack of regulations also can lead to this: On a quie

by mike simpson / 56min

NYC Educator: Me--Free and Fair Contract Discussion, UFT Leadership--Crickets

NYC Educator: Me--Free and Fair Contract Discussion, UFT Leadership--Crickets: Me--Free and Fair Contract Discussion, UFT Leadership--CricketsOn Friday I decided it would be a good idea to have a forum in which both sides of the contract proposal are examined. I asked my friend Julie Cavanagh if she would be interested in presenting the con side, and she agreed. I went to my principal and asked if

by mike simpson / 58min

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inBloom, BloomBoard, and the Undeniable, Corporate Reform “Need” for Student Data | deutsch29

inBloom, BloomBoard, and the Undeniable, Corporate Reform “Need” for Student Data | deutsch29: inBloom, BloomBoard, and the Undeniable, Corporate Reform “Need” for Student DataMay 10, 2014On April 21, 2014, the Gates-funded data warehouse inBloom publicized that it was shutting down.The New York Times called it a “setback for the nearly $8 billion prekindergarten through 12th-grade education techn

by mike simpson / 10h

@ProfessorJVH with @MHarrisPerry on @MSNBC @MHPshow in NYC 5/17 #brownvboard60 | Cloaking Inequity

@ProfessorJVH with @MHarrisPerry on @MSNBC @MHPshow in NYC 5/17 #brownvboard60 | Cloaking Inequity: @ProfessorJVH with @MHarrisPerry on @MSNBC @MHPshow in NYC 5/17 #brownvboard60Looking forward to joining Melissa Harris-Perry in New York City for MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show on May 17, 2014 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. EST for a live panel discussion on Brown vs. Board of Education. My last visit to MHP

by mike simpson / 13h

Nite Cap 5-10-14 #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 CAPStudents Worldwide Join Week of Action to Reclaim Education | PopularResistance.OrgStudents Worldwide Join Week of Action to Reclaim Education | PopularResistance.Org: Students Worldwide Join Week of Action to Reclaim EducationRESIST! STUDENT ACT

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Students Worldwide Join Week of Action to Reclaim Education | PopularResistance.Org

Students Worldwide Join Week of Action to Reclaim Education | PopularResistance.Org: Students Worldwide Join Week of Action to Reclaim EducationRESIST! STUDENT ACTIVISM, STUDENT PROTEST By Roshan Bliss, www.PopularResistanceMay 10th, 2014 Powered by TranslateStudents across the world rallied, held teach-ins, and took to the streets this week as part of the Global Week of Action to Reclaim Educati

by mike simpson / 15h

Where Shame Is Policy: Inside LA’s ‘Teacher Jail’ | The Nation

Where Shame Is Policy: Inside LA’s ‘Teacher Jail’ | The Nation: Where Shame Is Policy: Inside LA’s ‘Teacher Jail’Using sex as an excuse, Los Angeles has created a disciplinary limbo in which hundreds of teachers languish.JoAnn Wypijewski April 30, 2014 | This article appeared in the May 19, 2014 edition of The Nation.Share(Shutterstock/hxdbzxy)Iris Stevenson hurt no child, seduced no teenager

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Education Law Center | ELC OBTAINS CONFIDENTIAL NJDOE SCHOOL “TURNAROUND” PLAN

Education Law Center | ELC OBTAINS CONFIDENTIAL NJDOE SCHOOL “TURNAROUND” PLAN: ELC OBTAINS CONFIDENTIAL NJDOE SCHOOL “TURNAROUND” PLANPROPOSAL TO BROAD FOUNDATION SEEKS MILLIONS FOR CLOSURES, “RECOVERY DISTRICT”July 31, 2012In response to a request under the NJ Open Public Records Act (OPRA), Education Law Center has obtained a confidential proposal prepared for the Broad Foundation by the NJ Dep

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The Roller Coaster of Teaching in Finland - Taught by Finland

The Roller Coaster of Teaching in Finland - Taught by Finland: The Roller Coaster of Teaching in Finland05/10/20141 CommentA roller coaster of joys and frustrations. That’s how I would describe my first year of teaching at a Finnish public school.The Joy of More Free TimeI nearly did a somersault the moment I first set eyes on my fulltime teaching schedule in Finland. I discovered that I would tea

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Leader of ‘Bad Ass Moms’ speaks out | People's TribunePeople's Tribune

Leader of ‘Bad Ass Moms’ speaks out | People's TribunePeople's Tribune: Leader of ‘Bad Ass Moms’ speaks outBy Leslie WillisMay 2014Rousemary Vega, with daughter Zamara, is a mother of four, and a leader in the battle to save our public schools.PHOTO/ANDY WILLISCHICAGO — “How can you celebrate anything when you kill schools and over test our children . . . Stop threatening students and teachers, st

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Marie Corfield: NJ Ed Truth Squad Call to Action Part 2: When bad things happen to good schools

Marie Corfield: NJ Ed Truth Squad Call to Action Part 2: When bad things happen to good schools: NJ Ed Truth Squad Call to Action Part 2: When bad things happen to good schoolsIn Part 1 I wrote about the recent Congressional vote on a charter school bill. Part 2 is about Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson's plans to convert Hawthorne Avenue School, a successful and beloved neighborhood public sch

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Why Digital Curriculum is a Bad Idea | Missouri Education Watchdog

Why Digital Curriculum is a Bad Idea | Missouri Education Watchdog: Why Digital Curriculum is a Bad IdeainShareWhatever could go wrong with a medical company pushing a product to students?Missourians and others concerned about the Common Core Initiative and curriculum being online are redeemed. Representative Mike Lair put $8.00 in the education appropriations budget for tin foil in an attempt to

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Baraka for Newark mayor | Bob Braun's Ledger

Baraka for Newark mayor | Bob Braun's Ledger: Baraka for Newark mayorRas Baraka If a city can be a victim, Newark is one. For decades, it has been the victim of an unfair tax system, cynical politicians, suburban dominance of the state Legislature, racism, greed, and a sense that it should be grateful for the pitifully small handouts it gets from the rest of New Jersey. Most other

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2nd Banana 5-10-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTEducation Buzz / AFT urges use of social media to protest kidnapping of Nigerian school girls #BringBackOurGirls,Education Buzz / AFT urges use of social media to protest kidnapping of Nigerian school girls: AFT urges use of social media to protest kidnapping of Nigerian school girlsPublished: May 7, 2014, 2:01 pm, by Carol McGrawThe Americ

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5-10-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": Guest Post: Report From The National Family Engagement ConferenceI’ve previously published short reports on last month’s National Family Engagement Conference. Today, Carrie Rose, Executive Director of the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project, has written this guest post about it: Parent-Teacher Home Visits Fit DOE’s Vision Re

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Morning Wink 5-10-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSBehind the Scenes on the Chicago Teachers Union Anti-Common Core Resolution | deutsch29Behind the Scenes on the Chicago Teachers Union Anti-Common Core Resolution | deutsch29: Behind the Scenes on the Chicago Teachers Union Anti-Common Core ResolutionMay 10, 2014On May 7, 2014, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) passed a resolution against the Common Core St

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