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5-13-14 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.: NEA and AFT conventions. Looking ahead.I will be back at the NEA Representative Assembly this summer as an elected Retired delegate. With the exception of one year, I have been to every convention since 1998. The one year I didn’t go it was in Los Angeles. The Illinois delegation was put up in a hotel

by mike simpson / 1min 

LAUSD and the Ritualistic Killing of School

LAUSD and the Ritualistic Killing of School: LAUSD and the Ritualistic Killing of School 13 May 2014Written by Odysseus BostickFont SizeTHE BOSTIC REPORT-If the Los Angeles Unified School District were a used car, parents would be reading the fine print of California’s historic lemon law by the end of first grade. The second largest school district in the nation is not the most well oiled machine,

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-13-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Lausd And The Ritualistic Killing Of SchoolWritten by Odysseus Bostick - THE BOSTIC REPORT in LA CityWatch | http://bit.ly/1jCOx4D 13 May 2014  ::  If the Los Angeles Unified School District were a used car, parents would be reading the fine print of California’s historic lemon law by the end of first grade. The second largest school district in the nat

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5-13-14 LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: TFA: The Kids Are Not AlrightWhen asked about Teach for America, I always answer that the recruits are terrific, very smart, very idealistic, but the organization is greedy, self-serving, and power-hungry. This commenter disagrees. He/she thinks that the recruits should know better. She/he thinks that if they are smart, they should

by mike simpson / 6min 

5-13-13 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION: Better Teacher TrainingThe US DOE recently revived an initiative for improving teacher training in this country. It's a dumb initiative. Pearson offers edTPA, basically a new gateway into the profession, to insure that only the qualified enter the profession. edTPA is a dumb program. TFA is only the most prominent of the many "alternative paths" into teaching. As a means

by mike simpson / 8min 

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The CPS principals revolt: A single spark can start a prairie fire

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The CPS principals revolt: A single spark can start a prairie fire: The CPS principals revolt: A single spark can start a prairie fireShe [Byrd-Bennett] can't "get to the bottom" of it when the culprit is at the top. -- Principal Troy LaRaviereA SMALLTALK SALUTE goes out to Blaine Principal Troy LaRaviere for standing up and speaking truth to power. His May

by mike simpson / 10min 

5-13-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Important New Report Questions VAMAn important new report was published today raising major questions about the usefulness of Value-Added Measurement as a teacher evaluation tool. Read about it at The Washington Post’s article, Good teaching, poor test scores: Doubt cast on grading teachers by student performance, and at Ed

by mike simpson / 12min 

Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: UFT Contract: Mulgrew Says It's OK to Fire ATR for "Screaming in the Hallway"UFT logo for ATRsDon't you think we should have the definitions of "problematic" behavior BEFORE voting on the contract?Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said a panel of hearing officers would "solidify the definition" of problematic behavior. &

by mike simpson / 15min 

5-13-14 Wait What?

Wait What?: 6 more reasons why Connecticut should reject the Common Core K-3 standardsConnecticut needs to repeal Governor Malloy’s education reform legislation, halt the implementation of the Common Core and develop more appropriate policies for Connecticut’s students, teachers and public schools. The following is another clear and concise explanation of why the Common Core Standards are wrong fo

by mike simpson / 19min 

5-13-14 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: Florida Public Schools Understand the Hyprocrisy Behind Budget NumbersThe narrative that Florida republican legislators and Governor Rick Scott advanced at the end of the legislative session was that public schools were somehow the big winners. Public school officials ar

by mike simpson / 20min 

5-13-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Opt-Out Movement Posied To Grow Even BiggerFrom Gary Stern and Randi Weiner at LoHud:More than 3,140 students in the Lower Hudson Valley sat out the recent state math tests, an 84 percent increase over the number who opted out from the ELA tests only four weeks earlier.Overall, 3.4 percent of local students in grades 3-8 were directed by their parents to skip the math tests,

by mike simpson / 23min 

May 13 Rally at the US Supreme Court | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity

May 13 Rally at the US Supreme Court | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity: May 13 Rally at the US Supreme CourtPosted on: Tuesday May 13th, 2014May 13 – Rally at the U.S. Supreme CourtFulfilling the Promise of Brown v. Board:Organizing for Educational Justice for AllSixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, our nation's public schools are stil

by mike simpson / 28min 

5-13-14 The Whole Child Blog — Symposium Focuses on Educating Young People for Their Future, Not Our Past — Whole Child Education

Symposium Focuses on Educating Young People for Their Future, Not Our Past — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGSymposium Focuses on Educating Young People for Their Future, Not Our PastMay 13, 2014 by Whole Child SymposiumThe decisions we make today—for our systems, our schools, and our classrooms—will affect what all of our tomorrows will look like. This past week, ASCD hosted its inaugu

by mike simpson / 31min 

NYC Educator: What About the Kids?

NYC Educator: What About the Kids?: What About the Kids?With all this talk about how awful this contract is for us, it seems a good time to take a look at how it will benefit the students we serve. After all, the Daily News is interviewing legal expert Campbell Brown again. Of course, she and whoever pays for her to do whatever it is she does are only interested in firing as many teachers as possi

by mike simpson / 35min 

Separate and Unequal 60 Years After “Brown v. Board” | janresseger

Separate and Unequal 60 Years After “Brown v. Board” | janresseger: Separate and Unequal 60 Years After “Brown v. Board”Posted on May 13, 2014 by janressegerProPublica has published Segregation Now, an in-depth history of school integration and re-segregation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  The experience of Tuscaloosa is a microcosm of the history of the South’s experiment with school integration and th

by mike simpson / 36min 

Help us, people of Newark | Bob Braun's Ledger

Help us, people of Newark | Bob Braun's Ledger: Help us, people of Newark                This is not a burden they asked for, or even want, but, today, the voters of Newark go to the polls to decide the possible future of both public education and democracy as we now know them both to be.  The race has become bigger than a contest between  Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries.  It has become a question

by mike simpson / 39min 

Shanker Blog » Can Early Language Development Promote Children's Psychological Wellbeing?

Shanker Blog » Can Early Language Development Promote Children's Psychological Wellbeing?: Can Early Language Development Promote Children’s Psychological Wellbeing?Posted by Esther Quintero on May 13, 2014We know oral language is young children’s door into the world of knowledge and ideas, the foundation for reading, and the bedrock of all academic learning. But, can language also protect young k

by mike simpson / 41min 

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5-12-14 Education Opportunity Network

Education Opportunity Network: 5/13/2014 – Who Betrayed Brown?May 13, 2014 Subscribe THIS WEEK: Scale Pre-K Legislation … Teaching Grit Is Wrong … Digital Reading Harms Comprehension … Pisa Harms Education … Deep Learning TOP STORY Who Betrayed The Legacy Of Brown V. Board? By Jeff Bryant “60 years after Brown v. Board, what passes for advancements in civil rights is often grand gestures of ‘progr

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5-12-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: UFT Contract: MORE Talks Business While Unity Goes Into HidingSince the Unity slugs aren't willing to hold a conversation about the contract, MORE is going to do so. Which would you rather attend? A one-way filibuster at a Unity/UFT sponsored borough meeting - while your school is getting a visitor from the UFT who will also filibuster in your school while leaving a few minutes fo

by mike simpson / 7h 

Mother Crusader: A Look Inside What $2M DFER Dollars Is Buying In Newark

Mother Crusader: A Look Inside What $2M DFER Dollars Is Buying In Newark: A Look Inside What $2M DFER Dollars Is Buying In NewarkAs I detailed last week, Democrats for Education Reform(DFER) spawn Education Reform Now (ERN) dumped over 2 million dollars into the Super PAC called Newark First to defeat unabashed public education supporter, Ras Baraka.I thought it would be interesting to see what ki

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Good teaching, poor test scores: Doubt cast on grading teachers by student performance - The Washington Post

Good teaching, poor test scores: Doubt cast on grading teachers by student performance - The Washington Post: Good teaching, poor test scores: Doubt cast on grading teachers by student performanceIn the first large-scale analysis of new systems that evaluate teachers based partly on student test scores, two researchers found little or no correlation between quality teaching and the appraisals teac

by mike simpson / 7h 

Nite Cap 5-12-14 #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 CAPTen Years After: Is Genuine Teacher Leadership Dead in the Water? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week TeacherTen Years After: Is Genuine Teacher Leadership Dead in the Water? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Ten Year

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Ten Years After: Is Genuine Teacher Leadership Dead in the Water? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

Ten Years After: Is Genuine Teacher Leadership Dead in the Water? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Ten Years After: Is Genuine Teacher Leadership Dead in the Water?By Nancy Flanagan on May 12, 2014 5:48 PMOK. The headline was designed to lure readers. But the question remains: Has practice-based teacher leadership come a long way in the last decade--or has the concept become c

by mike simpson / 16h 

Chester Finn Is At It Again | Truth in American Education

Chester Finn Is At It Again | Truth in American Education: Chester Finn Is At It AgainFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on May 12, 2014 • 0 Comments4Chester Finn writing at Fordham Institute’s blogcritiques Peggy Noonan’s recent piece in the Wall Street Journal.Finn writes:But she’s not right to offer absolutely no alternative—unless, of course, she’s content with American

by mike simpson / 16h 

5-12-13 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION: Edutopia Serves Up Grits (With Maple Syrup)If you have been looking for ways to grittify your classroom, edutopia has you covered with a new addition to its "Research Made Relevant" series (and while I guess I understand what their point is, but I have mixed feelings because nobody is out there explaining how to make water wet-- if the research is relevant, why would we h

by mike simpson / 17h 

Rocketship program is a model for inequality in education opportunity | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Rocketship program is a model for inequality in education opportunity | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: Rocketship program is a model for inequality in education opportunityBy Gordon Lafer May 10, 2014 Sixty years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kan. The ruling rejected the concept of se

by mike simpson / 17h 

America’s dangerous education myth: Why it isn’t the best anti-poverty program - Salon.com

America’s dangerous education myth: Why it isn’t the best anti-poverty program - Salon.com: America’s dangerous education myth: Why it isn’t the best anti-poverty programHere's what's behind the claim that education is the panacea to inequality -- and why it has the answer all wrong Arne Duncan (Credit: AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)If you’ve followed the education reform debate in this country, the Fin

by mike simpson / 19h 

5-12-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

Seattle Schools Community Forum: WSJ Story on RttT OutcomesThere was a story in the Wall Street Journal on May 3 about Race to the Top grants that casts them in a rather dim light. A number of grant winners did not actually move forward with the promised reforms and a number of the reforms did not actually provide any positive outcomes.Surprise, surprise, surprise.A lot of this might be just the u

by mike simpson / 20h 

5-12-14 The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education

Not Worried About the EOG — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGNot Worried About the EOGMay 12, 2014 by Steven WeberAcross the United States, students have started test prep. Students march through test packet after test packet with the goal of increasing test scores on a standardized test. In North Carolina, all elementary schools administer the End-of-Grade (EOG) Test. The test is a stan

by mike simpson / 20h 

5-12-14 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): In LAT, community groups press LAUSD to help high-need studentsMore than 40 education and community groups signed a full-page ad that ran in today’s Los Angeles Times, urging the LA Unified school board to provide more support for high needs students in the up-coming budget. The ad appears a day before a

by mike simpson / 21h 

Conflicts of interest are the norm at some charter schools, where questionable spending has been unraveled - NY Daily News

Conflicts of interest are the norm at some charter schools, where questionable spending has been unraveled - NY Daily News: Conflicts of interest are the norm at some charter schools, where questionable spending has been unraveledAt the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls, the school board in July met without informing parents and voted to hire a new business manager ... who happened to be a

by mike simpson / 21h 

The Race for the Future of Newark Public Schools

The Race for the Future of Newark Public Schools: The Race for the Future of Newark Public SchoolsMonday, 12 May 2014 09:22By Owen Davis, Truthout | News AnalysisNewark mayoral candidate Ras Baraka with Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver, who endorsed his candidacy, at Essex Sports Cafe in Newark, N.J., May 7, 2014. (Photo: Christopher Gregory / The New York Times)The forces behind free-market education

by mike simpson / 22h 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-12-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS TWITTER PARTY THIS AFTERNOON: Parents are worth more than spare change! + smf’s 2¢received by e-mail -------- Original message -------- From: Families In Schools Date: 05/11/2014 5:04 PM (GMT-08:00) Subject: Reminder: Twitter Party 05/12 - Parents are worth more than spare change! You are invited J

by mike simpson / 22h 

Telling the Truth About NAEP Scores | Taking Note

Telling the Truth About NAEP Scores | Taking Note: Telling the Truth About NAEP Scoresby JOHN MERROW on 12. MAY, 2014 in 2014 BLOGSWhen the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the 12th grade reading scores last week, the supporters of the status quo were hard pressed to come up with anything positive to say. Because reading scores have flat-lined, the best that the defender

by mike simpson / 23h 

Morning Wink 5-12-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS5-12-14 LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why the Common Core Standards for Grades K-3 Are WrongA group of early childhood educators explain here why the Common Core is inappropriate for children in grades K-3. This statement is an excerpt from their joi

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