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NYC Educator: Michael Mulgrew Says Bloggers Propagate Myth

NYC Educator: Michael Mulgrew Says Bloggers Propagate Myth: Michael Mulgrew Says Bloggers Propagate MythUFT President Mike Mulgrew harped on the theme of myth at the DA as he praised the contract and shut down anyone who dared disagree. At one point, he spoke of blogs as though they were loathsome reptiles. He doesn't read them, but he knows they traffic in myths. He was being nice, he said, as he

by mike simpson / 5min

Cartoons on Digital Natives and Immigrants | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Cartoons on Digital Natives and Immigrants | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cartoons on Digital Natives and ImmigrantsThe interactions between technology-wise children and their parents or other adults is raw material for cartoonists. I am not sure whether “digital natives” is a category that I would use but it is popular. After the cartoons, take a look at the at the article

by mike simpson / 6min

I am now convinced I was right

I am now convinced I was right: I am now convinced I was rightbyteacherkenFollow Email 20 Comments / 20 Newwhen I decided not to return for another year in my current teaching position, a decision about which I previously wrote here.The senior students in our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program were supposed to participate in a poster session where they shared the results

by mike simpson / 9min

5-24-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All Week

Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week"One Newark": A Market For "Lemons"I've got a new brief over at the NJ Education Policy Forum out today about One Newark. As usual, I present my geekspeak-free (mostly) version of this brief here.Here's the background: Cami Anderson, the state-appointed superintendent of Newark, has put out a plan to restructure the district's schoo

by mike simpson / 14min

5-24-13 Curmudgucation Week

CURMUDGUCATION:Ap A-Ok?The US DOE, among its many promotional and marketing activities, has been pushing hard for AP classes. This week they aimed loud praise noises at the state of Colorado for increasing AP participation in the state. The laudatory article declares success because more students take and pass the AP courses.But before parents and students get too excited about the spreading and b

by mike simpson / 18min

5-24-14 NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education

NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:NPE News Briefsfrom The Network for Public EducationFirestorm erupts over teacher’s angry e-mail to legislators about low pay | The Answer SheetBY VALERIE STRAUSS May 23 at 2:28 pm An angry e-mail written by a teacher to North Carolina legislators with a subject line that said, “I am embarrassed to confess: I am a teacher,” might have been s

by mike simpson / 20min

5-24-14 THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education

The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education:THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog Transforming Schools to Become Innovation ReadyPost written by Laura Varlas Because tests don't require connection and collaboration, classroom education is being driven in one direction, while technology enables creation, curation, and connection. Educators are up against a global achievement gap, Tony Wagner expla

by mike simpson / 22min

5-24-14 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):Happy Memorial Day!2 15h Stoner parents win, LAUSD removes co-located charterCWC Mar Vista Charter School Parents of students at Stoner Elementary School, who have been fighting to get the co-located Citizens of the World Charter School Mar Vista (CWC) off their campus, have succeeded in their quest. A le

by mike simpson / 24min

Stephen Krashen Blog 5-24-14

SKrashen:Free Advertising for DuolingoSent to the Japan Times, May 23, 2014Contrary to the impression given by The Japan Times's free commercial for Duolingo ("Duolingo chief shakes up language learning," May 23), there is no clear evidence that Duolinguo is effective in teaching foreign languages. The only research study done assessing the impact of Duolingo, which was funded by Duoling

by mike simpson / 26min

5-24-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week

With A Brooklyn Accent:With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All WeekWhy It's Time to Go Green- A Guest Pot By Laurel M. SturtIn the last decade, the Democratic party has become increasingly indistinct from the Republican, both parties in virtually impervious thrall to the siren of money. As exacerbated by the Citizens United and McCutcheon Supreme Court decisions, the--for all intents and purposes--whol

by mike simpson / 28min

5-24-14 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 WeekHow Vouchers Killed Education Accountability for Florida TaxpayersWrites Scott Maxwell in the Orlando Sentinel: “The Return of the Living Dead” was a hoot. “Shaun of the Dead” and “Zombieland” perfected the conce

by mike simpson / 30min

All Week @ The Answer Sheet 5-24-14

The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer Sheet‘Let’s stop measuring fish by how well they climb trees’Joshua Katz is a high school math teacher in Orange County, Florida. He gave the following speech about what he calls “the toxic culture of education” today in a TEDx talk this month at the University of Akron. TEDx Talks is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to sha

by mike simpson / 32min

5-24-14 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 SocietyBridging DifferencesAre Prosser teachers 'gaming the system'? Or is this reporter gaming them?"If anyone out there has been in Prosser for more than a second, they would see that you can't make a Prosser teacher do anything they don't believe in." -- Prosser teacher

by mike simpson / 34min

5-24-14 Wait What? All Week

Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekUnion Leader says Pelto is anti-union?In recent weeks, one political pundit called me a “union stooge,” while the former Democratic Party Chairman, John Droney, referred to me as a “liberal ideologue.” But this morning, in a “What the _____” moment, the President of SEIU 1199NE, the great union that represents 19,000 Connecticut health care workers issued a press re

by mike simpson / 39min

5-24-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumScience Fairs: Yay or Nay?by Melissa Westbrook / 20h Friday Open ThreadNaturally, in Seattle, the first "summer" holiday and it's raining. At the Columbus College of Art and Design, two anonymous students create art for all to enjoy. Something to show the artist in your home.New names to look for in, say 2019, in SPS classroo

by mike simpson / 40min

5-24-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineFinal Performance Tonight of RTC "Moon...I saw the Rockaway Theatre Company Production of "Moon Over Buffalo" last night for the 4th time - and I still laughed at every line -- and there were so many. My column with some cool photos finally appeared in The Wave yesterday, a week late, which doesn't do anything for the box office. Not that my columns e

by mike simpson / 42min

5-24-14 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 teacherBob Peterson. A teacher union movement is rising.- Bob Peterson is President of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association. A revitalized teacher union movement is bubbling up in the midst of relentless attacks on public school

by mike simpson / 45min

5-24-14 Perdido Street School Week

Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekMurdoch Company Pays Andrew Cuomo At Least $700,000 For His MemoirOkay, this is absurd:ALBANY—Gov. Andrew Cuomo's book deal with HarperCollins is worth at least $700,000, according to a disclosure form Cuomo filed last week.The publishing house is planning to release Cuomo's autobiography, “All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and L

by mike simpson / 48min

5-24-14 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 Margaret Fuller: “I find no intellect comparable to my own”“Men disappoint me so,” Margaret Fuller shared in a letter (21 February 1841) to Reverend William Henry Channing. Born on May 23, 1810, Fuller was a contemporary of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, notable for what

by mike simpson / 50min

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-24-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT “WE TRUST THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION INTENDS TO EXECUTE ITS DUTIES IN A TRANSPARENT AND EQUITABLE MANNER”: Letter of reappointment of Stuart Magruder to the Bond Oversight Committeefrom the AIA/LA “ When the passage of Proposition 39 in 2000 led to the provision of the Education Code that required that the Bo

by mike simpson / 54min

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 5-24-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYMay’s Best Tweets – Part FourEvery 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 —

by mike simpson / 59min

This Week's Education Research Report 5-24-14 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTCould text language and autocorrect technologies have an effect on writing skills?English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students' growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically solve the "i before e" literary dilemma."

by mike simpson / 1h

5-24-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter: Schools Matter All Week“Putting the 2-Step Over the ISTEP," Doug Martin, Otter Creek Democrat Club, Terre Haute, IN., May 21, 2014Here is the link to the video of my talk in Terre Haute, which is just over 16 minutes in length: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QlCX-I_m0o Hoosier School Heist author Doug Martin discusses his book and possible strategies Democrats in Vigo Count

by mike simpson / 1h

All Week 5-24-14 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ THE CHALK FACE NCTQ Gets Caught in a Data Collecting LieThe National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) will be “grading” university-level, traditional teacher training programs again soon. Last year, 2013, they released this report on June 18. They “grade” in a superficial manner, relying upon program artifacts to form skewed judgments– judgments that they publish in

by mike simpson / 1h

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 5-24-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGGene Glass: This is the BASIS Sales PitchGene Glass, a distinguished researcher, wrote the following about a charter chain that is regularly lauded by U.S. News & World Report: Ever Hear a BASIS Schools Sales Pitch? The Basis charter schools – some ten schools in Arizona and a couple more in places like San Antonio an

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NCTQ Gets Caught in a Data Collecting Lie | deutsch29

NCTQ Gets Caught in a Data Collecting Lie | deutsch29: NCTQ Gets Caught in a Data Collecting LieMay 23, 2014The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) will be “grading” university-level, traditional teacher training programs again soon.Last year, 2013, they released this report on June 18. They “grade” in a superficial manner, relying upon program artifacts to form skewed judgments– judgments

by mike simpson / 11h

LAUSD Wants Rigor? Well, Maybe…LAUSD Retaliates

LAUSD Retaliates: LAUSD Wants Rigor? Well, Maybe…By Karen WolfeShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on pinterest_shareMore Sharing Services0Stuart MagruderThe LAUSD school board on Tuesday rejected the reappointment of one of its most rigorous overseers in what many see as retaliation for questioning the use of bond funds to purchase iPads.Stuart Magruder, AIA, LEED, is the appoint

by mike simpson / 11h

A New Teacher Union Movement is Rising | Common Dreams

A New Teacher Union Movement is Rising | Common Dreams: A New Teacher Union Movement is Risingby Bob PetersonChicago Teachers Union rally in Daley Plaza in 2012. The nation's public schools, writes Peterson, "must become greenhouses for both democracy and community revitalization.' (Photo: pbarcas / cc / flickr)A revitalized teacher union movement is bubbling up in the midst of relentless att

by mike simpson / 14h

The Truth About Online Learning

Online Learning: The Truth About Online LearningBy Ana Beatriz Cholo#157423666 / gettyimages.comFor those with Internet access, free online classes from Ivy League universities, taught by some of the world’s top professors, are just a click away. But to a grassroots coalition of organizations representing hundreds of thousands of college and university educators, there’s a reason this promise seem

by mike simpson / 14h

Nite Cap 5-23-14 #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 CAPThe Fordham Institute’s Misinformation About Missouri Standards & Common Core | Missouri Education WatchdogThe Fordham Institute’s Misinformation About Missouri Standards & Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog: The Fordham Institute’

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The Fordham Institute’s Misinformation About Missouri Standards & Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog

The Fordham Institute’s Misinformation About Missouri Standards & Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog: The Fordham Institute’s Misinformation About Missouri Standards & Common CoreinShareShould “conservatives” align themselves with Arne Duncan’s educational reforms which include Common Core support?The Fordham Institute is now framing itself as the organization giving voice to “Conse

by mike simpson / 17h

Lawmakers open to brief reprieve from big payments for teacher pensions | EdSource Today

Lawmakers open to brief reprieve from big payments for teacher pensions | EdSource Today: Lawmakers open to brief reprieve from big payments for teacher pensionsMay 22nd, 2014 | 4 Comments | By John FensterwaldShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on pinterest_shareMore Sharing Services69Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to immediately start paying off the $74 billion shortfall in funding for

by mike simpson / 17h

They don’t make Family Values the way they used to. | Reclaim Reform

They don’t make Family Values the way they used to. | Reclaim Reform: They don’t make Family Values the way they used to.Posted on May 23, 2014by Ken PrevitiWhen a billionaire runs for governor and spends his own mega-bucks on ads to proclaim his beliefs and the beliefs of his wife, who takes part in those ads, people expect some form of honesty no matter how shallow the statements may be.The fact

by mike simpson / 17h

Sponsor a Student!: Inform Your Policymaker Why Vouchers Have Failed | Cloaking Inequity

Sponsor a Student!: Inform Your Policymaker Why Vouchers Have Failed | Cloaking Inequity: Sponsor a Student!: Inform Your Policymaker Why Vouchers Have FailedWE NEED YOUR HELP! Do you believe in public education? Do you want US policymakers to understand why decision makers in Chile have now judged vouchers to be problematic after 30 years of universal implementation? Do you have frequent flier mi

by mike simpson / 18h

What’s Testing Season? | My Island View

What’s Testing Season? | My Island View: What’s Testing Season?May 23, 2014 by tomwhitbyRecently, the editors of Edutopia were considering a theme for their bloggers to blog about concerning testing. In order to keep things timely, they needed to find out when most schools were being affected by standardized tests. It was a reasonable consideration, worthy of a responsible examination of the subje

by mike simpson / 18h

5-23-14 The Whole Child Blog — Transforming Schools to Become Innovation Ready — Whole Child Education

Transforming Schools to Become Innovation Ready — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGTransforming Schools to Become Innovation ReadyMay 23, 2014 by Whole Child SymposiumPost written by Laura VarlasBecause tests don't require connection and collaboration, classroom education is being driven in one direction, while technology enables creation, curation, and connection.Educators are up agains

by mike simpson / 20h

5-23-14 Jersey Jazzman: "One Newark": A Market For "Lemons"

Jersey Jazzman: "One Newark": A Market For "Lemons": "One Newark": A Market For "Lemons"I've got a new brief over at the NJ Education Policy Forum out today about One Newark. As usual, I present my geekspeak-free (mostly) version of this brief here.Here's the background: Cami Anderson, the state-appointed superintendent of Newark, has put out a plan to restr

by mike simpson / 20h

5-23-14 Wait What?

Wait What?: Wait What? Union Leader says Pelto is anti-union?In recent weeks, one political pundit called me a “union stooge,” while the former Democratic Party Chairman, John Droney, referred to me as a “liberal ideologue.” But this morning, in a “What the _____” moment, the President of SEIU 1199NE, the great union that represents 19,000 Connecticut health care workers issued a press release att

by mike simpson / 20h

With A Brooklyn Accent: We Are All Craig Charvat: Defend the Free Speech Rights of a Great Long Island Teacher!

With A Brooklyn Accent: We Are All Craig Charvat: Defend the Free Speech Rights of a Great Long Island Teacher!: We Are All Craig Charvat: Defend the Free Speech Rights of a Great Long Island Teacher! Craig Charvat, the Social Studies Teacher from Center Moriches High School who made headlines all over New York State for denouncing the Common Core Standards, and refusing to accept evaluations base

by mike simpson / 21h

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Are Prosser teachers 'gaming the system'? Or is this reporter gaming them?

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Are Prosser teachers 'gaming the system'? Or is this reporter gaming them?: Are Prosser teachers 'gaming the system'? Or is this reporter gaming them?"If anyone out there has been in Prosser for more than a second, they would see that you can't make a Prosser teacher do anything they don't believe in." -- Prosser teacher Maria MagdalenaAfter reading Ted Cox

by mike simpson / 21h

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-23-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: ‘If you don’t like the criticism, fire the critic 3!”: L.A. UNIFIED BOARD REFUSES TO REAPPOINT MEMBER OF OVERSIGHT PANEL + smf’s 2¢by Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/1pjc8aO School board member Tamar Galatzan, shown here with Supt. John Deasy last year, was one of the staunchest supporters of the original iPad plan. (Luis Sinco / Los Ang

by mike simpson / 21h

The dramatic inequality of public-school spending in America

The dramatic inequality of public-school spending in America: The dramatic inequality of public-school spending in AmericaBY EMILY BADGERMay 23 at 9:00 amAn Apple Inc. iPad sits on a desk used in a second-grade classroom at Park Lane Elementary school, in the Canyons School District, in Sandy, Utah, U.S. on Monday, May 20, 2013 (George Frey/Bloomberg)During fiscal 2012, New York City's school dist

by mike simpson / 22h

Ravitch: Common Core Is Bankrupting the Country « Bill's Eye

Ravitch: Common Core Is Bankrupting the Country « Bill's Eye: Ravitch: Common Core Is Bankrupting the CountryThursday, May 22nd, 2014Diane Ravitch is not a fan of the new school standards known as Common Core, and she’ll tell you why on this Sunday’s One to One show.Ravitch, a distinguished education historian and research professor at New York University, was in Kentucky recently to receive the U

by mike simpson / 22h

5-23-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Friday Open ThreadNaturally, in Seattle, the first "summer" holiday and it's raining. At the Columbus College of Art and Design, two anonymous students create art for all to enjoy. Something to show the artist in your home.New names to look for in, say 2019, in SPS classrooms:And once again, Game of Thrones rules. There were 1135 Aryas, 241 Khaleesis and

by mike simpson / 22h

Oregon Teachers' Union Supports Opting Out, Calls for Congressional Hearings on Testing - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Oregon Teachers' Union Supports Opting Out, Calls for Congressional Hearings on Testing - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Oregon Teachers' Union Supports Opting Out, Calls for Congressional Hearings on TestingBy Anthony Cody on May 23, 2014 10:36 AMunitedoptout.com/Today we have the fourth report this month contributed by teacher union activists, who have followed democratic processes

by mike simpson / 22h

5-23-14 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: In race for school chief, money is closeTop candidates for state schools chief in close money race The top contenders to be the state’s public schools chief are neck-and-neck in campaign funds leading into the June primary, according to finance reports filed Thursday. Current state superinte

by mike simpson / 22h

Philly Student Dies With No Nurse on Duty. Organizers Call for Officials to Resign | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity

Philly Student Dies With No Nurse on Duty. Organizers Call for Officials to Resign | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity: Philly Student Dies With No Nurse on Duty. Organizers Call for Officials to ResignPosted on: Friday May 23rd, 2014Jackson Elementary parents give statement tothe press. Photo via Philly.comFor the second time this school year, a

by mike simpson / 22h

For the First Time, Public Education Revenue Decreases in 2012, Census Bureau Reports - Education - Newsroom - U.S. Census Bureau

For the First Time, Public Education Revenue Decreases in 2012, Census Bureau Reports - Education - Newsroom - U.S. Census Bureau: For the First Time, Public Education Revenue Decreases in 2012, Census Bureau ReportsPublic elementary and secondary education revenue declined in fiscal year 2012 for the first time since 1977, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting public education finance data

by mike simpson / 22h

This Is Not a Test | EduShyster

This Is Not a Test | EduShyster: This Is Not a TestThe interview with the José VilsonEduShyster: Your new book, This is Not a Test, has as its subtitle *a new narrative on race, class and education.* I inhaled the book over the course of a weekend, but I couldn’t figure out what the new narrative was. And then it finally dawned on me that you, José Luis Vilson, are the new narrative.José Vilson: T

by mike simpson / 23h

Morning Wink 5-23-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 5-23-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Gary Rubinstein: Who Is the Real Michael Johnston?Gary Rubinstein writes in this post about Michael Johnston and his long association with him. Today Johnston is known in Colorado as the state s

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