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Newark Mayoral Candidate Ras Baraka: "I Will Lead a Full Scale Campaign for Local Control of Schools" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Newark Mayoral Candidate Ras Baraka: "I Will Lead a Full Scale Campaign for Local Control of Schools" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Newark Mayoral Candidate Ras Baraka: "I Will Lead a Full Scale Campaign for Local Control of Schools"By Anthony Cody on May 6, 2014 10:37 AMWith New Jersey in the news this year, the mayoral race in Newark has emerged as a crucial

by mike simpson / 4min 

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 5-6-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Rick Hess Blasts Duncan’s Waiver PolicyRick Hess of the conservative American Enterprise Institute wrote a hard-hitting and sensible column critical of Arne Duncan’s NCLB waivers. The column is especially pertinent in light of Duncan’s decision to withdraw his waiver from Washington State for daring to defy his will. Duncan will pu

by mike simpson / 4min 

5-6-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: The Best Articles Showing Why Education Reform Is NOT The Best Way To Fight PovertyPaul Bruno has described one of my common frustrations: When charged with “ignoring poverty”, many education reformers will respond that in fact improving education is the best way to fight poverty. Arne Duncan once went so far as to say that

by mike simpson / 10min 

5-6-14 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.: Maybe I’m amazed. Rahm can’t afford to buy his own Paul McCartney tickets. And no lunch with Rauner.Fresh on the heels of stories about Rahm’s law-breaking motorcades and his snub of the great Whitney Young girls state championship basketball team comes the latest scandal. Actually, it’s not a scandal

by mike simpson / 12min 

5-6-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: Press Conf Protesting Charter Law at 9AM/ Charter Gold Rush to Come in NYS9AM: presser starting now, followed by 10AM City Council hearing on charters.WHAT:          Press conference to protest new state law requiring New York City to give charter schools preference for space and resources, while schools in community school districts need space and resources to properly serve publ

by mike simpson / 14min 

5-6-14 Wait What?

Wait What?: Malloy’s “NO TAX” pledge will send Connecticut into the abyssAs a result of Governor Malloy’s gimmick ridden state budget, the candidate who wins the 2014 gubernatorial election will take office facing a projected state budget deficit of $1.3 billion or more. By using one-time revenues for on-going expenses, purposefully under-funding various government programs and utilizing a series

by mike simpson / 19min 

5-6-14 The Answer Sheet

The Answer Sheet: What ‘setting high expectations’ for all students really meansHow many times have you heard that schools need to create “a culture of high expectations” for all students? What exactly is that?  Esther Quintero, a research associate at the nonprofit Albert Shanker Institute, explains in this post, which first appeared on the institute’s blog.   By Esther Quintero What exactly is “

by mike simpson / 21min 

5-6-14 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: The Florida PTA? Not THOSE Parents!Washington Post writer, Valerie Strauss pointed out the indefensible double-standard which Florida republican legislators operate when it comes to education policy. One statement in particular stood out to Strauss: The Associated Press

by mike simpson / 23min 

5-6-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: If This Is Teacher Appreciation, I’m Glad It Is Only a WeekIf This Is Teacher Appreciation, I’m Glad It Is Only a Week. via If This Is Teacher Appreciation, I’m Glad It Is Only a Week.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical1 by plthomasedd / 1h 5-5-14 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: “TAKING BACK OUR SCHOOLS” May 17th  Come and bring your families, your friends, and your coll

by mike simpson / 26min 

5-6-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week

With A Brooklyn Accent: The Charter School Hustle by Notorious PhdThere's something goinground,called the Charter SchoolDump,pushing public schoolsdown,And charter schoolsup,When a student actsout,Or bombs on a testThe charters throwhim outSo their numberslook bestAnd the public schoolswho takeCharter refugeesWatch pols use their scoresto Bring them to theirknees.Its all about theBenjamins,And pol

by mike simpson / 27min 

5-6-14 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): If This Is Teacher Appreciation, I’m Glad It Is Only a WeekTalk back, speak up, be heard. Bill Ayers, To Teach. This is not the time for the teacher of any language to follow the line of least resistance, to teach without the fullest possible knowledge of the implication

by mike simpson / 30min 

5-6-13 Curmudgucation Week

CURMUDGUCATION: My Teacher AppreciationIt is Teacher Appreciation Week, though you could be forgiven for not having noticed. It's the perfect time for all of us to stop and say a few words about the teachers who made a difference for us, whose work we respect, and whose lives in the classroom (and beyond) inspire us. Here are some of mine:Susie and I went to high school together. She eventually re

by mike simpson / 32min 

5-6-14 Perdido Street School Week

Perdido Street School: Municipal Labor Committee Backs UFT/De Blasio Plan For Health Care PlanNot a surprise - the Municipal Labor Committee did exactly what Mulgrew and the UFT wanted on this:The Municipal Labor Committee, an umbrella group of New York City unions, voted Monday in support of a proposal championed by Mayor Bill de Blasio that the mayor says will generate $3.4 billion in health-car

by mike simpson / 33min 

Forcing the Fit Using Alternative “Student Growth” Measures |

Forcing the Fit Using Alternative “Student Growth” Measures |: Forcing the Fit Using Alternative “Student Growth” Measures As discussed on this blog prior, when we are talking about teacher effectiveness as defined by the output derived via VAMs, we are talking about the VAMs that still, to date, only impact 30%-40% of all America’s public school teachers. These are the teachers who typically teac

by mike simpson / 41min 

Ten Years After: Two Perspectives on Teacher Leadership - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

Ten Years After: Two Perspectives on Teacher Leadership - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Ten Years After: Two Perspectives on Teacher LeadershipBy Nancy Flanagan on May 6, 2014 9:17 AM Ten years ago, former National Teacher of the Year ('85) Terry Dozier pulled together a collaborative of teacher leaders to build an on-line national course on developing teacher leadership. Doz

by mike simpson / 42min 

Competition heats up for former school district headquarters in midtown Sacramento - Real Estate - The Sacramento Bee

Competition heats up for former school district headquarters in midtown Sacramento - Real Estate - The Sacramento Bee: Competition heats up for former school district headquarters in midtown SacramentoBy Loretta Kalblkalb@sacbee.comPublished: Tuesday, May. 6, 2014 - 12:00 amLast fall, a developer started talking to Sacramento City Unified School District staff about swapping a piece of south Sacra

by mike simpson / 49min 

Struggling L.A. schools seek larger class sizes :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet

Struggling L.A. schools seek larger class sizes :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet:  MAY 06, 2014Struggling L.A. schools seek larger class sizesby Tom Chorneau(Calif.) Despite an improving economy and robust tax collections, the Los Angeles School District will petition the state to allow larger class sizes in some of its most under-performing

by mike simpson / 58min 

This is Common Core in Action. A Music Teacher is “Ineffective” Based on ELA/Math Standards. | Missouri Education Watchdog

This is Common Core in Action. A Music Teacher is “Ineffective” Based on ELA/Math Standards. | Missouri Education Watchdog: This is Common Core in Action. A Music Teacher is “Ineffective” Based on ELA/Math Standards.inShareIn the Common Core world of instruction, music teachers should not tell students to practice musical scales, utilize repetitive strategies, or help students develop individual s

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Orwellian Language Again: Info-Graphic Answers Your Questions about Democrats for Education Reform | janresseger

Orwellian Language Again: Info-Graphic Answers Your Questions about Democrats for Education Reform | janresseger: Orwellian Language Again: Info-Graphic Answers Your Questions about Democrats for Education ReformPosted on May 6, 2014 by janresseger Democrats (In Name Only) for Education ReformIt has perhaps slipped your mind, but beginning Sunday afternoon and ending this morning, a group of New Y

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We Still Have Allies in the Fight - Bridging Differences - Education Week

We Still Have Allies in the Fight - Bridging Differences - Education Week: We Still Have Allies in the FightBy Guest Blogger on May 6, 2014 8:52 AMAuthor and advocate Mike Klonsky again writes to Deborah Meier today. The two are currently co-blogging on Bridging Differences."Well, the way I understand it, if a school's kids don't test well, they burn the school down. It's pretty high-pressure

by mike simpson / 1h 

NYC Educator: Whither the Two-Hundred New Schools Under the Current Contract Proposal?

NYC Educator: Whither the Two-Hundred New Schools Under the Current Contract Proposal?: Whither the Two-Hundred New Schools Under the Current Contract Proposal?President Barack Obama, "by virtue of the authority vested" in him by the Constitution of the United States, proclaimed May 4th through May 10th, 2014, as National Charter Schools Week (Obama Proclamation).Only a day before, on Ma

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Lewis: ''We don’t have a pension crisis, we have pension shortfall and a crisis in leadership'

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Lewis: ''We don’t have a pension crisis, we have pension shortfall and a crisis in leadership': Lewis: ''We don’t have a pension crisis, we have pension shortfall and a crisis in leadership'CTU Pres. Karen Lewis' speech Monday, at the City ClubOur members don’t want to wind up in poverty because somebody who just rode into town wants to take away their livelihoods. I

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Measuring a ‘growth mindset’ in a new school accountability system | EdSource Today

Measuring a ‘growth mindset’ in a new school accountability system | EdSource Today: Measuring a ‘growth mindset’ in a new school accountability systemMay 5th, 2014 | Add a Comment | By Jane Meredith AdamsStanford University psychologist Carol Dweck’s research on intelligence, motivation and achievement has changed the thinking of educators around the globe – and now it’s helping to drive a first-

by mike simpson / 10h 

Hey Mulgrew! Where's The Beef For The ATR's?.southbronxschool.com

http://www.southbronxschool.com: Hey Mulgrew! Where's The Beef For The ATR's?I wish to thank UFT President Mike Mulgrew for graciously sending out not one, but two, emailsregarding the new contract. It was chock full of information that I, an informed UFT member, need and which will allow me to properly discuss when mocked by the chimps at the Bronx Zoo for being part of a union that can't do righ

by mike simpson / 10h 

‘Ashamed’ Teacher Calls Common Core Exams ‘Institutional Abuse’ | TheBlaze.com

‘Ashamed’ Teacher Calls Common Core Exams ‘Institutional Abuse’ | TheBlaze.com: ‘Ashamed’ Teacher Calls Common Core Exams ‘Institutional Abuse’A Long Island, New York elementary school teacher who gained national attention for blogging that he was ashamed for his role in administering Common Core tests to students told TheBlaze he wants to see the K-12 math and science standards done away with in

by mike simpson / 11h 

Two More Excerpts from My Book, A Chronicle of Echoes | deutsch29

Two More Excerpts from My Book, A Chronicle of Echoes | deutsch29: Two More Excerpts from My Book, A Chronicle of EchoesMay 5, 2014On April 27, 2014,  I announced my book, A Chronicle of Echoes: Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education.Here is the book description:“Corporate reform” is not reform at all. Instead, it is the systematic destruction of the foundational American institut

by mike simpson / 12h 

Title I Acadamic Achievement Schools Named - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)

Title I Acadamic Achievement Schools Named - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces 2013-14 Title I Academic Achievement Award SchoolsSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced that 106 public schools will be receiving the 2013-14 Title I Academic Achievement Award."I am proud of what these schools have accomplish

by mike simpson / 12h 

Marie Corfield: Happy Teacher Appreciation Week: How China and the US are swapping education philosophies

Marie Corfield: Happy Teacher Appreciation Week: How China and the US are swapping education philosophies: Happy Teacher Appreciation Week: How China and the US are swapping education philosophiesEarly on in my teaching career I taught elementary art in the Bernards Township School District in Somerset County. The township is about 83% white with the largest minority being Asian at 14%. With a med

by mike simpson / 12h 

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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 CAPReport: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud & Abuse - Integrity in EducationReport: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud & Abuse - Integrity in Education: Report: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud & A

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Report: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud & Abuse - Integrity in Education

Report: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud & Abuse - Integrity in Education: Report: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud & AbuseRelease: “A new report released today reveals that fraudulent charter operators in 15 states are responsible for losing, misusing or wasting over $100 million in taxpayer money.”Summary: “Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud And Ab

by mike simpson / 16h 

Local Accountability and Astroturf: Local Control without the Local Control | Cloaking Inequity

Local Accountability and Astroturf: Local Control without the Local Control | Cloaking Inequity: Local Accountability and Astroturf: Local Control without the Local ControlHow 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 not

by mike simpson / 16h 

empathyeducates – Consumed by the Digital Divide

empathyeducates – Consumed by the Digital Divide: Consumed by the Digital DividePhotograph: Echo/Getty Images/Cultura RFBy Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. May 5, 2014The term “digital divide” is commonly used in education as a subset of the “achievement gap”—representing the inequity between impoverished and affluent students. Both terms, however, tend to keep

by mike simpson / 16h 

5-5-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: those brave new testsEd Week cheerfully reports field-tests for Smarter Balanced and PARCC tests are going jus' fine:"Early Reports Suggest Few Field-Testing Snags" [http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/05/06/30fieldtest_ep.h33.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1]I posted this comment: This "field-testing" seems to be mostly about technical aspects of implementation. I get

by mike simpson / 17h 

John Thompson: Can the Gates Foundation Learn? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

John Thompson: Can the Gates Foundation Learn? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: John Thompson: Can the Gates Foundation Learn?By Anthony Cody on May 5, 2014 2:57 PMGuest post by John Thompson.PBS's John Merrow explains how grassroots, bipartisan outrage is toppling Common Core State Standards and the national testing that it accompanies. He says, "at least two other issues are a

by mike simpson / 18h 

Don’t Fall For The Teacher Tenure Boogey Man | Missouri Education Watchdog

Don’t Fall For The Teacher Tenure Boogey Man | Missouri Education Watchdog: Don’t Fall For The Teacher Tenure Boogey ManinShareLots of very nice well meaning people were approached by a person standing outside their grocery store or library in the last several months and asked to sign a petition to get rid of teacher tenure so we could “finally get rid of the really bad teachers who were making ou

by mike simpson / 20h 

5-5-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Give BIG is Tuesday, May 6thSeattle Foundation is having its Give BIG day tomorrow where donations made to non-profits will be enlarged via a "stretch pool" of funding. The amount of the "stretch" depends on how much is raised in total donations on GiveBIG day. It starts at midnight tonight and ends at midnight on the 6th.  Here's a list of non-

by mike simpson / 21h 

5-5-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District)

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): UTLA election winners still awaiting review of challengesThe UTLA election winners are still waiting for the fat lady to sing. Since Alex Caputo-Pearl was declared the winner as president and two other races were clarified though the second round of voting last week, the union’s election committee is now

by mike simpson / 21h 

5-5-14 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): Consumed by the Digital DivideThe term “digital divide” is commonly used in education as a subset of the “achievement gap”—representing the inequity between impoverished and affluent students. Both terms, however, tend to keep the focus on observable or measurable outcom

by mike simpson / 21h 

Accord on process for defining Common Core cut scores :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet

Accord on process for defining Common Core cut scores :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: MAY 05, 2014Accord on process for defining Common Core cut scoresby Tom Chorneau(Wash.) A big step in ensuring that new computer-based tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards will properly measure student achievement won passage last week by gover

by mike simpson / 21h 

Schools seek changes to healthier lunch rules | 89.3 KPCC

Schools seek changes to healthier lunch rules | 89.3 KPCC: Schools seek changes to healthier lunch rulesMary Clare Jalonick | AP | May 5th, 2014, 8:01amRichard HartogCafeteria worker Sophia Villareal sets up apples and carrots for students before the lunch period at Brockton Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles. Starting next school year, pasta and other grain products in schools will have to b

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

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 5-5-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: NYC Parents, Elected Officials To Protest Preferential Treatment for Charters on May 6Another protest against the law sponsored by Governor Cuomo to give preferential treatment to the billionaire

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