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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Paul Tough Explains Why 'Rich Kids Graduate; Poor and Working-Class Kids Don't' | John Thompson
Paul Tough Explains Why 'Rich Kids Graduate; Poor and Working-Class Kids Don't' | John Thompson: Paul Tough Explains Why 'Rich Kids Graduate; Poor and Working-Class Kids Don't'Regardless of his subject, Paul Tough's work is directly relevant to teaching and learning in high-poverty schools. Tough's New York Times Magazine article, "Who Gets to Graduate?," is no exception.When teaching hi
The Answer Sheet 5-27-14
Answer Sheet: Is Boston’s school district eliminating history department as part of Common Core?The Boston public schools district found itself in the position of having to issue a public statement denying that it was eliminating its history and social studies department after someone posted on the Web that it was and the news went viral in the education world. Historians assumed it was true and r
Shanker Blog » The Proportionality Principle In Teacher Evaluations
Shanker Blog » The Proportionality Principle In Teacher Evaluations: The Proportionality Principle In Teacher EvaluationsPosted by Cory Koedel on May 27, 2014Our guest author today is Cory Koedel, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri.In a 2012 post on this blog, Dr. Di Carlo reviewed an article that I coauthored with colleagues Mark Ehlert, Eric Parsons and Michael Podgur
Geaux Teacher!: Louisiana/Tennessee Embargoed Test Score Coincidence?
Geaux Teacher!: Louisiana/Tennessee Embargoed Test Score Coincidence?: Louisiana/Tennessee Embargoed Test Score Coincidence?So Supt. White has embargoed test scores. Seems he is not the only superintendent with "that problem." His Chiefs for Change comrade Kevin Huffman of Tennessee is following his lead. And I thought White was the copy cat of all his Ed policy. I guess I didn't giv
5-27-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Rent for Eva's 3 charters to cost city $5.4 million a year-- without a whimper from UFT or de BlasioIf rent for three of Eva’s charter schools will cost $5.4 M per year, can you imagine the hundreds of millions of dollars in future costs to the city and state as every existing co-located, new or expanded charter can demand free facilities and/or rent?... Leonie HaimsonREPORT: IBO’
True Leaders are not afraid to admit their mistakes and correct them | Crazy Crawfish's Blog
True Leaders are not afraid to admit their mistakes and correct them | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Crazy Crawfish's BlogZesty Louisiana Education PoliticsTrue Leaders are not afraid to admit their mistakes and correct themPosted on May 27, 20140It’s been a few thousand years since anyone was able to make a credible claim of being perfect. Anyone who expects perfection from our political leaders is sett
5-27-14 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: Battle for CA’s Ed Chief position heats upContentious battle brews for California’s K-12 chief The two leading candidates for California’s top K-12 spot in the June 3 primary both identify as Democrats in a technically non-partisan race. But the campaign between incumbent Superintendent of P
Commentary: The 21st century segregationists - TheStatehouseFile.com | TheStatehouseFile.com
Commentary: The 21st century segregationists - TheStatehouseFile.com | TheStatehouseFile.com: Commentary: The 21st century segregationistsMay 23, 2014 | Filed under: Commentary | Posted by: jlkrull59By Abdul Hakim-ShabazzIndyPoltics.OrgAs we mark the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education which ended official government-sanctioned segregation in public schools (separate but equal),
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-27-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: School Librarians A Rare Find In California Public SchoolsBy Lillian Mongeau, Ed Source | http://bit.ly/1jXUGt9 School librarian Shannon Englebrecht reminds Tori Reese, 8, that she has several books overdue.Englebrecht allows students at Charles Drew Preparatory Academy, a public school in San Francisco, to check out as many books as they want. Credit:
A day of resistance in Newark | Bob Braun's Ledger
A day of resistance in Newark | Bob Braun's Ledger: A day of resistance in Newark More than 200 students burst out of beleaguered University High School in Newark this morning to protest last Friday’s firing of the magnet school’s principal and six vice principals.Chanting “Save our school!” and “Cami must go!” the students marched around local blocks and then headed downtown toward 2 Cedar Stree
5-27-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadFrom SPS Communications:Officials of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) announced the names of two Seattle Public Schools students included in the second group of winners in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners are:• Anthony L. Bencivengo from Nathan Hale High School, whose pr
5-27-14 The Whole Child Blog — Staying True to Our Roots — Whole Child Education
Staying True to Our Roots — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGStaying True to Our RootsMay 27, 2014 by Klea ScharbergSince 1943, ASCD has empowered educators by providing essential programs, products, and services that support the success of each student. Through the years, ASCD's focus has stayed the same: to improve the quality of learning for each student and to provide our leaders wit
Margaret Lavin: Study Proves Charter Schools Are No Silver Bullet - San Jose Mercury News
Margaret Lavin: Study Proves Charter Schools Are No Silver Bullet - San Jose Mercury News: Margaret Lavin: Study Proves Charter Schools Are No Silver BulletBy Margaret LavinSan Mateo County TimesPOSTED: 05/26/2014 07:32:46 PM PDT0 COMMENTS| UPDATED: ABOUT 13 HOURS AGOStanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) recently released a comprehensive report, Charter School
5-27-14 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.: Springfield legislators get summers off. Nobody complains. Will Guzzardi and Michael Madigan.One of the talking points for teacher bashing is how teachers get paid for summers off. When I try to explain how this isn’t true – that teachers contracts are a per diem – that we are contracted (in my case)
There Are No Miracle Schools. But There Are Some Really Good Ones. | Gatsby In L.A.
There Are No Miracle Schools. But There Are Some Really Good Ones. | Gatsby In L.A.: There Are No Miracle Schools. But There Are Some Really Good Ones. Over this year, as I tell people about my project visiting schools across Los Angeles to try to understand education in real time, they often ask me if I could sum up what I’ve learned in a headline or two. What do I take away? What’s really surpri
5-27-14 Schools Matter - TFA Corps: Corporate America's Paris Island
Schools Matter: TFA Corps: Corporate America's Paris Island1 by Jim Horn / 20min 5-26-14 Schools Matter - Jim Crow Rides AgainSchools Matter: Jim Crow Rides AgainFrom Aljazeera America:by Daniel Denvir @danieldenvirThe Supreme Court ruled 60 years ago this May 17 in Brown v. Board of Education that “segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of ra
Teacher Education Leaders Speak Out: Tim Slekar: Educators Must Be Advocates For the Needs of Our Students - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Teacher Education Leaders Speak Out: Tim Slekar: Educators Must Be Advocates For the Needs of Our Students - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Teacher Education Leaders Speak Out: Tim Slekar: Educators Must Be Advocates For the Needs of Our StudentsBy Anthony Cody on May 27, 2014 9:48 AMToday I am sharing the third interview with a leader in teacher preparation. This week we have heard
Morning Wink 5-27-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 5-27-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: New Mexico: Another VAM DisasterThus far, the concept of VAM–or value-added measurement–has an unbroken record of failure. Wherever it has been tried, it has proven to be inaccurate and unstable
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 5-27-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: New Mexico: Another VAM DisasterThus far, the concept of VAM–or value-added measurement–has an unbroken record of failure. Wherever it has been tried, it has proven to be inaccurate and unstable. Teacher and student records are erroneous. Teachers are judged based on students they never taught. VAM demoralizes teachers, who underst
5-27-14 Wait What? Former state Rep. Jonathan Pelto explores third-party run for governor
Wait What?: Former state Rep. Jonathan Pelto explores third-party run for governorRavitch on Pelto: “Hope Every governor who abandons public education faces a similar challenge”The nation’s leading pro-public education advocate has used her blog to tell her 80,000 readers about our work here in Connecticut. Diane Ravitch’s latest piece is entitled, “Jonathan Pelto Mulls Third Party Challenge to G
5-27-14 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: Feds Warn Charter Schools About Not Serving Special Needs KidsWrites Chris Staiti for Bloomberg News: U.S. charter schools must provide special-education services and avoid discrimination in admissions, academic services and athletics whether or not they receive federal
5-27-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: What’s Really Wrong with Advanced Placement Courses and College Board?What’s Really Wrong with Advanced Placement Courses and College Board?. via What’s Really Wrong with Advanced Placement Courses and College Board?.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical1 by plthomasedd / 2h hide // saveYESTERDAYThe 2008 Common Core Sales Job: Part ThreeIn 2008, the National Governors Asso
5-27-14 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): What’s Really Wrong with Advanced Placement Courses and College Board?“Fraudulent schemes come in all shapes and sizes,” asserts John Tierney, adding, ” To work, they typically wear a patina of respectability. That’s the case with Advanced Placement [A.P.] courses, one o
5-27-13 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: Test (In)SecurityOne of the features of High Stakes Testing is a level of security usually associated with large bales of money, important state secrets, and the recipe for Bush's Baked Beans. On facebook, in the category of "Ethical Dilemmas Nobody Ever Thought She'd Face," teachers are arguing about whether it's okay to photograph or copy any of the PARCC or SBA exams.
5-27-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Daily News Misses A Big Part Of ELA Regents Score Plummet StoryThe Daily News claims cheating teachers were the main reason scores on the 2013 ELA Regents exam fell: Scores on English Regents exams for high schoolers plummeted when the city cracked down on grade-fudging teachers, a Daily News analysis shows. Thousands of public school students failed the high-stakes state te
In Memoriam of WWII Latino Veterans and Their Families | Cloaking Inequity
In Memoriam of WWII Latino Veterans and Their Families | Cloaking Inequity: In Memoriam of WWII Latino Veterans and Their FamiliesThank you to all of the veterans who have courageously served our country. This post is dedicated to my tía Minnie Cadena who recently passed and was a participant in the University of Texas Voce Oral History Project and my tío John G. Reyes who was KIA 1944.This post i
Send Your Email to Governor Fallin about Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog
Send Your Email to Governor Fallin about Common Core | Missouri Education Watchdog: Send Your Email to Governor Fallin about Common CoreinShareRestore Oklahoma Public Education (ROPE) has a request for those in other states opposed to Common Core: Contact Governor Mary Fallin for her signature on HB3399 which would eradicate Common Core from Oklahoma. She can set the precedence for other states t
Obama Administration’s College Rating Proposal Threatens Core Educational Values | janresseger
Obama Administration’s College Rating Proposal Threatens Core Educational Values | janresseger: Obama Administration’s College Rating Proposal Threatens Core Educational ValuesPosted on May 27, 2014 by janressegerAs May turns to June and summer weather arrives, this blog will take a week-long break. Back on Tuesday, June 3.Over the weekend, the NY Times reported on Education Secretary Arne Duncan
Urban, Rural Schools Connected by Inequality - Bridging Differences - Education Week
Urban, Rural Schools Connected by Inequality - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Urban, Rural Schools Connected by InequalityBy Guest Blogger on May 27, 2014 8:20 AMAuthor and advocate Mike Klonsky again writes to Deborah Meier today. The two are currently co-blogging on Bridging Differences.Deb,In last week's post, you write, "we've both avoided looking at the picture as it plays out in
What Parents Should Know About School Bonds And Our LAUSD Citizens’ Oversight Committee: – redqueeninla
What Parents Should Know About School Bonds And Our LAUSD Citizens’ Oversight Committee: – redqueeninla: What Parents Should Know About School Bonds And Our LAUSD Citizens’ Oversight Committee:Written by redqueeninla in Education, LAUSDThere is a political brouhaha going on right now that really deserves your attention. Your attention as a parent, as a taxpayer, as a citizen.It involves a pretty o
Now you have the NCLB waiver, now you don’t :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet
Now you have the NCLB waiver, now you don’t :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: Now you have the NCLB waiver, now you don’tby Kimberly Beltran(Wash.) K-12 schools here are adjusting their budgets to deal with the $40 million impact of having their federal No Child Left Behind waiver revoked.But any staffing or programs lost to the impending shi
The 2008 Common Core Sales Job: Part Three | deutsch29
The 2008 Common Core Sales Job: Part Three | deutsch29: The 2008 Common Core Sales Job: Part ThreeMay 27, 2014In 2008, the National Governors Association (NGA), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and Achieve, Inc., released a report, Benchmarking for Success: Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-class Education.I have examined this report in two previous posts. In Part One of m
Research: INEQUALITY IN TEACHING AND SCHOOLING: SUPPORTING HIGH-QUALITY TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP IN LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS - @coolcatteacher
Research: INEQUALITY IN TEACHING AND SCHOOLING: SUPPORTING HIGH-QUALITY TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP IN LOW-INCOME SCHOOLS - @coolcatteacher: Research: INEQUALITY IN TEACHING AND SCHOOLING: SUPPORTING HIGH-QUALITY TEACHING AND LEADERSHIP IN LOW-INCOME SCHOOLSExcerpted from A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility, Richard D. Kahlenberg, Editor2000by Linda Darling-
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES: WEEKEND QUOTABLESGov. Chris Christie to Mayor Baraka"I also made very clear to [Baraka] that it is the state government that runs the school system in Newark, and that while I will talk with him and hear his ideas, that we are the deciders on what happens in the school system.” -- Thom HartmanChicago Alderman "Slow Eddie" Burke“There
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School librarians a rare find in California public schools | EdSource Today
School librarians a rare find in California public schools | EdSource Today: School librarians a rare find in California public schoolsMay 26th, 2014 | Add a Comment | By Lillian MongeauShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on pinterest_shareMore Sharing Services0School librarian Shannon Englebrecht reminds Tori Reese, 8, that she has several books overdue.Englebrecht allows student
Unlikely Allies Uniting to Fight School Changes - NYTimes.com
Unlikely Allies Uniting to Fight School Changes - NYTimes.com: Unlikely Allies Uniting to Fight School ChangesRick Womick, a Republican lawmaker, and Emily Mitchell, a teacher, both oppose changes in education policy in Tennessee. CreditJoe Buglewicz for The New York TimesSMYRNA, Tenn. — She is a fan of MSNBC, supports abortion rights and increased government spending in schools, and believes unio
Marie Corfield: Rigor: The death of public education (no really)
Marie Corfield: Rigor: The death of public education (no really): Rigor: The death of public education (no really)Photo CreditWhat's worse than education 'reform'? Educators who drink the reformy Kool-Aid.As a product of 12 years of Catholic education in New Jersey the 60s and 70s I learned a thing or two about the roots of the English language. While I didn't have any art, music, science, PE or h
UFT Rank and File Needs Gene Hackman.southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: UFT Rank and File Needs Gene HackmanMy son had a baseball tournament upstate this weekend and while enjoying the free pre-made, formerly frozen free breakfast at the Quality Inn of Fishkill yesterday morning I decided against Poughkeepsie Journal in favor of my Sunday true and tried Daily News.reading theAfter reading the sports section I turned to the op-ed page t
Kimble's Corner: University of Western Topeka Spring 2014 Commencement
Kimble's Corner: University of Western Topeka Spring 2014 Commencement: University of Western Topeka Spring 2014 Commencement On Saturday, I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the University of Western Topeka's 2014 graduation. This is a great school and there's a reason that it's known as the University of Michigan of Kansas. You can visit the UWT web page athttp://www.uwesterntopeka.org/
Anti-Common Core Link Banned by Facebook: We Must be Winning the War | Missouri Education Watchdog
Anti-Common Core Link Banned by Facebook: We Must be Winning the War | Missouri Education Watchdog: Anti-Common Core Link Banned by Facebook: We Must be Winning the WarinShareSee this notice? Plans to eliminate common core and adopt common core standards are detected to be “unsafe” by Facebook security standards.Dr. Sandra Stotsky refused to sign off on the ELA Common Core Standards. She publishe
Nite Cap 5-26-14 #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 CAPIf no one is looking at your Twitter account, it could be for a couple of reasons. | Connected PrincipalsIf no one is looking at your Twitter account, it could be for a couple of reasons. | Connected Principals: If no one is looking at your Twitt
