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 CAP
The Truth About St. Marcus (WELS) | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!
The Truth About St. Marcus (WELS) | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: The Truth About St. Marcus (WELS)Filed under: St. Marcus,Vouchers — millerlf @ 3:24 pm St. Marcus Lutheran School, located on Milwaukee’s near north side, is once again seeking to buy property from Milwaukee Public Schools. The site is located at 921 W. Meinecke, the site of Lee Elementary school.Last year, the St. Mar
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Russ on Reading: Five Ways Charter Schools Are Bad for Children and Other Living Things: Five Ways Charter Schools Are Bad for Children and Other Living ThingsCharter schools are the darling of the education reform movement. Appealing to the All-American ideal of “choice”, charter schools are sold to struggling communities as a way to improve student learning through competition. Well-funded publi
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Our Missing $200 Million | Yinzercation: Our Missing $200 Million1We’d like our $200 million back, please. That’s how much money charter schools in Pennsylvania collected last year for special education in excess of what they actually spent on special education for students. Charter schools took in over $350 million, but spent only $150 million. (Or $350,562,878 vs. $156,003,034 to be exact.) So w
Defend-Ed Action Map | Defend-Ed
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Why Are School Administrators Bullying Taxpayers? Stories from Arnold & Otterville, Missouri School Districts. | Missouri Education Watchdog
Why Are School Administrators Bullying Taxpayers? Stories from Arnold & Otterville, Missouri School Districts. | Missouri Education Watchdog: Why Are School Administrators Bullying Taxpayers? Stories from Arnold & Otterville, Missouri School Districts.inShareHave individuals with this watchdog group been libeled by public school administrators?The Fox-C-6 School District is in Arnold, Miss
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Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » What’s wrong with standardized testing…this month?: What’s wrong with standardized testing…this month?I’m talking with Dick Kay on WCPT this afternoon about standardized testing.Tune in to 820 AM, or 92.5 FM (west side of Chicago) 92.7 FM (north) or 99.9 FM (south). Apparently you can also live stream the show here:Here are some of the topi
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2nd Banana 5-31-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2
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Morning Wink 5-31-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
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MME Digital Learning Projects: An Antidote to Standardized Testing - Musical Media For Education
MME Digital Learning Projects: An Antidote to Standardized Testing - Musical Media For Education: MME Digital Learning Projects: An Antidote to Standardized Testingposted 10 hours agoMME Digital Learning Projects (DLPs) are student created educational songs & YouTube videos using photographs from the Library of Congress for visuals and MME music as audio templates.a) DLPs are either solo or co
Don’t Make Students Wait | Live Long and Prosper
Don’t Make Students Wait | Live Long and Prosper: Don’t Make Students WaitTeachers need to be trained before-the-job…not on-the-job.The Indiana State Board of Education has a plan, approved by a 6-5 vote, to allow non-credentialed college graduates to teach in public school classrooms.The Career Specialist Permit will provide pedagogical training on-the-job.SUCCESSFUL COUNTRIES DO IT RIGHTEducatio
NYC Educator: Working Families Party--Maintaining the Status Cuomo
NYC Educator: Working Families Party--Maintaining the Status Cuomo: Working Families Party--Maintaining the Status CuomoI'm pretty disappointed to read that the Working Families Party is leaning toward a Cuomo endorsement, and even more disappointed to see that UFT is helping to make it happen. The more I observe the zany antics of our insular leadership, the more I wonder what the hell it is they
Stellar Teaching in Failing Schools (Part 1) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Stellar Teaching in Failing Schools (Part 1) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Stellar Teaching in Failing Schools (Part 1)How can “stellar teaching” and “failing schools” be in the same sentence?Failing schools have been defined as ones with low test scores, attendance, and high school graduation rates. They also include high numbers of dropouts and disciplinary referrals wit
Race for state superintendent heated despite agreement on two key issues | EdSource Today
Race for state superintendent heated despite agreement on two key issues | EdSource Today: Race for state superintendent heated despite agreement on two key issuesMay 30th, 2014 | Add a Comment | By John FensterwaldBut Tom Torlakson and Marshall Tuck, the two leading candidates, both Democrats, share similar views on the two biggest education initiatives – and challenges – of the decade in Califor
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24/7 | Bill Ayers: 24/724 Love Letters to Maxine Greene(In no particular order)Followed by 7 QuestionsDear Maxine,I’m wandering along an open road tonight, wobbly and a bit unhinged, wondering where I’ll be by morning, writing you now under a sea of stars. You’re on my mind 24/7—I love you, you know—and here’s a simple sampling of letters from the day, one every hour, followed by a week’s worth of
5-31-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekHey, Buddy: Can You Spare $2.5 Billion?Now that Chris Christie's utterly fraudulent budgeting has been laid bare, we're left with a problem: how will New Jersey make up for its two decade-old pension holiday?It's nice to talk about bi-partisan commissions and proclaim that "everyone must make sacrifices," but that's really just a way for pund
5-31-13 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION:Welcome to Common Core HospitalNurse Duncan: Welcome to Common Core Hospital. How may I assist you?Chris: My name's Chris Wobble. I was just in a car accident. My arms seems to be broken in about three places.Nurse Duncan: All righty, then. We just need to do some assessments here to see what shape you're in. As a major health care provider, your health data determines our success r
5-31-14 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 EducationNews Flash: Failed Education Policies Will ALWAYS Fail Our Children | AlternetWhat do third-grade retention policies based on reading tests, charter schools, tracking, and parental choice have in common? First, across the U.S., they all have a great deal of public and political support. Seco
5-31-14 THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education:THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog Discover the Flip: Putting Learning at the Center of the ClassroomPost written by Mikaela Dwyer, a journalism student at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. She considers herself a human rights activist and spends her time volunteering on campus and with various local nonprofits. After graduation, Dwyer
5-31-14 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):Follow the money: last filing deadline today for LAUSD electionTonight is the final disclosure deadline for candidates running in the June 3 special election, to fill LA Unified’s District 1 board seat. “There should be updated numbers by midnight from all the candidates,” said a staff member at the City E
5-31-14 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 WeekBobby Jindal Rebukes Jeb Bush on Common CoreI guess he really means it. From CNN reporter Dana Davidsen: Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said Thursday he’s against Common Core, the academic standards that
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The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetMark Zuckerberg is giving $120 million to Bay Area schools (after his last education reform effort didn’t go so well)The world’s most innovative community shouldn’t also be a home for struggling public schools. Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $120 million commitment to support efforts to improve education for underserved communities in the Bay Are
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership SocietyBridging DifferencesCommunity Rejuvenation Muralist Desi MundoDesi MundoStrong coffee this morning with Desi Mundo, visionary artist and founder of the Oakland-based Community Rejuvenation Project. Desi grew up tagging and writing on the walls of Chicago and eventually became
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Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekWill the Working Families Party stand up for working families in this year’s electionThe Working Families Party is based in New York. They also have a chapter here in Connecticut. Considering Dannel “Dan” Malloy only won by 6,000 votes in the last election, many observers credit the Working Family with giving him them victory since the WFP line added more than 26,0
5-31-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumMath Talk in Friday Update Update: the Board meeting agenda was finally posted at the end of the day. There is an amendment to the Math Adoption via President Peaslee and Director Peters. We move that the School Board amend the motion for adoption of K-5 Mathematics Materials to include a dual adoption of Math in Focus Singapore Math
5-31-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineMORE Weekly Update: 3 Happy Hours Today, Info on Observing Contract Vote CountThe busy bees at MORE - important info on observing the contract vote count on Monday and Tuesday -- Ellen Fox and I will be there both days -- Monday they open the school packages and envelopes and Tuesday they count.At first Leroy Barr told us only each caucus could have one observer. MO
5-31-14 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 teacherKeeping retirement weird. Free stuff.This morning I took this selfie with my new iPhone. I told this story of Facebook yesterday. Since I have drawn a series of cartoons about Mark Zuckerberg, I expect that I will be expelled from
5-31-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekThe UFT Sold You Out To CuomoThe next time you hear any jive out of the UFT or AFT leadership about holding Andrew Cuomo accountable for his policies, remember that the union leaderships helped to engineer the Working Families Party endorsement of Andrew Cuomo by threatening the party with financial "collapse" if Cuomo wasn't given the nod
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Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTACT Report Highlights the Challenge of Catching Up At-Risk StudentsVery few students from at-risk demographic groups—including ethnic minorities, English language learners, those from low-income families and those with disabilities—who start off “far off track“ academically are able to get back on track by four years later, according to
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@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter ScamEndgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam. via Endgame: Disaster Capitalism, New Orleans, and the Charter Scam.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical5 by plthomasedd / 23h In the U.S., Where the Female Nipple Is More Dangerous Than a GunIn the U.S., Where the Female
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Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGMotoko Rich Shows: Far Right Opposes Common CoreIt is getting to be a dizzying experience to read about the Common Core on the Néw York Times. When Motoko Rich reported from Tennessee, she found an unlikely left-right alliance questioning the standards. A few days later, and the familiar script is back in place: only the
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http://www.southbronxschool.com: BREAKING NEWS!! MULGREW PULLING WFP STRINGS FOR CUOMO!!!On March 15, 44 BC the Roman Senate, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutusstabbed to death Julius Caesar. Caesar's dying words, according to William Shakespeare upon seeing that Brutus was amongst the conspirators was, "Et tu Brutue?"During the Last Supper, which The Crack Team belie
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Thinking About Schools: The Right to Bear Standards: The Right to Bear StandardsStandards don't hurt kids. People with standards hurt kids. With the furor over the Common Core State Standards, you'd think they were in the 2nd Amendment debate: The right to bear standards vs. standards control. Like millions of others, I owned a rifle as a kid. And, like millions of educators, I've used learnin
Nite Cap 5-30-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
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