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Friday, June 6, 2014

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6-6-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Death to Common Core! Long Live Failed Education Policy!From the beginning of the call for and debate about Common Core, I have taken a clear stand against the promise of standards-based reform; for example, Why Common Standards Won’t Work: A call for national standards
by mike simpson / 2min 
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-6-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: New Orleans: “Appalling Academic Performance”One day, perhaps, the nationaledia might admit that they were taken in by the purveyors of the Néw Orleans story. Or maybe they will keep saying the same things again and again, without regard to facts. Mike Deshotels, veteran educator, blows up the carefully manufactured tale of success
by mike simpson / 5min 
6-6-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Fred Smith Calls Farina on Field Test Waste of Learning TimeFrom Schoolbook. Go Fred. No time now but I will add to this later about the Bronx teacher who was fired years ago because 4 of his 8th grade classes refused to take the field tests. Search ed notes for Doug Avella if interested. I've been too busy with the contract stuff so have neglected the great work Fred and CTS peop
by mike simpson / 9min 
Notes to a New Teacher (Dana Dunnan) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Notes to a New Teacher (Dana Dunnan) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Notes to a New Teacher (Dana Dunnan)I met Dana Dunnan 40 years ago when he was a teaching intern at Stanford University and I visited his classes at a nearby high school. He received his Master’s degree there. We reconnected when his recent book was published. Dunnan began as a high school chemistry teacher
by mike simpson / 15min 
6-6-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: What happened when George failed his state standardized testWhat happens to a young student who fails a mandated standardized test that decides whether he/she can move to the next grade, or to an older student who fails a test that determines if he/she graduates?  Here is a 20-step description of what happened to a boy named George. It was written by educator Kathleen […]37 by Valeri
by mike simpson / 18min 
6-6-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Opt Out Guidance for NY Parents and Pearson Field Testsfrom We Love Montessori at GW:The GW Elementary School was selected to participate in the NYS Field Test program in Math on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11th. GW Elementary School 3rd graders will be given this test that is to be administered over the course of 40 minutes.A field test is an exam that the company PEARSON (READ this article f
by mike simpson / 21min 
6-6-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Pushed For Endorsement Of CuomoThose of you paying close attention to the machinations of the union leadership around the Cuomo re-election campaign will not be surprised by this news:Before a deal was made to ensure New York’s leading progressive party endorsed Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s reelection bid, negotiators were in touch with one of the top
by mike simpson / 24min 
Public Schools—the Mortar that Holds the Community Together (Garrison Keillor) | janresseger
Public Schools—the Mortar that Holds the Community Together (Garrison Keillor) | janresseger: Public Schools—the Mortar that Holds the Community Together (Garrison Keillor)Posted on June 6, 2014 by janressegerJeff Bryant, who writes a weekly column for the Educational Opportunity Network, recently discussed the difference between conceptualizing education reform around inputs and outcomes.  Today
by mike simpson / 39min 
NYC Educator: Make Someone Happy! Blame a Teacher Today!
NYC Educator: Make Someone Happy! Blame a Teacher Today!: Make Someone Happy! Blame a Teacher Today!Blame the Teachers!  For many years, the thought never crossed my mind that teachers were the single most important factor complicit in the perpetuity of poverty in the United States.  But I guess it makes sense; poverty has been around since the beginning of time and so, too, have poor teachers.  I
by mike simpson / 50min 
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm's boat springs more leaks
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm's boat springs more leaks: Rahm's boat springs more leaksAs we head into the weekend, Little Emperor's gold-plated political ship continues to spring leaks. Even with his giant City Hall damage-control battalion working overtime, Rahm can't catch a media break.‘I’m not an emperor. I do not look good in a toga.’ -- Rahm EmanuelHis latest proposed boondoggle, to s
by mike simpson / 53min 

YESTERDAY

We Played a Part in Getting a Lousy Contract southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: We Played a Part in Getting a Lousy ContractWe need to stop placing all the blame on Unity and the UFT for the contract that we now have to liveunder. The UFT can't foist a contract such as it did upon us in a vacuum. It needs a partner in it's shenanigans.That partner is us, the teachers of NYC. We are the enablers that allow the UFT/Unity to not only give us poor
by mike simpson / 9h 
Is Hespe lying? Afraid of Cami? Disrespectful of parents? All three? | Bob Braun's Ledger
Is Hespe lying? Afraid of Cami? Disrespectful of parents? All three? | Bob Braun's Ledger: Is Hespe lying? Afraid of Cami? Disrespectful of parents? All three?David HespeNearly a month ago, the parents of Newark’s Hawthorne Avenue School petitioned acting Education Commissioner David Hespe to ensure the school would not be closed without compliance with state administrative regulations that have t
by mike simpson / 9h 
6-5-14 Jersey Jazzman : : Reformy Billionaires and the Money They Waste
Jersey Jazzman: Reformy Billionaires and the Money They Waste: Reformy Billionaires and the Money They WastePerhaps my favorite bad reformy argument -- one favored by Tom Moran, among others -- goes something like this:We should listen to billionaires when they opine about education because: 1) Well, they're billionaires, so they must know what they're talking about. 2) They don't have a direct st
by mike simpson / 11h 
What Complicity Looks Like (Why I Support #YesAllWomen) - The Jose Vilson
What Complicity Looks Like (Why I Support #YesAllWomen) - The Jose Vilson: What Complicity Looks Like (Why I Support #YesAllWomen)Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that my boys and I wanted to have fun at an Irish pub, jamming to every rhyme and curse Shawn Carter could muster for three verses. It’s already 11pm and we got a few drinks flowing in our system, flirting with a few women of different sk
by mike simpson / 11h 
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » On Teaching “Other People’s Children”
Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » On Teaching “Other People’s Children”: On Teaching “Other People’s Children” A post from Jose Luis Vilson recently popped up on my Facebook feed, featuring this quote from  First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama, in a commencement address at Dillard University:So my mother volunteered at my school — helping out every day in the front office, making
by mike simpson / 11h 
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: "Remember That Time When...?" An End of Year Memory Book!
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: "Remember That Time When...?" An End of Year Memory Book!: "Remember That Time When...?" An End of Year Memory Book!I was on #5thchat Tuesday night chatting with my fellow tweechers about activities we do at the end of the school year. @patriciahewitt shared a wonderful idea.I thought this was such a wonderful idea and let Patricia know I woul
by mike simpson / 11h 
UPDATE: Looks Like Oklahoma IS First to Really Dump Common Core | deutsch29
UPDATE: Looks Like Oklahoma IS First to Really Dump Common Core | deutsch29: UPDATE: Looks Like Oklahoma IS First to ReallyDump Common CoreJune 5, 2014UPDATE 06-05-14:Today, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed legislation repealing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Fallin told Politico that the CCSS term had become so tainted that it was time for CCSS to go:“The words ‘Common Core’ in Oklah
by mike simpson / 11h 
Brookings Institute Paper on VAMs and Their More Important Observational Counterparts |
Brookings Institute Paper on VAMs and Their More Important Observational Counterparts |: Brookings Institute Paper on VAMs and Their More Important Observational Counterparts A paper recently released by the Brookings Institute (click here to read the paper in full) has “added” some “value” to our thinking about the use of observations in the teacher evaluation systems of topic here, and most all
by mike simpson / 13h 
John Thompson: Corporate Reformers' "Race to the Moon" Low on Fuel - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
John Thompson: Corporate Reformers' "Race to the Moon" Low on Fuel - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: John Thompson: Corporate Reformers' "Race to the Moon" Low on FuelBy Anthony Cody on June 5, 2014 7:23 PM Guest post by John Thompson. Most states accepted the offer they couldn't refuse and adopted laws based of the Gates Foundation's untested "teacher quality
by mike simpson / 14h 
Nite Cap 6-5-14 #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 CAP6-4-14 Wait What? - A call to arms (I mean pens) – A big day as I announce a running mate and petitions now available - Wait What?A call to arms (I mean pens) – A big day as I announce a running mate and petitions now available - Wait What?: Wait
by mike simpson / 15h 
6-4-14 Wait What? - A call to arms (I mean pens) – A big day as I announce a running mate and petitions now available - Wait What?
A call to arms (I mean pens) – A big day as I announce a running mate and petitions now available - Wait What?: Wait What? A call to arms (I mean pens) – A big day as I announce a running mate and petitions now availableAfter dropping off the appropriate paperwork, the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s office tweeted:   Denise Merrill @SOTS Merrill   @Jonathanpelto today was authorized by my of
by mike simpson / 17h 
6-5-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Insurance and the Common GoodA few weeks ago, a hail storm battered my neighborhood: Within the hour after the storm, signs appeared around my neighborhood for miles advertising hail damage repair for cars and homes. And while I have two badly damaged cars, my home suffe
by mike simpson / 19h 
City charters get $100M more for special ed than they spend; debate rages in Harrisburg | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
City charters get $100M more for special ed than they spend; debate rages in Harrisburg | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: City charters get $100M more for special ed than they spend; debate rages in Harrisburgby thenotebook on Jun 05 2014 Posted in Latest newsShare on emailMore Sharing ServicesCOMMENTS (1)PRINTPhiladelphia charter schools received more than $175 million last year to educate s
by mike simpson / 19h 
Chicago’s George Schmidt on Martin Koldyke, “Golden Apples,” and School “Turnaround” | deutsch29
Chicago’s George Schmidt on Martin Koldyke, “Golden Apples,” and School “Turnaround” | deutsch29: Chicago’s George Schmidt on Martin Koldyke, “Golden Apples,” and School “Turnaround”June 5, 2014On June 4, 2014, I posted this piece by a guest writer, a Chicago area teacher, who has concerns about Martin Koldyke’s “Golden Apples” teacher recognition program. Her concern is that the “Golden Apples” p
by mike simpson / 19h 
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 6-5-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Education OverturnedWritten by Red Queen in L.A., from her blog |  http://bit.ly/1kyridf Thursday 5 Jun 2014  ::  “Teaching To The Test” is a pedagogical revolution. Far from benign, it amounts to a coup d’état of not only the minds of our children, but their hearts as well. Informally, in my personal experience, I became vaguely aware by rumor during t
by mike simpson / 19h 
6-5-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Chicago’s George Schmidt on Martin Koldyke, “Golden Apples,” and School “Turnaround”On June 4, 2014, I posted this piece by a guest writer, a Chicago area teacher, who has concerns about Martin Koldyke’s “Golden Apples” teacher recognition program. Her concern is that the “Golden Apples” program is a benevolently-disguised, self-serving effort for Koldyke to use teachers to staff
by mike simpson / 19h 
6-5-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Math Adoption: Thoughts and AnalysisGood morning.   That was quite an evening (and I even got to leave as the Board continue to slog through the lengthy agenda).   I'll try to have another thread about other items I heard about at last night's meeting.As I go thru this thread, some of these thoughts will sound familiar as I quickly went thru the 11(?) threads I wro
by mike simpson / 20h 
The Quarter Century Con of Vouchers | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!
The Quarter Century Con of Vouchers | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!: The Quarter Century Con of VouchersFiled under: Vouchers — millerlf @ 12:17 pm By Joel McNally Wednesday, June 4, 2014 Express MilwaukeeIt’s taken a quarter of a century, but Republican taxpayers around the state and some of their representatives are finally starting to realize they’ve been hoodwinked by their own pa
by mike simpson / 20h 
Waking Up to Education Activism
Education Activism: Waking Up to Education ActivismBy Mark NaisonShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on pinterest_shareMore Sharing Services0My journey into education activism began in the Spring of 2003 when I was asked to start an oral history project documenting the African American presence in Bronx Neighborhoods, which had been neglected by scholars of Bronx History as well a
by mike simpson / 20h 
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part II: Marketizing School Reform - The Brooklyn Rail
EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the Surface Part II: Marketizing School Reform - The Brooklyn Rail: EDUCATION REFORM Beneath the SurfacePart II: Marketizing School Reformby John GarveyI ended the first article in this series by discussing the Department of Education’s focus on closing old and opening new schools. I’ll begin this second article by discussing the complementary focus on the marketization of
by mike simpson / 20h 
School District's Use of Worker Visa Program Draws Scrutiny - WSJ
School District's Use of Worker Visa Program Draws Scrutiny - WSJ: School District's Use of Worker Visa Program Draws ScrutinyTexas District Allegedly Exploited H-1B Program in Recruiting Teachers From Overseas.From left, Alfonso Casares Tafur, Elizabeth Niño de Rivera and Francisco Javier Marcano were hired with H-1B visas. They are now advocating for the Garland, Texas, school district to help t
by mike simpson / 20h 
WHY ARE SO MANY MORE TEACHERS “RETIRING”? | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing
WHY ARE SO MANY MORE TEACHERS “RETIRING”? | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing: WHY ARE SO MANY MORE TEACHERS “RETIRING”?No, that is not me!When I began teaching in 1970, and throughout almost all of my 38 year career in NYC and suburbs, teaching was a lifelong calling. Many, like me, started right out of college, grabbed a Master’s degree on the way to get permanent certification, and taught unti
by mike simpson / 21h 
6-5-14 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: Money race begins for McKenna, JohnsonMcKenna, Johnson seek funds, backers in L.A. Unified race The top two finishers in this week’s election for the Los Angeles Board of Education will meet in an August runoff, but first they face another crucial contest: the race for money and powerful end
by mike simpson / 21h 
Announcing the President's First-Ever Tumblr Q&A | The White House
Announcing the President's First-Ever Tumblr Q&A | The White House: Announcing the President's First-Ever Tumblr Q&AWe’re excited to announce that on Tuesday, June 10, President Obama will take toTumblr to answer your questions about education, college affordability, and reducing student loan debt.Getting a higher education is the single-most important investment students can make in their
by mike simpson / 22h 
NAfME – Music Education – CORE ARTS STANDARDS
NAfME – Music Education – CORE ARTS STANDARDS: CORE ARTS STANDARDSNAfME, as a part of the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards, has re-imagined the 1994 National Standards. Released June 4, 2014, these new Core Arts Standards can be found at www.nationalartsstandards.org in a searchable, web-based format that allows users to look across all art forms. The following are key documents for musi
by mike simpson / 22h 
Vigor not Rigorrr Part 2 Oregon Save Our Schools:
Oregon Save Our Schools: Vigor not Rigorrr Part 2: Vigor not Rigorrr Part 2Another local commentary by a parent on the overuse of the word 'rigor' in the constant push for corporate education reform in Oregon.  Enjoy! Oregon Save Our Schools: Schools Need Vigor, Not RigorOregon Save Our Schools: Schools Need Vigor, Not Rigor: Schools Need Vigor, Not Rigorby Joanne YatvinThough my years in the clas
by mike simpson / 22h 
6-5-14 The Whole Child Blog — Daniel Pink: Perfecting Your Power to Move Others — Whole Child Education
Daniel Pink: Perfecting Your Power to Move Others — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGDaniel Pink: Perfecting Your Power to Move OthersJune 5, 2014 by Laura VarlasEducators teach, lead, and are learners, themselves. But there's a big piece of every profession that often gets overlooked. In his 2014 ASCD Annual Conference opening general session, author Daniel Pink argued that, in a signif
by mike simpson / 22h 
Yesterday’s News | EduShyster
Yesterday’s News | EduShyster: Yesterday’s News What do you call it when the arrival of charter chains forces the closure of other charters? Choice.By Sue AltmanBe warned, starters of small charters!You may have enjoyed a red-carpet spotlight in the past, but don’t expect much loyalty from reformy fashionistas these days. It’s a school-eat-school world out there, and on the path to global competit
by mike simpson / 22h 
The Fordham Institute’s Common Core Dark Comedy Continues: Plane Trips & What “Is the Meaning of ‘Is’ “? | Missouri Education Watchdog
The Fordham Institute’s Common Core Dark Comedy Continues: Plane Trips & What “Is the Meaning of ‘Is’ “? | Missouri Education Watchdog: The Fordham Institute’s Common Core Dark Comedy Continues: Plane Trips & What “Is the Meaning of ‘Is’ “?inShareNote to The Fordham Institute:  No offense, but you aren’t residents of our state.  Save your money, stay out of our states and our educational d
by mike simpson / 23h 
Morning Wink 6-5-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-5-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Michigan: A Very Curious Story of Charter Management TechniquesThis is an astonishing story from Michigan. There, a persistent blogger named “Miss Fortune” discovered that a charter manager was i
by mike simpson / 23h 





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