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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 6-8-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: SCHOOL BOARD RIVALS MUST ACT QUICKLY: George McKenna, Alex Johnson seek funding, endorsements in L.A. Unified race; Two unions face tough choiceBY HOWARD BLUME, LA Times |  http://lat.ms/1uEMAYH George McKenna, above, and Alex Johnson are headed for a runoff. Published 8 June 2014 ::  The top two finishers in this week's election for the Los Angeles Boa

by mike simpson / 1min 

6-8-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: New Student Motivation, Engagement & SEL ResourcesOur school year will be over in four days and, after a brief rest, it will be time for me to complete the third volume in my student motivation “trilogy” that should be published early next year by Routledge. It’s tentatively titled Building a Community of Self-Motivated

by mike simpson / 4min 

6-7-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: The well-meaning liberals of the world aren’t going to like the front page of the Washington PostHow Bill Gates bought us the Common Core. Thank you, and it wasn’t even my birthday. As a matter of fact, our right-wing brothers and sisters might not like this either since they believe this is a massive communist conspiracy. I’m also doubting, however, that many teachers know about

by mike simpson / 8min 

6-8-14 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): Maxine Greene and the “Frozen Sea Inside of Us”The image of Franz Kafka that captures most clearly Kafkan for me is the one of Kafka himself coming to consciousness in the morning, numbed from the waist down after sitting in one spot writing all night. He, of course, was

by mike simpson / 11min 

Answer Sheet 6-8-14

Answer Sheet: Just ask the teachersOne of the central features of corporate school reform is that those driving it haven’t bothered to seriously ask teachers to offer their solutions to improving public education. Meg White, an assistant professor in the School of Education at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, looks at this omission in the following post.   […]by Valerie Strauss / 30min 

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6-8-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: Chicago Teacher Adam Heehan On How Common Core Threatens Good Teachingfrom Chicago SunTimes:I teach Financial Literacy as a semester-long social studies course in a Chicago public high school. This quarter we focused on professional skills. My students must find living arrangements on a fixed salary, then explain their plan to the class.Students must calculate their biweekly net pa

by mike simpson / 22min 

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-8-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Peter Greene: Why Conservatives Should Oppose School ChoicePeter Greene says that there are at least four good reasons why conservatives hold oppose school choice. Before I tell you what his four reasons are, I will tell you that there are even more reasons for conservatives to support public schools. Conservatives generally are no

by mike simpson / 1h 

6-8-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: Video: Sean Ahern at the PEP on Diversityby ed notes online / 1h  6-7-14 Ed Notes Online WeekEd Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineFred 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

by mike simpson / 1h 

6-8-14 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.: Previti, Dillon, Brown and myself: A conversation regarding the leadership and membership of the Illinois Education Association  Part of continuing conversation between retired teachers, activists and bloggers Ken Previti, John Dillon, Glen Brown and myself. This conversation is cross posted on each o

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6-8-14 With A Brooklyn Accent:

With A Brooklyn Accent: Alliances Across the Political Spectrum in the Movement Against Common Core Have Antecedents in the Depression Era Labor MovementMany of my friends on the left, with the best of motives, have raised questions about my wilingess to work with Conservatives and Libertarians in the movement against Common Core and other top down attacks on public education. They think that alli

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Stephen Krashen Blog 6-8-14

SKrashen:Say What?" (Bill) Gates has said that one of the benefits of common standards would be to open the classroom to digital learning, making it easier for software developers — including Microsoft — to develop new products for the country’s 15,000 school districts. In February, Microsoft announced that it was joining Pearson, the world’s largest educational publisher, to load Pearson’s C

by mike simpson / 1h 

6-8-14 empathyeducates

empathyeducates: Study Shows Why Standardized Test Scores Aren’t Just About SchoolsFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has launched Fwd.us, which will lobby for higher education standards. (David Paul Morris, Bloomberg ) Will we ever learn that philanthropy is really not impressive. Nor is money the cure for what ails us. A practiced philosophy that promotes caring human connectivity brings […]by empathy

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6-8-13 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION: CCSS: Schooling for Wretched People in a Miserable WorldThe Council of the Great City Schools (yet another group apparently set up to make money by shilling for the Core) has created a marvelous promotional video for the Core. Done in the style of those high-speed marker-drawing videos that the interwebs love, and narrated by a possible-non-caucasian lady narrator, it does a fabulo

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6-8-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Bill Gates Exposed For All To See As An Arrogant, Whiny ElitistOkay, it's official:We're onto a new phase of the fight against the CCSS. News media outlets are no longer buying and using pro-Common Core boilerplate rhetoric in stories on the Common Core, they're no longer framing the CCSS the way CCSS proponents want the standards framed, and they're no longer buying into th

by mike simpson / 1h 

Oh to be a Teacher… | Connected Principals

Oh to be a Teacher… | Connected Principals: Oh to be a Teacher…by dkerr • June 8, 2014 • 0 CommentsSo I went for a run yesterday through a park close to where I live. It was a gorgeous summer-like day, and it felt like the entire neighborhood was out enjoying the sunshine…families having picnics, people fishing in the pond, runners, old men and women doing Tai Chi, but most of all…children laughin

by mike simpson / 1h 

Schooling in the Ownership Society: How world's richest man bought school reform

Schooling in the Ownership Society: How world's richest man bought school reform: How world's richest man bought school reformWaPo reporter Lyndsey Layton tells the story of how Bill Gates bought and paid for so-called school "reform".  He even got NEA and AFT leaders to buy-in to Common Core. On a summer day in 2008, Gene Wilhoit, director of a national group of state school chiefs, and

by mike simpson / 1h 

NYC Educator: But Mister, I'm Not Using the Phone for That

NYC Educator: But Mister, I'm Not Using the Phone for That: But Mister, I'm Not Using the Phone for ThatThere are a whole lot of reasons why we grab our smart phones. I'm as guilty as anyone. Though I wear a watch, I don't trust it anymore. My phone has atomic time or something, and it's always accurate. I will pull it out of my pocket in class to check the time.Students have different reasons the

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How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution - The Washington Post

How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution - The Washington Post: How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolutionThe pair of education advocates had a big idea, a new approach to transform every public-school classroom in America. By early 2008, many of the nation’s top politicians and education leaders had lined up in support.But that wasn’t enough. The duo needed money

by mike simpson / 13h 

Nite Cap 6-7-14 #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 CAPMore questions on evals’ accuracy | Albuquerque Journal NewsMore questions on evals’ accuracy | Albuquerque Journal News:More questions on evals’ accuracyPrincipal Robin Hoberg had no answers when teachers at Double Eagle Elementary School asked

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More questions on evals’ accuracy | Albuquerque Journal News

More questions on evals’ accuracy | Albuquerque Journal News:More questions on evals’ accuracyPrincipal Robin Hoberg had no answers when teachers at Double Eagle Elementary School asked her to explain what they believed were errors on their new teacher evaluations.Nor could she explain inconsistencies in how teachers were graded on attendance and student performance.Despite controversy surrounding

by mike simpson / 16h 

6-7-14 solidaridad - #TeamMcKenna

solidaridad: I'm on #TeamMcKenna because ALL students in LAUSD need representation, NOT just the few attending CCSA's lucrative charter outletsI'm on #TeamMcKenna because ALL students in #LAUSD need representation, NOT just the few attending @CALcharters' lucrative charter outlets.— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) June 7, 2014by Robert D. Skeels ... / 13min PESJA: When we say Eli Broad controls LAUS

by mike simpson / 16h 

House Of Cards - Corporate Deform in America - Trailer by BATA

House Of Cards - Corporate Deform in America - Trailer by BATAPublished on Jul 12, 2013House of Cards is a series of short videos created to bring to the forefront the key players in the corporate reform movement. Each week a new player will be featured along with information concerning their words and actions that have been aimed at the destruction of our public schools. Video created by Terri Mi

by mike simpson / 18h 

Can California Offer a New Model for Accountability? Or Are We Still Chasing Test Scores? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Can California Offer a New Model for Accountability? Or Are We Still Chasing Test Scores? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Can California Offer a New Model for Accountability? Or Are We Still Chasing Test Scores?By Anthony Cody on June 7, 2014 11:23 AMA couple of weeks ago, Linda Darling-Hammond and Randi Weingarten offered an interesting take on the path forward regarding Common Cor

by mike simpson / 18h 

Morality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests by David Berliner |

Morality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests by David Berliner |: Morality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests by David Berliner A recent article in Education Week was written by David C. Berliner, Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. As pertinent to our purposes, here, I have included his piece in full below, as well as the dire

by mike simpson / 19h 

6-7-14 Saturday Matinée Double Feature "Just Sayin' " and "Corporate ED Reform: Something's Fishy!" News Breakout

Saturday Matinée Double Feature "Just Sayin' "  and "Corporate ED Reform: Something's Fishy!" News BreakoutOne percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.comOne percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.com: One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatizationOutsourcing government not only leads to poor

by mike simpson / 19h 

One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.com

One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.com: One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatizationOutsourcing government not only leads to poor services -- it's killing the middle class, an expert tells SalonJamie Dimon, Donald Trump, David Koch (Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas/AP/Dan Hallman/Evan Agostini)As most experts and layman enthusiasts will te

by mike simpson / 20h 

Marie Corfield: NJ GOP is not stronger than Superstorm Christie

Marie Corfield: NJ GOP is not stronger than Superstorm Christie: NJ GOP is not stronger than Superstorm ChristieFor those readers old enough to remember, this image is a parody of the fierce reaction to President Gerald Ford's infamous but false response to NY City's 1970's financial crisis. Even though he never said those words, he might as well have because his reaction to the city's request for

by mike simpson / 21h 

Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand. | Reclaim Reform

Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand. | Reclaim Reform: Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand.Posted on June 7, 2014by Ken PrevitiThe multiple brand names for water and high stakes standardized tests are misleading – to say the least.Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests

by mike simpson / 21h 

NYC Educator: The Waiting Is the Easiest Part

NYC Educator: The Waiting Is the Easiest Part: The Waiting Is the Easiest PartIt's been over five years since any NYC teacher has seen a raise, despite the nonsense purveyed by tabloids. I've repeatedly read arguments that step increases are raises, from Bloomberg and various teacher-bashing op-ed columnists. That most other city workers got not only step increases, but also actual raises, was nei

by mike simpson / 22h 

An Incentive Program for the Feds | Missouri Education Watchdog

An Incentive Program for the Feds | Missouri Education Watchdog: An Incentive Program for the FedsinShareRace To the Top was the Federal Incentive program for states to adopt common core and the assessments. Maybe what they need now is a state developed incentive program for them to clean up their act.Utah lawmakers are considering dropping their request for an extension of their No Child Left Beh

by mike simpson / 22h 

2nd Banana 6-7-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST       We, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divest from corporate education reform. | Teachers' Letters to Bill GatesWe, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divest from corporate education reform. | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates: We, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates

by mike simpson / 23h 

6-7-14 With A Brooklyn Accent:

With A Brooklyn Accent: Notorious Phd on the New Orleans Charter DistrictIt started under Bush,But Duncan Loved It,The City of New Orleans,Told teachers to shove it,When Katrina struck,They brought charters in,With TFA to staff them,Saying students would win,But 9 years later,The schools may be worse,What looked like progress,Is just the reverse.A privatized district,With revolving door staffWhere

by mike simpson / 23h 

Oregon Save Our Schools: Sen. Ron Wyden Doesn't Get It On Common Core

Oregon Save Our Schools: Sen. Ron Wyden Doesn't Get It On Common Core: Sen. Ron Wyden Doesn't Get It On Common CorePat Eck, an OSOS member, recently wrote to Senator Ron Wyden concerning the Common Core State Standards. Here is Wyden’s responding email which is confusing as he recognizes that many constituents have raised concerns to him, yet he continues to think Common Core and the testing to be

by mike simpson / 23h 

Morning Wink 6-7-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS6-7-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All WeekJersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekSo Why Didn't the Police Ever Investigate Michelle Rhee?Remember the "amusing" story of how Michelle Rhee, in her first year of teaching in Baltimore, taped her students' mouths shut? How she tried to find the "humor" in making her se

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