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 Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Carroll - Perdaily.com
The Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Carroll - Perdaily.com: The Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Carroll(Mensaje se repite en Español)Reading the Vergara decision was like being on an old rickety roller coaster where each twist and turn seemed like th
Breaking News: Vergara Going “On Tour” |
Breaking News: Vergara Going “On Tour” |: Breaking News: Vergara Going “On Tour” Following up on my most recent post regarding the “Vergara Case Lost in Los Angeles,” it seems “they” aren’t stopping in Los Angeles.A VAMboozled! follower posted this recent op-ed on this topic on Aljazeera, in which the authors write about how “Students Matter, financier of the case (Vergara vs. State of California)
A Father’s Day Reminder: Read Aloud to Your Children | Live Long and Prosper
A Father’s Day Reminder: Read Aloud to Your Children | Live Long and Prosper: A Father’s Day Reminder: Read Aloud to Your ChildrenREADING ALOUDI started teaching elementary school in 1976 and from my very first day as a teacher I read aloud to my students. I had caught the read aloud bug from Lowell Madden, one of my Education School Professors and had it reinforced by Jim Trelease, whose Read Alo
Don't Undermine Due Process
Don't Undermine Due Process: On Tuesday morning, teachers across California got up, went to their schools and dedicated their day to helping students learn and grow.While our sisters and brothers led their classrooms, a judge in a Los Angeles courtroom said that for students to win, teachers have to lose.You’ve probably seen news about Vergara v. California. We want you to hear directly from us ab
My Grandfather, the Great Depression, and Today’s Teacher Wage Theft | Reclaim Reform
My Grandfather, the Great Depression, and Today’s Teacher Wage Theft | Reclaim Reform: My Grandfather, the Great Depression, and Today’s Teacher Wage TheftPosted on June 15, 2014by Ken PrevitiMy grandfather, Joe Tagler, was victimized with wage theft during the Great Depression. He was a motorman (driver) of streetcars for the Chicago Surface Lines, later to be taken over by the CTA, the Chicago T
6-15-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? Libraries are so overrated… (Not)My children’s high school has a library and full-time library staff. Their middle school had a library and a full-time librarian; even their elementary school had a library with a librarian. But as a result of inadequate state funding (and outright stupidity on the part of some of our elected officials), many Connecticut children are attendi
6-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Did You Know?It's the end of spring so, I'm spring cleaning. That means going thru my vast SPS files and throwing out/reordering. Naturally, I found some interesting stuff (but threw out two bags of paper). Among the things I found:- Did you know I was an education activist in high school? Me, neither but apparently I wrote, for the school newspaper, an op-ed in
Making Schools Poor by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Making Schools Poor by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books: Making Schools PoorDiane RavitchBen Margot/AP PhotoA first-grade class of thirty children at the Willow Glen Elementary School in San Jose, California, where budget cuts have led to larger class sizes, January 24, 2013Last week, Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu in Los Angeles ruled that five California statutes protect
‘If you truly cared’ — angry president of largest teachers union sends message to school reformers - The Washington Post
‘If you truly cared’ — angry president of largest teachers union sends message to school reformers - The Washington Post: ‘If you truly cared’ — angry president of largest teachers union sends message to school reformers A 2013 Education Week commentary with the headline “The Plight of Teachers’ Unions” says:Teachers’ unions are under siege nationwide. Criticism by political leaders and education
A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools Part One 17 Days in November on Vimeo
A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools Part One 17 Days in November on Vimeo: A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools Part One 17 Days in Novemberfrom N.O. Education Equity Roundtable 5 days ago / Creative Commons License: by nc nd ALL AUDIENCESA Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools is the first in series of short videos, that reveals t
The Problem with Philanthropy - In These Times
The Problem with Philanthropy - In These Times: The Problem with PhilanthropyThe occasional $120 million check doesn’t offset tech billionaires’ erosion of the public sector.BY DAVID SIROTAEmailPrintTo understand the conflict between democracy and this kind of philanthropy, remember that private donations typically come with conditions about how the money must be allocated.Inequality and democracy
Opinion: Don’t tamper with teacher tenure - Opinion - NorthJersey.com
Opinion: Don’t tamper with teacher tenure - Opinion - NorthJersey.com: Opinion: Don’t tamper with teacher tenureJUNE 12, 2014, 5:42 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014, 5:42 PMBY MARK WEBERTHE RECORDMark Weber, a member of the New Jersey Education Association, is a New Jersey public school music teacher in Warren Township and a doctoral student in education policy at Rutgers University.IF
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 6-15-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: A Textbook Case Of Meddling In CaliforniaTIMES EDITORIAL BOARD | http://lat.ms/1y4tXzP June 15, 2014 :: For all the criticism that's (justifiably) leveled at Texas over its right-wing rewrite of its history textbooks, California is surely the nation's capital of legislative interference with what should be the job of academics. The latest effort comes
6-15-14 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): George Saunders’s Allegory of Scarcity and SlackThe stories themselves, literally, are powerful and engaging or George Orwell’s 1984 and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible would not have endured as they have as literature people read again and again—and possibly should read ag
6-15-14 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: Bobby Jindal Vetoes Common Core Bill; Meanwhile Rick Scott Deceitfully Claims “Common Core Is Out”From New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter Julia O’Donoghue: Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday vetoed a bill that many had seen as an endorsement of the Common Core academic standar
Morning Wink 6-15-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-15-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Andrea Gabor: An Inspection of New York State’s Secret ELA TestsSomehow, Andrea Gabor got a copy of most of the New York State English Language Arts Common Core-Aligned State tests. She descri
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-15-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Andrea Gabor: An Inspection of New York State’s Secret ELA TestsSomehow, Andrea Gabor got a copy of most of the New York State English Language Arts Common Core-Aligned State tests. She describes them here. She writes: Once again I am in possession of a bit of educational contraband. For the second year in a row, I have recei
6-15-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Sunday’s World Cup ResourcesHere are today’s additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The 2014 World Cup In Brazil (some might not be visible on an RSS Reader): THE BEAUTIFUL BRANDED GAME: SEE THE 12 BEST 2014 WORLD CUP ADS is from Fast Company. 10 things non-soccer fans need to know about the World Cup is from Vox.by
6-15-14 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.: John Dillon. Lisa Madigan blames the unions.- John Dillon is a retired teacher, activist and publishes Pension Vocabulary. In the opening of A New Leaf, one of my favorite Walter Matthau films, an angry and non-repentant Matthau is castigating his financial advisor for a bounced check, one that has ma
All Week 6-15-14 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE: To those focusing on tenure, you’re doing it wrongIf my social media accounts are any indication, I’m probably one of the last 1% of teachers with a week’s worth of school days remaining. It will take me a little more time, once graduations and all of these other special events are over this week, to fully digest and comment on the CA tenure […]by Shaun Johnson / 36min All Week 6
6-15-14 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION: Tenure- Private vs. PublicNobody else has tenure. Why should teachers get it?So what if you could be fired for any reason? That's how employment works for every one else. Most people are "at will employees."You've heard these arguments (and if you haven't, gird your loins and go strolling through the trolling in the comments section of any article about Vergara and/or ten
6-15-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: OPEN THREAD: What Is The UFT/AFT Strategy To Counter Attacks On Teacher Tenure/Due Process Protections?The NY Times published an attack on teacher tenure earlier in the week in an editorial and today the NY Post followed up with a sensationalized PERV TEACHER story that is meant to drive the "Reform Tenure" narrative and bring about political action.The attacks on
Collaboration | Connected Principals
Collaboration | Connected Principals:Collaborationby Jesse McLean • June 15, 2014 • 0 CommentsSo a few weeks ago I attended the Innovate West Conference at the Connect Charter School in Calgary, with a team of 7 teachers from our school. Along with Claudia Scanga, our school’s learning coach, Lynn Lang and Ashley Solomon, teachers from our school, we facilitated a discussion we called “Collaborati
Mother Crusader: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, A Billionaire And A USDOE Assistant Secretary Walk Into A Courtroom...
Mother Crusader: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, A Billionaire And A USDOE Assistant Secretary Walk Into A Courtroom...: A Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, A Billionaire And A USDOE Assistant Secretary Walk Into A Courtroom...Much of the press surrounding the Vergara decision has focused on the role of David Welch, President of the Silicone Valley Telecommunications behemoth, Infinera.Dave Welch isn't
NYC Educator: Go from "Grossly Ineffective" to "Highly Effective" Overnight
NYC Educator: Go from "Grossly Ineffective" to "Highly Effective" Overnight: Go from "Grossly Ineffective" to "Highly Effective" OvernightAdvertisementFeeling out of sorts and grossly ineffective in your inner-city classroom? Do students occasionally hurl objects at you?"Vergaraitis" getting to you? Afraid you'll be booted from your job after twen
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Nite Cap 6-14-14 #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 CAPGeaux Teacher!: Go Fix Your Own Broken House LABI!Geaux Teacher!: Go Fix Your Own Broken House LABI!: Go Fix Your Own Broken House LABI!My response to the desperate pleas of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry and their partners i
