4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT
Because right-wing talk-radio hosts have all the answers: MAKE THE BORDER KIDS AMERICANS + smf’s 2¢
By HUGH HEWITT, from Politico Magazine | http://politi.co/1mYCd0a July 17, 2014 :: Approximately 90,000 minors have entered the country in the two years since President Obama, whether out of the best of intentions, cynical political calculation or as another of his serial expressions of incompetence, allowed the idea to take hold abroad that kids who were brought to the country would be
JUL 17
Before Buying Technology, Asking ‘Why?’
By Ross Brenneman, Education Week Teacher | http://bit.ly/1mZsR3D —Ross Brenneman Published Online: June 18, 2014 /Includes correction(s): July 15, 2014 :: District leaders and other advocates of personalized learning frequently say that the approach isn't about technology. But that’s easy for an administrator to say when every child in his or her district has a school-provided computer.
JUL 16
How Music Ed Powers The Steam Movement
By Richard Naithram, NEA Today Online | http://bit.ly/Wb0zcQ July 16, 2014 :: With many of the nation’s education leaders focused on the importance of STEM education, the movement to add music to the equation is getting more attention. Recently, a panel of experts gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC to discuss ways to elevate music education– and the arts in general – and turn STEM (
Arne Duncan Flubbed On Common Core …And Then He Made It Worse
Opinion by Karin Klein, member of the L.A. Times editorial board, in the Times | http://lat.ms/1jy0yKh Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks at its convention over the weekend in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times) July 14, 2014 :: The scaffolding of support for the Common Core curriculum standards continues, right and left, to lose a beam here, a platform
Better Educated Public School Kids – For A Price
By The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board | http://lat.ms/1oHUdbq Peninsula High School students listen as biology teacher Julie Maemoto explains how to do an upcoming experiment in her summer biology class. (Los Angeles Times) July 16, 2014 :: Children in the United States get unequal educations; that's unfair but unlikely to change in the near future. Some school districts have more
La Schools: California ‘English Learner’ Tests Incorrectly Label Bilingual Kids
by Annie Gilbertson | 89.3 KPCC | http://bit.ly/1mhhkrZ Benjamin Brayfield/KPCC | Arianna Anderson, 9, looks at a book at the Torrance Public Library. Her parents, Hilda and Brent, worry she is losing her love of reading, because the school is not providing services tailored to her needs. Benjamin Brayfield/KPCC | Brent Anderson looks at books with his daughter, Arianna, at the
JUL 15
Pope Calls For Protection Of Unaccompanied Child Migrants
from the Archive of Vatican Radio News | http://bit.ly/W8XXw4 Below please find a Vatican Radio translation of Pope Francis’ Message Mexico City, 14 July 2014 :: I would like to extend my greetings to the organizers, speakers, and participants in the "Mexico Holy See colloquium on human migration and development". Globalization is a phenomenon that challenges us, especially in one of i
JUL 14
When Teachers Romanticize Their Students Poverty
A TFA volunteer, enchanted by the words of William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, learns that there's nothing glamorous about everyday struggles in the Mississippi Delta. April Bo Wang, The Atlantic | http://theatln.tc/1n2Yafi A rundown shack in the Mississippi Delta ( Jim Denham/Flickr ) IJul 12 2014, 8:00 AM ET :: t’s one of those summer afternoons in Helena, Arkansas, where the
American Federation of Teachers: “REMEDIATING” DUNCAN AND RETAINING THE “CORRUPTED” COMMON CORE + smf’s 2¢
by Mercedes Schneider | New post on deutsch29 blog /http://bit.ly/1mOAPwc July 14, 2014 :: I'm wondering what of substance was accomplished thus far at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) national convention in Los Angeles July 11-14, 2014. On July 13, 2014, AFT was supposed to consider asking for U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's resignation. The National Education Association
JUL 13
Saturday @ The Aft Convention
The American Federation of Teachers Convention continues at the L.A. Convention through Monday. If you can’t go you can watch at http://aft.org/convention/live.cfm Here’s the schedule: Sunday, July 13 8:30 AM | Nominating session 10 AM | General session 2 PM | General session Monday, July 14 9 AM | General session on Saturday LA Times education reporter@
JUL 12
GOV. BROWN HIGHLIGHTS STATE’S APPROACH TO EDUCATION, says “No!” to testing every child, every year.
By Virginia Myers reporting from the AFT Convention Floor /photo by Russ Curtis, from the AFT website |http://bit.ly/1m5iSVV 12 July 2014 :: California Gov. Jerry Brown made education news when his state passed Proposition 30 to increase school funding, and established a Local Control Funding Formula that puts education decisions closer to where the students are actually being taught—the