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Thursday, July 24, 2014

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 7-24-14 Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: FAIRTEST: The Weekly Round-Up on Resistance to TestingParents, educators, students and activists in many communities are using the “quiet” summer months to plan campaigns that will build the assessment reform movement’s power once schools reopen. Across the country, more and more media outlets are reporting on the impact grassroots
by mike simpson / 0min 
7-24-14 The Whole Child Blog — History for Its Own Sake, and For All of Our Sakes
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: History for Its Own Sake, and For All of Our SakesPost written by Kerry Dunne and Christopher Martell Recent national media attention on attempts by school districts to fold history and social studies into broader humanities programs has brought attention to the role of history education in today schools. This begs the question: Is the study of history
by mike simpson / 2min 
7-24-14 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: The Merit Pay Virus Keeps SpreadingI just noticed that the controversial teachers contract in Paterson, NJ was approved by the local union by a slim margin:PATERSON — By a narrow margin, the Paterson teachers’ union has approved its new labor contracts, but some members question the way the voting was conducted, saying not everyone got a chance to cast a ballot. About 53 percent of
by mike simpson / 5min 
7-24-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? A call for action – A request for helpWhether the voters of Connecticut get the option of voting for a candidate other than Dannel “Dan” Malloy or Tom Foley/John McKinney depends on whether we collect a sufficient number of signatures by the August 6th 2014 Deadline to get on the November Ballot! We have less than two weeks to reach our goal and […] The post A call for actio
by mike simpson / 8min 
7-24-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: The problem with how we talk about poverty and kidsEllie Herman has had a very interesting career. For two decades she was a writer/producer for television shows including “The Riches,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Chicago Hope” and “Newhart.” Her fiction has appeared in literary journals, among them The Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review and the O.Henry Awards Collection. In 2007
by mike simpson / 10min 
7-24-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Our overall scores are unspectacular because of our high rate of child poverty. (WSJ)Test Scores, Students and LearningOur overall scores are unspectacular because of our high rate of child poverty.Published in the Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2014.When researchers control for the effect of poverty, American scores on international tests are at the top of the world. Our overall sc
by mike simpson / 11min 
7-24-14 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.: “Doctor” Carter blames his secretary. And the Chicago, AUSL connection.Each day. This guy has given me blog posts for a week. This is the story of Terrence P. Carter and the New London, Connecticut school system. Carter was about to be hired to be the new superintendent when the real reporters at the
by mike simpson / 13min 
7-24-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Education Policy© 2012 Shutter Stutter, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are some recent useful posts on educational policy issues: The Teacher Dropout Crisis is from NPR. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About The Importance Of Teacher (& Student) Wo
by mike simpson / 17min 
7-24-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): What ‘No New Federal Spending’ Really Means | AlternetWhat ‘No New Federal Spending’ Really Means | Alternet1 by plthomasedd / 1h hide  //  saveThe Charter Sham Formula: Billionaires + Flawed “Reports” + Press Release Media = Misled PublicLate in 2013, I shared my own ex
by mike simpson / 20min 
7-24-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: Racing to the Bottom: The New School Leadership ChallengeAs the assault on public education continues, school leaders face an unprecedented challenge-- how to win the race to the bottom without being too obvious about it.Occasionally, somebody notices that a district is becoming too successful in trashing its own mission. Just this week in Indianapolis, members of the school board
by mike simpson / 23min 
7-24-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Did Cuomo Break The Law By Tampering With The Moreland Commission?The answer is, maybe:Cuomo's camp contends his office had the right to guide the panel under the language of the 1907 Moreland Act, which allows the governor to investigate any executive branch agency or related entity. While past governors have used the statute to examine the inner workings of government and
by mike simpson / 25min 
Shanker Blog » Not All Discipline Disparities May Be The Result Of Implicit Bias
Shanker Blog » Not All Discipline Disparities May Be The Result Of Implicit Bias: Not All Discipline Disparities May Be The Result Of Implicit BiasPosted by Esther Quintero on July 24, 2014Over the past few months, we have heard a lot about discipline disparities by race/ethnicity and gender — disparities that begin in the earliest years of schooling. According to the Civil Rights Data Collection 
by mike simpson / 31min 
Race to the Top, Wasn't :: Frederick M. Hess
Race to the Top, Wasn't :: Frederick M. Hess: Race to the Top, Wasn'tby Frederick M. Hess  •  Jul 24, 2014 at 8:34 amCross-posted from Education WeekWe've just marked the fifth anniversary of Race to the Top, the Obama administration's signature education initiative. When launched, the $4.35 billion competition drew bipartisan cheers and was lauded as an example of getting school reform right. Fiv
by mike simpson / 35min 
Guidance shows light at end of teachers’ bleak tunnel :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet
Guidance shows light at end of teachers’ bleak tunnel :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: Guidance shows light at end of teachers’ bleak tunnelby Alisha Kirby(District of Columbia) Much of the disproportionally high rate of teacher turnover in hard-to-staff schools serving high-poverty students can be attributed to a lack of quality induction p
by mike simpson / 39min 
The Difference Between Johnson and McKenna – redqueeninla
The Difference Between Johnson and McKenna – redqueeninla: The Difference Between Johnson and McKennaWritten by redqueeninla in EducationDid you know there’s an election in three weeks?If you do not live in LAUSD’s first district, you might be excused from awareness of it, though not if you drive anywhere within that district. You’d have to be blind (inadvisable if driving) to have overlooked the
by mike simpson / 42min 
Parsing the Common Core Reform Spin | Missouri Education Watchdog
Parsing the Common Core Reform Spin | Missouri Education Watchdog: Parsing the Common Core Reform SpininShareParse the language of the PR spin and you will see the CCSSI and reformers have no clothes. They make assumptions that need to be challenged.  Like CCSS word problems they make no sense.The Common Core proponents in their PR campaigns have been very clever.  They use language and questions
by mike simpson / 45min 
Feds Investigating Civil Rights Implications of School Closures in Newark | janresseger
Feds Investigating Civil Rights Implications of School Closures in Newark | janresseger: Feds Investigating Civil Rights Implications of School Closures in NewarkPosted on July 24, 2014 by janressegerIf you are middle class or rich, you are not likely to discover that anybody is planning to punish your child’s school by closing it.  School “reform” via “turnaround” happens in school districts like
by mike simpson / 46min 
NYC Educator: Land of a Thousand Rubrics
NYC Educator: Land of a Thousand Rubrics: Land of a Thousand RubricsI've been attending curriculum development workshops all week. We're looking at Common Core, without which no sentient being can function, and one of our sub-categories is rubrics. Yesterday we created some of our own.I'll be frank. I have never liked rubrics. The first time I saw them was when a new, two-day, four-composition Eng
by mike simpson / 53min 

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Looking Forward to L2L 2014 - Woodbridge, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators
Looking Forward to L2L 2014 - Woodbridge, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators: Looking Forward to L2L 2014Once again ASCD leaders from around the world are traveling to the Leader to Leader conference to be held this weekend. Leader to Leader (L2L) is our annual professional development event for those dedicated education professionals who ser
by mike simpson / 10h 
Nick Kristof offers An Idiot’s Guide to Inequality
Nick Kristof offers An Idiot’s Guide to Inequality: Nick Kristof offers An Idiot’s Guide to InequalitybyteacherkenFollow    1 Comments / 1 Newin his column in Thursday's New York Times.His guide has five principles which I will list here - these are his exact words, each followed by additional text:First, economic inequality has worsened significantly in the United States and some other countries.
by mike simpson / 10h 
ASCD Educore - About Educore
ASCD Educore - Channels - About Educore:  HOW TO USE EDUCORE™WATCHEduCore™ hosts a variety of videos to help you understand the instructional shifts of the CCSS and how to use EduCore™ resources. These videos can be viewed independently and discussed in a professional learning community (PLC) or as a faculty.READYou can find relevant up-to-date articles and papers about the CCSS on EduCore™, as we
by mike simpson / 12h 
Update On the “100 Summer Interns” Story | Crazy Crawfish's Blog
Update On the “100 Summer Interns” Story | Crazy Crawfish's Blog:Crazy Crawfish's BlogZesty Louisiana Education PoliticsUpdate On the “100 Summer Interns” StoryPosted on July 23, 20140It took some detective work, and reviewing of records from other agencies, but I was able to locate 16 summer interns and 14 student workers on LDOE’s payroll for a total of 30 student workers employed this summer. T
by mike simpson / 12h 
Passion and Purpose | WagTheDog
Passion and Purpose | WagTheDog: Passion and PurposeDavid Coleman has made it perfectly clear there is no “room” in the Common Core for such trivial matters as students’ thoughts, feelings, and personal reflections.Coleman may claim his emotionless Common Core will improve the career readiness of students but there is ample evidence that what employees think and feel has a direct impact on worker
by mike simpson / 12h 
Why I am Suiting Up And Showing Up for the BATS Rally (and You Should Too) - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform
Why I am Suiting Up And Showing Up for the BATS Rally (and You Should Too) - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform: Why I am Suiting Up And Showing Up for the BATS Rally (and You Should Too)BY PEGWPEN · JULY 23, 2014By Morna McDermottUnited Opt Out administratorThe BATS are holding an event at the steps of the US Dept. of Education this coming Sunday and Monday. There are
by mike simpson / 14h 
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 7-23-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: FIRE BURNS GREEN DOT CHARTER SCHOOL CAMPUS …as ‘Mystery Drone’ hovers overheadFire has Animo South Los Angeles Charter High looking for a new location before school starts Aug.12   -   School called total loss after massive fire. By Howard Blume and Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/1A7SRzM Antwan Shepard sprays his house with water as s
by mike simpson / 15h 
Nite Cap 7-23-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT
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 CAP7-23-14 Seattle Schools Community ForumSeattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Downtown School - Is the Fix In?I make no secret of the fact that I had been pushing for the district to consider applying to take over the empty Federal Reserve buil
by mike simpson / 16h 
7-23-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Downtown School - Is the Fix In?I make no secret of the fact that I had been pushing for the district to consider applying to take over the empty Federal Reserve building downtown.  I believed it was worth looking into (and still do).  However, that is now tempered by this rather large push for the building.  Who's pushing?  All the forces that have decided
by mike simpson / 18h 
New Coalition Urges Congress to Listen to Parents and Strengthen Student Privacy Protections | Seattle Education
New Coalition Urges Congress to Listen to Parents and Strengthen Student Privacy Protections | Seattle Education: New Coalition Urges Congress to Listen to Parents and Strengthen Student Privacy ProtectionsA new coalition called the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy released a letter today to the leaders of the committees of the House and Senate Education Committees, urging Congress to strength
by mike simpson / 20h 
The Growth of a Movement: Lessons Learned During the First Year of the Badass Teachers Association | emPower magazine
The Growth of a Movement: Lessons Learned During the First Year of the Badass Teachers Association | emPower magazine: THE GROWTH OF A MOVEMENT: LESSONS LEARNED DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF THE BADASS TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONOn June 13, 2014 the Badass Teachers Association (BATs) celebrated its one year anniversary. As a member and administrator since the first few weeks, it has been truly amazing to watc
by mike simpson / 21h 
Why were thousands of books purged from Racine, Wisconsin school libraries? : blue cheddar
Why were thousands of books purged from Racine, Wisconsin school libraries? : blue cheddar: Why were thousands of books purged from Racine, Wisconsin school libraries?by blue cheddar • July 23, 2014Backup direct link to embedded video of speech at Racine school board meetingThousands of books were removed from the public school libraries of Racine, Wisconsin by non-library staff to the alarm of th
by mike simpson / 22h 
7-21-14 The Whole Child Blog — Four Frames for Principals, New and Experienced
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: Four Frames for Principals, New and ExperiencedI was working with an elementary principal. One of the school's 3rd grade classes had given him a list of responsibilities they assumed formed his job. He showed me the list and chuckled, until he got to an item that he said made him shudder far more than smile: "You fix everything." That overwhe
by mike simpson / 22h 
Zombie Lies of Corporate Education Reform
Zombie Lies of Corporate Education Reform4 Corporate Education Reform Talking Points That Are Flat-Out LiesNOVEMBER 10, 2013 BY KRIS NIELSEN 11 COMMENTSIf you listen to the buzz coming from the airwaves about education reform these days, you may notice that many things are starting to sound much too familiar–some even vomit-inducingly so.  It’s almost as if someone gave the spokespeople from state
by mike simpson / 22h 
7-23-14 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: Charter school in south LA damaged by fireMorning Read: Charter school in south LA damaged by fire L.A. charter school gutted by fast-moving blaze A charter school organization is scrambling to find an alternative location after a fire swept through the campus Tuesday. Animo South Los Angele
by mike simpson / 22h 
Teachers’ “Actual” Impacts on Tests: A Reality that Defies VAMs |
Teachers’ “Actual” Impacts on Tests: A Reality that Defies VAMs |: Teachers’ “Actual” Impacts on Tests: A Reality that Defies VAMsDrs. Gene Glass and David Berliner (both Regents’ Professors Emeriti from Arizona State University) recently published a book with 15 doctoral students titled the 50 Myths & Lies that Threaten America’s Public Schools (published by Teachers College Press). In one of
by mike simpson / 22h 
This Week In Education: Thompson: Burris Documents Damage Done By Tracking & School Reform
This Week In Education: Thompson: Burris Documents Damage Done By Tracking & School Reform: Thompson: Burris Documents Damage Done By Tracking & School  We know Carol Burris for her insightful critiques of the contemporary school reform movement, but at first glance her On the Same Page seems to be a history of the bad old days. She presents an authoritative account of the severe damage do
by mike simpson / 22h 
7-23-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: 14 More Schools for Avaricious Eva - Coming to a School Near You - Or in Your Own School....with so many schools how can Eva assure a consistent quality of cheating that keeps her scores so far above any of the other charters?By way of example, the application points to one Harlem district school co-located with a Success school has started posting college flags in school hallways
by mike simpson / 23h 
Marie Corfield: My open letter to President Obama about public education and his legacy
Marie Corfield: My open letter to President Obama about public education and his legacy: My open letter to President Obama about public education and his legacyDear President Obama,Along with millions of Americans, I proudly and joyously voted for you in 2008. I believed that finally our nation was living up to its promise of a land where 'all men [and women] are created equal'. I have continually
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Morning Wink 7-23-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Charter Schools: Do They Deserve Closer Scrutiny? Or Legitimacy?Andy Smarick, a partner at Bellweather Associates, a senior fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a former deputy commissioner of education in New Jersey for
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