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
OMG!!!!! Look who’s covering Christie’s prez campaign | Bob Braun's Ledger
OMG!!!!! Look who’s covering Christie’s prez campaign | Bob Braun's Ledger: OMG!!!!! Look who’s covering Christie’s prez campaignBrodesser-Akner on TwitterThe Star-Ledger has hired a former Hollywood celebrity gossip blogger to be the senior political correspondent who will cover Gov. Chris Christie’s presidential campaign, according to social media sources. Seriously.Meanwhile, Amy Ellis Nutt, th
GUEST: Bridgegate is so NOT over: Chris Christie and the Priorities of the Privileged | Bob Braun's Ledger
GUEST: Bridgegate is so NOT over: Chris Christie and the Priorities of the Privileged | Bob Braun's Ledger: GUEST: Bridgegate is so NOT over: Chris Christie and the Priorities of the PrivilegedBack to New HampshireBy Linda StamatoIn the wake of “Bridgegate,” press coverage shifted from near adulation of Chris Christie to embarrassed incredulity; the artful politician, poised to become a presidenti
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Revolving door from Rahm's City Hall to hedge-funder's office keeps turning
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Revolving door from Rahm's City Hall to hedge-funder's office keeps turning: Revolving door from Rahm's City Hall to hedge-funder's office keeps turningMatt HynesI reported last month about Rahm's machine bagman Matt Hynes jumping ship to go spend "more time with his family." Remember Hynes, the son of former longtime Cook County Assessor, ward boss (1
Districts debate merits of master's for teachers - SFGate
Districts debate merits of master's for teachers - SFGate: Districts debate merits of master's for teachersBy JAMIE STENGLE, Associated PressUpdated 10:35 am, Saturday, July 12, 2014People gather outside the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh, NC during summer 2013 to protest the elimination of tenure and extra pay for teachers with advanced degrees in the state. Efforts to eliminate extra
War and Peace | Bill Ayers
War and Peace | Bill Ayers: War and PeaceA pervasive and widely promoted theory that runs loose throughout the land is that being a military powerhouse makes the US (and people everywhere) safe, protects freedoms, and is a force for peace in a threatening, dangerous, and hostile world. It’s not true, but it has a huge and sticky hold on our imaginations.When some random politician tells antiwar pr
2nd Banana 7-12-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #AFT14
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST Clowns In The Tent, Oh My!The Camel's Nose In The Tent.The Camel's Nose In The Tent.One cold night, as an Arab sat in his tent, a camel gently thrust his nose under the flap and looked in. "Master," he said, "let me put my nose in your tent. It's cold and stormy out here." "By all means," said the Arab, "
Morning Wink 7-12-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSCommon Core Talking Points Decimated in Radio Interview | Missouri Education WatchdogCommon Core Talking Points Decimated in Radio Interview | Missouri Education Watchdog:Common Core Talking Points Decimated in Radio InterviewinShareHow much money has been spent by the Gates Foundation and corporate entities to push the PR message that we will love Common
Common Core Talking Points Decimated in Radio Interview | Missouri Education Watchdog
Common Core Talking Points Decimated in Radio Interview | Missouri Education Watchdog:Common Core Talking Points Decimated in Radio InterviewinShareHow much money has been spent by the Gates Foundation and corporate entities to push the PR message that we will love Common Core once we know what’s in it? Trouble is, the more we know about it, the more people dislike it. Michael Brickman of Fordham
7-12-14 Key Responsibility Areas | Connected Principals
Connected Principals | Sharing. Learning. Leading.: Key Responsibility Areas Part TwoThis has been a busy summer of hiring new teammates and preparing for the school year to come. Sample Staff KRA In one of our recent interviews, I was asked to give some feedback on some of the responsiblity areas in our office areas. So I shared some samples of our KRA’s. Those samples provided some great feedbac
Stephen Krashen Blog 7-12-14
SKrashen:Literacy Education: Need We Start Early?Literacy Education: Need We Start Early?Stephen KrashenLanguage and Language Teaching, Vol 3, number 2, issue 6: pp 1-7. 2014Most people are convinced that children will have a powerful head start in reading if they are introduced to sounds and letters well before they start school. The conclusions of this paper are these: For the development of Eng
7-12-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Love Letters to the BATS
With A Brooklyn Accent:Why Charter School Scandals Resemble the Subprime Mortgage CrisisTo understand why we may be approaching a charter school crisis that resembles the one that developed around subprime mortgages, you need to understand how investment banks and credit rating agencies seized upon an instrument to make homeownership available to people with limited resources as a vehicle to make
7-12-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekNew Report on the Consequences of Inadequately Funded SchoolsYesterday, the Education Law Center released a report they commissioned from yours truly about the consequences of inadequately funding school districts."Shortchanging New Jersey Students: How Inadequate Funding Has Led to Reduced Staff and Growing Disparities in the State’s Public Schoo
7-12-14 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION:Curmudgucation WeekDetails on New Teacher Equity Equality PlanThis aspect of school reform has been lurking around the edges for some time-- the notion that once we find the super-duper teachers, we could somehow shuffle everybody around and put the supery-duperest in front of the neediest students. But though reformsters have occasionally floated the idea, the feds have been reluct
7-12-14 NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education
NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:NPE News Briefsfrom The Network for Public EducationWhy Is Arne Duncan Still Pushing the Dangerous Myth of Low Expectations? | AlternetJuly 8, 2014 | Sometimes when politicians fail on social media, the result is mostly humorous fodder for critics, such as when South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley posted this Tweet: Click to enlarge. But othe
7-12-14 THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education:THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog Core Criteria for Collaborative ConversationsThe Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards have drawn new attention to how these skills are developed across curriculum and across grade bands. In their 2014 ASCD Annual Conference session, "Collaborative Conversations: Meeting Anchor Standard 1 in Speaking and
7-12-14 This Week in 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):Want the latest on education in Los Angeles? Sign up for our email!Tired of checking and re-checking our website for the latest on education news and information in Los Angeles? Why not sign up for our Email Update? It’s free, it’s easy and it comes 5 days a week, (unless we take a day off). Click HERE to
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 7-12-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetHow Microsoft will make money from Common Core (despite what Bill Gates said)Microsoft founder Bill Gates got somewhat indignant when my Post colleague Lyndsey Layton asked him in an interview this past spring about concerns of some opponents of the Common Core State Standards that his important support for the initiative has been driven by business in
7-12-14 Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Society All Week
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership SocietySen. Kirk has outdone himselfOur "moderate" Republican Senator Mark Kirk, who has called for the mass incarceration of 18,000 young black men as a crime-fighting strategy, has outdone himself this time. Kirk, who has to legitimize himself with his anti-immigrant base
7-12-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekWARNING: The assault on Connecticut’s Hospitals – Here come the for-profit hospital operatorsFor decades, even centuries, Connecticut’s regional non-profit hospitals have been one of its greatest assets. Emergency rooms, maternity programs, and access to local, high-quality hospital care have made our communities better, safer and healthier places to live and raise
7-12-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumSeattle Schools To Hold Community Meeting on Special EducationFrom SPS Communications:When: Tuesday, July 22, 2014Time: 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.Where: Seattle Public John Stanford Center Auditorium, 2445 3rd Avenue South What: A family meeting hosted by Seattle Public Schools and the TIERS Group (Teams Intervening Early to Reach all St
7-12-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineAFT Convention Update: Chicago CC Reso Goes Down Overwhelmingly in CommitteeVoters supporting CTU CC reso stand in support - est 25-30%.Since we were not allowed in, we were watching the Education Issues Committee debate from outside the glass doors. With long lines at the mic, it was clear that Chicago TU people did not have the muscle to win the room over to its a
7-12-14 Fred All Week 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.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherAFT. Common Core will get debated on Sunday.CTU President Karen Lewis pushed for the debate. - Mercedes Schneider blogs at deutch29 A very good thing will happen on Sunday, July 13, 2014, at the American Federation of Teachers (AF
7-12-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekSo Much For Randi Weingarten And The AFT Fighting The Common CoreNorm Scott is at the AFT convention in L.A. - he reports Randi Weingarten and her Unity/UFT minions had the votes to secure their own pro-Common Core resolution but rigged the committee process in order to ensure the Chicago Teachers Union resolution condemning Common Core didn't pass
7-12-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
THE BECOMING RADICALEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by Racism not Below the Surface in U.S., StillSince it is just sports, that LeBran James and Carmelo Anthony are wielding a significant amount of power during the NBA off-season could easily go unnoticed except for sports fans and those enthralled by ESPN and sports media. But how James and Anthony are fra
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 7-12-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT Draft Revision Of Lcap Moves ForwardBy John Fensterwald | EdSource | http://bit.ly/1r4JKNJ July 10, 2014 |Members of the State Board of Education uniformly praised the way school districts have created plans to comply with California’s new school improvement and accountability system, but said Thursday that s
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 7-12-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYInfographic: “Why Language Learning Is Important”I’ve got a few issues with this infographic but, in general, it offers decent advice. I’m not quite sure why it shows up so small but, if you click on it, a bigger version appears…..by Larry Ferlazzo / 6h YESTERDAYThree Good Resources On Asse
This Week's Education Research Report 7-12-14 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTCensus Bureau Reports Majority of STEM College Graduates Do Not Work in STEM OccupationsThe U.S. Census Bureau reported today that 74 percent of those who have a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering and math — commonly referred to as STEM — are not employed in STEM occupations. In addition, men continue to be overrepres
7-12-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekFollowing Rhonda's Advice: Be a "Little Badass"With salary and benefits at $550,000 a year, it won't be easy to pry Weingarten from her offices at AFT. But following the advice she offered teachers at the convention, here are a few ways teachers might be a "little BadAss":1) Stop paying union dues until Lily and Rhonda (aka Randi) resign
All Week 7-12-14 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Does anyone else struggle with movement in the classroom?This from the Answer Sheet: In the following post, Angela Hanscom, a pediatric occupational therapist and the founder of TimberNook, a nature-based development program designed to foster creativity and independent play outdoors in New England, suggests yet another reason more children are being di
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 7-12-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGTeacher: No Time For Teaching, Only TestingThis teacher laments the explosion of testing in school, which has reduced or eliminated time for play, recess, and activities. This is the brave new world of Common Core and PARCC: H/she writes: “The Common Core and PARCC will ruin education as we know it..And, of course, it is
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Weingarten lays out bold call to move country forward - AFT - A Union of Professionals -
AFT - A Union of Professionals - Weingarten lays out bold call to move country forward: Weingarten lays out bold call to move country forwardAFT President Randi Weingarten kicked off the AFT national convention in Los Angeles July 11 by outlining a bold plan to both fight back and fight forward to reclaim the promise of America and create economic and educational opportunity for all.In her keynote
AFT - A Union of Professionals - Remarks by AFT President Randi Weingarten at the AFT Convention 2014
AFT - A Union of Professionals - Remarks by AFT President Randi Weingarten at the AFT Convention 2014: Reclaiming the Promise of AmericaRemarks for AFT President Randi WeingartenAFT 2014 ConventionLos Angeles, Calif.July 11, 2014I. INTRODUCTIONFor everyone joining us here for the first time: welcome.For everyone else: welcome home.Home is where we seek comfort. Where we connect. Where we can debat
Nite Cap 7-11-14 #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 CAPWhy A Great Principal Burned Out – And What Might Have Helped | Gatsby In L.A.Why A Great Principal Burned Out – And What Might Have Helped | Gatsby In L.A.: Why A Great Principal Burned Out – And What Might Have Helped Boxes crowd the hallways,
