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
NEA elects Latina to leadership at annual meeting « NewsTaco
NEA elects Latina to leadership at annual meeting « NewsTaco: Delegates make history by voting for new leadership team to head nation’s largest unionDENVER – July 04, 2014 -Students across this country will have a historic new team advocating for their interests and the empowerment of the educators dedicated to their success this coming school year. Delegates attending the National Education Asso
7-15-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Doug Martin's Letter to Gordon Hendry and the Indiana State Board of EdBy Doug Martin Once again the Indy Star has given space to complete unreality, this time by you, Gordon Hendry, the new state board of education member all goo-goo eyed over your neoliberal heroes Bill Clinton and Bart Peterson. In fact, your piece, in many ways, is an attempt for Mike Pence and the state board
7-15-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: About the radio showJoin Drs. Shaun Johnson and Tim Slekar LIVE Sundays at 6PM EST and Wednesdays at 7PM EST on Blog Talk Radio for progressive, pro-public education talk radio. Call in to speak live with Tim and Shaun during the show, (805) 727-7111. You can also listen to our Monday "Sunday-Replay" at 7PM EST, and re-broadcasts of the archives every Tuesday and Thursd
7-15-14 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): “Gravity”: The Unbearable Lightness of Being a WomanIn the film Gravity, Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) fulfills what appears to be a prerequisite for women in films: She undresses alone: Sandra Bullock, Gravity As a science fiction film fan, I immediately thought of Sigour
Karen Lewis inches closer to run — crafting exploratory committee | Early & Often
Karen Lewis inches closer to run — crafting exploratory committee | Early & Often: CTU President Karen Lewis talks to reporters in March. File Photo. | Rich Hein/Sun-TimesKaren Lewis inches closer to run — crafting exploratory committeeTUE, 07/15/2014 - 12:51AMKaren Lewis’ potential bid for Chicago Mayor has moved beyond just a thought — it’s an “organic,” growing movement, the fiery Chicago
7-15-14 The Whole Child Blog — Education Support Professionals: Meeting the Needs of the Whole Student
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: Education Support Professionals: Meeting the Needs of the Whole StudentJean G. Fay has no typical workday. Whether it's working one-on-one with a child with special needs, helping out in the cafeteria at lunchtime, sewing costumes for the school musical, or leading 40 2nd graders in the Crocker Farm Elementary hip-hop crew, she does it all! Jean is als
Marie Corfield: More on Christie's Executive Order, AchieveNJ & PARCC
Marie Corfield: More on Christie's Executive Order, AchieveNJ & PARCC: More on Christie's Executive Order, AchieveNJ & PARCCKeeping this short and sweet because Ani McHugh (aka. TeacherBiz) and Jersey Jazzman both wrote excellent analyses of all that transpired in the life of A3081/S2541. Let's cut to the chase. Here's what the weights in educator evaluations will look like next year: In a
7-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Who Was Using What Math (and how did Principals feel about the Math Adoption)?I'm not sure this information will answer all questions, but I did put in a public disclosure request from SPS on the issue of what schools had been using enVision. Here's the feedback I received on June 23rd. (It is not complete as they are still trying to see if there were any MOU/agr
A battle won in the war on teacher tenure :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet
A battle won in the war on teacher tenure :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: JULY 15, 2014A battle won in the war on teacher tenureby Alisha Kirby(N.C.) Teachers in North Carolina won a battle in an ongoing war over job protections as legislative leaders gave up – at least for now – a proposal to eliminate tenure in exchange for an 11 percent
‘We Will Not Be Silent!’ | NEA Today
‘We Will Not Be Silent!’ | NEA Today: ‘We Will Not Be Silent!’At the 2014 NEA Representative Assembly (RA), held in July in Denver, Colo., nearly 7,000 delegates bid a warm farewell to outgoing NEA President Dennis Van Roekel and elected an historic trio of women— Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa, president; Rebecca “Becky” Pringle, vice president; and Princess Moss, secretary-treasurer—to lead them through
A Move to SacTown in Song, This time it’s for REAL: A Playlist | Cloaking Inequity
A Move to SacTown in Song, This time it’s for REAL: A Playlist | Cloaking Inequity: A Move to SacTown in Song, This time it’s for REAL: A PlaylistWell I’m going out west where I belong.I apologize for the thin posting on Cloaking Inequity the past two weeks. Summer is a busy time as I wrap up peer-reviewed articles, teach two methods classes for the new UT-Austin Superintendency cohort, personal a
7-15-14 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: Pension fund for CA teachers looking upCalSTRS reports a big year of earnings Riding the wave of record high stock prices on Wall Street, the fund providing pension benefits for California teachers and school administrators reported Monday that it earned a return of 18.66 percent on its asse
Seattle University Students Stand Behind Their Faculty
Seattle University Students Stand Behind Their Faculty: Seattle University Students Stand Behind Their Faculty In late May and early June, instructors at Seattle University casted ballots on whether they wanted to unionize. Since then, not a single ballot has been counted. Instead, administrative efforts have invalidated the vote and put the faculty’s unionization status in limbo.Seattle Universit
Staples, Postal Service to End Program to Set Up Post Offices - WSJ
Staples, Postal Service to End Program to Set Up Post Offices - WSJ: Staples, Postal Service to End Plan for Mini Post Offices in StoresTeachers Union Had Called for Store Boycott Amid Growing Criticism From LaborStaples Inc. SPLS +0.54% and the U.S. Postal Service said Monday they will end a pilot program to set up mini post offices in the company's retail outlets, days after one of the nation's
Morning Wink 7-15-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 7-15-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Jeanne Kaplan: Why Teachers Are Sick of DuncanJeanne Kaplan served on the Denver school board for years and watched with a heavy heart as fake “reformers” took over Denver and Colorado. Now Colo
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 7-15-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Jeanne Kaplan: Why Teachers Are Sick of DuncanJeanne Kaplan served on the Denver school board for years and watched with a heavy heart as fake “reformers” took over Denver and Colorado. Now Colorado has the most punitive teacher evaluation law in the nation, thanks to Arne Duncan and Colorado’s State Senator Michael Johnston. When
7-15-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Aft report: My Last Red-Eye - It's 2 AM and I'm Still Not EX-LAXThe AFT convention has reached its high point. It's the middle of the night and I'm surrounded by hordes of Unity Caucus delegates stranded from 2 fucked up Delta red-eyes. It's like an endless nightmare. I call the question but they are still here. On checking into security with my priority check-in - let's see - at
7-15-14 With A Brooklyn Accent
With A Brooklyn Accent: Teacher Temps and Computer Tenders Can't Move Children Out of PovertyOne of the things I am most worried about in the rush to on line learning and disposable teacher temps is the elimination of relationship building and mentoring, which in my experience, is key in having education move people out of poverty and promote upward mobility.When you grow up poor, there are many s
7-15-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? Why students leave high school (By Wendy Lecker)Wendy Lecker’s latest commentary piece for the Stamford Advocate and Hearst Media Group pushes aside the rhetoric coming from the corporate education reform industry and its allies like Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor. Instead Lecker lays out the real issues about graduation rates
7-15-14 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.: Don’t use Staples.As a state-wide elected delegate to the NEA RA I get reimbursed for most of my expenses. I have to fill out forms and provide receipts as it is carefully monitored by the IRS. And who knows? Maybe the NSA too. Rather than make copies of the forms at home, I normally go to the neighbo
7-15-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: New Study Reinforces Previous Ones Showing SEL Lessons Need To Be Short & Simple© 2013 elPadawan, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio As regular readers of this blog and my books know, I’m an advocate of teaching Social Emotional Learning skills — and that I think they need to be simple so that individual teachers can integra
7-15-14 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: Christie's Last Teacher Evaluation Panel Was a DisasterBig news today in the New Jersey education policy world:Following several days of intensive discussion last week, agreement was reached on several key issues related to standardized testing and its ultimate role in teacher evaluation. NJEA was at the center of conversations with legislators, the Christie administration and the
7-15-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Why I Want Arne Duncan And John King To Remain In PowerThe NEA has called for Secretary of Education Privatization Arne Duncan's ouster.The AFT put him on some kind of improvement plan (a lame way of saying they were calling for his ouster without actually calling for his ouster.)Many rank-and-file teachers across the country have called for Duncan to step down or be fired.B
The Evolution of Denial in Atlanta Test-Score Cheating Scandal | janresseger
The Evolution of Denial in Atlanta Test-Score Cheating Scandal | janresseger: The Evolution of Denial in Atlanta Test-Score Cheating ScandalPosted on July 15, 2014 by janressegerRachel Aviv’s extraordinary New Yorker magazine essay, Wrong Answer, traces the evolution of the Atlanta Public Schools standardized test cheating scandal. Aviv describes how school administrators, driven by the Adequate
Art and Public Space | Bill Ayers
Art and Public Space | Bill Ayers: Art and Public SpaceWhat does it mean to be human today, trudging into the 21st Century?How can we act ethically in our hurried and bewildering world?How did we get here, and where do we want to go?Is there a Public Space? In fact, is there a Public?What is our diagram of the known world, and how might things be otherwise?What kind of society do we want to inhabi
NYC Educator: Does AFT Merit a Member Boycott?
NYC Educator: Does AFT Merit a Member Boycott?: Does AFT Merit a Member Boycott?AFT reps, not a single one of whom represents me or my school, took time out to assemble at a local Staples to protest their use of private workers to replace US Post Office workers. The President of NYSUT cut her Staples card in half to show she meant business. After all, we value union, and we don't want unqualified
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Events of past two weeks gives us hope
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Events of past two weeks gives us hope: Events of past two weeks gives us hopeDonna Brazile“The very premise of ‘market-driven education reform’ rests on the fallacy that the public school system is in crisis, and that the only solution is to let the market pick winners and losers.” -- Donna BrazileWow! What an amazing couple of weeks this has been.It started with th
Willing to die for justice? Comparing post-Katrina student activism to Freedom Summer | Hechinger Report
Willing to die for justice? Comparing post-Katrina student activism to Freedom Summer | Hechinger Report: Willing to die for justice? Comparing post-Katrina student activism to Freedom SummerBy Andre PerryTwo of the most significant student movements in the United States occurred in Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans – separated by less than a three hours’ drive and fifty years. En masse, high s
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SELLOUT: Why the NJEA’s testing compromise with Christie was a mistake | Bob Braun's Ledger
SELLOUT: Why the NJEA’s testing compromise with Christie was a mistake | Bob Braun's Ledger: SELLOUT: Why the NJEA’s testing compromise with Christie was a mistakeRemember? The problem with the compromise reached between the Christie Administration and the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) over the uses of high-stakes testing is this: The teachers’ union, rightly concerned
With 8 weeks until school starts, Sacramento charter starts from scratch - Education - The Sacramento Bee
With 8 weeks until school starts, Sacramento charter starts from scratch - Education - The Sacramento Bee: With 8 weeks until school starts, Sacramento charter starts from scratchBy Loretta Kalblkalb@sacbee.comPublished: Monday, Jul. 14, 2014 - 5:54 pmLast Modified: Monday, Jul. 14, 2014 - 6:56 pmThe paint is fresh. The rooms are clean. All that’s needed at fledgling New Joseph Bonnheim Community
Arne Duncan flubbed on Common Core, and then he made it worse - LA Times
Arne Duncan flubbed on Common Core, and then he made it worse - LA Times: Opinion Arne Duncan flubbed on Common Core, and then he made it worseRandi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks at its convention over the weekend in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times)By KARIN KLEINcontact the reporterThe scaffolding of support for the Common Core curriculum standards continues,
Teachers of Color Caught In The Windmill (On Real Equity) - The Jose Vilson
Teachers of Color Caught In The Windmill (On Real Equity) - The Jose Vilson: Teachers of Color Caught In The Windmill (On Real Equity)Last week, I delved a little deeper into this issue of teachers of color, hoping to sow some of the prevailing narratives up and construct something more cogent.Yet, when it comes down to it, the lack of teachers of color is a symptom and not a cause of the educatio
Free Minds/Free People | Bill Ayers
Free Minds/Free People | Bill Ayers: Free Minds/Free PeopleBernardine and I met up with our old pal Jeff Jones, jumped in the car and headed off to the Oregon Country Fair outside Eugene where we’d been asked to speak about the political moment we were living through—Occupy your Imagination; Free Minds/Free People. It was a Blues Brothers road trip—we were on a mission from God.The Fair was an ins
Nite Cap 7-14-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #AFT14
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 CAPCharter Renewals FAQs Section 11 - Resources (CA Dept of Education)Charter Renewals FAQs Section 11 - Resources (CA Dept of Education): Charter Renewals FAQs Section 11Frequently asked questions (FAQ) regarding academic performance determinations
