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
Stanford’s Shavelson & Boulder’s Domingue on VAMs in Higher Ed |
Stanford’s Shavelson & Boulder’s Domingue on VAMs in Higher Ed |: Stanford’s Shavelson & Boulder’s Domingue on VAMs in Higher Ed A few months ago, well over 10,000 educational researchers/academics from throughout the world attended the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during which many of the said researchers/academic
Sam Pirozzolo's Hypocrisy Exposed southbronxschool
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Sam Pirozzolo's Hypocrisy ExposedIn light of today's story in the Daily News how Campbell Brown, the Bayou Schicksa, is now joiningthe fray and about to file her own law suit (More to come on this story on these pages this week), we yet again must focus on the comedy stylings of The Crack Team's favorite source of material, Sam Pirozzolo.Yes, this will mark the 7th
Houston school district aiming to recruit North Carolina’s teachers | CharlotteObserver.com
Houston school district aiming to recruit North Carolina’s teachers | CharlotteObserver.com: Houston school district aiming to recruit North Carolina’s teachersBy Megan Cassellamcassella@charlotteobserver.comPosted: Friday, Jul. 25, 2014MORE INFORMATIONNC House OKs charter bill after debate on salary disclosure, gay studentsNorth Carolina teachers struggling with low salaries and repeated pay free
Why I will NOT attend the BAT Rally in D.C. on Monday… | Reclaim Reform
Why I will NOT attend the BAT Rally in D.C. on Monday… | Reclaim Reform: Why I will NOT attend the BAT Rally in D.C. on Monday…Posted on July 27, 2014by Ken PrevitiI want very, very much to attend the Badass Teachers Association rally in Washington D.C. on Monday. I am simply unable to attend; events in my life have gotten in the way. I truly wanted to be at all of the past week’s BAT events.As an
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 7-27-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: MOODY’S ASSIGNS Aa2 RATING to LAUSD’s GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS: $138.4 million new debt affected; rating affirmed on outstanding parity and COP debtThe Wall Street Transcript from Moody’s press Release | http://bit.ly/1zjrUb3 New York, July 25, 2014 Issue: General Obligation Bonds, Election of 2004, Series J (2014); Rating: Aa2; Sale Amount: $71,435,
Don’t Trust Charters More than a Sweaty Used Car Salesman (A Citizen Research Template) | Cloaking Inequity
Don’t Trust Charters More than a Sweaty Used Car Salesman (A Citizen Research Template) | Cloaking Inequity: Don’t Trust Charters More than a Sweaty Used Car Salesman (A Citizen Research Template)Recently I have noticed a new snare from charter cheerleaders. Their approach is for them to ask you to tell them which charters school you love/like. This is a clever trap. My response is, “Why don’t you
Would You Believe…? | WagTheDog
Would You Believe…? | WagTheDog: Would You Believe…? As data-driven and evidence-based challenges to the efficacy of the untested Common Core State Standards become stronger and louder, it appears CCSS supporters are growing desperate and resorting to Maxwell Smart’s catchphrase and tactic of backpedaling and shifting between unconvincing and unsubstantiated claims.This “Would you believe…?” strat
Firestorm Over Campbell Brown’s Wall-Street Backed Lawsuit Against Teachers
News - Alliance for Quality Education of New York: Firestorm Over Campbell Brown’s Wall-Street Backed Lawsuit Against TeachersParents and Teachers Slam Bogus Lawsuit as Wall St. Front Group, Dismiss Former TV-Anchor as Out-of-Touch and with No Credibility on Education Issues*Parents, teachers and experts available for comment*(New York, NY) – Today, Campbell Brown announced she will file a bogus l
7-27-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Something Horrible Under Every RockPeople frequently ask me "What fuels your activist energy?" and I tell them "Outrage." "But how," they ask,"can you stay outraged for fourteen years?" "I can't." I tell them. "I'm newly outraged every couple days. And you would be too if you watched the District closely. There
Reframing Expertise (The Habitual Line-Stepper) - The Jose Vilson
Reframing Expertise (The Habitual Line-Stepper) - The Jose Vilson: Reframing Expertise (The Habitual Line-Stepper)In my travels this summer, I’m often asked to ponder this idea of expertise, and specifically, how education researchers and those in higher education can help K-12 teachers.Since I entered the teaching profession almost a decade ago, I’ve had this struggle with this idea. From article
7-27-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: The Diane Ravitch Contradiction: Educators Should Rebel, but Be Nice When Addressing Oppressive Union Leaderships....you want the workers to be rebellious, not docile. There is a time for collaboration and a time to stand up and fight... Ravitch on film "Metropolis." I grow frustrated when union members attack their unions. Of course, they should fight to win democratic
7-27-14 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: @StarLedger Editorials: Consistently Wrong About Newark EducationI reached the end of my rope with the Star-Ledger Editorial Board and its chief, Tom Moran, a long time ago. When it comes to education -- particularly in Newark -- both the paper's unsigned editorials and Moran's columns have displayed massive ignorance. Frankly, I'm tired of having to address their nonsense when it'
Is Progressive Schooling Just Around the Corner? (Part 2) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Is Progressive Schooling Just Around the Corner? (Part 2) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Is Progressive Schooling Just Around the Corner? (Part 2)Predicting the future, well, is iffy. Except for an occasional Nate Silver who became famous in calling the 2012 election of Barack Obama, more often than not, predictions of what is around the corner range from goofy to funny. I
You can’t take politics out of education | Missouri Education Watchdog
You can’t take politics out of education | Missouri Education Watchdog: You can’t take politics out of educationTwitter was all abuzz Friday night with common core proponents attempting to stem the tide against the common core state standards initiative. Under the hashtag #ccsstime being led by the Learning First Alliance @LFA, a conversation about how to fix the implementation of Common Core is o
Let education professionals handle teaching standards
Let education professionals handle teaching standards: Let education professionals handle teaching standardsWhat does it say about our society when a few powerful spokesmen are more highly regarded than professional educators and parents in regard to opinions and policies governing education? Concern is growing over a shift in educational decision-making that has left teachers and parents with lit
Morning Wink 7-27-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS7-27-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice GuyWait What?: Wait What? I didn’t leave my political party, my party left meI’m often asked why, considering I’m a life-long Democratic, I am “leaving” the Democratic Party and running as an independent for Governor. I start by explaining that as hard as it is to run as an ind
7-27-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? I didn’t leave my political party, my party left meI’m often asked why, considering I’m a life-long Democratic, I am “leaving” the Democratic Party and running as an independent for Governor. I start by explaining that as hard as it is to run as an independent, I thought the institutional barriers to winning a Democratic Primary were even greater. But then I add that, […] T
7-27-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Andy Gardiner’s Demogoguery Misleads Floridians on FEA LawsuitThe incoming president of the Florida Senate cannot be trusted on education policy. Not if he’s going to deliberately mislead Floridians while misrepresenting the position of the state’s teachers. Senator And
7-27-14 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.: An ethnic slur.A few days ago, in my continuing sadness about what is happening in Gaza, I posted on Twitter. “One Palestinian child is killed every hour in Gaza.” People all over the world have taken to the streets to call for an end to Israel’s military assault on what is the prison called Gaza. I a
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 7-27-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why the Election in Georgia MattersBertis Downs is a native of Georgia and a member of the board of the Network for Public Education. He writes: This is the best electoral news in a long time– Georgia Democrat Valarie Wilson won the runoff for state school superintendent, and it wasn’t even close: http://bit.ly/Us7qNi I am proud to
7-27-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: The Best Resources To Help Promote A Physically Healthy Lifestyle For Our Students© 2014 Juhan Sonin, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio I’ve published a fair amount number of posts about lessons and tools I use to help promote a physically healthy lifestyle for my students, including research that shows how essential it is for lea
7-27-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Campbell Brown Uses A Paid Organizer Of StudentsFirstNY As The Face Of Her Tenure/Seniority LawsuitFrom the Daily News: Seven families will file suit Monday to end teacher tenure in the fiercest attack yet on job protections enjoyed by New York State educators. The families, including five from some of the most impoverished communities in the city, claim their children were
7-27-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Haslam Continues Ed Policy Based on Secrecy, Favoritism, and DupliictyWashington County School Board member Jack Leonard speaks Friday outside the district's central office as state Reps. Matthew Hill, Micah Van Huss and Tony Shipley listen. (Nathan Baker/Johnson City Press)Bill Haslam is up for re-election this year, and if Tennesseans can see beyond the ends of the Obama-hating n
7-27-14 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION: Pearson Set Cut Scores for NYSOver at lohud, actual journalists like Gary Stern have been working long hours trying to pry loose some facts from the state of New York, and it's worth the while of folks from all states to see what they've dug up because it's a bright red warning flag about how the CCSS-linked testing program actually works.Gannett Publishing had to pry open the stat
DON'T SHOOT ME! Read Maureen Dowd's column
DON'T SHOOT ME! Read Maureen Dowd's column: DON'T SHOOT ME! Read Maureen Dowd's columnbyteacherkenFollow 4 Comments / 4 Newwhich is titled Angell in the Outfield, and is about the wonderful writer Roger Angell, being honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame.If you love baseball and/or love good writing and you do not already know the work of Roger Angell, long-time fiction editor of The New Yorker,
NYC Educator: NYSYUT President Karen Mageee Explains How Common Core Enables Life, the Universe, and Everything
NYC Educator: NYSYUT President Karen Mageee Explains How Common Core Enables Life, the Universe, and Everything: NYSYUT President Karen Mageee Explains How Common Core Enables Life, the Universe, and EverythingIn recent debate over the Common Core, NYSUT president, Karen Magee, said:"I pose the questions to you today: If not standards, then what? A free-for-all? Everyone does what they please
Louisiana Educator: White Refuses to Release Raw LEAP Cut Scores
Louisiana Educator: White Refuses to Release Raw LEAP Cut Scores: White Refuses to Release Raw LEAP Cut ScoresA press statement accompanying the release of the Spring 2014 LEAP and iLEAP testing results announced that the percentage of students receiving a rating of "mastery" on the LEAP had improved this year and the percentage of students rated "basic" remained steady this ye
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Are Your Fav #EdTech Resources Keeping Student Data Safe? Find Out!
Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Are Your Fav #EdTech Resources Keeping Student Data Safe? Find Out!: Are Your Fav #EdTech Resources Keeping Student Data Safe? Find Out!Are you an innovative educator who loves using digital media, but is a little concerned about the safety of student data?Do you wonder if your classroom tech use is CIPA and FERPA compliant? You are not alone.This is a hot m
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Jennifer Rogers Goes From Queens to Georgia southbronxschool
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Jennifer Rogers Goes From Queens to GeorgiaAs readers of this blog know, we spent some time on discussing Jennifer Rogers (neé Jones) former principal of PS 29 in College Park, Queens on these pages last year. In fact this post, was so well received, there were over 200 comments including several threats to myself apparently by people close to Rogers.So what has
Nite Cap 7-26-14 #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 CAPCan’t be in DC with PAA? Join us anyway! | Parents Across AmericaCan’t be in DC with PAA? Join us anyway! | Parents Across America: Can’t be in DC with PAA? Join us anyway!We know that most of our PAA chapter and affiliate members are not able to
