Latest News and Comment from Education

Show All

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Morning Wink 8-19-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform


BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS



Latino Education Groups' Agenda: More Money, Better Teachers
Latino Education Groups' Agenda: More Money, Better Teachers: A New Agenda for Texas’ Hispanic-Majority SchoolsThe Latino Coalition for Educational Equity's press conference outside the Texas Senate in February 2013. Patricia Lopez, who led research on the new education survey, is third from left.In February 2013, while Texas lawmakers kicked around major changes to public eduction, a handful of L
by mike simpson / 0min 
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-19-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Texas: Latino Activists Declare Their Education AgendaNext year, students of Hispanic descent will be a majority in the public schools of Texas. Yet the voices of Latino parents, educators, and advocates are seldom heard in legislative hearings. Instead, it is usually business leaders calling the shots. A new organization called th
by mike simpson / 1min 
8-19-14 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.: Karen Lewis. Rahm’s CPS hiring stunt.- Karen Lewis is President of the Chicago Teachers Union. (Sun-Times) The City of Chicago is gearing up to enforce its Chicago Public Schools preference policy, which would give CPS graduates preferential standing among other firefighter applicants, providing an un
by mike simpson / 4min 
8-19-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Monday’s Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown[View the story "Monday's Tweets About #Ferguson #MichaelBrown" on Storify]by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h8-18-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLarry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Thinking Like A
by mike simpson / 5min 
8-19-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: UFT 101: Why Does Our Teachers Union Matter? - Weds Aug. 20, 4PMSome of us in MORE are talking about a new teacher support group where we pair vets - especially retirees who might have the time - with newbies. (If you are a retiree or even currently teaching who might be interested, email me at normsco@gmail.com).I am somewhat surprised at how many people - and not just the usual
by mike simpson / 8min 
8-19-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Poll: Common Core support among teachers plummets, with fewer than half supporting itAnybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a significant loss of support over the last year — especially among teachers, whose approval rating dropped fro
by mike simpson / 11min 
8-19-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Workforce Investment Act Becomes $3 Billion Handout to Predatory "Colleges"No bills get through Congress these days without an overwhelming amount of money to be made by both sides of the corporate aisle.  Such a bill sailed through last month without so much as racial slur at the President, something quite unheard of in the age of an ostensibly-black Commander in Chief.
by mike simpson / 13min 
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Today's test question: Why do police wear camouflage?
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Today's test question: Why do police wear camouflage?: Today's test question: Why do police wear camouflage?WATCHING FROM CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Worst Media Coverage Ever Awardbelongs to CBS News for this morning's headline: Michael Brown Protests in Ferguson Hijacked by 'Criminals' : Cops. Unless by "criminals" the headline was meant to refer to the Ferguson PD.
by mike simpson / 15min 
Water is to Cats As Common Core is to Moms. Opt Your Child Out. | Missouri Education Watchdog
Water is to Cats As Common Core is to Moms. Opt Your Child Out. | Missouri Education Watchdog: Water is to Cats As Common Core is to Moms. Opt Your Child Out.inShareIt took about four years before two dreaded words in the English language~Common Core~gained national attention by the media and politicians.  The reason?  Angry moms (and dads) started raising concern about the CCSSI at their school b
by mike simpson / 17min 
8-19-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Ferguson Protests Highlight Link Between Growing Poverty and Militarized Policing
With A Brooklyn Accent: Ferguson Protests Highlight Link Between Growing Poverty and Militarized PolicingThe problems of America's poor have been "off the grid" for some time. Politicians of both parties reserve their concern for the middle class, fearing that any reference to poverty will destroy their electoral appeal. The one mass movement against social inequality we have had, Occupy
by mike simpson / 19min 
8-19-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: New York Students Inch Upward On Common Core Tests, But Most Are Still Failinghttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/new-york-common-core-scores-2014_n_5679545.html New York Students Inch Upward On Common Core Tests, But Most Are Still Failing The New York State Education Department released the much-anticipated scoresby Rene Diedrich / 6h Washington State School Officials
by mike simpson / 21min 
8-19-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: Whatever Happened to Affordable College EducationI enjoy the blog Curmudgeon Central not just because the name makes us some sort of internet cousins, but because the writer, a college professor in Texas, makes me look like Little Mary Sunshine.Recently, he published a post that jumps off from this internet meme If you are of a Certain Age (say, mine) then you recognize this is mor
by mike simpson / 23min 
8-19-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Support For Common Core Continues To Drop - Even In Reform-Friendly PollsWho will UFT President Michael Mulgrew punch over this very disheartening news for Common Core supporters?Anybody watching the escalating battle across the country over the Common Core State Standards and aligned standardized testing will hardly be surprised by a new national poll which reveals a signif
by mike simpson / 24min 
How Are Children Faring in America? The Good and Bad News | NEA Today
How Are Children Faring in America? The Good and Bad News | NEA Today: How Are Children Faring in America? The Good and Bad NewsAugust 19, 2014 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesLeave a CommentBy Tim WalkerIn  1990, the Annie E Casey Foundation released the first Kids Count report, an annual survey measuring the well-being of the nation’s children examining various indicators acros
by mike simpson / 32min 
Cartoons about Coding and High Tech for Young Children | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Cartoons about Coding and High Tech for Young Children | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Cartoons about Coding and High Tech for Young ChildrenAs a follow-up to the previous post on coding for kindergartners, I have selected some cartoons about the unceasing and ever-escalating demands of schooling young children and current efforts to use high-tech devices. Cartoonists have a
by mike simpson / 48min 
Shanker Blog » No Teacher Is An Island: The Role Of Social Relations In Teacher Evaluation
Shanker Blog » No Teacher Is An Island: The Role Of Social Relations In Teacher Evaluation: No Teacher Is An Island: The Role Of Social Relations In Teacher EvaluationPosted by Alan J. Daly and Kara S. Finnigan on August 19, 2014This is the fourth post in a series on “The Social Side Of Reform”, exploring the idea that relationships, social capital, and social networks matter in lasting, systemic
by mike simpson / 50min 
NYC Educator: NYSUT Opts for Ignorance
NYC Educator: NYSUT Opts for Ignorance: NYSUT Opts for IgnoranceThis year, NYSUT once again declined to endorse Andrew Cuomo, and now the AFL-CIO, for the moment at least, is doing the same. All over the Twittersphere NYSUT patronage employees are trumpeting their great victory. From where I sit, a bold move would have been endorsing Zephyr Teachout and taking a principled stand against Cuomo's cr
by mike simpson / 54min 
8 EDUCATION BOOKS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE: CONNECTED EDUCATORS SERIES | My Island View
8 EDUCATION BOOKS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE: CONNECTED EDUCATORS SERIES | My Island View: 8 EDUCATION BOOKS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE:CONNECTED EDUCATORS SERIESMark Barnes | August 16, 2014 | Featured, Innovation, Mobile Learning, Social Media |No CommentsAsk any of the thousands of teachers who regularly use Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook about connected education, and you may get an earful about using digi
by mike simpson / 55min 

YESTERDAY

Spring ’14 Conference Recap | CA STUDENT UNION
Spring ’14 Conference Recap |: Spring ’14 Conference RecapPosted on August 18, 2014 by CASTUDENTUNIONLeave a commentFor all of you beautiful people unable to attend the Spring ’14 CA Student Union Conference, below is a quick recap about what went down. A big thanks goes out to everyone who made the conference possible — from attendees, to volunteers, to presenters, to donors, it took all of us to
by mike simpson / 10h 
8-17-14 Living in Dialogue - Part One: Past as Prelude in the Still Troubled South
Home | Living in Dialogue: Part One: Past as Prelude in the Still Troubled Southby Paul Horton. Part one of three.  My son and I took our annual road trip last week. We listen to books on tape and blues as we travel. He is learning to drive so, for the first time, he was able to take the wheel for hours at a time while I bit my fingernails and chewed my gum. On the morning of our arrival to the De
by mike simpson / 10h 
Newark residents sue to stop “One Newark,” create integrated school district within Essex County | Bob Braun's Ledger
Newark residents sue to stop “One Newark,” create integrated school district within Essex County | Bob Braun's Ledger: Newark residents sue to stop “One Newark,” create integrated school district within Essex CountyAttorney Robert Pickett announces lawsuit against state-operated school district and Cami AndersonThe five children of George Tillman stood with him in front of what had once been known
by mike simpson / 10h 
Steve Barr Tries to Bridge Union-Reformer Divide in Reboot of California's 'Democrats for Education Reform' - On California - Education Week
Steve Barr Tries to Bridge Union-Reformer Divide in Reboot of California's 'Democrats for Education Reform' - On California - Education Week: Steve Barr Tries to Bridge Union-Reformer Divide in Reboot of California's 'Democrats for Education Reform'By Charles Taylor Kerchner on August 12, 2014 11:15 AM | 1 CommentBy David Menefee-Libey and Charles Taylor KerchnerSteve Barr has organizing in his DN
by mike simpson / 12h 
What Bill Gates Learned From Washington State's Teacher of the Year | EdSurge News
What Bill Gates Learned From Washington State's Teacher of the Year | EdSurge News: What Bill Gates Learned From Washington State's Teacher of the YearFrom the minute you meet Katie Brown, you get the feeling she’s an amazing teacher. Her intelligence and passion jump out. You immediately think: I would love for my kids to be in her classroom. It’s no surprise to learn she was named the 2014 Washi
by mike simpson / 12h 
Nearly $1 million from charters went to firms named in FBI probe | Early & Often
Nearly $1 million from charters went to firms named in FBI probe | Early & Often: Concept Schools headquarters in Des Plaines.Nearly $1 million from charters went to firms named in FBI probeCONtractors facing scrutiny in an ongoing federal investigation of Concept Schools have been paid nearly $1 million over the past three years for work at three Chicago Public Schools-funded campuses run by
by mike simpson / 13h 
solidaridad: Robert D. Skeels guest appearance on MPC Presents The Blk Grrrl Show! 08-14-14
solidaridad: Robert D. Skeels guest appearance on MPC Presents The Blk Grrrl Show! 08-14-14: Robert D. Skeels guest appearance on MPC Presents The Blk Grrrl Show! 08-14-14Be sure to watch the whole show, I speak truth to power from the 5:45 to 34:15 marks. Host Teka Lark Fleming had us discussing the recent LAUSD District 1 election. I mention 2014 LAUSD Special Election third place finisher Sherl
by mike simpson / 13h 
When illusion becomes delusion, children and their schools fail, teachers are fired… | Reclaim Reform
When illusion becomes delusion, children and their schools fail, teachers are fired… | Reclaim Reform: When illusion becomes delusion, children and their schools fail, teachers are fired…Posted on August 18, 2014by Ken PrevitiWhen illusion becomes delusion, children and their schools fail, teachers are fired, and poverty is treated as a crime.Name one failing school in an affluent community. One.
by mike simpson / 14h 
Nite Cap 8-18-14 #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 CAPempathyeducates – I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Fergusonempathyeducates – I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Ferguson: I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About FergusonPhotograph; Ali BarthwellAli Barthwell | Or
by mike simpson / 16h 
empathyeducates – I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Ferguson
empathyeducates – I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Ferguson: I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About FergusonPhotograph; Ali BarthwellAli Barthwell | Originally Published at xoJane. August 14, 2014 at 12:30PMI don’t know how to tell people that I’d rather be let down by white society than be let down by white individuals.Witnessing racial violence feels more personal when you’
by mike simpson / 16h 
All Things Education: To fix racism is to fix poverty is to fix education
All Things Education: To fix racism is to fix poverty is to fix education: To fix racism is to fix poverty is to fix educationI am cooking up a follow-up post to my recent post about teacher diversity in DCPS but given recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, I feel I needed to finish and publish another post I have been planning for a while.As I explained in that post about teacher diversity, growing
by mike simpson / 16h 
8-18-14 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.: The Missouri compromise.I never promised I wouldn’t check my email while on this late August hiatus with my family. I doubt it would surprise you that I received tons of hate mail of late. Hatred not so much directed at me, but at what I have had to say about the death of Michael Brown and the people’
by mike simpson / 16h 
empathyeducates – Why More and More Restaurants Are Banning Kids
empathyeducates – Why More and More Restaurants Are Banning Kids: Why More and More Restaurants Are Banning KidsBy Roya Wolverson @royawolverson | Originally Published at Quartz. August 16, 2014The first time I saw an infant at a raucous concert in Brooklyn, NY, I was shocked. I was in my late 20s and had had it with the abrasive noise and spilled beer after about 30 minutes; I could hardly imagin
by mike simpson / 18h 
8-18-14 The Whole Child Blog — Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student Engagement
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student EngagementJoin Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, flipped classroom pioneers and authors of Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, in a free webinar to learn how the flipped classroom model can help teachers gain more face-to-face time with students, foster real differentiated or personali
by mike simpson / 18h 
On Due Process, Or What You Call Tenure - The Jose Vilson
On Due Process, Or What You Call Tenure - The Jose Vilson: On Due Process, Or What You Call TenureFor the purposes of this essay, I’m using the term “due process” in lieu of tenure because people like Whoopi Goldberg (and millions of others) confuse “tenure” for “job for life.” If that’s what we call “tenure,” then “due process” is more exact. More and more, what it means for K-12 educators and co
by mike simpson / 18h 
Student Voice in a Box: Week 3
Student Voice in a Box: Week 3: Student Voice in a Box: Week 3This is the third of six weekly installments of Student Voice in a Box. Student Voice in a Box is an aggregate of classroom materials, teacher stories and student stories that teachers can learn from to promote Student Voice best practices in their classrooms.Each installment includes two teacher interview videos, one student interview
by mike simpson / 18h 
Badass Teachers Association: The Death of Michael Brown, Teachers, and Racism: 10 Things Every Badass Teacher Needs To Understand
Badass Teachers Association: The Death of Michael Brown, Teachers, and Racism: 10 Things Every Badass Teacher Needs To Understand: The Death of Michael Brown, Teachers, and Racism: 10 Things Every Badass Teacher Needs To UnderstandHello my fellow badass teachers. My name is Denisha Jones and I have been a member and admin for badass teachers since the first week BATs was created. I am also a teach
by mike simpson / 18h 
8-17-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools This WeekTuesday, August 19thAudit& Finance Committee meeting.  Agenda not yet available. Wonder if the Committee might consider where money was taken for the various staff members to go off on their preschool junket. Wednesday, August 20thSchool Board meeting starting at 4:15 pm.I am aware that a rally over the Garfield field trip rape is to oc
by mike simpson / 19h 
40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities
40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities: 40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic MinoritiesAUGUST 18, 2014 BY ROBERT D. SKEELS * RDSATHENE LEAVE A COMMENT40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities40th Anniversary of
by mike simpson / 19h 
8-18-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?:   Wait What? Pelto/Murphy 2014 Stefan Pryor Not Serving a 2nd Term as State Ed ChiefFrom the Hartford Courant; Stefan Pryor, the controversial state education commissioner, will leave his post and is “actively seeking new professional opportunities,” according to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office. Pryor informed the governor Monday that he will not serve a second term. “Having served for
by mike simpson / 21h 
8-17-14 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: CA Schools depart from memorization in scienceMorning Read: CA Schools depart from memorization in science Common Core: CA schools shift science teaching away from memorization California is at a critical stage in carrying out a wholesale change of how it teaches science and other core topic
by mike simpson / 22h 
8-18-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Thinking Like A Scientist Can Help Overcome Allure Of Appearances”© 2012 Bart Everson, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio As regular readers of this blog and my books know, I’m a big believer in inductive learning (see More Info On Why Inductive Learning Is So Effective and Is This The Most Important Research Study Of The Year? Ma
by mike simpson / 22h 
2015 United States Senate Youth Program Letter - Letters (CA Dept of Education)
2015 United States Senate Youth Program Letter - Letters (CA Dept of Education): August 12, 2014Dear High School Principals, Counselors, and Scholarship Coordinators:2015 UNITED STATES SENATE YOUTH PROGRAMI am pleased to announce the fifty-second annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP). Sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the California Department of Education (CDE) coor
by mike simpson / 23h 
8-18-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: What’s the real purpose of educational benchmarking?“Benchmarking” is a word that is now everywhere in the world of education. There’s even a Center on International Education Benchmarking, a program of the National Center on Education and the Economy, which over 20 years has benchmarked the education systems of more than 20 countries in what is said to be an effort to […]by Valerie
by mike simpson / 23h 
8-18-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: What A Difference A Year Makes: The Evolution of BATS
With A Brooklyn Accent: What A Difference A Year Makes: The Evolution of BATSBATs is not the same group as it was a year ago. It is far more urban and multiracial and has changed its focus. It is now as concerned with school closings and school privatization as it is with testing and common core and with fending off attacks on teacher tenure and due process. It is also much more explicitly concern
by mike simpson / 23h 
Tenure – Speaking Up for Students | Live Long and Prosper
Tenure – Speaking Up for Students | Live Long and Prosper: Tenure – Speaking Up for StudentsThere’s more to being a teacher than just getting kids to pass “the test.”Tenure=DueProcessDue process rights are important because they allow us to stand up for our students, through giving voice in supporting and protecting them. With due process, teachers can stand up for the student who we think may be
by mike simpson / 23h 
Field Guide to Anti-Teacher Trolls | Peter Greene
Field Guide to Anti-Teacher Trolls | Peter Greene: Field Guide to Anti-Teacher TrollsThe ongoing online debates about American public education have attracted all manner of commentator, from passionate defenders of traditional public education to dedicated reformsters. And, of course, teacher-bashing trolls.Not that everyone who disagrees with teachers is some sort of troll. It's a big Internet, w
by mike simpson / 1d 
Morning Wink 8-18-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-18-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: New York: Common Core Tests Fail Our Students AgainCarol Burris and Biana Tanis take a close look at New York’s Common Core tests and find them deeply flawed. Burris is a high school principal o
by mike simpson / 1d 






Posted by at