Tuesday, August 5, 2014

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A response to suit to overturn tenure laws | MSNBC
A response to suit to overturn tenure laws | MSNBC: A response to suit to overturn tenure lawsThe American Federation of Teachers’ Randi Weingarten and fmr. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa join Morning Joe to discuss efforts to overturn teacher tenure laws in New York.
by mike simpson / 0min 
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-5-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Peter Greene: Pick Your Fights CarefullyPeter Greene regretfully, apologetically disagrees with Susan Ohanian, who recently expressed disappointment that the two national unions did not call on teachers to boycott testing. He says it would do no good because they would be fired and replaced by teachers happy to give tests and have
by mike simpson / 3min 
8-5-14 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.: In Hinsdale, Tea Party takes an axe to their teachers.Tea Party Hinsdale school board member Claudia Manley. Hey folks. Keep an eye on those local school board elections. Out in Chicago’s western suburbs the Tea Party extremists who were recently elected to the Hinsdale High School District 86 are in
by mike simpson / 7min 
8-5-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Gypsy Finale - Joy and SadnessThe Sunday matinee was our last performance - 9 out of 10 were sold out. The cast party afterwards was also a howl as the little kids did their version of the grown-ups acting. An 8-year old doing the strippers had us in stitches.Sadly, today we struck the set and started building the set for Godspell. When a show ends it is like a school year ending
by mike simpson / 9min 
8-5-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?:   Wait What?  Pelto/Murphy 2014“We need a school that’s going to promote God’s principles”The observation comes from a member of the Varick Memorial A.M.E Church community as she explains by the State Board of Education should approve a “revised” charter for the Booker T. Washington Elementary School in New Haven. The Board of Directors of the new Booker T. Washington School is led by
by mike simpson / 13min 
8-5-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Michelle Rhee has a new positionMichelle Rhee just got a new position. According to the Sacramento Bee she was just named interim board chairwoman of St. Hope Schools, a small group of Sacramento charter schools. The new position gives “Rhee a powerful new role in the charter school system founded by her husband, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.” But she isn’t […]by Valerie Strauss / 
by mike simpson / 18min 
8-5-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Get Visas for the Entire Family with $500,000 to a Charter SchoolI came across this Reuters story yesterday while researching funding for charters.  Don't know how I missed this in October 2012, when it was first printed:. . . .Wealthy individuals from as far away as China, Nigeria, Russia and Australia are spending tens of millions of dollars to build classrooms, libraries, basket
by mike simpson / 20min 
8-5-14 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: It’s Called Backdoor Legislation, Senator Gardiner, and the Florida Constitution Says You Can’t Do ItVice President of the Florida Education Association Joanne McCall provides an effective response to Andy Gardiner’s shrill attack on the teacher’s she represents for thei
by mike simpson / 22min 
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-5-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. Times Editorial: SCHOOL BOARD RACE TURNS NASTY FOR NO GOOD REASONAlex Johnson's attacks on George McKenna are misleading, if not downright inaccurate By The Times Editorial Board | http://lat.ms/1s9QdDU  Aug 5, 2014  ::  Negative campaigning is a legitimate if overused tactic. If a candidate for elected office has flaws, his opponent has every righ
by mike simpson / 26min 
8-5-14 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): A Call for the Next Phase in the ResistanceTeachers at every level of schooling have struggled against two powerful social claims: (i) education has always been labeled a failure by political leaders and the media (notably in the context of international comparisons and
by mike simpson / 28min 
8-5-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: SXSWedu: How to Keep Friends and Influence No New PeopleYSXSWedu: How to Keep Friends and Influence No New Peopleby Rene Diedrich / 3h hide  //  saveTeach for America’s Wendy Kopp Embraces New Unionism in LEE and Retains Close Ties with Alex Caputo Pearlhttp://prospect.org/article/teach-america%E2%80%99s-deep-benAlex Caputo-Pearl is a member of Teach for America's inaugural c
by mike simpson / 32min 
8-5-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: Without Tenure...Yesterday, twitter blew up with responses to Whoopi Goldberg and the View having one more uninformed discussion of tenure (and, really, we need to talk about why education discussions keep being driven by the work of comedians)."#WithoutTenure I can be fired for...." was the tweet template of the day, and even though I rode that bus for a bit, it occurs t
by mike simpson / 34min 
8-5-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: The "Air Of Inevitability" Around Cuomo's Re-ElectionLaura Nahmias at Capital NY:ALBANY—More than half the 50 top donors to the state’s Republican party between 2003 and 2006 have given more to Cuomo and the Democrats this campaign cycle than they have to the G.O.P. and Rob Astorino, an analysis by NYPIRG’s Bill Mahoney shows. Of the 50 donors who gave the most to
by mike simpson / 36min 
Campbell Brown and Joe Nocera Trash Teachers; Education Experts Respond | janresseger
Campbell Brown and Joe Nocera Trash Teachers; Education Experts Respond | janresseger: Campbell Brown and Joe Nocera Trash Teachers; Education Experts RespondPosted on August 5, 2014 by janressegerAgain in the past week, two prominent media personalities—neither one a school teacher by profession or training and both with an ax to grind—have attacked school teachers, the programs that train teache
by mike simpson / 40min 
NYC Educator: If Ed. Deformers had a Rubric...
NYC Educator: If Ed. Deformers had a Rubric...: If Ed. Deformers had a Rubric...Do you ever find yourself wondering whether Ed. Deformers have a rubric of their own?  Much to my horror, in my mind, I stumbled upon the first page of one.  If we saw page two, we might add other elements like mining young children's data!Ed. reformer name* ________________  *Hint:  You may wish to keep your identity
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Eugene Robinson: Time to tame the intelligence monster
Eugene Robinson: Time to tame the intelligence monster: Eugene Robinson: Time to tame the intelligence monsterbyteacherkenFollow    8 Comments / 8 NewThat is the title of this op ed for Tuesday's Washington Post.Here's the opening paragraph:  The CIA now admits that it spied on a Senate investigation into the agency’s shameful program of secret detention and torture. Do we need any more proof that
by mike simpson / 10h 
8-4-14 Wag The Dog Week
WagTheDog | Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ~ Rumi: Care To LearnImage: Rutu Modan   “What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than ability, children develop a stronger work ethic and be
by mike simpson / 10h 
8-4-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: Local Accountability and Astroturf: Local Control without the Local Control | Cloaking InequityHow can we banish No Child Left Behind's top-down and narrow paradigm? Local control has been a bedrock principle of public schooling in America since its inception. NCLB sent us in the opposite direction of this traditional notion. A return to a traditional locally based educationa
by mike simpson / 10h 
Former Obama Aides Broke With Democratic Firm Over Anti-Teachers Union Project
Former Obama Aides Broke With Democratic Firm Over Anti-Teachers Union Project: Former Obama Aides Broke With Democratic Firm Over Anti-Teachers Union ProjectWASHINGTON -- Every day throughout the summer of 2006, seemingly without end, things just kept getting worse for Washington Republicans. Iraq was spiraling out of control, President George W. Bush was at the depth of his unpopularity. Congres
by mike simpson / 13h 
Nite Cap 8-4-14 #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 CAPResearch Made Me Do It | The Crucial Voice of the PeopleResearch Made Me Do It | The Crucial Voice of the People: Research Made Me Do It “Research” can be defined as a careful investigation to discover facts…and so my Common Core saga began.Asked
by mike simpson / 16h 
Research Made Me Do It | The Crucial Voice of the People
Research Made Me Do It | The Crucial Voice of the People: Research Made Me Do It “Research” can be defined as a careful investigation to discover facts…and so my Common Core saga began.Asked if I would write an article about the Common Core standards, I hesitated because, already having boxes full of “standards,” I had purposely avoided stepping into that pile of manure again. But, I agreed to loo
by mike simpson / 16h 
Prestigious Dyslexic Lawyer David Boies Now Supports Campbell Brown’s Attacks on Teacher Tenure
Prestigious Dyslexic Lawyer David Boies Now Supports Campbell Brown’s Attacks on Teacher Tenure: Prestigious Dyslexic Lawyer David Boies Now Supports Campbell Brown’s Attacks on Teacher TenureAUGUST 4, 2014 BY NANCY BAILEY LEAVE A COMMENTCampbell Brown was just on Morning Joe again with David Boies as her new Chairman of the Partnership for Education Justice to fight teacher tenure. Remember David
by mike simpson / 18h 
Personalization Depends On The Person - The Jose Vilson
Personalization Depends On The Person - The Jose Vilson: Personalization Depends On The PersonAny so-called innovation deserves a second and third look when it’s brought to kids, even if it’s from Sir Ken Robinson. I sawthis in my timeline, which says the following:“Education doesn’t need to be reformed – it needs to be transformed. The key is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, t
by mike simpson / 18h 
Sacramento Bee and Native advertising is ‘repurposed bovine waste’ - The Washington Post
HBO’s John Oliver: Native advertising is ‘repurposed bovine waste’ - The Washington Post: HBO’s John Oliver: Native advertising is ‘repurposed bovine waste’“Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver’s acclaimed HBO show, is getting journo-wonky on us, airing an 11-minute hit piece last night on the scourge of native advertising among big-time media players. Oliver took viewers on a quick history lesson thro
by mike simpson / 18h 
Tweeter Doesn’t Like Living in an Educational Oligarchy….But….What Can You Do? | Missouri Education Watchdog
Tweeter Doesn’t Like Living in an Educational Oligarchy….But….What Can You Do? | Missouri Education Watchdog: Tweeter Doesn’t Like Living in an Educational Oligarchy….But….What Can You Do?inShareTwitter update:  I  was in a conversation on why I am against common core with a person who agreed that the adoption of Common Core set up an oligarchy and even though he/she didn’t like living in an oliga
by mike simpson / 19h 
LAUSD’s New Budget Unveils The “Sophie’s Choice” of Education Reform: How School Choice Is Pushed – redqueeninla
LAUSD’s New Budget Unveils The “Sophie’s Choice” of Education Reform: How School Choice Is Pushed – redqueeninla: LAUSD’s New Budget Unveils The “Sophie’s Choice” of Education Reform: How School Choice Is Pushed When we grew our school system from one conducted by itinerant, very young generalists to that of a modern, publicly funded collection of certificated and professional specialists, we deve
by mike simpson / 19h 
Standardized tests punish successful teachers: A plea for Orono’s Waldo Caballero — Opinion — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
Standardized tests punish successful teachers: A plea for Orono’s Waldo Caballero — Opinion — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine: Standardized tests punish successful teachers: A plea for Orono’s Waldo CaballeroIllustration by George Danby Recent years have been hard on teachers. Parents vilify them for not making tractable scholars out of their indifferent — and often out-of-control — children; they a
by mike simpson / 19h 
Why We Should Not Copy South Korea | Diane Ravitch
Why We Should Not Copy South Korea | Diane Ravitch: Why We Should Not Copy South KoreaSecretary Arne Duncan has frequently pointed to the high test scores of students in South Korea as a model for American students to copy. We have heard again and again that we are losing "the global competition" to nations like South Korea where students and parents take tests very seriously. Our studen
by mike simpson / 19h 
Tim Meegan, The Shock Doctrine, our schools, and our children | Reclaim Reform
Tim Meegan, The Shock Doctrine, our schools, and our children | Reclaim Reform: Tim Meegan, The Shock Doctrine, our schools, and our childrenPosted on August 4, 2014by Ken PrevitiTim Meegan is a teacher at Theodore Roosevelt High School who explainedThe Shock Doctrine to school board members and parents alike. As a father and teacher he is living the reality of watching a school board intentionall
by mike simpson / 20h 
Choosing Democracy: Welcome to Sacramento Superintendent José Banda
Choosing Democracy: Welcome to Sacramento Superintendent José Banda: Welcome to Sacramento Superintendent José BandaWelcome to Sacramento.  We hope that you can establish a positive working relationship with the Board, the community, and the teachers.  Developing a positive relationship and sustained, consistent leadership is required for school improvement.We regret the prompt attacks on your cha
by mike simpson / 20h 
8-4-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Campbell Brown Clip from Colbert ShowThe Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archiveby Jim Horn / 3min 8-3-14 Schools MatterSchools Matter: From Korea to KIPP: "production, performance, and obedience"Reading the essay by Se-Woong Koo on the South Korean system of educational child abuse, I was struck by how much of wha
by mike simpson / 20h 
8-4-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: PE at Your Neighborhood Community Center?This was in the Northgate Community Center activities schedule.  Apparently, you can get a high school (maybe middle school) PE credit for this class.  Have you seen this elsewhere?  (Credit to Carolyn Leith for pointing this out.)by Melissa Westbrook / 0min 8-3-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum WeekSeattle Schools Communit
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8-4-14 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: Renowned trial lawyer takes on teacher tenureMorning Read: Renowned trial lawyer takes on teacher tenure Celebrated trial lawyer to head group challenging teacher tenure David Boies, the star trial lawyer who helped lead the legal charge that overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban, is
by mike simpson / 22h 
8-4-14 @ 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
by mike simpson / 22h 
Conference report part 2! | Parents Across America
Conference report part 2! | Parents Across America: Conference report part 2!Our second day started out with breakout sessions to discuss how PAA can better support our chapters and affiliates. We came up with a number of great ideas and some volunteers to work on them.PAA Board member Nate HarrisThe final session began with a presentation on Poverty and Education by PAA Board member Nate Harris.
by mike simpson / 22h 
Who can access K-12 students' personal data? No one really knows « Watchdog.org
Who can access K-12 students' personal data? No one really knows « Watchdog.org: Who can access K-12 students’ personal data? No one really knowsBy Mary C. Tillotson  /   August 4, 2014  /   No Comments             By Mary C. Tillotson | Watchdog.orgStudents at many public schools are having personal data collected, stored and distributed to third parties without their parents’ knowledge.“I had a
by mike simpson / 23h 
Shanker Blog » Social Capital Matters As Much As Human Capital – A Message To Skeptics
Shanker Blog » Social Capital Matters As Much As Human Capital – A Message To Skeptics: Social Capital Matters As Much As Human Capital – A Message To SkepticsPosted by Esther Quintero on August 4, 2014This is the third post in a series on “The Social Side Of Reform”, exploring the idea that relationships, social capital, and social networks matter in lasting, systemic educational improvement. For
by mike simpson / 23h 
Gates Funds NBC & NPR Education & Common Core Coverage » Politichicks.com
Gates Funds NBC & NPR Education & Common Core Coverage » Politichicks.com: Gates Funds NBC & NPR Education & Common Core CoverageAugust 2, 2014 at 5:00 am / by Kathryn PorterAbout Kathryn PorterColorado PolitiChick Kathryn Porter is a freelance writer and educational consultant for homeschooling families. Specializing in “outside the box” students, she encourages public school pare
by mike simpson / 23h 
Morning Wink 8-4-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-4-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Mercedes Schneider Transcribes Stephen Colbert’s Interview of Campbell BrownMercedes Schneider decided to do something unusual for her birthday. This is what a workaholic does. She transcribed St
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