James Baldwin said it best:
"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-10-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: CLASS CUTBACKS AT WALTER REED MIDDLE SCHOOL RILE PARENTS + smf’s 2¢By Thomas Himes, Los Angeles Daily News | http://bit.ly/1pJXFpv Walter Reed Middle School will open on Tuesday with students attending six periods instead of seven, and some parents are unhappy about the change. Andy Holzman Staff Photographer Posted: 08/09/14, 6:48 PM PDT :: As lead
Louisiana Educator: How Are Our Education Reforms Working?
Louisiana Educator: How Are Our Education Reforms Working?: How Are Our Education Reforms Working?Reform itself has become the new status quo in American education.Radical education reform continues to be pushed by some of the richest and most powerful political forces in the country despite the lack of evidence that these reforms actually work. The proponents of radical corporate reform, are cont
Connect the Dots: Whoopi, Ari and Rahm Emanuel, Destruction of Public Education, Ending Tenure | Reclaim Reform
Connect the Dots: Whoopi, Ari and Rahm Emanuel, Destruction of Public Education, Ending Tenure | Reclaim Reform: Connect the Dots: Whoopi, Ari and Rahm Emanuel, Destruction of Public Education, Ending TenurePosted on August 10, 2014by Ken PrevitiUPDATE: Whoopi Goldberg’s attack on due process (tenure) for teachers.Her attacks on teacher tenure cannot be as innocent or uninformed when seen with lin
empathyeducates – Florida Retention Policy a Blight on Literacy, Children across US
empathyeducates – Florida Retention Policy a Blight on Literacy, Children across US: Florida Retention Policy a Blight on Literacy, Children across USBy Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. August 6, 2014The New York Times headline suggests we are finally poised to read a positive story about education: A Summer of Extra Reading and Hope for Fourth Grade.But educat
Connected Principals | Caught Up in the Day-to-Day…
Connected Principals | Sharing. Learning. Leading.: Caught Up in the Day-to-Day…by Jonathan VanderEls • August 10, 2014 • 0 CommentsWow! I can’t believe how much they’ve grown in just a few months! As parents, we’ve often heard this phrase when someone sees our children after a span of time. We all tend to not notice the incremental changes our own children experience as they grow. Working in a sc
8-10-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? Pelto/Murphy 2014 You can trust us; we’re from the charter schools (Guest Post by Wendy Lecker)This truth about the charter school industry grows every day. Today’s contribution can be found in an investigative story in the New York Times entitled, A Star-Powered School Sputters. The article explores the associated with the charter school created by Dion Sanders, the pro
8-10-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Arne Duncan’s new ‘top advisers’Throughout the first Obama administration and well into the second, many teachers and principals said they could not get a word in edgewise to Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his advisers, who plowed ahead with education reforms that many educators said blamed teachers for things that weren’t their fault and set up standardized test-based “accounta
8-10-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: #AFT 14 Video - Leo Casey At the Bat - Don't Let Tea Party Seduce You From Supporting Wonderful Common CoreThis may be worse than Mulgrew's speech. Immediately after his speech, Leo went right to the Mendacino vinyards to pick grapes.by ed notes online / 41min 8-9-14 Ed Notes Online WeekEd Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineVergara Update: Chetty, Chetty Gets Banged, Banged in Teachers
Fight over teacher tenure rages on | MSNBC
Fight over teacher tenure rages on | MSNBC: Fight over teacher tenure rages onThe fight over teacher tenure is now raging coast to coast, and the latest battleground is the courtroom. Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, Dana Goldstein from The Marshall Project, Randi Weingarten from the American Federation of Teachers and Darrell Bradford from NY Campaign for Achievement Now discuss with Melissa Harris-P
8-10-14 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: Thoughts and Feelings Do Matter“The children coming into their second grade classroom that morning arranged their chairs in a circle for a daily ritual: Their teacher asked every child to tell the class how they felt (unless they didn’t want to share this), and why they fe
Morning Wink 8-10-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-10-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Anthony Cody Bids Farewell to Education WeekThis is Anthony Cody’s last blog post in Education Week, where his column “Living in Dialogue” appeared regularly beginning in 2008. Cody reviews the
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-10-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Anthony Cody Bids Farewell to Education WeekThis is Anthony Cody’s last blog post in Education Week, where his column “Living in Dialogue” appeared regularly beginning in 2008. Cody reviews the high points of his long run. He urged the selection of Linda Darling-Hammond or Pedro Noguera as Secretary of Educatiob by the new Presiden
8-10-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Manuscript For My Third Book On Student Motivation Is Done!© 2009 studio tdes, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Though I still have to give it one last “run-through,” the manuscript for the third book in my student motivation “trilogy” is now complete and ready to submit to the publisher, Routledge. It’s titled: Building a Commun
8-10-14 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.: Post your #selfieforkaren everywhere. Send ‘em here and I’ll post it.#selfiesforkaren.Rahm headache selfie.6 by Fred Klonsky / 10h hide // save#selfiesforkaren.Tim Meegan for 33rd Ward Alderman.19 by Fred Klonsky / 12h #selfiesforkaren.2 by Fred Klonsky / 12h8-9-14 Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily post
8-10-14 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: Can Florida Teachers and Public School Advcates Look to the Harbinger of Hawaii?From Cathy Bussewitz and Juliet Williams of the Associated Press: A 40-year political career came to a close after Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie lost his bid for a second term in a stunning p
8-10-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: We Are Out of Options: It's Capitalism or Usby Jim Horn / 14min 8-9-14 Schools Matter All WeekSchools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekIndy Corporate School Complex Gearing Up for IPS School Board Buyoutby Doug MartinEven though the filing deadline is not until the end of the month, the Indy Chamber has already handpicked candidates to elect to the IPS school board to completely tur
8-10-14 @ 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
8-10-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): GreenvilleOnline: SC should choose Oklahoma, not FloridaSC should choose Oklahoma, not Florida [1] What do third-grade retention policies based on reading tests and charter schools have in common? First, they have a great deal of public and political support. But, second
8-10-14 Living in Dialogue
Home | Living in Dialogue: Israel Munoz and Hannah Nguyen at EmpowerEd, 2014The post Israel Munoz and Hannah Nguyen at EmpowerEd, 2014 appeared first on Living in Dialogue.1 by Robert Perry / 10h hide // saveWayne Au: Educating GatesThe post Wayne Au: Educating Gates appeared first on Living in Dialogue.3 by Anthony Cody / 12h 8-9-14 Living in DialogueHome | Living in Dialogue: The iPad Fiasco:
8-10-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: Ben Austin on Parent Triggerhttp://youtu.be/VaR-XrIw7SUby Rene Diedrich / 1h 8-9-14 Hemlock on the RocksHemlock on the Rocks: Simpsons Full Episodes - The Ned-Liest Catch - The Simpsons Long Episodes - Video DailymotionSimpsons Full Episodes - The Ned-Liest Catch - The Simpsons Long Episodes - Video Dailymotionby Rene Diedrich / 10h Fwd: Common Core is the Most Dangerous Dom
8-10-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: The 21st Century TeacherIf reformsters get their full laundry list of school system rewrites, the 21st Century teacher will be a very different animal from her 20th Century counterpart.* She will be paid little. If she sticks around, she will either face stagnant wages or her wage increases will put her in danger of being fired.* Her one real chance to make some extra money (and to
8-10-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Why Would Michael Mulgrew Get So Violent In His Support Of Common Core?As has been around on the blogs for awhile and surfaced in the Daily News this past week, UFT President Michael Mulgrew told AFT Convention attendees he will "punch in the face" and "push into the dirt" anyone who takes Common Core from him: Some people have asked why Mulgrew was so an
Connecting Your Own Dots for Leadership | Connected Principals
Connecting Your Own Dots for Leadership | Connected Principals: Connecting Your Own Dots for Leadership As I looked into moving into “leadership positions” within my own district, I believed that I did not have the experience to get into a role that I had wanted. The tricky thing is that if you don’t have the experience, how do you get the job?“Leadership” is not about title, but often influence
Pissing Off Mulgrew #DoTheRightThing | Continuing Change
Pissing Off Mulgrew #DoTheRightThing | Continuing Change: Pissing Off Mulgrew #DoTheRightThingAugust 10, 2014Education 1 VotesSo, let me go ahead and admit, I’ve never met this Mulgrew fellow. Chances are, I’m going to piss him off with this blog. That is ok, though, because pissing people off has always been my middle name. It certainly is this summer…Just, know, Mulgrew, nothing persona
RSD School Construction Overspending and Substandard Concrete: Time for Jindal Admin to Expand Its Audit | deutsch29
RSD School Construction Overspending and Substandard Concrete: Time for Jindal Admin to Expand Its Audit | deutsch29: RSD School Construction Overspending and Substandard Concrete: Time for Jindal Admin to Expand Its AuditAugust 10, 2014As of June 18, 2014, Louisiana State Superintendent John White has found himself to be the focus of Office of Contractual Renewal (OCR) and Division of Administrat
NYC Educator: Mulgrew on Who Will Be Punched in Face, and When
NYC Educator: Mulgrew on Who Will Be Punched in Face, and When: Mulgrew on Who Will Be Punched in Face, and WhenGood morning dues payers. It's me, Mike Mulgrew, your president. A lot of you have been asking about my remarks at the AFT Convention a month ago. Though we live-streamed them, we didn't really think anyone would watch outside of the convention. We made it a point not to post my remarks
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Nite Cap 8-9-14 #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 CAPFlipping Schools: The Hidden Forces Behind Education Reform | Seattle EducationFlipping Schools: The Hidden Forces Behind Education Reform | Seattle Education: Flipping Schools: The Hidden Forces Behind Education ReformI am posting an excerpt of
