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
Blue Jersey:: Newark Parents to Chris Christie: We demand a town hall in Newark
Blue Jersey:: Newark Parents to Chris Christie: We demand a town hall in Newark: Newark Parents to Chris Christie: We demand a town hall in Newarkby: Rosi EfthimSun Aug 17, 2014 at 06:10:34 PM EDTAs we've seen, the people of Newark actively engaged in their city's futuredon't shrink away like they're supposed to when rough-talked by the Governor of New Jersey. Some of them went to a beachside town
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-17-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Teachers Have Big Hopes For La Schools’ New Arts Leaderby Mary Plummer| 89.3 KPCC | http://bit.ly/1oHwSfo Rory Pullens, the new head of arts education for the Los Angeles Unified School District, speaks to teachers during an introduction meeting at George Washington Carver Middle School. Benjamin Brayfield/KPCC Audio from this story : 3:55 Listen August
A Leap of Faith: The Incoherence of Using Value-Added Estimates as a Proxy for Effective Teaching |
A Leap of Faith: The Incoherence of Using Value-Added Estimates as a Proxy for Effective Teaching |: A Leap of Faith: The Incoherence of Using Value-Added Estimates as a Proxy for Effective Teaching Jimmy Scherrer – Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University and former teacher and mathematics instructional coach in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) – is a rising star in t
8-17-14 Living in Dialogue
Home | Living in Dialogue: Activist instrumental in bringing the $15.00 minimum wage to Seattle speaks at Educating Gates rallyTeacher and council member Kshama Sawant, who was instrumental in bringing the $15.00 minimum wage to Seattle, speaks at the Educating Gates rally, on organizing for change. Read about Kshama here. The post Activist instrumental in bringing the $15.00 minimum wage to Seatt
8-17-14 Wag The Dog
WagTheDog | Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ~ Rumi: Equipped for the FutureThe problem with the Common Core’s mission to improve “College and Career Readiness” is not that these expectations are too high, but these standards are too narrow and specialized, so they do not prepare students for the real life and diverse challe
8-17-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Racial Bullying in Small Town Ohio~Guest Post By Kelly Shoemaker Cooper
With A Brooklyn Accent: Racial Bullying in Small Town Ohio~Guest Post By Kelly Shoemaker CooperI feel that I must share my son's story from small town USA. Last school year my son was in 4th grade. He was being bullied and called racial slurs (nigger and porch monkey) by a 6th grader and a group of other boys. My husband reached out to the principal of his school to discuss what was happening to o
8-17-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Carlos Slim, “The World’s Richest Man,” Spends Some Of His $ For New Online Spanish-Language Ed Resources© 2014 itupictures, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire, has just unveiled Acceso Latino, an online tool designed to be a “one-stop” site for Spanish-language “employment, education, health ca
8-17-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"
Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": “I Want Parents To Know This…”It’s that time of year when you start seeing posts and articles about what teachers want parents to know. I Want Parents to Know This… is a particularly good one by Matt Gomez (thanks to Sheila Stewart for the tip. You might also be interested in these other ones in the “genre”: My Advice To Pa
Louisiana Educator: LEAP Scores Manipulated
Louisiana Educator: LEAP Scores Manipulated: LEAP Scores ManipulatedPublic Records Request Reveals Significant Lowering of the 2014 LEAP Passing RequirementOn June 10 of this year, following release of the 2014 LEAP test scores, I filed a public records request to Superintendent John White as custodian of public records for the LDOE in an effort to find out how student passing scores were determin
Some Sad truths about RSD’s Grad Rate and Dropout numbers | Crazy Crawfish's Blog
Some Sad truths about RSD’s Grad Rate and Dropout numbers | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Some Sad truths about RSD’s Grad Rate and Dropout numbersPosted on August 17, 20140I have been warning LDOE for years that something fishy is going on with the grad rate across the state. John White, Chas Roemer and Reformers would just have you believe that “raising the bar” and having “higher expectations” for stu
NYC teachers, police unions in all-out war | New York Post
NYC teachers, police unions in all-out war | New York Post: NYC teachers, police unions in all-out warBy Michael GartlandAugust 17, 2014 | 4:33amModal TriggerMichael Mulgrew, the head of the teachers union, made the call to march against the police, which PBA head Pat Lynch (right) called a 'disgrace.'Photo: David McGlynn, Spencer BurnettIn an open letter to The Post, the spitting-mad boss of the
Study finds range of skills students taught in school linked to race and class size
Study finds range of skills students taught in school linked to race and class size: Study finds range of skills students taught in school linked to race and class sizePressure to meet national education standards may be the reason states with significant populations of African-American students and those with larger class sizes often require children to learn fewer skills, finds a University of K
Ferguson: Gentrification and its discontents | Al Jazeera America
Ferguson: Gentrification and its discontents | Al Jazeera America: U.S.SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGESFerguson: Gentrification and its discontentsGentrification is pushing poor people of color out of major cities and into deeper inequalityAugust 15, 2014 1:11PM ETThe outpouring of anger on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, over the fatal police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown is partl
Morning Wink 8-17-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS8-17-14 CurmudgucationCURMUDGUCATION: The Non-fiction vs. Fiction IssueSince Common Core first shambled onto the education stage, teachers (particularly language teachers) have sounded the alarm about the infamous 70/30 split between fiction and non-fiction. "We'll have to drop studying Shakespeare to make room for reading instructions for IKEA shelvi
8-17-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: The Non-fiction vs. Fiction IssueSince Common Core first shambled onto the education stage, teachers (particularly language teachers) have sounded the alarm about the infamous 70/30 split between fiction and non-fiction. "We'll have to drop studying Shakespeare to make room for reading instructions for IKEA shelving assembly," goes the complaint.As a high school English t
8-17-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: How Much Longer Can Michael Mulgrew Stay In Power?The UFT has signed on as a co-sponsor for the Rev. Al "Rent-A-Collar" Sharpton's anti-police brutality march and it's not sitting well with the police unions who are now openly savaging UFT President Michael Mulgrew in the media:In an open letter to The Post, the spitting-mad boss of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Assoc
8-17-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Overheard at the Lincoln Memorial on a Saturday nightEven if you aren’t trying to eavesdrop, it is impossible not to overhear other people talking at the Lincoln Memorial when it is late on a Saturday night and the site is packed with people — mostly tourists — who are visiting the magnificent marble monument for the first time and are visibly astounded by its […]by Valerie Strauss /
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-17-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Ohio: As Charters Flourish, Accountability DisappearsA reader sent me to this article at The Daily Kos, which asked the simple question: when are students more important than free markets? The author’s argument is that the governor and the legislature are so head over heels in love with free markets that they have exempted charter
8-17-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Danny Drumm, NYC City Council and Former Teacher, Takes a Stand Against Charter Expansion"We are being oversaturated with charter schools," said Tesa Wilson, president Community Education Council in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "It's tax dollars being poured into a black hole with no accountibility."City Council Daniel Dromm (D-Queens), who heads the city Education
8-17-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Teaching is Not a Business!!!Teaching Is Not a BusinessBy DAVID L. KIRPAUG. 16, 2014PhotoCreditEleanor DavisContinue reading the main storyShare This PageTODAY’S education reformers believe that schools are broken and that business can supply the remedy. Some place their faith in the idea of competition. Others embrace disruptive innovation, mainly through online learning. Both cam
8-17-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: Why Are Things As They Are? RICH GIBSON'S little red schoolhouse offers Ohanian, Rhee,Atlanta Cheats and Morehttp://www.richgibson.com/blog/Susan Ohanian on Combat-Ready Kiddies The Mission: Readiness Military Leaders for Kids website features the National Council on Teacher Quality ranking of top teacher education institutions–with the admonition No service member can enter
Teaching Is Not a Business - NYTimes.com
Teaching Is Not a Business - NYTimes.com: Teaching Is Not a BusinessTODAY’S education reformers believe that schools are broken and that business can supply the remedy. Some place their faith in the idea of competition. Others embrace disruptive innovation, mainly through online learning. Both camps share the belief that the solution resides in the impersonal, whether it’s the invisible hand of th
John Deasy’s MiSiS cRiSiS shocks LAUSD’s conscious
John Deasy’s MiSiS cRiSiS shocks LAUSD’s conscious: John Deasy’s MiSiS cRiSiS shocks LAUSD’s consciousAUGUST 17, 2014 BY ROBERT D. SKEELS * RDSATHENE LEAVE A COMMENT“I was interested in the fact that the scandal over Deasy’s PhD hit the headlines at the same time he was hired by Gates. His financial connections with Robert Felner date back to his Santa Monica days” —Susan OhanianThe LAUSD MiSiS cR
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Corporate reform strategies not working say U.C. prof
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Corporate reform strategies not working say U.C. prof: Corporate reform strategies not working say U.C. profNY TimesU.C. Berkeley Prof. David Kirp, writes in the New York Times, Teaching is Not a Business, that corporate reform is not working.TODAY’S education reformers believe that schools are broken and that business can supply the remedy. Some place their fai
NYC Educator: The Brutality of UFT Leadership
NYC Educator: The Brutality of UFT Leadership: The Brutality of UFT LeadershipMike Mulgrew's UFT is promoting Al Sharpton's August 23rd march for "justice for victims of police brutality." I don't know of too many, off hand, who support police brutality. I'm guessing very few police officers support police brutality. I hope the march will be one of solidarity, rather than violence--wh
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The Washington Supreme Court to Hear Charter School Case | Seattle Education
The Washington Supreme Court to Hear Charter School Case | Seattle Education: The Washington Supreme Court to Hear Charter School Case On Friday August 15th, the Washington Supreme Court accepted review of the appeal in the charter school case. The Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Additional details to follow as I receive them.What we know so far:The Plaintiffs:League
8-16-14 teacherken at Daily Kos - Trust me - there is a must read piece in the New Yorker
teacherken at Daily Kos:Trust me - there is a must read piece in the New YorkerIt is by Tobias Wolff, and is titled Heart of Whiteness Wolff, who turned 69 in July, was born in Birmingham AL. His older brother Geoffrey was a friend of James Baldwin. Like me, the two Wolffs were in Washington DC on August 28, 1963 for the March for Jobs and Freedom. It is a superbly written - and searingly honest
THE COMBINE: Coming to YOUR state… or is it already there? | Reclaim Reform
THE COMBINE: Coming to YOUR state… or is it already there? | Reclaim Reform: THE COMBINE: Coming to YOUR state… or is it already there?Posted on August 16, 2014by Ken PrevitiWho is responsible for the dismantling of public education, the closing of schools, the extremely expensive and useless high stakes tests and programs, and the dissolution of a truly competent workforce of career educators?THE
Nite Cap 8-16-14 #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 CAPFormer D.C. charter board CFO promoted private companies that allegedly paid him - The Washington PostFormer D.C. charter board CFO promoted private companies that allegedly paid him - The Washington Post: Former D.C. charter board CFO promoted p
