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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-29-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Who Loves Teachers Most?Back to politico.com: Instead of scapegoating teachers, politicians are competing to claim they raised salaries. How short are teachers’ memories? Vying and usually lying: “TEACHERS’ PETS?: Forget soccer moms. This election cycle, candidates across the country are scrambling to get teachers on their side – o

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9-29-14 Wait What? - All Week

Wait What?: Why Connecticut Teachers SHOULD NOT VOTE for Governor MalloyHere is a long but important blog. If you are a teacher, parents or supporter of public education, please take the time to read it. On Friday night the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Education Association voted, on behalf of their 45,000 members, to endorse Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy. With that move, the CEA […] The

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9-29-14 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.: Raunerian ethics and voter fraud. Here and in North Carolina.Moral Monday protests in North Carolina. Man. Did I catch it when I accused Republican candidate for the 17th Illinois House District of voter fraud. She is running against Democrat Laura Fine. The Sun-Times had reported that Kathy Myalls wa

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9-29-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: Why the kids who most need arts education aren’t getting itThough the benefits of art education are very real (see here for a list of 10), it is one of the big, unfortunate casualties of the high-stakes testing era, with its laser focus on math and English Language Arts — especially in schools with big populations of students who live in poverty. Just how effective […]74 by Valerie S

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9-29-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Why the NatureBridge Case MattersThe reported rape on a Garfield High School field trip in November 2012 matters deeply to me. Not only because I care about student safety in general and sexual assault in particular, but because I see this case as a prime example of the central dysfunction in the District. This is a particularly tragic consequence of the District’s

by mike simpson / 12min

9-29-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Excellent List Of Eleven “Classroom Discipline Mistakes”© 2014 Tim Pierce, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Marvin Marshall, a great writer on positive classroom management, has published an excellent list of eleven “Classroom Discipline Mistakes.” You definitely want to read them all, but here are his first three: 1. BEING REACT

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9-29-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Bill Gates Has Some Lessons Leadership For YouGreat start to week breakfast with @BillGates in DC #LessonsFromLeaders ... the ultimate thought-leader— Nick Owens (@MSPLLC) September 29, 2014Lesson #1:Only listen to yourself. No one else knows anything but you.Lesson # 2:Have more money than God so you don't have to listen to anybody else.Lesson #3:Be as ruthless in business

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Homeless students increase by 58 percent in past six years | Education By The Numbers

Homeless students increase by 58 percent in past six years | Education By The Numbers: Homeless students increase by 58 percent in past six yearsDespite signs of a national economic recovery, homelessness in U.S. public schools steadily increased 8 percent, to 1.26 million students, in the 2012-13 school year from the previous year. That may not sound terrible, but consider that it is part of a 58

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UOO Calls on Unions to Support Teacher Refusals to Administer Tests - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform

UOO Calls on Unions to Support Teacher Refusals to Administer Tests - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform: UOO Calls on Unions to Support Teacher Refusals to Administer TestsFor further information:Peggy Robertson (writepeg@juno.com, 720-810-5593), Ceresta Smith (cerestas@yahoo.com, 786-303-4785)The number of parents and students refusing to comply with federal and state

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Venture Capital in Education—Education Technology and On-Line Charters Viewed as Investments | janresseger

Venture Capital in Education—Education Technology and On-Line Charters Viewed as Investments | janresseger: Venture Capital in Education—Education Technology and On-Line Charters Viewed as InvestmentsPosted on September 29, 2014 by janressegerLate last week The Nation posted on-line a series of articles that will appear in the October 13, print edition of the magazine—a special issue on education.

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Student Organizing, Student Government, and the Big Rock Candy Mountain |

Student Organizing, Student Government, and the Big Rock Candy Mountain |: Student Organizing, Student Government, and the Big Rock Candy MountainSeptember 29, 2014 in StudentsOne of my favorite political songs is an old hobo tune called The Big Rock Candy Mountain, about a place where there are “lemonade springs where the bluebird sings.”That lyric doesn’t give the full flavor of the song, though

by mike simpson / 34min

So Why Be Concerned About the Data Tracking of Personally Identifiable Information? A Congressional Candidate Tells You Why. | Missouri Education Watchdog

So Why Be Concerned About the Data Tracking of Personally Identifiable Information? A Congressional Candidate Tells You Why. | Missouri Education Watchdog: So Why Be Concerned About the Data Tracking of Personally Identifiable Information? A Congressional Candidate Tells You Why.inShareWhat questions are on your district’s kindergarten enrollment form? Who is accessing this information and why?The

by mike simpson / 39min

Paid Sick Days for Parents Benefit Kids, Schools - Lily's Blackboard

Paid Sick Days for Parents Benefit Kids, Schools - Lily's Blackboard: Paid Sick Days for Parents Benefit Kids, SchoolsSeptember 29, 2014 by Lily's BlackboardCategories: Education, PolicyTags: opinion, paid leave, parents, sick leave, sick students, workers rightsIt’s back to school season! Educators and students are back in school, after many have prepared much of the summer. Families are once aga

by mike simpson / 41min

The Reaction to My National Affairs Essay on the Common Core :: Frederick M. Hess

The Reaction to My National Affairs Essay on the Common Core :: Frederick M. Hess: The Reaction to My National Affairs Essay on the Common Coreby Frederick M. Hess • Sep 29, 2014 at 9:57 amCross-posted from Education WeekLast week, National Affairs published my extended essay on the state of the Common Core. The piece, "How the Common Core Went Wrong," explains why I think the enterpri

by mike simpson / 45min

What Recovery? Schools Still Reeling From Budget Cuts | NEA Today

What Recovery? Schools Still Reeling From Budget Cuts | NEA Today: What Recovery? Schools Still Reeling From Budget CutsSeptember 29, 2014 by twalker Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesLeave a CommentBy Janet Rivera MednikIn Virginia’s Prince William County, buses that once shuttled middle school students home from after-school activities have been parked.The reason? Lack of funding has shut s

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NYC Educator: Teacher Detention

NYC Educator: Teacher Detention: Teacher DetentionMany of my colleagues are being forced to stay after school today. The other day, a teacher pointed out to me it was nothing more than detention for teachers. She found this ironic, since students in her school are not given detention. Worse, none of the teachers had done anything to merit detention. This notwithstanding, UFT leadership managed to

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New law limits student discipline measure | EdSource

New law limits student discipline measure | EdSource: New law limits student discipline measureFewer than 11,000 of California’s 6.2 million students will likely be affected each year by a new law that limits the use of “willful defiance” as a reason to expel or suspend students. But Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature on the bill signifies a growing commitment on the part of the state to find more posi

1 by mike simpson / 59min

Charter School Wars Come to Brooklyn - Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Charter School Wars Come to Brooklyn

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Charter School Wars Come to Brooklyn: Charter School Wars Come to BrooklynMORE (Movement of Rank & File Educators) Takes a Stand Against Eva Moskowitz at Hearings - Last Monday and Today in ManhattanThanks so much to all of you dear sisters and brothers who organized around getting folks out or going to the charter school heari

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: The invisible rich

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The invisible rich: The invisible rich"Look out kid, they keep it all hid..." -- DylanIn this morning's NYT column, economist Paul Krugman compares the invisibility of the poor in the popular culture 50 years ago, to the invisibility of today's one-percenters.So Americans have no idea how much the Masters of the Universe are paid, a finding very much i

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It’s beginning to look a lot like #NaNoWriMo! | Teaching Between the Lines

It’s beginning to look a lot like #NaNoWriMo! | Teaching Between the Lines: It’s beginning to look a lot like #NaNoWriMo!The first time I introduced National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo) to my 8th graders, I was terrified. One of my teacher friends had said, “They’ll run screaming from the classroom in tears!”Some students did later confess to a brief moment of panic (“I almost lost my l

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YESTERDAY

9-28-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": “Community Engagement: The Secret Ingredient”Community Engagement: The Secret Ingredient is a good commentary from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform that provides a good critique of much that is done in the name of “community-based” place-based-initiatives in education. Simply put, they tend to be foundation and pro

1 by mike simpson / 9h

Geaux Teacher!: Common Core Standards and Disruption

Geaux Teacher!: Common Core Standards and Disruption: Common Core Standards and DisruptionRe-posted from The New Orleans Advocate. By Quinn Hillyer:http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/opinion/quinhillyer/10365759-123/quin-hillyer-legislative-auditor-missesThe latest in useless Common Core disputes involves whether Louisiana’s legislative auditor indicated that the Core “drives” curriculum (Gov. B

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9-28-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools This WeekTuesday, September 30thMeet Superintendent Nyland from 6 pm - 7:00 pm at New Holly Community Center,7054 32nd Ave SWednesday, October 1stMeet Superintendent Nyland from 8:30 am-9:30 am at John Muir Elementary,3301 S. Horton St.School Board meeting, starting at 4:15 pm (note: there is to be an Executive Session on Potential Litigation from 8

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Eureka Math. . . (I can think of another expletive to describe it.) | Crazy Crawfish's Blog

Eureka Math. . . (I can think of another expletive to describe it.) | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Crazy Crawfish's BlogZesty Louisiana Education PoliticsEureka Math. . . (I can think of another expletive to describe it.)Posted on September 28, 20140This is an update to a story I’ve been meaning to get back to for a while on Louisiana’s textbook selection and adoption process. According to my sources Lo

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Nite Cap 9-28-14 #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 CAP9-28-14 Curmudgucation - One More Way To Kill Public SchoolsCURMUDGUCATION: One More Way To Kill Public SchoolsAEI has a new video about education. It's slick and well-produced, featuring Muchael McShane walking through a school while telling us

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9-28-14 Curmudgucation - One More Way To Kill Public Schools

CURMUDGUCATION: One More Way To Kill Public SchoolsAEI has a new video about education. It's slick and well-produced, featuring Muchael McShane walking through a school while telling us how things should be. He has a three-point program which features, among other things, school choice on steroids. It also has numbers and facts, and I'm not even going to address whether they're accurate or not, be

1 by mike simpson / 15h

9-27-14 All NEW Living in Dialogue - What Happens When Education Serves the Economy?

Home - Living in Dialogue: What Happens When Education Serves the Economy?By Anthony Cody. The post I wrote a month ago, critiquing Marc Tucker’s “new accountability system” has opened up a long overdue discussion of the economic foundations and goals of 21st century education reform. In his two responses, to myself and Diane Ravitch, and to Yong Zhao, Tucker has chosen to only defend his plan’s u

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Open Letter From A Mom to Petrilli of Thomas B. Fordham | Missouri Education Watchdog

Open Letter From A Mom to Petrilli of Thomas B. Fordham | Missouri Education Watchdog: Open Letter From A Mom to Petrilli of Thomas B. FordhamA mother from Las Vegas has had it with Michael Petrilli’s unwavering support for Common Core. We are sharing her response today. I’m sure many of you will identify with her frustration at being labeled.Dear Mr. Petrilli:It is near impossible to catch my bre

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Derek Jeter | The Jose Vilson

Derek Jeter | The Jose Vilson: Derek Jeter My first real introduction to baseball was my cousin Richie’s autographed Don Mattingly placard. He put it on his shelf after meeting him thanks to the Miliken Boys’ Club in 1991. I didn’t understand the sport, and didn’t care for it since I already had Patrick Ewing and the Madison Square Bullies playing at their peak. My interest in baseball grew becaus

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The Daily Censored » The Arbitration Fairness act and the scourge that are for-profit colleges: Lost in the Fine Print

The Daily Censored » The Arbitration Fairness act and the scourge that are for-profit colleges: Lost in the Fine Print: The Arbitration Fairness act and the scourge that are for-profit colleges: Lost in the Fine PrintAs I wrote at Dailycensored:“The decrepit, reactionary Supreme Court ruled in favor of for-profits when they ruled that arbitration is the only option for students cheated by for-prof

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Does A “Statistically Sound” Alternative Exist? |

Does A “Statistically Sound” Alternative Exist? |: Does A “Statistically Sound” Alternative Exist? Following the post about “The Arbitrariness Inherent in Teacher Observations,” he wrote: “Have you written about a statistically sound alternative proposal?”My reply? “Nope. I do not believe such a thing exists. I do have a sound alternative proposal though, that has sound statistics to support it. I

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Peg with Pen: I Refuse to Administer the PARCC

Peg with Pen: I Refuse to Administer the PARCC: I Refuse to Administer the PARCCFirst posted at R.A.V.E. (Re-igniting Association Values for Educators)Citizens of Colorado, I address this letter to you, because you are my community, my people. You have the power to shift the momentum in our public schools – where our students are increasingly being taught to the test under the intense high stakes

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MHP: To dissent is to be an American patriot | MSNBC

MHP: To dissent is to be an American patriot | MSNBC: Colorado students protest proposed curriculum changesHundreds of students in Colorado have taken to the streets to protest proposed curriculum changes in AP history courses to not include civil disorder. Student protesters Ashlyn Maher and Kyle Ferris join to discuss.

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-28-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: GOV. BROWN SIGNS BILLS AIDING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN, TROUBLED STUDENTS; VETOES $100 MILLION FOR LONG-NEEDED REPAIRS AT UC’s+CSU’sBy Patrick McGreevy, Phil Willon | LA Times | http://lat.ms/1mDLM6u Gov. Jerry Brown took action on a wide range of proposals ahead of a midnight Tuesday deadline to sign or veto hundreds of measures still on his desk. (Bob Chamb

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Liberal School Reform

Liberal School Reform: Smash the Linkage between “Liberalism” and School ReformBY POSTED BY ADMINISTRATORShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailShare on pinterest_shareMore Sharing Services1Keep the pressure on.Make Duncan, Gates, Obama, The Clintons and other so called liberals etc realize their ” Education Reforms” have failed miserably and have lost public support.Swarm them every oppor

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Morning Wink 9-28-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS9-28-14 Answer SheetAnswer Sheet: Strauss: Why college freshmen need to take Emotions 101Too many college students face challenges for which they are emotionally ill-equipped to handle. In fact, suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students. In this piece, from OpEd Project’s Yale Public Voices Fellowship program, two mental health expe

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