Big Education Ape: Nite Cap 9-27-14 #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 CAP

NYC Public School Parents: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rate

NYC Public School Parents: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rate: NYC DOE still putting out false discharge data and inflating the graduation rateThroughout the Bloomberg years, when the administration would trumpet rising graduation rates, I noticed how the discharge numbers were very high and seemed to be increasing. Every student listed as a “discharge

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gulftoday.ae | By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kids

gulftoday.ae | By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kids: By Randi Weingarten, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, Otha Thornton and Carol Joyner: Paid sick days for parents benefit kidsSeptember 28, 2014 Print Send to FriendIt’s back to school season! Educators and students are back in school, after many have prepared much of the summe

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The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in Common | 34justice

The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in Common | 34justice: The Political Lens: What Global Warming and Wright v. New York Have in CommonDuring the 2003-2004 school year, my chemistry teacher told my class that global warming wasn’t occurring. I believed her. When I attended New Jersey’s Governor’s School of International Studies in the summer of 2005, a professor

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2nd Banana 9-27-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTVenture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The NationVenture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education Market | The Nation: Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt’ Everything About the Education MarketVenture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the explod

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Morning Wink 9-27-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLouisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASSLouisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASS: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASSNote to readers: Legislators got so many complaints

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Louisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASS

Louisiana Educator: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASS: Educators Speak Up Now or Forever Live With VAM and The Dog and Pony Show Called COMPASSNote to readers: Legislators got so many complaints from both teachers and administrators last year on the new teacher evaluation system and the use of VAM to evaluate teachers that they passed Act 240

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9-27-14 Missouri Education Watchdog This Week - #Commoncore Falls Apart in Alabama. But Don’t Worry: It’s All Candy Land.

Missouri Education Watchdog | “What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.” John Taylor Gatto: #Commoncore Falls Apart in Alabama. But Don’t Worry: It’s All Candy Land.Common Core State Standards Initiative has been an untested theory that is now in practice. Promises made to parents (whe

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NYC Educator: Cuomo, After Court Victory, Extends Supermajority Concept

NYC Educator: Cuomo, After Court Victory, Extends Supermajority Concept: Cuomo, After Court Victory, Extends Supermajority ConceptIn another great victory, Governor Andrew Cuomo has defeated a challenge demanding that votes that say "yes" to supporting public schools be counted with equal weight to those who vote "no." The judge suggested the one-person, one vote thing was outm

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5 Options for Active Participation~R4Ed. - Musical Media For Education

5 Options for Active Participation~R4Ed. - Musical Media For Education: 5 Options for Active Participation~R4Ed.posted 8 hours ago2014-15 School Year:1) School Validation Visits2 hour visit(s) to public schools during the 2014-15 school year for on-site “evaluations” based on Learner-Centered R4Ed. criteria (anti-Common Core). Schools receive Red Seal of Approval/Removal, with optional half hour s

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Our Connected Educator Month #CPChats Are Back In October #CE14 | Connected Principals

Our Connected Educator Month #CPChats Are Back In October #CE14 | Connected Principals: Our Connected Educator Month #CPChats Are Back In October #CE14by Patrick Larkin • September 27, 2014 • 0 CommentsWe are excited that for the second straight year Connected Principals will be working in conjunction with the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) and the National Association

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Who’s Getting Caught In The “School-to-Prison” Pipeline? And Why? | PopularResistance.Org

Who’s Getting Caught In The “School-to-Prison” Pipeline? And Why? | PopularResistance.Org: Who’s Getting Caught In The “School-to-Prison” Pipeline? And Why?EDUCATE! EDUCATION, MASS INCARCERATION, RACISM By Frederick Reese, www.mintpressnews.comSeptember 27th, 2014 Powered by TranslateAP PhotoThe U.S. prison population is disproportionately black. The same racial disparity can be seen in the stude

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Teaching U.S. History in a Failing School | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Teaching U.S. History in a Failing School | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Teaching U.S. History in a Failing SchoolI observed this teacher teaching three history classes a few months ago in a persistently low-performing high school on the cusp of being “restructured.” All names are fictitious.Standing in the hallway outside of his classroom—a school policy as students move f

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Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog 9-27-14

Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog:U.S. Launches Air Strikes Against ISIS Targets in SyriaThe Guardian has the story here.Obama said in a televised address on 10 September that he would expand the US war against Isis into Syria, reversing a longstanding caution against involving the US in the bloody confusion of Syria’s civil war...The escalation of the war into Syria comes without explicit congressional

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Stephen Krashen Blog 9-27-14

SKrashen:Phonics “pays off” only on tests of phonicsSent to the Guardian, September 25".... phonics method pays off" (September 25) provides evidence only that intensive and "sysgtematic" phonics instructions will produce higher scores on tests of phonics. In the test, known as the "phonics check," five and six-year old children were asked only to pronounce words pres

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9-27-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement":“Florida PTA Urges State to Make Changes to School Accountability System”Florida PTA Urges State to Make Changes to School Accountability System is the headline of an Ed Week post. Here’s an excerpt: The Florida PTA issued a press release this week asking lawmakers and state Department of Education officials for the followin

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9-27-14 All NEW Living in Dialogue

Home | Living in Dialogue:Long Shadow Report: Strong Schools Require Strong CommunitiesBy Paul Horton. An important new study, The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood by Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson, casts doubt on the current policy push to starve neighborhood public schools and fund charter schools that are not connected t

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9-27-14 Hemlock on the Rocks (The Big Gulp)

Hemlock on the Rocks: Bill Gates: Do Not Force Square Pegs Into Round HolesMr. and Mrs. Gates,My mother is a powerful and passionate woman, who, for my entire life, has never taken “no” for an answer. I come by this trait naturally. If, by now, it is not apparent that I am and will continue to be an advocate for my students, my colleagues, and my profession, I certainly hope that it will be clear

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9-27-14 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: Wag The Dog WeekCommon Core: An Education Datapalooza?David Coleman and other proponents of close reading claim that students become college and career ready as they independently struggle to understand complex informational text without relying on any context or prior kno

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9-27-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Love Letters to the BATS

With A Brooklyn Accent:Smash the Linkage between "Liberalism" and School ReformKeep 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 opportunity you get, via email, on twitter, in social media. Bombard them with the evidence of their o

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9-27-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All Week

Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekHow To Counter Silly Arguments About the NJEA Convention: A Teacher's GuideWe're fast approaching early November, which means the New Jersey Education Association's annual convention will be here soon. And that means the foolish arguments against the convention will also be upon us.Chris Christie once said that if teachers "cared about learning,&q

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9-27-14 Curmudgucation Week

CURMUDGUCATION:Curmudgucation WeekThe Missing Link in the Reading DebateThe debate du jour is about reading, begun in the Intelligence Squared debate, continued through Carol Burris's follow-up column, and followed up by literacy expert Russ Walsh. Okay, it's debate in the sense that disagreements between regular scientists and the Flat Earth Society are debates. Over at the Fordham, Robert Pondis

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9-27-14 This Week in 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):LAUSD places 9 schools among top 75 in county ‘Challenge Index’LAUSD places 9 schools among top 75 in county ‘Challenge Index’ Los Angeles School for Enriched Studies Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews took an in-depth look at Los Angeles County this month when he applied his Challenge Index ra

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All Week @ The Answer Sheet 9-27-14

The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetWhy we can’t reform literacy and math all at onceSchool “reform” is hardly a new phenomenon in the public school system, with decades of efforts to improve reading and math scores. Why haven’t all these efforts met expectations? Here’s one explanation, from Andy Hargreaves, the Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College

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9-27-14 Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Society All Week

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership SocietyNice piece of writing by Chicago high school teacher and Louder Than a Bomb poetry coach, Dave Stieber at Huffington, &q...Nice piece of writing by Chicago high school teacher and Louder Than a Bomb poetry coach, Dave Stieber at Huffington, "Lessons Learned in Englewo

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9-27-14 Wait What? - All Week

Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekTom Foley’s bizarre move on Education Policy and its potential impact on the CEA endorsementIn what appears to be an ongoing effort to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, Tom Foley, the Republican candidate for governor, has proposed an education policy that looks eerily similar to Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy’s corporate education reform initiatives. Over the

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9-27-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week

Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumHoping to See More of ThisI attended the Executive Committee meeting of the Whole this week. It was actually a pleasure to be at the meeting and I hope to see more of what I heard and saw.It's kind of sad, really, that it was just me, the Board and staff. (Long-time watchdog Chris Jackins came in briefly but left.) Because I wish m

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9-27-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineThe Secret to Eva Moskowitz’s ‘Success’Another curious fact about Success Academy is the attrition of both students and teachers. For schools that are widely acclaimed, this is surprising indeed. Why do so many students and teachers leave?... What we can learn from Success Academy is that it is possible to winnow out the most intractable students and be left with th

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9-27-14 Fred All Week 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.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher“I made a mistake.”Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson tries to join protesters. Another riot nearly ensues. . The other day Rahm said he made a mistake. He’s made many. But he only copped to one: Naming the planned north side se

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9-27-14 Perdido Street School Week

Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekCuomo: No Shift In Treatment Of Teachers In Second TermFrom State of Politics:Asked about whether he’s shifting his tactics post-primary, Cuomo said he wouldn’t change his approach to public workers and teachers labor organizations. “I knew what I was doing when I did not cater to the teachers union. I didn’t have to take the endorsement of the teac

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9-27-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD

THE BECOMING RADICALEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by Misguided Reading Policy Creates Wrong Lessons for Students as WritersHaving taught writing to teenagers and young adults at the high school and undergraduate levels for over thirty years now, I have a standard approach to the first few classes: We identify and then unpack and challenge the lessons the

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-27-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT AGENDA/ORDER OF BUSINESS FOR SPECIAL MEETING OF THE LAUSD BOARD OF EDUCATION, 4:01 p.m. Tuesday, September. 30, 2014posted: Fri, Sep 26, 2014 5:23 pm 1 by smf / 8h “It isn’t how you play the game, it’s who keeps score that counts”: REPORT SHOWS VARIATION IN HOW STATES SACK UP AGAINST INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 9-27-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL LARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE WEEKSeptember’s Best Posts From This BlogI regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (mo

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This Week's Education Research Report 9-27-14 #edreform #EDCHAT #P2

Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTThe scarring effects of primary-grade retention?New study finds that primary-grade retention reduces the odds of completing high school by about 60 percent in matched samples of retained and non-retained studentsAn article released by Social Forces titled, "The Scarring Effects of Primary-Grade Retention? A Study of Cumulative Adva

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9-27-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekThe Unbearable Lightness of Neo-Liberal Historical Revisionism in EducationDana Goldstein studied intellectual history at Brown before she became a reporter, then a grad student at Columbia, and now another author among the growing tribe of young, privileged white folks with new books intended to make the world safe for corporate education reform.Goldstein j

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All Week 9-27-14 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ 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 archiv

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 9-27-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGYohuru Williams: Attacking Teacher Tenure Does NOT Promote Civil RightsYohuru Williams, a historian at Fairfield University, sharply rebukes those who seek to eliminate tenure and claim to be advancing “civil rights.” His article on Huffington Post is titled “Lies My Corporate Ed Reformers Told Me: The Truth about Teacher

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YESTERDAY

College Board: We support the "actions," protests of Jeffco students - The Denver Post

College Board: We support the "actions," protests of Jeffco students - The Denver Post: College Board: We support the "actions," protests of Jeffco studentsBy Jesse PaulThe Denver PostPOSTED: 09/26/2014 12:14:52 PM MDT213 COMMENTS| UPDATED: ABOUT 5 HOURS AGOParents, residents, and teachers, wave signs in support of teachers at the corner of S. Kipling Parkway and Bowles Ave

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Nite Cap 9-26-14 #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 CAPMedia Mobilizing Project Video On Week of Resistance | WeArePCAPSMedia Mobilizing Project Video On Week of Resistance | WeArePCAPS: Media Mobilizing Project Video On Week of ResistanceSchools Not Prisons Action at Gubernatorial DebateNext week th

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