Big Education Ape: 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 CAP

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

by mike simpson / 5min

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

1 by mike simpson / 1h

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

1 by mike simpson / 3h

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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9-28-14 Answer Sheet

Answer 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 experts explain how colleges and universities can better deal with

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Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics

Life at the Intersections | …of spirit, people, and politics: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT PROTESTS CREATE HEADACHES FOR SOME, HOPE FOR OTHERS Recent spontaneous and unprecedented high school student protest movements are causing a growing panic among the wealthy investor class who want to convert much of American education from public, democratic control to corporate investor control for their profits. It

1 by mike simpson / 7h

9-28-14 the becoming radical | Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment - 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): Jesusland?: Bible Belt Raises Welt of Corporal Punishment“Jesusland” by Ben Folds includes a powerful verse against the energetic piano and soaring harmonies: Town to town broadcast to each house, they drop your name but no one knows your face Billboards quoting things y

1 by mike simpson / 8h

9-28-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: How Are Schools Supposed To Work When Everything Else Around Them Is Broken?Had a discussion with NY Daily News reporter Ben Chapman over the "disruption" that education reformers bring to the education system (and the money they make off of that "disruption") that went like this the other day:@NYDNBenChapman Cuomo's Smart Schools jive all about "dis

1 by mike simpson / 8h

9-28-14 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.: Sunday reads.. Following a teacher strike, the Galesburg, Illinois school board refuses to return school days to the calendar. Why don’t we have real data on charter schools? The Koch brothers toxic empire. It extends to Chicago’s 10th Ward. Vote for Susan Sadlowski Garza for Alderman. “No excuses” ch

by mike simpson / 8h

9-28-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: NYCFIRST LEGO League Kickoff - PhotosI had a great time yesterday at NYU/Poly on Jay Street at our annual FLL kickoff. We have about 170 NYC teams registered so far for the Challenge which is called World Class, all about learning. Kids not only build a robot for the game field - below - represent different styles of learning - but also do and present an extensive research project

by mike simpson / 8h

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube

Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider - YouTube: Man in Red - Two Teachers and a Microphone featuring Erich Schneider"Man In Red" - A reimagining of "Man in Black" by Johnny CashTwo Teachers and a Microphone featuring Super Substitute Teacher Erich SchneiderWell, you wonder why on Tuesdays I wear red,Did I wake up on the wrong side of the bed?And

1 by mike simpson / 9h

A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times

A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy - LA Times: A level playing field at school can't make up for a broken democracy In the fall of 2010, after a14-year hiatus from the classroom, I began a one-year job filling in for a teacher on leave from the same rural Vermont high school that I'd entered as a rookie 30 years before.Almost from my first day, I was moved by the

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Decriminalizing School Discipline | Marian Wright Edelman

Decriminalizing School Discipline | Marian Wright Edelman: Decriminalizing School DisciplineI believe the purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children and to help identify and meet child needs, not make children serve adult convenience, self interest, and systems. So huge reforms are required in school discipline policies and practices across our nation as school pushout has worsen

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-28-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Veteran Teacher In California Named Teacher of the YearGlendale Unified School District in California named math teacher Win Saw its teacher of the year. The son of two teachers in Burma, Win Saw never expected to be a teacher. But while in college at Santa Barbara, he realized that was his calling. He has been inspiring students f

1 by mike simpson / 9h

9-28-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: Breakfast is served | The Crimson Chroniclehttp://www.thecrimsonchronicle.com/2014/09/breakfast-is-served/ Breakfast is served Posted on September 26, 2014 by Erika Salazar in News Erika Salazar Editor-In-Chief Breakfast in the Classroom, a district-wide initiative that aims to offer morning meals to those students who do not eat one on a regular basis, will be implemented on

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9-28-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Five Most Popular Posts Of The Week© 2010 Paul Townsend, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Here’s the second post in this now every-Sunday feature. These are the posts appearing this blog that received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they have originally been published on an earlier date). Here they are: 1.

2 by mike simpson / 9h

NYC Educator: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...

NYC Educator: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...: When the News is Too Strange to Believe...I'm sure you remember how Mulgrew popped up in the news last May when his private words to his caucus went public. He had pushed for twenty-two domains of Danielson to "gum up the works" as one defensive strategy against the ed "reformers" in this ongoing war to protect our publ

1 by mike simpson / 9h

Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit

Kimble's Corner: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit: Jack Kimble's Speech to the 2014 Values Voter Summit

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Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress Codes | PopularResistance.Org

Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress Codes | PopularResistance.Org: Students Protest ‘Slut Shaming’ Dress CodesRESIST! EDUCTION, STUDENT ACTIVISM, STUDENT PROTESTS By Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.comSeptember 28th, 2014 Powered by TranslateStudents Around US Organise Mass Walkouts to Protest Administrators Who Made Them Wear ‘Shame Suits’ or Mandate Hemline LimitsA spate of revolts against scho

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Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations | Classroom Struggle

Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations | Classroom Struggle:Lessons from SF: UESF Teachers Push for Strike Vote in Contract Negotiations We repost an article below which comes to us from two members of the leftist teacher’s caucus in UESF, EDU (Educators for a Democratic Union). They and other EDU and UESF members have been fighting for a strike authorization

1 by mike simpson / 18h

Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education” | deutsch29

Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education” | deutsch29: Remarkable Idiocy: “Economically-driven Education”September 27, 2014On October 2, 2014, I will be speaking in Indiana to an audience chiefly comprised of university students who have a passing understanding of the intentions of moneyed interests to usurp control of public education.With a mind toward preparing for my upcoming engageme

1 by mike simpson / 18h

Oregon Save Our Schools: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes Testing

Oregon Save Our Schools: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes Testing: OEA Needs to Follow its Members' Vote Against High-Stakes TestingOn September 17, the Oregon Education Association (OEA) made a report to the Oregon Senate Committee on Education & Workforce regarding Common Core and Assessment. While OEA's report was a welcome change from its previous responses (rangin

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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 CAP2nd Banana 9-27-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post 2nd Banana 9-20-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 9-13-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 9-6-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2nd Banana 8-30-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post2

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