Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-1-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: STOP Online Testing in K-2: Florida Parents Demand SanityFranziska Raeber describes how parents in Florida are organizing resistance to online testing of children in K-2. Please be aware that the purpose of online testing is to enrich the testing industry and tech corporations. The best tests are written and evaluated by teachers,
by mike simpson / 2min 
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 10-1-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: “WE HAVEN’T DECIDED ANTHING” …as names are floated for interim leader to replace L.A. Supt. John DeasySchool board starts weighing Supt. Deasy's evaluation 'We haven't decided anything,' school board president says of deliberations over Supt. Deasy's performance Names have been quietly floated for possible interim leaders to replace L.A. Supt. John Deas
by mike simpson / 4min 
10-1-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: MOREistas in the House, UFT Not @ Success Academy Charter SUNY Authorization HearingWe were there to battle the forces of Evil. The UFT, along with de Blasio, have abandoned the fight. MORE will join with communities, parents and teachers at co-located schools.Here are videos of MOREistas making their points.Alexandra AlvesMindy RosierMichelle BaptisteDavid DoboszNorm Scott - who
by mike simpson / 5min 
10-1-14 Wait What? - Forgive them, for they know not what they do – Not!
Wait What?: Forgive them, for they know not what they do – Not!Read my lips…No New Taxes! “Both Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his Republican challenger Tom Foley said they will not increase taxes… (CT NewsJunkie) When Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy took office he faced a $3.6 billion dollar deficit. As result of budget gimmicks, the use of one-time revenue and his failure to require the […] T
by mike simpson / 10min 
10-1-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: How teachers sometimes fool themselvesHere is a post about what goes on in classrooms and how teachers sometimes fool themselves into thinking that they are allowing students to direct their own learning when, in fact, they aren’t. This was written by Alfie Kohn (www.alfiekohn.org), who is the author of 13 books, including, most recently, “The Myth of the Spoiled […]21 by Valerie Str
by mike simpson / 12min 
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog 10-1-14
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Geography Students: US StatesQuiz yourself in preparation for our test on Monday:  I Like 2 Learn U.S. States Quizby L. Jablonski / 10h Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog 9-27-14Ms. 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 agains
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10-1-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “What Is Your Advice For Student Teachers & Their Supervisors?”What Is Your Advice For Student Teachers & Their Supervisors? is the latest “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses there or in the comments section of this post…7 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h hide  //  sav
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10-1-14 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.: John Dillon. Looking for a “fortiori,” a better reason to vote for Quinn.- John Dillon is a retired teacher, pension activist and a member of the IEA Retired S.O.R.E chapter. He blogs at Pension Vocabulary. In education, ironically, Rauner and at least one of the Democratics on the gubernatorial ticke
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10-1-14 @ 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
1 by mike simpson / 22min 
10-1-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Why You Can't Reason With School Reformers- You Have to Bring the Machine to a Halt
With A Brooklyn Accent: Why You Can't Reason With School Reformers- You Have to Bring the Machine to a HaltYesterday, during some fierce twitter debates I was having with Charter School Advocates one of them replied " the majority of American teachers graduated in the bottom 1/3 of their college class." To them, this provided the justification for erasing teacher voices from education de
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10-1-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: A Response to LAUSD's iPad Update ExitTicket Student Response Systemhttp://exitticket.org/lausd-ipad-update/ A Response to LAUSD's iPad Update As you may very well know, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has been making headlines with a massive 1:1 initiative. The logistical challenges of deploying iPads to a school district that size is a fantastic experiment which
by mike simpson / 27min 
10-1-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Bill Hammond Exposes Cuomo's New-Found Interest In Fighting TerrorismNice job by Bill Hammond in the Daily News calling "bullshit!" on Cuomo: The words “terror,” “terrorism” and “security” do not appear in transcripts of any of Cuomo’s first three State of the State speeches. He used them this January to note that he was hiring former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to
by mike simpson / 29min 
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement at Fifty |
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement at Fifty |: The Berkeley Free Speech Movement at FiftyOctober 1, 2014 in StudentsFifty years today, students at UC Berkeley blockaded a police car on campus to prevent the unjust arrest of a recent graduate, Jack Weinberg, who had been leafleting on campus. Here’s how I described the events in my dissertation:            On September 14, 1964 the dean of students
by mike simpson / 34min 
Release: PA Charter School Fraud Totals $30 million, Education Groups Launch State-by-State Investigation - Integrity in Education
Release: PA Charter School Fraud Totals $30 million, Education Groups Launch State-by-State Investigation - Integrity in Education: Release: PA Charter School Fraud Totals $30 million, Education Groups Launch State-by-State InvestigationCONTACTS: Alison R. Park (917) 805-0830, apark@populardemocracy.orgCliff Schecter (202) 270-7011, media@integrityineducation.orgReport: Pa. Charter School Fraud To
by mike simpson / 38min 
Choosing Democracy: NAME Calls for Ethnic Studies in Schools
Choosing Democracy: NAME Calls for Ethnic Studies in Schools: NAME Calls for Ethnic Studies in SchoolsFrom:  National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)Re:       Statement of Support for Ethnic Studies in the Los Angeles Unified School District The National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) supports the campaign (http://www.EthnicStudiesNow.com) to make Ethnic Studies a gr
by mike simpson / 41min 
PA Permits Cigarette Tax, But Crisis in Philly Schools Drags On | janresseger
PA Permits Cigarette Tax, But Crisis in Philly Schools Drags On | janresseger: PA Permits Cigarette Tax, But Crisis in Philly Schools Drags OnPosted on October 1, 2014 by janressegerAfter months of legislative dithering, both houses of the Pennsylvania legislature finally passed and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed into law enabling legislation for the School District of Philadelphia to le
1 by mike simpson / 46min 
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Educating Albert and STEM
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Educating Albert and STEM: Educating Albert and STEMSpeaking of STEM schools -- and isn't everybody -- I was talking STEM recently with my old UIC prof and colleague,Bill Schubert, who turned me on to Walter Isaacson'sbiography of Albert Einstein.It seems Einstein, who was brilliant in math and science, could not pass his exams in French, literature, politics and sev
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Teaching in Black and White - Fall 2014 - Rethinking Schools Online
Volume 29, No.1 - Fall 2014 - Rethinking Schools Online: FREE Black Like MeBy Renée WatsonA poem—and the history behind it—about being invisible, yet stereotyped, as an African American student bused to a predominantly white school.FREE Dear White TeacherBy Chrysanthius LathanAn African American middle school teacher calls on white teachers to think before they routinely send black children to bla
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NYC Educator: Luxury
NYC Educator: Luxury: LuxuryI've been chapter leader now for five years. There are a lot of challenges having a job like that in a large school. Things are always happening. You get notices in your box to show up for this meeting, that meeting, and 500 other meetings. You go, because it's your job.But if you're in a school like mine and you work in the trailer, it can be very trying. Imagine you'r
1 by mike simpson / 1h 
Shanker Blog » Building And Sustaining Research-Practice Partnerships
Shanker Blog » Building And Sustaining Research-Practice Partnerships: Building And Sustaining Research-Practice PartnershipsPosted by Bill Penuel on October 1, 2014Our guest author today is Bill Penuel, professor of educational psychology and learning sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. He leads the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice, which investigates how school and
1 by mike simpson / 1h 
Don’t like Common Core, the over-testing of your children, the big money takeover of our schools? You are not alone: Facebook connections | Seattle Education
Don’t like Common Core, the over-testing of your children, the big money takeover of our schools? You are not alone: Facebook connections | Seattle Education:Don’t like Common Core, the over-testing of your children, the big money takeover of our schools? You are not alone: Facebook connectionsAZ Parents & Teachers Against CCS and TESTShttps://www.facebook.com/groups/AZSaysNotoEdReform/Badass
by mike simpson / 1h 
First steps at protecting students’ privacy. | Connected Principals
First steps at protecting students’ privacy. | Connected Principals: First steps at protecting students’ privacy.by Lyn Hilt • October 1, 2014 • 0 CommentsThis post was originally published on my blog, Learning in Technicolor. This topic requires consideration by all current building and district-level administrators and school leaders!I admit that at one point in time I was one of those educators
by mike simpson / 1h 

YESTERDAY

On Writing Like A Monster | The Jose Vilson
On Writing Like A Monster | The Jose Vilson: On Writing Like A Monster SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 JOSE LEAVE A COMMENT 5  0    0  5  0On Saturday, I had the pleasure of moderating a non-fiction panel for Las Comadres and Compadres organization featuring former Colorlines editor Daisy Hernandez and writer Alina Garcia-Lapuerta. The panel was uproarious and chock full of information for the burgeoning write
by mike simpson / 11h 
California Teachers Should Re-Elect Tom Torlakson For State Superintendent of Instruction in 2014
California Teachers Should Re-Elect Tom Torlakson For State Superintendent of Instruction in 2014: California Teachers Should Re-Elect Tom Torlakson For State Superintendent of Instruction in 2014OCTOBER 1, 2014 BY K12NN SITE ADMIN LEAVE A COMMENTBy Alice Mercer, a California teacher. Special to K12NN.California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has been a real friend to pub
by mike simpson / 11h 
Observations: “Where Most of the Action and Opportunities Are” |
Observations: “Where Most of the Action and Opportunities Are” |: Observations: “Where Most of the Action and Opportunities Are”In a study just released on the website of Education Next, researchers discuss results from their recent examinations of “new teacher-evaluation systems in four school districts that are at the forefront of the effort [emphasis added] to evaluate teachers meaningfully.” T
by mike simpson / 11h 
9-30-14 Jersey Jazzman - The Fundamental Flaw In the Reformy Argument
Jersey Jazzman: The Fundamental Flaw In the Reformy ArgumentPeter Greene, blogging machine that he is, points us to a new video from the fine reformy folks at the American Enterprise Institute.Greene dispatches much of Michael Q. McShane's perambulating argument in his post, so I won't repeat it here. Take a minute or two to read him instead; it's worth it.I'll also point you to this paper by Bruc
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Harvard Students Ask University to Cut Ties with Teach for America - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly
Harvard Students Ask University to Cut Ties with Teach for America - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: Harvard Students Ask University to Cut Ties with Teach for AmericaWRITTEN BY SHAFAQ HASAN  CREATED ON TUESDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2014 14:54Share on emailShare on printShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on linkedinShare on pinterest_shareShare on google_plusone_shareMore Sharing ServicesSeptember 28, 2014
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empathyeducates – The Miracle That Never Was – More Bad News for New Orleans School Children
empathyeducates – The Miracle That Never Was – More Bad News for New Orleans School Children: The Miracle That Never Was – More Bad News for New Orleans School ChildrenPhotograph; Fourth graders raise their hands to answer a question posed by teacher Cheryl Mackie while studying in preparation for the LEAP Test at Westwego Elementary School in March 2009. | Susan Poag / The Times-PicayuneThere are
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Funding School Programs Using a Thousand Points of Light - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher
Funding School Programs Using a Thousand Points of Light - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Funding School Programs Using a Thousand Points of LightBy Nancy Flanagan on September 30, 2014 9:21 PMBy now, it's a familiar story. An art teacher in a public elementary school, paying for her annual art supplies using a crowdfunding site. Her goal seems pretty modest--$1000--and nearly
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Bill Gates’s and the Ed. Reformers’ China/Special Education Disconnect
Bill Gates’s and the Ed. Reformers’ China/Special Education Disconnect: Bill Gates’s and the Ed. Reformers’ China/Special Education DisconnectSEPTEMBER 30, 2014 BY NANCY BAILEY LEAVE A COMMENTBill Gates and other ed. reformers praise China, Singapore and Korea as having the highest test scores in the world, of course, better than the United States they will tell you.What they fail to say is that i
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News Media and Citizen Journalists: Here’s Your Chance to See #Commoncore Delphi in Action | Missouri Education Watchdog
News Media and Citizen Journalists: Here’s Your Chance to See #Commoncore Delphi in Action | Missouri Education Watchdog: News Media and Citizen Journalists: Here’s Your Chance to See #Commoncore Delphi in ActioninShareFind out what is happening in HB1490 work groups. Bring your camera. Tell the truth.A citizen journalist video taped one of the work groups gathered last week in Jefferson City to w
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Nite Cap 9-30-14 #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 CAPBlue Ribbon Schools for 2014 - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Congratulates California Winners of the 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools AwardSACRA
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Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)
Blue Ribbon Schools for 2014 - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Congratulates California Winners of the 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools AwardSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today congratulated 24 California public schools that are being recognized as 2014 National Blue Ribbon Schools.The California schools, which are either h
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Training Our Way to a New Oligarchy? Not Yet! | Life at the Intersections
Training Our Way to a New Oligarchy? Not Yet! | Life at the Intersections: TRAINING OUR WAY TO A NEW OLIGARCHY? NOT YET!Students in Jefferson County, Colo protest forced changes in U.S. History standards by local school board. Credit: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images In Texas and now in Colorado conservatives on the far right have been in a panic about history students actually learnin
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Tuck, Torlakson debate union power, lawsuit | EdSource
Tuck, Torlakson debate union power, lawsuit | EdSource:Tuck, Torlakson debate union power, lawsuithttp://www.tomtorlakson.com/ The two candidates for state superintendent of public instruction disagreed on the condition of K-12 education in California, the influence of teachers unions and which of them is best qualified for the job at a forum Saturday in Burlingame, the last scheduled joint appear
1 by mike simpson / 17h 
The Fight for Public Education: Coming to a School Near You! | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity
The Fight for Public Education: Coming to a School Near You! | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity: The Fight for Public Education: Coming to a School Near You!Publication Date:  Tue, 2014-09-30Philadelphia's schools opened at the start of this school year in the midst of a funding crisis. While state lawmakers dragged their heels on a proposed ciga
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9-30-14 Wait What? - Will Foley or Malloy join Visconti in protecting parental rights?
Wait What?: Common Core Testing – Will Foley or Malloy join Visconti in protecting parental rights?To date, the only Connecticut gubernatorial candidate on the November 2014 ballot that is publicly committed to protecting the right of parents to opt their children out of the inappropriate and unfair Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test (SBAC) is petitioning candidate Joe Visconti. With Con
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Reading Requires Outside Knowledge | Truth in American Education
Reading Requires Outside Knowledge | Truth in American Education: Reading Requires Outside KnowledgeFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on September 30, 2014 • 0 Comments1051Daniel Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and he wrote a piece at Real Clear Education entitled “Common Core and ‘Close Reading’: Effectiveness Questionable without Outs
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Is the Impact of Charters Schools on Achievement a Big Lie? | Cloaking Inequity
Is the Impact of Charters Schools on Achievement a Big Lie? | Cloaking Inequity: Is the Impact of Charters Schools on Achievement a Big Lie?I have been called a charter school “lover” and a charter school “hater” in the same week. Are both true? Neither? I think we as a society must be pragmatic on charters. I recently had a conversation with my grandmother, who was a lifelong educator at a middle
by mike simpson / 19h 
9-30-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Professor: Why I tell students to become teachers — even though the profession is under assaultWhy, given the continuing assault on the teaching profession, would anyone suggest to young people that they consider becoming teachers? Here’s why, from Mark Naison, a professor of African American Studies and History at Fordham University and director of Fordham’s Urban Studies Program. H
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How LGBT Students Can Pay an ‘Unfair Price’ for Life | NEA Today
How LGBT Students Can Pay an ‘Unfair Price’ for Life | NEA Today: How LGBT Students Can Pay an ‘Unfair Price’ for LifeSeptember 30, 2014 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesLeave a CommentBy Tim WalkerAn economy still plagued by stagnant wages, sluggish growth and a tight job market has left millions of Americans financially vulnerable and struggling to make ends meet. A new landmark
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Russ on Reading: VAMs: Stupid Economist’s Tricks
Russ on Reading: VAMs: Stupid Economist’s Tricks: VAMs: Stupid Economist’s TricksThe formula to the left will allow you to calculate your Value Added Score. Please don't forget to show your work.I am not an economist. I had one intro to economics course in college. Everything I have learned about economics since then has come from reading Paul Krugman in the New York Times. I consider it a good mo
by mike simpson / 19h 
School spending by affluent is widening wealth gap | 89.3 KPCC
School spending by affluent is widening wealth gap | 89.3 KPCC: School spending by affluent is widening wealth gapEducation is supposed to help bridge the gap between the wealthiest people and everyone else. Ask the experts, and they'll count the ways:Preschool can lift children from poverty. Top high schools prepare students for college. A college degree boosts pay over a lifetime. And the U.S. e
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9-30-14 Cali Education Headlines | CSIS – California School Information Services
Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team | CSIS – California School Information Services: Education HeadlinesStockton USD truancy force puts love in tough loveOne little girl had a lice infestation so severe, she’d gouged her scalp trying to relieve the maddening itch. Badly infected, she was ashamed to go to school and her family too ashamed to reach out for help. September 30, 2014John Gre
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9-30-14 Curmudgucation - What Lily Misses about the Common Core
CURMUDGUCATION: What Lily Misses about the Common CoreMy esteemed colleague at Edushyster scored an interview with NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garcia, and as always, it's pretty encouraging to see an NEA boss express herself in plain English that clearly opposes reformster ideas-- except for the Common Core. I'm going to reprint a full paragraph because I think it articulates more clearly than any
1 by mike simpson / 21h 
9-30-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools and Garfield Field Trip Incident: PTSA meetingI attended Garfield's PTSA meeting last night.  There were about 65 people in attendance.  It was a bit odd because they chose to have the lights down so as to put the agenda and supporting documents on a big overhead screen.  It was pretty dark and made the remarks even more gloomy.I was fairly astonish
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9-30-14 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): Homeless student population in US grew rapidly since recessionHomeless student population in US grew rapidly since recession Via Hechinger Report | by Jill Barshay Despite signs of a national economic recovery, homelessness in U.S. public schools steadily increased 8 percent, to 1.26 million students, in
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“More Than a Score” named in The Nation’s “5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice!” | I AM AN EDUCATOR
“More Than a Score” named in The Nation’s “5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice!” | I AM AN EDUCATOR: “More Than a Score” named in The Nation’s “5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice!”By I AM AN EDUCATOR on September 30, 2014I am thrilled to announce that Kenzo Shibata, writing for the current issue of The Nation magazine, named the forthcoming book I edited, More Than a S
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Is the new AP U.S. History really anti-American? | The Hechinger Report
Is the new AP U.S. History really anti-American? | The Hechinger Report: Is the new AP U.S. History really anti-American?What changed and what didn’t in the latest “Common Core” version of the classBy Emmanuel FeltonMartin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Franklin, George Washington Carver, James Madison and Rosa Parks. If you’ve heard that the new AP U.S. History course description doesn’t mention these
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The growing disjunction in education policy | TheHill
The growing disjunction in education policy | TheHill: The growing disjunction in education policyA flurry of activity among education reformers across the country exposes a growing bifurcation within its ranks, uncovered by recent challenges to teacher tenure in New York. Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown's Partnership for Educational Justice, which recently recruited renowned attorneys David Boie
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The Games Charter Schools Play | Frank Breslin
The Games Charter Schools Play | Frank Breslin: The Games Charter Schools PlayJudging by the claims made by charters, one would think it but child's play to make good on their boast of having higher test scores than their public-school cousins.Charters' ability to deliver on their promise of achieving higher scores is, after all, their sole reason for existing and the only justification for their
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Morning Wink 9-30-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-30-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Tennessee: Most Teachers Say Abandon Common CoreTennessee is one of Arne Duncan’s favorite states because it was one of the first states to win Race to the Top funding, it has a rightwing govern
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