Friday, April 11, 2014

Zero waste plan can save schools a lot of green | UTSanDiego.com

Zero waste plan can save schools a lot of green | UTSanDiego.com:

Zero waste plan can save schools a lot of green

By Gary Warth6:19 P.M.APRIL 11, 2014

Palmquist School students Casey Weichgenant, Cassandra Lindon and Deborah Harrison (left to right) show how to sort items at a recycling station at their school, where city and district officials recognized a zero waste partnership Friday. *— Jamie Scott Lytle*

Oceanside — Going green has more than one meaning for schools in Oceanside, where a recycling program is predicted to save the district at least $100,000 annually by 2020.

The Oceanside Unified School District adopted a zero-waste resolution on Jan. 21. Similar to a move by the city of Oceanside four years ago, the district’s goal is to recycle 75 to 95 percent of its waste by 2020.

The district’s plan is funded through the city’s Zero Waste Schools Program, which provides each participating school with $3,000 to $5,000 in startup costs. The partnership, believed to be the first of its kind in the state, was recognized at Palmquist School on Friday morning with an event attended by Mayor Jim Wood, Oceanside Unified School District Superintendent Larry Perondi, students, parents, staff and volunteers.

The event was held in front of school’s garden, which is tended by students as part of their life sciences studies. Besides supplying food for the Palmquist cafeteria, the garden contains a compost area to help the school toward its goal of 100 percent recycling.

Colleen Foster, solid waste management analyst for the city, said the OUSD program could be a model for other school districts in the state.

With six OUSD schools already practicing a zero-waste plan, the district plans to introduce two more schools each semester until all 23 campuses are recycling.

Palmquist parents Corrina Goodwin and Jenna Roripaugh suggested a Zero waste plan can save schools a lot of green | UTSanDiego.com:

With A Brooklyn Accent: Don't Underestimate New York City PUBLIC Schools!

With A Brooklyn Accent: Don't Underestimate New York City PUBLIC Schools!:

Don't Underestimate New York City PUBLIC Schools!

TODAY, 30 STUDENTS FROM A PUBLIC MIDDLE SCHOOL CALLED WEST SIDE COLLABORATIVE CAME TO SIT IN ON AN UPPER LEVEL UNDERGRADUATE COURSE I TEACH, CALLED "THE WORKER IN AMERICAN LIFE,." BROUGHT BY THEIR TEACHER, VICTORIA THOMAS-RAHIMAN, WHO WAS ONCE MY STUDENT. I WAS CONCERNED THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CLASS DISCUSSIONS- WHICH WAS ON WAL-MART'S LABOR PRACTICES AND ROLE IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY- WITHOUT A LOT OF GUIDANCE FROM ME. BUT AFTER A FIVE MINUTE LECTURE TO GET THEM ORIENTED, I LEAPED DIRECTLY INTO THE CLASS I HAD PLANNED, BEGINNING WITH TWO MUSIC VIDEOS WHICH DRAMATIZED THE TRAVAILS OF LOW WAGE WORKERS IN THE US, AND WHEN I ASKED FOR COMMENTS, THE STUDENTS FROM WEST SIDE COLLABORATIVE RAISED THEIR HANDS AS MUCH AS STUDENTS IN MY CLASS, AND OFFERED REMARKS WHICH WERE AT TIMES STARTLING IN THEIR INSIGHT AND DEPTH. MY STUDENTS WERE BOTH STUNNED AND EXCITED BY THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AND THE CLASS BECAME THE FOCAL POINT OF AN INCREDIBLE DISCUSSION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PART OF THE WORKING POOR IN THE UNITED STATES, SOMETHING WHICH THE WEST SIDE COLLABORATIVE KNEW FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE FAR MORE THAN MY WONDERFUL FORDHAM STUDENTS. IT WAS ALSO CLEAR THAT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE WERE ISSUES THEY HAD DISCUSSED IN THEIR CLASSES, AND AT TIMES IN THEIR FAMILIES, AND THEY HAD STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT THIS THAT MY OWN STUDENTS FOUND MYSELF LISTENING TO INTENTLY.

What made the whole experience so remarkable was not only the difference in age between the two groups, but also the difference in background . My Fordham class is about 2/3 white and 1/3 students of color, with many coming from middle class and upper middle class families. The Manhattan Collaborative group was With A Brooklyn Accent: Don't Underestimate New York City PUBLIC Schools!:

IEA/NEA RA and email: Bizarre Cognitive Dissonance | Reclaim Reform

IEA/NEA RA and email: Bizarre Cognitive Dissonance | Reclaim Reform:

IEA/NEA RA and email: Bizarre Cognitive Dissonance

Posted on April 11, 2014by Ken Previti

IEA/NEA RA and email: Bizarre Cognitive Dissonance.
This is NOT a joke or satirical essay, although I sincerely wish it was.

Today, Illinois Education Association President Cinda Klickna hosted a Representative Assembly (IEA/NEA RA) presentation/debate between the two Illinois gubernatorial candidates at 2:00 pm Central Standard Time.

Gov. Pat Quinn (D) and Bruce Rauner (R) are both anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-pension, pro-charter, pro-school closing, pro-high stakes testing candidates who openly state their identical agendas.

What happened at the debate? What is IEA leaderships response to the event? What IEA/NEA RA and email: Bizarre Cognitive Dissonance | Reclaim Reform:

Why Raising The Standards Won’t Make Kids Read | Gatsby In L.A.

Why Raising The Standards Won’t Make Kids Read | Gatsby In L.A.:

Why Raising The Standards Won’t Make Kids Read

I recently sat in on a class in which none of the students had done the reading. It was an 11th grade English class; they were reading a fat canonical American novel, maybe 350 pages long. And none of them had read it—at least not the chapter they were supposed to have read the night before.

The teacher, a smart, dedicated older man, stood in front of the class trying to lead a class discussion. Crickets.

As the teacher stood lobbing question after question, the kids sat at their desks making eye contact with no one, shifting uneasily in their seats and waiting for the time to pass so they could leave.

Reader, I’ve been there. Maybe not in a situation where all of my students didn’t do the reading, but often when a very substantial number did not, a situation that would inevitably put me into a panic of misery, shame and frustration. What should I have done? What was I doing wrong? If the kids didn’t read the book, how could they write an essay that meant anything?

So as I sat in the back of that incredibly awkward class, I emailed a friend of mine who teaches in South L.A., one of the best English teachers I know, asking her what percentage of her students usually did the reading. “Half,” she emailed back. “Less if the reading is especially challenging.”

I recently asked another friend, an exceptionally dedicated and motivated English teacher, how many of her 35 students in the class I’m watching probably did the reading every night. She thought a moment, counting in her head. “About nine,” she said finally.

Here’s something I’ve seen over and over and have personally experienced: if you teach in a community where kids didn’t get the enrichment of preschool, may have attended terrible elementary schools, may have stressful or chaotic home lives and often live in very crowded situations where they have no space to themselves and sometimes have to Why Raising The Standards Won’t Make Kids Read | Gatsby In L.A.:

LAUSD'S LATEST SCAM- CLEARLY FALSE ASSERTIONS OF TEACHER OVERPAYMENT - Perdaily.com

LAUSD'S LATEST SCAM- CLEARLY FALSE ASSERTIONS OF TEACHER OVERPAYMENT - Perdaily.com:

LAUSD'S LATEST SCAM- CLEARLY FALSE ASSERTIONS OF TEACHER OVERPAYMENT

(Mensaje se repite en Español)

If you are a current or retired employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) there is yet another assault you might find yourself being subjected to- the clearly false allegation that you were overpaid by LAUSD, when the reality is that there is a greater likelihood and in many cases clear and convincing evidence that you were significantly underpaid. In the last few years, LAUSD has been in the process of going after thousands of teachers for these alleged overpayments without any evidence to substantiate that this ever took place and for the sole motive of lessening its bottom line at any cost.

If LAUSD had any real interest in determining the truth, all it would have to do is take your gross salary from any year's last December salary stub and compare it with where you are supposed to be on the LAUSD salary scale to see whether you were either under or overpaid. Rather than do this LAUSD has turned over these false overpayment claims to a collection agency, even though such action is clearly illegal. Worse yet, teachers who have already been targeted for removal from the district on other trumped up charges have found themselves significantly more likely to have LAUSD come after them for these bogus overpayment charges that LAUSD refuses to substantiate with any documentation.

What is making this possible is the LAUSD payroll revision disasterof several years ago with all of it's yet unsettled payroll errors that contrary to claims in the L.A. Times has not come to an end. On the contrary, this payroll revision disaster can now make lemonade out of the lemon that it continues to be by obfuscating under supposed LAUSD claims of "annualization" under which "justification" it claims that teachers were overpaid, when in fact they were not.

One of the many cases that teachers have come to me with, when LAUSD sends a collection agency after them right off the bat is the following: This teacher received a letter from the district that LAUSD had years after the fact, "Discovered overpayments to his salary LAUSD'S LATEST SCAM- CLEARLY FALSE ASSERTIONS OF TEACHER OVERPAYMENT - Perdaily.com:

Major Kansas Papers Ignore Koch Connection to Anti-Teachers’ Rights Legislation | NationofChange

Major Kansas Papers Ignore Koch Connection to Anti-Teachers’ Rights Legislation | NationofChange:

Major Kansas Papers Ignore Koch Connection to Anti-Teachers’ Rights Legislation

Three major newspapers in Kansas have ignored the role of funding from the Koch brothers in the passage of legislation that strips teachers in the state of their right to due process before they are fired, a longstanding right that gives teachers the ability to challenge dismissals.

Kansas State Legislature Passes Bill Stripping Teachers' Right To Due Process

MSNBC.com: "Kansas Bill Kills Long-Held Teacher Rights." Following a heated debate, the Kansas State Legislature passed a bill, HB2506, on Sunday, April 6, that "kills long-held teacher rights" to due process. According to MSNBC.com, the bill passed "over the objections of hundreds of teachers and activists" protesting the bill (emphasis added):

Despite huge majorities in the state House and Senate, the bills passed narrowly over the objections of hundreds of teachers and activists who packed the galleries to protest the bill.
Until now, a teacher with three years of experience was guaranteed the right to receive a written reason for possible termination and the right to appeal the decision. Teachers in Kansas have had the right to due process since 1957. Without it, a teacher could be fired for being gay, or disagreeing politically with an administrator, and have no recourse. [MSNBC.com, 4/7/14]

Legislation Was Pushed By Group Connected To Billionaire Koch Brothers

Washington Post's Valerie Strauss: Group Pushing Legislation Backed By "Extreme Conservative Billionaires Charles And David Koch." Washington Post education blogger Valerie Strauss, citing an Associated Press story, noted how teachers' rights "go away" under the new legislation, as well as the Koch funding tied to Americans for Prosperity, the group pushing the bill:

According to this Associated Press story, Kansas teachers who have been on the job for at least three years have certain rights when they are being fired. They must be told in writing why the action was taken and they have the right to request a review of the decision. Under the new law, those rights go away.
Pushing the effort to end teacher tenure, the AP reported, was a
Major Kansas Papers Ignore Koch Connection to Anti-Teachers’ Rights Legislation | NationofChange:

Nite Cap 4-11-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

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

4-11-14 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.: Does Squeezy think we are suffering from collective amnesia?Squeezy and Rauner at the Illinois Education Association Representative Assembly. The teacher delegate from downstate sitting in front of me rotated her chair around as Governor Quinn and Bruce Rauner entered the Grand Ballroom of the downtow

by mike simpson / 2min

Parents Aren't as Afraid of Common Core as Conservatives Are - The Wire

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by mike simpson / 14min

K-12 News Network | United Way’s Corporate NPIC Astroturf was thick in front of LAUSD last Tuesday

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NYC Public School Parents: Pictures and words from our amazing rally yesterday; protesting Gov. Cuomo's forced charter takeover of our public schools

NYC Public School Parents: Pictures and words from our amazing rally yesterday; protesting Gov. Cuomo's forced charter takeover of our public schools: Pictures and words from our amazing rally yesterday; protesting Gov. Cuomo's forced charter takeover of our public schoolsYesterday, we held a terrific rally with hundreds of parents and kids, filling the steps of the NY Public Library, outraged at

by mike simpson / 2h

Peabody School Committee Calls Mitchell Chester’s Role with PARCC a Conflict of Interest | Truth in American Education

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Seize the Day | Taking Note

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Parents OPPOSE HR 10, the “Success and Opportunity Through Charter Schools” bill | Seattle Education

Parents OPPOSE HR 10, the “Success and Opportunity Through Charter Schools” bill | Seattle Education: Parents OPPOSE HR 10, the “Success and Opportunity Through Charter Schools” billThere is a bill titled “Success and Opportunity Through Charter Schools”, referred to as HR 10, to rewrite federal charter law that has strong backing by the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s Republican maj

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4-11-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: A KIPP Teacher Speaks of Her Nervous Breakdown and Post-KIPP Recovery, Part 1The following excerpts are from an interview conducted in February and March of this year. The findings from these in-depth conversations will comprise a significant part of a book I am writing about the experience of teaching in the No Excuses corporate reform charter schools. When Jane became a KIPP te

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Day of Silence

Day of Silence: Read National Day of Silence: The Freedom to Speak (Or Not) by Lambda Legal to learn about your legal rights to participate in the Day of Silence. Are you experiencing resistance to your Day of Silence organizing or activities from your school administrators or faculty? If you are a student in a U.S. K-12 school and feel like your rights are not being respected, please click here

by mike simpson / 4h

Looking at the Best Teachers and Who They Teach | Center for American Progress

Looking at the Best Teachers and Who They Teach | Center for American Progress: Looking at the Best Teachers and Who They TeachPoor Students and Students of Color are Less Likely to Get Highly Effective TeachingSOURCE: AP/Rich PedroncelliSecond-grade teacher Vickie Boudouris goes over a worksheet her students were doing in an English-language-learner summer-school class at the Cordova Villa Elemen

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“Psychedelic Rather Than Intellectual”: A 1960s Sociologist Observes the National Student Congress |

“Psychedelic Rather Than Intellectual”: A 1960s Sociologist Observes the National Student Congress |: “Psychedelic Rather Than Intellectual”: A 1960s Sociologist Observes the National Student CongressApril 11, 2014 in StudentsPopped into Paul’s Books just now, like I always do when I’m in Madison, to check out their education section. By far the best collection of obscure student movement historie

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4-11-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Supporting Chicago's Progressive Caucus...Flexible Arne.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Supporting Chicago's Progressive Caucus...Flexible Arne.: Supporting Chicago's Progressive Caucus...Flexible Arne.Two of my favoritesI got to hang out with some of my favorite folks at last night's Progressive Caucus fundraiser at Buddy Guy's. I'm glad we got there early, the room was so packed, they had to stop letting people in. A good sign for upcoming elections.

by mike simpson / 6h

Louisiana Educator: Last Chance for Accountability for Charters and Vouchers

Louisiana Educator: Last Chance for Accountability for Charters and Vouchers: Last Chance for Accountability for Charters and VouchersAt its next meeting on April 16, the House Education Committee will resume its consideration of bills that would curtail abuses of the voucher and charter school programs. It is very important that supporters of our public schools ask committee members to vote "

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Shanker Blog » The Middle Ground Between Opt Out And All In

Shanker Blog » The Middle Ground Between Opt Out And All In: The Middle Ground Between Opt Out And All InPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on April 11, 2014A couple of weeks ago, Michelle Rhee published an op-ed in the Washington Post speaking out against the so-called “opt out movement,” which encourages parents to refuse to let their children take standardized tests.Personally, I oppose the “opt-out” p

by mike simpson / 6h

Everything You Want to Know about VAM Research |

Everything You Want to Know about VAM Research |: Everything You Want to Know about VAM ResearchPosted on April 11, 2014 by Audrey Amrein-BeardsleyA few weeks ago Diane Ravitch requested that I construct a list of the Top 10 and Top 25 research articles about VAMs, largely to inform others needing research to become more informed about (and defend themselves against) VAMs.In turn, I constructed tw

by mike simpson / 7h

Why should we have charter schools in the first place?

Why should we have charter schools in the first place?: Why should we have charter schools in the first place?In America, anyone is free to open a new school – establish an educational philosophy, accept students, hire teachers and start teaching them. These new schools are called private schools. When this type of school is founded with a religious mission and focus, we call them parochial school

by mike simpson / 7h

Morning Wink 4-11-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS4-11-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLarry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: April’s Infographics & Interactives Galore – Part ThreeThere are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called “Infographics & Inter

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4-11-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: April’s Infographics & Interactives Galore – Part ThreeThere are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called “Infographics & Interactives Galore.” You can see others at A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics and by searching “infographics” on

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FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Friday, April 11, 2014

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 4-11-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Sherm Koons: Down the Rabbit Hole with PARCCSherm Koons left this comment. Check out Sherm’s blog, Tales from the Classroom. He is a veteran high school English teacher in Ohio. Down the Rabbit Hole with PARCC. It’s taken me a while to begin to wrap my head around what’s really going on with PARCC and what makes it so absolutely

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4-11-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: Rally Against Cuomo/State Leg Charter Giveaway - photosThe abandonment of any sense of support for public schools and the caving to the charter lobby has been the equivalent of an ice bomb dropped on many people who have had faith in the political system (I am not one of those and what the state leg did is totally expected). Many of the protesters are promising revenge -- like run

by mike simpson / 8h

NYC Public School Parents: More than 37 NYC principals say NO! to the Commissioner; the state exams are unfair & flawed & need to undergo public scrutiny

NYC Public School Parents: More than 37 NYC principals say NO! to the Commissioner; the state exams are unfair & flawed & need to undergo public scrutiny: More than 37 NYC principals say NO! to the Commissioner; the state exams are unfair & flawed & need to undergo public scrutinyThe day after NY Education Commissioner King in a widely-covered speech claims the state's Common Core

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4-11-14 The Answer Sheet

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4-11-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

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4-11-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida

Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Step Up for Students’ Cynical Last-Minute Voucher PushEven with today’s likely passage of voucher expansion in the Florida House – whose republican leadership doesn’t want anyone to know that Floridians really oppose them – the administrative agent of the state’s voucher

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4-11-14 Wait What?

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4-11-13 Curmudgucation Week

CURMUDGUCATION: Anti-Test & Pro-CoreI have explained repeatedly why I don't believe that the CCSS can be cut free from The Standardized Test Program that accompanies them (both here and here). But it really should come as no surprise that a large (and possibly growing) number of people are calling for just that.We've seen this in the world of ed reform before. In decades past, when a new refor

by mike simpson / 8h

4-11-14 Perdido Street School Week

Perdido Street School: NYSED Commissioner John King: No Retreat, No Surrender, No Quarter On Education Reform AgendaThe NYSED Commissioner does not seem to be chastened in the least by all the criticism of his tenure as head of the State Education Department or calls for his resignation or firing:Under sustained attack over new standardized tests and learning standards, the New York State educatio

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Peggy Noonan: Jeb Bush’s “Dynasty” Less of a Problem Than Education Views | Truth in American Education

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solidaridad: Vote STAY for 90026 Echo Park GEPENC this Saturday!

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The Op-Ed the Journal Sentinel Chose Not to Run on the MMAC | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

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NYC Chancellor Carmen Farina Brings Expertise and Good Sense to 1.1 Million Student District | janresseger

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Education Reformers Pouting and Running Away? They Better Start Running. | Missouri Education Watchdog

Education Reformers Pouting and Running Away? They Better Start Running. | Missouri Education Watchdog: Education Reformers Pouting and Running Away? They Better Start Running.inShareLook! It’s Common Core proponents running away from an anti-Common Core Momma Bear! She has a very determined look and body language. From National Geographic pic.twitter.com/R6meY5iL2FA mother’s metamorphosis into a

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Understand your data & use it wisely! Tips for avoiding stupid mistakes with publicly available NJ data | School Finance 101

Understand your data & use it wisely! Tips for avoiding stupid mistakes with publicly available NJ data | School Finance 101: School Finance 101Data and thoughts on public and private school funding in the U.S.Understand your data & use it wisely! Tips for avoiding stupid mistakes with publicly available NJ dataPosted on April 11, 20140 Rate ThisMy next few blog posts will return to a

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NYC Educator: UFT Leadership--Taxation Without Representation

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by mike simpson / 9h

Statisticians: Value Limited for Value Added | InterACT

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by mike simpson / 9h

YESTERDAY

IEA/NEA Representative Assemby: Meet and Greet – Attila the Hun and Genghis Kahn | Reclaim Reform

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by mike simpson / 19h

Al Sharpton’s NAN Tackles Education, the ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Day’ - Higher Education

Al Sharpton’s NAN Tackles Education, the ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Day’ - Higher Education: Al Sharpton’s NAN Tackles Education, the ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Day’April 10, 2014 | Category: News,Subfeature | : inShare by Jamal WatsonAl Sharpton speaks at the 16th annual National Action Network (NAN) national convention, which addressed issues like education, health and wellness and gu

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John Thompson Reviews John Kuhn's "Fear and Learning" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

John Thompson Reviews John Kuhn's "Fear and Learning" - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: John Thompson Reviews John Kuhn's "Fear and Learning"By Anthony Cody on April 10, 2014 6:43 PMGuest post by John Thompson. It was Texas that led American schools into the valley of fear and test-driven loathing. It was a Texan, Diane Ravitch, who rallied teachers when it seemed

by mike simpson / 21h

States in West and Midwest Lead Nation in Teacher Respect

States in West and Midwest Lead Nation in Teacher Respect: States in West and Midwest Lead Nation in Teacher RespectNevada, Louisiana residents see less respect for their educatorsby Stephanie Kafka, Jordan Jeromchek, and Susan Sorenson12>This article is part of a weeklong series analyzing how education leaders, students, and teachers evaluate education in America. The series will feature American

by mike simpson / 21h

Nite Cap 4-10-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

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 CAPMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What? Is Duncan really bailing out on Common Core?Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: What? Is Duncan really bailing out on Common Core?: What? Is Duncan really bailing out on Common Core?“I believe the Common Core State

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