Special Nite Cap - Catch Up on Today's Post 3/28/15
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Señor Chuy Garcia race not just about Chicago #VoteChuyGarcia #fox32debate #IMWITHCHUY | Cloaking Inequity
Señor Chuy Garcia race not just about Chicago #VoteChuyGarcia #fox32debate #IMWITHCHUY | Cloaking Inequity:Señor Chuy Garcia race not just about Chicago #VoteChuyGarcia #fox32debate #IMWITHCHUYWhat the background on Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago runoff? Why are so many Democrats unhappy with a Democrat? In 2013, I wrote about his cozy relationship with billionaires in the post Bloomberg and Rahmbo:
With A Brooklyn Accent: Liz Phillips' Speech at the " Protect Our Schools Rally" at Cuomo's Offices in Manhattan
With A Brooklyn Accent: Liz Phillips' Speech at the " Protect Our Schools Rally" at Cuomo's Offices in Manhattan:Liz Phillips' Speech at the " Protect Our Schools Rally" at Cuomo's Offices in ManhattanWe all want great teachers teaching our children. Unfortunately,the governor’s teacher evaluation proposals will do absolutely nothing to help us meet that goal—and in fact with
A Teacher Tries Opting Out | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience
A Teacher Tries Opting Out | Teachers' Letters of Professional Conscience: A Teacher Tries Opting OutThis is my first blog post and kind of the reason I decided to create my own blog: to keep people updated on what is going on with my request, as a teacher, to be allowed to opt out of administering the flawed Smarter Balanced Assessment.Last month, my local association stood before our school boa
Is the tug of war on education policy between liberal "reform proponents" and the unions, as the NY Times argues, or the 1% and nearly everyone else?
NYC Public School Parents: Is the tug of war on education policy between liberal "reform proponents" and the unions, as the NY Times argues, or the 1% and nearly everyone else?: Is the tug of war on education policy between liberal "reform proponents" and the unions, as the NY Times argues, or the 1% and nearly everyone else?NY Times ran a front page article on Wednesday, focus
LA Charter School Teachers Trying To Unionize | Crooks and Liars
LA Charter School Teachers Trying To Unionize | Crooks and Liars: LA Charter School Teachers Trying To UnionizeBy KaroliCharter school teachers in Los Angeles are trying to unionize within one of the largest charter school chains -- Alliance College-Ready schools. After being told by charter school managers that they would remain neutral, the opposite has happened.Teachers are receiving letters en
Exposing Hedge Fund Politics in New York - NYTimes.com
Exposing Hedge Fund Politics in New York - NYTimes.com: Exposing Hedge Fund Politics in New YorkTwo weeks ago, several busloads of New Yorkers made a pilgrimage to Greenwich, Conn., to visit the waterfront estate of the hedge fund titan Paul Tudor Jones II, where, suffice it to say, they were not invited in to see the china. It was a rainy Saturday afternoon and the protesters, many of them ordina
Thousands Rally Against Cuomo's Billionaire-Backed Education Scheme | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
Thousands Rally Against Cuomo's Billionaire-Backed Education Scheme | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community: Thousands Rally Against Cuomo's Billionaire-Backed Education SchemeStudents, parents, and teachers protest New York governor's plan to tie standardized tests to teacher evaluations Thousands of parents, teachers, and students from across the state flooded t
New Bill Would Have Teachers Diagnose Psychological Issues in Children and Report them to Police | The Free Thought Project
New Bill Would Have Teachers Diagnose Psychological Issues in Children and Report them to Police | The Free Thought Project: New Bill Would Have Teachers Diagnose Psychological Issues in Children and Report them to PoliceDallas, Texas – Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) is once again in the spotlight after submitting yet another Orwellian proposal, H.B. 985.Villalba first raised
An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution: United Opt Out’s Test of Courage
An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution: United Opt Out’s Test of CourageAn Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution: United Opt Out’s Test of CourageIn the summer of 2013, United Opt Out spent all of June writing 50 state opt out/refusal guides to arm everyone with an essential tool, specific to their state, in order to halt corporate education reform via opt out. This summer we h
CURMUDGUCATION: Help for the Failing Schools
CURMUDGUCATION: Help for the Failing Schools: Help for the Failing Schools This is newest reformster talking point-- the Big Standardized Test is a big boon to poor and minority students, and to ask them to opt out is to ask them is to ask them to become invisible. Robert Pondiscio was pushing it again at the Fordham's blog this week. It's a nice rhetorical move, but it's limited by the degree to
The Gates Foundation vs. the World Social Forum: A Tale of Two Meetings | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
The Gates Foundation vs. the World Social Forum: A Tale of Two Meetings | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community: The Gates Foundation vs. the World Social Forum: A Tale of Two MeetingsbyMorten ThaysenFood sovereignty activists protest outside a secret elite corporate seed conference convened by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and the United States Age
GUEST VOICES: Opting Out in the Jersey Suburbs, Or, White Like Me by Belinda Edmondson | parentingthecore
GUEST VOICES: Opting Out in the Jersey Suburbs, Or, White Like Me by Belinda Edmondson | parentingthecore: GUEST VOICES: Opting Out in the Jersey Suburbs, Or, White Like Me by Belinda Edmondson4The latest attacks by the education reformers and standardized testing advocates against the test-refusal movement have focused on the issue of race. For example, on March 25, 2015, Robert Pondiscio of The
Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC | North Denver News
Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC | North Denver News: Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC The new curriculum driven into law by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the Common Core Standards, is a product of massive spending on an unprecedented historical level by Bill Gates.Research by Jack Hassard, Professor Em
Report: Idaho wasted millions on Pearson management system | Education Dive
Report: Idaho wasted millions on Pearson management system | Education Dive: Report: Idaho wasted millions on Pearson management systemDive Brief:The Idaho Legislature’s Office of Performance Evaluations has released a new report with some devastating findings: the state mismanaged and ultimately wasted $61 million on the rollout of a Pearson management system, Schoolnet.The report doesn't look go
Skull Measurements, Achievement Data and the Destruction of the Public School System | educarenow
Skull Measurements, Achievement Data and the Destruction of the Public School System | educarenow: Skull Measurements, Achievement Data and the Destruction of the Public School SystemIn the 1880’s, a white anthropologist named Samuel Morton theorized that the relative intelligence of different races could be determined by measuring and comparing skulls. He then took to measuring hundreds of skull
Chicago's School Finances Grow Worse - Thanks Rahm #DumpRahm #Chuy2015
Divergent bond results for Chicago and Philadelphia schools - Yahoo Finance:Divergent bond results for Chicago and Philadelphia schoolsMarch 26 (Reuters) - Two of the nation's most distressed big-city school districts issued general obligation bonds this week, with very different results.The junk-rated Philadelphia School District borrowed at investment-grade levels thanks to a state intercept pro
We’re educating our kids all wrong: The progressive argument against standardized-test mania - Salon.com
We’re educating our kids all wrong: The progressive argument against standardized-test mania - Salon.com: We’re educating our kids all wrong: The progressive argument against standardized-test maniaBacklash against overtesting, "accountability" and Common Core is right on. Here's how we empower teachers and kidsTOM LITTLE AND KATHERINE ELLISON Excerpted from "Loving Learning: How Pr
Wethersfield Teachers Union, Administrators Discuss Negative Survey Results - Hartford Courant
Wethersfield Teachers Union, Administrators Discuss Negative Survey Results - Hartford Courant: Wethersfield Teachers Union, Administrators Discuss Negative Survey Results THERSFIELD — The school system and the teachers union privately discussed last week a union survey showing widespread discontent among elementary school teachers with many district policies."We had some good, fruitful discu
Do You Always get the Truth in Florida When You Ask to OPT OUT
Do You Always get the Truth in Florida When You Ask to OPT OUT?Parents Can Opt Out - United Opt Out NationalClick Here to go to United Opt Out National: Click Here to go to the Website- United Opt Out TeamClick Here to go to the Website FairTest
Ex-employee on Excel Bridgeport and the reform movement - Education Matters
Ex-employee on Excel Bridgeport and the reform movement - Education Matters:Ex-employee on Excel Bridgeport and the reform movementTurning my column today over to Jorge Cabrera, who for three years worked for Excel Bridgeport as a community organizer before he was laid off.He has something to say:The Movement: The Battle for Public Education in Bridgeport,A Repentant Reformer’s Reflections For nea
The End of the Road for PUBLIC SCHOOL Teachers? I Don’t Think So!
The End of the Road for PUBLIC SCHOOL Teachers? I Don’t Think So!: The End of the Road for PUBLIC SCHOOL Teachers? I Don’t Think So!MARCH 28, 2015 BY NANCY BAILEY 1 COMMENTIs it the end of the road for public school teachers? It seems like a bad sign when a respected teacher wins an award for teaching, and during a conversation afterwards on CNN, tells young people to go into teaching only if they
Why Charter Schools Have to Try to Destroy Public Schools
(99) Why Charter Schools Have to Try to Destroy Public Schools: Why Charter Schools Have to Try to Destroy Public SchoolsMarch 28, 2015 at 4:17amMany observers have been perplexed about why Charter School Organizations in New York, especially Eva Mosokowitz's Success Academies, have been spending huge amounts of money to mobilize in behalf of Andrew Cuomo's entire package of education reforms, not
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The Crony Capitalist War of greed against U.S. Public Education | Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé
The Crony Capitalist War of greed against U.S. Public Education | Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé: The Crony Capitalist War of greed against U.S. Public Education There are several forms of Capitalism in use throughout the world. Economics Help.org defines them and reports that Crony Capitalism is what’s used in the United States. The Age of Crony Capitalism says, “For most of US history, cron
Standardized testing: I opted my kids out. The schools freaked out. Now I know why.
Standardized testing: I opted my kids out. The schools freaked out. Now I know why.: I Opted My Kids Out of Standardized TestsThen I learned a thing or two.She's smiling because she knows taking the test may very well be easier than opting out.Photo by iStock/Thinkstock Deciding to opt my two daughters out of Colorado standardized testing seemed like a no-brainer. We aren’t permanent Colorado resi
Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 3/27/15
Special Nite Cap - Catch Up on Today's Post 3/27/15Special Nite Cap CORPORATE ED REFORMAre Okla GOP Politicians Still For a Strong Supt?Are Okla GOP Politicians Still For a Strong Supt?: ARE OKLA GOP POLITICIANS STILL FOR A STRONG SUPT?Joy Hofmeister, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public InstructionPhoto by Brett Dickerson There are Republican politicians in Oklahoma. And then, there is that Republic
