Special Nite Cap - Catch Up on Today's Post 4/18/15
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Education, Education, Education! Wake Up America We Have a Problem! 04/19 by Coffee Party USA | Politics Podcasts
Education, Education, Education! Wake Up America We Have a Problem! 04/19 by Coffee Party USA | Politics Podcasts: Education, Education, Education! Wake Up America We Have a Problem!Smart Options & Common Core. A replay of my discussion with Victoria Young, author of Education’s Missing Ingredient: What Parents Can Tell Educators (2009) and, The Crucial Voice of the People, Past and Present (2
With A Brooklyn Accent: Test Resistance- A Movement that Can't Be Suppressed
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The Teaching Profession | Deborah Meier on Education
The Teaching Profession | Deborah Meier on Education: The Teaching ProfessionPosted on April 18, 2015 by debmeierDear readers,I am off to Chicago for the tail end of AERA, for a Save our Schools meeting and for the second annual Network for Public Education gathering and, most importantly, to visit friends from “the old days.” My three children were born in Chicago, I started to teach there, and o
Little Rock Superintendent Dexter Suggs: Book Author?? | deutsch29
Little Rock Superintendent Dexter Suggs: Book Author?? | deutsch29: Little Rock Superintendent Dexter Suggs: Book Author??Little Rock Superintendent Dexter Suggs has accomplished something astounding:He plagiarized hefty chunks of his 2009 dissertation from at least four sources(three other dissertations and a Milken Foundation research report)– and he got away with it for six years.The good news
Wendy Lecker: Charter schools -- civil rights rhetoric vs. reality - StamfordAdvocate
Wendy Lecker: Charter schools -- civil rights rhetoric vs. reality - StamfordAdvocate: Wendy Lecker: Charter schools -- civil rights rhetoric vs. realityEducation "reformers" often proclaim they are carrying on the tradition of great civil rights leaders, employing the rhetoric of that movement while in reality pushing measures that exacerbate inequality and impact most harshly on childr
CURMUDGUCATION: Living in Dialogue, Teacher Voices, and The NEA 360 Report
CURMUDGUCATION: Living in Dialogue, Teacher Voices, and The NEA 360 Report:Living in Dialogue, Teacher Voices, and The NEA 360 ReportAt his blog Living in Dialogue, Anthony Cody has published an important series of articles about the creation of NEA's 360 report. Taken together, the articles create a picture of the contentious and fraught (depending on your perspective) process involved in creatin
Opt-Out Movement Is Growing | PopularResistance.Org
Opt-Out Movement Is Growing | PopularResistance.Org: Opt-Out Movement Is Growing As students wrapped up this week’s state English exams, advocates said more city parents than ever refused to let their children take the tests at schools with active “opt-out” movements, while other parents brought the boycott to schools that are new to the cause.In District 15, Brooklyn’s opt-out hotspot, P.S. 321 s
Tentative settlement reached between teachers and L.A. Unified - LA Times
Tentative settlement reached between teachers and L.A. Unified - LA Times: Tentative settlement reached between teachers and L.A. Unified The L.A. Unified School District and the teachers union reached a tentative contract settlement Friday night for a three-year deal that includes a 10% salary increase over two years. There also are terms affecting class sizes, the number of counselors at schools
Common Core Means No Child Left Untested | Alan Singer
Common Core Means No Child Left Untested | Alan Singer: Common Core Means No Child Left Untested After the first day of New York State's high-stakes Common Core aligned standardized testing, Newsday reported, "Thousands of Long Island elementary and middle school students -- in record numbers in some districts -- refused to take the state's English Language Arts exam." According to the R
Chicago Teachers Union | Latest CPS Scandal Highlights Chicago’s Need for Democratically Elected, Representative School Board
Chicago Teachers Union | Latest CPS Scandal Highlights Chicago’s Need for Democratically Elected, Representative School Board: Latest CPS Scandal Highlights Chicago’s Need for Democratically Elected, Representative School BoardBY CTU COMMUNICATIONS | 04/16/2015CHICAGO—The federal investigation of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett’s role in a no-bid $20.5 m
Drastic cuts to suburban Detroit school district
Drastic cuts to suburban Detroit school district - World Socialist Web Site: Drastic cuts to suburban Detroit school districtThe suburban Detroit, Michigan city of Hazel Park is laying off nearly a quarter of its school district staff and slashing the pay of the remaining teachers and support personnel.The “inner-ring” Detroit suburb was established as a bedroom community of autoworkers in the 194
South Miami-based charter school management company under federal scrutiny | Miami Herald Miami Herald
South Miami-based charter school management company under federal scrutiny | Miami Herald Miami Herald: South Miami-based charter school management company under federal scrutinyThe state’s largest charter school management company has come under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Education for potential conflicts of interests in its business practices, federal authorities have confirmed.The Edu
This Article May Be Illegal – Lifting the Veil of Silence on Standardized Testing | gadflyonthewallblog
This Article May Be Illegal – Lifting the Veil of Silence on Standardized Testing | gadflyonthewallblog: This Article May Be Illegal – Lifting the Veil of Silence on Standardized Testing Warning!What you are about to read may be a criminal act.I may have broken the law by putting this information out there.Edward Snowden leaked data about civilian surveillance. Chelsea Manning released top secret
Applause for No Child Left Behind rewrite, but concerns remain - Yahoo News
Applause for No Child Left Behind rewrite, but concerns remain - Yahoo News: Applause for No Child Left Behind rewrite, but concerns remainThe Senate bill would continue to require some current levels of testing, but it would allow states to set up their own accountability systems.A bipartisan Senate bill to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as No Child Lef
Opt-out movement accelerates amid Common Core testing - Yahoo News
Opt-out movement accelerates amid Common Core testing - Yahoo News: Opt-out movement accelerates amid Common Core testingATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of students are opting out of new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards, defying the latest attempt by states to improve academic performance.Related StoriesThousands likely to sit out New York English, math tests Associated PressMore S
School districts, parents at odds over breakfast in class - Yahoo News
School districts, parents at odds over breakfast in class - Yahoo News: School districts, parents at odds over breakfast in class LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of breakfasts served in the nation's schools has doubled in the last two decades, a surge driven largely by a change in how districts deliver the food.Instead of providing low-income students free or reduced-price meals in the cafeteria, th
There's a parenting trend that's taken over the US, and it's changing children everywhere - Yahoo Finance
There's a parenting trend that's taken over the US, and it's changing children everywhere - Yahoo Finance: There's a parenting trend that's taken over the US, and it's changing children everywhereWhat's happening here?The Economist reports that in the US, wealthy parents have a tendency toward becoming "helicopters," constantly buzzing about their children, ferrying them from one extracu
School vouchers in Milwaukee, religious freedom and discrimination
School vouchers in Milwaukee, religious freedom and discrimination: School vouchers in Milwaukee, religious freedom and discriminationAs the recent Indiana controversy has made clear, anti-gay bigotry is no longer publicly acceptable even when cloaked with rhetoric of religious freedom.It's a lesson that, sooner or later, Wisconsin will have to confront. But not because the state has a law similar
Teachers' union, student group fights Newark's designation of 9 struggling schools | NJ.com
Teachers' union, student group fights Newark's designation of 9 struggling schools | NJ.com: Teachers' union, student group fights Newark's designation of 9 struggling schools NEWARK — Newark Public Schools announced this week that nine schools will become "turnaround schools" during the next school year in an effort to curb struggling performance.The designation will mean that teachers
Senator Murray: 'No Child Left Behind' Might Get Left Behind | KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest
Senator Murray: 'No Child Left Behind' Might Get Left Behind | KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest: Senator Murray: 'No Child Left Behind' Might Get Left BehindU.S. Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., smiles at a press conference at Franklin High School in Seattle on April 17, 2015.KYLE STOKES KPLUKYLE STOKES KPLUListenListening...1:28A U.S. Senate committee advanced a bill to re-write the federal
Earl Nissen: A nightmare of school reform in New Mexico - Silver City Sun-News
Earl Nissen: A nightmare of school reform in New Mexico - Silver City Sun-News: Earl Nissen: A nightmare of school reform in New MexicoI just had the worst nightmare and needed to write about it.It is February 1, 2017. President Jeb Bush just appointed Andy Nunez as secretary of interior because of his strong statement on making wolves extinct. Susana Martinez was made secretary of state because o
We’re teaching our kids wrong: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates do not have the answers - Salon.com
We’re teaching our kids wrong: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates do not have the answers - Salon.com: We’re teaching our kids wrong: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates do not have the answersOur kids worship wealth and celebrities. We've lost track of school's real purpose -- exciting the mindBill Gates, Steve Jobs (Credit: AP/Bebeto Matthews/Dima Gavrysh) Excerpted from "The End of the Rainbow: How Educating
Welcome to the Matrix: The New York State Board of Regents Begins to Create Yet Another New Teacher Evaluation Plan – By June 30th. | Ed In The Apple
Welcome to the Matrix: The New York State Board of Regents Begins to Create Yet Another New Teacher Evaluation Plan – By June 30th. | Ed In The Apple: Welcome to the Matrix: The New York State Board of Regents Begins to Create Yet Another New Teacher Evaluation Plan – By June 30th.Posted on April 17, 2015 | 3 CommentsOn Monday, April 13th the members of the Board of Regents and a packed audience l
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VP Jesse Sharkey on leave of absence taken by CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett
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Big Education Ape: Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 4/17/15
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