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Chicago’s School Corruption Won’t End With the Latest Lockup, but Here’s Why I Don’t Feel Hopeless. | The Progressive: Chicago’s School Corruption Scandals Won’t End With the Latest Lockup, but Here’s Why I Don’t Feel Hopeless. Another perpetrator might be going to jail, but that’s just the beginning of what needs to be done to counter the systemic educational oppression of Chicago’s youth. When I
What Teachers Do: A Little Common Sense In This Must-See Video
What Teachers Do: A Little Common Sense In This Must-See Video:What Teachers Do: A Little Common Sense In This Must-See VideoTurns out the teachers got it right. The wheels are falling off the so-called “education reform” project which dismissed the voices of teachers – and particularly their unions – with no little vitriol.Reformers offered clear, simple answers to the supposed failings of Americ
CURMUDGUCATION: Rescuing Strivers from Those People
CURMUDGUCATION: Rescuing Strivers from Those People: Rescuing Strivers from Those PeopleToday in Bloomberg View, Mike Petrilli is airing out his ideas about how charters should be the lifeboats that rescue strivers from the chaos of disruptive students.His thesis is pretty simple-- strivers suffer from being trapped in classrooms that are disrupted by non-strivey students, so if we could screen fo
School vs. Society in America’s Failing Students - The New York Times
School vs. Society in America’s Failing Students - The New York Times: School vs. Society in America’s Failing StudentsHere’s the good news: American schools may not be as bad as we have been led to believe.Ah, but here’s the bad news: The rest of American society is failing its disadvantaged citizens even more than we realize. The question is, Should educators be responsible for fixing this?The p
Education Reform – Testing kids on content they’ve never learned - Wait What?
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Child Care Annual Aggregate Report SFY 2014-15 - Child Development (CA Dept of Education)
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Will Competency-Based Learning Rescue the Testocracy? - Living in Dialogue
Will Competency-Based Learning Rescue the Testocracy? - Living in Dialogue: Will Competency-Based Learning Rescue the Testocracy?By Anthony Cody.We have been badgered for the past 14 years by reformers insisting on the fierce urgency of change, and they have had their way – twice! First, seven years of NCLB, followed by the past seven years of Race to the Top, and now the “next generation” of test
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Byrd-Bennett, SUPES & Harcourt's goal in Detroit: Loot and then burn.
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Byrd-Bennett, SUPES & Harcourt's goal in Detroit: Loot and then burn.: Byrd-Bennett, SUPES & Harcourt's goal in Detroit: Loot and then burn.Byrd-Bennett's inner circle, Tracy Martin, Sherry Ulery and Rosemary Herpel, followed her from Cleveland and Detroit.I'm glad that Chicago reporters are finally uncovering the depth and breadth of the SUPES scandal.
Rick Smith – Letting Teachers Voices Through the Media Embargo | gadflyonthewallblog
Rick Smith – Letting Teachers Voices Through the Media Embargo | gadflyonthewallblog: Rick Smith – Letting Teachers Voices Through the Media EmbargoI met Rick Smith for the first time in person this summer in Washington, D.C.He had traveled to our nation’s capital to cover the Badass Teachers Association(BATs) Congress of which I was a member. Though I’d seen pictures and videos of him and even be
David Hursh’s New Book, The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education | deutsch29
David Hursh’s New Book, The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education | deutsch29: David Hursh’s New Book, The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education(The Kindle version is already available on Amazon.com. Moreover, this flyer from Routledge includes information on a 20 percent discount.)David HurshUniversity of Rochester (New York)
CURMUDGUCATION: Magnet vs. Charter
CURMUDGUCATION: Magnet vs. Charter: Magnet vs. CharterOnce again, I had a version of this conversation.Me: Charters are not public schools because they are not open to or committed to taking all students. They filter and cream and push out and refuse to backfill.Reformster: What about magnet schools? Those are public schools which have stringent admission requirements. They don't educate every chi
California's Attorney General Is Investigating The Online Charter School Industry - BuzzFeed News
California's Attorney General Is Investigating The Online Charter School Industry - BuzzFeed News: California’s Attorney General Is Investigating The Online Charter School IndustryStudents at virtual charter schools lag significantly behind their peers in brick-and-mortar classrooms, sparking big worries among education advocates.The for-profit online charter school industry is the target of an in
Better pay, more time to plan and one other thing teachers want from you - LA Times
Better pay, more time to plan and one other thing teachers want from you - LA Times: Better pay, more time to plan and one other thing teachers want from youAmid a shortage of teachers in California, a new report calls for attracting more people to the profession by making teaching more prestigious. (Anthony Russo / For The Times)en Arielle Bourguignon started teaching at 24th Street Elementary i
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In response to war on unions, the CTU prepares its troops for battle
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: In response to war on unions, the CTU prepares its troops for battle: In response to war on unions, the CTU prepares its troops for battle"Our plan will eliminate the big government unions entirely..." -- Scott WalkerGov. Rauner's war on the unions, especially teacher unions, is modeled on his pal, Gov. Walker's war in Wisconsin. Walker's plans include prev
The Very Persistent Delusions of Billionaire-Edureformers | the becoming radical
The Very Persistent Delusions of Billionaire-Edureformers | the becoming radical: The Very Persistent Delusions of Billionaire-EdureformersBillionaire-Edureformer extraordinaire Bill Gates “sat in a gray easy chair” at Clemson University’s Tillman Hall (yes, that Tillman Hall) to pontificate once more on education reform.Gates soothed the crowd by explaining “that if they get frustrated at the lac
Review of Journeys: Are @KIPP charter schools pathological? | Cloaking Inequity
Review of Journeys: Are @KIPP charter schools pathological? | Cloaking Inequity: Review of Journeys: Are @KIPP charter schools pathological?Are @KIPP charter schools pathological? Jim Horn et al. will soon publish a new book entitled Work Hard, Be Hard: Journeys Through “No Excuses” Teaching. The following is a review based on the advance copy that I received.Jim Horn et al. have collected importa
Possible candidates emerge in LAUSD superintendent search | 89.3 KPCC
Possible candidates emerge in LAUSD superintendent search | 89.3 KPCC: Possible candidates emerge in LAUSD superintendent searchThe search for Los Angeles Unified’s next superintendent enters a new phase this month as recruiters reach out across the country to approach qualified candidates.After the LAUSD’s school board decides on the type of candidates it wants to interview, the search firm it hi
Campaign Finance Violations will follow Bronin (Win or Lose) - Wait What?
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This Week In Education: Campaign 2016: Standalone Education PACs - Is It Time?
This Week In Education: Campaign 2016: Standalone Education PACs - Is It Time?: Campaign 2016: Standalone Education PACs - Is It Time?I had the chance to chat for a few minutes yesterday afternoon with Naveed Amalfard, one of the co-founders of America's Teachers whose efforts have been written up recently in the LA Times among other places.Describing the effort as a "a political startup,&quo
Video: The Constitution and School Choice - Yahoo News
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Bill Gates spent a fortune to build it. Now a Florida school system is getting rid of it. - The Washington Post
Bill Gates spent a fortune to build it. Now a Florida school system is getting rid of it. - The Washington Post: Bill Gates spent a fortune to build it. Now a Florida school system is getting rid of it.Here we go again. Another Bill Gates-funded education reform project, starting with mountains of cash and sky-high promises, is crashing to Earth.This time it’s the Empowering Effective Teachers, an
Colorado School District Immersed In Political Turmoil Amid Recall
Colorado School District Immersed In Political Turmoil Amid Recall: Colorado School District Immersed In Political Turmoil Amid Recall"I think we are a harbinger of education reform, what can persist and succeed and what cannot."Protesting students Adriana Gonzales, right, and Andrea Colmenero march against a Jefferson County School Board proposal to emphasize patriotism and downplay civ
Here’s why $7 billion didn’t help America’s worst schools - POLITICO
Here’s why $7 billion didn’t help America’s worst schools - POLITICO: Here’s why $7 billion didn’t help America’s worst schoolsWhat two troubled high schools tell us about why the government got so little for so much money.In 2009, the Obama administration saw a chance to tackle a problem that had bedeviled educators for decades.“Our goal is to turn around the 5,000 lowest-performing schools over
Gulen charter school network: Overseas Junkets And Charter Schools – Part Two
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A Change in Leadership on K-12 for the Gates Foundation, But Not Direction - Inside Philanthropy
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Germany’s Approach to School Reform: Standards and Testing Without Any Penalties - The Atlantic
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Jesse Hagopian: Rolling back the testing mania?
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Financial Woes Plague Common-Core Rollout - WSJ
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Obama’s regret: “Taking the joy out of teaching and learning” | Seattle Education
Obama’s regret: “Taking the joy out of teaching and learning” | Seattle Education: Obama’s regret: “Taking the joy out of teaching and learning”Obama’s call to reduce testing to 2% of the school year still requires students to take standardized tests for an outlandish twenty-four hours. And it isn’t even all the time directly spent taking the tests that’s the biggest problem.The real shame, which
Teachers For Social Justice: ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE SCHOOL BOARD—THIS IS OUR MOMENT!
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Will we get more testing status quo from Presidential Candidates? — NAACP Now
Will we get more testing status quo from Presidential Candidates? — NAACP Now — Medium: Will we get more testing status quo from Presidential Candidates?Many were recently disappointed by the lack of conversation about K-12 education in the recent Democratic debate in Las Vegas. The Progressive Magazine asked me to reflect on the dearth of coverage. I wrote.The recent Democratic Party presidential
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CORPORATE ED REFORMYes, this stuff is still happening in U.S. schools — and it’s wrong - The Washington PostYes, this stuff is still happening in U.S. schools — and it’s wrong - The Washington Post: Yes, this stuff is still happening in U.S. schools — and it’s wrongA high school in an impoverished community is ordered closed. It is doing an awful job with its students, the school board says, and t
