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Sorting Coloradoans like shoes: “by size, shape, and color.” Pilot starts in Denver Public Schools – Missouri Education Watchdog
Sorting Coloradoans like shoes: “by size, shape, and color.” Pilot starts in Denver Public Schools – Missouri Education Watchdog: Sorting Coloradoans like shoes: “by size, shape, and color.” Pilot starts in Denver Public Schools(The sorting people like shoes thing, yep, that’s part of a quote. Scroll down to see the whole thing.)Workforce pathways and digital workforce credentials are all the rag
Seattle Schools Community Forum: South Shore Invites 100 Black Men to School
Seattle Schools Community Forum: South Shore Invites 100 Black Men to School: South Shore Invites 100 Black Men to SchoolFrom SPS:National African-American Parent Involvement DayFebruary 8, 20167 a.m. – 2 p.m.South Shore PK-8In a dynamic family engagement event, South Shore Pre-K – 8 School will be host to over 100 men of African descent, welcoming every child with enthusiastic “high fives” to sch
An Urban Teacher's Education: Preparing Innovative Change Agents for Justice
An Urban Teacher's Education: Preparing Innovative Change Agents for Justice: Preparing Innovative Change Agents for JusticeAfter spending my day yesterday in a district discussion about how to remake and rebrand our high school, I got to thinking a lot about what we should be preparing students for after high school.Before I go further, I want to emphasize that I believe that school is not just a
Welcome TFA 2016 Corps Members | Jamaal A. Bowman
Welcome TFA 2016 Corps Members | Jamaal A. Bowman: Welcome TFA 2016 Corps Members JAMAAL A. BOWMANDear TFA 2016 Corps Members,Thank you for choosing to enter the teaching profession. Please stay longer than two years. Give the classroom at least five. If you’re placed in a “no excuses” school, just know that that is not the way things ought to be for children and it “doesn’t feel right” because it
Should schools prepare students to lead the pack or be a pack leader? | Johnathan Chase | LinkedIn
Should schools prepare students to lead the pack or be a pack leader? | Johnathan Chase | LinkedIn: Should schools prepare students to lead the pack or be a pack leader? "If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and
Save Our Schools March – SOS Position Papers
Save Our Schools March – SOS Position Papers: SOS Position PapersBetter AssessmentFor a printable (PDF) version of this document, click here,“Malia and Sasha, my two daughters, they just recently took a standardized test. But it wasn’t a high-stakes test. It wasn’t a test where they had to panic. I mean, they didn’t even really know that they were going to take it ahead of time. They didn’t study
You Are Invited to Participate in the #HowMuchTesting Debate! | VAMboozled!
You Are Invited to Participate in the #HowMuchTesting Debate! | VAMboozled!: You Are Invited to Participate in the #HowMuchTesting Debate!As the scholarly debate about the extent and purpose of educational testing rages on, theAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) wants to hear from you. During a key session at its Centennial Conference this spring in Washington DC, titled How Much Tes
Emails reveal the “Gates Machine” in action after the Washington State Supreme Court’s decision that charter schools are unconstitutional | Seattle Education
Emails reveal the “Gates Machine” in action after the Washington State Supreme Court’s decision that charter schools are unconstitutional | Seattle Education: Emails reveal the “Gates Machine” in action after the Washington State Supreme Court’s decision that charter schools are unconstitutional Is The Gates Foundation an invisible fourth branch of Washington’s state government?In a previous post
CURMUDGUCATION: ESSA, Teachers, and Business Models
CURMUDGUCATION: ESSA, Teachers, and Business Models: ESSA, Teachers, and Business ModelsThomas Arnett is an Education Research Fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, and he's written some classics in the reformster press (like this piece about why teachers shouldn't grade their own students). He has worked for Achievement First Charter and started his educationist c
Cha-Ching! Wealthy Charter School backers give big to Malloy – Malloy gives big to charter schools - Wait What?
Cha-Ching! Wealthy Charter School backers give big to Malloy – Malloy gives big to charter schools - Wait What?:Cha-Ching! Wealthy Charter School backers give big to Malloy – Malloy gives big to charter schoolsCall it the new American Way. The billionaires, millionaires and corporate elite who fund charter schools give generously to Democratic and Republican politicians and the politicians return
My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids vs. Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher
My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids vs. Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real Teacher: My Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged Kids vs. Can We Please, Just Once, Have A Real TeacherMy Year Volunteering As A Teacher Helped Educate A New Generation Of Underprivileged KidsMegan RichmondVolunteer Teacher
Peltier: ‘My Forty Years In Prison’ | PopularResistance.Org
Peltier: ‘My Forty Years In Prison’ | PopularResistance.Org: Peltier: ‘My Forty Years In Prison’Coleman, FL – What can I say that I have not said before? I guess I can start by saying see you later to all of those who have passed in the last year. We Natives don’t like to mention their names. We believe that if we speak their names it disrupts their journey. They may lose their way and their spiri
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Of Legislative Matters
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Of Legislative Matters: Of Legislative MattersFeb. 5th was one of the key dates in the 60-day legislative session. It was the policy cut-off in the House of Origin.Here are the next key dates:Feb. 9th: Fiscal Cut-off in the House of OriginFeb. 17: House of Origin Cut-offFeb. 26th: Policy Cut-off in the Opposite HouseFeb. 29th: Fiscal Cut-off in the Opposite HouseM
Teachers For Social Justice: Get on the BUS! Thurs Feb 18 TSJ ERSB Field Trip to Springfield!
Teachers For Social Justice: Get on the BUS! Thurs Feb 18 TSJ ERSB Field Trip to Springfield!: Get on the BUS! Thurs Feb 18 TSJ ERSB Field Trip to Springfield!Springfield Rally and Lobby Day for Elected Representative School BoardThursday, February 18th6:00 AM till 6:00 PMThe TSJ Bus will be at 1100 S. Hamilton.Parking is available, $2-3 for the dayWe're taking our fight for an Elected Representat
Schools Matter: Big Data Needs Your Personalized Data Points
Schools Matter: Big Data Needs Your Personalized Data Points: Schools Matter: Big Data Needs Your Personalized Data PointsAs you take a few moments to listen to this super snail oil salesman, think about the implications of this technology in the hands of Zuckerberg and the Wall Street crime bosses who want to control the worldwide education industry. The battle to preserve student autonomy and an
An astonishing admission from a controversial school reformer - The Washington Post
An astonishing admission from a controversial school reformer - The Washington Post: An astonishing admission from a controversial school reformerCami Anderson is the former schools superintendent in Newark who was relentless in pushing highly controversial education reforms from 2011 through 2015 and became one of the faces of the corporate school reform movement. She abruptly left the job last s
“COMMON” Goal: Corporate Ownership of Public Education and Our Childrens’ Futures | educationalchemy
“COMMON” Goal: Corporate Ownership of Public Education and Our Childrens’ Futures | educationalchemy: “COMMON” Goal: Corporate Ownership of Public Education and Our Childrens’ FuturesCommon Goal. Part I.Lamar Alexander and Patti Murray didn’t (really) write the new Every Child Succeeds Act (ESSA). The Business Roundtable (BRT) did. Let me break this down for you:By now, those of us who are fightin
CURMUDGUCATION: NCTQ: Terrible Teacher Prep and Headline Research
CURMUDGUCATION: NCTQ: Terrible Teacher Prep and Headline Research: NCTQ: Terrible Teacher Prep and Headline ResearchThe National Council on Teacher Quality is one of the great mysteries of the education biz. They have no particular credentials and are truly the laziest "researchers" on the planet, but I think I may have cracked the code. Let me show you their latest piece of "resear
Education Research Report: Has implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) affected NAEP performance?
Education Research Report: Has implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) affected NAEP performance?: Has implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) affected NAEP performance? The 2015 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for grades 4 and 8 were greeted with both disappointment and frustration. Despite years of reform strategies and millions
With A Brooklyn Accent: Time to Chuck the Small Schools Movement- A Commentary by Bronx Teacher Aixa Rodriguez
With A Brooklyn Accent: Time to Chuck the Small Schools Movement- A Commentary by Bronx Teacher Aixa Rodriguez: Time to Chuck the Small Schools Movement A Commentary by Bronx Teacher Aixa Rodriguez The small schools movement in NYCDOE high schools has got to go. It has run its course and enough students have been experimented on, enough veteran teachers have been pushed out via institutional ageis
Louisiana Educator: Push Poll Used to Try to Sabotage Governor's Budget Proposals
Louisiana Educator: Push Poll Used to Try to Sabotage Governor's Budget Proposals: Push Poll Used to Try to Sabotage Governor's Budget ProposalsI was one of the targets of a very aggressive telephone "push poll" Saturday afternoon. A push poll is really a fake public opinion poll where a political group hires a fake polling company to influence voters to support their point of view on on
CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Your Sunday Halftime Reading
CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Your Sunday Halftime Reading: ICYMI: Your Sunday Halftime Readingust kidding. At my house, the game will not even be on, and I'm pretty sure life will go on. But here are a few pieces to read today.The Real Issue with Teacher PayThe North Carolina 2015 Teacher of the Year has a few things to say about respect for the profession (and if you've been paying attention to North C
Special education class sizes are the target (again). | Fred Klonsky
Special education class sizes are the target (again). | Fred Klonsky: Special education class sizes are the target (again).By Bev Johns“The most burdensome aspects of special education mandates identified in the survey were underfunding from state government and class sizes, especially concerning the required ratio of students with special needs to those without.” [the regulation that students wit
A Community of Writing Teachers – the becoming radical
A Community of Writing Teachers – the becoming radical: A Community of Writing TeachersThe purposeful teaching of writing that led to and then sprang from the formation of theNational Writing Project (NWP) and its affiliated sites has always emphasized the importance of a community of writers.And while the summer institutes offered through NWP sites—where I was saved as a writing teacher and then
Why the Supreme Court Should Leave Well Enough Alone and Let Workers Build Unions | Alternet
Why the Supreme Court Should Leave Well Enough Alone and Let Workers Build Unions | Alternet: Why the Supreme Court Should Leave Well Enough Alone and Let Workers Build UnionsA decision against the California Teachers Association is a decision in favor of greed.Current discussions regarding theFriedrichs v. California Teachers Association case now before the U.S. Supreme Court are missing the crit
Chicago Teachers Union & Supporters March and Occupy Bank of America for Fair Contract | The Chicago Monitor
Chicago Teachers Union & Supporters March and Occupy Bank of America for Fair Contract | The Chicago Monitor: Chicago Teachers Union & Supporters March and Occupy Bank of America for Fair Contract More than three thousand teachers, staff, parents, students, and their supporters marched in Chicago yesterday for a fair contract for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). The protest was in respons
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The speech that could help Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders seal the deal - The Washington Post
The speech that could help Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders seal the deal - The Washington Post: The speech that could help Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders seal the dealDemocratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders shakes hands as they greet the audience before Thursday’s Democratic presidential primary debate in Durham, N.H. (David Goldman/AP) As former secretary of sta
Special Nite Cap: Catch Up on Today's Post 2/6/16
CORPORATE ED REFORMLouisiana Educator: White Washing Louisiana Education StatisticsLouisiana Educator: White Washing Louisiana Education Statistics: White Washing Louisiana Education StatisticsThis is a funny spoof on what I call predatory charter schools. When you consider just the most recent open meeting violations,cheating incidents, and bullying of young teachers in Louisiana charter schools
