Latest News and Comment from Education
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Teachers union drops Wells Fargo as mortgage provider because of links with NRA and gunmakers
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[image: Teachers union drops Wells Fargo as mortgage provider because of
links with NRA and gunmakers]
(Update: Adding Wells Fargo comment) The American F...
1 hour ago
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The strange love affair between Illinois pro-gun Congressman Rodney Davis and the IEA.
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Originally posted on Fred Klonsky:
Pro-gun Republican Congressman Rodney Davis and past IEA President Cinda
Klickna. In the wake of the epidemic of school ...
2 hours ago
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Sussex Montessori School Approved To Open In 2019
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The Delaware State Board of Education unanimously approved the charter
school application for the Sussex Montessori School this evening with a 6-0
vote. T...
3 hours ago
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Los Angeles: Frontrunner for Superintendent is a Conservative Banker and Broad Buddy
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The Los Angeles school board is split 4-3, with charter advocates holding
the majority. The decisive vote belongs to Ref Rodriguez, who is currently
awai...
6 hours ago
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April 20 Day of Action to Prevent Gun Violence in Schools: Act Now
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Tomorrow, April 20, is the day that the Network for Public Education
along with 41 other national groups including the AFT, NEA, AASA, NASSP,
BATs, Bra...
6 hours ago
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Ivanka, Vocational Education, and the Death of Irony
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The crunch you just heard may be irony collapsing under the weight of a
recent Ivanka Trump op-ed for Fox News about skill-based education.
This woman did ...
7 hours ago
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Majority of teens worry about school shootings, and so do most parents | Pew Research Center
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Majority of teens worry about school shootings, and so do most parents |
Pew Research Center:
*A majority of U.S. teens fear a shooting could happen at thei...
8 hours ago
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Pearson’s “Social-Psychological” Experiment Should Make Us Wary
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Education Week reported that Pearson recently tested 'social-psychological'
messages in their learning software on unwitting college students with
"mixed...
9 hours ago
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Diane Ravitch's Blog: National Education Policy Center: What is the Evidence for the Success of No-Excuses Charter Schools?
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Diane Ravitch's Blog: National Education Policy Center: What is the
Evidence for the Success of No-Excuses Charter Schools?
Two researchers review a repor...
11 hours ago
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Design Thinking: Connecting Students to the Larger World
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Design thinking is more than project-based learning. It's a mindset that
turns students into innovative problem-solvers.
11 hours ago
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“Out of Joint”: On Ideology and Anxiety
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The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite, That ever I was born to set it
right! Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5, ll. 190-191 My high school English students
in Upst...
11 hours ago
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Flipping the classroom approach-- does student performance improve?
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A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular
appr...
12 hours ago
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Indianapolis superintendent withdraws name from consideration for top job at LAUSD
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[image: A student on his way to school walks pas]
*The LAUSD school board is scheduled to hold a rare meeting on Friday,
April 20. It comes on the heels o...
13 hours ago
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I Stand With Them
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I've never understood how people who believe in democracy can be opposed to
labor unions. Most workplaces are, in fact, small dictatorships set up in
...
14 hours ago
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The Originalist Account of Education As a Federal Constitutional Right
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The final published draft of, The Constitutional Compromise to Guarantee
Education, 70 Stanford Law Review 735, is now available. The abstract
offers this ...
15 hours ago
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Nice Series Of Videos Showing Karen Mapp Discussing Parent Engagement
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Ed Week has just published this series of videos where parent engagement
expert Karen Mapp discusses…parent engagement:
15 hours ago
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State School District Ratings and Report Cards: Educational Redlining and Steering?
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In his recent book, The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein shows how explicit
government policies following WWII—Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
loans, l...
15 hours ago
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Oklahoma’s 110 Mile March for Education in Retrospect by Aaron Michael Baker
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Originally posted at:
https://spoonvision.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/oklahomas-110-mile-march-for-education-in-retrospect/
My wife and I were halfway to Tuls...
16 hours ago
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Senate Bill 465 Will Reduce Teacher Rights on Student Discipline
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SB 465 is intended to reduce student suspensions and student removals from
the regular classroom.
*SB 465 is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Education ...
16 hours ago
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UFT Delegate Assembly April 18, 2014--We Have an App, and President May Talk as Long as He Wishes
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*by special guest Jonathan Halabi*
*PRESIDENT’S REPORT*
We are welcomed by Mulgrew, who starts immediately talking about The App.
Do not download the app ...
18 hours ago
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Why Teacher Uprisings May Hit Blue States Too
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Surprising results from a new survey of teachers reveals the depth of
“financial strain” classroom professionals face. These include high levels
of college...
23 hours ago
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The Library In Congress “Today In History” Site Is Accessible To ELLs (& Everybody Else)
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The Library in Congress used to have a nice “Jump Back In Time” site to see
what happened on various days in history, but they deleted it awhile back.
Howe...
1 day ago
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CO’s Jefferson County Schools to Cancel Classes on April 26, 2018, “Due to Labor Shortages.”
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On April 26, 2018, Jefferson County (Colorado) Schools (JeffCo) teachers
plan to demonstrate at the state capital in a effort to garner increased
funding f...
1 day ago
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2018 Medley #10
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Teacher Activism, Retention-in-Grade, Charters, Testing, First Amendment,
Science TEACHER ACTIVISM The 9 states where teachers have it worst
According to C...
1 day ago
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Kiss My Assessment – A High Stakes Testing Poem
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I wrote this poem during and after proctoring this year's PSSA test for my
7th grade students. Can't imagine where the inspiration came from!
1 day ago
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GoFundMe for Professional Development for Teacher for 2E Students
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Via Facebook:
*Teachers in Seattle public schools receive very little to no training in
Gifted and Twice Exceptional (2e)* students education. In the ...
1 day ago
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Educators have no business supporting war
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Damascus after the attack. War is the enemy of education, of children and
families. Education leaders have no business supporting war or encouraging
war-m...
1 day ago
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Takeover! What’s Behind the State Takeover of School Districts?
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TweetHave You Heard looks at what’s behind state takeovers of school
districts. As guest Domingo Morel explains, laws authorizing states to take
over urban...
1 day ago
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America’s Best Charter School Doesn’t Look Anything Like Other Top Charters. Is that Bad? (Richard Whitmire)
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“Richard Whitmire is the author of several books, most recently “The
Founders: Inside the Revolution to Invent (and Reinvent) America’s Best
Charter School...
1 day ago
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Chancellor Carranza's Idea Of An Effective School.
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Chancellor Richard Carranza visited Staten Island and told the local media
his six key components that makes an effective school. They ar...
1 day ago
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Join Us April 20th
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Communities across the nation will demand that our leaders protect students
and take real action to end gun violence on the National Day of Action
Against ...
2 days ago
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An end to Friday night lights
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I don’t get it; will somebody please explain it to me. Jacksonville’s
schools, which mean Jacksonville’s children, are facing 62 million dollars
in cuts, y...
2 days ago
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The One Area Where Some DC Students Improved Under Mayoral Control of Education
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You have all heard the propaganda saying that test scores in DC have
improved tremendously ever since the citizens lost the right to vote for
their school ...
2 days ago
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New CDE Mobile App—CA Meals for Kids
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New CDE mobile app helps families find Summer and Afterschool Meal program
locations.
2 days ago
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OF EFFICACY AND EQUITY
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I’m looking forward to the day when I write a piece that focuses on the
success of students and fails to mention the inadequacies of adults. Though
it does...
2 days ago
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New York Times: Shocking Expose of Underinvestment in Public Schools, Students, and Teachers
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Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
? The New York Times published a shocking expose of the dreadful conditions
in America’s public schools, due to ...
2 days ago
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A Rotten Peach Poisoning Atlanta Public Schools
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Sadly, the Atlantic Public Schools (APS) are careening from one destructive
tragedy to the next. On the heels of the great cheating scandal of 2009,
APS hi...
2 days ago
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Choice as a Substitute for Adequacy?
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Originally posted on School Finance 101:
Another excerpt from forthcoming work… Much of the expansion of charter
schooling occurred during the recession. T...
2 days ago
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Loud and Clear
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2 days ago
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Epic Fail of Last Week's State Testing; Parents Demand Commissioner's Removal
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NYSUT -- the state teachers union -- also sent out a message today entitled
"*This year's tests are a disaster*!" *explaining:*
*"Last week's disastrous ...
2 days ago
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Tax cuts for the rich, or essential public services for all?
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by Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers
What do basketball legend Charles Barkley and the late Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell...
2 days ago
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Join Us: Separate and Unequal: A Comparison of Student Outcomes in New York City’s Most and Least Diverse Schools, presentation and panel discussion
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Separate and Unequal: A Comparison of Student Outcomes in New York City’s
Most and Least Diverse Schools Thursday, April 19, 2018, 12:30 – 2:30 pm
North Ac...
3 days ago
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Heartbroken
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She was brilliant in high school. I admired her so much. She traveled to
our not so great school in the Bronx from Manhattan because of our honor
prog...
3 days ago
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In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom: Diane Ravitch with Jesse Hagopian
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I recently went to Santa Fe, New Mexico to join best selling author Diane
Ravitch in dialogue about the struggle for public education for the Lannan
Founda...
3 days ago
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“The air is humming, and something great is coming”
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Walking home by myself a few nights ago, I felt like singing. Because it
was late and the sidewalks were deserted, I wasn’t risking embarrassment.
So, wha...
3 days ago
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Newark schools: An illusion of local control, an illusion of democracy, an illusion of reform
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Johnnie Lattner–an independent Newark school board candidate The Newark
school board election is scheduled for tomorrow–but the results already are
already...
3 days ago
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Featured Author @ Palmdale Book Festival
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Join me for a captivating book signing & storytelling! Get your very own
signed copy of 5 stars Chike the Invincible! and Oma the Faithful
Daughter! ...
3 days ago
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Advocates and Parents Sue in Court to Demand City Reduce Class Size Now
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For immediate release: Monday April 16, 2018 Contact: Leonie Haimson,
leoniehaimson@gmail; 917-435-9329 On Thursday April 12, 2018, Class Size
Matters, t...
4 days ago
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82 Reasons Why Children Don’t Read Well, and What to Do About It
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The NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) reading scores are
flat, and everyone is wondering why. I thought I’d create a list. Why
aren’t Amer...
4 days ago
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Terrorism?
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Could somebody explain to me why acts like the unprovoked and senseless
attack by Salman Abidi in 2017 on an audience of predominantly innocent
children wa...
4 days ago
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Some thoughts on Trump, Rosenstein, and Mueller
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offered in light of recent events, and the information floating around both
that Trump wants to get rid of Rosenstein and that Rosenstein expects to be
f...
4 days ago
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Expanding "No Excuses" Models is a Bad Idea
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An organization called The Future of Children came out recently with a
report titled* Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap* by Sarah Cohodes,
an assist...
4 days ago
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ELA Assessment: Dear Board of Regents,
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Dear Members of the Board of Regents,
Thank you for your service as leaders in public education in New York
State. I am writing as a parent of two public ...
5 days ago
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Bombshell Study: Thousands of Educational Apps are Improperly Tracking Children.
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EdWeek recently wrote about a study that found Android educational apps
from the Google Play Store (remember Google built Android, Google
Analytics) are im...
5 days ago
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Blackstone's Schwarzman tries to buy a public high school
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Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of Blackstone, and Mary Barra, chief
executive of General Motors, with President Trump at a Strategy and Policy
For...
6 days ago
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Los Angeles Charters Allowed to Write Their Own Rules
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The statute as I understand it…gives the District…the responsibility and
authority of oversight” – LAUSD Board Member George McKenna Under District
rules, ...
6 days ago
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Advocating for Schools to City Leaders
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Dr. Robert Moses, civil rights icon and education advocate, joined the
April 12 Education Town Hall, along with long-time DC education advocate
Suzanne Wel...
1 week ago
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Biocapitalism and the West Virginia Wildcat Teachers Strike
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West Virginia’s Teachers became guinea pigs in a state sanctioned
experiment to lower the cost of healthcare by directly linking teachers’
implied unhealth...
1 week ago
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Trump Nominee for Federal Court Mum on School Segregation
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We know there are millions of unacknowledged white supremacists who do not
support race mixing. The evidence is all around us in policy and practices
in h...
1 week ago
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Why I Continue to Boycott NY State ELA and Math Tests by Amy Gropp Forbes
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OPT OUT 2018
My reasons to keep boycotting NYS ELA and Math tests:
1. These tests are used to label children, teachers and schools as
failures. This happens...
1 week ago
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Wakanda Schools and Why We’re Not Ready For A Shared Prosperity
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[image: T'Challa and Shuri, Black Panther]One thing I’ve always maintained
in this life: I’m either an early adopter or super-late, past the wave of
spoi...
1 week ago
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Suffering Teachers Can't Be Good Teachers
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Teacher walkouts are the ultimate outcome of wringing every drop of energy,
patience and creative juice out of a well-meaning workforce.
1 week ago
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Dear @BetsyDeVosED THIS is what it means to "serve the students"
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Dear Betsy,
I hear you aren't happy with Oklahoma teachers who walked off the job to
protest the drastic cuts to school funding in their state. You told t...
1 week ago
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“The Power of a Caring Educator” : My TEDxWilmingtonED Talk (Video):An Idea Worth Spreading!
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Ever since I saw Rita Pierson’s TED talk, I have wanted to do a TED talk.
So, when I received an email saying that TEDxWilmington was looking for
speakers,...
1 week ago
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PAA joins Google/You Tube FTC complaint
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Today, Parents Across America joined more than 20 civic and children’s
advocacy organizations in filing a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint
against ...
1 week ago
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Helping an ATR
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The following are real words and real life from a current ATR. The
statement below was read to the UFT executive board on March 26, 2018. Her
name has been...
1 week ago
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Identifying Effective Teacher Preparation Programs Using VAMs Does Not Work
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“A New Study [does not] Show Why It’s So Hard to Improve Teacher
Preparation” Programs (TPPs). More specifically, it shows why using
value-added models (VA...
1 week ago
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sloppy tweet + sloppy reporting = unfair attack on boba milk
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*“Lies are half-way around the world before the truth can get its shoes
on.” (Attributed to Mark Twain.)*
*This following was posted on twitter (Bestofnext...
1 week ago
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Sorry,I am No Longer Accepting New Students! #ClassSizeMatters
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Posted on Twitter by Krissy Brynn Jackson @KBJblog Ron Clark posted the
following tweet. We are spending $30 billion a year to reduce class sizes,
but a b...
1 week ago
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This Week in Education Organizing - April 6, 2018
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*Teacher Uprisings Continue!*
The West Virginia teachers strike was as close to a general strike as we’ve
seen in the U.S. in decades. Their historic and...
1 week ago
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4 Bernie Keller Poems: They speak for themselves.
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Change 12/16 It doesn’t begin with the report of a gun, or the rantings of
a madman. It doesn’t begin …
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1 week ago
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A maximizing area question
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I gave this question to students as a challenge at the end of a trig unit.
A quadrilateral has perimeter = 60 and a 30º angle. What is the maximum
possible...
1 week ago
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Welcome to the walkout, from okeducationmom
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When I marched for the passage of HB 1017 in 1990, I was hopeful and then
grateful that Governor Henry Bellmon and a bipartisan group of legislators
found ...
2 weeks ago
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Teacher Exodus, Plummeting Enrollments and Teacher License Deregulation: I don’t feel fine.
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In my last blog post I took to task Wisconsin’s Department of Public
Instruction and its leadership for pushing forward teacher license
deregulation and ...
2 weeks ago
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Who Survives Success?
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Success Academy opened in 2006 with 156 students — 83 kindergarteners and
73 first graders. Now, eleven years later, they have their first
graduating seni...
3 weeks ago
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Silence Speaks At March For Our Lives
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Listen to Emma’s profound silence. Remember the silence of students
crouched in closets, hiding from the sound of an automatic weapon being
fired in their ...
3 weeks ago
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Scenes for the March For Life in New York
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And so they came and came by the thousands, flooding Central Park West with
citizens of all ages, all races, all creeds, all who have had enough of
insane ...
3 weeks ago
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To Strengthen Democracy, Invest in Our Public Schools
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(reprinted from American Educator, Spring 2018) By Emily Gasoi, Deborah
Meier Who could have imagined that, more than 150 years into this bold
project of p...
3 weeks ago
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A NATION THAT FEARS ITS CHILDREN?
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Here we are again. The murders caused by the NRA-GOP-Gun manufacturers
corruption have terrorized America for over a generation. Young people do
not see ad...
3 weeks ago
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A Tale of Two School Systems: The Impact of NYS Testing on NYC Public Schools
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Here is my testimony from last night’s CEC 15/CEC 13 joint meeting about
state testing. I am here tonight as both a District 15 parent of a third
grader a...
4 weeks ago
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I’m voting for Chris Kennedy
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A question was posed to me last night. “At this point, does a vote for
Daniel Biss instead of Chris Kennedy help JB Pritzker?” During the last
presidential...
4 weeks ago
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The Facts About NJ Charter Schools, Part III: Segregation By English Proficiency
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This week, I'm going into detail about a new report on New Jersey's charter
schools I wrote with Julia Sass Rubin. In the last post, I showed
conclusively ...
4 weeks ago
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Amy/Andy and the Orphans
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Willowbrook. Any New Yorker of a certain age shutters at that name–and no,
not because it was Geraldo Rivera who brought it to our attention.
Willowbrook w...
4 weeks ago
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Florina Rodov: The Truth About Charter Schools
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*“[W]hen teachers aren’t unionized, they’re exploited — and when teachers
suffer, so do kids.” — Florina Rodov*
This amazing piece by Florina Rodov on *S...
4 weeks ago
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Oklahoma School Funding Paves the Way to a Teacher Walkout
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By John Thompson. What would it take for Oklahoma to provide every student
the opportunity to learn at the national average? Oklahoma is one of the
state...
4 weeks ago
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#NationalSchoolWalkout – Grown Ups Need to Listen
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Student activists, responding to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, organized a national walk out to
memoriali...
5 weeks ago
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Letter for BCPS Parents: My Child is Not a Pipeline
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(Image courtesy of Alison McDowell) Dear County Council Members, I am
writing on behalf of concerned BCPS parents regarding the newest rounds of
BCPS polic...
5 weeks ago
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3rd Grade Reading: Who is Failing?
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Education Trust Midwest has just released its study on third grade reading
and, predictably, the results aren’t great. This study uniquely compares
Michiga...
1 month ago
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Why Poetry? Why Now? – a poem from Linda Christensen and an invitation
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My dear friend Dr. James Avington Miller Jr. sent me a phenomenal book on
poetry called Rhythm and Resistance – Teaching Poetry for Social Justice.
Here is...
1 month ago
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Opting out of the Dinosaur (end of year test)
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Today I sent in a second letter to refuse PARCC/CMAS for my son, Luke. The
first email I sent at the beginning of the year was not sufficient as they
requi...
1 month ago
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Resurrection
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I realized it's Lent, but this blog, bless Jesus Christ, can't wait.
Ok, so with that said, I plan to discuss Class Action suits in existence,
as well as w...
1 month ago
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Teachers were heroes as Florida politicians cower before NRA
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Kathleen Oropeza, Guest Columnist, Orlando Sentinel, 2.16.18
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1 month ago
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GLSEN and 20th Century Fox Film Announce Love, Simon Partnership
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*Media Contacts:*
Joanna Cifredo
Media Relations Manager
joanna.cifredo@glsen.org
646-388-6575
Tomie Shaw
20th Century Fox Publicity Coordinator
Tomie.Sh...
1 month ago
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Are Our Educators Prepared For Their Students?
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If there is one thing that I am sure of as an educator it is that rapid
change greatly affects both what and how we learn. If there is a second
thing that ...
1 month ago
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A Busy Week, CEJ Continues to Fight for Racial Justice in the Classroom
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After a slew of disturbing instances of racism in NYC public schools
surrounding Black History Month, CEJ has kept busy with a series of actions
demanding ...
1 month ago
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Stop Looking at My Bad Leg: Introduction to my new book: Reach for Greatness
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My latest book Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All has
ben released by Corwin Press. You can order it from Corwin or Amazon. Below
is the...
2 months ago
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2018 TSJ Inquiry to Action Groups (ItAGs)
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We are excited to announce the 2018 TSJ *Inquiry to Action Groups *(ItAGs).
ItAGs gather educators, activists and others to study a topic and
collectively...
3 months ago
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Who Is Pulling The Muppet Strings?
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Originally posted on Wrench in the Gears:
Sesame Street is an iconic brand that embodies humor, acceptance, and
humanity. Who doesn’t love a muppet? So, on...
3 months ago
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Choices Worth Making: Creating, Sustaining, and Expanding Diverse Magnet Schools
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In the department of publications I forgot about until my mother saw them
online. . .
I helped to research and write some of this as part of a project abou...
3 months ago
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Chicago Collegiate Charter School Must STOP Expansion Plans
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So I did a little digging into Chicago Collegiate Charter Schools, the tiny
school looking to expand into the empty Kohn Elementary School building. A
scho...
3 months ago
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To Reimagine Public School, Just (Ignore) The Facts, Ma’am
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Is it possible for people to change the story we tell ourselves (and one
another) about public education? I spend a lot of time thinking about this
quest...
4 months ago
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Beneath the Veil of Newark Charter Productivity
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Among the take-home points of our recent review of Newark school reforms
are that: Resources, when considering school size, are … More
4 months ago
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IDEA Is Still The Law Of The Land
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know the US Department of
Education (USDOE) rescinded 72 Dear Colleague and other letters of
explanation to s...
4 months ago
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Budget Cuts To Kids Are Not Necessary!
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We’ve been hearing a lot of news from OUSD about how cuts to schools and
kids are necessary. So we’ll need to keep saying the truth… they are not
necessar...
5 months ago
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Education Is a Civic Question
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In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah
Meier and Harry Boyte urge readers to put the energy, talents, wisdom, and
hard w...
7 months ago
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This is our Sputnik moment.
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School’s all across the nation are either starting or about to start a new
academic year. It’s suppose to be an exciting time for students and
teacher. How...
8 months ago
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Education reform should come from within by Wendy Lecker
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In her latest Stamford Advocate commentary piece, education advocate Wendy
Lecker observes, Education reform should come from within. Wendy Lecker
write...
8 months ago
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Student of the Month Nightmare
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*This is something I wrote for a monthly gathering to honor some of the
best students at our school. I figure most teachers will relate:*
I was grading pap...
8 months ago
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99 Years of Progress Erased – unless we fight back
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Public healthcare for all? Public education for all? What is being done to
our monetized children regarding their potential healthcare and their
existing e...
9 months ago
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You Can Be an Astronaut, but You Can't Be Black
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“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question I always
imagined every kindergarten student hearing.
“I want to be a doctor!” declares Sally.
...
9 months ago
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Site News: New Home for Education News & Commentary
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Quick! Get over there! The daily education news roundup and education
commentaries that you're probably looking for are now being published over
at The Gra...
9 months ago
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An Open Letter to NC Lawmakers
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An Open Letter to NC State Lawmakers and NC State Superintendent Mark
Johnson: I am a NC native, voter, and public school teacher. I am
addressing you all ...
10 months ago
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Don't Like Chris Christie? Blame the Democrats.
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Yesterday Diane Ravitch published a piece in The New Republic, titled Don't
Like Betsy DeVos? Blame the Democrats.
If you care about public education at al...
10 months ago
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CANCER IS BACK AND THIS TIME IT HURTS RIGHT OFF THE BAT!
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APRIL IS STILL POETRY MONTH AND LIBRARY MONTH. MANY WONDERFUL THINGS TO
CELEBRATE.
But in the middle of the month I received some bad news about my can...
11 months ago
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My Next Bestseller)
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My next bestseller) Prologue I just finished
watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, “The Secret”. The
film p...
1 year ago
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Farewell, Sleep
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Today is the official last day of my spring break. I've done a scientific
survey: My natural bedtime is 2 AM, and my natural wake up time is 9:41
AM. Tom...
1 year ago
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New Local Businesses in Sacramento
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Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can
be accomplished with footwork, perseverance and knowledge. One must learn
the loc...
1 year ago
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IBO REPORT: NYC Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted!
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*New York City Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted!*
Although the preliminary budget forecast of charter school enrollment is
lower than project...
1 year ago
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Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/2/2017
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Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/1/2017 Education Bloggers Daily
Highlights Courtesy of Big Education Ape A special thank you to education
blogger Mik...
1 year ago
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Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then
start writing!
1 year ago
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Hitting Left: The Klonsky Brothers on Lumpen Radio in Chicago
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Tune in every Friday at 11 a.m. (CDT) for the Klonsky Bros. Hitting Left,
live on Lumpen Radio.
The show is also available on MixCloud and via podcast.
1 year ago
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Bad Hair Day
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It’s winter time. It’s cold — okay, not for anyone outside California and
Florida, but still — I’m wearing hats in the morning. Lovely knitted hats
that I’...
1 year ago
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Attitude Determines Altitude* (*conditions apply)… and the Importance of Humane District Themes
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It has been a tumultuous few years in the South Brunswick community,
specifically the South Brunswick School District. All you have to do is
google the dis...
1 year ago
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Capturing the Spark
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It’s been a long time since InterACT was an active education blog, though I
remain quite proud of what we did here. Those of us who wrote blog posts
here h...
1 year ago
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Random Musings and Observations. . . .
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I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular
readers no doubt noticed but did not hassle me about it. Thank you for
that. Sinc...
1 year ago
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Thanks & Gratitude from the SOS Coalition for Action
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On behalf of the SOS Coalition members, we want to thank all those who
helped make the People’s March for Public Education and the SOS Coalition
Activists ...
1 year ago
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PCAPS Community Schools Task Force Celebrates the Announcement of The First Cohort of Philadelphia Community Schools
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photo credit: Craig Robbins. Then candidate Jim Kenney at an ACTION
United, PCAPS rally at Comegys Elementary in April last year announcing his
committmen...
1 year ago
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Tweets by sharonoak
1 year ago
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WTU Peterson Slate: Not a 1 Woman Dictatorship
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Candi Peterson & GeLynn Thompson
Candidates for WTU Prez & GVP 2016By Candi Peterson, WTU Gen. Vice President
*Statements or expressions of opinions herein...
1 year ago
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WHY SCHOOL START TIMES PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN KIDS’ SUCCESS
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Teens are severely sleep-deprived. This needs to change. Rebecca Klein
Editor, HuffPost Education| https://t.co/zInVJoy29W evgenyatamanenko via
Getty Image...
1 year ago
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Feminism-in-Schools Featured at First International Girls’ Studies Association Conference
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Leaders in the feminism-in-schools movement recently made history at the
inaugural International Girls’ Studies Association (IGSA) conference when
we were ...
1 year ago
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To simply say you have a growth mindset does not mean you actually have one
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By definition, you cannot have a growth mindset when learning is anchored
to standardized tests. Standardized tests are a one …
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1 year ago
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MY NEW BLOG
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My new blog will consist of fictitious headlines, meant to be a blend of
humor and satire. I apologize ahead of time if any other satirical site has
simila...
1 year ago
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Thank you
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Dear Readers,
Thank you for visiting *The Perimeter Primate*. This blog is being retired
for the time being. Although I no longer post here, I do still s...
2 years ago
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I am Retiring
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I have some news: I am retiring from the PBS NewsHour and Learning Matters.
[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other
conte...
2 years ago
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All Aboard the Opt Out Bus
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The #OptOutBus is currently traveling the country giving away free books to
children! Follow their progress at their Facebook page and donate to their
FR...
2 years ago
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Flaws at the Heart of Current Education Reforms
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Originally posted on Creative by Nature:
“Teaching is an art form rooted in the wise and careful use of educational
research and assessment tools. When gove...
3 years ago
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Joanne Barkan: One of my favorite writers on #EdReform…
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I’ve been going through some of my Twitter “favorites” and retweeting them.
I thought I would pass on to you some information about one of my favorite
writ...
3 years ago
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Pay Teachers Less to Improve School Efficiency - hmmm!
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As I was reading through education news on several of the news sites I
regularly visit, I came...
3 years ago
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Please share this testing survey with 5th-6th grade parents/students
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PLEASE SHARE THIS IMPORTANT SURVEY WITH CPS 5th and 6th grade PARENTS AND
STUDENTS! Deadline April 23. Dear Parent or Guardian, I am conducting a
research ...
4 years ago
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Kimberly Olson, Broad Superintendents Academy Class of 2005
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Kimberly D. Olson, Colonel, USAF (retired), is currently the Executive
Director of *Grace After Fire*, an online social support network for women
veteran...
7 years ago
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