Eight Things I Love About Elizabeth Warren’s Education Plan – And One I Don’t My daughter had bad news for me yesterday at dinner. She turned to me with all the seriousness her 10-year-old self could muster and said, “Daddy, I know you love Bernie but I’m voting for Elizabeth.” “Elizabeth Warren?” I said choking back a laugh. Her pronouncement had come out of nowhere. We had just been discussing
Democratic Candidates Should Distance Themselves From Teach for America Democratic Candidates Should Distance Themselves From Teach for America Like most who support public education and the teaching profession, I routinely pore over media reports to learn what the Democratic candidates will bring to the table for PreK-12 education, and higher education. Here are the frontrunners’ plans. Yesterda
Join us at GFE 2019! The Schott team is at the annual Grantmakers for Education national conference this week in New Orleans — we hope to see you there. We're happy to host a learning session and a funder reception on Wednesday, October 23, and Schott Vice President Edgar Villanueva will close out GFE in a plenary session on Thursday morning. Join us! Learning Session: Increasing Philanthropic S
Miserable Bankruptcy of Charter School Cheerleaders | Dissident Voice Miserable Bankruptcy of Charter School Cheerleaders Charter school promoters embraced irrationalism long ago. Their reckless antisocial agenda requires them to do so because what they are promoting has no legitimate basis; it is not consistent with modern requirements. “Leaders” in the charter school sector have long spoken and
Breaking the Cycle of Reforming Again and Again (Thomas Hatch) In a recent article in International Education News , Professor Tom Hatch, Teachers College, Columbia, offered a reasonable and do-able way for policymakers, parents, and voters to outflank the seemingly inevitable cycle of school reform that researchers, policy analysts, and historians of education have documented for decades. Hatch
An Attempt to Resegregate Little Rock, of All Places A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—When Diane Zook, the chair of Arkansas’ State Board of Education, banged her gavel to bring the afternoon meeting into order on October 10, every seat in the cramped boardroom was filled. Nearly e
Sen. Elizabeth Warren to join Chicago teachers on picket line The presidential candidate will visit a West Side school Tuesday. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is set to join the city’s striking teachers on the picket line Tuesday. The senator will bring her campaign to Chicago in a visit to Oscar DePriest Elementary School at 139 S. Parkside Ave. in Au
AFT PRESIDENT WEINGARTEN PRAISES EDUCATION PLAN OF SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN AFT President Randi Weingarten: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan for our nation's public schools would be a game changer for our public schools and the 90 percent of America’s students who attend them. Like so many of the other candidates’ education plans we have praised, this one is bold and thorough and lays out tangible
A Letter to Chicago’s Teachers On the Perils of Pay for Success Finance & Wrap Around Services I am writing this letter to the teachers of Chicago as you continue your strike. I realize you probably won’t have time to read this until after your contract is resolved, but I felt it was important to put my thoughts down now while they are fresh in my mind. I know you care deeply for your students,
Even when they aren’t fired for being pregnant or gay, teachers face strict moral demands Pregnant teachers in classrooms are routine these days. But the law didn’t always protect expectant women in any workplace. As part of her stump speech, Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells a story about being fired from her job as a speech pathologist for special needs children once she became pregnant back in 1971
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 It's Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... A VERY BUSY DAY | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 TODAY Daylight Saving Time Ends On Nov. 3rd – Here Are Related Teaching & Learning Resources by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h Free-Photos / Pixabay Yup, it’s that time again. You might be interest
Teaching in Hostile Times There is a long-time joke at my university that has far more than a grain of truth in it—the campus and the university environment captured in a metaphor, the bubble. Referring to the bubble elicits smiles and even laughter, until the bubble bursts . Over three M-W-F morning courses this fall , I teach 40 students—39 are first-year students, and 39 are white. Most, as i
Can An Ethically Challenged School Board Member Pass Judgement On Others? Can An Ethically Challenged School Board Member Pass Judgement On Others? “ District and Personal Integrity. To maintain our integrity, we are committed to making decisions in the best interests of the District. We will avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of impropriety. ” - LAUSD Employee Code of Ethics Included
The Classroom Connectivity Gap Is Closed. How Did That Happen? EducationSuperHighway has only been around since 2012, but this morning they issued a report with a simple message: the classroom connectivity gap has been closed. That’s not entirely a surprise; last year’s annual report from the non-profit reported that 98% of US schools had high-speed internet access. This year the number is squea
Kentucky: Don’t Be Fooled! Charters and Vouchers Harm Children Rev. Sharon Felton, coordinator of Pastors for Kentucky Children, warns parents and other members of the public not to be fooled by the rhetoric. Charters, vouchers, and tax credits are not good for children, and they drain resources from the public schools that educate most children. She writes: Educating our children is the most im
Vouchers And Federally-Supported Discrimination School voucher programs are becoming one of the major fronts in a federal battle to safeguard discrimination by religious organizations. Some flaps created by private religious schools seem minor, like the pastor at a Catholic school who banned Harry Potter books because he believes the books contain “actual curses and spells.” But earlier this yea
Schools with the biggest shortfalls in matching funds for facility upgrades. Here is the list from our report , Sp e nding by NYC on Charter School Facilities : Diverted Resources, Inequities and Anomalies, of the 175 NYC public schools co-located with charter schools with the biggest shortfalls in funds for facility enhancements, totaling $22 million, which were supposed to be provided accordin
Teachers Quitting In DC Valerie Jablow points out that there is an enormous problem with DC public and charter teachers being so harassed that they quit: around 70% of them quit by their 5th year of employment. (She adds that this is probably not a bug, but a feature of the DC teacher evaluation program.) I am reprinting her entire column, but you should subscribe to it yourself. ===============
Sun-Times' phony support for CPS sports teams Sun-Times says, Simeon needs the teachers strike to end sooner than the rest of the Public League We have to wonder, if the strike continues through the coming week, how many students this school year will score just a little lower on standardized tests, hurting their chances of getting into a top college or winning a scholarship. -- Sun-Times editor
Chicago’s Teachers Are Making History. Again. Rank-and-file workers are finally taking back their unions, and strikes are spreading across the country as a result. T he beginning of a resurgence of strength among America’s unions
