Deptford Mall Grade-In | Seattle Education 2010

Deptford Mall Grade-In | Seattle Education 2010

Deptford Mall Grade-In

Posted on March 24, 2011 by seattleducation2010| Leave a comment

A clever idea provided by the New Jersey Education Association:

Frank McCulley and 106 of his colleagues converged on the Deptford Mall food court, took a seat and for two hours did in public something usually done in private. They graded papers, wrote lesson plans, and created instructional materials. McCulley, a physics teacher at Delsea Regional High School, cooked up the idea with chemistry teacher Tina Dare.

Working for a solid two hours, no one got all the work done.

“Tina and I were talking about how the public has this notion that teachers work short hours,” McCulley said. “They have no idea of the time we put in grading

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Spring training and the death of small schools

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Spring training and the death of small schools

Spring training and the death of small schools

by Mike Klonsky

I was in Ft. Myers Wednesday, where we had a chance to meet fantastic teacher/activist and tweeter Bonnie Cunard, a real leader in Florida's Save Our Schools movement. After that, we decided to head over a few blocks to City of Palms Park, the spring training home of the Boston Red Sox.

It's a beautiful night and the Sox are hosting Tampa Bay. But on our way, I have to pull the car over when the cell phone rings. It's Linda Lutton from WBEZ radio telling me that Chicago's interim schools CEO, Terry Mazany is going to announce up to 20 school closings the next day, including the remaining small schools at Bowen High, which we -- the Small Schools Workshop -- helped start. Linda wanted to know what I thought about all that and I told her in the most direct way I could.

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The small schools at Bowen were originally conceived, organized and led by teachers with lots of support from the school's principal and its

Modern School: Making School Safer by Arming Students

Modern School: Making School Safer by Arming Students

Making School Safer by Arming Students

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Modern College Student (Image by Nevada Tumbleweed)

This just in from Change,org: The Texas House has approved a new law allowing college students to carry concealed weapons on campus. While it is understandable that people are nervous in the wake of several recent shootings on college campuses, including one last year at the University of Texas, Austin, it is complete lunacy (and a statistical fallacy) to think that an increase in guns will somehow reduce gun injuries.

The plan is spearheaded by a group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. One of its members, Scott Lewis, was quoted by Change.org:

Schools Matter: "The model is a business design, not an educational program..."

Schools Matter: "The model is a business design, not an educational program..."

"The model is a business design, not an educational program..."

by Kenneth Libby

If the Ravenswood City School District school board agrees with the district's superintendent, it looks like one Rocketship won't be launching in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park anytime soon.
Rocketship Education, praised for its reliance on cheap labor "hybrid" model and funded in part by the Broad Foundation, was hammered for their "unsound education program".
From Palo Alto Weekly's Chris Kenrick:

The superintendent of East Palo Alto's Ravenswood City School Districthas recommended denial of an

A song entitled, “Madison” | blue cheddar. #wiunion

A song entitled, “Madison” | blue cheddar.

A song entitled, “Madison”

BY BLUECHEDDAR

Please click and listen. This song is called “Madison” and it comes to you from some sweet musicians in Oakland, California. I know that many of the supporters of collective bargaining in Wisconsin are not in Madison. I also know that we have a large number of people that are outside the state and around the globe sending encouragement and standing up for worker rights and unions. I think in this case “Madison” is where you are right now, too.

Thank you sweet, musicians. Link to blow it up BIG.

Thanks to Brett Banditelli for sharing this song with me.

Lyrics by Mark Vickness & PC Munoz. Music by Mark Vickness

Alex Aspinall expandabletrio.com

Nicholas Bearde nicolasbearde.com

Edo Castro www.passionstarmusic.com

Sharon Knight. www.sharonknight.net

Erik Lindquist www.expandabletrio.com

PC Munoz www.pcmunoz.com

Mark Vickness www.glasshousemusic.org

David Worm www.sovoso.com

Oakland California Musicians Perform “Madison” to Thank the Protesters in Madison, Wisconsin

Local teachers union leaders say strike is a 'last resort,' face certification loss if they walk out | MLive.com

Local teachers union leaders say strike is a 'last resort,' face certification loss if they walk out | MLive.com

Local teachers union leaders say strike is a 'last resort,' face certification loss if they walk out

Published: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 6:30 PM

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Cory Morse | The Grand Rapids PressProtesters take part in a labor group rally opposed to Governor Rick Snyder's policies at the State Capitol Building in Lansing on March 16.

State lawmakers have a message for members of teachers unions talking about a potential strike: It could cost them cash – and their certification.

But local Michigan Education Association members say a walkout is a “last resort,” despite a tough letter from President Iris Salters that calls on locals units to “ratchet up actions” and plan an April vote authorizing crisis activities “up to and including a job action.”

Area teachers received letters this week from Salters saying that recent activity in Lansing amounts to “outright attacks” on the union.

“Should lawmakers fail to end these attacks on the people of Michigan, we will not shy away from

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The Two Faced Ramblings Of E4E'S Ruben Brosbe

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: The Two Faced Ramblings Of E4E'S Ruben Brosbe

The Two Faced Ramblings Of E4E'S Ruben Brosbe Posted: 24 Mar 2011 03:03 PM PDT The idiot savant and Educators4Excellence lackey Ruben Brosbe is back in the news today, or at least yesterday. Ruben somehow managed to write a piece in Gotham Schools yesterday laughingly and shamelessly entitled, "Why Teachers Like Me Support Unions: An E4E Take on Edusolidarity." OK, done laughing. Let's continue. Let's once again show just how clueless, two-faced, and botarded Ruben is. Ruben blabs; There are plenty of times when I disagree with Michael Mulgrew and the UFT. There have been more than a few occasions in conversations about teaching when I’ve had to admit my own confusion or frustration with the union. Actually I agree with Ruben here. There are many things I disagree with the UFT, Mulgrew, and the AFT. In fact I know many people like this. The difference between me and like minded people, and Ruben and his shills over at E4E is, we will not, would not, and can not turn on our own. The rank and file we believe

Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unions | blue cheddar. #wiunion

Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unions | blue cheddar.

Carlos Lam just admitted he wrote email telling Scott Walker to frame unions

BY BLUECHEDDAR

Updated 3:59 p.m. Carlos Lam has admitted writing the email and resigned as deputy prosecutor of Johnson County, according to a statement from the Johnson County Prosecutor.

Before you read the meat of this, just check out the difference in headline. The local-yocal TV station, WKOW wrote:

“Email to Gov. Walker suggested faking an attack on governor”

I was like “uhhh–what?”

and now from Think Progress: “Indiana Official Reportedly Advised Scott Walker to Stage a Phony Violent Attack by Union Supporters”

I needed the longer headline. Anyway, from Think Progress:

Koch brothers and Pritzker boycotts ignored by IEA leadership. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Koch brothers and Pritzker boycotts ignored by IEA leadership. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Koch brothers and Pritzker boycotts ignored by IEA leadership.

by Fred Klonsky

At the IEA RA held two weeks ago in Rosemont there were two New Business Items passed by the membership calling for consumer boycotts. The discussion over them didn’t take very long and the votes in favor were overwhelming. They weren’t controversial.

One was to list and boycott products made by companies owned by the Koch brothers. The Koch boys are by some counts the fourth richest men in the United States. They bank rolled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s anti-collective bargaining campaign and other union bashing efforts.

The other was to boycott Pritzker owned properties. The Pritzker family, prominent Democrats and Obama supporters, own the Hyatt Hotel chain. They refuse to bargain fair contracts with workers represented by their

solidaridad: Advocating Public Education Roundup 11W12

solidaridad: Advocating Public Education Roundup 11W12

Advocating Public Education Roundup 11W12

by Robert D. Skeels * rdsathene

In a profound sense, Democrats like Michelle Rhee have paved the way for Scott Walker — Richard D. Kahlenberg


Every day the list of CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS grows and grows. The inevitable result of putting public money into private hands.CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS' sister site, THE BROAD REPORT, detailing the depraved machinations of the vile plutocrat Eli Broad, was recently updated as well.

Our quote of the week comes from Professor Linda Darling-Hammond inDarling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education:

[T]he United States has been pursuing an approach to teaching almost diametrically opposed to that pursued by the highest-achieving nations.

California State Senator Carol Liu's SB 433 would require charter schools to follow public school rules in regard

Hechinger Report | Teachers alone cannot be expected to fix America’s woes

Hechinger Report | Teachers alone cannot be expected to fix America’s woes

Teachers alone cannot be expected to fix America’s woes

by Vikash Reddy

Vikash Reddy

As a Teach For America (TFA) alumnus, I enjoyed George Will’s recent op-ed, “Teach for America: Letting the cream rise,” in The Washington Post. Will notes that TFA has become a force not just in education-reform circles but also among recent college graduates, with more than 15 percent of seniors at Harvard and Princeton competing for the chance to spend two years teaching students in low-income urban and rural neighborhoods.

I fear, however, that the lessons Mr. Will has learned from TFA’s story are incomplete. He writes, “Until recently—until, among other things, TFA—it seemed that we simply did not know how to teach children handicapped by poverty and its accompaniments—family disintegration and destructive community cultures. Now we know

Social media and a tale of two New Jersey principals

by Liz Willen

Middle-school principal Anthony Orsini of Ridgewood, N.J., made national headlines last year when he urged parents to keep their young adolescents off Facebook — at least until high school.

The slings and arrows of social-media stings by peers — also known as cyberbullying — were far more common than any from adult predators, Orsini said, calling threats from the latter “insignificant compared to the damage

video: "asians in the library" response by kt tatara | angry asian man

video: "asians in the library" response by kt tatara | angry asian man

video: "asians in the library" response by kt tatara

Comedian/actor KT Tatara coming at you with yet another rap response to this whole "Asians in the Library" debacle, aka The Biggest Mistake of Alexandra's Wallace's Life. This one features hordes of Asians, libraries, and an Alexandra Wallace lookalike -- filmed on what looks like the actual UCLA campus. Take a look:



Here are the lyrics:

When I wake up in the morning I'm so confused
Got dirty clothes everywhere, don't know what to do!
Put on a shirt, from the bookshelf
'Cause I've never been taught, how to fend for myself

I'm kinda hungry but I can't cook
Do I even have food? I don't know

Food Not Lawns “Guard-In” at University of Victoria Today « Student Activism

Food Not Lawns “Guard-In” at University of Victoria Today « Student Activism

Food Not Lawns “Guard-In” at University of Victoria Today

by Angus Johnston

One year ago today a student protest action took place in Canada that was, as I put it at the time, “unlike anything I’d ever heard of before.” Here’s how I described it then:

Student activists and others at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, a Canadian university some seventy miles northwest of Seattle, held a teach-out on “food democracy” and sustainability issues. There was music, a slate of speakers, pamphlets to read, and tea. At the end of the event the group planted a garden.

On the lawn.

In front of the library.

They ripped up the sod, built some raised beds, and planted a variety of vegetables and other native plants.

Randy Turner: Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul and Those Evil Public Schoolteachers

Randy Turner: Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul and Those Evil Public Schoolteachers

Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul and Those Evil Public Schoolteachers

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In what is most likely a sign of things to come in next year's election, three Republican presidential candidates, albeit fringe candidates at the moment, ripped public schools during a homeschoolers convention in Des Moines Wednesday.

The Tea Party darlings threw red meat to a receptive crowd, which ate it up.

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota noted that she homeschooled her five children and was not allowed to home school 23 foster children, thanks to the evil government.

Herman Cain, former Godfather's Pizza CEO, said, "That's all we want is for government to get out of the way so we can educate ourselves and our children the old-fashioned way."

And then there's Ron Paul.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul told the crowd government wants "absolute control" of the "indoctrination" of children.

"The public school system now is a propaganda machine," Paul said, prompting applause from the crowd of hundreds of home schooling families. "They start with our kids even in kindergarten,