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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Menlo College deemed among region's best - Inside Bay Area
Menlo College deemed among region's best - Inside Bay Area
Critical thinking: what the ruling class fears most | Dailycensored.com
Critical thinking: what the ruling class fears most | Dailycensored.com
Critical thinking: what the ruling class fears most
Abdicating reasoning: Surrendering the debate over teaching, testing and assessment to the constables of obedience training
A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education confronts the issue of whether students are really learning in college classrooms and if so, how they might be able to assess learning (September 5, 2010,Why Teaching Is Not Priority No. 1http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Teaching-Is-Not-Priority/124301/).
Of course this is all part and parcel of the new ‘evidentiary’ based learning that the Obama administration says it wants. Secretary Arne Duncan and his business cohorts, on the other hand, see ‘evidence of learning’ in test scores based on the anorexic bulimic learning model of memorization and ‘thought starving’ – tube feeding and chamber pot results.
The issue of assessment and thus testing is important. Those educators that teach ‘reasoning’ or critical thinking need to know if their students are learning. How can they do this? The answer really goes back to the work done in the 1980’s and early 1990’s as the Reagan administration began the decimation of the Department
NJ governor says he'll start laying out reforms - Boston.com
NJ governor says he'll start laying out reforms - Boston.com
NJ governor says he'll start laying out reforms
By Geoff MulvihillAssociated Press Writer / September 7, 2010
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WAYNE, N.J.—New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced on Tuesday that he would use September to roll out a number of measures - some of them sure to be criticized - that he wants to see the Legislature pass by the end of the year.
He said he'll be addressing government ethics, pensions and benefits for public sector workers, ways to retain and attract businesses to the state and changing the public education system.
Tuesday's preview of his plans came as lawmakers in Trenton convened a hearing to shed more light on the biggest embarrassment so far in the swashbuckling Republican's eight months in office: How the state made an error on a federal application that likely cost the state a $400 million grant.
Christie appeared before a largely friendly crowd at the Packanack Lake Country
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- Gov. Patrick says achievement gap is narrowing (AP, 3:28 p.m.)
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- NJ governor says he'll start laying out reforms (AP, 2:15 p.m.)
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- Salt Lake City-based online univ. growing fast (AP, 11:04 a.m.)
LATEST K-12 EDUCATION NEWS
- NH school board settles with ex administrator (AP, 10:38 a.m.)
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- Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio(AP, 9/6/10)
- Conn. seeks education grant to help teen parents (AP, 9/6/10)
- Maine gov campaign enters home stretch (AP, 9/6/10)
LATEST HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS
- Student gardens provide food for mind, body (Boston Globe, 9/6/10)
- UMass geologist helping prepare for Mars missions(AP, 9/6/10)
- Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled (AP, 9/5/10)
- Future hiring will mainly benefit the high-skilled (AP, 9/5/10)
- Racial violence changes student -- and school (AP, 9/5/10)
This Week In Education: Edujobs: Funding Bill Lacks Waiver Provision
This Week In Education: Edujobs: Funding Bill Lacks Waiver Provision
Edujobs: Funding Bill Lacks Waiver Provision
The lack of a "maintenance of effort" waiver option in the edujobs bill is creating problems for states like South Carolina that didn't keep funding levels high over the past couple of years, according to this Stateline article. Thirteen states got waivers under the Stimulus act. Apparently edujobs
Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Announce 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools at D.C. High School | U.S. Department of Education
Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Announce 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools at D.C. High School | U.S. Department of Education
Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Announce 2010 National Blue Ribbon Schools at D.C. High School
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will announce that more than 300 schools have been selected as 2010 Blue Ribbon Schools Thursday, Sept. 9, at 10:00 a.m., at the School Without Walls Senior High School in Washington, D.C.
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SEPTEMBER 08, 2010
RSA Commissioner Ruttledge to Keynote Southeast Region National Rehab Association, North Carolina Rehab Association Training Conference
Lynnae Ruttledge, commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, will present the keynote address at the Southeast Region National Rehabilitation Association/North Carolina Rehabilitation Association Annual Training Conference Wednesday, Sept. 8 in Asheville, N.C.
What Does The Mayor's Announcement Mean For CPS? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog
What Does The Mayor's Announcement Mean For CPS? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog
Mayor Daley isn't running for re-election, according to WBBM and the Sun Times. If confirmed, this means big things for Chicago and for Chicago public schools. A new mayor will likely want to bring in his or her own education chief, and a new agenda. Somewhat the same scenario may be playing out in Washington DC, where mayor Adrien Fenty may lose re-election and his schools chief Michelle Rhee is expected to lose her job. What
What Does The Mayor's Announcement Mean For CPS?
Top 50 Education Technology Blogs
Top 50 Education Technology Blogs
Top 50 Education Technology Blogs
Education technology has many supporters in its movement to alter traditional teaching methods. This list of the top 50 education technology blogs includes writers, technicians and social media experts…but they all are teachers. The “movers” are teachers who facilitate learning among other teachers and in the classroom, the “shakers” teach new philosophies and innovations, and the folks “on the ground” offer news, tools and methods of using those tools in the classroom.
This list is divided into those three categories, and each link within those categories is listed alphabetically. The links lead straight to the recently updated blogs, and the descriptions supply information about that blogger’s achievements, including careers and jobs.
Movers
- Always Learning: Kimberly Cofino is in her ninth year of teaching technology in international schools around the world.
- Artichoke: Peering into the artichoke for better models and designs for teaching and learning.
Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction - Politics K-12 - Education Week
Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction - Politics K-12 - Education Week
Education Department Still Lags in Employee Satisfaction
The U.S. Department of Education still ranks near the bottom of the list of big federal agencies when it comes to employee job satisfaction, at least according to a survey released last week by the non-profit Partnership for Public Service.
But it seems that the department's employees are a tiny bit happier than they were on the same survey last year.
Out of 32 large federal agencies surveyed about issues such as leadership effectiveness, work/life balance, and pay, the Education Department came in 30th. Last year, on the same survey, the department ranked 27th out of
How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment? | Intercepts
How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment? | Intercepts
How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment?
1) How Much Return Do Teachers Get on NEA’s $15 Million Indiana Real Estate Investment?
2) Ohio Education Association Strike: Sides Far Apart
3) More District Spending Tables Posted
4) Last Week’s Intercepts
5) Quotes of the Week
The Magic Wand Test � The Quick and the Ed
The Magic Wand Test � The Quick and the Ed
The Magic Wand Test
Today’s New York Times “Room for Debate” discussion focuses on the value-added teacher effectiveness controversy. My entry is here. Linda Darling-Hammond, by contrast, is skeptical. She says the measures aren’t good enough and offers the following as evidence:
Researchers have found that the very same teacher looks more “effective” when she is teaching more advantaged students — and less effective when she teaches more students who are low-income, new English learners, or who have special education needs.
Darling-Hammond is confused here and it’s important to understand why.
Imagine you’re on vacation in an exotic foreign land, and you stumble upon a hidden cave, and in that cave is a gold chest, and in that gold chest is a magic wand. If you point the magic wand at a teacher, it will reveal
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