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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Pleasanton school board candidates agree that alternate funding is needed for education - Inside Bay Area
Pleasanton school board candidates agree that alternate funding is needed for education - Inside Bay Area
This Week In Education: Magazines: NYT's Technology-Focused Education Issue
This Week In Education: Magazines: NYT's Technology-Focused Education Issue
Magazines: NYT's Technology-Focused Education Issue
Here's some of the best links to the stories in the NYT Sunday Magazine's annual education issue, which is focused on learning and technology:
Enfeebling the Mind? If machines are to improve teaching, we must recognize their limits.
Tutors Made to Measure Can race- and sex-specific online teachers close achievement gaps?
Dial-a-Class Cellphones are not the enemy.
Anytime, Anywhere Online courses have become a standard part of normal public education.
Learning by Playing: Can one middle school’s approach transform education?
Pilsen: Whittier Parents Win Huberman Meeting - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog
Pilsen: Whittier Parents Win Huberman Meeting - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog
Pilsen: Whittier Parents Win Huberman Meeting
What do you think about the parents at Whittier protesting Board plans to tear down a field house -- and winning massive coverage and a meeting with Huberman?
Pilsen residents fight City Hall Sun Times: On its third day, a sit-in by parents demanding a library for a Pilsen elementary school took several twists and turns -- with police at one point threatening arrests, then abruptly leaving after more than 100 parents, students and teachers pushed past barricades to support the protesters...
City, still reeling from number of kids who failed state exams, limits lows for grading schools
City, still reeling from number of kids who failed state exams, limits lows for grading schoolsThe 84% of elementary and middle schools that got A's last year will get no worse than a C. The 13% of schools that received B's can earn no lower than a D. Schools that are in the top quarter of the city based on their students' average math and reading exam scores will achieve no lower than a C.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/09/18/2010-09-18_city_to_limit_the_lows_for_grading_schools.html?r=ny_local/education#ixzz0ztVOavdj
City, still reeling from number of kids who failed state exams, limits lows for grading schools
Saturday, September 18th 2010, 4:00 AM
Few city schools will earn big, fat F's on the city-issued report cards, set to be issued next week, the Daily News has learned.
After a massive increase in the number of city kids who failed state exams, the agency decided to limit the number of schools that will get D's and F's.
Officials are expected to announce next week that:
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/09/18/2010-09-18_city_to_limit_the_lows_for_grading_schools.html?r=ny_local/education#ixzz0ztVOavdj
D.C. Wire - Fenty says no to GOP nomination
D.C. Wire - Fenty says no to GOP nomination
Fenty says no to GOP nomination
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) said Friday afternoon that he will not seek re-election as a Republican, even though he won the GOP nomination after more than 800 voters wrote in his name on their ballot in Tuesday's primary.
Repeating statements he made before he lost the Democratic nomination to D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray, Fenty said he plans to remain a Democrat. On Thursday, Fenty formally endorsed Gray in the mayor's race.
"Today's news of the Republican nomination is a recognition of the great progress this city has seen over the past four years," Fenty said. "While I am humbled by the nomination, I will not accept it. I believe the best days of the District of Columbia lay ahead, and I will work with
Editorial: Big hearts and ugly acts conclude week - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee
Editorial: Big hearts and ugly acts conclude week - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/education/#ixzz0ztTBIqpR
Editorial: Big hearts and ugly acts conclude week
Published: Saturday, Sep. 18, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 12A
You don't have to look far to see both the good and not-so-good in people.
Sometimes, they're on the same page of the local newspaper, as in Friday's Bee.
One story reported that for the second time in a week, a swastika had defaced a midtown mural of Sacramento King Omri Casspi, the first Israeli-born player in the NBA.
If a prank, it's just stupid. If an attempted message of hate, it's vile and contemptible –
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/09/18/3038066/editorial-big-hearts-and-ugly.html#ixzz0ztSw4rQh
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/education/#ixzz0ztTBIqpR
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Deb Meier visits Telpochcalli
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Deb Meier visits Telpochcalli
Deborah Meier was in town yesterday. So we went out to visit Telpochcalli, a small neighborhood elementary school in Chicago's Little Village community. Telpochcalli (named after early Aztec schools) is an arts-focused, dual-language school where teachers work collaboratively to personalize instruction and support each other.
Deborah and I were invited to sit in on a regular Friday event called Teacher Talk where one classroom teacher
Deb Meier visits Telpochcalli
Deborah and I were invited to sit in on a regular Friday event called Teacher Talk where one classroom teacher
Friday, September 17, 2010
This Week In Education: Twitter Friday: Blogs And Commentary
This Week In Education: Twitter Friday: Blogs And Commentary
Twitter Friday: Blogs And Commentary
Links, news, commentary all in one place - because it's Friday and you're going to have to get used to this real time / social media thing sooner or later:
N.J. Senate Democrats plan to subpoena Race to the Top officials | NJ.com
N.J. Senate Democrats plan to subpoena Race to the Top officials | NJ.com
Gov. Chris Christie, left, and Education Commissioner Bret Schundler speak at the E. Raymond Appleby Elementary School in Spotswood in this file photo.
N.J. Senate Democrats plan to subpoena Race to the Top officials
Published: Friday, September 17, 2010, 4:13 PM Updated: Friday, September 17, 2010, 4:13 PM
Gov. Chris Christie, left, and Education Commissioner Bret Schundler speak at the E. Raymond Appleby Elementary School in Spotswood in this file photo.TRENTON — Senate Democrats plan to invoke subpoena power to force top members of Gov. Chris Christie’s administration to testify on the state’s bungled “Race to the Top” application.
Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono (D- Middlesex) said she will introduce a resolution Monday that would grant the Senate Legislative Oversight Committee that power, which has only been invoked only five times in the last 20 years. The committee will also subpoena documents the administration did not provide in response to an Open Public Records Act request, Buono said.
“This is an absolutely necessary step that we need to take in order to do our job,” said Buono, who added that Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), who will have to post the resolution for a vote, supports the move. “And it should come as no surprise given the administration’s disturbing pattern of rejecting requests for information.”
Buono said she has not heard back from two top Christie administration officials
School Tech Connect: Update On My So-Called Summit
School Tech Connect: Update On My So-Called Summit
Update On My So-Called Summit
I should pay more attention. I'm seeing some email traffic from the steering committee members of Teachers' Letters To Obama indicating that this NBC Summit thingy is more of a teachers-may-listen-but-not-participate.
Typical. Clearly the only people who know anything about education are people not involved with it day to day.
Typical. Clearly the only people who know anything about education are people not involved with it day to day.
Eduwonk � Blog Archive � Teacher Town Hall! And…
Eduwonk � Blog Archive � Teacher Town Hall! And…
Teacher Town Hall! And…
NBC’s Education Week is fast upon us. They want to kick it off with a virtual town hall for teachers but you need to register. By the way, I’m not getting paid to post that but now that I read this story, I think I should be!
Secretary Duncan Celebrates Constitution Day with the HistoryMakers – ED.gov Blog
Secretary Duncan Celebrates Constitution Day with the HistoryMakers – ED.gov Blog
Secretary Duncan Celebrates Constitution Day with the HistoryMakers
To celebrate Constitution Day, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined civil rights leaders and educators at the Dorothy I. Height Community Public Charter School in Washington.
To celebrate Constitution Day, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined civil rights leaders and educators at the Dorothy I. Height Community Public Charter School in Washington. The speakers encouraged students to honor the freedoms provided by the Constitution by working hard to shape their own destiny.
Julieanna Richardson, the founder of HistoryMakers, kicked off the program, explaining that her motivation to study history came when she was embarrassed as a child in school. When everyone in her class was asked to describe their ancestors, Richardson had nothing to say. “Others talked about their rich European heritage,” she explained, but the only African Americans she had learned about were George Washington Carver and slaves. The experience later motivated Richardson to begin the HistoryMakers project, which is a 7,000-hour video archive of testimony from well-known and unsung African American heroes.
Both Secretary Duncan and featured speaker Rev. Al Sharpton said that as children they were inspired by great African American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dorothy I. Height, for whom the school is named.
Roger Wilkins, who worked with Dr. King and other civil rights leaders in the 1950s and 1960s, described growing up in a segregated Kansas City in the 1930s and attending a segregated school with a roof so leaky that rain dripped into his classroom.
The speakers urged students to not let their circumstances or backgrounds determine their future. “If you work hard and get a good education, there is nothing you can’t achieve,” Duncan said. Sharpton echoed Duncan, reminding students not to take short cuts along the way. “Talent is good,” he said, “but undisciplined talent is a disaster.”
In a question-and-answer session, Secretary Duncan described the importance of remembering the Constitution and using it to make decisions for today. “The signing of the Constitution was a seminal moment in our country’s history,” he said. “We learn about what to do now by studying history.”
Principal Kent Amos, who left a successful career at Xerox to start the Dorothy I. Height Charter School, introduced a class of students who would be leaving later in the day to continue their study of the Constitution at a local history museum.
Learn more about Constitution Day.
Click here for an accessible version of the video.
Laurie Calvert
Washington Teacher Ambassador Fellow
DREAM Act could be voted on next week | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
DREAM Act could be voted on next week | Philadelphia Public School Notebook
DREAM Act could be voted on next week
Organizers in support of the DREAM Act are calling senators to help get the 60 votes needed to pass the much-anticipated federal bill. After reaching the 10,000 phone-call mark on Thursday, activists now hope to make 5,000 more before the vote.
Just this week
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