Parents' Guide to Student Success |
 National PTA® created the guides for grades K-8 and two for grades 9-12 (one for English language arts/literacy and one for mathematics). The guide include:
Implementation of the Common Core Standards is in its early stages. It is likely that they are not currently in place in your school or school district. Each state is working on developing its own timeline and plans to implement the standards. To find out more about your state’s plans to adopt or implement the standards, please contact your state education agency. PTAs can play a pivotal role in how the standards are put in place at the state and district levels. PTA® leaders are encouraged to meet with their school, district, and/or state administrators to discuss their plans to implement the standards and how their PTA can support that work. The goal is that PTAs and education administrators will collaborate on how to share the guides with all of the parents and caregivers in their states or communities, once the standards are fully implemented. Ultimately, the aim is for the Guide to be a tool for parents to build relationships with their children’s teachers once the standards are fully in place. Register for the Parents' Guide webinar. The webinar takes place on Monday, February 28 at 8 p.m. EST |
Monday, February 28, 2011
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Closing the Doors of Democracy? (Feb 27) Video from Inside the Wisconsin... #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI
After 13 days of demonstrators being in the building, the Wisconsin Department of Administration announced that the Capitol will close at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 27th. This is what happened. NOTE: THERE IS YET TO BE CONFIRMATION ON DALE SCHULTZ'S ALLEGED DECISION. (Viewable in HD.)
CAP, Ed Trust, and federal policy foolishness
CAP, Ed Trust, and federal policy foolishness
Posted by Mike Petrilli on February 28, 2011 at 10:03 am
Photo by Westside Shooter
Let me say from the beginning that I don’t think the Center for American Progress and Education Trust are staffed by fools. On the contrary, their leaders are savvy, courageous, talented people who have taken difficult stands against the education establishment. No, my headline refers to the old adage, “Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.” Because if we embrace the latest CAP/Ed Trust proposal on ESEA,we’re the fools.
In a paper released last week, the two organizations called for far-reaching federal mandates around teacher evaluation and distribution (in return for receipt
The Fight for Unions in Wisconsin : The New Yorker #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI
UNION BLUES
by Hendrik HertzbergMARCH 7, 2011
“Fifteen million Americans bring you Edward P. Morgan and the news.” From 1955 to 1967, that line, heard on the ABC radio network every weeknight at 7 P.M., heralded the nation’s best news broadcast. Those fifteen million Americans were the members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., a federation that included nearly every union in the land. Organized labor was powerful and, for the most part, respected. Its economic and political muscle had played an indispensable role in insuring that the benefits of postwar prosperity were widely shared, transforming much of what many had unironically called the proletariat into an important segment of the broad American middle class.
Labor has come a long way since then—a long way down. At the outset of the nineteen-sixties, one in four workers had the protection of a union. By the early eighties,
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AFSCME Files Unfair Labor Practice Against Walker in Wisconsin | FDL News Desk #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI
AFSCME Files Unfair Labor Practice Against Walker in Wisconsin
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One undiscussed part of the Wisconsin situation is the number of legal fights that could be pursued. I was at a meeting of progressives which went line by line through Walker’s prank phone call with “David Koch” and discussed the potential legal, ethical and campaign law violations contained therein. For example, in one part at the end, Koch offers to bring Walker out to California once he finishes “crushing the bastards,” and Walker says
Wisconsin State Journal’s History Timeline of Uprising « Larry Miller's Blog #StateSOS #WIunion #SolidarityWI
Wisconsin State Journal’s History Timeline of Uprising
WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL SPECIAL REPORT
Anatomy of a protest: From a simple march to a national fight
On Feb. 7, with Wisconsin united in the afterglow of a Green Bay Packers victory in the Super Bowl, brand-new Gov. Scott Walker convened a dinner meeting of his Cabinet at the Governor’s Mansion.
Walker held up a photo of President Ronald Reagan, who had famously fired striking air-traffic controllers, and said his plan to sweep away decades of protections for state public employees in a stop-gap budget bill represented “our time to change the course of history.”
“It was kind of the last hurrah before we dropped the bomb,” he said.
The budget-repair bill, which would strip most collective-bargaining rights from 175,000 public-sector workers while imposing immediate benefits concessions, went public four days later. Walker, a Republican, called for passage in the GOP-controlled Legislature within a week.
Word of the bill’s union provisions started to trickle out in press reports Thursday night, which for union chiefs
Voting at the IEA RA. « Fred Klonsky's blog
Voting at the IEA RA.
In response to an e-mail from Bob Blade, a candidate for IEA president:
I understand that at last weekend’s Board of Director’s meeting Bob Blade voted in favor of changing our legislative platform to allow the issue of taxing retiree benefits to be placed “on the table.” In reading Bob Blade’s website “reflection” I find it indistinguishable from that of many so-called Reformers. As a delegate to the RA, I look forward to hearing an explanation of Bob’s vote to allow IEA to concede protecting retiree benefits.
I would hope other delegates will ask for an explanation as well.
-Fred Klonsky, Teacher, Park Ridge Education Association
CTU presents a conversation with Diane Ravitch Chicago Teachers Union
presents
a conversation with
Ravitch
noted public education advocate and author ofof the Great American School System:
How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
12:00 noon
University of Illinois at Chicago Forum
725 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL
| Mail the check to: | Chicago Teachers Union/Ravitch Event Attn: Carolyn Fulton 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 400 Chicago, IL 60654 |
Madison Update 2/28/2011 2/28/2011 - Solidarity Wisconsin | Internet Radio | Blog Talk Radio
| Host Name: | Solidarity Wisconsin |
| Show Name: | Madison Update 2/28/2011 |
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Reformy baloney. « Fred Klonsky's blog
Reformy baloney.
The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss hands over her column to Paul Thomas, an associate professor of education at Furman University in South Carolina. He trashes the arguments of “Accountability,” “merit,” “choice,” and “competition,” when looking at school improvement.
From President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan to the misleading documentary “Waiting for Superman” to the new reformers (Bill Gates, Geoffrey