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Define “insulting” « Failing Schools

failingschools.wordpress.com - Was this an excerpt from The Onion or did Arne Duncan really say “Diane Ravitch is in denial and she is insulting all of the hardworking teachers, principals and students all across the country who...
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PSEA backs use of test scores in evaluating teachers

articles.philly.com - The Corbett administration wants to institute statewide evaluation procedures that would start by the 2012-13 school year. Education Secretary Ronald J. Tomalis said Monday that such a plan would u...
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Has America in 2011 become 200 AD Rome?

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Dust-bowl refugees walk towards Los Angeles during the Great Depression. House prices have now fallen further than in the 1930s. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis British Guardian Economics Editor, Lar...
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seriously, "how to train your dragon"?

blog.angryasianman.com - So next week, the New England Association for College Admission Counseling holds its annual meeting and conference. Well, that's great. But one reader was browsing through the conference program an...
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9 of 10 Americans Think ENDA is Law

my.firedoglake.com - Kevin Durant face-palm. #gomavs #mffl 23 pt lead. by rondostar This may explain why the Democrats got away with not passing the Employee Non-Discrimination Act when they controlled both houses of C...
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Weiner Will Rise Again

sfgate.com - With apologies to my colleague, who made the case for Weiner's resignation here, New York Representative Anthony Weiner should not resign from office. Not now, not later, not ever. He will, without...
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Feingold Joins Protesters Marching At Capitol Square

defendwisconsin.org - MADISON, Wis. — Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold made a surprise appearance on the Capitol Square on Monday, joining protesters marching against Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget. ...
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Healthy Babies Are Worth the Wait

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Experts Discuss Importance of the Last Weeks of PregnancyEvery week of pregnancy is crucial to a newborn’s health, and today, the March of Dimes unveiled a new public education campaign to raise aw...
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Blue Shield Will Refund $167 Million to Policyholders

baycitizen.org - Facing criticism for rate increases and its CEO's multi-million dollar salary, Blue Shield of California announced plans to cap its yearly profits on Tuesday. The announcement came on the same day ...
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Daily Kos: Why I'm marching on July 30

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: Why I'm marching on July 30Why I'm marching on July 30by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Not only because I am a teacher, but because I am an American. Along with others,For the future of...
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    Full Slate of Keynotes and Sponsors Announced for ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia - PR Newswire - sacbee.com

    Full Slate of Keynotes and Sponsors Announced for ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia - PR Newswire - sacbee.com

    Full Slate of Keynotes and Sponsors Announced for ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia

    By ISTE
    Published: Tuesday, Jun. 7, 2011 - 2:24 pm

    WASHINGTON, June 7, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Thousands of educators, technology coordinators, administrators, and tech industry reps from around the world are expected to attend the International Society for Technology in Education's 32nd annual conference and exposition June 26 – 29, 2011, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. In addition to a full program of nearly 700 sessions, ISTE 2011 includes three inspiring keynotes and the support of more than a dozen tiered sponsors.

    The world's premier ed tech event, ISTE's annual conference and exposition typically attracts between 15,000 and 20,000 attendees.

    "Unlocking Potential" is the theme of ISTE 2011, which is held in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications and Technology (PAECT). Each keynote features a unique perspective on the different ways educators can unlock the potential of their students. Here is the keynote lineup for ISTE 2011:



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    Many STEM Teachers Don't Hold Certifications - High School Notes (usnews.com)

    Many STEM Teachers Don't Hold Certifications - High School Notes (usnews.com)

    Many STEM Teachers Don't Hold Certifications

    By JASON KOEBLER

    Posted: June 8, 2011

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    With teacher layoffs and staff shortages nationwide, some teachers are being asked to teach subjects they are not certified to teach.

    Roughly 30 percent of chemistry and physics teachers in public high schools did not major in these fields and haven't earned a certificate to teach those subjects, according to a new survey released Monday by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Half of earth science teachers are similarly unqualified.

    Tom Luce, CEO of the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) and a former assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education, says that, oftentimes, a certificate to teach

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    Why recess is serious business - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Why recess is serious business - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

    Why recess is serious business

    by Valerie Strauss

    Play matters but too many schools don’t give kids a chance to enjoy themselves.

    Here’s a story about a school that had no recess for kids, until a teacher showed the principal how to get kids to listen and organize games — and how important the time is for students.

    The story is told by Jill Vialet, the chief executive officer of Playworks, a national nonprofit organization that supports learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play and physical activity to schools at recess and throughout the entire school day.

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    How big is higher ed’s economic impact on D.C. region?

    by Valerie Strauss

    Here are three major industries that operate in the greater Washington area. Pick the one with the biggest economic impact:

    1) Hospitality industry

    2) Educational and health services

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    Community Engagement Roundup « Whole Child Education

    The Whole Child Blog « Whole Child Education

    Community Engagement Roundup

    June 7th, 2011 by Klea Scharberg

    In May, we examined the benefits of creating active communities that are a meaningful part of a whole child education. Collectively we have the knowledge, skill, and ability to meet these challenges and share these strengths. So, what’s holding us back? Every school, community, classroom, educator, student, and family has unique challenges and strengths, and has a role to play in ensuring that each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. With this in mind,

    • Who is your community?
    • What does involvement look like in your community?
    • How do you plan to build and sustain your community’s involvement in educating the whole child?
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    Anne Frank’s Birthday | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

    Anne Frank’s Birthday | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
    For Email Subscribers To My “Engaging Parents In School” Blog If you subscribe to my other blog, Engaging Parents In School, by email, you might, or might not, have recently stopped receiving notifications of new posts. If you have had that problem, please just go to the blog and re-subscribe. The problem ...
    “Top 10 Evil Animals” Top 10 Evil Animals is a pretty interesting slideshow from TIME Magazine. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Animals.
    Anne Frank’s Birthday Anne Frank’s birthday is June 12th, and I’ve added these resources to The Best Sites To Learn About Anne Frank: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a great interactive titled Anne Frank The Writer: An Unfinished Story. It provides audio ...
    Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform Posts & Articles Here are some recent good school reform posts and articles: Low-income students and KIPP charter schools appeared in Valerie Strauss’ Washington Post blog. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles Analyzing Charter Schools. VAM Nauseum: Bleeding ...
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    Graduation rates trending up; or maybe down | Thoughts on Public Education

    Graduation rates trending up; or maybe down | Thoughts on Public Education

    Graduation rates trending up; or maybe down

    A new report reveals discrepancies in state's dropout data

    Posted on 6/08/11 • Categorized as Data, Dropout prevention

    By Kathryn Baron

    If California’s graduation and dropout rates were a pair of jeans, they’d have an “irregular” sticker on them. Sure, social science research has a reputation for squishy results, but it’s still a bit jarring when a renowned researcher describes certain data as “bogus.” Although he said it with an ironic laugh, that was the first word that popped into Russell Rumberger’s mind when I asked him about the California high school graduation rates in “Diplomas Count,” an annual report from Education Week.

    Rumberger is an education professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara, where he founded the California Dropout Research Project and has been

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    The 2011 K-12 Horizon Report: Too optimistic? | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think

    The 2011 K-12 Horizon Report: Too optimistic? | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think

    The 2011 K-12 Horizon Report: Too optimistic?

    by dr.scott.mcleod@gmail.com (Scott McLeod)

    I asked fellow BigThink blogger Kirsten Winkler if she would join me in writing about the recently-released 2011 K-12 Horizon Report. She’s done a nice job of summarizing the six trends highlighted in this year’s report and I encourage you to perhaps read her post before you read this one. I confess that she’s more positive than I am about the state of K-12 educational technology, perhaps because of her start-up perspective.

    Although the postsecondary series of Horizon Reports started back in 2004, there only have been three annual reports so far aimed at elementary and secondary educators. Like those aimed at higher (tertiary) education, the K-12 reports attempt to identify “six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use in the educational community within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years” (2011, p. 3, emphasis added). Here’s what the reports have identified so far for elementary and secondary schools:

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    NYC Educator: On the Importance of Communication

    NYC Educator: On the Importance of Communication

    On the Importance of Communication

    by NYC Educator
    Yesterday morning, in my mailbox, I found a note declaring there should be no parties during class. You can imagine my surprise. After all, here we are, almost ten months into the year, and they're setting policy. And here I am, partying since September, ready to continue, and lo and behold, I'm instructed to halt immediately. Isn't that a kick in the pants?

    This is not so bad as the last miscommunication,
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    I have a question too… | Reflections on Teaching

    I have a question too… | Reflections on Teaching

    I have a question too…

    by alicemercer

    About the time I turned 13, Prop 13 passed. Libraries and other crucial services were threatened with closure. When asked what this would mean for children, I can still remember Howard Jarvis’ response, “What do they need libraries for, they’re all illiterate anyway?” Now, my son will soon turn 13, and that meanness of spirit has brought us to this place where where our schools are not the best, but the worst in the country.

    Here is why the Howard Jarvises of our state should care….because kids are our future, and it doesn’t matter if they are black, brown or whatever, they will pay our social security, etc. If we are to do better, don’t they deserve

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    Schooling in the Ownership Society: Has America in 2011 become 200 AD Rome?

    Schooling in the Ownership Society: Has America in 2011 become 200 AD Rome?

    Has America in 2011 become 200 AD Rome?

    by Mike Klonsky
    Dust-bowl refugees walk towards Los Angeles during the Great Depression. House prices have now fallen further than in the 1930s. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

    British Guardian Economics Editor, Larry Elliott ponders whether America in 2011 is Rome in 200AD or Britain
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    The Train Has Left the Station: More on Teacher Pay-4-Performance | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    The Train Has Left the Station: More on Teacher Pay-4-Performance | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

    The Train Has Left the Station: More on Teacher Pay-4-Performance

    by larrycuban
    Close-up of fruit salad

    Image via Wikipedia

    Knowledge, someone said, is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not making a fruit salad out of it.

    And that difference between knowledge and wisdom is how I feel about those state- and district-approved schemes that lean heavily upon “value-added” measures for a substantial portion of the judgment that a teacher is highly effective, marginally effective, or ineffective. Sure, I know that eager policymakers push value-added measures, flawed as they are, to evaluate and pay teachers; but it is unwise, even foolish, to make it the central measurement. Tomatoes in a fruit salad? Better in a pasta sauce.

    I say that even though that policy train filled with tomatoes has left the station. But down the track, the train

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    Tuesday, June 7, 2011

    What If The NAACP Is Actually Right? | The Jose Vilson

    What If The NAACP Is Actually Right? | The Jose Vilson

    What If The NAACP Is Actually Right?

    by Jose

    Someone recently tagged me to this piece from What About Our Daughters. I’ll let you read the rest of it on your own, but this is why misinformation is so dangerous:

    As I understand it, and readers I invite you to correct me if I’m wrong, charter schools ARE public schools. So the battle isn’t over public school education, but WHO CONTROLS that public school education and the facilities where the children attending the schools are located. And I am also assuming that ALL of the kids in both charter schools and non charter schools in Harlem are children of color so what “protected class” is involved? Everybody is Black or Brown!

    According to an editorial written by Jealous (he doesn’t actually write his own work-but anywhoo),

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    Define “insulting” « Failing Schools

    Define “insulting” « Failing Schools

    Define “insulting”

    JUNE 7, 2011
    by mariasallee
    Was this an excerpt from The Onion or did Arne Duncan really say
    “Diane Ravitch is in denial and she is insulting all of the hardworking teachers, principals and students all across the country who are proving her wrong every day.”?
    It sure sounds as if he did if you can read the entirety of the woefully misinformed June 3rd Bloomberg piece by Jonathan Alter without getting sick to your stomach. In reference toRavitch’s questions regarding reports of “miracle” results at schools such as Denver’s Bruce Randolph School, Colorado Senator Mike Johnston is quoted by Alter as follows:

    Save Our Schools March & National Call to Action, July 30, 2011

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    School Tech Connect: Back To The Phones

    School Tech Connect: Back To The Phones

    Back To The Phones

    by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
    The legendary Julie Woestehoff has a great little smorgasbord of things everyone can do tomorrow, all of which would take about ten minutes, max.

    I'm on it. What with the pension attack I've sat on the sideline of SB620, and it really needs to get signed by the Governor now that he's done finding something to prop up Gery Chico for another couple of years.
    There is no reason to believe Governor Quinn will not sign the bill, but it is imperative you call or email him to remind him how important SB620 is to you, your children, your school and our State elected officials who voted in favor of the substance of the bill and that this needs to become law. You may call him at 217-782-0244 or email him through his website: http://www2.illinois.gov/gov/Pages/ContacttheGovernor.aspx. You can even ask for a date in which he’ll be signing the bill. PURE
    SB620 would shine a lot of sunlight on the CPS planning process; it's a good counterweight to the plague of mayoral control. CCH has a nice little summary here.

    Read the piece; it's nice to read something hopeful once in a while.
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    Daily Kos: Why I'm marching on July 30

    Daily Kos: Why I'm marching on July 30

    Why I'm marching on July 30

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

    Not only because I am a teacher, but because I am an American. Along with others,

    For the future of our children, we demand:

    Equitable funding for all public school communities

    Equitable funding across all public schools and school systems
    Full public funding of family and community support services
    Full funding for 21st century school and neighborhood libraries
    An end to economically and racially re-segregated schools

    An end to high stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation

    The use of multiple and varied assessments to evaluate students, teachers, and schools
    An end pay per test performance for teachers and administrators

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