bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The Train Has Left the Station: More on Teacher Pay-4-Performance | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeThe Train Has Left the Station: More on Teacher Pay-4-Performanceby larrycuban...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Capitol Weekly: Senate OKs power shift from Board of Education to superintendentSenate OKs power shift from Board of Education to superintendentBy Allen Young | 06/07/11 12:00 AM PST Email PrintLeg...
schoolfinance101.wordpress.com - I’ve reached a point after these past few years where I feel that I’ve spent way too much time critiquing poorly constructed arguments and shoddy analyses that seem to be playing far too large a r...
latimes.com - School principals should be able to hire any teacher of their choosing, and displaced tenured teachers who aren't rehired elsewhere within the system should be permanently dismissed, according to a...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter schools not worth the money | The Washington IndependentFlickr/*christopher*Libertarian research paper finds top-funded Calif. charter sch...
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...
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...
thinkprogress.org - Last week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) — buoyed by legislators who received hundreds of thousands of dollars of special interest cash — signed into law legislation that would dramatically expand ac...
nj.com - New Jersey awards diplomas to 87 percent of its high school students, making the state’s graduation rate the highest in the nation, an annual review released today shows.Between 1998 and 2008, the ...
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...
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...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 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,...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU SaysACLU: Milwaukee's Voucher Program Segregates Schoolsby The Huffington Post News TeamNEW YORK -- Milwaukee's voucher system,...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Gates and Villaraigosa: Screw Family Leave! Screw the Feds! Fire 25% of All Teachers!Gates and Villaraigosa: Screw Family Leave! Screw the Feds! Fire 25% of All Teachers!by Michael D...
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...
nytimes.com - MADISON, Wis. — The gears of government tend to grind slowly. But in Wisconsin lately they are racing at turbocharged speed. In just the last few weeks, Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican,...
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...
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. ...
commondreams.org - Today marks the 10th anniversary of former President George W. Bush signing into law his 2001 tax cuts (he passed a second round in 2003). While doing so, Bush promised prosperity and growth, but t...
thinkprogress.org - We could've guaranteed health care for every child for the cost of the Bush tax cuts. Today marks the tenth anniversary of former President George W. Bush signing into law his 2001 tax cuts (he pas...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Progreso Financiero, a financial institution dedicated to the economic advancement of lower-income Hispanic families, today announced that since its founding in 2005 it has loaned more than $140 mi...
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...
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 ...
my.firedoglake.com - I’m a little confused by Erza Klein’s mostly helpful post showing, once again, the US paying much higher public and private costs than OECD countires for health care. Congress and the Administratio...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Milwaukee's Voucher Program Discriminates Based On Disabilities, ACLU SaysACLU: Milwaukee's Voucher Program Segregates Schoolsby The Huffington Post News TeamNEW YORK -- Milwaukee's voucher system,...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Many STEM Teachers Don't Hold Certifications - High School Notes (usnews.com)Many STEM Teachers Don't Hold CertificationsBy JASON KOEBLERPosted: June 8, 2011PrintShare ThisWith teacher layoffs and ...
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...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Blog U.: #satechBOS Unconference - An #SAtech event - Student Affairs and Technology - Inside Higher Ed#satechBOS Unconference - An #SAtech eventBy Eric Stoller June 7, 2011 7:15 pm EDTWhere do stu...
insidehighered.com - By Eric Stoller June 7, 2011 7:15 pm EDT Where do student affairs practitioners go for information about technology and student affairs? I generally point folks toward several websites, including: ...
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:
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
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.
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?
For Email Subscribers To My “Engaging Parents In School” BlogIf 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 BirthdayAnne 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 & ArticlesHere 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 ...
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.
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:
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?
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
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
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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