bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Getting ready for Netroots 2011 in Minneapolis Tomorrow through Saturday - blue cheddar blogGetting ready for Netroots 2011 in Minneapolis Tomorrow through Saturdayby bluecheddar1 person liked this...
gothamschools.org - Members of the Community Education Council for District 1 prepared for a meeting last night with Chancellor Dennis Walcott by compiling a 6-page list of questions about the most pressing issues fac...
preaprez.wordpress.com - Twenty-three people were arrested as a result of acts of civil disobedience in front of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago yesterday. Eighteen different community groups and labor unions held three...
eyeoned.org - Joel Klein is a hoot. Klein, who served as Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools from 2002 to 2010, recently took to the opinion pages of The Washington Post to crown his friends and croni...
nytimes.com - TEN years ago, Congress adopted the No Child Left Behind legislation, mandating that all students must be proficient in reading or mathematics by 2014 or their school would be punished. ...
time.com - Parents of students from McKinley Elementary School, hold hands in prayer, before filing California's first "Parent Trigger Law" to force the Compton Unified School District to make changes in thei...
nypost.com - Michael Goodwin Say this for Mayor Bloomberg: He's consistent about his view of numbers. Those that make him look good are important, those that don't, aren't. The mayor's single-minded determinati...
gawker.com - Hamilton Nolan — We've obtained a copy of Target's notorious internal anti-union propaganda video, which it shows to all new employees in America when they're hired. As far as we know, it can't be ...
huffingtonpost.com - "This is not a bill to attack the teachers." -- State Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-MaywoodWhenever a bill's sponsor has to introduce it in this way, you can only assume that's exactly what it is.SB7,...
chicagotribune.com - When it comes to organized labor, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has problems that stretch beyond the Chicago Teachers Union — and he inherited them from his predecessor.In the short term, Emanuel has to figur...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Republican teachers hold news conference in Central Valley to show support for tax extensions « State of EmergencyRepublican teachers hold news conference in Central Valley to show support for tax ...
californiawatch.org - Ed Bierman/Flickr Never let it be said that state legislators are all that different from the rest of us. Sure, they have some perks that many Californians will never enjoy, like all-expenses-pai...
sacramentopress.com - Sacramento dads have an ally when it comes to navigating family court and help on parenting: the nonprofit Center for Fathers and Families. “Our goal is to make fathers into men and make men into f...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: and now I am in Minneapolisand now I am in Minneapolisby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Perhaps it was a waste of time going to school yesterday. I was there primarily to let students tur...
blog.angryasianman.com - This article is a couple of weeks old, and the remarks in question are way older, but I wanted to share it because it highlights how old school racism still persists among folks who refuse to let g...
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Worker groups file lawsuit as lawmakers continue work on budget WQOW ...The suit alleges state lawmakers are violating the U.S. Constitution by discriminating against certain classes of public e...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - United Farm Workers | Tell CA Gov. Jerry Brown to protect farm workersTell CA Gov. Jerry Brown to protect farm workersOur vital bill, the Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act (SB 104) has passed the...
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 1:47 am, June 16, 2011 Photo Credits: Mike Bloomberg New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the US risks “national suicide” if it doesn’t implement a more welcoming immigration pol...
preaprez.wordpress.com - Recently one of our members sent IEA President Ken Swanson an email that was critical of the union leadership’s stand on Race to the Top, pension reforms and Senate Bill 7. Here’s an excerpt. Mr. S...
gothamschools.org - by Geoffrey Decker Public union coalition is divided over plan to avert teacher layoffs. (Gotham Schools, Crain’s New York) The plan is nothing more than a “fiscal gimmick”. (Citizens Budget Commis...
nydailynews.com - Exclusive City Controller John Liu has rejected a $2.7 million contract for a company overseen by former Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, the Daily News has learned.The contract with Wireless Generat...
gothamschools.org - A meeting among the city’s public unions over a proposal that would help avert more than 4,100 teacher layoffs erupted in “fireworks” today, leaving prospects for a budget deal uncertain. According...
democraticunderground.com - Source: ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON — House Democrats have beaten back efforts by their conservative colleagues to deepen already-stringent cuts to domestic and foreign food aid in an annual spendin...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jazz, Basketball, and Teacher Decision-making | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeJazz, Basketball, and Teacher Decision-makingby larrycubanWhen top jazz musicians select notes fro...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-HooBoo-Friggin'-HooFellas, you reap what you sow:A team of Democratic heavy-hitters soundly rejected an advertisement released today by the New Jersey Education Associa...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: SCHOOL LIBRARIANS GET THE THIRD DEGREESCHOOL LIBRARIANS GET THE THIRD DEGREE BY GENA HASKETT / BLOGHER ORIGINAL POST | HTTP://BIT.LY/LRVAGLJune 15, 2011...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: and now I am in Minneapolisand now I am in Minneapolisby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Perhaps it was a waste of time going to school yesterday. I was there primarily to let students tur...
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - If You Blog, Blog About Education… - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's BlackboardIf You Blog, Blog About Education…Jun 15th, 2011 by Lily.I’m going to a blogger’s convention. I have a blog. Oh yeah. You’r...
theuptake.org - The UpTake’s Nick Coleman introduces our fair Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in a fast-moving, irreverent video inspired by Paul Wellstone’s classic “Fast Paul” campaign ad. Be sure to fol...
Using Storify For “Poverty Matters When…”An Arkansas educator with the Twitter handle BaldMisery recommended I try using Storify to share the “Poverty Matters When…” tweets. Here is what I came up with: [View the story "Poverty Matters When" on Storify]
Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform PostsHere are some good recent posts on school reform related issues: On Treating Students & Educators ‘Like Rats in a Maze’ is by Diane Ravitch. I’m adding it to The Best Posts/Articles On National Research Council Finding That Carrots & Sticks Don’t ...
Photo Galleries Of The WeekObviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more organized way, ...
“The strange and wonderful world of ancient trees”The strange and wonderful world of ancient trees is a pretty amazing slideshow from Salon. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Trees.
“Poverty Matters When…”I’m not quite sure how it all got started, but all of a sudden on Twitter tonight tons of people started sending tweets to Diane Ravitch starting “Poverty matters when…” And these were some amazing tweets. I used “Searchtastic” to bring them all ...
A Great Opportunity To Develop Your Personal Learning NetworkA Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the name commonly given to a group of educators who you can learn and gain support from, as well as the other way around. Online networks have dramatically enhanced the ability to develop these kinds of networks ...
A study released last week by the National Council on Teacher Quality calls attention to just how dramatically L.A. Unified is failing when it comes to recruiting, training, evaluating and compensating teachers. Op-Ed By Antonio Villaraigosa in the L.A. Times | http://lat.ms/jJ14i3 June 16, 2011 - The crisis in Los Angeles public schools — where only about half of the students graduate from
Wed, Jun 15, 2011 5:25 pm - The state Legislature plowed through a package of majority-vote budget bills this afternoon, approving a plan to close the $9.6 billion deficit with more than seven hours left until the deadline for both houses to pass a budget. The latest on California politics and government Legislature approves majority budget plan ahead of deadline Posted by Torey Van Oot |
With Republicans sitting on their hands, Democrats in the Legislature cobbled together a “balanced” state budget Wednesday that will give K-12 schools about $50.4 billion, roughly the same amount of money as last year, while cutting an additional $150 million each from the University of California and California State University. However, K-12 schools and community [...]
Rocketship Education is running three charter schools in San Jose today. It wants to have 29 operating in the city and surrounding communities within seven years. That prospect thrilled at least two of the seven members of the Santa Clara County Board of Education; saying closing the achievement gap is a civil rights issue that cannot [...]
This was written by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. It appeared on the Sociological Eye on Education blog that he wrotes for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Pallas has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Northwestern University, and served as a statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.
This is a speech given by early childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a professor of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Ma., when she won the Embracing the Legacy Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps for work over several decades on behalf of children and families. Carlsson-Paige is author of “Taking Back Childhood” and the mother of two artist sons, Matt and Kyle Damon.
Nice if you can get it, and that's precisely what Mayor4Life Bloomberg is demanding from city workers. Basically, you give me 30 million a month, more than I would have saved by firing all those teachers, and I won't fire all those teachers.
Yet nowhere in the article does it mention the actual emergency which necessitated all those firings, to wit, a 3.2 billion dollar surplus. Last year, you probably recall, the mayor dropped the firings by unilaterally canceling the 8% pattern raise all other city workers got for teachers. I'm still not clear how that's okay with PERB, which insists on the pattern for all whenever it's such a stinker no one wants it. In 2005 the UFT agreed to draconian concessions to get a compensation increase that didn't even keep up with cost of living.
The real problem is this--if we give Bloomberg that money, it will not be enough, just as unilaterally canceling teacher raises was not enough. Next year, there will be another crisis. Perhaps the surplus will only be one or two billion, and we'll really need to cut back.
I’m packing up and looking at a pile of cash, a camera battery that needs charging…do I bring the protest signs? I know I want the extension chord. I hope I find my “Our House” key. It was stamped by jewelers outside the Capitol after the occupation got shut down.
One upon a time there were some men who wanted to change the world. The problem was that these men did not feel powerful enough, and needed more power over the people around them. There was one group which kept challenging these men, “those darn liberals.”
“We need to cut taxes!” They screamed as loud as they could. “If we cut taxes for the rich…we mean, everyone, then everyone will have more money to spend,” they reasoned, while the roads, bridges and neighbourhoods continued to decay. However every time they argued for change, some crazy left wing liberal would argue against them.
They’d been trying for decades to dominate the world by controlling popular media, and by buying politicians, but every time they looked around there were still “those darn liberals” challenging their authority. It seemed like they could make hardly any headway in their plans to dominate every aspect of people’s lives because “those darn
Perhaps it was a waste of time going to school yesterday. I was there primarily to let students turn in the take home final 2 days late for partial credit, but none did by the 8:30 deadline. I did get to say goodbye to those who students who showed up, but even my AP classes had at least 1/3 of the students missing, and my regular classes it was more than half.
I could not make a non-stop flight that would get me to Minneapolis in time to really catch up with people, so I wound up connecting through Atlanta. Let's say that neither leg of the trip was pleasant, both planes were packed, and the 2nd had a crying baby several rows away for most of the flight. Still, I was able get several hours of sleep.
And then I finally got to the Hilton, main hotel for Netroots Nation. And then the fun began.
When top jazz musicians select notes from a chord to improvise a melody, stellar basketball players drive toward the basket on a pick-and-roll, and effective teachers ask questions of students, the cascade of instantaneous micro-decisions that occurs in the heads of trumpet player Wynton Marsalis, the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Kidd, and kindergarten teacher Vivian Paley would stun most non-musicians, non-basketball players, and non-teachers.
Consider jazz and the swift decisions a Wynton Marsalis makes as he improvises. Jonah Lehrer describes a neuroscientist who used MRIs to study brain activity of jazz musicians improvising. one center that showed much activity was during improvisation had been identified for its function in language and speech. The neuroscientist argued that creating new melodies depends on that part of the brain where sentences are invented, where every musical note is like a word. Lehrer continues:
“Of course, the development of these patterns requires years of practice, which is why [the neuroscientist]
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