Saturday, May 5, 2012
Missouri Education Watchdog: A Tale of the Two Julias. Which Life do you want for Your Child?
Missouri Education Watchdog: A Tale of the Two Julias. Which Life do you want for Your Child?:
A Tale of the Two Julias. Which Life do you want for Your Child?
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| Is this the life envisioned for "Julia"? Is this what you want for your child? |
The Obama Administration has released "The Life of Julia", the story of the government taking care of "Julia" from cradle to grave. She has no worries in her educational decisions (they are scripted out due to Race to the Top and Common Core standards), her college is practically paid for, as well as her health and retirement pension. It's quite a life. The government has Julia's life all figured out for her. All she has to do is show up, fit in the blueprint the government has planned for her.
The Heritage Foundation quickly came out with its own version of Julia's life, "A Better Life for Julia". Instead of the government controlling and supplying everything for Julia, she learns to be self-sufficient
Court ruling could expel high-achieving charter school - latimes.com
Court ruling could expel high-achieving charter school - latimes.com:
A court ruling has invalidated the lease of a high-performing charter school in Glassell Park, threatening it with closure when the school year ends in June.
The Alliance Environmental Science and Technology School, whose students have some of the highest test scores in the Los Angeles Unified School District, will lose its campus under a ruling Friday by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones.
Her ruling came in a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Community College District filed by a coalition of community groups over the college district’s compliance with environmental laws. The coalition had challenged the legality of the lease between the college district and Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, which operates the high school.
Court ruling could expel high-achieving charter school
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| CHARTER SCHOOLS Dividing Communities since 1991 |
A court ruling has invalidated the lease of a high-performing charter school in Glassell Park, threatening it with closure when the school year ends in June.
The Alliance Environmental Science and Technology School, whose students have some of the highest test scores in the Los Angeles Unified School District, will lose its campus under a ruling Friday by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones.
Her ruling came in a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Community College District filed by a coalition of community groups over the college district’s compliance with environmental laws. The coalition had challenged the legality of the lease between the college district and Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, which operates the high school.
Grumpy Educators: Indiana: Parent Opts Out and Indiana DOE Overreacts
Grumpy Educators: Indiana: Parent Opts Out and Indiana DOE Overreacts:
Indiana: Parent Opts Out and Indiana DOE Overreacts
by Indiana: Parent Opts Out and Indiana DOE Overreacts
Recently, Grumpy Educators reported on a New York parent who opted her student out of student testing. The response from the school was disheartening. Now, a parent in Indiana reports a similar experience in asserting her parental rights to opt out her son from standardized testing. In both cases, the parents were mistreated, harassed, and in New York, threatened, their students had an IEP, and the state-level officials demanded compliance to non-existing regulations. Are these appropriate responses by State-level education department staffers? Schools are ordered to comply and school officials then order the parents and students to comply without any enforceable legal requirement. The schools must give the tests, but the students are not compelled to take them and parental rights have not been overridden. When the state is asked for relevant regulations, the compliance begins to fall apart.
Read the Indiana parent's story from beginning to end.
Part 1: The Parent Requests No Testing
"I went to school with [child's name] today, Thursday, May 5th, to make sure the school did not make [child's name] take the ISTEP (he was at home on
Read the Indiana parent's story from beginning to end.
Part 1: The Parent Requests No Testing
"I went to school with [child's name] today, Thursday, May 5th, to make sure the school did not make [child's name] take the ISTEP (he was at home on
The Trib’s Eric Zorn and Glen Brown talk tenure and pensions. « Fred Klonsky
The Trib’s Eric Zorn and Glen Brown talk tenure and pensions. « Fred Klonsky:
The Trib’s Eric Zorn and Glen Brown talk tenure and pensions.
Retired teachers Merle Taber, John Dillon and Glen Brown attended a Chicago Tribune Board meeting on April 23rd. After the meeting, Eric Zorn invited Glen to engage in a “blogging” discussion about clearing “up points of difference between current and former public school teachers and critics of at least certain aspects of the education system.” Here is the link to the first discussion:
http://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2012/05/rhubarb_teachers.html#more
http://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2012/05/rhubarb_teachers.html#more
To Glen,
I’m glad you’ve agreed to have this e-mail exchange with me because I’m hopeful we can begin to clear up the points of difference between current and former public school teachers and critics of at least certain aspects of the education system.I don’t consider myself an adversary. I have great respect for teachers and am a staunch defender of the idea of public education. Though there are obviously lazy, untalented teachers among the
The Data-Driven Parent (Mya Frazier) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
The Data-Driven Parent (Mya Frazier) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
The Data-Driven Parent (Mya Frazier)
This appeared in The Atlantic, April 2012. Mya Frazier is a business journalist based in Columbus, Ohio. I raise a question at the end of this post.
The day their son was born, Monica Rogati and her husband began obsessively plotting his life via thousands of bits of data they punched into the smartphone app Baby Connect. They called the data “baby I/O,” a reference to the computing expression input/output and the kind of “geeky joke,” as Rogati puts it, that you might expect from a pair of professional data crunchers with doctorates from Carnegie Mellon. With the baby’s feedings (input), diapers (output), sleep sessions, and other accomplishments duly registered, he generated 300 data points each month.
This may sound like a lot of information for a very small person, but it’s typical grist for apps designed to tally a baby’s every blink and burp and sniffle, in hopes of charting his development over time. Among Baby Connect’s competitors are Total Baby, Baby Log, iBabyLog, Evoz, and the new Bedtime app from Johnson’s Baby, as well as Web-based programs such as Trixie Tracker (which an enterprising stay-at-home dad named after his daughter). Since Baby Connect launched, in 2009, Rogati and 100,000 other users have logged 47 million
The day their son was born, Monica Rogati and her husband began obsessively plotting his life via thousands of bits of data they punched into the smartphone app Baby Connect. They called the data “baby I/O,” a reference to the computing expression input/output and the kind of “geeky joke,” as Rogati puts it, that you might expect from a pair of professional data crunchers with doctorates from Carnegie Mellon. With the baby’s feedings (input), diapers (output), sleep sessions, and other accomplishments duly registered, he generated 300 data points each month.
This may sound like a lot of information for a very small person, but it’s typical grist for apps designed to tally a baby’s every blink and burp and sniffle, in hopes of charting his development over time. Among Baby Connect’s competitors are Total Baby, Baby Log, iBabyLog, Evoz, and the new Bedtime app from Johnson’s Baby, as well as Web-based programs such as Trixie Tracker (which an enterprising stay-at-home dad named after his daughter). Since Baby Connect launched, in 2009, Rogati and 100,000 other users have logged 47 million
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