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Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!
Big Education Ape: PARENTS CAN!

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Oh, it’s good to be Michelle Rhee;

jonathanpelto.com - May 12 jonpeltoEducation, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst Education Reform, Malloy, Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst Imagine.  Knowing you are always right… And regardless of whether you are right...
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A Parent Chooses « Diane Ravitch's blog

dianeravitch.net - This is one of the best stories I have read in days. Here is an example of a parent who said “enough is enough.”This parent filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the Pearson tes...
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Nikhil Goyal • Separate and Unequal

goyalnikhil.tumblr.com - This Sunday’s New York Times features a hard hitting piece entitled ‘Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?’ as part of the series “A System Divided.” It delves into the racial schisms of Explore Charte...
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‘Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?’

nytimes.com - (Page 6 of 6) “I don’t know that segregation is this horrible thing,” Ms. Adams said. “The problem with segregation is the assumption that black is bad and white is good. Black can be great. That’s...
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NJ test asks 3rd graders to reveal a secret

online.wsj.com - Associated Press Some New Jersey parents are steamed about a question on a statewide standardized test this week that asked some third-graders to write about a secret and why it was hard to keep. R...
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Roy Orbison - In Dreams

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A candy-colored clown they call the sandmanTiptoes to my room every nightJust to sprinkle stardust and to whisper"Go to sleep. Everything is all right."I close my eyes, Then I drift away Into the m...
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Why is Dick a nickname for Richard

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Why is Dick a nickname for Richard: Why is Dick a nickname for Richard? In: Name Origins, Names and Name Meanings [Edit categories] Answer: Improve a man named Richar...
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Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky

preaprez.wordpress.com - Happy Mother’s Day Mrs. Eileen Quinn. Teachers you worked with your entire working career may soon be royally screwed if your son gets his way. Governor Quinn’s mom wasn’t a teacher. But she was th...
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Today would be Kate Hepburn's 105th birthday

dailykos.com - and as a result, Turner Classic Movies is focusing on her life and her work. I suppose what I should put up is something that focuses on her. But I have just finished watching a movie in which she ...
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L.A. mom defends her breastfeeding Time cover photo

latimesblogs.latimes.com - Jamie Grumet, the woman in the controversial Time magazine cover on breastfeeding, is a Los Angeles mother and she's speaking out. The magazine image shows Grumet's 3-year-old son, Aram, standing o...
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Emanuel Criticizes Chicago Union in Interview

educationnews.org - As the Chicago Teachers Union is set to go head to head with the Chicago Public Schools system in what many believe will be contentious contract negotiations, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has publicly critic...
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NATO summit Chicago 2012

blogs.suntimes.com - Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright --the co-chair of the Chicago NATO Host Committee-- spoke to the Chicago Council of Global Affairs on Wednesday in the run-up to the May 20-21 Summit at...
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Einstein’s Prescience

dissidentvoice.org - by William T. Hathaway / May 12th, 2012 Albert Einstein wrote in 1939, “There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has ...
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Big Education Ape Nite Cap 5-12-12 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - James Baldwin said it best:  "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become." A Big Education Ape Nite Cap Seattle Schools Community Foru...
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Daily Kos: A non-lawyer looks at DOMA

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A non-lawyer looks at DOMA

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)
The Defense of Marriage Act was hastily enacted in 1996, and signed by President Bill Clinton.  The occasion for its hasty enactment was an opinion by the Supreme Court of Hawai'i that they were not sure one could refuse to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple under the Hawai'i Constitution.   While ultimately that court decided such license issuance was not required, by then the Congress had enacted overwhelmingly the legislation introduced by Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia.  Here it is ironic that someone claiming to be defending the traditional understanding of marriage from the threat of same-sex marriage was himself on his 3rd marriage.   But no matter.
Bill Clinton, then President, was already on record as opposing same-sex marriage.  And it would not have mattered, given that the legislation passed the House 342-67 and the Senate 85-14.  With the exception of two House members all the negative votes were cast by Democrats.
The two key provisions of the Act are sections 2 and 3, and I reproduce the text of both here:
Section 2. Powers reserved to the states
No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.Section 3. Definition of marriage
In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wif
I would argue that a plain reading of the Constitution and applicable Supreme Court precedents makes it clear that both provisions are patently unconstitutional, regardless of how the current membership of the Supreme Court may rule.  Section 2 violates the Full Faith and Credit clause of Article 4, and Section 3 violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
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Of Education, Learning, School and the School of Life « Cooperative Catalyst

Of Education, Learning, School and the School of Life « Cooperative Catalyst:


Of Education, Learning, School and the School of Life

by Brent Snavely
After spending (much too much) time with the written words of such ilk as Plato, William James, C.S. Lewis, Focault, Derrida and others,  I decided to attend a one and one-half week seminar at an ‘alternative ed’ school — I went camping with the Indians.
They have been running their school for many generations. In a manner that parallels, but is not identical to the education-system-today-in-the-West they are thankful for those who maintained their school system over the generations. They name and respectf those who refused to give up and shut down their schools, who persevered despite: Being ‘defeated’ and removed to Reservations (why was Adolf Hitler fascinated by the Reservations?); The Mankato 38 (thanks to Abraham Lincoln, who ‘freed’ the slaves); and, near-total annhiliation of their culture, language and people (for some, The Apocalypse has come-and-gone).
They have their own Socrates, their own Horace Mann, their own John Dewey and their own Sir Ken and they recognize someone/thing preceded those individuals.
After being with them a while, they made a few cryptic remarks and left me alone for an individualized educational experience. The Curriculum was:
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Pushback from Around the Country

Seattle Schools Community Forum: More Pushback from Around the Country:


More Pushback from Around the Country

by Melissa Westbrook
Do you hear that sound echoing across the country?

It's the sound of parents saying "Enough."  And it is spreading throughout the country and I believe if parents stay strong and united, it will defeat this tide of ed reform and testing craziness that is really the problem with making strong academic outcomes for all students.

  • In Missouri, from the Fired Up! website, a story of Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst group trying to create "grassroots" interest in her initiatives.  Last Wednesday they held a luncheon.  The invite went like this:  Do you want get involved in the effort to improve Missouri schools?

    Come down to The Fig Tree Café and Bakery to share some good food with other Missourians who care about education. Find out more about how we can keep great Missouri teachers in the classroom and increase the number of quality public schools in our state.  Fired Up! says this: The funny part? No one showed up.  Not one grassroots activist came.  Event organizers were forced to cancel the luncheon.

    But here's the real question: are you really grassroots if no one shows up? Can you call yourself a grassroots organization if you spend millions upon millions of Rupert Murdoch and Koch Brothers' money to advance legislation that attacks working families and even your astroturf activists don't show up?

    Here's the thing, this isn't the first time Rhee and her Students Rhee First campaign has had such a

To All the Moms

by Melissa Westbrook
Happy Mother's Day!  (And my love to Mom in Arizona.)

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Terri Guillemets

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.  ~Abraham Lincoln

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one. -Jill Churchill

Mothers are all slightly insane. -J.D. Salinger

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. -Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
-W. R. Wallace
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The Story of Jamie - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators

The Story of Jamie - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators:


The Story of Jamie

As the Information Age continues to unfold, educators at all levels are faced with several competing factors in promoting teacher efficacy and student achievement: brain research, instructional technology and the move towards state and national standards. Because these interests come from very different groups of stakeholders, educators often make the mistake of assuming that competing interests can not also be compatible. After all, if the bottom line of each of these movements is the best public education possible, then there has to be common ground upon which to build. Still, brain research is readily embraced by the constructivist movement and standards and accountability by the instructivist school.

Instructional technology seems to fall somewhere in between, often trying to be all things to all stakeholders, which may well be why it is having such a difficult time pleasing anyone. Regardless, if educators can embrace the best from each of these camps, they can come out on 
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The Innovative Educator: Dropping Out was a Great Idea

The Innovative Educator: Dropping Out was a Great Idea:


Dropping Out was a Great Idea

by noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen)
Editor's Note: I had the extreme pleasure of joining the author of this post, Nicholas Perez, as a guest on Paul Allison's Teachers Teaching Teachers. In the episode we discussed who drops out and why. I was invited on the show as author of the Teen's Guide to Opting Out of School for Success. Nick was invited because he was a teen who opted out of school to find success. I LOVED what Nick had to say and asked him to please consider sharing his story as I know it will be inspiring to parents, teachers, and teens across the globe. The following post is the result of several month's work. It provides amazing insights and lessons for every educator, administrator and parent. It also happens to be the most important post I've published. So, without further adieu, please read Nick's story. This is the first time it is being shared publicly.



“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget
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NYC Educator: Exported from NYC to Louisiana

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Exported from NYC to Louisiana

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