10-5-13 Saturday Matinée Special Corporate Reform School Girls News Breakout

Saturday Special Corporate Reform School Girls News Breakout

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Deciding Who Sees Students’ Data - NYTimes.com

Deciding Who Sees Students’ Data - NYTimes.com:

by mike simpson / 3min 

Rallies and Marches Planned Across Country Support of Immigrants | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com

Rallies and Marches Planned Across Country Support of Immigrants | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com: Hundreds of Rallies and Marches Planned Across Country in Support of ImmigrantsMore than 150 events in 41 states have been planned this weekend in support of immigrants and immigration reform.  The rallies and marches are all part of the ‘National Day of Action for Immigrant Dignity and Respect.’These

by mike simpson / 22min 

Blue Jersey:: Christie runs from his record on schools

Blue Jersey:: Christie runs from his record on schools: Christie runs from his record on schoolsby: NJ Working Families AllianceFri Oct 04, 2013 at 04:05:43 PM EDTThis story should be shared with anyone believing the Christie administration lie that they've properly funded schools. Report by New York Federal Reserve Bank has the numbers that make the truth clear. Promoted by RosiEven by the standa

by mike simpson / 46min 

Gates Money and Common Core– Part VI | deutsch29

Gates Money and Common Core– Part VI | deutsch29: Gates Money and Common Core– Part VIOctober 5, 2013This post is the sixth (and final) post in a series I have written detailing Bill Gates’ mammoth purchasing of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). (Hereare links to the previous five posts in the series.)In the fifth post, I mentioned that this final post would be Gates’ CCSS funding of educati

by mike simpson / 2h 

Get Bill Ayers! | Dissident Voice

Get Bill Ayers! | Dissident Voice: Get Bill Ayers!A Review of Public Enemyby Ron Jacobs / October 5th, 2013I remember reading the New York Times review of Bill Ayers’ first bookFugitive Days while sitting on a curb in Greenwich Village on September 11, 2001. The haze from the demolished towers hung on the air as thick as the fear felt by almost every person in the city that day. After reading the

by mike simpson / 2h 

2nd Banana 10-5-13-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2 #1u

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANA RECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool - NYTimes.comDisruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool - NYTimes.com: "Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational Tool"Disruptions: Minecraft, an Obsession and an Educational ToolIf you were to walk into my sister’s house in Los Angeles,

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Jose Lara for ERUSD School Board 2013

Jose Lara for ERUSD School Board 2013: About the candidate: José LaraAs an award -winning educator, I have dedicated my career to helping students achieve their maximum potential. As a parent there is nothing I care about more than ensuring our schools provide a quality education that prepares children for a successful future.  I am the only candidate that is both a teacher and parent and I intend

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Morning Wink 10-5-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2 #Cheats4Change

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSTODAYThose Who Changed History but Won’t Be in the History Books | toteachornototeachThose Who Changed History but Won’t Be in the History Books | toteachornototeach: Those Who Changed History but        Won’t Be in the History Booksby Nicholas FerroniAs a history teacher, I have read and taught about every figure in our textbooks and curriculum. Some are

2 by mike simpson / 4h 

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-5-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Is Free Speech Dead in Oklahoma?I just learned that Rob Miller, principal of the Jenks Middle School in Oklahoma, is under investigation for possibly encouraging parents to opt out of a field test. According to the Tulsa World: Jenks Public Schools participated in and encouraged a movement to opt students out of field tests last Ap

by mike simpson / 4h 

Those Who Changed History but Won’t Be in the History Books | toteachornototeach

Those Who Changed History but Won’t Be in the History Books | toteachornototeach: Those Who Changed History but        Won’t Be in the History Booksby Nicholas FerroniAs a history teacher, I have read and taught about every figure in our textbooks and curriculum. Some are more than deserving of their recognition and immortalization in school texts nationwide, while others just happen to be very lu

by mike simpson / 4h 

10-5-13 NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education

NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education: These Countries Respect Teachers The Most, New Survey Finds | Huffington PostBy Rebecca Klein Posted: 10/03/2013 8:35 am We may leave our children with them every day, but do we actually respect them? A new survey released Wednesday by the Varkey Gems Foundation — a group that seeks to improve education for underprivileged youth — looked at

by mike simpson / 4h 

Teachbad: Origins: Part One | Mr. Teachbad

Teachbad: Origins: Part One | Mr. Teachbad: Teachbad: Origins: Part OneThe Crosby S. Noyes Elementary School is three blocks from my house. After teaching there for one day, I knew it would be impossible for my wife and I to send our kids to their neighborhood public school. This was a huge disappointment, but non-negotiable.I started teaching at Noyes (pronounced noise)[1] in November 2004 after

by mike simpson / 4h 

The Sham and Shame of “Best Practices” | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

The Sham and Shame of “Best Practices” | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Sham and Shame of “Best Practices”I posted this February 3, 2010. I have since made some changes in the post. Given the adoption of Common Core Standards in 45 states and the District of Columbia and the current emphasis on putting the standards into practice across thousands of districts, I felt that

by mike simpson / 4h 

Hundreds of letters decry problems at underfunded city schools

Hundreds of letters decry problems at underfunded city schools: Hundreds of letters decry problems at underfunded city schoolsA homeless Philadelphia third grader does not have access to a full-time counselor, even though federal law requires it. A first grader's attends school in an annex that had an assistant principal last year but now has no administrator.100+ 9h At Delsea, N.J. teacher of yea

by mike simpson / 4h 

10-5-13 The Answer Sheet

The Answer Sheet: SCHOOL REFORMThe influence of new philanthropy on democracyWhy the current era of private giving is different from in the past.By Valerie Strauss 6 hours ago4 CommentsShare:More »DEFINING DEVIANCY DOWNWARDHow Congress flunked basic Schoolhouse Rock lessonThe perversity of the government shutdown is 'is that people are hoping for the merely inefficient.'By Valerie Strauss 19 hours

by mike simpson / 4h 

10-5-13 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: CHARTER SCHOOL OPERATOR SENTENCED TO PRISON AS INDUSTRY GROUP FIGHTS ON HIS BEHALF; Judge critical of California Charter School AssociationAnnie Gilbertson| Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/192oNX4 Annie Gilbertson/KPCC | Judge Stephen Marcus complained that there were far too many lawyers involved. A total of six spoke during Friday's sentencing h

by mike simpson / 5h 

Teachers Unions and Their Allies Proclaim Core Value of Public Education | janresseger

Teachers Unions and Their Allies Proclaim Core Value of Public Education | janresseger: Teachers Unions and Their Allies Proclaim Core Value of Public EducationPosted on October 5, 2013 by janressegerTonight 400 members of the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign, Communities for Education Reform and allies of these organiz

by mike simpson / 5h 

10-5-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:  Ed Notes Online10-4-13 Ed Notes OnlineEd Notes Online: Shael in the Eye of the Storm in Debate with Parents on TestingIn many ways this was the most remarkable part of Monday night's CEC 15 High Stakes Testing event -- a real debate between a chief Tweedie (Gotham lists him as one of 5 potential Chancellor candidates) and parents and teachers. (You can see MORE's Lisa North and M

1 by mike simpson / 5h 

10-5-13 Wait What?

Wait What?:A retired Bridgeport principal speaks: Leaving the “Education Reform” movement in tattersAnn Evans de Bernard, Ph.D recently retired as principal of Waltersville School in Bridgeport.  In a two part commentary piece, she asks When is school reform not reform? And then, with the power and authority that only comes from having served on the front lines of the effort to provide Bridgeport’

1 by mike simpson / 5h 

10-5-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools Community ForumSeattle Schools Family Symposium RescheduledFrom SPS:The fall Family Symposium originally scheduled for Oct. 12 has been rescheduled for Saturday, Nov. 23 because of conflicts in scheduling and availability.Seattle Public Schools is committed to preparing all of our students to graduate ready for college, careers and life. The goal of

1 by mike simpson / 5h 

10-5-13 Jersey Jazzman

Jersey Jazzman: Jersey JazzmanRIP Jean AnyonAnyon was a scholar who documented the most obvious thing in the world: Professor Anyon, who died on Sept. 7 at 72, was one of the first people to study that landscape in detail — and among the first to assert that without accompanying social reforms like job creation, antipoverty initiatives and urban renewal, the problems of education in urban, poor ar

1 by mike simpson / 5h 

10-5-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:Fred Klonsky's Daily postsResponding to protests, CMS/HMS push back cleansing deadline to December 6th.As a result of protest from across the state, including to and from this blog, the Illinois Central Management System – which manages the Teachers Retirement Insurance Program (TRIP) – has pushed back

1 by mike simpson / 5h 

10-5-13 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Perdido Street SchoolOff Duty And Undercover NYPD Cops Took Part In The Biker Chase Of Man In SUVThe Daily News reports: A pair of NYPD detectives rode last weekend with the motorcycle mob that battered a Manhattan dad as his terrified family watched, a source told the Daily News. The two cops apparently waited several days after Sunday’s brutal assault before informing supe

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

10-5-13 Radical Scholarship

Radical Scholarship:  Radical ScholarshipClosing Gaps?: Addressing Privilege and Poverty | The Daily Advocate By PainspeaksClosing Gaps?: Addressing Privilege and Poverty | The Daily Advocate By Painspeaks1 by P. L. Thomas / 1h OCT 03Our Meritocracy is a Lie: How Poverty and Privilege Feed the Achievement Gap in America's Schools | Alternet ← NPE News BriefsOur Meritocracy is a Lie: How Poverty an

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 10-5-13 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYSee Where All Your Food Comes From With “Map Your Recipe”As the site says: Map your Recipe does a simple thing: enter the ingredients of a recipe and it will show you where the vegetables that went into it were first domesticated. It’s pretty neat — you’re shown a world map with the origina

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

This Week's Education Research Report 10-5-13 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTOCT 03Reading literary fiction improves 'mind-reading' skillsHeated debates about the quantifiable value of arts and literature are a common feature of American social discourse. Now, two researchers from The New School for Social Research have published a paper in Science demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of sk

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

10-5-13 -13 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter:  Schools Matter All WeekThe Great Phonics Debate Again! This time in AustraliaPhonics debate in The Australianhttp://tinyurl.com/prp2ucvContents: Our letter, then two responses, then our responseThe (limited) impact of heavy phonics instructionPublished in The Australian, Oct 1, 2013 as "Foster Love of Reading"In "Bad teaching kills reading skills," (Sept. 30) J

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

All Week 10-4-13 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Live show from DougCo Colorado today, 4PM ESTTim and I are out here meeting with parent and teacher activists who are attempting to oust a school board that is rotten. This is actually a very interesting case study. You can understand at minimum the racism and bigotry that underscore inner city school reform. Even the white savior me

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 10-5-13 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGTODAYIs Free Speech Dead in Oklahoma?I just learned that Rob Miller, principal of the Jenks Middle School in Oklahoma, is under investigation for possibly encouraging parents to opt out of a field test. According to the Tulsa World: Jenks Public Schools participated in and encouraged a movement to opt students out of fiel

1 by mike simpson / 6h 

Deciding Who Sees Students’ Data - NYTimes.com

Deciding Who Sees Students’ Data - NYTimes.com:

Deciding Who Sees Students’ Data

WHEN Cynthia Stevenson, the superintendent of Jefferson County, Colo., public schools, heard about a data repository called inBloom, she thought it sounded like a technological fix for one of her bigger headaches. Over the years, the Jeffco school system, as it is known, which lies west of Denver, had invested in a couple of dozen student data systems, many of which were incompatible.

In fact, there were so many information systems — for things like contact information, grades and disciplinary data, test scores and curriculum planning for the district’s 86,000 students — that teachers had taken to scribbling the various passwords on sticky notes and posting them, insecurely, around classrooms and teachers’ rooms.

There must be a more effective way, Dr. Stevenson felt.

InBloom, a nonprofit corporation based in Atlanta, seemed to offer a solution: it could collect information from the district’s many databases and store it in the cloud, making access easier, and protect it with high-level encryption.

The company has name-brand backing: $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation along with the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Beyond storing data, it promised to help personalize learning — by funneling student data to software dashboards where teachers could track individual students and, with the right software, customize lessons in real time. Also, districts could effortlessly share student records with developers seeking to create educational tools for schools. In other words, for 

Rallies and Marches Planned Across Country Support of Immigrants | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com

Rallies and Marches Planned Across Country Support of Immigrants | HispanicallySpeakingNews.com:

Hundreds of Rallies and Marches Planned Across Country in Support of Immigrants

More than 150 events in 41 states have been planned this weekend in support of immigrants and immigration reform.  The rallies and marches are all part of the ‘National Day of Action for Immigrant Dignity and Respect.’

These events are being conducted in an effort to put pressure on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship.  There are marches, rallies, prayer vigils, community celebrations and concerts organized in hopes Congress, especially Republicans, pay attention even as the government is shut down for business.  A concert on the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday, October 8 will culminate the rallying cry for immigrants.

One such event in Illinois is being billed as ‘Pilgrimage for Citizenship’ where faith leaders and immigrants are embarking on a 30-mile march urging a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented in this country.

Illinois Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez, who was expected to attend events in Chicago, took this opportunity to remind Latinos that, “Today, 1,100 people will be deported, and tomorrow, and the next day.  A child born and raised in the United States will lose a parent to deportation today.  A DREAMer with protection from deportation may lose a parent today.  Someone will die in the desert today because they cannot come legally.”

In California, where a large population of Latino immigrants resides, events in Hollywood, Orange Country, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento are planned, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Hundreds of immigration activists march in Hollywood

Jorge Garavito was 3 years old when his father got caught up in a raid at the airport and was deported back to Colombia.

by By Matt Stevens / 6min 

Blue Jersey:: Christie runs from his record on schools

Blue Jersey:: Christie runs from his record on schools:

Christie runs from his record on schools by: NJ Working Families Alliance Fri Oct 04, 2013 at 04:05:43 PM EDT

This story should be shared with anyone believing the Christie administration lie that they've properly funded schools. Report by New York Federal Reserve Bank has the numbers that make the truth clear. Promoted by RosiEven by the standard of political advertisements, Governor Christie’s TV spotsare a pieces of work. Whether it’s boasting about job creation at the same time the state is actually losing tens of thousands of jobs or bragging about balancing budgets when the state Constitution requires that all budgets be balanced, Christie has repeatedly tried to spin failures and take credit for things over which he has absolutely no control. Among Christie’s more galling claims is that he funded public schools at higher levels than anyone other Governor. Christie famously cut $1.1 billion cut from public schools his first year in office while giving the state’s wealthiest residents $1 billion in tax cuts. Outrage from urban and suburban parents – and a command from the State Supreme Court – has forced him to restore part of the aid, but the Education Law Center still estimates that he’s underfunded education by roughly $5 billion since taking office. Now economists at the New York Federal Reserve Bank have released a reportshowing that the damage from Governor Christie’s cuts went deeper than we’d

Gates Money and Common Core– Part VI | deutsch29

Gates Money and Common Core– Part VI | deutsch29:

Gates Money and Common Core– Part VI

October 5, 2013

This post is the sixth (and final) post in a series I have written detailing Bill Gates’ mammoth purchasing of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). (Hereare links to the previous five posts in the series.)

In the fifth post, I mentioned that this final post would be Gates’ CCSS funding of education businesses. Then, I realized I needed to account for the nonprofits not yet discussed. So, they, too, are represented here.

In this series, I wanted to present complete information from the Gates grants website. Therefore, the organizations listed in this final post of the series include all recipients of Gates CCSS funding not included in previous posts.

In short, the organizations included in Parts One thru Six are a comprehensive listing of the $173.5 million in Gates funding designated for CCSS as of October 4, 2013.

All organizations receiving Gates CCSS funding can be found here, with the exception of one grant to the Fordham Foundation, which can be found here.

The list copied below can be found in Word document form here: Gates Money for CCSS to Businesses and Nonprofits.

Gates CCSS Funding to Businesses and (As of Yet Unexamined) Nonprofits

Bill Gates has paid a total of $51.5 million to the businesses and nonprofits on the list below. Most of these recipients agree to the simple directive of “implementing the Common Core State Standards”:

Achievement Network                           $3,452,501

America’s Promise                                     $500,000

Battelle for Kids     

Get Bill Ayers! | Dissident Voice

Get Bill Ayers! | Dissident Voice:

Get Bill Ayers!

A Review of Public Enemy

by Ron Jacobs / October 5th, 2013

I remember reading the New York Times review of Bill Ayers’ first bookFugitive Days while sitting on a curb in Greenwich Village on September 11, 2001. The haze from the demolished towers hung on the air as thick as the fear felt by almost every person in the city that day. After reading the review, I thought to myself about how the book’s release could not have come at a worse time. The destruction of the Twin Towers and the media hullabaloo around that destruction was already overriding any shred of common sense. It would be a long while before any rational discussion of the Weather Underground would take place in the United States. For some segments of US society, there would never be a rational discussion.

Bill Ayers writes about that first book and the reaction to it in his newest release, Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident. He discusses why he wrote Fugitive Days, the interaction with the media in the wake of its publication and the attacks of September 11, 2001, and much, much more. It is the much, much more that is the real story in this book. Ayers writes about raising children and he writes about teaching them. He also writes about helping friends in prison and responding to public campaigns attacking himself and his family. The narrative Ayers provides is honest, personal, political and occasionally funny. The best example of the latter is the story he tells about him and his wife Bernardine Dohrn having dinner with a group that included right-wing bloggers Andrew Breinbart and Carlson Tucker. The dinner was the result of a fundraiser for a humanities council Ayers and Dohrn were part of. The dinner guests had bid the highest for the opportunity to get inside the Ayers/Dohrn home. Despite whatever they were anticipating, it seems everyone had a great time, enjoyed the food, drink and even the conversation. Ayers’ retelling is bound to evoke a few chuckles from almost every reader, if only for the absurdity of the spectacle.

During Obama’s first presidential campaign Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) became a campaign issue. In Public Enemy, Ayers writes about receiving death threats thanks in large part to (what he calls) the caricature of him being broadcast by the mainstream media, especially from the studio of FOX News host Sean Hannity. Reading his narrative about those months, and as another indication of how implacable this element of the media can be, I was reminded of my own interaction with Hannity’s staff when they called me in October 2008 asking if I would like to appear on his show to discuss the WUO. I responded by telling the staffer on the phone that I disagreed with pretty much everything Hannity said and found him to be a disagreeable human being. After a quick consultation with Hannity, the staffer called me back and rescinded my invitation by saying that they would find a more agreeable guest.

Public Enemy is mostly a collection of anecdotes from Bill Ayers’ recent life. He does begin the book with a chapter about his last years underground and he touches on the reasons he and Bernardine decided to surface in 1980. He also writes about the circumstances he and Bernardine faced after the 1981 Black Liberation Army/May 19th Communist Organization Brinks holdup in Nyack, NY went wrong and resulted in the deaths of lawmen and robbers. Two former WUO members were involved in the action and both were charged with several crimes, including murder. As part of a fishing expedition by the authorities, Bernardine was called before a grand jury, refused to testify and ended up behind bars. Ayers writes tellingly about the stress and emotional changes the entire episode put him and his family through. Politics are part of the story in these pages, but the primary impetus is on family and friendship. Indeed, the truest hero in the book is the family’s New York child care provider, BJ.

In no way apologetic, the book is a well-written consideration of an engaged life lived in a contentious time. In his anecdotes and discussion, Ayers portrays a political world where too much (if not everything, to borrow a line from Bob Dylan) is broken. When one lives in such a world, the best we can do is to try and make it work for as many as possible. Just as importantly, one must try and live a life that one will not be ashamed of when the reckoning day comes. To be sure, there are those whom Ayers discusses in his book that think Bill Ayers very existence is a major blemish on the human race. However, to his credit, the book doesn’t spend time lambasting his critics, although it does poke a little fun in their direction. Public Enemy is not an attempt by Ayers to reconstruct his public persona. He makes it clear that he has no control over how people perceive him and, even if he did, he probably wouldn’t change much. The title itself seems slightly tongue in cheek, but pointedly so. Here, says Ayers, is your public enemy. Take it however you want.

Ron Jacobs is the author of The Way The Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground and Tripping Through the American Night, and the novels Short Order Frame Up and The Co-Conspirator's Tale. His third novel All the Sinners, Saints is a companion to the previous two and was published early in 2013. Read other articles by Ron.

This article was posted on Saturday, October 5th, 2013 at 9:07am and is filed under Activism, Anti-war, Book Review, Civil Liberties, Elections,FBI, General, History, Obama.