11-13-13 Radical Scholarship

Radical Scholarship:

Grit and Resilience for Students and Teachers | MiddleWeb

Grit and Resilience for Students and Teachers | MiddleWeb

by P. L. Thomas / 1min 

America’s Intelligence Spying Scandal Draws Global Outrage | Cyrano's Journal Today

America’s Intelligence Spying Scandal Draws Global Outrage | Cyrano's Journal Today

by P. L. Thomas / 3min

Learning and Teaching in Scarcity: How High-Stakes "Accountability" Cultivates Failure

Learning and Teaching in Scarcity: How High-Stakes "Accountability" Cultivates Failure

by P. L. Thomas / 15min 

Learning and Teaching in Scarcity: How High-Stakes “Accountability” Cultivates Failure

Learning and Teaching in Scarcity: How High-Stakes “Accountability” Cultivates Failure.

by plthomasedd / 2min 

Fahrenheit 451 | filmstvandlife

Fahrenheit 451 | filmstvandlife

by P. L. Thomas / 1h 

empathyeducates – What We Know Now

empathyeducates – What We Know Now (and How It Doesn’t Matter)

1 by P. L. Thomas / 3h 

School ™: Resist the Feed, Feed the Resistance | Automated Teaching Machine

School ™: Resist the Feed, Feed the Resistance | Automated Teaching Machine

1 by P. L. Thomas / 3h 

11-12-13 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): “Fahrenheit 451″ 60 Years Later: “Why do we need the things in books?”“Sometimes writers write about a world that does not yet exist,” Neil Gaiman begins his Introduction to the 60th Anniversary Edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: This is a book of warning. It is a

by mike simpson / 8h 

11-13-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:

How Can We Encourage ‘Unmotivated’ Students?

How Can We Encourage ‘Unmotivated’ Students? is the new “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to offer your suggestions there or here in the comments….

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13min 

Another Interesting Piece On “Bridge,” Pearson’s Third World School Model

Earlier this year I posted about a New York Times article that contrasted two companies with rapidly-growing models for private education in the Third World (see Really Interesting NY Times Article On Two Visions Of Education In Developing World — Pearson Is Everywhere!). One of those companies was funded by Pearson. Even though I was much more favorably impressed by what the other company (BRAC

12 by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h 

More Resources on Typhoon Haiyan

Here are new additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Typhoon Haiyan: Typhoon Haiyan, before and after images is from The Washington Post. Typhoon victims in Philippines plead for aid is an Associated Press interactive. What a deadly typhoon in the Philippines can tell us about climate adaptation is from The Washington Post. The Poverty and Population Factors Behind Vast Typhoon Losses

10 by Larry Ferlazzo / 6h 

The Best Posts Interpreting This Year’s NAEP Scores

There has been a lot of reporting on this year’s NAEP test score results, and it’s been all over the map. As John Merrow tweeted: Choose a DC NAEP headline: “Achievement Gap Grows Wider” “DC & Mississippi Worst in Nation” “20 Years of Educational Progress Continues” — John Merrow (@John_Merrow) November 12, 2013   And what is the NAEP, you might ask? The National Assessment of Educational Pro

11 by Larry Ferlazzo / 6h 

YESTERDAY

Supporting English Language Learners In Content Classes

Teaching Beginning and Intermediate English Language Learners in mainstream content classes can be particularly challenging, and I’ve written extensively about it previously in two “The Best…” lists: The Best Sites For Learning Strategies To Teach ELL’s In Content Classes The Best Multilingual & Bilingual Sites For Math, Social Studies, & Science I thought readers might be interested in

16 by Larry Ferlazzo / 8h 

The Best Site — Ever — On The Gettysburg Address

Learn The Address is a site set-up by filmmaker Ken Burns as a prelude to his April PBS documentary titled “The Address.” Anyone can videotape themselves saying the Address, upload it to YouTube, and then it will be placed in a video gallery at the site. He’s got quite a mix of people doing this — “regular” folks and celebrities. Here’s a sampling: I’m adding it to The Best Online Resources F

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Will TweetDeck’s New Custom Timelines Kill-Off Storify?

As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of Storify as an excellent tool to curate and tweets around a particular topic (you can see all my Storify stories here). , Twitter announced that its TweetDeck tool added “Custom Timelines” as a new feature. You can read all about it at that link, but, basically, you can drag-and-drop any tweets you want into a timeline that you can then embed. In other wor

11 by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h 

11-12-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: New Multimedia On Typhoon TragedyHere are the newest additions to The Best Resources For Learning About Typhoon Haiyan: Here are some resources from The New York Times: Mapping the Destruction of Typhoon Haiyan is an interactive. Pictures of Typhoon Haiyan’s Wrath Here’s another video:10 by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h  11-11-13 Lar

by mike simpson / 8h 

11-13-13 Jersey Jazzman

Jersey Jazzman:

Why Is Steve "Shaved Ham" Perry Speaking at Rutgers?

As I mentioned before, America's foremost union basher, Steve Perry, is coming to Rutgers this week: KEYNOTE ADDRESS Why Aren’t Students Ready? Barriers to College Access for America’s Youth Thursday, 10:00 am–11:15 am, Livingston Student Center, Livingston Hall Speaker Dr. Steve Perry CNN Education Contributor; Principal, Capital Preparatory Magnet School Here's a funny coincide

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11-10-13 Jersey Jazzman

Jersey Jazzman: Mythbusting Chris Cerf at @NJEA: PovertyChris Cerf, New Jersey's very reformy Commissioner of Education, spoke on Friday at the NJEA convention. And the commish made it clear that he is gravely, deeply worried that he is being misunderstood: The idea that anybody thinks that poverty doesn't matter is inconceivable. Of course it matters. Of course it is a huge predictor of academic

by mike simpson / 8h 

11-13-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:

Checkers. Charters.

I was pleased Bill de Blasio won the election for Mayor of New York. I don’t know how it will turn out now that the difficult stuff has started. But the wing nuts at the Fordham Institute have already decided. Remember when MIchael Petrilli, the boss at Fordham, damned Diane Ravitch as a double agent?  The skeptical, hard-nosed (if biased and data-slanting) Ravitch of the first half of her book t

2 by Fred Klonsky / 59min 

Squeezy couldn’t have found a better mate if had gone to eHarmony.com. Illinois’ working families need another choice.

  Squeezy’s pick of Paul Vallas as his running mate was shocking to many. Not because the policies and practices of the former head of Chicago’s public schools are that different from those of Squeezy. In fact, one good look at Squeezy’s anti-unionism over the past five years reveals that he couldn’t have found a better mate if had gone to eHarmony.com. SEIU can’t be happy with the betrayal of a

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The in box. Todd Mertz’ veto session round-up, including how your state rep and senator voted on the Park District pension bill.

By Todd Mertz The good news is that no pension reform bill was pushed through the General Assembly during either veto session for state employees and teachers. However, legislators were told to keep the week of December 5th open, as they may return to Springfield to vote on pension “reform” for teachers and state employees. The bad news is that there was a pension reform bill that quickly and quie

1 by Fred Klonsky / 4h 

11-12-13 Fred Klonsky | Running for our pensions. | VOTE 4 Fred Klonsky

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Yolanda relief.The videos are almost too painful to watch. I cannot imagine what is must be like to have family there and not know if they are dead or alive. If you can, make a donation to the typhoon Yolanda relief. I prefer to donate to smaller, on-the-ground organizations. But do what you can to wh

by mike simpson / 9h 

11-13-13 Wait What?

Wait What?:

Capital Prep is a success?

 Perry, Capital Prep’s Principal claims that 100% of his graduates go to a four year college. The truth is far from that. Even the notion that 100% of his students are “accepted” to a four year college is a stretch. Any Perry’s completely ducks that the fact that at least one in five of his […]The post Capital Prep is a success? appeared first on Wait What?.

by jonpelto / 3min

Vallas does a “Double Layout Full In, Full Out” move on appointed school boards

In a gymnastic move worthy of an Olympic Gold Medal, Bridgeport’s faux superintendent of schools Paul Vallas has done what some might have thought impossible. Vallas made a 180 degree change in his position on mayoral appointed school boards. Yesterday, in a Chicago Tribune article entitled, “Vallas says he’s OK playing ‘second banana’ to Quinn,” […]The post Vallas does a “Double Layout Full In, F

2 by jonpelto / 32min 

Joe Biden’s Chief of staff becomes President of the education reform industry’s Broad Foundation

As if it wasn’t clear enough where President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden stand on when it comes to the corporate education reform industry, moments ago, it was announced that “Bruce Reed, assistant to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was named president of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation” According to […]The post Joe Biden’s Chief of staff becomes P

2 by jonpelto / 29min 

If there is a Twitter Chutzpa Award – Steve Perry will win it easily!

For months and months, Capital Prep’s principal Steve Perry has been using his twitter account to bully and attack anyone who opposes his corporate education reforms philosophy.  His Modus operandi has been nothing short of virtually continuous, obsessive, unrelenting tweets, many of which occurred during work hours. Here at Wait, What? we’ve been using the […]The post If there is a Twitter Chutzp

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“If you don’t want to go to college, don’t go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.” – Steve Perry

Yesterday, Steve Perry’s agent sent out a “publicity advertisement” that contained Perry’s regular quote about the educational philosophy behind Perry’s Capital Prep Magnet School. Perry says, yet again, “If you don’t want to go to college, don’t go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.” Although he apparently means that 100% of Capital Prep’s seniors are […]The post “If you don’t want to go to coll

5 by jonpelto / 2h 

11-12-13 Wait What?

Wait What?: Chicago’s leading blog: “Bridgeport Tenure Shows Vallas May Be Failing Upward in Illinois”In a blunt assessment of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s decision to select Paul Vallas as his running mate, Chicago’s leading political blog, “The Ward Room,” experts in Illinois are recognizing that Vallas is hardly the superstar he makes himself out to be. The Ward Room writes, “To hear education

by mike simpson / 8h