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5-15-14 LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: NYC: A Teacher Explains the Utter Uselessness of High-Stakes TestingAt a rally against high-stakes testing in New York City, high school teacher Rosie Frascella explains the uselessness of high-stakes tests. The students get no feedback about what they did well and where they need to improve. As their teacher, she learns nothing ab

by mike simpson / 1min 

5-15-14 The Whole Child Blog — Today on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Classroom Instruction and Students — Whole Child Education

Today on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Classroom Instruction and Students — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGToday on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Classroom Instruction and StudentsMay 15, 2014 by Whole Child SymposiumASCD's inaugural Whole Child Symposium concludes this week with a series of virtual panels featuring school leaders, policy experts, teachers, and students. You

by mike simpson / 4min 

5-15-14 Wait What? Pelto Could Upend Gubernatorial Race As 3rd-Party Candidate - Wait What?

Wait What?: Additional media coverage of potential gubernatorial candidacyHere are links to some of the latest news article and news segments about my potential candidate for governor. CT News junkie: Malloy Tries to Look Past Possible Third Party Challenger FOX CT News: Former Democrat Pelto May Run As Third Party Candidate For Governor NBC Connecticut News: Possible Third Party Candidate News 8

by mike simpson / 8min 

5-15-14 The Answer Sheet

The Answer Sheet: Pushback on standardized testing around the country getting strongerTo get an idea of what is going on around the country in regards to the growing anti-standardized testing movement, look at the following collection of stories that have come out in the last week or about the growing resistance around the country to high-stakes standardized testing. This list was issued by the Na

by mike simpson / 10min 

5-15-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida

Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Florida Teachers Union Urges Scott to Veto Voucher Expansion BillGovernor Rick Scott saw what happened to Charlie Crist when he vetoed SB6, republicans first attempt at imposing a test-based teacher evaluation bill. There’s no chance Scott will veto voucher expansion. Bu

by mike simpson / 11min 

5-15-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Glen Brown.Glen Brown. What is at stake right now.Dear Fred, you know I have said this many times: What is at stake right now is an adjudication of claims that public employees have against policymakers who have coerced changes to public employees’ benefits and rights and who are breaking public emplo

by mike simpson / 13min 

5-15-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: UFT Contract: Factor in de Blasio Sellout on Charters - With UFT SupportThat brings the total amount his administration plans to spend on charters in FY2015 to nearly $1.3 billion, up from $1.06 billion this year.... Capital NY If you don't think the ATR stuff in the contract has nothing to do with the "Big Plan" to chop down a third of union teachers, you must be "

by mike simpson / 15min 

5-15-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: Congratulations Mayor Baraka and Newark!Congratulations Mayor Ras Baraka! Thank you Newark! Congratulations to all of you who help assume mayoral responsibilities! Ras Baraka and the students, teachers, and families of Newark have risen up and handed a pivotal defeat to corporate reformers. Your grassroots efforts repelled the last minute infusion of cash from the Billionaires’ B

by mike simpson / 22min 

5-15-13 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION: US DOE Ambassadors!US Department of Edumacation press releaseThere has been much discussion lately of our Principal Ambassador program, a program in which US DOE-indoctrinated principals are inserted into school settings where they can sort of work for the school district while spreading the good word of Common Core Etc. This was spun off of our successful Teacher Ambassador progra

by mike simpson / 24min 

5-15-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: NYSED Commissioner John King Says APPR Teacher Evaluations And Common Core Will Bring About Greater Economic EqualityI called this yesterday before NYSED Commissioner King gave his Brown vs Board of Education speech:Anybody want to bet an APPR artifact that King recycles some of the same boilerplate from the last speech about how the fight for education reform/Common Core is

by mike simpson / 27min 

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good News! Judge Belz's Injunction and Rahm is all ears.

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good News! Judge Belz's Injunction and Rahm is all ears.: Good News! Judge Belz's Injunction and Rahm is all ears.GOOD NEWS...Circuit Judge John Belz has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of the new state pension-robbing law, SB-1.“I do think it has led to great confusion … almost across-the-board confusion,” Belz said in a Sangamon Cou

by mike simpson / 30min 

Don't Write Off Everyone in the Tea Party - Bridging Differences - Education Week

Don't Write Off Everyone in the Tea Party - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Don't Write Off Everyone in the Tea PartyBy Deborah Meier on May 15, 2014 9:45 AMDeborah Meier continues her conversation with Mike Klonsky today.Dear Mike,You make a good argument, Mike.   You mostly persuade me.  But ...Your argument is weakened by citing the situation in Chicago where, you claim, we don't need th

by mike simpson / 33min 

Chris Christie. Socialist | Bob Braun's Ledger

Chris Christie. Socialist | Bob Braun's Ledger: Chris Christie. SocialistChris Christie. The social engineering candidate for president. A socialist?What really boggles my mind is this: Chris Christie says he is a conservative Republican and hopes he will take that ideology all the way to the White House in 2016. Conservative Republicans rail against what they often call “social engineering” by pu

by mike simpson / 36min 

LAUSD Teacher: “I Don’t Think We Have Seen the Worst of Common Core” | Missouri Education Watchdog

LAUSD Teacher: “I Don’t Think We Have Seen the Worst of Common Core” | Missouri Education Watchdog: LAUSD Teacher: “I Don’t Think We Have Seen the Worst of Common Core”This teacher is checking out of the madness called public educationA teacher tells the truth about Common Core and gives us an inside look at what Common Core really does to the teaching profession: it decimates it.  Combine Common

by mike simpson / 37min 

NCLB Was A Failure: PBS Reporter John Merrow Condemns Myopic Fixation on Testing | janresseger

NCLB Was A Failure: PBS Reporter John Merrow Condemns Myopic Fixation on Testing | janresseger: NCLB Was A Failure: PBS Reporter John Merrow Condemns Myopic Fixation on TestingPosted on May 15, 2014 by janressegerThis week John Merrow, the PBS education reporter and columnist, insists that we tell ourselves the truth, even though some of our leaders want to keep pretending that test-based school r

by mike simpson / 39min 

5-15-14 empathyeducates – Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Unequal Treatment for New Orleans’ Black Public School Students

empathyeducates – Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Unequal Treatment for New Orleans’ Black Public School Students: Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Unequal Treatment for New Orleans’ Black Public School StudentsPhotograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by

by mike simpson / 42min 

TODAY! To do list for our day of action targeting City Council | Parents United for Public Education

TODAY! To do list for our day of action targeting City Council | Parents United for Public Education: TODAY! To do list for our day of action targeting City CouncilPosted on May 15, 2014 by PARENTSUNITEDPHILALeave a commentToday City Council will introduce legislation that will devote 100% of sales tax proceeds to the schools in year one, 75% in year two and 50% for the remaining years. City Counc

by mike simpson / 46min 

Shanker Blog » Performance Measurement In Healthcare And Education

Shanker Blog » Performance Measurement In Healthcare And Education: Performance Measurement In Healthcare And EducationPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on May 15, 2014A recent story in the New York Times reports that, according to an Obama Administration-commissioned panel, the measures being used to evaluate the performance of healthcare providers are unfairly penalizing those that serve larger proport

by mike simpson / 54min 

San Francisco’s new dress code removes causes of needless conflict | EdSource Today

San Francisco’s new dress code removes causes of needless conflict | EdSource Today: San Francisco’s new dress code removes causes of needless conflictMay 14th, 2014 | 2 Comments | By Matt Haney / commentary3Matt HaneyWith all the challenges that we face in getting students to feel welcomed, comfortable and safe at school, why we would we set up new barriers that push some students away, particula

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Arne Duncan’s “Principal Ambassadors”: Federally Monitored “Local Control”?? | deutsch29

Arne Duncan’s “Principal Ambassadors”: Federally Monitored “Local Control”?? | deutsch29: Arne Duncan’s “Principal Ambassadors”: Federally Monitored “Local Control”??May 14, 2014A notable corporate reform ploy is to starve school districts of funding and then turn around and offer some “assistance”– which amounts to little more than a district’s selling its autonomy to the corporate reform machine

by mike simpson / 8h 

Community Schools & Mayor De Blasio: Preparing the Next Generation for College & Careers « NYC Coalition for Educational Justice

Community Schools & Mayor De Blasio: Preparing the Next Generation for College & Careers « NYC Coalition for Educational Justice: Community Schools & Mayor De Blasio: Preparing the Next Generation for College & CareersCEJ’s brief “Community Schools & Mayor de Blasio: Preparing the Next Generation College & Careers” was designed to influence and shape Mayor de Blasio’s commu

by mike simpson / 8h 

Break a kid’s heart? Who cares? | Bob Braun's Ledger

Break a kid’s heart? Who cares? | Bob Braun's Ledger: Break a kid’s heart? Who cares?Chris Christie and Cami AndersonNewark’s school superintendent, Cami Anderson, yesterday shrugged off the political embarrassment she dumped on Gov. Chris Christie—a national champion of education?–and stubbornly pushed her deeply flawed and unpopular “One Newark” plan. In a letter whirling with spin, Anderson tri

by mike simpson / 9h 

RESPECT is on the Rise: I lost my bid for SEA union president by 45 votes, but the Social Equality Educators have never been stronger! | I AM AN EDUCATOR

RESPECT is on the Rise: I lost my bid for SEA union president by 45 votes, but the Social Equality Educators have never been stronger! | I AM AN EDUCATOR: RESPECT is on the Rise: I lost my bid for SEA union president by 45 votes, but the Social Equality Educators have never been stronger!By I AM AN EDUCATOR on May 14, 2014Thanks to everyone for your support for the Social Equality Educator’s (SEE)

by mike simpson / 9h 

With A Brooklyn Accent: Mark Naison EduNews Takes on Teach for America

With A Brooklyn Accent: Mark Naison EduNews Takes on Teach for America: Mark Naison EduNews Takes on Teach for AmericaHere it is!!! Mark Naison EduNews takes on Teach for America!!!http://youtu.be/PREZXh4coIo5-10-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All WeekWith A Brooklyn Accent:With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All WeekAn Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Center on Common Core and Threats to Pub

by mike simpson / 11h 

DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: "Does It Always Have to be the "Good" Ones? Giving All Students a Chance!

DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: "Does It Always Have to be the "Good" Ones? Giving All Students a Chance!: "Does It Always Have to be the "Good" Ones? Giving All Students a Chance!I was talking to a high school teacher about the mentor program that was established between the 5th graders and the high school football team.The response was, "Which football playe

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Report: California among worst in the nation in school segregation - ContraCostaTimes.com

Report: California among worst in the nation in school segregation - ContraCostaTimes.com: Report: California among worst in the nation in school segregationBy Sharon Noguchi snoguchi@mercurynews.comPOSTED:   05/14/2014 04:06:35 PM PDT0 COMMENTS| UPDATED:   ABOUT 4 HOURS AGOAs racial separation in education steadily grows, California now leads the nation in children going to school with their own

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How Many Points of Misinformation Can You Find in Michelle Rhee’s Appearance on FOX News? | Missouri Education Watchdog

How Many Points of Misinformation Can You Find in Michelle Rhee’s Appearance on FOX News? | Missouri Education Watchdog: How Many Points of Misinformation Can You Find in Michelle Rhee’s Appearance on FOX News?Make a list of the misinformation that Michelle Rhee shared with the host and listeners today on Fox & Friends this morning.You can find the video here.My observations?  She is dismissiv

by mike simpson / 11h 

Nite Cap 5-14-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

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 CAPSuckerberg: Facebook’s $100 Million Education Donation Chiseled By Consultants | FDL News DeskSuckerberg: Facebook’s $100 Million Education Donation Chiseled By ConsultantsBy: DSWright Wednesday May 14, 2014 9:35 amLast night Ras Baraka won Newar

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Suckerberg: Facebook’s $100 Million Education Donation Chiseled By Consultants | FDL News Desk

Suckerberg: Facebook’s $100 Million Education Donation Chiseled By ConsultantsBy: DSWright Wednesday May 14, 2014 9:35 amLast night Ras Baraka won Newark’s mayoral election all but formally ending the Cory Booker era. With the power of grass roots and union support Baraka overcame Booker’s chosen establishment backed successor Shavar Jeffries. Though Booker has already gone on to continue hyping h

by mike simpson / 16h 

5-14-14 Jersey Jazzman Jammin': Where In The World Is Cami Sandiego?

Jersey Jazzman: Where In The World Is Cami Sandiego?: Where In The World Is Cami Sandiego?Ras Baraka, an employee of the Newark Public schools, has just won election as mayor. Throughout the campaign, Baraka has been a harsh critic of State Superintendent Cami Anderson -- his boss -- and her plan for restructuring the school system, One Newark.You would think, then, that Anderson would have someth

by mike simpson / 17h 

Cooper or Schenirer--Voters Will Decide Sacramento's Future | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education

Cooper or Schenirer--Voters Will Decide Sacramento's Future | The Sacramento Coalition to Save Public Education: Cooper or Schenirer--Voters Will Decide Sacramento's Futurepublished by Kate_Lenox on Wed, 05/14/2014 - 11:42amIn his column today, Sac Bee attack dog Marcos Breton goes after Sac City teachers and City Council candidate Ali Cooper. Evidently Breton sees them as ganging up on children a

by mike simpson / 19h 

5-14-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Oversight Work Session on Coordinated Health, Safety & SecurityThere will be a Work Session today from 4-5:30 pm that could be of some interest as it covers a variety of topics.  It's the Oversight Work Session on Coordinated Health, Safety & Security  (Coordinated Health and Safety & Security are two different presentations).  This is Pegi McEvoy's are

by mike simpson / 19h 

Lawyers Run the Legal Profession. Doctors Run the Medical Profession. Why Don’t Teachers Run Education? | Gatsby In L.A.

Lawyers Run the Legal Profession. Doctors Run the Medical Profession. Why Don’t Teachers Run Education? | Gatsby In L.A.: Lawyers Run the Legal Profession. Doctors Run the Medical Profession. Why Don’t Teachers Run Education? I’m fed up with the inefficiency of the judicial system! I’m going to become a judge. I may not be a lawyer, but I’ve been a law-abiding citizen all my life, I mean, how hard

by mike simpson / 19h 

“Barbarians at the Gate” Press On in Arizona | Truth in American Education

“Barbarians at the Gate” Press On in Arizona | Truth in American Education: “Barbarians at the Gate” Press On in ArizonaFiled in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on May 14, 2014 • 0 Comments101John HuppenthalArizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthalyesterday compared opponents of the Common Core State Standards to “barbarians at the gate

by mike simpson / 19h 

Call the War Report on Sunday 5/18 4 CST to discuss @TeachForAmerica #edreform | Cloaking Inequity

Call the War Report on Sunday 5/18 4 CST to discuss @TeachForAmerica #edreform | Cloaking Inequity: Call the War Report on Sunday 5/18 4 CST to discuss @TeachForAmerica #edreform“The War Report”  is Dr. James Avington Miller, Jr, (a public education advocate, activist, professor, teacher and independent scholar) online show about the corporate war on public education and the rising public resistan

by mike simpson / 19h 

Spring Cleaning | EduShyster

Spring Cleaning | EduShyster: Spring Cleaning A social justice movement is bringing sweeping change to teachers unionsWhen we last paid a call upon those nemeses of all things excellent, the teachers unions, we found them in a sad and sorry state. Exuding anodeur of mildew and mothballs,even their ability to stifle innovation and lower expectations seemed in doubt. But it turns out that whilst we

by mike simpson / 19h 

U.S. Department of Education Issues Guidance on Obligations of Charter Schools to Comply with Federal Civil Rights Laws | U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Education Issues Guidance on Obligations of Charter Schools to Comply with Federal Civil Rights Laws | U.S. Department of Education: U.S. Department of Education Issues Guidance on Obligations of Charter Schools to Comply with Federal Civil Rights LawsMAY 14, 2014Contact:   Press Office, (202) 401-1576, press@ed.gov The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR

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5-14-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD

LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Morning Read: Brown urges 30-year fix for CA teacher pensionsIn revised budget, Governor details 30-year plan to fix teacher pensions Gov. Jerry Brown is predicting that the state will take in $2.4 billion more in revenue in 2014-15 than initially estimated, but highly expectant education leaders won’t ge

by mike simpson / 21h 

Q&A with Randi Weingarten: Is Australia’s conservative government doing more about school equity than the Obama administration? | Hechinger Report

Q&A with Randi Weingarten: Is Australia’s conservative government doing more about school equity than the Obama administration? | Hechinger Report: Q&A with Randi Weingarten: Is Australia’s conservative government doing more about school equity than the Obama administration?By Sarah ButrymowiczPresident of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten has traveled the globe, to plac

by mike simpson / 21h 

My Interview with Counterpunch | deutsch29

My Interview with Counterpunch | deutsch29: My Interview with CounterpunchMay 14, 2014Sacramento jounralist Seth Sandronsky learned of the release of my book, A Chronicle of Echoes, and requested an interview on the book and other issues, including questions about my personal history and varied education reform topics.His interview is posted in the online publication, CounterpunchMay 14, 2014 An I

by mike simpson / 21h 

5-14-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: My Interview with CounterpunchSacramento jounralist Seth Sandronsky learned of the release of my book, A Chronicle of Echoes, and requested an interview on the book and other issues, including questions about my personal history and varied education reform topics. His interview is posted in the online publication, Counterpunch May 14, 2014  An Interview With Mercedes K. Schneider

by mike simpson / 21h 

LEAs face a big tab for teacher pensions under Brown’s plan :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet

LEAs face a big tab for teacher pensions under Brown’s plan :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: MAY 14, 2014LEAs face a big tab for teacher pensions under Brown’s planby Kimberly Beltran(Calif.) The financial contribution school districts will make to help close an unfunded liability of $74 billion in teacher pensions will jump nearly 11 percen

by mike simpson / 22h 

End of School Privatization in Las Vegas » Resist the Privatization of America

End of School Privatization in Las Vegas » Resist the Privatization of America: End of School Privatization in Las Vegas Saturday, 15 March 2014Did School District get its $100 million worth from for-profit company?When Edison came to town in 2001, the for-profit education management company promised to deliver dramatic improvements in test scores among Las Vegas’ lowest-performing students.Thirte

by mike simpson / 22h 

The Broad Foundation's Bruce Reed on education reform, teachers and charters - Los Angeles Times

The Broad Foundation's Bruce Reed on education reform, teachers and charters - Los Angeles Times: The Broad Foundation's Bruce Reed on education reform, teachers and chartersThe Broad Foundation's education initiatives began 15 years ago, but the organization is just now getting its first president, and his surname isn't Broad. Bruce Reed is tasked with minding the foundation's investments and its

by mike simpson / 23h 

5-14-14 The Whole Child Blog — Today on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Education Policy and Schools — Whole Child Education

Today on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Education Policy and Schools — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGToday on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Education Policy and SchoolsMay 14, 2014 by Whole Child SymposiumASCD's inaugural Whole Child Symposium concludes this week with a series of virtual panels featuring school leaders, policy experts, teachers, and students. You can register

by mike simpson / 23h 

5-14-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: Study Should Spark New Lawsuits Against Teacher Eval Based on VAMFrom the summary at Brookings:The federal government has spurred the creation of a new generation of teacher evaluation systems at the state level through more than $4 billion in Race to the Top funding to 19 states and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) accountability waivers to 43 states. A majority of states have passed l

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Morning Wink 5-14-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTS5-14-14 LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Our Brilliant Students: Stop Bashing Our KidsI used to be one of those people who complained that the younger generation was not as smart as my generation. I met adolescents who had never heard of “The Rime of th

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5-15-14 LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all:

Rhode Island House May Not Pass Moratorium on High-Stakes Test for Graduation

Just a couple of hours ago, I posted a story about the Rhode Island State Senate’s decision to impose a three-year moratorium on the use of a standardized test as a high school graduation test. The vote was 29-5. The test is called the. New England Comprehensive Assessment Program and bears the appropriate acronym (NECAP, pronounced “kneecap”). The test was not intended to be a graduation test; it

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Rhode Island State Senate Aproves 3-Year Ban on High-Stakes Testing

Yielding to demands by students and educators, the Rhode Island State Senate voted a three-year moratorium on high-stakes testing. The bill must still pass the Hpuse and win the Governor’s okay. The bigger problem is that the moratorium kicks the can down the road. If it is wrong to use a standardized test for high school graduation, it will still be wrong in three years.

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Leonie Haimson: Six Charter School Myths

In her testimony to the New York City Council Education Committee, education activist Leonie Haimson of Class Size Matters exploded several common myths about charter schools.   First is the myth that they are public schools. They are not. They are private corporations with contracts to run schools, exempt from most state laws and from most state oversight. In court after court, the charters thems

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Jeffrey Aaron Snyder: The Trouble with Grit

Other writers have criticized the concept of “grit” on grounds that it seems to suggest that poor kids are poor because they don’t try hard enough, and that this shifts the responsibility for poverty for the economic system to the individuals. So many privileged kids seem to float through life on a soft pillow that it is hard to credit their success in school or life to grit, since their families

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Ted Mitchell, Leader in Privatization Movement, Confirmed as Undersecretary of Education

One of the nation’s leaders of the privatization movement, Ted Mitchell, has been confirmed by the. u.S. Senate as Undersecretary of Education, the second most powerful job in the U.S. Department of Education. Mitchell most recently was CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund, which collects millions from philanthropies and venture funds and invests the money in creating charter chains and for-profit

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NYC: A Teacher Explains the Utter Uselessness of High-Stakes Testing

At a rally against high-stakes testing in New York City, high school teacher Rosie Frascella explains the uselessness of high-stakes tests. The students get no feedback about what they did well and where they need to improve. As their teacher, she learns nothing about how well or poorly they did and why. The tests are useless other than for data for bureaucrats nd for the bottom line at Pearson. T

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North Carolina: A Legislator Expressing Contempt for Teachers

The following comment came from Bridget in North Carolina. That state has been taken over by an extremist legislature and governor who are intent on driving experienced teachers out of the state and replacing them with Teach for America or other low-wage workers.   When Jim Hunt was Governor of the state, he raised teachers’ salaries to meet the national average. Today, NC teachers rank 46th in th

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Will Bunch: They Will Never Catch the Real Culprits in Philadelphia

Authorities are closing in on educators who cheated on tests in Philadelphia. But columnists Will Bunch predicts they will never touch the real culprits, the people who designed the system of high-stakes testing. He favors punishing those who cheated, and he agrees tat cheating should never be tolerated. But the true malefactors of test cheating will walk away scot-free: “Let’s be clear: While t

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Julian Vasquez Heilig: Uncovering Lies in Arne Duncan’s Graduation Rate Miracle Story

Julian Vasquez Heilig, a professor at the University of Texas, deconstructs another one of those miracle stories that turns out to be too good to be true.   Secretary Arne Duncan is collecting high-fives for a solid leap upwards in the high-school graduation rate, but Heilig says that what he is reporting is manipulation of graduation rate data.   Heilig uses Texas as an example. He shows how stat

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5-14-14 LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Our Brilliant Students: Stop Bashing Our KidsI used to be one of those people who complained that the younger generation was not as smart as my generation. I met adolescents who had never heard of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” or some other piece of literature that I thought was central to our literary tradition. Or, I noticed

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5-15-14 The Whole Child Blog — Today on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Classroom Instruction and Students — Whole Child Education

Today on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Classroom Instruction and Students — Whole Child Education:

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Today on the Whole Child Symposium Virtual: Classroom Instruction and Students

May 15, 2014 by Whole Child Symposium

ASCD's inaugural Whole Child Symposium concludes this week with a series of virtual panels featuring school leaders, policy experts, teachers, and students. You can register, participate live, and join in the discussions on social media. Each panel will discuss what currently works in education, what we will need in the future to be successful, and how this can be accomplished.

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION: 11:00 A.M.–12:30 P.M., EASTERN TIME

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Sean Slade, ASCD's director of Whole Child Programs, moderates a panel discussion on what's currently working in the classroom, what strategies will be needed in the future to ensure success, choice and freedom in schools, and advocacy. Panelists include

• Angela Maiers (@AngelaMaiers) is an educator, author, and speaker whose passions include literacy, learning, and the power of social media.
• Steven Weber (@curriculumblog) is a former classroom teacher, assistant principal, and department of education consultant in Arkansas and North Carolina, and is currentlyis the principal of Orange County Schools' Hillsborough Elementary School in North Carolina.
• Beth Sanders (@MsSandersTHS) is a high school social studies teacher and connected educator in Birmingham, Ala. She is passionate about education reform, social justice, 21st century skills, purposeful technology integration, and genuine equity in education.
• Jose Vilson (@TheJLV) is a math educator, writer, and activist in New York City. His publications include the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do For Our Students and Public Schools... Now and In The Future, and his recently released first solo book, This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and the Future of Education.

STUDENTS: 2:00–3:30 P.M., EASTERN TIME

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Kevin Scott, ASCD's director of constituent services, moderates a panel discussion between student teacher Rose Diauto and three students from ASCD's Vision in Action: The Whole Child Award winning schools about owning your education, choice, schools of and for the future, and what they need for their future. Panelists include

• Jacki Ammons is an honor roll student at Oregon's Milwaukie High School—the 2013 Vision in Action: ASCD Whole Child Award winner. She has more than 150 community service hours and is the CEO of Pulse Media Productions, a student-run video production company at the high school. She is planning to study premed at the University of Oregon next year.
• Rose Diauto (@MsDiauto) is currently a junior at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn., and serves as its ASCD Student Chapter president. She was inspired to become a secondary English teacher after experiencing a lack of rigor in her rural Arizona public high school.
• Zahra Haq is a 12th grade student at Byrne Creek Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada—winner of the 2012 Vision in Action: The Whole Child Award. She is the vice president of the student government and copresident of the sustainability council and extremely passionate about environmental and global issues.
• Amen Mesfin is a junior at Quest Early College High School in Houston, Tex.—winner of the 2011 Vision in Action: The Whole Child Award. She attributes the school staff with helping her accomplish her education goals and making her dreams of becoming a doctor a reality. By the time she graduates, she will have enough credits to earn her Associate Degree of Science.

All four of the Virtual panels are recorded and will be available early next week for viewing and sharing.

Follow the Whole Child Symposium conversation here on the blog, share your thoughts in the comments and by e-mail, and pose your questions on Twitter using the hashtag #WCSymposium2014.

Learn more at www.ascd.org/wcsymposium.

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