6-3-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online:

UFT Contract: Vote Predictions - Will the NO Voters Spark an Anti-Unity Movement?

Anyone for 80-20? 70-30? 60-40? How about 75-25?(I scheduled this to be posted at 3PM, the rough time the vote count is expected to be announced. I will be there.)Many of the bloggers have been out there predicting.Mr. Talk Predicts: 2014 Contract Passes in a Landslide Perdido Street School UFT Contract Vote: Predictions And The Roadmap For The Future -  Urban Ed is relatively optimistic:My C

by ed notes online / 30min 

UFT Contract: Will OT/PT Chapter Turn it Down?

UFT  leaders seem worried this will happen. What are the implications if the UFT has to go back to the bargaining table?I scheduled this to go up around 10AM when I will be on the subway.I mentioned this in this morning's first post (UFT Contract: A Day At the Count - What I Learned - Updated) but didn't  want to see this get lost in that sea of words: That it is likely that the Occupational/Physi

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UFT Contract: A Day At the Count - What I Learned - Updated

Before heading over for today's vote count, which I hear will be released at around 3PM, let me give a report of what happened at yesterday's count.(I will be sending updates based on rough batch counts to the MORE and ICE listserves but probably won't be able to post on ed notes unless I find wi-fi access.) Yesterday, Ellen Fox and I spent a few hours at the AAA a few blocks north of UFT HQ in a

by ed notes online / 1h 

6-2-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: UFT Contract - Dissecting MORE Contract Discussion Happy Hours: Should Unity be Worried?I spoke and asked if there were any next steps since after Tuesday, when the contract will most likely pass, it will all be over. She turned to me with a defiant stare, shook her head and said, "No! It isn't." One of the "benefits" of the recent contract struggles is how the

by mike simpson / 6h 

6-3-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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

Here Are Some Instagram Videos My Theory Of Knowledge Students Created

I’ve previously posted about my plans to have students created Instagram videos as part of their finals (see Using Instagram, Bloom’s Taxonomy & Student Interest As A Fun Part Of A Semester Final). And I’ve also shared some early examples from my English Language Learners (see Geography Instagram Videos By English Language Learners). They’ve made a lot more since that post, but I’m way behind

by Larry Ferlazzo / 57min 

Resources On The Tiananmen Square Protests

Tomorrow is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chinese military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protesters. Here are new additions to The Best Sites For Learning About Protests In History about what happened: Remembering Tiananmen Square is a TIME slideshow. Tiananmen Square remembered 25 years later everywhere around the world except China is from The News in Australia. Tiananmen Square 198

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1min 

Photo Galleries Of The Week

Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more organized way, though, I recently began this weekly feature called “Photo Galleries Of The Week.” This post is a “round-up” of online slideshows I’m adding to various

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h 

6-2-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Research Studies Of The WeekI often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing

by mike simpson / 6h 

6-3-14 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.:

The definition of irony. Illinois pension thieves hold burglary seminar.

H/T John Dillon

by Fred Klonsky / 5min 

John “No Nose” DiFronzo. Park Ridge District 64. Running schools like a business.

  Johnny “No Nose” DiFronzo. When wealthy Park Ridge foot doctor Dr.Anthony Borrelli and right-wing psychologist Dr. Dathan Paterno were elected to the Park Ridge District 64 school board, they promised a tough line towards the the teachers union. They would run things like a business. A Chicago business. So, naturally the facilities director Scott Mackall hired a mob-connected company for air co

by Fred Klonsky / 41min 

Ten minute drawing. Hey Einstein!

by Fred Klonsky / 0min 

Breaking. Shocking. New study disproves the theory that throwing money at schools doesn’t do any good. It does.

How much money do you think was spent on a new study that demonstrates that spending money on schools that serve poor kids will result in the poor kids doing better at school? Headline in Education Week: School Spending Increases Linked to Better Outcomes for Poor Students Sound of palm smacking my forehead. In districts that substantially increased their spending as the result of court-ordered c

by Fred Klonsky / 41min 

Strike vote. Things are heating up in suburban Hinsdale. A sign of things to come in Chicago suburbs?

It’s not that it never happens. But it is rare for a strike vote by teachers before the old contract has expired. That is the case in suburban Hinsdale District 86, where the school board appears to be acting more adversarial than usual. “The issue we are trying to communicate today is not about (contract) negotiations,” said David Lapetino, president of the teachers’ association at South. “It’s

by Fred Klonsky / 22min 

6-2-14 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.: Representative Christian Mitchell is a part of the Eli Broad collection.When Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke host their monthly show at the Hideout tomorrow night, Eli Broad will not be appearing on stage with them. But he will be there in spirit. State Representative Christian Mitchell will be channeling

by mike simpson / 6h 

6-3-14 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:

Rick Scott’s “Education Investment” a “Paper Tiger”

The editors of the Lakeland Ledger focus on Polk County Schools  woes they will experience under the education budget which Governor Rick Scott signed yesterday. Florida legislators have been patting themselves on the back for increasing school funding in their annual session, which ended May 2. Even so, funding for public schools in Florida — particularly in Polk County — is not nearly enoug

by Bob Sikes / 3h 

6-2-14 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: Common Core Ties Draw Jeb Bush CriticsJeb Bush’s support for Common Core Standards has drawn the interest of one of the state’ top political reporters. Writes the Tampa Bay Times Alex Leary:  WASHINGTON – Jeb Bush is one of the country’s most visible advocates of Common

by mike simpson / 7h 

6-3-14 Wait What?

Wait What?:

Wait What? 

Supporters of Corporate Education Reform now targeting higher education

While it is obvious that the widespread access to higher educational opportunities is more important than ever, elected officials have been consistently reducing support for our public colleges and universities. The shocking and disturbing trend has been especially visible here in Connecticut where Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy has pushed through the deepest cuts in Connecticut […] The post Support

by jonpelto / 41min 

New York Working Families Party fails to move Cuomo on education but endorses anyway

When it comes the to the rise of the corporate education reform industry, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Connecticut Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy continually jockey for 1st and 2nd place as to which one is more anti-teacher and anti-public education. While Cuomo has poured more money into charter schools than Malloy, Malloy is the […] The post New York Working Families Party fails to move Cuom

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There goes another $100,000 in taxpayer funds

Following up on yesterday’s Wait, What? post entitled, NEWS FLASH:  Pryor’s No Bid contract costs taxpayers another $100,000 plus, CTNewsjunkie provides the details about the Malloy administration’s decision to pay an out-of-state consulting education reform company another $100,000 despite the fact that the company did not have a written contract extension. As Christine Stuart explains, […] The p

by jonpelto / 3h 

6-2-14 Wait What?

Wait What?: Wait What? NEWS FLASH:  Pryor’s No Bid contract costs taxpayers another $100,000 plusA Hartford Superior Court Judge is being asked today to authorize an “agreement” between the Malloy Administration and Leeds Global Partners, a major player in the national education reform industry.  The agreement will cost Connecticut taxpayers an additional $100,000 on top of the $195,000 the out-of

by mike simpson / 6h 

6-3-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet:

National principals group urges slowdown in Common Core implementation

The National Association of Secondary School Principals is calling for a slowdown in the Common Core initiative, citing educators’ concerns about “the implementation of the new standards in their states and the inadequate training they have received to help them ensure that their teachers are able to change instructional practices.” The NASSP, the leading organization […]

by Valerie Strauss / 1h 

Black educator: Is the education reform movement too white?

Andre Perry, the founding dean of urban education at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and author of  ”The Garden Path: The Miseducation of a City” wrote a piece on the PostEverything blog on washingtonpost.com that offers a different take on race and school reform. Perry — who tweets @andreperryedu — wrote in part: …  There’s not quite […]

by Valerie Strauss / 1min 

‘Network routers’: a new proposal to put education research into practice

  It’s no secret that there is a huge gap between education research and practice. Here’s a new proposal to bridge that gap, by Jack Schneider. an assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross and the author of From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse: How Scholarship Becomes Common Knowledge in Education. He […]

by Valerie Strauss / 19min 

6th graders seeking payment for taking Common Core field tests

Some sixth grade students in Massachusetts who spent hours over several days taking practice versions of newly developed Common Core tests decided that they should be paid for their work and are seeking payment for serving as “guinea pigs.” The Ipswich Chronicle reported in this story about what happened after students at Ipswich Middle School  field […]

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The real story behind drop in scores on N.Y. Regents exams

Two educators in New York did an analysis of scores on the June 2013 New York State Regents exams and found something  interesting that somehow never made it into news stories, including a recent “exclusive” by one New York City newspaper. Read about it what it was below in the post by Carol Burris and […]

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Three innovative ways to address mental health issues

With every new traumatic shooting that rivets the nation’s attention, mental health becomes a hot topic for debate for a short while before dying down until the next disaster. In an attempt to move the dialogue into action, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, and the Cigna Foundation are hosting an all-day forum […]

2 by Valerie Strauss / 5h 

6-2-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: Spain’s king-to-be went to Georgetown UniversitySpain’s Prince Felipe, who is about to become the new king of his country, went to high school in Canada, college in Madrid, and earned a master’s degree at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Felipe’s father, King Juan Carlos, announced Monday morning that he would abdicate in favor of his son, who is 46 and whose […]by Valerie S

by mike simpson / 7h