6-26-14 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.:

Pension hearing before the judge in Sangamon today. This and more is posted on Glen Brown’s blog.

- Find more on this on Glen Brown’s blog. Update on Today’s Pension Litigation Hearing (from SUAA): The pension litigation was up for hearing today, June 26, 2014 on several issues. At the May 15, 2014 hearing the Court had indicated its intent to deal with questions of class certification before proceeding to any other issues. Four of the five complaints in this consolidated litigation contained

by Fred Klonsky / 37min hide  //  save

Statement by CTU on the 1,150 CPS teacher and staff layoffs.

CHICAGO—Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) President Karen Lewis released the following statement regarding today’s announcement of 1,150 teacher and school support staff layoffs by Chicago Public Schools (CPS): “The decision by the mayor and his handpicked Board of Education to lay off 1,150 teachers and school support staff today in yet another brutal attack on public education in Chicago is bitterly

by Fred Klonsky / 6min 

Napkin sketch. Rahm’s museum plans.

by Fred Klonsky / 11min 

Poll. Voting for a pension thief?

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Rocky Mountain High.

The IEA has sent out memos to delegates attending the NEA RA in Denver regarding pot smoking. In 25 years of attending every RA but the one in LA, I have never been warned about dope. I have heard that we have some younger members attending for the first time. Coincidence? I don’t think so. It’s all quite silly, since if you are white you can pretty much smoke dope in Chicago without fear of arre

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Ten minute drawing. That crazy Arne.

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NYC Educator. Words to colleagues on the last day of school.

- NYC Educator is a high school teacher and a long-time education blogger. Right now it’s us. But as far as I can tell, there’s no job short of medical doctor more important than ours. Last time I looked, 100% of the patients of those doctors end up dying. Yet you don’t see op-eds in the New York Post by Campbell Brown expressing her outrage that things haven’t improved since the dark ages. Put ev

by Fred Klonsky / 3h 

6-25-14 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. Discover perspicacity.Good afternoon, Glen. I was just reading through your blog and really liked how diverse it is, you seem to be a man of many hats. As a result, I thought I’d reach out to you and ask for a bit of advice regarding a children’s summer education project we’re working on.

by mike simpson / 8h 

6-26-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy

Wait What?:

Wait What? 

Malloy promises $15 million more for “Common Core”

Malloy says – spend more on the Common Core  (Click on “Malloy says…” link to watch video of newscast) HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH)– If you are a parent or a teacher you know all about the controversy surrounding the ‘Common Core’ reforms here in Connecticut.   Thursday Governor Malloy announced he will spend millions more to get […] The post Malloy promises $15 million more for “Common Core” appeared f

by jonpelto / 2h 

News Flash:  Malloy says call it “ConnecticutCore” and everything will be fine

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell  Just when we thought Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy and his band of Common Core proponents couldn’t get any more off-track, Connecticut’s governor held a press conference earlier today in support of the Common Core. As to the future of the Common Core in Connecticut, […] The post News Flash:  Malloy says call it “Connecticut

by jonpelto / 1min 

I met my political tracker….

Following my speech to the Working Families Party last Saturday, I held an informal press conference outside the hall with members of the Connecticut media.  While a few of the reporters are relatively new to the state, I’ve known others for well over 30 years.  I have tremendous respect for the role real journalists play […] The post I met my political tracker…. appeared first on Wait What?.

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6-25-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy

Wait What?: Wait What? Pelto to Malloy – Dump Pryor and Comer now before they do even more damage to public education in ConnecticutPelto to Malloy: Dump Pryor and Comer now before they do even more damage to public education in Connecticut: Jonathan Pelto, the Education and Democracy Party’s candidate for governor called on Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy to fire Stefan Pryor, his Commissioner of Ed

by mike simpson / 51min 

6-26-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet:

Standard & Poor’s rates outlook for charter school sector as ‘negative’

Standard & Poor’s has issued a new report that extends its “negative” outlook for the charter school sector. Of 214 public charter school ratings done by the agency, 41, or 19 percent, are negative while only 4 — or 2 percent — are positive. Furthermore, it says, funding has not generally “returned to pre-recessionary levels, and some schools are […]

by Valerie Strauss / 4h hide  //  save

Why kids in 1960′s knew the ‘go you chicken fat go’ song in today’s iPhone ads

If you’ve heard the song with the lyrics “go you chicken fat go” in ads for iPhones, you may have stopped and wondered what the heck a song about chicken fat has to do with Apple and its telecommunications products. I can’t answer that question, but here’s why you are reading about it on an […]

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YESTERDAY

Arizona schools chief apologizes for calling welfare recipients ‘lazy pigs’ and other incendiary comments

The schools superintendent of Arizona, John Huppenthal, has admitted to — and apologized for — writing anonymous blog posts over the last several years with some incendiary comments, including calling welfare recipients “lazy pigs.” The Arizona Republic reported in this story that Huppenthal, who is seeking re-election this year, has been writing under pseudonyms, such as Thucydides, since 2011, [

by Valerie Strauss / 10h 

 

6-25-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: The Great Teachers and Principals Act: not so great after allLast year I published a piece by Kenneth Zeichner, a professor who has done extensive research on teaching and teacher education, which discussed legislation in Congress about teacher and principal preparation programs. The legislation is officially called the “Growing Excellent Achievement Training Academies (GREAT) Teache

by mike simpson / 8h 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 6-26-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:

CHICAGO SCHOOL LIBRARIANS CHALLENGE SCHOOL DISTRICT CLAIMS THAT LIBRARY CUTBACKS AREN’T BEING FORCED BY DISTRICT POLICIES + smf”s 2¢

Board members refuse to sign Declaration for the Right to School Libraries at June 25 meeting of the nation's third largest school system George N. Schmidt –Substance News Boardwatch | http://bit.ly/1wCVNlh June 26, 2014  ::  A group of Chicago Public Schools librarians surprised the five members of the Chicago Board of Education who showed up for the Board's June 25, 2014 meeting with

by smf / 53min 

Standard & Poor’S Rates Outlook For Charter School Sector As ‘Negative’

By Valerie Strauss | The Washington Post Answer Sheet  | http://wapo.st/1o82oR6 June 26 at 6:00 AM  :: Standard & Poor’s has issued a new report that extends its “negative” outlook for the charter school sector. Of 214 public charter school ratings done by the agency, 41, or 19 percent, are negative while only 4 — or 2 percent — are positive. Furthermore, it says, funding has not generally “

by smf / 54min 

Where Is The Charter Movement Heading?

by John Merrow  in his blog, Taking Note | http://bit.ly/1jp3V0H 26. Jun, 2014  ::  How much does a sign reading “CHARTER SCHOOL” reveal about the education being offered inside the building? My answer: About as much as a ’RESTAURANT’ sign reveals about the food it serves. That is, nothing at all. This sad state of affairs makes me wonder whether the charter school movement has been hijacked

by smf / 28min 

Contingent Approval Of The 2014-15 Lausd Arts Education Budget

by smf for 4LAKidsNews, from the office of Boardmember Zimmer At last Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting the following “not an amendment” to the Arts and Music Education Budget detail was offered by Boardmember Steve Zimmer and accepted by the superintendent and the Board of Education without objection. Adoption of the Arts Education line item in the 2014-15 budget is contingent on the

by smf / 7min 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 6-24-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Urgent Action Alert: THE LAUSD BOARD OF ED NEEDS TO HEAR YOUR SUPPORT FOR ARTS+MUSIC ED BY 3PM TUESDAY!Ask your Board of Education representative to hold back his or her vote on the budget until LAUSD can ensure every student will have access to a complete education that includes the arts. by e-mail from Arts for LA: June 23, 2014 Dear 4LAKids Reader: I

by mike simpson / 2h 

6-26-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE:

The Troubling Realities of School Segregation

I read this story twice and also read this blog to learn more about the situation and it has left me with many unanswered questions. But first let me see if I have the facts right regarding this troubling story: Two years ago the Normandy school district that is 97% black and poor was merged […]

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Obama Education Agenda and the Tone-Deaf Follies

Obama Education Agenda and the Tone-Deaf Follies. via Obama Education Agenda and the Tone-Deaf Follies.

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6-25-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: @amprog imitates neoliberal wankers and excludes educator voicesA panel on the Common Core today from the Center for (on?) American Progress. See the speakers. Any educators in site? Introductory Remarks: Carmel Martin, Executive Vice President for Policy, Center for American Progress Panelists: Gov. Jim Douglas, Former Governor of Vermont Gov. Ted Strickland, Former Governor of

by mike simpson / 8h

6-26-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University):

Obama Education Agenda and the Tone-Deaf Follies

Early and often, the Obama administration’s education agenda, headed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, has driven the public narrative about public schools, teachers, and students with a relentless claim that everything wrong with education rests in a single problem: Expectations are too low. Impoverished children have low achievement in the U.S. Why? Low expectations! African American and La

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6-25-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): Whence Come “The Leftovers”?: Speculative Fiction and the Human ConditionNora Durst finds herself at the intersection of something routinely normal for middle-class Americans living in the comfort of suburbia and distinctly otherworldly at the same time in Tom Perrotta’s

by mike simpson / 8h 

6-26-14 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION:

Why Do Feds Love Scalability?

It's time once again for the DOE's Charter Schools Program Grants for Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools  competition. This program nominally supports the administrations love affair with scalability. The scenario that has been alluded to time after time is this:                   1) Many charters experiment with many educational thingies           2) One of the educational

3 by Peter Greene / 27min

Seven Trends in the Teacher Work Force

In April, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education released a paper entitled "Seven Trends: the Transformation of the Teaching Force." What the title lacks in sass and flash it makes up for in accuracy, and although the most recent data are from 2012, it still makes for interesting reading. Let's look at the seven trends.LargerBetween the late 80s and 2008, the teaching force grew

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How To Buy Support

Because the entire reformster universe runs on money (rather than conviction or proof or widespread grassroots support), it's useful to understand how buying support works.It's perhaps most useful to understand how it doesn't work. Sometimes people get the impression that some shadowy figure delivers a bag of money to Representative Burgwarble or the Big Fat Ideas Thinky Tank and the recipient say

1 by Peter Greene / 3h 

6-25-14 Curmudgucation

CURMUDGUCATION: What Should Arne Have SaidThere's been a pig-pile on Arne today over his ill-considered announcement of the DOE's new get-tough-on-states policy regarding students with disabilities (I know, because I was one of the first pigs on the pile).However. The answer that Arne came up with is stupid, but the question it addresses-- are all students with disabilities getting the educational

by mike simpson / 5h