7-23-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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

The Best Online Learning Simulation Games & Interactives — Help Me Find More

© 2010 ER24 EMS (Pty) Ltd., Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio As I mentioned earlier this week, I’m doing some research and writing on the idea of “transfer of learning.” As part of that research, I’ve been exploring online simulations that could “transfer” learning to different situations students might realistically encounter in classes or outside of school. I’ve posted about quite a few of them ove

by Larry Ferlazzo / 48min 

Excellent English-Learning App Duolingo Now Takes On TOEFL & IELTS

Duolingo, which is on a bunch of my “Best” lists as a language-learning app (my students love it!) have not made it official — they’ve just unveiled an English test they want to rival the TOEFL and IELTS, tests that international students need to pass prior to attending a university in most English-speaking countries. You can read more about it at this TechCrunch post, and here’s a video: I woul

by Larry Ferlazzo / 40min 

“Teaching Without Connecting is ‘Futile’: An Interview With Annette Breaux & Todd Whitaker”

Teaching Without Connecting is ‘Futile’: An Interview With Annette Breaux & Todd Whitaker is my new Education Week Teacher post. In it, Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker agreed to answer a few questions about the new second edition of their popular book, Seven Simple Secrets: What the BEST Teachers Know and Do! Here are some excerpts:

by Larry Ferlazzo / 40min 

Updated Playlist: “The 20 most popular talks of all time”

TED Talks now has an updated playlist of The 20 most popular talks of all time. I’m adding it to The Best Teacher Resources For “TED Talks” (& Similar Presentations).

by Larry Ferlazzo / 31min 

Two Excellent World War One Resources From The Guardian

The British newspaper The Guardian has recently produced two excellent resources about World Ward One that I’m adding to The Best Resources For Learning About World War I: A global guide to the first world war – interactive documentary is an impressive multilingual…interactive documentary. How to teach… the first world war is also from The Guardian.

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YESTERDAY

“FluencyTutor” Could Be A Useful Tool For Students To See Their Reading Progress

Richard Byrne posted yesterday about an intriguing new site that would be useful for emerging readers and English Language Learners called FluencyTutor For Google. It’s a web app only usable with a Chrome browser that provides a large selection of leveled reading passages that students can read, record, and store on Google Drive. Teachers can then listen at their convenience and correct and note

by Larry Ferlazzo / 8h 

12 MORE New Yorker Articles On Ed To Read While The Archives Are Free

© 2012 Karen Green, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Yesterday, I posted “12 New Yorker education articles to read while the archives are free,” a link to a a great collection of links that Vox identified. Now, today, Alexander Russo published links to his own choices at 12 New Yorker Ed Articles Vox Missed/Got Wrong. All twenty-four are worth reading this summer….

by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h 

7-22-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Seven Good “Reads” On Ed Tech© 2010 Brad Flickinger, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are several recent good pieces related to educational technology: 10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Google Docs is from Edudemic. Will Computers Ever Replace Teachers? appeared in The New Yorker. 3 Reasons Why Chromebook Be

by mike simpson / 8h 

7-23-14 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 FBI never raided my neighborhood public school

3 by Fred Klonsky / 1h 

Senior watch: Mid-career teachers facing financial crunch. Veteran teachers are being forced out.

In suburban District 64, Park Ridge (where I was local union president and negotiator over many contracts), our salary schedule had competitive entry-level salaries. But it also took 20 years to reach the top of the schedule. And by 10 years, the increases at those middle steps were sometimes less than 1%. Of course, we proposed solutions to the board that would stop punishing mid-career and late

2 by Fred Klonsky / 24min 

Ten minute drawing. Ken Griffin.

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Terrence P. Carter claimed a doctorate as principal at Chicago’s Barton Elementary School. Do we get a rebate?

- Linda Posted on the Ravitch blog from a Chicago reader, notice his “teaching” experience increases two years in a one year span when he is NOT in the classroom, from 2006 to 2007. It’s all bullshit. I found Carter’s salary listings for the years 2006 – 2010 for his work at CPS, in the Teacher and Administrator Salary Database at the Family Taxpayer Foundation. A master’s degree is listed for Ca

by Fred Klonsky / 1h 

Former Chicago AUSL turnaround school guy “Dr.” Terrence P. Carter is no doctor. And he may not even be certified.

  Every day brings more problems for the New London, Connecticut board of education and their now-on-hold decision to hire Terrence P. Carter as their school superintendent. Carter came from Chicago where he worked on managing turnaround schools for the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), claiming a PH.D. – which he now admits he did not earn. - From The Day Carter’s certification for New

1 by Fred Klonsky / 3h 

7-22-14 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.: NBC’s Erin Carlson: “Karen Lewis for Eva Peron.” No. Madonna for Eva Peron. Lewis for mayor.“Lewis has been an Eva Peron-style champion for teachers facing layoffs, school closures and the loss of their pensions (along with police and fire unions).” NBC’s Erin Carlson. Ah. Chicago journalism. Here’s t

by mike simpson / 8h 

7-23-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy

Wait What?:

Wait What? 

Corporate Welfare to the rescue – NOT!

Known as “corporate welfare” to any reasonable person, Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy’s economic development policies has been primarily geared toward picking winners and losers in the “free-enterprise system” by giving away large amounts of public funds to selected corporations in return for various promises to do something over the next ten years. Literally hundreds of […] The post Corporate Welfa

7 by jonpelto / 35min 

Now exactly what is “Dr.” Terrence Carter’s Lexington University?

Thanks to the investigative reporting of the Hartford Courant, we learned a whole lot about Terrence Carter and the various references to his Ph.D(s). For eight years “Dr.” Terrence Carter has claimed, implied, suggested or was introduced as having a Ph.D. As we now know, some documents report that he got the doctorate from Stanford […] The post Now exactly what is “Dr.” Terrence Carter’s Lexingto

4 by jonpelto / 46min 

Hey Look – “Dr.” Terrence Carter –went to Columbia Teachers College too…

The famous, infamous, hilarious and just plan absurd controversy surrounding Terrence Carter, the proposed new superintendent of schools in New London, just keeps getting worse and worse. According to various resume, articles, websites and bios, “Dr.” Terrence Carter received his Ph. D. from Stanford University, from Stanford and Oxford Universities, from Leslie University and from […] The post He

1 by jonpelto / 31min 

Questions Grow On Incoming School Chief’s Use Of Ph.D. Title, Financial Problems

Claiming that he was “hand-picked” by Arne Duncan to be part of the corporate education reform industry, “Dr.” Terrence Carter has become a national example of what is wrong with the education reform movement. The latest article on Carter, entitled, Questions Grow On Incoming School Chief’s Use Of Ph.D. Title, Financial Problems, can be found […] The post Questions Grow On Incoming School Chief’s

16 by jonpelto / 4h

7-22-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy

Wait What?: Wait What? The Beginning of the end for the Charter School Industry in ConnecticutGovernor Dannel “Dan” Malloy ushered in the Charter School Industry to Connecticut as part of his corporate education reform initiative in 2012.  As part of his “education reforms,”  Malloy become the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective

by mike simpson / 8h

7-23-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet:

Studying Jon Snow: U-Va. offering ‘Game of Thrones’ summer course

If “The Simpsons” can be the subject of a college course (“Simpsons and Philosophy” at the University of California Berkeley), as well as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (at Portland State University), it was only a matter of time before “Game of Thrones” would make it onto some course catalog. And now it has. The University of […]

by Valerie Strauss / 22min 

7-22-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: Educator: The many reasons ‘I am ashamed to be part of the system’Back in May I published a post by a veteran elementary school teacher named Ralph Ratto with this headline: ‘Today was the first day I was ever ashamed to be a teacher.’ What prompted him to write it was his experience administering controversial new Common Core-aligned standardized tests to his students in New York. I

by mike simpson / 8h 

7-23-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter:

Why Rhonda's and Lili's Resignations Are More Important Than Arne's

As Weingarten was about to be re-appointed by Saddam proportions (97%) at the recent coronation exercises in Los Angeles, the biggest diversion of the week grew from whether Rhonda would call for Arne's resignation.  Ooh! What sad theatre! Sadly, if Duncan were to leave tomorrow to play Golden Oldie basketball full time, another fascist water carrier would be put in his place to implement the ed p

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Doug Martin's Podcast on War Report on Public Education Now Up

by Doug MartinMy talk from a few days ago with BATS member Dr. James Avington Miller Jr. on his show the War Report on Public Education is now up as a podcast.  Some of the topics covered include:My book Hoosier School Heist which focuses on the corporate-theocratic school movement in Indiana and across the country.  FBI. How the Indiana Democratic Party needs to do more than lip-service to suppor

4 by Doug Martin / 3h 

7-21-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter: UninformedTo the editor: Antonio Villaraigosa asks"Why are teachers unions so opposed to change?"(July 21). I would like to know why Mr. Villaraigosa is so opposed to learning the facts about American schools and the Common Core. Villaraigosa claims that American students do poorly compared to students in other countries on international tests and that the Common Core wil

by mike simpson / 8h 

7-23-14 @ The Chalk Face

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New New London supe fakes his PhD.

I’m sure you’ve heard that someone called themselves “Dr.” when they didn’t earn it. Some bonehead in Connecticut, from Jonathan Pelto: Claiming that he was “hand-picked” by Arne Duncan to be part of the corporate education reform industry, “Dr.” Terrence Carter has become a national example of what is wrong with the education reform movement. […]

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YESTERDAY

Common Core in Louisiana: Two Days, Two Lawsuits

In May 2009, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and then-State Superintendent Paul Pastorek signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to commit Louisiana to be “state led” and participate in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Initiative, a show that the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) had actually “initiated.” […]

1 by deutsch29 / 9h 

7-21-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE: “No new federal spending” Equals “This really doesn’t matter”“No new federal spending” Equals “This really doesn’t matter”. via “No new federal spending” Equals “This really doesn’t matter”.by plthomasedd / 0min hide  //  saveBack from vacation to crowdsource a problem with school enrollmentHelp. My elementary school in a low-income part of Washington, DC needs its community to e

by mike simpson / 8h 

7-23-14 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):

The Real “Low Expectations” Problem

I have asked this about the U.S. Secretary of Education: Why Is Arne Duncan Still Pushing the Dangerous Myth of Low Expectations? And a large part of the answer may be because the uncritical mainstream media not only buy that message, but actively perpetuate it. For example, David Leonhardt beats that drum in Principals in U.S. Are More Likely to Consider Their Students Poor: The phrase “soft big

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NCTE 2014: “Why do we need the things in books?”: The Enduring Power of Libraries and Literature

[At the 2014 National Council of Teachers of English Annual convention—themed Story As the Landscape of Knowing and held November 20-23, 2014, in Washington DC—Renita Schmidt (University of Iowa), Sean Connors (University of Arkansas), and I will be presenting as detailed below; I offer our proposal as a preview and hope you can join us as we need to raise our voices for both libraries and literat

9 by plthomasedd / 1h 

7-21-14 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): “No new federal spending” Equals “This really doesn’t matter”Mykoto Rich’s lede sounds promising: President Obama will announce on Monday that 60 of the nation’s largest school districts are joining his initiative to improve the educational futures of young African-Ameri

by mike simpson / 8h