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 CAP
empathyeducates – I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Ferguson
empathyeducates – I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About Ferguson: I Don’t Know How to Talk to White People About FergusonPhotograph; Ali BarthwellAli Barthwell | Originally Published at xoJane. August 14, 2014 at 12:30PMI don’t know how to tell people that I’d rather be let down by white society than be let down by white individuals.Witnessing racial violence feels more personal when you’
All Things Education: To fix racism is to fix poverty is to fix education
All Things Education: To fix racism is to fix poverty is to fix education: To fix racism is to fix poverty is to fix educationI am cooking up a follow-up post to my recent post about teacher diversity in DCPS but given recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, I feel I needed to finish and publish another post I have been planning for a while.As I explained in that post about teacher diversity, growing
8-18-14 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 Missouri compromise.I never promised I wouldn’t check my email while on this late August hiatus with my family. I doubt it would surprise you that I received tons of hate mail of late. Hatred not so much directed at me, but at what I have had to say about the death of Michael Brown and the people’
empathyeducates – Why More and More Restaurants Are Banning Kids
empathyeducates – Why More and More Restaurants Are Banning Kids: Why More and More Restaurants Are Banning KidsBy Roya Wolverson @royawolverson | Originally Published at Quartz. August 16, 2014The first time I saw an infant at a raucous concert in Brooklyn, NY, I was shocked. I was in my late 20s and had had it with the abrasive noise and spilled beer after about 30 minutes; I could hardly imagin
8-18-14 The Whole Child Blog — Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student Engagement
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student EngagementJoin Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, flipped classroom pioneers and authors of Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day, in a free webinar to learn how the flipped classroom model can help teachers gain more face-to-face time with students, foster real differentiated or personali
On Due Process, Or What You Call Tenure - The Jose Vilson
On Due Process, Or What You Call Tenure - The Jose Vilson: On Due Process, Or What You Call TenureFor the purposes of this essay, I’m using the term “due process” in lieu of tenure because people like Whoopi Goldberg (and millions of others) confuse “tenure” for “job for life.” If that’s what we call “tenure,” then “due process” is more exact. More and more, what it means for K-12 educators and co
Student Voice in a Box: Week 3
Student Voice in a Box: Week 3: Student Voice in a Box: Week 3This is the third of six weekly installments of Student Voice in a Box. Student Voice in a Box is an aggregate of classroom materials, teacher stories and student stories that teachers can learn from to promote Student Voice best practices in their classrooms.Each installment includes two teacher interview videos, one student interview
Badass Teachers Association: The Death of Michael Brown, Teachers, and Racism: 10 Things Every Badass Teacher Needs To Understand
Badass Teachers Association: The Death of Michael Brown, Teachers, and Racism: 10 Things Every Badass Teacher Needs To Understand: The Death of Michael Brown, Teachers, and Racism: 10 Things Every Badass Teacher Needs To UnderstandHello my fellow badass teachers. My name is Denisha Jones and I have been a member and admin for badass teachers since the first week BATs was created. I am also a teach
8-17-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools This WeekTuesday, August 19thAudit& Finance Committee meeting. Agenda not yet available. Wonder if the Committee might consider where money was taken for the various staff members to go off on their preschool junket. Wednesday, August 20thSchool Board meeting starting at 4:15 pm.I am aware that a rally over the Garfield field trip rape is to oc
40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities
40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities: 40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic MinoritiesAUGUST 18, 2014 BY ROBERT D. SKEELS * RDSATHENE LEAVE A COMMENT40th Anniversary of Lau v. Nichols Decision: A National Conference on the Rights of Linguistic Minorities40th Anniversary of
8-18-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? Pelto/Murphy 2014 Stefan Pryor Not Serving a 2nd Term as State Ed ChiefFrom the Hartford Courant; Stefan Pryor, the controversial state education commissioner, will leave his post and is “actively seeking new professional opportunities,” according to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office. Pryor informed the governor Monday that he will not serve a second term. “Having served for
8-17-14 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: CA Schools depart from memorization in scienceMorning Read: CA Schools depart from memorization in science Common Core: CA schools shift science teaching away from memorization California is at a critical stage in carrying out a wholesale change of how it teaches science and other core topic
8-18-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Thinking Like A Scientist Can Help Overcome Allure Of Appearances”© 2012 Bart Everson, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio As regular readers of this blog and my books know, I’m a big believer in inductive learning (see More Info On Why Inductive Learning Is So Effective and Is This The Most Important Research Study Of The Year? Ma
2015 United States Senate Youth Program Letter - Letters (CA Dept of Education)
2015 United States Senate Youth Program Letter - Letters (CA Dept of Education): August 12, 2014Dear High School Principals, Counselors, and Scholarship Coordinators:2015 UNITED STATES SENATE YOUTH PROGRAMI am pleased to announce the fifty-second annual United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP). Sponsored by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the California Department of Education (CDE) coor
8-18-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: What’s the real purpose of educational benchmarking?“Benchmarking” is a word that is now everywhere in the world of education. There’s even a Center on International Education Benchmarking, a program of the National Center on Education and the Economy, which over 20 years has benchmarked the education systems of more than 20 countries in what is said to be an effort to […]by Valerie
8-18-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: What A Difference A Year Makes: The Evolution of BATS
With A Brooklyn Accent: What A Difference A Year Makes: The Evolution of BATSBATs is not the same group as it was a year ago. It is far more urban and multiracial and has changed its focus. It is now as concerned with school closings and school privatization as it is with testing and common core and with fending off attacks on teacher tenure and due process. It is also much more explicitly concern
Tenure – Speaking Up for Students | Live Long and Prosper
Tenure – Speaking Up for Students | Live Long and Prosper: Tenure – Speaking Up for StudentsThere’s more to being a teacher than just getting kids to pass “the test.”Tenure=DueProcessDue process rights are important because they allow us to stand up for our students, through giving voice in supporting and protecting them. With due process, teachers can stand up for the student who we think may be
Field Guide to Anti-Teacher Trolls | Peter Greene
Field Guide to Anti-Teacher Trolls | Peter Greene: Field Guide to Anti-Teacher TrollsThe ongoing online debates about American public education have attracted all manner of commentator, from passionate defenders of traditional public education to dedicated reformsters. And, of course, teacher-bashing trolls.Not that everyone who disagrees with teachers is some sort of troll. It's a big Internet, w
Morning Wink 8-18-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-18-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: New York: Common Core Tests Fail Our Students AgainCarol Burris and Biana Tanis take a close look at New York’s Common Core tests and find them deeply flawed. Burris is a high school principal o
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-18-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: New York: Common Core Tests Fail Our Students AgainCarol Burris and Biana Tanis take a close look at New York’s Common Core tests and find them deeply flawed. Burris is a high school principal on Long Island and Tanis is a public school parent and special education teacher in the Hudson Valley. State officials celebrated paltry res
8-18-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Julie Cavanagh Former Students Head For College - Help Them OutDear Friends, Family and Colleagues:Two of my (in some cases for those receiving this, "our") former students are heading to college next week! Sterling Baker and Devine Fludd attended PS 15 and I had the privilege to teach and learn with them for two years (and additionally have remained in each other's liv
Watch For This in Your Common Core State: Something is Rotten in Missouri. Constitutional Amendment 3. | Missouri Education Watchdog
Watch For This in Your Common Core State: Something is Rotten in Missouri. Constitutional Amendment 3. | Missouri Education Watchdog: Watch For This in Your Common Core State: Something is Rotten in Missouri. Constitutional Amendment 3.inShareMore misinformation on a Common Core State Standards Initiative. Watch out for this PR campaign & possible constitutional amendment in your state.Debunk
8-18-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: The Corporate Hijacking of Public EducationThe Corporate Hijacking of Public Educationby Rene Diedrich / 3h Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business | City PagesMike Kooiman Dan DiMaggio was blown away the first time he heard his boss say it. The pensive, bespectacled 25-year-old had been comingby Rene Diedrich / 3h LAUSD's outrageous 'parent trigger' suspension
8-18-14 Curmudgucation
CURMUDGUCATION: Sanders's Charter School Not Ready for Prime TimeThe problem of athletic academies that push sports and ignore academics is not a new one.One recent growth industry has been the post-grad prep school, schools set up so that athletes who failed to make the necessary scores to qualify for NCAA play can take another year to make their numbers while still maintaining their sports edge.
8-18-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Time For An Investigation Into New York State's Test Score Results, Data TrackingTwo stories from over the weekend show that the statistics and data issued by NYSED Commissioner John King and his merry men and women in reform at SED cannot be trusted.First, as I posted yesterday, the NY Post covered how NYSED lowered the cut score levels on this year's state Common Core exam
Marie Corfield: Revel Without a Cause
Marie Corfield: Revel Without a Cause: Revel Without a CauseChristie's big gamble on the Revel Casino comes up snake eyes for NJ citizens and pension funds.The headline says it all. The gleaming new jewel of Atlantic City, the hoped-for savior of a town that makes its living off of hope, off of worshipping golden—and silver and green—idols will sink slowly into the sunset on September 1, and along
When Is Accountability Good For The Gander? – redqueeninla
When Is Accountability Good For The Gander? – redqueeninla: When Is Accountability Good For The Gander?Written by redqueeninla in LAUSD…and isn’t that Buck supposed to have been stopping somewhere? Somewhere other than at the kids’ feet?This past week, the first back in school for LAUSD kids, has seen an absolutely ridiculous mess due to MiSiS, the court-mandated, “Integrated Student Information S
NYC Educator: Take the Money and Run
NYC Educator: Take the Money and Run: Take the Money and RunI'm friendly with a pretty saavy ATR. I won't tell you his name, I won't tell you precisely who he's connected with, but I will tell you he knows people. In June, he met with a financial adviser and decided to take the ATR buyout. This way, he told me, he'd get not only the 19K or whatever it was, but he'd also get the retro pay that isn'
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES: WEEKEND QUOTABLESFerguson Protester Lisha Williams. "It was no fight, it was no shots fired. The only ones who fired was police. All we did was march to the command center to fall to our knees and say, 'Don't shoot.' And they started shooting." --CNNMalcolm LondonChicago poet, Malcolm London"They don't talk about white-on-white crime
The Network For Public Education | NPE Expands Board to Include Leading National Activists
The Network For Public Education | NPE Expands Board to Include Leading National Activists: NPE Expands Board to Include Leading National ActivistsAugust 18, 2014 NPE, NPE News, Year In ReviewThe Network for Public Education, a national organization working to protect and improve public education recently elected four new members to their Board of Directors: Xian Barrett, Jitu Brown, Carol Corbett
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8-17-14 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.: I support Carlos Rosa for 35th Ward Alderman.State Representative-elect Will Guzzardi and State Senator Willie Degado with candidate Carlos Rosa.by Fred Klonsky / 46min 8-16-14 Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherFred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public scho
To Amanda Ripley: A Second TIME Article on Rhee is Long Overdue | deutsch29
To Amanda Ripley: A Second TIME Article on Rhee is Long Overdue | deutsch29: To Amanda Ripley: A Second TIME Article on Rhee is Long OverdueAugust 17, 2014Michelle Rhee has failed as a test-driven education reformer.Rhee taught for three years (1992-95) in Baltimore as part of Teach for America (TFA). By her own admission, her first year was terrible. She taped students’ mouths and made them bleed
How Hespe and Anderson scammed Newark’s children to help charter school friends | Bob Braun's Ledger
How Hespe and Anderson scammed Newark’s children to help charter school friends | Bob Braun's Ledger: How Hespe and Anderson scammed Newark’s children to help charter school friendsDavid Hespe–stretching the law until it breaksNew Jersey and local school officials have been involved in a conspiracy to evade laws governing the operation of charter schools in order to allow the wholesale “charteriza
http://www.southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Michael Agona's Conflicted Appeal InterestThe Crack Team was able to obtain the transcript of Lydia Howrilka's U-rating appeal as well as the decision brought forth by the Chancellor's Committee chaired byMichael Agona. Some takeaways.No one from the prosecuting side seemed organized. Not only did they seem not prepared, but extremely disorganized as well.We learne
Girl Scout national proficiency badges| Connections to Common Core Standards
Program | Connections to Curriculum Standards: Program Connections to State(and National) Curriculum StandardsThe content of all Girl Scout national proficiency badges and journeys have been correlated by grade level to national Common Core Standards, 21st Century Skillsstandards, Financial Literacy education standards, and curriculum such as Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social
Experts: K-12 Population Shift Toward Students of Color Will Shed Light on Resource Inequalities - Higher Education
Experts: K-12 Population Shift Toward Students of Color Will Shed Light on Resource Inequalities - Higher Education: Experts: K-12 Population Shift Toward Students of Color Will Shed Light on Resource Inequalities by Ronald Roach Deborah Santiago is chief operating officer and vice president for policy at the Washington-based Excelencia in Education advocacy organization.For the first time ever, n
8-17-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: About the radio showJoin Drs. Shaun Johnson and Tim Slekar LIVE Sundays at 6PM EST and Wednesdays at 7PM EST on Blog Talk Radio for progressive, pro-public education talk radio. Call in to speak live with Tim and Shaun during the show, (805) 727-7111. You can also listen to our Monday "Sunday-Replay" at 7PM EST, and re-broadcasts of the archives every Tuesday and Thursd
8-17-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? Pelto/Murphy 2014 You call this a Democracy?During the next week or so, Connecticut’s Secretary of State will determine whether the Jonathan Pelto/Ebony Murphy ticket will appear on the 2014 ballot for governor. Over the last eight weeks, hundreds of volunteers sent countless hours collecting more than the 7,500 signatures necessary to ensure that voters have an option oth
Official leading shooting probe pledges solidarity with Ferguson community | MSNBC
Official leading shooting probe pledges solidarity with Ferguson community | MSNBC: Capt. Ronald Johnson (R) of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who was appointed by the governor to take control of security operations in the city of Ferguson, greets demonstrators on Aug. 16, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. Scott Olson/GettyOfficial leading shooting probe pledges solidarity with Ferguson community FERGUSON
Just like the Crayons in our logo, NPE recently became more colorful | Cloaking Inequity
Just like the Crayons in our logo, NPE recently became more colorful | Cloaking Inequity: Just like the Crayons in our logo, NPE recently became more colorfulI am honored to serve on the Network for Public Education Board of Directors. The Network for Public Education is an advocacy group whose goal is to fight to protect, preserve and strengthen our public school system, an essential institution
NYC Public School Parents: The evidence accumulates not to trust data from NY State Education Department
NYC Public School Parents: The evidence accumulates not to trust data from NY State Education Department: The evidence accumulates not to trust data from NY State Education DepartmentOn Friday afternoon I got a call from the Daily News reporter Stephen Rex Brown, who told me that the NY State Education Department had provided him with data purporting to show that this spring, more than 22,000 NYC
Nite Cap 8-17-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT
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 CAPBlue Jersey:: Newark Parents to Chris Christie: We demand a town hall in NewarkBlue Jersey:: Newark Parents to Chris Christie: We demand a town hall in Newark: Newark Parents to Chris Christie: We demand a town hall in Newarkby: Rosi EfthimSun Au
