9-15-14 Wait What? - Three cheers for campaign finance corruption in Connecticut!

Wait What?:

Three cheers for campaign finance corruption in Connecticut!

Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy has deposited his check for $6.2 million from the State’s Public Finance System. As a result of Connecticut’s landmark 2005 campaign finance reform bill, in return for raising $250,000 in contributions of under $100, Malloy (and the Republican nominee for governor) have each received $6.2 million in public funds to pay […] The post Three cheers for campaign finance cor

by jonpelto / 0min 

9-14-14 Wait What? - Another MUST READ article by Connecticut professor Dr. Yohuru Williams

Wait What?: Another MUST READ article by Connecticut professor Dr. Yohuru WilliamsYohuru Williams is Chair and Professor of History at Fairfield University.  Dr. Williams is also a powerful, leading voice for public education, both at the national level and here in Connecticut. His latest column for the Huffington Post is entitled, Lies My Corporate Ed Reformers Told Me: The Truth About Teacher Te

1 by mike simpson / 5h 

9-15-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement":

“Home Visits: Reaching Beyond the Classroom”

Home Visits: Reaching Beyond the Classroom is a new nice post over at Edutopia. You might also be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits.

2 by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h 

9-14-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": Newark Protests Continue….I’ve written many posts about the ongoing controversy in the Newark, New Jersey schools. Here’s the latest update: Parents and Students Continue to Protest Newark Enrollment Plan, Superintendent2 by Larry Ferlazzo / 5h “Duncan Urges PTA to Promote Education Issues in 2016 Presidential Election”Dunc

by mike simpson / 8h 

9-15-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online:

Mercedes Rips Up Randi for Robocalls

I love Mercedes Schneider all the time, but send special love when she deals with the Randi the hypocrite issue. And she even has a link to Ed Notes in her post. Triple love, Mercedes.RW's Robocall Support for Cuomo/Against Teachouthttp://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/weingarten-hearts-cuomo-by-proxy-willing-to-undercut-teachout-via-last-minute-robocall/

1 by ed notes online / 44min 

Another March and Why I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - Unless People are going to a bar afterwards

So after sitting through a meeting on Saturday where the Staten Island march for Eric Garner was raised to the level of the most important civil rights issue of our time - and you were basically supporting racism if you were not there - as about 7 million people weren't - including a few million black people and probably about 35,000 black NYC teachers - I will take this time to reiterate why I ai

1 by ed notes online / 1h 

9-13-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineNYSUT Update: New Organizers Will Not Be UnionizedWe find it deeply disturbing that a majority of the staff currently employed by NYSUT in the legislative department are classified as managers and are not allowed to join a union.....This is coming from some upstate NYSUT people. Remember - Unity Caucus in NYC controls much of NYSUT in NYState which controls the nati

2 by mike simpson / 8h 

9-15-14 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.:

Richard Skoda’s dreams.

3 by Fred Klonsky / 36min 

Neil Steinberg compares opposition to Israeli policies and campus rape.

“Jeez. Condemning Israel is a classic American college phenomenon, like binge drinking and date rape,” writes the Sun-Times Neil Steinberg. This is so wrong on so many levels. But so typical of what passes for Chicago’s current mainstream journalism. Steinberg is commenting on the University of Illinois’ 8 to 1 vote to support the decision of Chancellor Phyllis Wise. Chancellor Wise  caused a stor

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Highland teachers reject settlement. They’re still on strike.

Teachers discuss the contract offer in Highland, Illinois. And then they reject it. “It’s a respect issue,” said Highland Education Association President ShiAnne Shively. Shively came out of a meeting of teachers and told the press that they had voted to reject the contract proposed settlement. It followed the announcement yesterday that the board, union negotiators and mediator had reached an ag

7 by Fred Klonsky / 2h 

9-14-14 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.: Sunday reads.    Gender discrimination as a teacher sparked Susan B. Anthony’s fight for equality. Bob Fioretti is in. Karen Lewis is next. Rahm has got to go. Two sentences from Diane Ravitch. We need not fear Rahm’s deep pockets. There’s plenty of anti-Rahm money out there. The rich have gotten rich

by mike simpson / 8h 

9-15-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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

Two New Sesame Street Videos On Social Emotional Learning

© 2011 MadAdminSkillz, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Sesame Street has been sharing a series of videos on Social Emotional Learning skills, and you can see their previous ones on self-control at The Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control. I think they’ve been pretty good, and my high school students enjoy watching them as a reinforcing/reminder activity after we’ve

8 by Larry Ferlazzo / 44min 

Research Studies Of The Week

I 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 a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. By the way, you mi

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MOOC’s For English Language Learners & Teachers

© 2012 AJ Cann, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio MOOC’s seem to be growing in popularity, even with their well-documented challenges (see The Best Posts & Articles On MOOC’s). There are also popular ones for English Language Learners and ELL teachers. The British Council has 100,000 students in their recently-opened MOOC for English Language Learners. Here are some articles about it: Online Engli

13 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h 

YESTERDAY

This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Ed Policy Posts — Part Two

© 2012 firedoglakedotcom, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Usually, I just post one “round-up” of ed policy posts and article each week, but I’ve got a backlog. So here’s Part Two: How to Diversify Teaching is from The New York Times. Common Core: yes or no? A debate. appeared in The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Articles Sharing Concerns About Common Core Standards. Focus on teacher ten

6 by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h 

9-14-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “Teachers Should Dress As Students’ Advocate, Not ‘Peer’”Teachers Should Dress As Students’ Advocate, Not ‘Peer’ is my latest Education Week Teacher post. In Part One of a two-part series, four educators – Roxanna Elden, Renee Moore, Jane Fung, and Rebecca Mieliwocki – share their thoughts on how teachers should dress. I’m

by mike simpson / 5h 

The Answer Sheet 9-15-14

Answer Sheet:

The Washington Post’s Constitution Day quiz

Sept. 17 is Constitution Day, celebrating the document that is at the foundation of the United States of America. Take this quiz to see how much you know about the Constitution.  

3 by Valerie Strauss / 1h 

A warning to U.S. about ‘educational authoritarianism’ — from a Chinese scholar

Yong Zhao is a respected education scholar who has been a fierce critic of high-stakes standardized testing, both in China and the United States. Zhao, the presidential chair and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the University of Oregon’s College of Education,  has written a new book entited “Who’s Afraid of […]

1 by Valerie Strauss / 15min 

How one middle school handled 136 unruly students

Normandy Middle School in north St. Louis — a few miles away from Ferguson, where the August killing of a black teenager by a white police officer sparked civil unrest — has been the worst-performing district in Missouri for several years. As a result, the state took over the Normandy School District, replaced 45 percent of […]

1 by Valerie Strauss / 6min 

How to get girls more interested in STEM subjects

Why are girls underrepresented in STEM classes and careers? What can be done about it? Author Annie Murphy Paul   discusses that in this post. She is a contributing writer  for Time magazine, writes a weekly column about learning for Time.com, blogs about learning for a number of websites and contributes to various publications.  She is […]

5 by Valerie Strauss / 34min

The Answer Sheet 9-14-14

Answer Sheet: Common Core: yes or no? A debate.Embrace the Common Core State Standards? Do not embrace the Common Core? That was the question in New York when four people — two for embracing and two against — participated in a recent debate about the controversial initiative. The  event was sponsored by an organization called Intelligence Squared U.S., which offers forums for debates […]3 by Valer

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

9-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum:

Director McLaren Op-Ed

Recently I learned that Director Marty McLaren had written an op-ed for the Seattle Times about the good things and hard work happening in Seattle Schools. According to McLaren, the Times encouraged her to edit her op-ed and resubmit it (which she did) but then the Times declined to print it.They then published the editorial about SPS and its leadership (and egging on the Mayor and the City Counci

by Melissa Westbrook / 1h 

Florida drops test after kindergarten teacher took public stand against it

Last week I published a highly popular post that included a letter that kindergarten teacher Susan Bowles of Lawton Chiles Elementary School in Gainesville, Fla., posted on Facebook telling parents that she was refusing to administer the Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading, or FAIR. She explained what she said were serious problems with administering […]

37 by Valerie Strauss / 26min 

Seattle Schools This Week

Tuesday, September 16thAudit&Finance Committee Quarterly Audit Meeting, 4:30-6:30 pm.  Agenda not yet available.As Charlie noted elsewhere, this is the meeting where staff has to report back on various issues raised.  I am hoping to see Director Carr hold some feet to the fire but we'll just have to see.Wednesday, September 17thSchool Board Meeting starting at 4:15 pm.  Agenda I am aware that

by Melissa Westbrook / 13min 

Title IX Work List from SPS

Here's a link to the current status of Title IX work as presented to the Board Audit and Finance Committee on August 19.A number of the action items on this list are familiar to those of us who have read lists of action items before. Of course the expected completion dates have all been pushed out later. I can't help noticing that a number of the "next action" dates fall before the meeti

by Charlie Mas / 1min 

Monday! Let Senator Murray know you value Student Data Privacy

The Senate HELP (Health Education Labor and Pensions committee) is negotiating over the re-authorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act.  We were told that there are Democrats on the committee who are pushing for relaxing limits on access to personal student data, and are saying that researchers should be able to obtain open-ended access to complete student data sets– and that they shouldn’t

3 by Melissa Westbrook / 7h  

9-14-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Seattle Schools UpdatesTweet from the district about priorities for 2014-2015:During a retreat today, the School Board picked its top governance priorities for the 2014-15 school year: bell times analysis, multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), special education and stewardship of resources/internal controls.First, shouldn't these "priorities" have been

1 by mike simpson / 8h