9-26-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:

The Secret to Eva Moskowitz’s ‘Success’

Another curious fact about Success Academy is the attrition of both students and teachers. For schools that are widely acclaimed, this is surprising indeed. Why do so many students and teachers leave?... What we can learn from Success Academy is that it is possible to winnow out the most intractable students and be left with the best and most compliant ones by selective attrition. But that is no m

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NYC Teacher Steve Ryan's Play - A Beautiful Mourning - At Manhattan Rep Theatre Oct. 16, 17

The boy can act, sing dance - and now we learn Steve Ryan, a teacher at Leon Goldstein HS in Brooklyn, a colleague and pal of Kit Wainer and Mike Schirtzer (and a MORE supporter) can also write. His play will be featured at Manhattan Rep for 2 days next month. Steve is also appearing this weekend (tonight, tomorrow and Sunday matinee) in Godspell at the RTC. One of the fun things is when Steve's s

4 by ed notes online / 2h 

YESTERDAY

Kathleen Elvin and AP Emily Crevling Use Terror Tactics to Intimidate

This comment on our earlier post (John Dewey Principal Kathleen Elvin Discontinues Iraq War Vet and Mother) provides some more detail on the reasons behind the discontinued Iraq war vet and mom. Are Elvin and Crevling the local version of ISIS, using this teacher as a hostage in retaliation for actions taken by the union - beheading the teacher, economically, by taking her job.The actions of Princ

3 by ed notes online / 9h 

9-25-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online: John Dewey Principal Kathleen Elvin Discontinues Iraq War Vet and Mother “We’re sorry you won’t have health insurance for your child and thank you for serving your country. You’re fired!” • Single Mother• Iraq War Veteran • Teaching for Only Four MonthsThis is who Elvin and the AP of English wanted to terminate this past June. Termination would have meant that she could no longer

1 by mike simpson / 18min 

9-26-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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

September’s Best Posts From This Blog

I regularly highlight my picks for the most useful posts for each month — not including “The Best…” lists. I also use some of them in a more extensive monthly newsletter I send-out. You can see older Best Posts of the Month at Websites Of The Month (more recent lists can be found here). Here are some of the posts I personally think are the best, and most helpful, ones I’ve written during this pas

7 by Larry Ferlazzo / 45min 

Infographic On Storytelling

I’m adding this infographic to The Best Digital (& Non-Digital) Storytelling Resources: Please include attribution to http://www.anecdote.com/ with this graphic.

8 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h 

PBS NewsHour Video: “Backlog of children’s immigration cases challenges judges, lawyers and schools”

The PBS NewsHour had an episode tonight on the effect the children’s refugee crisis is having on American schools — focusing in on Miami. You can read the transcript here, and I’ve embedded the video below. I’m adding this info to The Best Resources For Learning About The Children Refugee Crisis At The U.S. Southern Border.

8 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h 

September’s (2014) Best Tweets — Part Four

Every month I make a few short lists highlighting my choices of the best resources I through (and learned from) Twitter, but didn’t necessarily include them in posts here on my blog. I’ve already shared in earlier posts several new resources I found on Twitter — and where I gave credit to those from whom I learned about them. Those are not included again in post. If you don’t use Twitter, you can

8 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h 

9-25-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: September’s Infographics & Interactives Galore – Part FourThere are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called “Infographics & Interactives Galore.” You can see others at A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics and by searching “infographics”

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

9-26-14 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.:

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2 by Fred Klonsky / 19min

A pension crisis since 1917? Eric Madiar, chief counsel to the Senate Democrats.

The World Champion 1917 Chicago White Sox. They wouldn’t win a world series again until 2005. - From Glen Brown’s Teacher/Musician/Poet. Attorney Eric Madiar is the chief counsel to Illinois Senate President John Cullerton. In this article he explains the long history of Illinois pension injustice, and why the current situation is not a sudden crisis. “Anyone following the pension-reform debate k

by Fred Klonsky / 0min 

Comments on the IEA Retired/IRTA letter.

The discussion is on-going regarding the IEA Retired letter sent to members that directed sharp criticism of the IRTA. IEA – Retired Chair Janet Kilgus did respond to me. The email expressed her principled disagreement with me. It was friendly, but I was not sure it was meant for posting, so out of respect to Janet, I have not shared it. Here are other comments:   Fred, I too am concerned with the

by Fred Klonsky / 4min 

A letter to IEA Retired. No circular firing squads.

Dear Janet, I am writing this to you in your position of IEA Retired Chair. Yesterday, as chapter president of the Skokie Organization of Retired Educators IEA Retired I was asked to send out a letter to our members signed by you, vice chair Jim Duffy and Bob Haisman. To my knowledge, Bob Haisman holds no elected position in our organization. The letter attacks the Illinois Retired Teachers Associ

3 by Fred Klonsky / 2h 

9-25-14 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.: Petcoke, the Koch brothers and the 10th Ward.Susan Sadlowski Garza talks to her neighbors at last night’s meet-and-greet in the 10th Ward. I took a drive to the 10th Ward last night. I could have taken the Dan Ryan to the Skyway and gotten off just before Indiana. But I took my old route. South Lakesh

1 by mike simpson / 7h 

9-26-14 Wait What? - Tom Foley’s bizarre move on Education Policy and its potential impact on the CEA endorsement

Wait What?:

Tom Foley’s bizarre move on Education Policy and its potential impact on the CEA endorsement

In what appears to be an ongoing effort to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory, Tom Foley, the Republican candidate for governor, has proposed an education policy that looks eerily similar to Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy’s corporate education reform initiatives. Over the past four years Governor Malloy has earned the reputation as the […] The post Tom Foley’s bizarre move on Education Policy

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9-25-14 Wait What? - Malloy to Teachers – The story behind the story about UConn’s decision to spend $1 million to fix a roof

Wait What?: The story behind the story about UConn’s decision to spend $1 million to fix a roof19 years after the passage of UConn 2000, the initiatives that included the funds to renovate the Torrey Life Sciences Building, The University of Connecticut plans to spend $1 million on a new roof for the building which will then be torn down in next five to seven years after a new science building is

1 by mike simpson / 12min 

9-26-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet:

Why we can’t reform literacy and math all at once

School “reform” is hardly a new phenomenon in the public school system, with decades of efforts to improve reading and math scores. Why haven’t all these efforts met expectations? Here’s one explanation, from Andy Hargreaves, the Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and an adviser to the  premier […]

1 by Valerie Strauss / 23min 

Banned Books Week: the 10 most challenged books every year since 2000

You might not think a best-selling book for kids called “Captain Underpants” would be terribly objectionable, but, as it turns out, it tops the 2013 list of books most challenged in schools and libraries in 2013. Why? Reasons cited by challengers: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence. It’s Banned Books Week, an annual event […]

200+ by Valerie Strauss / 5h 

9-25-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: Chicago mayor admits naming elite new school after Obama, his former boss, was a mistakeChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who once served as chief of staff in the White House for President Obama, just acknowledged that his plans to name a new $60 million high school located in a wealthy mostly white area of the city were a mistake. Here’s how the Chicago Sun-Times described the apparently

1 by mike simpson / 7h 

9-26-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter:

The Unbearable Lightness of Neo-Liberal Historical Revisionism in Education

Dana Goldstein studied intellectual history at Brown before she became a reporter, then a grad student at Columbia, and now another author among the growing tribe of young, privileged white folks with new books intended to make the world safe for corporate education reform. Goldstein joins Cornellian Amanda Ripley, Yalie Anya Kamenetz, and fellow Columbia alum, Elizabeth Green, in offering their n

2 by Jim Horn / 33min 

On Rhonda of the Hamptons

A nice piece from Perdido Street School:Lyndsey Layton reports the Center for Union Facts is attacking AFT President Randi Weingarten again:The 11-page mailing, on expensive paper stock, was sent first class to 125,000 households across the country this week. “I’m writing to you about Randi,” the letter began. “You probably don’t know who Randi is. Most people don’t. The terrible impact Randi has

2 by Jim Horn / 1h 

9-25-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter: Aspire Charter Schools: Busing to Maintain SegregationWhen parents showed up last week to enroll their children at the Aspire (Coleman) charter school in Memphis, they were told there were no more seats, due to plans to expand next year to take in 6th grade.  Even if there were no expansion plans, you can't have too many children of parents who weren't there months ago to squeal wi

1 by mike simpson / 7h 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-26-14

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

Proposed Federal Legislation Would Reduce Testing Requirements

by PBA, from The Brustein & Manasevit Federal Update  - prepared to inform Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC’s legislative clients of recent events in federal education legislation and/or administrative law – via email Sept 26, 2014  ::  Last week, Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) introduced a bill that would allow States to reduce the amount of standardized testing they are required to conduct un

by smf / 3min 

Crenshaw Principal Testifies That Teachers’ Dismissals Not Tied To Union Activity

By Stephen Ceasar | LA Times | http://lat.ms/1pvSOFa Alex Caputo-Pearl answers a question during a UTLA forum in June. The union president alleges he and 11 other Crenshaw High teachers were let go for union activism. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Sept 25, 2014  |  6:25 pm  :: The principal of Crenshaw High School testified in a hearing Thursday that 12 former teachers who allege

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YESTERDAY

Closed Lausd Board Session Grew Out Of Request By Ratliff

by Michael Janofsky, LA School Report | http://bit.ly/1BeB1cb Monica Ratliff, LA Unified board member representing district 6 September 25, 2014 12:27 pm  ::  The LA Unified school board’s sudden decision to hold a closed door session next week grew out of a Sept. 17 email request from Monica Ratliff to Board President Richard Vladovic, in which she expressed her desire to “discuss the

2 by smf / 8h 

L.A. Unified Oversight Panel Rejects $42 Million For Computers

LAUSD says it needs $25 million in computers immediately to be ready for state tests Bond oversight panel says LAUSD hasn't proved urgent need for computers Bond oversight panel faults LAUSD for not having a complete inventory of computers it already owns By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/YgWCE8 L.A. Unified bought 109,000 iPads before schools Supt. John Deasy suspended

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-25-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Colorado High School Students Walk Out To Protest Proposed Curriculum ChangesBy Jenny Deam - LA Times | http://lat.ms/YcD7N0 Students from schools in the Denver suburbs are protesting a proposal by the Jefferson County school board to emphasize patriotism and downplay civil unrest in the teaching of U.S. history. (Brennan Linsley / Associated Press) 9/2

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

9-26-14 @ The Chalk Face

@ THE CHALK FACE:

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Join 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 Thursday at 7PM EST.

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To La.’s Accountability Commission, As They ReVAMp Teacher Evals

In 2010, Louisiana Representative Frank Hoffman authored the bill to include student test scores as part of teacher evaluations. Hoffman said that he “would never do anything that would hurt good teachers”– an irony, since via his bill, Hoffman had decided that the definition of a “good teacher” is one whose value can be assessed […]

2 by deutsch29 / 12h 

9-23-14 @ 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

by mike simpson / 8h