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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-2-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Forward Institute: Wisconsin Shortchanges Neediest ChildrenThe Forward Institute completed a study of school finance in Wisconsin and concluded that the state does not provide equality of opportunity to the neediest children. The study is called “Segregation of Opportunity.” “The study concluded the following: 1. The school funding

by mike simpson / 7:49 AM UTC-7 

Columbus Day & the Question of Native American Genocide - Musical Media For Education

Columbus Day & the Question of Native American Genocide - Musical Media For Education: Columbus Day & the Question of Native American Genocideposted 31 minutes agoExcerpts from Alex Alvarez (professor of Criminology, Northern Arizona Univ., Founding Director, Martin Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust), Native America & the Question of Genocide, 2014, Rowman & Littlefield

by mike simpson / 5min 

10-2-14 Schools Matter - Paul Toner's Future as Gates Waterboy

Schools Matter: Paul Toner's Future as Gates WaterboyTURNcoat Paul Toner has moved on the greener pastures, you might say, to become the President of New Voices Strategies, a corporate outfit funded by Gates and NEA to create positive PR spin for CorpEd initiatives in a community near you. Here is an example of the New Voice Strategies spin from June of this year, when the American Statistical Ass

by mike simpson / 9min 

10-2-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Many More Resources On Race & Racism© 2012 Michael Fleshman, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Here are new additions to A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism – Help Me Find More: Florida Man Is Convicted of Murdering Teenager in Dispute Over Loud Music is from The New York Times. I’m also

by mike simpson / 12min 

10-2-14 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.: Waukegan strike. 1,200 teachers. 14,000 students.- NBC Chicago Teachers in far north suburban Waukegan on Thursday announced they were moving ahead with a strike. All Waukegan Community Unit School District #60 were closed, giving nearly 17,000 students the day off. “Seven o’clock in the morning we wi

by mike simpson / 14min 

10-2-14 Wait What? - Important candidate question for tonight’s Hartford Courant and FOX CT gubernatorial debate

Wait What?: Important candidate question for tonight’s Hartford Courant and FOX CT gubernatorial debateThe Hartford Courant and FOX CT, along with the University of Connecticut, will be hosting a gubernatorial debate at 7 p.m. with Democratic Dannel “Dan’ Malloy and Republican Tom Foley. The debate will be televised on Fox61 and live-streamed at www.courant.com. In a disturbing statement about the

by mike simpson / 17min 

10-2-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: ‘Schools of Opportunity’ — a new project to recognize schools that give all students a chance to succeed  We all know about the many efforts to rate and/or rank schools by student standardized test scores and other data points — but without any of the out-of-school factors that play an enormous role in how well young people fare academically. Now two veteran educators are spearheadin

1 by mike simpson / 19min 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 10-2-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: REPORT RANKS CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS 8th BEST IN U.S. - Bad news: low minority, poor, special ed, ELL participation + low math scoresby Craig Clough, LA School Report | Posted on http://bit.ly/UXHVhZ October 1, 2014 1:52 pm  ::  In it’s first ever state-by-state rankings, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools ranked California’s charters N

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10-2-14 @ 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

1 by mike simpson / 23min 

10-2-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: An Education Policy That Presumes Family Failure and Collapse

With A Brooklyn Accent: An Education Policy That Presumes Family Failure and CollapseAs teachers and parents look, in amazement, at policies emanating from the US Department of Education that mandate the meticulous scripting of "student learning" beginning as early as age 3, and which require testing of "student outcomes" to evaluate their classroom performance, it is important

1 by mike simpson / 24min 

10-2-14 Curmudgucation - What Lily Misses about the Common Core

CURMUDGUCATION: Navarette Doesn't Quite Get Common CoreRuben Navarrette, Jr., contributed some CNN commentary about the Core this week. He asks if it's "a good idea gone bad." And he takes a look at the battle over the standards.This war won't be won or lost in boardrooms, classrooms or conference rooms but in the worlds of politics and public relations. You might have a powerful idea to

1 by mike simpson / 26min 

10-2-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: Brooklyn Tech Story Is Not About Tenure - It's About NYCDOE (And Bloomberg) IncompetenceTeacher bashers will make the "Brooklyn Tech/Pervert Teacher story" about teacher tenure and teachers unions but it's actually about NYCDOE incompetence.How did he get hired to work with children or teenagers when this was in his background?Mr. Shaynak was living in Havre de Gra

by mike simpson / 28min 

History fight coming to a head in suburban Denver | Nation & World | The Seattle Times

History fight coming to a head in suburban Denver | Nation & World | The Seattle Times: History fight coming to a head in suburban DenverA fight in Colorado over how United States history is taught is coming to a head in suburban Denver on Thursday, with students and teachers expected to pack a school board meeting where the controversial changes could face a vote.DENVER —A fight in Colorado o

by mike simpson / 37min 

Why Don’t We Have Real Data on Charter Schools? | The Nation

Why Don’t We Have Real Data on Charter Schools? | The Nation: Why Don’t We Have Real Data on Charter Schools?Charters were supposed to be laboratories for innovation. Instead, they are stunningly opaque.Pedro Noguera September 24, 2014   |    This article appeared in the October 13, 2014 edition of The Nation.ShareIn several cities throughout the country, there is a fierce conflict raging over the

by mike simpson / 40min 

Of Teachers' Unions, Democracy, & 'Civic Mondays' - Bridging Differences - Education Week

Of Teachers' Unions, Democracy, & 'Civic Mondays' - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Of Teachers' Unions, Democracy, & 'Civic Mondays'By Leo Casey on October 2, 2014 9:03 AMLeo Casey of the Albert Shanker Institute writes to Deborah Meier on the Bridging Differences blog again today.Deb:One of the more promising developments on the American political landscape is the "Moral Mond

by mike simpson / 41min 

In “The Nation” Noguera and Ravitch Demand Support for Public Schools and Tough Regulation of Charters | janresseger

In “The Nation” Noguera and Ravitch Demand Support for Public Schools and Tough Regulation of Charters | janresseger:In “The Nation” Noguera and Ravitch Demand Support for Public Schools and Tough Regulation of ChartersPosted on October 2, 2014 by janressegerPedro Noguera’s pithy and hard-hitting piece, Why Don’t We Have Real Data on Charter Schools?  was just posted on the website of The Nation a

by mike simpson / 48min 

empathyeducates – “Adults Are Ruining The World.”

empathyeducates – “Adults Are Ruining The World.”:“Adults Are Ruining The World.”By Brittney Pressley | Originally Published at LinkedIn September 25, 2014 | Children at play on Primrose Hill in acrylic, by Gudawer Kalirai.Let’s face it, adult life is boring.Paying bills (check)Eating healthy to watch your aging figure (check)Going to a job you don’t really care for (check) every…single…week (chec

1 by mike simpson / 51min 

Age and gender factor into bullying more than language :: SI&A Cabinet Report

Age and gender factor into bullying more than language :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: OCTOBER 02, 2014Age and gender factor into bullying more than languageby Alisha Kirby(District of Columbia) As with other life experiences, students endure bullying differently as they graduate through elementary, middle and high school, suggesting that i

1 by mike simpson / 53min 

NYC Educator: Really Bad Things and The American Way

NYC Educator: Really Bad Things and The American Way: Really Bad Things and The American WayCampbell Brown makes me sick. Her method, picking out a few stories and tarring all of us with them, is simply reprehensible. Doubtless she'll be out today with some story saying the allegations against the Brooklyn Tech teacher mean none of us should ever get tenure again. That's a preposterous argument.In

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Children are more than test scores: Beyond Achievement GAP, or it's the Opportunity Gap people!

Children are more than test scores: Beyond Achievement GAP, or it's the Opportunity Gap people!: Beyond Achievement GAP, or it's the Opportunity Gap people!Day 4,780 of NCLB's Reign Of Testing Terror.Americans were told in 2001 that our education system was in crisis, and the solutions would be "Outcomes-based reforms," and NCLB would fix our schools.Every child in grades 3 to 8 would be

1 by mike simpson / 9h 

A Pervert Grows in Brooklyn Tech - southbronxschool

http://www.southbronxschool.com: A Pervert Grows in Brooklyn TechAs many others were I was appalled and sickened when I picked up the Daily News and read about the deviancy with students that Brooklyn Tech "teacher" Sean Shaynak allegedly committed.According to the Daily News, Shaynake is accused of;Taking a 15-year-old to a nude beach in New Jersey without permission and plying her with

by mike simpson / 9h 

Testing a kindergartner: How it feels as a teacher | Seattle Education

Testing a kindergartner: How it feels as a teacher | Seattle Education: Testing a kindergartner: How it feels as a teacherI’m not sure where this was originally posted, I’ve seen it on various blogs and websites but apparently it was first seen on Opt Out Alachua Facebook page. The letter from this kindergarten teacher is poignant and very telling of where we have come in terms of the political/co

1 by mike simpson / 9h 

Higher education should be gateway to future, not to financial ruin By Randi Weingarten

Higher education should be gateway to future, not to financial ruin: Higher education should be gateway to future, not to financial ruinKatrona Burks attends Milwaukee Area Technical College to get the education she needs for a better job. But her student loan debt is making her think twice about her decision to earn a degree because it's now rippling down to the next generation: Her college-age d

by mike simpson / 12h 

Nite Cap 10-1-14 #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 CAPWorkforce Investment Act Grantees Named - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)Workforce Investment Act Grantees Named - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces Winners of Federal Workforce Investment Act GrantSAC

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Workforce Investment Act Grantees Named - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)

Workforce Investment Act Grantees Named - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces Winners of Federal Workforce Investment Act GrantSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today announced that 198 community colleges, school districts, libraries, and nonprofits will share more than $86 million in federal grants to help adults find mea

1 by mike simpson / 16h 

GenEd Differentiation: SPED’s Been Ahead of the Game for Years | Connected Principals

GenEd Differentiation: SPED’s Been Ahead of the Game for Years | Connected Principals: GenEd Differentiation: SPED’s Been Ahead of the Game for Yearsby Sam LeDeaux • October 1, 2014 • 0 CommentsWith a different kind of emphasis and focus recently (last couple decades or so) on mainstream differentiation, I think we must turn to our SPED educators for guidance. They’ve been doing it all along.The p

1 by mike simpson / 16h 

Some thoughts on how many of us get “captured”… Reflections on Teaching

Reflections on Teaching » Blog Archive » Some thoughts on how many of us get “captured”…: Some thoughts on how many of us get “captured”…Last week the Internets started buzzing with the story of Carmen Segarra, Federal Reserve whistle-blower, and the recordings she made of her time working inside Goldman Sachs as a regulator. The best account for those of you not familiar with high finance is from

1 by mike simpson / 17h 

Groups charge $30 million in charter school fraud, call for tougher oversight | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Groups charge $30 million in charter school fraud, call for tougher oversight | Philadelphia Public School Notebook: Groups charge $30 million in charter school fraud, call for tougher oversightA new report is calling for holding charter schools in Pennsylvania more accountable.Produced by the groups Center for Public Democracy, Integrity in Education and Action United, the report says the $30 mil

1 by mike simpson / 17h 

NYC Public School Parents: Why SUNY should not allow Success Charters to expand.

NYC Public School Parents: Why SUNY should not allow Success Charters to expand.: Why SUNY should not allow Success Charters to expand.On Wed., October 8, 2014, the SUNY charter committee is due to vote on authorizing a gazillion new Success charters for nearly every area of the city -- though without telling us exactly where they will go, and how much space they will take from our public school s

1 by mike simpson / 17h 

NEA President: Educators Play Pivotal Role in Guiding Girls Into Leadership Roles | NEA Today

NEA President: Educators Play Pivotal Role in Guiding Girls Into Leadership Roles | NEA Today: NEA President: Educators Play Pivotal Role in Guiding Girls Into Leadership RolesOctober 1, 2014 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesLeave a CommentBy Richard NaithramThere’s a gender leadership gap in the United States, says NEA President Lily Eskelsen García, and educators are well-positi

1 by mike simpson / 17h 

BustED Pencils BLOG: Silly Reformers. Critical History is for Kids.

BustED Pencils BLOG: Silly Reformers. Critical History is for Kids.:Silly Reformers. Critical History is for Kids.Just in case you just missed it I’ll run through it quickly right now. Conservative Reformers took over the Douglas County School Board and the Jefferson County School Board.  These counties border the great city of Denver, Colorado.  The reformer boards—and let’s be honest, we’re talk

1 by mike simpson / 18h 

10-1-14 Cali Education Headlines | CSIS – California School Information Services

Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team | CSIS – California School Information Services: Stop the Power Grabwww.StopThePowerGrab.orgEducation HeadlinesTeachers file grievance, say Stockton USD not bargaining in good faithThe Stockton Teachers Association said Tuesday it has filed charges with the Public Employment Relations Board over what is alleges is “the district’s failure to bargain in

1 by mike simpson / 19h 

Louisiana Educator: LAE Files Lawsuit Against Predatory Charters

Louisiana Educator: LAE Files Lawsuit Against Predatory Charters: LAE Files Lawsuit Against Predatory ChartersLAE Leaders File Lawsuit Challenging The Improper Use Of MFP Funds9/30/2014Illegal Use of Minimum Foundation Program Dollars to Fund Certain Charter SchoolsSiphons Much-Needed Dollars Away From Local School BoardsBATON ROUGE, LA – September 29, 2014 – Leaders from LAE affiliates across the

2 by mike simpson / 19h 

Crenshaw alum: Teacher suspension shed light on LAUSD teacher jail

Crenshaw alum: Teacher suspension shed light on LAUSD teacher jail: Crenshaw alum: Teacher suspension shed light on LAUSD teacher jailOctober 1, 2014 By Amanda Scurlock | Staff Reporter Leave a Comment    Iris Stevenson arrives at Crenshaw High after being released from “teacher jail.” Scroll below for video of Stevenson’s return. | Amanda ScurlockAt Crenshaw High School in South Los Angeles, the

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We Know What Equity Looks Like, and We are Passionate About it - Lily's Blackboard

We Know What Equity Looks Like, and We are Passionate About it - Lily's Blackboard: We Know What Equity Looks Like, and We are Passionate About itOctober 1, 2014 by LilyCategories: Education, General, VideoTags: civil right, department of education, equity, justiceEquity is a cause I have fought for all my life, since the days I taught in a Homeless Shelter School in Salt Lake City. It is the caus

1 by mike simpson / 22h 

NYC Schools May Be Leading Us Back to Real Education Policy | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing

NYC Schools May Be Leading Us Back to Real Education Policy | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing: NYC Schools May Be Leading Us Back to Real Education Policy To mw what follows is a fabulous example of trying to do the right thing under very constricted laws that need changing.I know there will be those of you ready to comment negatively on this report. Some of you will argue that Farina goes too

1 by mike simpson / 22h 

10-1-14 Curmudgucation - What Lily Misses about the Common Core

CURMUDGUCATION: The Six Big Lies of ReformsterdomSome of the classic Not-Entirely-Truisms of the Reformster Movement have been quietly retired. For instance, one rarely hears the claim that teachers had major input in creating the Common Core any more because there's hardly a soul left who can say it with a straight face.But there are still some huge bogus beliefs ,falsehoods in the foundation of

1 by mike simpson / 22h 

10-1-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Student Data: Protect Your Child's DataHS Parent gave this info on another thread:Did anyone else with a HS student receive this email today from ConnectEDU about a request to purge student's data?"Thank your for using the Connect! service. On July 2nd 2014, the technology which powers Connect! was purchased by Graduation Alliance from ConnectEDU. Graduation A

1 by mike simpson / 22h 

Angry About Drag Racing, Town Bans Jaywalking | Taking Note

Angry About Drag Racing, Town Bans Jaywalking | Taking Note: Angry About Drag Racing, Town Bans JaywalkingBizarro, Nevada, October 1–In a powerful response to hordes of young adults using Main Street for drag races “day and night,” an angry City Council voted to impose $250 fines and 30-day jail terms for jaywalking. “These damn hot rodders are endangering our citizens, and the only way to stop th

1 by mike simpson / 22h 

10-1-14 This Week in 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): Board emerges from private meeting with no decision on DeasyBoard emerges from private meeting with no decision on Deasy Superintendent John Deasy John Deasy is still the LA Unified superintendent. After four hours behind closed doors last night, the district school board emerged with nothing to say. For

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Morning Wink 10-1-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-1-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: STOP Online Testing in K-2: Florida Parents Demand SanityFranziska Raeber describes how parents in Florida are organizing resistance to online testing of children in K-2. Please be aware that th

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-2-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all:

Salon: Why Left and Right and Center Turned Against the Common Core

Gabriel Arana, a writer for Salon, shows how Common Core became toxic, but he misses a few crucial points. He notes that there were few actual classroom teachers on the committee that wrote the standards, but in fact there were none. A few members had taught in high school, but in the past. None had ever taught in elementary school or middle school. He notes that Bill Gates paid for most of the

by dianeravitch / 1min

A New Argument for Vouchers

Voucher advocates used to claim that vouchers would dramatically raise test scores. They don’t. Then they said they raise graduation rates, which they do as long as you overlook high attrition rates. Now, the new siren song is that they save money! Politico reports “the fiscal case for vouchers:” “The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice touts vouchers as an ideal way to shake up the “gover

1 by dianeravitch / 25min 

Peter Greene Wonders Why Thomas Kane Doesn’t Trust Teachers

Fearless Peter Greene criticizes economist Thomas Kane for his latest paper, called “Never Diet Without a Bathroom Scale and Mirror: The Case for Combining Teacher Evaluation and the Common Core.” Kane directed the study called Measures of Effective Teaching for the Gates Foundation. Greene calls the new study “grade A baloney.” Kane calls for “a massive adult behavior change exercise,” not an e

by dianeravitch / 3min 

Great News for Supporters of Public Education

The new organization called Democrats for Public Education commissioned a poll, and it brought good news, reported here by Politico.com: NEW POLL DATA BUOYS PUBLIC ED ADVOCATES: With a month to go before midterms, the activists at Democrats for Public Education are urging candidates to speak up – loudly – about their support for neighborhood schools. DPE gave Morning Education a sneak peek at new

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Help Colorado Opt-out Coalition Buy Billboards

This is an appeal from a group of concerned educators and parents in Colorado who want to let parents know that they have a right to opt their children out of high-stakes state testing. They want to rent two big highway billboards. Can you help them? (Sorry I don’t have the graphic for the billboard. I bet if you email them, they will send you the graphic of the billboard.) I sent them a check. I

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Forward Institute: Wisconsin Shortchanges Neediest Children

The Forward Institute completed a study of school finance in Wisconsin and concluded that the state does not provide equality of opportunity to the neediest children. The study is called “Segregation of Opportunity.” “The study concluded the following: 1. The school funding system is depriving many Wisconsin children and communities the resources they need to provide equal educational opportunit

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Adrienne Hill: A Day in the Life of a Data-Mined Kid

Did you know that your child is constantly data mined? Adrienne Hill writes about how extensively most children are now tracked, usually without their parent’s knowledge or consent. The federal government has given states hundreds of millions of dollars to help build a giant database, called a “statewide longitudinal data system.” Hill writes: “The government isn’t the only one trying to figure ou

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Test Prep University for “No Excuses” Teachers

You too can learn to be a “no excuses” teacher in a charter school that gets high test scores. There are a few changes required in your attitude; you too can earn a new graduate degree from a new graduate school that will remold your personality and teach you not to accept any excuses. Paternalistic? Yes. Colonialist? Call it that if you wish. Results are what matters. All you need to do is enrol

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 10-1-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: STOP Online Testing in K-2: Florida Parents Demand SanityFranziska Raeber describes how parents in Florida are organizing resistance to online testing of children in K-2. Please be aware that the purpose of online testing is to enrich the testing industry and tech corporations. The best tests are written and evaluated by teachers,

1 by mike simpson / 7h 

Columbus Day & the Question of Native American Genocide - Musical Media For Education

Columbus Day & the Question of Native American Genocide - Musical Media For Education:

Columbus Day & the Question of Native American Genocide

posted 31 minutes ago

Excerpts from Alex Alvarez (professor of Criminology, Northern Arizona Univ., Founding Director, Martin Springer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust), Native America & the Question of Genocide, 2014, Rowman & Littlefield 

"One of the things my experience in studying genocide has taught me is that ‘genocide’ is a word and concept that is often uses and misused. The term has a tremendous amount of power, and because of that it has sometimes been applied to highway deaths, abortions, AIDS, slavery, urban planning and family planning among other rhetorical excesses. Unfortunately, many of these assertions seem to be based more on general sense of outrage and horror than on any clear and rigorous understand about what is and is not genocide."

"…it has become somewhat fashionable to assert that American Indians were the victims of genocide, but all too often those comments appear to be more about political activism or attempts to generate a sense of moral outrage than they are about engaging in scholarly discussion. Genocide refer to a specific concept that is itself subject ot various definitions and debates, Scholars and others who study this phenomenon, in other words, interpret the term in multiple ways.”

“… it is important that claims of genocide be examined rigorously and critically. This is not to suggest that Native people in the Americas did not suffer from genocide, but rather that care needs to be taken when applying this label to specific historical events, these assertions are all too often made with sweeping generalizations that seem to suggest the Native experience, and by inference Native peoples, were all the same. This is far from the truth. As we will see, the Americas were and are home to a great many different nations and tribes who have often had dissimilar experiences depending upon their location, the period of contact, who they had contact with, and the various strategies of confrontation and/or accommodation each group adopted.”

"An examination of genocide, therefore, in the context of the Native American experience can reveal much of the complexity of contact and conflict in America after the arrival of the Europeans. Although we often tend to see it as such, it is not as simple as it has often been portrayed. It is more than just a simple morality tale about good and evil, right and wrong, whites versus Natives. The problem with this depiction, aside from being plain wrong, is that it treats all Native people as passive objects who were simple acted upon by those they came into contact with. That is far from the truth. Instead, a closer look reveals that it is a very human story of tragedy and error, missed opportunities and cross-purposes, good intentions and bad, and cruel injustice and violence. Natives sometimes sided with Europeans against other Native tribes,Columbus Day & the Question of Native American Genocide - Musical Media For Education:

10-2-14 Schools Matter - Paul Toner's Future as Gates Waterboy

Schools Matter:

Paul Toner's Future as Gates Waterboy

TURNcoat Paul Toner has moved on the greener pastures, you might say, to become the President of New Voices Strategies, a corporate outfit funded by Gates and NEA to create positive PR spin for CorpEd initiatives in a community near you. Here is an example of the New Voice Strategies spin from June of this year, when the American Statistical Association delivered what will prove to be the death bl

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9-30-14 Schools Matter - Comments on Naomi Klein's New Book

Schools Matter: Comments on Naomi Klein's New BookA clip from comments on Naomi Klein's new book at Nation of Change:Klein starts with a blunt statement of the problem: “[O]ur economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life.” (21) Human survival requires a new economics, which explains why cl

by mike simpson / 7h

10-2-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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

Many More Resources On Race & Racism

© 2012 Michael Fleshman, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Here are new additions to A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism – Help Me Find More: Florida Man Is Convicted of Murdering Teenager in Dispute Over Loud Music is from The New York Times. I’m also adding this to The Best Posts, Articles & Lesson Plans On The Jordan Davis Tragedy & Verdict: Our “Classro

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10-1-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “What Is Your Advice For Student Teachers & Their Supervisors?”What Is Your Advice For Student Teachers & Their Supervisors? is the latest “question-of-the-week” at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses there or in the comments section of this post…7 by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h hide  //  sav

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10-2-14 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.:

Waukegan strike. 1,200 teachers. 14,000 students.

- NBC Chicago Teachers in far north suburban Waukegan on Thursday announced they were moving ahead with a strike. All Waukegan Community Unit School District #60 were closed, giving nearly 17,000 students the day off. “Seven o’clock in the morning we will be on strike. We will strike all of the 25 or so campuses in Waukegan with picketers at each,” Lake County Federation of Teachers president Mik

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Family friendly.

The first Olive Garden Restaurant has opened in the City of Chicago. I have never eaten at an Olive Garden, although I might eat at this one. It is on Addison off of 94 in a K-Mart parking lot.  That’s not far from me. And I am intrigued by the concept of a never-ending pasta bowl and unlimited breadsticks. Unlimited breadsticks. Avondale, the neighborhood that gets the benefit of the Olive Garde

6 by Fred Klonsky / 2h 

10-1-14 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.: John Dillon. Looking for a “fortiori,” a better reason to vote for Quinn.- John Dillon is a retired teacher, pension activist and a member of the IEA Retired S.O.R.E chapter. He blogs at Pension Vocabulary. In education, ironically, Rauner and at least one of the Democratics on the gubernatorial ticke

2 by mike simpson / 8h 

10-2-14 Wait What? - Look out Malloy and Foley – you are both on the wrong side on education

Wait What?:

Look out Malloy and Foley – you are both on the wrong side on education

A new National Poll on Public Education was released today.  The poll was paid for by a Democratic leaning advocacy group and conducted by Harstad Strategic Research – a Colorado-based firm which worked on President Barack Obama’s 2008 election and 2012 re-election. The poll reports…. Solid majorities back more funding for public schools and teacher pay, […] The post Look out Malloy and Foley – yo

6 by jonpelto / 58min

Important candidate question for tonight’s Hartford Courant and FOX CT gubernatorial debate

The Hartford Courant and FOX CT, along with the University of Connecticut, will be hosting a gubernatorial debate at 7 p.m. with Democratic Dannel “Dan’ Malloy and Republican Tom Foley. The debate will be televised on Fox61 and live-streamed at www.courant.com. In a disturbing statement about the health of our democracy, the debate press release […] The post Important candidate question for tonigh

6 by jonpelto / 1h

10-1-14 Wait What? - Forgive them, for they know not what they do – Not!

Wait What?: Forgive them, for they know not what they do – Not!Read my lips…No New Taxes! “Both Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his Republican challenger Tom Foley said they will not increase taxes… (CT NewsJunkie) When Governor Dannel “Dan” Malloy took office he faced a $3.6 billion dollar deficit. As result of budget gimmicks, the use of one-time revenue and his failure to require the […] T

1 by mike simpson / 8h 

10-2-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet:

How much data is being ‘mined’ from our kids? More than you know.

If you think that people are constantly collecting data about your and your kids but you aren’t exactly sure, here’s some information that can help you figure it out. Below is an infographic from Marketplace.org showing just how data-mined our kids are every day. The graphic accompanies a story titled, “A day in the life […]

2 by Valerie Strauss / 9min 

‘Schools of Opportunity’ — a new project to recognize schools that give all students a chance to succeed

  We all know about the many efforts to rate and/or rank schools by student standardized test scores and other data points — but without any of the out-of-school factors that play an enormous role in how well young people fare academically. Now two veteran educators are spearheading a new pilot initiative to identify and […]

6 by Valerie Strauss / 4h 

10-1-14 Answer Sheet

Answer Sheet: How teachers sometimes fool themselvesHere is a post about what goes on in classrooms and how teachers sometimes fool themselves into thinking that they are allowing students to direct their own learning when, in fact, they aren’t. This was written by Alfie Kohn (www.alfiekohn.org), who is the author of 13 books, including, most recently, “The Myth of the Spoiled […]21 by Valerie Str

1 by mike simpson / 8h