Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Down payment on new school era - Times Union

Down payment on new school era

By RICK KARLIN Capitol Bureau

Published: 12:27 a.m., Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Richard C. Iannuzzi, left, New York State United Teachers president, and Arne Duncan, U.S. Education Secretary, head a roundtable with teams of teachers about reform and pilot program on teacher evaluations at NYSUT headquarters in Latham on Monday, August 30, 2010. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

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COLONIE -- The nearly $700 million that New York state will receive as part of the federal Race to the Top innovation program will help revamp the way teachers are trained and evaluated in future years.

One effect of that change: The lowest-performing teachers will likely be let go or denied tenure in light of more expansive future evaluations that will include a look at their students' test scores.

"There is a reality at some point that some are going to have to be counseled out of the profession," said Richard Iannuzzi, president of the state's largest teachers union

Illinois Mandates Bilingual Preschool - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Illinois Mandates Bilingual Preschool

by Alexander Russo

Illinois recently became the first state in the nation to mandate preschool bilingual education screening(EdWeek) -- even as suburban communities propose English only legislation and the nation debates so-called anchor babies. All that and more will be discussed at the November 16 conference sponsored by the New

The HFT Is All About Professional Growth… Not :: Frederick M. Hess

The HFT Is All About Professional Growth… Not

by Frederick M. Hess • Aug 31, 2010 at 9:28 am
Cross-posted from Education Week

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I'm always surprised at how often teacher unions claiming to be agents of professionalism reflexively slash at measures (like responsibility for results and differentiated pay) that are part and parcel of most professions. Even so, it's not every day that you see a union savaging an effort to promote professional growth as an anti-teacher conspiracy. Welcome to Houston Independent School District, where HISD superintendent Terry Grier is being mauled by the Houston Federation of Teachers... for proposing that principals work with all of their teachers to craft professional growth plans.

Yeah, I'm scratching my head too. What's got the HFT really worked up is Grier's proposal for "individual

Donors send Haiti earthquake survivor to St. Benedict's Prep in Newark | NJ.com

Donors send Haiti earthquake survivor to St. Benedict's Prep in Newark

Published: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 9:00 AM

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Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerWith the Newark skyline behind him, 20 year old Ralph Alphoncio Jean pauses and looks back at his teammates during track team practice on the St. Benedict's campus. Ralph is a survivor of the earthquakes in Haiti and served as an interpreter for American doctors in Haiti. He has entered St. Benedict's as a sophomore.

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NEWARK -- Scribbled in blue ink across his left hand were the words, "keep ur eyes on me."

He says it’s not a prayer, but a request to God.

But when Ralph Alphoncio Jean’s house in Haiti started shaking, he prayed. He prayed God would keep his family safe as he walked his mother and pregnant sister out of devastated Port-au-Prince.

And he prayed he would one day visit America.

Jean, 20, doesn’t like to talk about the earthquake that ruined his home, or the man he knew who died in an aftershock while protecting his son, or the woman he saw outside whose foot nearly fell from her leg. Instead he prefers to quickly rattle off the classes he’ll be

Eduwonk � Blog Archive � A Hessian Matrix

A Hessian Matrix

by arotherham

The town vandals now what to know what’s up with all these broken windows?

Over at the AEI blog my friend Rick Hess, who like a few others spent much of the spring in a effort to undermine trust and confidence around ‘Race to the Top’ (in Rick’s case while earnestly bleating that competitive grant programs need trust to work), wants those of us asking questions now to vindicate him for his earlier comments. But he overlooks a key distinction: Hess wasn’t just arguing that the initiative might have programmatic issues of the kind many are now discussing (and discussed after Round 1.) Rather, he was also implying the strong

Race to the Top in New York – ED.gov Blog

Race to the Top in New York

John King, New York’s deputy commissioner of education, led the state’s team in applying for Race to Top. He talks about how New York will use its grant to advance reform.

Click here for an accessible version of the video.

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