Monday, September 27, 2010

Education Nation: Innovation Must Be Allowed to Spread | NBC San Diego

Education Nation: Innovation Must Be Allowed to Spread

Updated 3:35 AM PDT, Mon, Sep 27, 2010

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America must find ways to let teaching innovation spread across the country, a pioneering leader of education reform said Sunday on a special msnbc TV show.

"We're in a crisis," Geoffrey Canada, president and chief executive officer for Harlem Children's Zone said.

Canada was part of a panel convened to discuss the movie "Wait

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NBC leaves charter schools out in the cold - Washington DC Charter Schools | Examiner.com

NBC leaves charter schools out in the cold

September 27th, 2010 5:21 am ET

I tuned in yesterday to see the Meet the Press education reform show featuring U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Emergency Financial Manager for the Detroit Public Schools Robert Bobb, and President of the American Federation of Teachers Randi Weingarten. The hero, as usual when it comes to public education stories, was Michelle Rhee who was presented and came across as just the person every American wants as their next school fixer-upper.

Today, the Washington Post's Courtland Milloy sets the record straight by pointing out that Miss Rhee is a disrespectful uninformed manager who has no idea how to communicate

Diary of a Social Art-tivist Mommy: How come Charters attract so many younger teachers?

How come Charters attract so many younger teachers?

by Diary of a Social ART-tivist Mommy

When I was searching for a teaching job 2 years ago I ran across a charter inHarlem, NYC that is considered fairly 'successful'. During the phone interview process I was informed about the hours (stay very late once a week and work 9 hour days for higher pay) and the calendar days (July to August; no summers really). I was also informed that I'd be expected to go on a mandatory 4-day or a week-long retreat with other staff member at some campus nearby. I put on the brakes hard and fast and asked, "what if you have a family?, I can't go on a

Bricks, clicks and civics — Joanne Jacobs

Bricks, clicks and civics

by Joanne

In a post on "hybrid schools" that combine "bricks and clicks," Larry Cuban warns that efficiency isn't the only goal: Schools are not "information factories." In some ways, the new hybrid schools are fulfilling progressive educators' dream of student-centered learning, he writes. Digital lessons are "hand-crafted to fit students for part of or most of the day," while teachers coach students on what they've learned or teach a few traditional lessons. There are fewer teachers and therefore lower costs. But techno-enthusiasts' view of public schools is too narrow, Cuban argues.

They equate access to information with becoming educated – more of one leads to more of the other. These very smart people ignore other crucial and purposes public schools have served

Caf�College to open doors to higher ed - Web's #1 Source for K12 and Higher Education News and Commentary - EducationNews.org ��

Café College to open doors to higher ed 9.27.10 - Dignitaries and education leaders will help launch Café College resource center Monday night, a facility designed to assist students in pursuing higher education goals.

ACT passes SAT in number of college entrance exam takers 9.27.10 - Melody Gutierrez - For years, most students turned to the SAT as the college admission test of choice. Now, besides deciding when and where to take the all-important test, students are debating whether to take the SAT or ACT, or both.

Student campaigns to restore Pledge of Allegiance 9.27.10 - 'I've always been taught to love my country and I feel that it's a no-brainer'

Enough Is Enough LA Times, NBC, Arne Duncan, Eli Broad, Bill Gates… | Seattle Education 2010

Enough Is Enough LA Times, NBC, Arne Duncan, Eli Broad, Bill Gates…

Posted on September 26, 2010 by seattleducation2010| 1 Comment

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Rest Peacefully, Mr. Ruelas.

September 26, 2010

by Sabrina

I could talk here about my frustration with being subjected to yet another hour of conversation dominated by the same people who hog the normal conversation about ed reform– Michelle Rhee, Geoffrey Canada (in whom I’m sincerely disappointed as of late), and Randi Weingarten.

I could talk about my frustration over the irresponsible “journalism” NBC is

McClatchy High to host college fair of 80 schools - Sacramento City News - sacbee.com

McClatchy High to host college fair of 80 schools

Updated: 12:42 am

High school students and their families can attend a free college fair next weekend that will include representatives of 80 colleges nationwide.

ACT passes SAT in number of college entrance exam takers

By Melody Gutierrez - Published: 12:00 am

For years, most students turned to the SAT as the college admission test of choice.

Sacramento High School class of '60 gathers, remembers, laughs and ponders

By Hudson Sangree - Published: 12:00 am

Friends from the Sacramento High School class of 1960 gathered Sunday at McKinley Park to reflect on their lives and remember a time of teenage crushes, school dances and growing up.

Sierra College student to visit NASA center

By Laurel Rosenhall - Updated: 10:09 am

A Sierra College student who performed well on a series of qualifying assignments has been selected to participate in an educational visit to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama this fall.

‘Waiting for Superman’s’ half-truths and heroes can move you to tears | Thoughts on Public Education

‘Waiting for Superman’s’ half-truths and heroes can move you to tears

Posted on 9/26/10 • Categorized as Achievement Gap, Charters

By Charles Taylor Kerchner

Waiting for Superman, the Davis Guggenheim documentary about public education, is headed for the theaters with more hype and about as much substance as a B-grade Western.

As in the B-grade Western there are villains, heroines, simplistic truths, and a pull at your heartstrings.

The plot line of Superman follows five children and their families from New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley as they — like thousands every year — go through school choice lottery programs, hoping to get into the school they want. There’s joy

Colleges' newest dorm dwellers: professors

Colleges' newest dorm dwellers: professors A growing number of colleges are placing professors and their families in residence halls. It's a practice borrowed from the early days of academia that has grown in popularity in recent years, especially at large urban universities looking to create a ...

Prince George's County high school opens AP courses to all Most Washington area high schools allow any student to take college-level Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses and tests. But Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Prince George's County, following a bad policy of many U.S. ...

Rise & Shine: Faulty elevators, late buses keep kids out of class | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Faulty elevators, late buses keep kids out of class

by Maura Walz

Gov. Paterson vetoed a bill that would move a radioactive waste station away from a school. (Daily News)
Two weeks into the year, late buses are still making some needy students miss class. (Daily News)
A broken elevator kept two wheelchair-bound I.S. 143 students out of class for weeks. (Daily News)
Mandarin instruction is growing more prevalent in New York public schools. (WSJ)
Since the start of school, the city’s 311 hotline has gotten 22 reports of bedbugs in schools. (Times)
The furor over Staten Island busing has caught the Department of Education by surprise. (SI Advance)
A Bryant HS student is in ninth-grade limbo because of a tuition dispute at her former school. (Post)
Automotive High School’s high-ranked football team played its real first home game in years. (WNYC)
A Bronx public school teacher has been unusually candid about her past as a sex worker. (Post, Times)
The Post: It’s a harbinger of change when “committed Hollywood liberals” are criticizing teachers unions.
But some parents and teachers say “Waiting for Superman” misrepresents education’s problems. (Fox)
And 275 teachers protested the film at Rockefeller Center yesterday. (Daily News)
Cory Booker has raised 40 percent of the funds needed to match Facebook’s gift to Newark. (WSJ)
The Daily News: Newark should spend its Facebook money on new teachers, charters and data systems.
Ed Hirsch, Jr.: States should use new common standards to write better curriculum. (Daily News)
The Post editorial board sides with the city against former rubber room teachers who filed grievances.
A St. Louis school for troubled teens requires all students to study chess as an academic subject. (WSJ)
California charters are weathering the budget crisis better than district schools. (SF Chronicle)
A Chicago architecture critic wonders if better school buildings make better students. (Chicago Tribune)

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High school students and their families can attend a free college fair next weekend that will include representatives of 80 colleges nationwide.

Representatives from the University of California, California State University, Stanford, University of Oregon, University of Washington, Claremont McKenna and many other schools will talk about their campuses and answer questions. Many colleges do not visit individual high schools, so for some

Now Comes the Hard Part � The Core Knowledge Blog

Now Comes the Hard Part

by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
September 27th, 2010

Tags: Common Core State Standards, Curriculum, reading, verbal ability, vocabulary
Posted in Assessment and Testing, Core Knowledge, Curriculum, Education Practice,Literacy | No Comments »

Note: A shorter version of this essay appears today in the New York Daily News under the title “School reform’s next frontier: Translate new standards into good curriculum that puts reading first.”

Over the summer, 37 states agreed to adopt a single set of K-12 standards in English Language Arts to define the competencies needed for citizenship, productivity, and fairness. It’s a long overdue reform. But now comes the hard part – figuring out exactly the new standards mean for the day-to-day work of teaching and learning in U.S. classrooms. It is one thing to insist, as the new standards do, that history and science be taught

Sunday, September 26, 2010

NJ Spotlight | Renegotiating the Newark School System

Renegotiating the Newark School System
Now that cameras are no longer trained on the key players, the hard business of negotiating the future of education in Newark begins

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By John Mooney, September 27 in Education |Post a Comment

As written now, the Newark Teachers Union contract is 93 pages long. Its table of contents alone is almost a dozen pages.

The contract not only lays out the pay for teachers at each year of service and the minimum length of their school day and year, but also the maximum length of monthly faculty meetings (50 minutes) and the pay for “volunteer” cafeteria or playground duties ($2,000 a year).

It is an arcane document like this that could determine success or failure in Gov. Chris Christie’s and Newark

Dallas-Fort Worth colleges report record enrollment | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Dallas-Fort Worth colleges report record enrollment

10:37 PM CDT on Sunday, September 26, 2010

By MEREDITH SHAMBURGER / The Dallas Morning News
mshamburger@dallasnews.com

Many universities and colleges in the Dallas area reported record enrollment figures this fall, but that's no guarantee that high graduation numbers will follow.

The real trick for growing schools is getting students to come back the next year.

"The first year is the most critical,"

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