Milwaukee Police Censored Reporter Geoff Davidian | Dailycensored.com

Milwaukee Police Censored Reporter Geoff Davidian | Dailycensored.com

Milwaukee Police Censored Reporter Geoff Davidian

Written by Peter PhillipsWorld NewsApr 6, 2011

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Milwaukee Police Officer Joseph Anderer did not want any recording of his colleagues ticketing a victim who was broadsided April 52011 by a speeding police car that exited an alley without stopping. So he twisted the camera from reporter Geoff Davidian’s hand, breaking the lens. Anderer cited Davidian for interfering with issuance of a citation, although no citation was issued (except to Davidian) by any of the police in the six squad cars and a motorcycle that responded for 90 minutes. The citizen whose car sustained damage from the speeding police car was issued a warning. During the incident, Anderer said, “You reporters never tell the truth.” So we’ll let the camera do the talking in this video. Watch on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hJHx3TffSU

NYC Public School Parents: John White, the next Superintenent of New Orleans?

NYC Public School Parents: John White, the next Superintenent of New Orleans?

John White, the next Superintenent of New Orleans?

by Leonie Haimson

John White, NYC Deputy Chancellor, is reportedly being considered as the next Superintendent of New Orleans schools.

White led the DOE's efforts to expand charters, and to co-locate them in already existing schools.

In the views of many public school parents, he ignored their concerns about overcrowding and inequitable distribution of resources and space. See this account, for example, of the proposal to place the Hebrew Language Academy charter school within Marine Park middle school; here are also videos of the highly contentious hearings.

During the proceedings, he called the 150 children who would attend the Hebrew charter school the "jewels" of the DOE, which hugely offended the parents of the 1100 children currently attending Marine Park MS, as well as

Testimony Regarding Teach for America | Seattle Education 2011

Testimony Regarding Teach for America | Seattle Education 2011

Testimony Regarding Teach for America

by seattleducation2011

This is the testimony that I will be giving tonight at the Seattle Public School Board meeting.

Dora

Regarding the rif (Reduction in Force, better known as a lay-off), our interim superintendent needs to rif central district staff who are housed in this building before impacting our classrooms and class sizes by laying off teachers.

Schools are about teaching first and foremost. Schools are not about having 5 people on a communications team, one of them recently hired and highly paid, to follow the PR communications plan that the Broad Foundation set forth to SPS in 2007 with the arrival of our former Broad superintendent.

Regarding Teach for America, I would like to bring to your attention a brief that was released last year by theCenter for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), an organization that provides studies and papers for

If You Want To Support Teachers, Give Them Tools To Accomplish Their Goals

If You Want To Support Teachers, Give Them Tools To Accomplish Their Goals

If You Want To Support Teachers, Give Them Tools To Accomplish Their Goals

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Tony Pedriana worked for over thirty years as a teacher, principal, and mentor in Milwaukee's central city. During his career as an educator, he has focused on improved pedagogy and professional development for teachers in reading. He is the author of “Leaving Johnny Behind: Overcoming Barriers to Literacy.”

Ubiquitous among the pages of the StudentsFirst website is its appeal for increased teacher quality. Some would view that as an indictment of the current teacher corps, and in some instances, it might well be the case. But for the vast majority, it is perhaps the most powerful expression of teacher advocacy one

Schools Matter: A Supreme Win for the Working People of Wisconsin

Schools Matter: A Supreme Win for the Working People of Wisconsin

A Supreme Win for the Working People of Wisconsin

by Jim Horn

The relatively unkown challenger, Joanne Kloppenburg, just replaced the Republican incumbent Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin. From CBS:

It's unusual for a challenger to unseat an incumbent in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race. And in this case, Kloppenburg, a relatively obscure candidate, was up against a former state House Republican leader with higher name recognition.

The Koch-heads in Scott Walker's office have to be listening now:

The last remaining Wisconsin precinct in Lake Mills has apparently split roughly 700 votes in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race down the middle. That split allows JoAnne Kloppenburg to keep a margin of 204 votes above incumbent Justice David Prosser. The next step is very likely a recount.

Meritocracy Myth v. the Advantages of Privilege (A Tale of Hubris) | Dailycensored.com

Meritocracy Myth v. the Advantages of Privilege (A Tale of Hubris) | Dailycensored.com

Meritocracy Myth v. the Advantages of Privilege (A Tale of Hubris)

Written by Paul ThomasEducationApr 6, 2011

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In January 2010, I emailed Diane Ravitch after viewing a video of one of her talks preceding the release of her now often mentioned book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, that signaled some significant changes in her views on education and education reform. My email was an apology.

I confessed to Diane that I had been a Ravitch detractor for much of my career, based primarily on my view that she was an essentialist who promoted a narrow view of literacy–specifically that students must be raised on the Great Books. But the Diane Ravitch I heard in the video and eventually read in the new book (and her subsequent prolific life as a public intellectual and frequent voice on twitter) was the personification of the academic, the scholar, the expert that I admire because she was very publicly stepping back from her ideology and reforming her views based on evidence despite the need to change her mind.

As a scholar and a writer, I have always been struck by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow

Supreme Court Allows Religious Separatists To Claim School Tax Credit | Resurgence | Big Think

Supreme Court Allows Religious Separatists To Claim School Tax Credit | Resurgence | Big Think

Supreme Court Allows Religious Separatists To Claim School Tax Credit

Kris Broughton on April 6, 2011, 1:19 PM

Of all the news stories I’ve read over the last few days, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn has stuck in my mind the most. All I could see in my mind’s eye were the numerous “segregation academies” that struggled financially in South Carolina during the 70’s and 80’s as court ordered desegregation slowly began to be accepted.

Many of the private schools across our state back then, especially the ones in the more rural areas of the state, were small affairs that had been hastily constructed and poorly maintained. With only the backing of the families of their students, most of them were doomed from the start to fail. The loss of their IRS exemptions due to their discriminatory practices sealed the fate of many of these schools.

The majority reaches a contrary decision by distinguishing between two methods

Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

The Department of Education Cannot Unring the Bell Obama Struck

Last Monday, President Obama went off script at a town hall meeting, and in response to a question from student Luis Zelaya, offered us a vision for education. In 338 words, he made it clear that current Department of Education policy is way out of line with what he knows is best for his own daughters, and for students across the nation.

After I expressed this view in my blog Monday night, Justin Hamilton, a press secretary for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, wrote to me and I then sent him four questions. On Friday he answered three of them, and today answered the fourth. in this post I offer my thoughts on his response to my last question.

To start with, I want to thank Justin Hamilton for responding to my questions. I know they have a lot on their hands, and I appreciate him taking the time to do this.

My final question was inspired by this statement from President Obama:

Koch Break News | www.kochwatch.org

News | www.kochwatch.org

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Tuesday's Supreme Court turnout in Wisconsin was off the charts *April 6, 2011-* Absolutely massive for a spring election, Tuesday’s turnout is unmistakable evidence of the impact the state’s budget and labor wars are having on Wisconsin voters. With 99% of the returns in, almost 1.5 million people had voted in ...

Wisconsin State Journal: 'No cop in the state' would arrest Senate dems: Fitzgerald *April 2, 2011- *Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was repeatedly warned he would be stepping outside the law if he forcibly returned 14 Democratic senators who fled Wisconsin in February, according to internal emails. Records obtained from ...

Tea Party Versus the Middle Class *Guest blogged by Lawrence Rafferty on JonathanTurley.Com* read more

You Thought the Koch Brothers Were Bad? Turns Out They're Even Worse Than You Thought | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

You Thought the Koch Brothers Were Bad? Turns Out They're Even Worse Than You Thought | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

You Thought the Koch Brothers Were Bad? Turns Out They're Even Worse Than You Thought

Charles and David Koch's reach into virtually every aspect of political, economic and physical life on the planet is probably greater than you thought possible.

April 5, 2011 |

You knew they were big. You knew they were evil. From the union-busting actions of their minions in Wisconsin and Ohio to their war on health-care reform, to their assault on the environment and their attacks on the science of climatology, Charles and David Koch have earned their place as the focus of progressives' scrutiny in the age of the Tea Party -- the destructive and regressive movement they bankroll. But a new report from the Center for American Progress Action Fund shows that, as bad as you thought the Kochs were, they're actually worse. And their reach into virtually every aspect of political, economic and physical life on the planet is probably greater than you thought possible.

In The Koch Brothers: What You Need to Know About the Financiers of the

John Merrow: The preschool education issues in America

John Merrow: The preschool education issues in America

John Merrow: The preschool education issues in America

by John Merrow

Every American toddler should have the opportunity to attend a high-quality, free preschool. Whether they go or not would be up to their parents or guardians, of course, but the opportunity should be there. We now know that most brain growth occurs before a child reaches kindergarten age. It is a fact that most American parents are working outside the home. Our economic competitors are already providing this opportunity for their 4-year-olds (and often their 3-year-olds), a fact that has implications for our economic health.

It's not that we haven't made a stab at creating preschool programs. Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" created Head Start back in 1965, but I would say (tongue firmly in cheek) that Head Start is a "failure." The federal preschool program for 4-year-olds was supposed to level the playing field for poor children, and it has not done

Local election results. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Local election results. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Local election results.

by Fred Klonsky

Readers of this blog may recall that when I was recently the target of a fishing expedition FOIA request by the anti-union Education Action Group, I responded with some sharply written blog posts. Steve Gunn, the so-called Communications Director of the EAG got all bent out of shape by that and wrote an arrogant letter to my Board of Education president, John Heyde, demanding that I be punished.

John responded with a letter that was very supportive of me and first amendment rights of free speech.

The good news this morning is that John was reelected yesterday to another term as a member of our school

School Funding Deception Alert! (in a CAN) « School Finance 101

School Funding Deception Alert! (in a CAN) « School Finance 101

School Funding Deception Alert! (in a CAN)

by schoolfinance101

I’ve noticed a pattern in a few recent school funding proposals, mostly emanating from shoddy, haphazard proposals developed on behalf of the CANs (ConnCAN & its close relatives) and often with “technical support” of Bryan Hassel of Public Impact. Let’s call it school finance reform in a CAN.

These new simplified school funding formula proposals, framed under the “money follows the child” ideology are intended to make state school funding formulas more “transparent” and to allow for more equitable and predictable flow of funding to charter schools or other non-district schools.

In each proposal (ConnCAN’s Spend Smart & The Tab, or Rhode Island’s new formula), among a variety of other major overlooked factors, arbitrary and unfounded recommendations, exists a seemingly innocuous proposal regarding how to target aid for variations in student needs across districts.

As the authors of ConnCan’s recent Spend Smart brief explain deeply embedded in a footnote… you really only need to use a single factor to get state aid targeted to the right schools and that factor is the share of children

With preschool education, we talk the talk — but don’t walk the walk | Taking Note

With preschool education, we talk the talk — but don’t walk the walk | Taking Note

With preschool education, we talk the talk — but don’t walk the walk

by JOHN MERROW on 06. APR, 2011 in EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, PRE-K EDUCATION, PRESCHOOL, PRESIDENT OBAMA,INNOVATION, PARENTING, PBS NEWSHOUR

Every American toddler should have the opportunity to attend a high-quality, free preschool. Whether they go or not would be up to their parents or guardians, of course, but the opportunity should be there. We now know that most brain growth occurs before a child reaches kindergarten age. It is a fact that most American parents are working outside the home. Our economic competitors are already providing this opportunity for their 4-year-olds (and often their 3-year-olds), a fact that has implications for our economic health.

It’s not that we haven’t made a stab at creating preschool programs. Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” created Head Start back in 1965, but I would say (tongue firmly in cheek) that Head Start is a “failure.” The federal preschool program for 4-year-olds was supposed to level the playing field for poor

Teamster Nation: WI election: Kloppenburg up by 140 votes #Solidarity #WIUnion

Teamster Nation: WI election: Kloppenburg up by 140 votes

WI election: Kloppenburg up by 140 votes

by Teamster Power

Good morning. We will recall Koch whore Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 271 days.

Koch-ticians like Walker got a wake-up call this morning. It said, "You better think twice before you start attacking workers' rights."

Yesterday's election left little doubt. What was supposed to be an easy win for Walker clone incumbent state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser is so close it will almost certainly go to recount. His challenger, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, was barely known throughtout the state before the election. Last we heard, she's up by 140 votes.

Here's the big news: Another little-known Democrat opened a can of whoop-ass on Walker's hand-picked