Two Women of Little Rock: 1957 and Beyond | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog

Two Women of Little Rock: 1957 and Beyond | The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog:

Two Women of Little Rock: 1957 and Beyond

By Lee A. Daniels

Their paths crossed for only a few moments that September day in 1957: Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan, two teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas who were supposed to be on their way to school.

The same school, in fact – Central High School, an imposing edifice that looked like a Hollywood movie-set version of what a 1950s American high school should look like.

In a Little Rock, Arkansas and a United States of America different from the one that actually existed in 1957, Elizabeth and Hazel would have gone to school that day in routine fashion and, odds are, never have taken note of one another.

But because Elizabeth Eckford was black, and Hazel Bryan, white, their crossing paths on that sun-splashed September day fifty-four years ago was not routine. Instead, their momentary encounter produced one of the most iconic photographs in all of American history – a photograph that immediately and forever since defined the polar opposites of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Three newspaper photographers’ cameras actually caught the very instant of their encounter; but it was the specific picture

Not just another pension post. Well. Maybe it is. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Not just another pension post. Well. Maybe it is. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

Not just another pension post. Well. Maybe it is.

by Fred Klonsky

First things first.

Call 888-412-6570 and follow the prompts. You know the drill. Say “no change to TRS.” At this point the arguments have been made. The talking points have been talked. What counts is numbers of people calling.

Now the rant.

I just got an email form IEA telling me that a pension bill is likely to be introduced in the General Assembly when the final days of the veto session take place starting November 8th. The IEA is issuing a Call to Action.

Shocker.

Not.

Did anyone think the Ty Fahner and the Civic Committee were spending all that time and money on Illinois is

Stotsky: yes, parents were excluded from developing the Common Core « Parents Across America

Stotsky: yes, parents were excluded from developing the Common Core « Parents Across America:

Stotsky: yes, parents were excluded from developing the Common Core

by leoniehaimson

Sandra Stotsky was one of the authors of the Massachusetts learning standards in English Language Arts – widely thought to be the best in the nation – and was a member of the Common Core State Standards Initiative Validation Committee, though she has been critical of the final versions as being deficient. David Coleman and Jason Zimba, [...]

We are Not Alone When It Comes to Fighting School Closures! Oakland, California

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública:

We are Not Alone When It Comes to Fighting School Closures!

Oakland, California

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Oakland parents, students and educators are also struggling to hold onto their neighborhood schools. The economic crisis and the inability of those in power- locally, statewide and nationally- to solve this endemic problem is forcing ordinary folk to do extraordinary things.

If we continue down this path of finding massive democratic ways to solve the problems of US public education, we will have won. So... there is no alternative but to continue to fightback and continue to refine our vision of a truly democratic/antiracist FREE public education system thruout the US.

Every Student's Dream: Video CliffsNotes for Shakespeare - Education - GOOD

Every Student's Dream: Video CliffsNotes for Shakespeare - Education - GOOD:

Every Student's Dream: Video CliffsNotes for Shakespeare

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Thanks to the new film Anonymous, a new generation of students gets to wonder if Shakespeare was a fraud when they're reading one of his dozens of plays. But whatever they think about who really wroteHamlet, they're going to fall behind on their reading at some point, or need some extra help figuring out what's happening in the story. Earlier generations turned to those black and yellow CliffsNotes study guides to catch up on the Bard, but all modern students have to do is watch a

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: News Updates

Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: News Updates:

News Updates

by Melissa Westbrook

From the NY Times, a story about a CDCP advisory committee recommending vaccinating boys and young men against human papillomavirus (HPV).

The committee recommended that boys ages 11 and 12 should be vaccinated. It also recommended vaccination of males ages 13 through 21 who had not already had all three shots. Vaccinations may be given to boys as young as 9 and to men between the ages of 22 and 26.

HPV infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease — between 75 percent and 80 percent of females and males in the United States will be infected at some point in their lives. Most will overcome the infection with no ill effects. But in some people, infections lead to cellular changes that cause warts or cancer,

Teacher: College Board obstructs nearly blind student’s effort to take PSAT - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Teacher: College Board obstructs nearly blind student’s effort to take PSAT - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Teacher: College Board obstructs nearly blind student’s effort to take PSAT

by Valerie Strauss

A teacher of the visually impaired says that her school ran into big trouble with the non-profit College Board over when a nearly blind student could take the PSAT, the qualifying exam for the National Merit Scholarship.

The e-mail, sent to me by Leslie Edmonds, who teaches at a high school in California, raises questions about just how flexible the College Board is in meeting the needs of students who need accommodations to take thestandardized tests that it owns. The College Board owns the SAT as well as the PSAT and the Advanced Placement program.

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Saturday coffee + Old school. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Saturday coffee. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

Saturday coffee.

by Fred Klonsky

This weekend Anne and I are back in Chicago after spending last weekend in Brooklyn and Manhattan celebrating 35 years of marriage, Jessica’s 40th birthday and visiting Occupy Wall Street.

Today is a perfectly sweet midwestern Fall day. A chill in the air. The trees that still have leaves are brilliant.

We have two large trees that sit on the parkway in front of our house. In Chicago we call the grassy spot of land between the sidewalk and the curb a parkway. My policy is to wait until all the leaves have fallen off those two trees before raking and bagging them.

It is the same policy I have towards snow. I wait until the snow stops and then shovel the sidewalk. Anne likes to

Old school.

by Fred Klonsky

The Stanley Brothers.

School Tech Connect: In Which I Link To HuffPo

School Tech Connect: In Which I Link To HuffPo:

In Which I Link To HuffPo

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)

.... so against the rules around here.

How did I not hear about this?

Affluent People Bathe Their Children In Books

The 1% have swallowed the nation whole. Libraries for the rich; more seat time for the poor. The difference

Check out My Very First Powerpoint...On Teacher Evaluation and Non-Traditional Testing - Dana Goldstein

Check out My Very First Powerpoint...On Teacher Evaluation and Non-Traditional Testing - Dana Goldstein:

Check out My Very First Powerpoint...On Teacher Evaluation and Non-Traditional Testing

by Dana Goldstein

Here is the presentation I made this morning to the Columbia/New York Times conference for education reporters on testing. It details how I reported my April 2011 feature for The American Prospect, "The Test Generation," which is about two different models in Colorado for evaluating teachers and measuring student growth--one of which includes a controversial effort to administer pencil-and-paper tests in art, music, and physical education. I think you'll get the most out of the Powerpoint if you read the article first. Enjoy...and if you have questions about my reporting process or about teacher evaluation, please leave them in the comments section!

Michael Moore Porky Pies | Addicting Info

Michael Moore Porky Pies | Addicting Info:

Michael Moore Porky Pies

October 29, 2011

By Marion

Having spent the past 30 years in the Southeast of England, married to a Londoner, it’s difficult not to absorb a little bit of rhyming Cockney slang. There’s a tradition amongst Londoners to use rhyming slang phrases for certain everyday words in English.

For example, “Barnet fair” is slang for “hair;” “dog and bone” is “phone; ” and “Berkhampsted hunt” is Cockney slang for … well, put it this way: If you’re ever in England and someone calls you a “berk,” you’ve just been called the ugly four-letter c-word which Bill Maher likes to use to describe Sarah Palin.

“Porky pie” is easy to decypher. A “porky pie” is a lie. And today, Michael Moore told a porky pie so foul even Sweeney Todd wouldn’t have touched it.

Remember this from earlier this week?

How could you forget Moore sitting in front of so persistent an interviewer as Piers Morgan, a journalist trained in fifty different ways of asking the same question, only to deny that he’s a part of the problem against which the Occupy Wall Street is protesting, a movement which Moore, with a

Open letter to Law Enforcement

by JBT

The beautiful thing about OWS is the amount of forgiveness they extended to the officers. They never turned violent toward them. The people themselves are from all walks of life, black, white, men, women, old, young, rich and poor. All converged to exercise our right to freedom of assembly. All rights must be preserved by all or enjoyed by none.

Former Facebook President Demands Sympathy for Billionaires

by Michael Hayne

The former president of Facebook and founder of Napster wishes all the thousands facing arrests and facial reconstruction of #Occupy Wall Street would take some time to understand all the many hardships that billionaires like him face on a daily basis.

Grumpy Educators: Florida's Charter School "Boom" #ows

Grumpy Educators: Florida's Charter School "Boom":

Florida's Charter School "Boom"

According to Charter Schools USA, new Florida legislation "has sparked a 38 percent increase in charters applying to open, or nearly 100 more this year over last year’s 252. The state has more than 400 charter schools, the third highest number in the country. More than 130,000 Florida students, or 5 percent of its public-schooled students, attended charters in 2009-2010." This new law provides an easier process for opening new charters for those who have demonstrated academic and financial success.

Nevertheless, elected county school boards are still responsible for determining

If football coaches used Teach for America logic - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

If football coaches used Teach for America logic - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

If football coaches used Teach for America logic

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by Larry Lee, who led the study, “Lessons Learned from Rural Schools,” a look at 10 high-performing, high-poverty rural schools. He can be reached at larrylee33@knology.net.

By Larry Lee

Using the logic of the Huntsville City Board of Education, University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban should only use his youngest, most inexperienced players when his team plays a Top Ten opponent.

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SAVE OUR SCHOOLS: Barrera's Report #EDREFORM #OWS

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Elementary school to join Occupy Oakland strike - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools

Elementary school to join Occupy Oakland strike - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools:

Elementary school to join Occupy Oakland strike

By Katy Murphy
Friday, October 28th, 2011 at 5:51 pm in families, strike, students.

The staff at Bridges Academy at Melrose sent a bilingual flier home to families, inviting them to join them in Wednesday’s general strike in support of Occupy Oakland — and informing them that teachers would not be in their classrooms that day.

They’re meeting at the East Oakland elementary school in the morning and traveling to Oakland City Hall together, by BART.

“We, the teachers at Bridges, are joining the Occupy Oakland protest on Wednesday, November 2. We will not be in our classrooms that day, all day,” the flier says. “We are the 99%!!”

Are the teachers at your school thinking about joining the strike?

Strike flier

Strike flier

Grumpy Educators: Charter Schools: The Tale of Many Cities

Grumpy Educators: Charter Schools: The Tale of Many Cities:

Charter Schools: The Tale of Many Cities

by Sandra

This week Florida Senator David Simmons, chair of the PreK-12 Budget subcommittee, commented at a recent meeting that charter failures in the state are worrisome. Simmons had this to say:

“The finanical impact is great,” he said. “Some of them are failing, and that’s a financial issue…Those that are failing are costing not only a human toll but a financial one.”

Some examples that may have crossed Simmons desk include:

The Miami-Herald reported that two Miami-Dade charter schools, the Academy of Arts and Minds and the Balere Language Academy, were shut down last week.

Many parents have been complaining that The Academy of Arts and Minds the