Study: With Spanking, Nature and Nurture Create More Aggression - Hispanically Speaking News
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Study: With Spanking, Nature and Nurture Create More Aggression - Hispanically Speaking News: With Spanking, Nature and Nurture Create More Aggression, Study SuggestsPhysical discipline seen to make problem worse in boys with certain genetic tendencies.Using spanking as a method of discipline for kids who have a genetic predisposition to aggressive behavior likely makes them even more aggressive, especially boys, new research suggests.“There’s an intricate interplay between nature and nurture,” said study co-author J.C. Barnes, an assistant professor of criminology at ... more »
Daily Kos: considering my future as a teacher
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Daily Kos: considering my future as a teacher: considering my future as a teacherbyrss@dailykos.com (teacherken)I will turn 66 in May. I am already on Social Security. I will find out in next week or so if I am being offered a buyout of around $16,000 should decide to accept retirement. I have calculated that the buying power of my pension and social security (even without the one-time buyout) is more than 70% of what I currently earn (although we may ... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Judge Not a College Student on the Content of His/Her Character, Judge Him/Her on Sexual Orientation.
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Judge Not a College Student on the Content of His/Her Character, Judge Him/Her on Sexual Orientation.: Judge Not a College Student on the Content of His/Her Character, Judge Him/Her on Sexual Orientation.bystlgretchenCollege students may want to take a cue from the way40% of judges in California answered in a voluntary, state sanctioned questionnaire on their ethnicity, race and gender: "None of your business."From the NY Times:Officials of the University of California system have proposed asking incoming freshmen ... more »
The Inadvertent Bigotry of Inappropriate Expectations (Chris Myers Asch) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
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The Inadvertent Bigotry of Inappropriate Expectations (Chris Myers Asch) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: The Inadvertent Bigotry of Inappropriate Expectations (Chris Myers Asch)bylarrycubanChris Myers Asch teaches history at the University of the District of Columbia and coordinates UDC’s National Center for Urban Education. This commentary appeared inEducation Week,June 16, 2010.Several years ago, I took a group of low-income middle school students to a motivational talk at a local university. A dynamic young professor encouraged them not ... more »
Schooling in the Ownership Society: How P.S. 261 ran-off Success Academy charter school hustlers
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: How P.S. 261 ran-off Success Academy charter school hustlers: How P.S. 261 ran-off Success Academy charter school hustlersbyMike KlonskyFrom an opinion piece in the New York Times,"How charter schools can hurt", written by public school parent, Lucinda Rosenfeld:A few weeks ago, for three days in a row starting at 3 p.m., a representative from the Success Academy charter school that is scheduled to open this fall in adjacent Cobble Hill stood outside the doors of ... more »
Jersey Jazzman: Your Moment of Sanity: Pensions
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Jersey Jazzman: Your Moment of Sanity: Pensions: Your Moment of Sanity: PensionsbyDukeBelieve it or not, pensions save taxpayers money.So we should expand them:In response, in late February California State Senator Kevin De León and Darrell Steinberg, the Senate president pro tempore,introduced legislationthat wouldallow private-sector workers in California to enroll in a modest, state-operated retirement program financed by the workers and their employers — at virtually no cost to taxpayers.This would increase coverage because employers would put every worker into a ... more »
The Video:Occupy Seattle v Gates Foundation – Education Policy Throwdown | Seattle Education
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The Video:Occupy Seattle v Gates Foundation – Education Policy Throwdown | Seattle Education: The Video:Occupy Seattle v Gates Foundation – Education Policy Throwdownbyseattleducation2011From a post onTeachers’ Letters to Obama Facebook page:Top 5 things Bill Gates has taught us about school reform:1. No amount of money will fix failing schools unless you also address the socio-economic conditions
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top 3-17 AM Posts #soschat #edreform
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In Oakland, transitional kindergarten is still a go - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schoolsBig Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All)-4 hours agoIn Oakland, transitional kindergarten is still a go - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools: In Oakland, transitional kindergarten is still a goFriday, March 16th, 2012 at 12:13 pm inJerry Brownpreschoolphoto of transitional kindergarten pilot at Greenleaf Elementary by Laura A. Oda/StaffIt’s been a confusing few months for families with ... more »
In Oakland, transitional kindergarten is still a go - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools
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In Oakland, transitional kindergarten is still a go - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools: In Oakland, transitional kindergarten is still a goFriday, March 16th, 2012 at 12:13 pm inJerry Brownpreschoolphoto of transitional kindergarten pilot at Greenleaf Elementary by Laura A. Oda/StaffIt’s been a confusing few months for families with children who are turning 5 in November — kids who, until this year, would have been eligible to start kindergarten.First, they hear that their local district ... more »
Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN
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Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN: Top ContentRank1What students should do about a 'bad grade'Added byruthschapiraon March 7, 20122Why mobile learning?Added byThomas Whitbyon February 10, 20123Simple Booklet--simple, indeed!Added byLeanna K Johnsonon March 10, 20124How do you motivate your online learners?Posted byJackie Savinion March 12, 20125KONY 2012Added byThomas Whitbyon March 9, 20126How do you keep students engaged in your online classroom?Posted byJackie Savinion February 12, 20127More Assessment info from Dr. TomlinsonPosted byJamie Houseon March 6, 20128An Introd... more »
How Charter Schools Can Hurt - NYTimes.com
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How Charter Schools Can Hurt - NYTimes.com: How Charter Schools Can HurtBy Lucinda RosenfeldPublished: March 16, 2012RECOMMENDTWITTERLINKEDINE-MAILPRINTREPRINTSSHAREMY daughter is a kindergarten pupil at P.S. 261 in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. She started there in September, and she loves everything about it: her friends, her teachers and her school-related activities, like Girl Scouts. Intense excitement accompanied both the post office project earlier this year and theHalloweenDay Characters Parade, in which her class dressed up as the Three Little Pigs.Related in OpinionMore onEducati... more »
Helping girls make better choices - California Teachers Association
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Helping girls make better choices - California Teachers Association: Helping girls make better choicesBy Sherry Posnick-GoodwinConnie Iglesias (left) with Bianca Arias.Castro Valley High School senior Bianca Arias plans on becoming a nurse, and she has applied to several universities to achieve her goal. She gives much of the credit for her academic success to the “strong support system” she receives from belonging to Mujeres, a group that meets regularly with school counselor Connie Iglesias.“Instead of thinking short-term, I’m thinking long-term,” ... more »
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Hide8.7Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Texas Two-Step -- Cut budgets, increase class size2012-Mar-16Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: The Texas Two-Step -- Cut budgets, increase class size: The Texas Two-Step -- Cut budgets, increase class sizebyMike Klonsky"I try to meet their needs. I'm not sure I am anymore," says Sara Estrada, who has been teaching for 27 years, says of her pre-kindergarten class at Lion Lane School in Houston, which has grown to 25 students even as it lost its full-time teacher's ... more »
Attorney Gen. Madigan Assigns Teams to Monitor Illinois Primary - Hispanically Speaking News
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Attorney Gen. Madigan Assigns Teams to Monitor Illinois Primary - Hispanically Speaking News: Attorney Gen. Madigan Assigns Teams to Monitor Illinois Primary ElectionAttorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that more than 160 teams of assistant attorneys general and investigators from her staff will be working throughout the state on Tuesday, Mar. 20, to monitor the primary elections to ensure that Illinoisans’ voting rights are protected and that polling places are accessible.Madigan urges voters to call her office if they encounter ... more »
The World “Because of” Standardized Testing!(A Little Teacher Humor!:) « Diary of a Public School Teacher!
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The World “Because of” Standardized Testing!(A Little Teacher Humor!:) « Diary of a Public School Teacher!: The World “Because of” Standardized Testing!(A Little Teacher Humor!:)byOldschoolteachThe World “Because of” Standardized Testing!(A Little TeacherHumor!:)Posted March 16, 2012 by Oldschoolteach inBlogging about Education,Education Blog,Elementary Education Blog,Standardized Testing. Tagged:cons of standardized testing,education humor,Standardized test,state testing,teacher,teacher humor. Leave a CommentI hate standardized testing. I hate what standardized testing has done to ...more »
FLORIDA CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: H/T @ritacolleen
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CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: *Florida: Source: bigeducationape.blogspot.com via Mike on PinterestFlorida charter schools (investigator observations)“Experiences As A Police Officer With The Ugly Side Of Charter Schools And Their Management Companies.”Florida Public Employees Partnership, 12/15/2011With such a strong push for continued expansion in Florida, I am compelled to share my experiences as a police officer with the ugly side of Charter Schools and their management companies. As a former investigator and supervisor of a public corruption unit, several years ago my unit ... more »
“I’m with Fred.” « Fred Klonsky
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“I’m with Fred.” « Fred Klonsky: “I’m with Fred.”fromFred Klonsky's blogbyFred KlonskyI was trying to ask a question of Audrey Soglin, IEA Executive Director. This was several years ago right after she had led the committee that wrote the legislation that created PERA, the bill that tied teacher evaluation to student growth scores on standardized tests.Ken Swanson, who was IEA President at the time, refused to call me even though I was the first person at the microphone.“I didn’t see ... more »
Like White Castle to fine dining. « Fred Klonsky
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Like White Castle to fine dining. « Fred Klonsky: Like White Castle to fine dining.byFred KlonskyFormer IEA President (right) and other members of IEA Retired leave the RA with 26,000 signatures for the governor. It was a grass roots effort to restore state funding to retiree health insurance.Democray is the the IEA RA what White Castle is to fine dining.This is not new a new observation.But things have never been this perilous for teachers and teacher unions. There is little ... more »
Survey: Teachers work 53 hours per week on average - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
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Survey: Teachers work 53 hours per week on average - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: Survey: Teachers work 53 hours per week on averagebyValerie StraussThis waswritten by Francie Alexander, chief academic officer for Scholastic, Inc. She has has taught at all levels, was a district reading consultant for Pre-K through high school, and has authored numerous professional articles for educators and dozens of books for children.By Francie AlexanderTeaching is a much talked about yet often misunderstood profession. Educators ... more »
Schools Matter: Charter Schools Not the Answer, Especially if We Fail to Identify the Question
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Schools Matter: Charter Schools Not the Answer, Especially if We Fail to Identify the Question:Charter Schools Not the Answer, Especially if We Fail to Identify the QuestionbyP. L. ThomasOne pattern of failure in education reform is that political leadership and the public focus attention and resources on solutions while rarely asking what problems we are addressing or how those solutions address identified problems. The current and possibly increasing advocacy of charter schools is a perfect example of that flawed approach ... more »
Dallas ISD teacher group Alliance-AFT announced Saturday afternoon that it will endorse school board candidates Michael Greenberg in District 1, current trustee Bruce Parrott in District 3 and Damarcus Offord in District 9. The endorsements from Alliance-AFT, which has more than 9,000 DISD members, comes on the heels of EducateDallas' endorsements earlier this week. That new political action committee, which Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings 