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CODE Chicago: [image: Logo]CODE Chicago Search this site - Chicago Needs Democracy in Education - En Español - CODE Member Organizations - Our Mission - CODE News - Calendar and Events - Contact Us Chicago Needs Democracy in Education The CPS Board—appointed by the mayor— is not accountable to the people it serves. *The Board is failing our children. * *Help Win an Elected Representative School Board * - CPS’s privatization policies—school closings, turnarounds and charters—do NOT improve education. They have been devastating to all children,... more »
Political group wants charter schools out of segregation case (Not a Public School?) | The Tennessean | tennessean.com
Political group wants charter schools out of segregation case | The Tennessean | tennessean.com: Political group wants charter schools out of segregation case A pro-charter schools political action group filed an amicus brief Tuesday asking a federal judge to leave charter schools out of an ongoing racial segregation case against Metro Nashville Public Schools. The brief, filed the same day that the Metro School Board approved two new charters — KIPP Academy and Purpose Prep — says that because charter schools are separate and independent entities apart from Metro Schools, they s... more »
Chicago students reflect on 13 years of segregated schools | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
Chicago students reflect on 13 years of segregated schools | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago: A segregated education, K-12Students offer reflections on 13 years of segregated schooling June 27, 2012 Linda Lutton 00:00 07:09 Download Story (WBEZ/Bill Healy) Jakeeda Bester There’s no legal school segregation in this country. But in Chicago and the suburbs, a quarter of a million black and Latino children still face extreme racial isolation every day in class. They go to schools where more than 90 percent of students come from their same race. WBEZ has found that in the last 20 years, the number of... more »
Bill Gates Turns His Attention to Higher Education « Diane Ravitch's blog
Bill Gates Turns His Attention to Higher Education « Diane Ravitch's blog: [image: Click on picture to Listen to Diane Ravitch] Bill Gates Turns His Attention to Higher Education by dianerav [image: Bill Gates Smoking Money] American higher education is generally acknowledged to be the best in the world. It offers elite colleges and universities where great thinkers and researchers have freedom to teach and study and where young people can learn from them and even work with them. It offers great state universities where students can learn what they need or want to know about alm... more »
Schools Matter: 1,400 Principals and 1,100 Scholars in New York Alone Press State to End High Stakes Testing Madness
Schools Matter: 1,400 Principals and 1,100 Scholars in New York Alone Press State to End High Stakes Testing Madness: 1,400 Principals and 1,100 Scholars in New York Alone Press State to End High Stakes Testing Madness by Jim Horn *HT to Stan Karp*: *The movement against the misuse and overuse of standardized testing continues to grow. Yesterday in NY, 1100 scholars joined 1400 principals in urging the state to replace high stakes testing policies with “multiple pathways” for students and accountability purposes. The NY City Council will consider a national resolution on high st... more »
Education Research Report: When School-Based Nutrition Programs Involve Teachers, Staff, & Parents Kids Eat Healthier
Education Research Report: When School-Based Nutrition Programs Involve Teachers, Staff, & Parents Kids Eat Healthier: When School-Based Nutrition Programs Involve Teachers, Staff, & Parents Kids Eat Healthier by Jonathan Kantrowitz Programs to promote healthy eating can substantially reduce the amount of unhealthy foods and beverages on school grounds if the programs focus on a school's specific needs and involve teachers, parents, staff, and administrators, according to a Kaiser Permanente Southern California study published in BioMed Central's open access journal International... more »
Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics
Wait, What? - Working to educate, persuade and mobilize through "perceptive and acerbic" observations about Connecticut Government and Politics: It’s so easy…I could do it on my head! by jonpelto Can you believe we used to think that a superintendent’s job was really time-consuming and difficult I certainly did. Superintendents were responsible for overseeing the district’s schools, administrators and teachers, while managing the local board of education and serving as the champion for public education. Certainly no reason to begrudge them their big salaries… But now I realize I was... more »
Abdul-Jabbar: More Opportunities to Turn Pro in Science Than in the NBA - High School Notes (usnews.com)
Abdul-Jabbar: More Opportunities to Turn Pro in Science Than in the NBA - High School Notes (usnews.com): Abdul-Jabbar: More Opportunities to Turn Pro in Science Than in the NBA By KELSEY SHEEHY June 28, 2012 RSS Feed Print American students lack the skills needed to compete globally in science, technology, engineering, and math. But the cause of that skills gap isn't our education system; it's our culture, inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen said Tuesday at the U.S. News 2012 STEM Summit. "To think that it's a supply problem or that it's an education problem is ridiculous," Kame... more »
Texas business leaders accuse educators of ‘scaring mom’ about standardized tests - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Texas business leaders accuse educators of ‘scaring mom’ about standardized tests - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: Texas business leaders accuse educators of ‘scaring mom’ about standardized tests by Valerie Strauss The backlash in Texas against excessive high-stakes standardized testing seems to be rattling business leaders, who have now blamed educators for panicking parents about the exams. Laboring under the delusion that standardized tests are the key to “holding schools accountable” for student achievement, leaders of the Texas Coalition for a Competitive Workforce... more »
To Improve School Nutrition, Involve Teachers and Parents - Hispanically Speaking News
To Improve School Nutrition, Involve Teachers and Parents - Hispanically Speaking News: To Improve School Nutrition, Involve Teachers and Parents [image: To Improve School Nutrition, Involve Teachers and Parents] *Junk-food ‘interventions’ decreased consumption of unhealthy foods and beverages by 30 percent.* To improve school nutrition and get children to eat healthier, involve parents, teachers and school administrators, new research finds. Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Southern California looked at 400 students at eight elementary and middle schools who took part in a thr... more »
Mixed Messages from Teach For America- Is Teaching a Prestigious Profession?
Mixed Messages from Teach For America- Is Teaching a Prestigious Profession?: Mixed Messages from Teach For America- Is Teaching a Prestigious Profession? by guest blogger When I meet new people I like to do a small social experiment by either telling them, “I work with Teach For America” or leaving that out entirely and just telling them “I am a teacher.” The difference in how people respond is amazing. I must admit, at first as a kid right out of college I thought dropping the Teach-For-America line was great because girls would actually talk to me and even seemed impressed b... more »
NYC Educator: Happy Summer Vacation, Here Are Two Classes' Worth of New Kids
NYC Educator: Happy Summer Vacation, Here Are Two Classes' Worth of New Kids: Happy Summer Vacation, Here Are Two Classes' Worth of New Kids by Miss Eyre On the second to last day of school, the principal at my school got a phone call from a parent. His daughter's charter school was being closed, and he'd received a letter in the mail saying that my school was to be his daughter's new school. Could he, the father asked, come by to see the school and meet the principal? My principal's response: Sure, come on down, we'll be happy to meet you. My principal's next response, after ha... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Is the Best Practice Educating Students on Body Image and Confidence from the UK or US Educational System?
Missouri Education Watchdog: Is the Best Practice Educating Students on Body Image and Confidence from the UK or US Educational System?: Is the Best Practice Educating Students on Body Image and Confidence from the UK or US Educational System? by stlgretchen The UK government is providing parents with packs with information to help their children's body image about themselves. From BBC News: *A pack to help parents educate children on how the media alters images and to inspire them to be confident in their bodies has had government backing.* *Developed for six to 11-year-olds by... more »
Gathering signatures for an elected school board. « Fred Klonsky
Gathering signatures for an elected school board. « Fred Klonsky: Gathering signatures for an elected school board. by Fred Klonsky *Gathering at the Logan Square monument to collect signatures to put an elected school board on the ballot in November.* Chicago is the only city in the entire state of Illinois that doesn’t allow its citizens to elect their school board. We can vote for the guys who filter our water. Our ballot is often filled with dozens of names of people running for one kind of judge or another. When I go sit at the voting machine and the judge list comes up I can e... more »
Marion County School Board Passes Resolution on “Extensive” Testing | Scathing Purple Musings
Marion County School Board Passes Resolution on “Extensive” Testing | Scathing Purple Musings: Marion County School Board Passes Resolution on “Extensive” Testing by Bob Sikes I hope Marion board member Ron Crawford wasn’t bowing to pressure and insisted on changing “high-stakes” to “extensive” in his board’s resolution on testing. It offers undeserved cover for Florida’s be-all, end-all test regime which prompted the state-wide movement. Moral justification for the “high-stakes” label exists in the fact that children’s test results affect adult’s jobs and school’s existence. Few... more »
Is Trust a Reasonable Default Position? - Bridging Differences - Education Week
Is Trust a Reasonable Default Position? - Bridging Differences - Education Week: Is Trust a Reasonable Default Position? by Deborah Meier Dear Diane, "Unpopular Mandate: Why do politicians reverse their positions?" by Ezra Klein in the June 25th *New Yorker*intrigued me. First of all, he reminds us that even politicians do it a lot—Example No. 1 being their position on the healthcare mandate! But what he's tackling is that much of it is not simple opportunism, but sneaks up and soon becomes sincerely held. Not only by politicians, but the rest of us, too His central argument is th... more »
Parents also get a Head Start | Jerry Large | The Seattle Times
Parents also get a Head Start | Jerry Large | The Seattle Times: Parents also get a Head Start Head Start serves children by helping their parents, too. Jerry Large Seattle Times staff columnist Head Start is a good place for parents to get an education. The always evolving program isn't just about kids. Children are at its center, but if you want to help children thrive, it's best to have engaged, knowledgeable parents. If you're one of those people whose response to school trouble or juvenile crime is to point to the parents, then you ought to champion early-education programs ... more »
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: A Simple Moment: Tremendous Impact! They Care That We Care!
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: A Simple Moment: Tremendous Impact! They Care That We Care!: A Simple Moment: Tremendous Impact! They Care That We Care! by Lisa M *I was cleaning out a folder in which I keep a lot of my "teacher stuff" from the last couple of years. In it, I found a short essay I had written a few years ago in response to a question from Project Wisdom . When I read it, I thought how well it goes along with Angela Maier's concept, "#You Matter." This is what I wrote:* * * Over the years, I am proud to have become one of "those" teachers. You know, the ones p... more »
Graduation and dropout rates for the Class of 2011 - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools
Graduation and dropout rates for the Class of 2011 - The Education Report - Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools: Graduation and dropout rates for the Class of 2011 Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 at 11:33 am in No Comments The four-year graduation rate in Oakland Unified rose about four points in the latest estimate released today by the California Department of Education. About 59 percent of students who started high school in 2007 graduated with their classmates in 2011. About 28 percent dropped out, and 12 percent were still enrolled in school when the data were collected. Some Oa... more »
Jersey Jazzman: Cuomo's Reformy Commission: Watch Out, NY Teachers!
Jersey Jazzman: Cuomo's Reformy Commission: Watch Out, NY Teachers!: Cuomo's Reformy Commission: Watch Out, NY Teachers! by Duke Via Randi Weingarten, it seems the "New" New York Education Reform Commission had its first meeting today.Teachers and principals were not invited. Because if you had a medical reform commission, you would obviously exclude doctors and nurses. And if you had an air travel reform commission, you'd exclude pilots. And if you had a baseball reform commission, you'd exclude baseball players. It just makes so much sense... Of course, Weingarten is there, su... more »
Yong Zhao: Standardized test scores do not reflect teacher ability, school quality or a student's future - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.
Yong Zhao: Standardized test scores do not reflect teacher ability, school quality or a student's future - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.: Yong Zhao: Standardized test scores do not reflect teacher ability, school quality or a student's future [image: Yong-zhao.jpg] *"American education is not getting worse, it's always been bad." * *-Dr.Yong Zhao making the point that it's LESS bad than Asian education even though Asian countries may have higher PISA test scores (because we don't totally destroy spirit and confidence which are necessary for . . . )* *VIDEO BEL... more »
Individuals, Not Corporations, Pick Up the Tax Tab for EITC Scholarships | The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
Individuals, Not Corporations, Pick Up the Tax Tab for EITC Scholarships | The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center: ** *H.B. 1307 DRAMATICALLY OUTSOURCES PUBLIC EDUCATION * *Funding Transferred Without Accountability of For-Profit Entities* (Harrisburg, PA) – House Bill 1307, which will soon return to the House floor for further consideration, opens up the dramatic funneling of public tax payer funds to charter schools, wholly tax payer funded entities that are not required to meet any minimum accountability, transparency or mandatory ethical practice standar... more »
Gutierrez: "Pick Out The Immigrant" Speech on Arizona Law w/ Justin Bieb...
June 27, 2012 -- Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) discussed the Supreme Court decision in Arizona v. U.S., the case involving Arizona's SB1070 Show Me Your Papers law, on the floor of the House of Representatives today and provided a short quiz he called "Pick Out The Immigrant" with celebrity contestants like Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Jeremy Lin, Tony Parker, Geraldo Rivera, Ted Koppel, Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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