Daily Kos: Three important musical birthdays today

Daily Kos: Three important musical birthdays today:

Three important musical birthdays today

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

All three are musical giants.
Each probably deserves a music-video heavy diary of his own
let me offer one of my favorites for each:
John Coltrane, born in 1926:
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Ray Charles Robinson, born in 1930:
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Bruce Springsteen, born in 1949 (and don't worry about dark video at beginning):
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Perhaps you might want to add a favorite clip of one of these in the comments?

An Education Engine - Woodbridge, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators

An Education Engine - Woodbridge, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators:

Looking Ahead

An Education Engine

In this election year we continue hearing about “twenty-first century” skills. But what we should be talking about, IMHO, is what’s after the twenty-first century threshold. At the outset, the challenge seemed to be to simply be able to manage the data with which we are inundated. But as the tools to manage data have become more and more user-friendly, the next challenge is to find contexts for the pertinent information we encounter … context provided by the experience and expertise we bring to understanding information. When we have meaningful understanding of information, insight is created, the kind of insight that identifies opportunities for innovation. There is a shift from mere information management to insight.

Another major change we are experiencing is movement from the simple realization that we live in a global economy to actively contributing to a communal marketplace of ideas. The first 

Schools Matter: Today in NYC

Schools Matter: Today in NYC:

Today in NYC

by Jim Horn

Please consider coming to this event and help spread the word!

PARENTS "Won’t Back Down"

FROM FIGHTING THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER OF OUR SCHOOLS!

The film “Won’t Back Down” is backed by conservative billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Philip Anschtuz. The law portrayed in the movie, called parent trigger, claims to be about parent empowerment but actually promotes the privatization of public schools and blaming teachers for struggling schools. The movie claims to be 'inspired by actual events' but not a single school in the country has successfully used Parent Trigger. 

This Sunday, at the red carpet world premiere of the movie, JOIN us in showing Hollywood & the paparazzi the REAL parents who "won't back down."

=> Sunday at 4:30pm

Ziegfeld Theatre

Meet at corner on 54th st. and 6th Ave. Midtown

Subways: B, D, E to 7th ave, N, Q, R or F to 57th St.-7th Ave.

For more info, call or Email Julian Vinocur (212) 328-9268,julian@aqeny.org

Anti-Union Ads in Chicago Paid for By Hedge Funds, Billionaires | FDL News Desk

Anti-Union Ads in Chicago Paid for By Hedge Funds, Billionaires | FDL News Desk:

Anti-Union Ads in Chicago Paid for By Hedge Funds, Billionaires
By: David Dayen Wednesday September 19, 2012 6:17 am	Tweet27

I wish I had known about this before the Chicago Teachers Union suspended their strike and returned to work, but it may shed some light on the timing of the suspension. At the least, it provides a little more context for what teachers unions have to deal with on the ground.
Apparently the above anti-union ad played non-stop on television in Chicago throughout the strike. It’s the product of Education Reform Now, a group that also sometimes goes by Democrats for Education

 
IT IS A RULE: YOU CAN'T BE AGAINST PEOPLE AND FOR CORPORATIONS AND CALL YOURSELF A DEMOCRAT...EVER!

Daily Kos: Romney to teacher "I didn't ask you a question"

Daily Kos: Romney to teacher "I didn't ask you a question":

Romney to teacher "I didn't ask you a question"

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Sorry to post twice in one day. When I saw this I had to share it. It has only received around 300 views so far, and it really needs to go viral. It is a video of a CO teacher describing her experience at a round table with Mitt Romney. According to the teacher, Romney was going on about schools failing and how we need a voucher system. When she said she had an answer for that he told her "I didn't ask you a question."

The video has captions, but I have also included a partial transcript below the fold.

When i was asked to speak with Mitt Romney it seemed like a very important thing to me, and I wanted to put a lot of careful thought into what I would say. So, I went to the 

A thank-you letter to Chicago teachers from some Georgia colleagues | Get Schooled

A thank-you letter to Chicago teachers from some Georgia colleagues | Get Schooled:

A thank-you letter to Chicago teachers from some Georgia colleagues

by Maureen Downey

I have published two pieces by the Teaching Georgia Writing Collective, which is a group of educators, parents and citizens who engage in public writing and public teaching about education in Georgia. The group had its impetus in Athens and includes UGA professors.
The collective defines its goals as:  1) empowering educators to reclaim their workplace and professionalism, 2) empowering families to stand up for their children and shape the institutions their children attend each day, 3) empowering children and youth to have control over their education, and 4) enhancing the education of all Georgians.
Here is a third essay from the group:

Dear Chicago Teachers,
The Chicago Teachers Union strike will go down as a significant event in history when educators 

Schools Matter: GUEST POST: Instructed to Ignorance, Douglas Storm

Schools Matter: GUEST POST: Instructed to Ignorance, Douglas Storm:

GUEST POST: Instructed to Ignorance, Douglas Storm

by P. L. Thomas

[Original post can be found HERE.]



[Instructional Hoops for Sale from Pearson]

I started out thinking I could assert that the school curriculum (the "what" of instruction) is irrelevant but that is of course not what I would mean to say.

Rather, curriculum is ALL possible responses to all possible utterances.* That means the space of instruction (fancy critical theory calls this the "scene")--home, church, playground, friend's home, school bus, school, classroom, hallways, iPad, laptop, Xbox, etc.--and everything flowing into and out of it, is curricular content. Content is utterance and response. It is what we allow to be uttered and what we allow to be a proper response 

At School, Overweight Children Carry A Heavy Burden : NPR

At School, Overweight Children Carry A Heavy Burden : NPR:

At School, Overweight Children Carry A Heavy Burden

by KAVITHA CARDOZA

One in three children in the United States is overweight or obese. Significant numbers of those young people are grappling with health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes.

Those conditions can be difficult for children to manage in any setting, but they can pose particular challenges for children during the school day.

Dr. Yolandra Hancock used to be an elementary school teacher, and it shows. She's patient, encouraging and has an endearing way of ending her sentences with "my love" and "my sweet."

Her patients include a 13-year-old who weighs 400 pounds, a child whose teeth are so rotted she can't bite into carrots, and many preteens who are diabetic. Today, Hancock is examining Derek Lyles, 13. He's 4-foot-11 and weighs 256 pounds.

"When we look at his body mass index, which is how well his weight and height balance out, his BMI 

Study Guide: Program or Be Programmed - Ten Commands for a Digital Age | Technology on GOOD

Study Guide: Program or Be Programmed - Ten Commands for a Digital Age | Technology on GOOD:

Study Guide: Program or Be Programmed - Ten Commands for a Digital Age

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Mom angry that male vice principal spanked child | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo! News

Mom angry that male vice principal spanked child | ABC News Blogs - Yahoo! News:

Mom angry that male vice principal spanked child

By Abby Ellin | ABC News Blogs – 13 hrs ago

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Mom Angry That Male Vice Principal Spanked Her Daughter

Rather than spend two days in in-school suspension for allegedly letting another student copy her classwork, Taylor Santos, a well-regarded student and athlete at Springtown High School, near Fort Worth, Texas, chose to get paddled.

As her mother, Anna Jorgensen, told ABC News affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas, Taylor didn't want to miss any classes because "her grades are very important to her."

So Santos went to the vice principal's office to request a paddling. She called her mom, who said that as long as her daughter was OK with it, so was she. According to school policy, parents who don't want their children to subject to corporal punishment must submit a written statement each year.

Cartoons on Common Core Standards | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Cartoons on Common Core Standards | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

Cartoons on Common Core Standards

by larrycuban

For this monthly* post of cartoons, I have selected images about the impending Common Core curriculum standards in math and English for K-12 students. While many countries have a national curriculum, the U.S. does not. Since the Common Core standards have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. will soon have a national–not federally mandated–one.
According to a recent analysis of the Common Core standards there are two justifications for states adopting the standards (Brookings Study of Common Core):
1. Because current state standards vary greatly across the country resulting in unequal access to knowledge and skills, Common Core standards will be higher, uniform, and equitable for all students. When tests of those common standards are implemented in 2014-2015,  the quality of teaching and learning will improve. Students will then score far better on international achievement tests and the U.S. economy will grow.
2. By standardizing curriculum and assessments across states, multiple textbooks and instructional materials in 

ChipIn: US Ed Reform: the comic

ChipIn: US Ed Reform: the comic:

What's This All About?

This is a page set up by Dan Archer and Adam Bessie, co-creators of a comic that explains the flipside to the US education reform debate: the one that went untold in films like "Waiting for Superman", that is generally left out of mainstream media discussion. For more info, scroll down for a comprehensive introduction to the topic.

By clicking the "chipin!" button to the right, you can send money via paypal to us: $8 buys you a copy of the comic, plus $2 

Jersey Jazzman: As Perth Amboy Turns

Jersey Jazzman: As Perth Amboy Turns:

As Perth Amboy Turns

by Duke

Because nothing is better for schools and children than having the same superintendent fired, rehired, and then fired again.

A five month battle to remove Superintendent Janine Caffrey has come to a close unless Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s education commissioner once again overturns the elected Board of Education (BOE) members that originally gave her the job. 

Caffrey has been placed on suspension and officially notified that her contract will not be renewed when her term expires. She is expected to be replaced by Dr. Vivian Rodriguez 

School Tech Connect: Reviewing The Basic Understanding

School Tech Connect: Reviewing The Basic Understanding:

Reviewing The Basic Understanding

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman)

Let us now review the Basic Understanding.

Which goes something like this....

The term "college-ready" means one thing now, in spite of all the vastly different admissions criteria that our 4,500 colleges and universities currently have. In the future, there will only be one set of admission criteria, because everyone graduating from high school will be "college-ready." And the mechanism that guarantees this phenomenon, which has never existed in human history, is that in each state, the 5% of schools with the lowest test score data will be "turned around" every year.

"Career-ready" is the same thing. As everyone knows, a career in accounting requires the same high school curriculum as a career in music education, or a career in electrical engineering or a career installing car alar

Primeros pasos hacia el éxito Parte 1 - Univision Vida y Familia

Primeros pasos hacia el éxito Parte 1 - Univision Vida y Familia:

Maria Shriver Celebrates her Mother's Legacy of Hope

Maria Shriver shares a personal message in celebration of her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Help Maria celebrate her mom's legacy of hope for people with intellectual disabilities on September 22, 2012. See how athttp://www.eksday.org/

School Tech Connect: I'm Listening In (Updated)

School Tech Connect: I'm Listening In (Updated):

I'm Listening In (Updated)

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim Furman)

Mike Klonsky at the Heartland. 

9AM Central Time

WLUW

I live right down the street from the Heartland, but my dogs are making it clear that I'm not allowed to leave them alone today, so we're tuning in on the web stream instead. I could sure use some huevos rancheros and coffee, though.

Update: Ok, that was awesome. Mike reviewed the entire history--- this would make a great primer for anyone interested in knowing the full context of the CTU strike. I'm going to post it when Heartland puts it online. I also recorded it here just in case.... possibly I'll post that copy, but you'll have to endure all the other noises from my kitchen.

Schools Matter: Nineteenth Century English Schools for the Poor in Yuma, AZ: Only the Monitors Have Been Swapped Out

Schools Matter: Nineteenth Century English Schools for the Poor in Yuma, AZ: Only the Monitors Have Been Swapped Out:

Nineteenth Century English Schools for the Poor in Yuma, AZ: Only the Monitors Have Been Swapped Out

by Jim Horn

Above is an illustration of cutting edge pedagogy in the early 19th Century for English children who could not afford private schools.  The monitorial system was based on older boys monitoring younger ones who parroted back memorized lessons before they could move up to the next row.  As many as 500 boys could be schooled in these learning sweat shops by a single teacher.  The monitorial system was invented by Joseph Lancaster, who argued for education of the poor based on the need for social control and efficiency.

And below is the inside of Carpe Diem Charter School in Yuma, AZ, where the older boy monitors of the