Saturday, July 28, 2012

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Top Content this Week - 7-28-12 The Educator's PLN

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 5 minutes ago
Top Content this Week - The Educator's PLN: 1[image: What does inclusion look like in your school for the student, the special educator and gen ed teacher?]What does inclusion look like in your school for the student, the special educator and gen ed teacher? Posted by Marcy J. Perry on July 19, 2012 2[image: Skype for Education - Connecting Students with the Rest of the World]Skype for Education - Connecting Students with the Rest of the World Added by Lynda Hall on July 23, 2012 3[image: Differentiating Instruction with Web 2.0 Tools]Differentiating Instruction with Web 2.0 Tools ... more »

This Week's Answer Sheet 7-28-12 - School Survival Guide for parents (and everyone else). - The Washington Post

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The Answer Sheet - School Survival Guide for parents (and everyone else). - The Washington Post: [image: Answer Sheet] Randi Weingarten calls for ‘new approach to unionism’ and support for Obama Valerie Strauss at The Answer Sheet - 21 hours ago American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is calling today for a new brand of unionism that focuses not only on helping members but also the communities in which they work and live. The union’s annual convention starts today in Detroit, where more than than 3,000 delegates have gathered at a time when teachers and their uni... more »

This Week's Education Research Report 7-28-12 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2

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Education Research Report: This Week's Education Research Report Spatial skills may be improved through training Jonathan Kantrowitz at Education Research Report - 16 hours ago Spatial skills--those involved with reading maps and assembling furniture--can be improved if you work at it, that's according to a new look at the studies on this topic by researchers at Northwestern University and Temple. The research published this month in Psychological Bulletin, the journal of the American Psychological Association, is the first comprehensive analysis of credible studies on such interv... more »

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… 12-28-12 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

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Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: [image: Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Problems.] Stealth Parent Trigger Effort In Washington State Larry Ferlazzo at Engaging Parents In School... - 17 hours ago I just saw this tweet from Ken Libby: Sneaky: parent trigger-like mechanism incorporated into WA charter initiative: blogs.seattletimes.com/uwelectioneye/… Wonder why they havent played that up… — ken libby (@kenmlibby) July 27, 2012 Washington State is preparing to vote on an initiative to support the creation ... more »

Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst Increases Lobbyists in Missouri. Where are Our Gift Cards?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 25 minutes ago
Missouri Education Watchdog: StudentsFirst Increases Lobbyists in Missouri. Where are Our Gift Cards?: StudentsFirst Increases Lobbyists in Missouri. Where are Our Gift Cards? by stlgretchen StudentsFirst Ms. Robinson's protestations make about as much sense as this snippet. Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst is a hot topic on some educational blogs yesterday. Diane Ravitch and Bob Sikes have unleashed an unexpected avalanche of readers' comments on their recent blogs about StudentsFirst and a letter from a StudentsFirst paid organizer, Catherine Durkin Robinson. Robinson took excep... more »

LAUSD unveils pared-back Adult Education offerings - LA Daily News

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 29 minutes ago
LAUSD unveils pared-back Adult Education offerings - LA Daily News: LAUSD unveils pared-back Adult Education offerings by By Barbara Jones, Staff Writer Los Angeles Unified has finalized the class offerings for its resurrected Adult Education program, with scores of courses centered at about 60 campuses around the sprawling district. The schedule has about half of the classes offered last year, but it's still a victory for the Division of Adult and Career Education, which was threatened with elimination because of the district's financial crisis. An agreement by LAUSD's unions to ta... more »

The Unanswered Questions of Florida’s Test-Based Accountability Systems | Scathing Purple Musings

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 36 minutes ago
The Unanswered Questions of Florida’s Test-Based Accountability Systems | Scathing Purple Musings: The Unanswered Questions of Florida’s Test-Based Accountability Systems by Bob Sikes While the folks at Gerard Robinson’s DOE and Jeb Bush’s foundations want the controversy over the state’s accountability system to just go away, it won’t even if the media stops covering it. Consequences and damage remain. So do the smothering legislative tools. In a letter-to-the-editor to the *Daytona Beach News-Journal*, Marie Eggert explains: Recently, it was announced that six Volusia County sc... more »

Save Our Schools Returns to Washington, DC - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 39 minutes ago
Save Our Schools Returns to Washington, DC - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Save Our Schools Returns to Washington, DC by Anthony Cody Follow me on Twitter at @AnthonyCody [image: SOS Save Our Schools] Last July 31, thousands of teachers and parents joined together in the hot sun in the nation's capital for the Save Our Schools March and Rally. I was one of the organizers of last year's event, but have not been quite so involved this year. Nonetheless, I will be joining with activists a week from now for the Save Our Schools Convention. I will be there because SOS ... more »

Schools Matter: Joel Klein, News Corp. and ALEC

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 12 hours ago
Schools Matter: Joel Klein, News Corp. and ALEC: Joel Klein, News Corp. and ALEC by Judy Rabin Looks like Parents Across America have a solid press operation. Nice work. Schooling in the Ownership Society The Wall Street Journal *The Wall Street Journal* Covers Up ALEC Link To Anti-Union School Privatization LawBLOG ››› JULY 24, 2012 2:26 PM EDT ››› MELODY JOHNSON The *Wall Street Journal* this morning failed to report ties between the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and controversial "parent-trigger" legislation that would allow parents to take over and ... more »

Character Assassination? « Diane Ravitch's blog

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 15 hours ago
Character Assassination? « Diane Ravitch's blog: Character Assassination? by dianerav Earlier today I posted a letter that appeared on the NYC parent blog, in which Students First was offering a gift to anyone who posted the most comments on blogs. I made no reference to the person who wrote the letter. Apparently it has been reprinted elsewhere, including the blog of Coach Bob Sikes blog in Florida. Coach Bob got a response from the letter writer at StudentsFirst. She said she was the target of a well funded campaign of hatred and character assassination, apparently because he... more »

Rich Miller’s Uncle Kenny. « Fred Klonsky

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 16 hours ago
Rich Miller’s Uncle Kenny. « Fred Klonsky: Rich Miller’s Uncle Kenny. by Fred Klonsky Rich Miller at CapitolFax: *I spent some time at my Uncle Kenny’s house in Ashkum last weekend. We went to the Iroquois County Fair, which is like taking a step back in time.* *The fair hasn’t changed much at all since I was a kid. They still don’t allow alcohol on the clean grounds where kids safely run free.* *I was at that fair every day back when I was growing up, often accompanied by my Uncle Kenny.* *I’m the oldest of five sons, so Kenny was like my big brother growing up. It was a nostalgi... more »

Diverse Neighborhoods and the Charter School Movement - Dana Goldstein

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 16 hours ago
Diverse Neighborhoods and the Charter School Movement - Dana Goldstein: Diverse Neighborhoods and the Charter School Movement by Dana Goldstein [image: Charter Schools - Dividing Communities since 1991] My colleague Sarah Garland has written a wonderful piece for *The Atlantic* about a local/federal/charter school partnership to racially and socioeconomically integrate the East Lake neighborhood of Atlanta. Across the country, more and more charter school movement leaders are realizing that if charters serve only poor, black, and Latino families, they will limit their potential e... more »

Outrageous ideas that must be considered « Deborah Meier on Education

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 18 hours ago
Outrageous ideas that must be considered « Deborah Meier on Education: Outrageous ideas that must be considered by debmeier To continue. Read and consider the following news item, and keep in mind the recent Texas mandate against “critical thinking” skills. How do we respond? Whatever Happened to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic?*Washington, D.C.* – Today, *American Principles in Action (APIA)* condemned Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) for endorsing the indoctrination of children at a gathering of young progressives.“To so blatantly call for the indoctrination of our children... more »

Mother Crusader: Five Hours Of My Life I Can't Get Back; The Cerf Nomination Hearing

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 18 hours ago
Mother Crusader: Five Hours Of My Life I Can't Get Back; The Cerf Nomination Hearing: Five Hours Of My Life I Can't Get Back; The Cerf Nomination Hearing by darciecima Below is the testimony I prepared and (sort of) delivered for the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the nomination of Commissioner Chris Cerf. Senator Doherty went on for what seemed like an ETERNITY (Check out Jersey Jazzman's timeline - it was at least 40 minutes of the five hour ordeal) but the five citizens that testified had their microphones abruptly turned off at exactly the three minute mark. It felt... more »

Won't Back Down - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 18 hours ago
Won't Back Down - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Won't Back Down by Nancy Flanagan July has been what Michelle Rhee might call a crappy month for democratic public education. • We have Emergency Manager Roy Roberts of Detroit Public Schools claiming that the new, imposed contract with teachers--which allows class sizes up to 60 for secondary classes and 40+ for elementary schools--is "good for kids." • Not only will kids across the country be taking more tests, they'll be taking them on-line--which means that schools in poverty will come up short-handed on e... more »

Finalists for National Teaching Award - Year 2012 (CA Dept of Education)

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 20 hours ago
Finalists for National Teaching Award - Year 2012 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces 2012 State Finalists for Prestigious National Teaching Award SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has named six outstanding teachers as 2012 California State Finalists for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). The *mathematics* nominees are: *Jamie Garner*, a sixth grade mathematics teacher at the Walnut Elementary Education Center in the Turlock Unified School District, Stanislaus County;... more »

Gerard Robinson Sets Himself Up a The Heavy in Denying Polk County its Own Charter Schools | Scathing Purple Musings

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 20 hours ago
Gerard Robinson Sets Himself Up a The Heavy in Denying Polk County its Own Charter Schools | Scathing Purple Musings: Gerard Robinson Sets Himself Up a The Heavy in Denying Polk County its Own Charter Schools by Bob Sikes Florida’s education commissioner Gerard Robinson explained to Polk’s superintendent Sherrie Nickell that there seems to be something “coloring the decision” in the delay in granting the OK for the Polk County School Board from going forward on it plans to open charter schools for at-risk students. Robinson’s shadowy admission became more clear today. From anothe... more »

Mother Crusader: Albert Shanker; Man Or Myth?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 20 hours ago
Mother Crusader: Albert Shanker; Man Or Myth?: Albert Shanker; Man Or Myth? by darciecima Today I received a comment on my post, Edith Shanker Puts Laura Waters, Chris Cerf, & Joel Klein In Their Place. Following your suggestion, I've written the following to Newsworks, my local NPR online newspaper: *I'm writing as a great fan of Newsworks to convey my dismay in your support of Laura Waters as a reliable voice in educational matters. * She severely crossed the line in this piece: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/new-jersey-more/item/41549-the-famous-international-scholar-and-t... more »

The Golden Rule vs Stop and Frisk! « Deborah Meier on Education

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 20 hours ago
The Golden Rule vs Stop and Frisk! « Deborah Meier on Education: The Golden Rule vs Stop and Frisk! by debmeier My eye was caught by Alan Chartok’s comment about “stop and frisk” in my local The Columbia Paper: “If you ask the general population their opinion, you had had better believe that they’ll tale the stop and frisk as long as it is someone else whose being frisked.” Is there anything that schools can do that would help citizens understand the trouble with this kind of thinking. In a racist society–one in which the odds are that the white majority lives largely separated fr... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Meet Todd. He's CPS' New Common Core Commissar

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 20 hours ago
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Meet Todd. He's CPS' New Common Core Commissar: Meet Todd. He's CPS' New Common Core Commissar by Mike Klonsky *Todd Babbitz* is Rahm's new Chief Transformation Officer. What the hell is that, you ask? I'm not sure. In all my years working in and around public school districts, I've never heard of a Chief Transformation Officer. Butaccording to CPS' announcement, Todd will "oversee the newly created Office of Strategy Management (OSM)." What the hell is the OSM, you ask? Again, not sure. I've never heard of an OSM. But according to CPS' announcement,... more »

Jersey Jazzman: Chris Christie: Liar, Fool, or Both?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: Chris Christie: Liar, Fool, or Both?: Chris Christie: Liar, Fool, or Both? by Duke I got so caught up in Chris Cerf's coronation yesterday that I never got around to this poignant moment: Instead of vitriol and venom today, Gov. Chris Christie's interaction with a teary public school teacher ended with an apology. Tia McLaughlin invoked the Republican governor's frequent refrain that it's "harder to hate up close" in telling him she felt betrayed by his treatment of teachers when he took office two and half years ago. “You're right, it is much harder to hate u... more »

Khan Academy: The Hype and the Reality (Karim Kai Ami) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
Khan Academy: The Hype and the Reality (Karim Kai Ami) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Khan Academy: The Hype and the Reality (Karim Kai Ami) *Karim Kai Ani is a former middle school teacher and founder of Mathalicious. This post appeared in Valerie Strauss’s “Answer Sheet” in the Washington Post on July 23, 2012. Following the post is Sal Khan’s response.* In a new profile in *Time* magazine, Sal Khan, founder of the popular Khan Academy, explains how he prepares for each of his video lessons. He doesn’t use a script. In fact, he admits, “I don’t know wha... more »

Teaching: Art or Science? « Cooperative Catalyst

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
Teaching: Art or Science? « Cooperative Catalyst: Teaching: Art or Science? by Aaron Eden It was posited to me recently that a professional development system for teachers designed to foster discussion about teaching and learning fits within the “teaching-as-intellectual-pursuit” model (“science” for short here), as opposed to the “teaching as art” model. To this person’s credit, this suggestion was more a musing than a statement of fact, but it got me thinking – both about whether teaching can be viewed as being solely in one or the other of those frameworks, and then, assuming t... more »

LAUSD • L.A. Unified Completes First Ever Social Media Survey

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
LAUSD • L.A. Unified Completes First Ever Social Media Survey: L.A. Unified Completes First Ever Social Media Survey New Media Could Improve Crisis Communications at LAUSD Information relayed through social media channels binds parents, staff and students faster during a crisis than other forms of communication, according to results of the first-ever social media survey released today by the Los Angeles Unified School District. The poll of more than 4,800 online users at the District’s website found that 36% believe school safety alerts can be issued most effectively through soc... more »

Learning from Really Bad Graphs & Ill-informed Conclusions: Thoughts on the New PEPG “Catching Up” Report « School Finance 101

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 21 hours ago
Learning from Really Bad Graphs & Ill-informed Conclusions: Thoughts on the New PEPG “Catching Up” Report « School Finance 101: Learning from Really Bad Graphs & Ill-informed Conclusions: Thoughts on the New PEPG “Catching Up” Report by schoolfinance101 A new policy paper from Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson & Ludger Woessmann has been receiving considerable attention. This despite numerous completely outlandish assertions drawn from junk charts that fill the pages of this reformy manifesto. Look, I’ve said it before and will say it again. Eric Hanusek has contributed a great deal of...more »

Louisiana Educator: Legal Challenge

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Louisiana Educator: Legal Challenge: Legal Challenge by Michael Deshotels The Baton Rouge Advocate today carries a story about letters sent to voucher schools by the LAE attorney Brian Blackwell warning them that they may be subject to lawsuits from the LAE for participating in the voucher program. Some see this as an unfair scare tactic, and some believe the LAE is using strong arm *"Union"*tactics. I disagree. And I know who really used strong arm tactics to pass this privatization scheme with the use of our tax dollars. That "scholarship" money is money we all contributed for... more »

"AFT Convention: Weingarten unveils 'solution-driven unionism'." July 27, 2012. NYSUT: A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
"AFT Convention: Weingarten unveils 'solution-driven unionism'." July 27, 2012. NYSUT: A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org: AFT Convention: Weingarten unveils 'solution-driven unionism' NYSUT Newswire - July 27, 2012 [image: AFT_Conv2012_425px] Weingarten unveils 'solution-driven unionism' at AFT national convention *July 27, 2012* AFT President Randi Weingarten kicked off the American Federation of Teachers national convention in Detroit today by advocating "solution-driven unionism," a new vision of unionism that advances solutions focused on uniting union members, the peopl... more »

CTU will bring a refreshing spirit to the AFT convention. « Fred Klonsky

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
CTU will bring a refreshing spirit to the AFT convention. « Fred Klonsky: CTU will bring a refreshing spirit to the AFT convention. by Fred Klonsky Two years ago Diane Ravitch spoke to the NEA Representative Assembly. Last year and this it was Joe Biden. Two years ago Bill Gates spoke to the AFT Convention. This year it will be Diane Ravitch. Nothing goes in a straight line, does it? As EdWeek’s Stephen Sawchuk points out, there are what you might call cultural and historical differences in the way the two national teacher unions run their conventions. The NEA is more affiliate dri... more »

Students1st offering gift cards to those making “pro-reform” comments « Parents Across America

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Students1st offering gift cards to those making “pro-reform” comments « Parents Across America: *Michelle Rhee’s StudentsFirst is well known for its deceptive tactics of posting seemingly harmless petitions calling to an end to student bullying, for example, or opposing firing good teachers, and then claiming all the people who unknowing sign them as one of their members. Even well-informed PAA members, completely opposed to the goals of this astroturf group, have been caught in her trap.* ** *See the below email just sent out by the one of the managers of the StudentsFirst Florid... more »

Daily Kos: TEN REASONS TO ATTEND THE AUG. 3 - 5 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS CONVENTION

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
Daily Kos: TEN REASONS TO ATTEND THE AUG. 3 - 5 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS CONVENTION: TEN REASONS TO ATTEND THE AUG. 3 - 5 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS CONVENTION by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken) Last year I helped organize the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action in Washington DC. I am no longer involved in the leadership, and have a number of personal conflicts with this year's schedule. I am neverthless urging you to consider attending. Thus I offer you this: TEN REASONS TO ATTEND THE AUG. 3 - 5 SAVE OUR SCHOOLS CONVENTION Marriott Wardman Park hotel, Washington, DC - Hear author ... more »

ADL Alert! Is This Comment Acceptable? « Diane Ravitch's blog

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
ADL Alert! Is This Comment Acceptable? « Diane Ravitch's blog: ADL Alert! Is This Comment Acceptable? by dianerav I mentioned in a post this morning that I had received a letter form the Anti-Defamation League warning that comments on my blog displayed “insensitivity” and that I should take this opportunity to warn readers about the dangers of “hurtful analogies,” especially in referring to Hitler and the Holocaust. A reader wonders if he was the one who wrote the comment that was reported as offensive to the Anti-Defamation League: *I think that the comment referred to was mine. I... more »

FCMAT » Cali Education Headlines Friday, July 27, 2012

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 22 hours ago
FCMAT » Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team: *“Every time we sit at a table to enjoy the fruits and grain and vegetables from our good earth, remember that they come from the work of men and women and children who have been exploited for generations.”*César Chávez, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers Education Headlines *Friday, July 27, 2012* Rio School District approves teacher contractA divided Rio School District board approved a teacher contract on Thursday, ending a two-year impasse. Planners OK site for school downtownAfter listening to an overflow crowd's overwhelming s... more »

Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee - Trying to Buy Love ?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
*Rhee offering gift cards for blog comments* Also, starting right now, there will be a monthly contest for the best rapid response. The more comments you leave on blog posts, the more times you can enter! Post a polite and persuasive pro-reform comment and email me the link so I can check it out. That's all you have to do! At the end of the month (August 26th at midnight) I will announce the winner. Not only will that winner get a gift card to the restaurant or store of choice, but he or she will also be promoting the cause of real and transformative change in public schools! What... more »

Randi Weingarten Heads To Detroit, Aims To Force Contract Negotiations For Teachers

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Randi Weingarten Heads To Detroit, Aims To Force Contract Negotiations For Teachers: Randi Weingarten Heads To Detroit, Aims To Force Contract Negotiations For Teachers by Joy Resmovits A few years ago, when Randi Weingarten and her colleagues at the American Federation of Teachers chose to set their 2012 convention in Detroit, the leadership of the nation's second largest teachers' union thought it would be nice to invest in the Motor City, a metropolis that once signified the innovation of the auto industry that had since become America's most visible example of the decay bro... more »

Leon County Superintendent, Others Call for Investigation of FCAT Grade Changes | Scathing Purple Musings

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Leon County Superintendent, Others Call for Investigation of FCAT Grade Changes | Scathing Purple Musings: Leon County Superintendent, Others Call for Investigation of FCAT Grade Changes by Bob Sikes The *Tallahassee Democrat*‘s Travis Pillow reports: Leon County’s schools superintendent is demanding the state provide the districts with details of state testing data at the center of this month’s miscalculation of school grades. Superintendent Jackie Pons on Thursday sent state Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson a letter requesting the data on the learning gains made by stude... more »

Daily Kos: WARNING: False Premise Equals False Conclusion

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Daily Kos: WARNING: False Premise Equals False Conclusion: WARNING: False Premise Equals False Conclusion byplthomasEdDFollow 4 PERMALINK4 COMMENTS I have lived my entire life in the South, the upstate of South Carolina. My home state has the dubious distinction of being a nearly persistent focus of national derision on Jon Stewart's *The Daily Show* as we appear to be gifted at offering the sort of fodder for jokes that no one could make up and be believed (an ultra-conservative governor hiking the Appalachian Trail as cover for a mistress in South America, for example). At ris... more »

How well does Khan Academy teach? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
How well does Khan Academy teach? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: How well does Khan Academy teach? By Valerie Strauss Update: Fixing links Here *is a new critique of the Khan Academy, the subject of a widely read post I published Monday about the hype and reality of the academy.You can find that post here. And you can find a response to that post from the founder of the Khan Academy, Sal Khan, by clicking here.* *The following was written by Christopher Danielson and Michael Paul Goldenberg. Danielson holds a Ph.D. in mathematics education from Michigan State University.... more »

Jersey Jazzman: Can the NEA Learn From the NRA?

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Jersey Jazzman: Can the NEA Learn From the NRA?: Can the NEA Learn From the NRA? by Duke Via Digby, here's an instructive story, no matter what you believe about gun control: I asked a Democratic legislative staffer for a first-person description of the NRA's power on the Hill. Here's the response I got, on the condition that I not provide any further identifying information. It's pretty breathtaking. We do absolutely anything they ask and we NEVER cross them—which includes asking permission to cosponsor any bills endorsed by the Humane Society (the answer is usually no) and co... more »

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Ravitch, no Gates, at this year's AFT Convention

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Ravitch, no Gates, at this year's AFT Convention: Ravitch, no Gates, at this year's AFT Convention by Mike Klonsky Bill Gates addressed the 2010 ConventionI don't expect anything too new or exciting coming out of AFT Convention, just starting in Detroit. The meeting is pretty well scripted and delegates, representing the union's 1.5 million members, are nearly all aligned with the Unity/Progressive Caucus and the current leadership is not up for re-election. But given the intensity of the attacks on public education, teachers, and all public sector ... more »

Defining Definitions for ASCD « My Island View

coopmike48 at Big Education Ape - 23 hours ago
Defining Definitions for ASCD « My Island View: Defining Definitions for ASCD by tomwhitby This was originally posted in SmartBrief’s SmartBlog on Education http://smartblogs.com/education I was lucky to have scored an invitation to the ASCD Leader to Leader Conference. ASCD is a premier education organization that engages a membership of about 150,000 educators internationally. This particular conference concentrates on the leadership of ASCD. It is a great effort by this organization to bring together its leadership as well as invite, i




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