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Monday, June 16, 2014

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-16-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why the Los Angeles School Board Ousted Stuart MagruderColumnist Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times explains why the school board did not reappoint Stuart Magruder to the “independent” Bond Oversight Committee: He asked too many questions about why Superintendent Deasy was tapping the school bond fund to buy iPads instead of spen
by mike simpson / 2min 
6-16-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: The End of (Public Education) Is Near"Education reform" is powerless against eliminationism and is at best a mirage that diverts oppositional energies. The very idea of education activism becomes a comforting fiction."  ... Capitalism vs education In a nutshell - machines are replacing people, their labor is not necessary and an educated work force (other than at th
by mike simpson / 5min 
6-16-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: The myth of tenure for life.I received two comments from reader Joe Jeffrey this weekend regarding the suddenly hot topic of tenure. First, Joe writes: I suppose this will just convince everyone I’m a right-wing Republican, but I’ll ask it anyway: granted that teachers must be protected from unfair hi
by mike simpson / 11min 
6-16-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Two Good Links About CurationA lot has been written recently about the importance of “curation” in this age of information “overload.” In fact, I’ve previously posted The Best Posts & Articles About Curation. Here are two new additions to that list: Sue Waters has written a very helpful post, including lots of suggestio
by mike simpson / 14min 
Teachers' union leader blasts U.S. Education secretary over comments - Los Angeles Times
Teachers' union leader blasts U.S. Education secretary over comments - Los Angeles Times: Teachers' union leader blasts U.S. Education secretary over commentsAmerican Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten sharply criticized U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan last week for his praise of a ruling by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge deeming certain job protections for teache
by mike simpson / 16min 
6-16-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: What People Are Saying about Hoosier School Heist after the Dance CircusBy Doug Martin As I come off of my buzz from speaking to over 700 people as Dance Circus Ringmaster for the Nancy Sauer School of Theatrical Dancing's 60th Anniversary performances in Indiana (check out a few photos here: it was a great way to get the word out about corporate ed. reform to parents) and prepare
by mike simpson / 22min 
6-16-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: George Saunders’s Allegory of Scarcity and SlackGeorge Saunders’s Allegory of Scarcity and Slack. via George Saunders’s Allegory of Scarcity and Slack.1 by plthomasedd / 1h hide  //  save“Click, Clack, Moo”: Why the 1% Always Wins“Click, Clack, Moo”: Why the 1% Always Wins. via “Click, Clack, Moo”: Why the 1% Always Wins.1 by plthomasedd / 1h All Week 6-15-14 @ THE CHALK FACE@ TH
by mike simpson / 24min 
6-16-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Love Letter to the BATS-
With A Brooklyn Accent: For those who say Strong Unions are A Problem for the NationIn the mid 1950's:35 percent of the US Labor Force was unionizedThe top 1 percent of earners made 9 percent of the incomeThe US was the most equal advanced nation in the world in terms of income distributionMillions of American families were moving out of crowded apartments intoprivate homesIn 201411 percent of the
by mike simpson / 26min 
6-16-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): “Click, Clack, Moo”: Why the 1% Always Wins[Originally posted at Daily Kos and Truthout, "Click, Clack, Moo": Why the 1% Always Wins is a powerful companion to George Saunders's Allegory of Scarcity and Slack.] As a high school English teacher for nearly two de
by mike simpson / 28min 
6-16-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: De Blasio Finally Gets Some Profession Public Relations HelpFrom State of Politics:by reality-based edu... / 1h hide  //  saveEva Moskowitz Plans To Double Success Academies Network In Size In The Next Few YearsFrom the NY Times:The network, the Success Academy, said that it was submitting applications to the state to open schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens
by mike simpson / 30min 
Louisiana Educator: New Educational Series on Recovery District
Louisiana Educator: New Educational Series on Recovery District: New Educational Series on Recovery District A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools Part One 17 Days in November from N.O. Education Equity Roundtable on Vimeo.The New Orleans Equity Roundtable has produced a series of short videos that tell the true story about the takeover of public schools in New Orleans by the
by mike simpson / 34min 
Teacher tenure ruling energizes race for state school chief :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet
Teacher tenure ruling energizes race for state school chief :: SI&A Cabinet Report :: The Essential Resource for Superintendents and the Cabinet: JUNE 16, 2014Teacher tenure ruling energizes race for state school chiefby Tom Chorneau(Calif.) Last week’s decision that invalidated the state’s teacher tenure law sent proponents on both sides scrambling to prepare for the appeals process and to do
by mike simpson / 44min 
David Berliner—Witness in Vergara Courtroom—Denies He Called Any Teachers “Grossly Ineffective” | janresseger
David Berliner—Witness in Vergara Courtroom—Denies He Called Any Teachers “Grossly Ineffective” | janresseger: David Berliner—Witness in Vergara Courtroom—Denies He Called Any Teachers “Grossly Ineffective”Posted on June 16, 2014 by janressegerLast week I blogged on the California teacher tenure decision in Vergara v. California. I concluded overall that, “The Vergara attorneys sought to portray t
by mike simpson / 46min 
Did Cami lose–or is she just lying again? | Bob Braun's Ledger
Did Cami lose–or is she just lying again? | Bob Braun's Ledger: Did Cami lose–or is she just lying again?Cami Anderson: Beaten–or just lying?Cami Anderson, the state-imposed Newark school superintendent,  can be beaten and already has lost a major battle in her drive to privatize Newark schools to help her friends in the charter school industry. That’s what parent leaders at the Hawthorne Avenue s
by mike simpson / 49min 
NYC Educator: Teacher Season Begins Nationwide
NYC Educator: Teacher Season Begins Nationwide: Teacher Season Begins NationwideIn the wake of Vergara, corporate reformers are smelling blood in the water, and see this as the time to pounce. How else would you explain the sudden return of education expert Campbell Brown to the tabloids, and the banner article on the cover of yesterday's Post? (I'm not linking to it.)The recipe is quite simple. T
by mike simpson / 52min 
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Billionaire Griffin's influence will be felt no matter who wins the election
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Billionaire Griffin's influence will be felt no matter who wins the election: Billionaire Griffin's influence will be felt no matter who wins the electionChicago MagazineThe Billionaire Boys Club is flexing it's electoral political muscles again in Illinois. The Sun-Times reports that Citadel hedge-fund CEO Ken Griffinhas kicked in a tidy $2.5 million to fellow
by mike simpson / 58min 

YESTERDAY

6-15-14 Schools Matter: NYT Finally Gets another Education Reporter who Gets It
Schools Matter: NYT Finally Gets another Education Reporter who Gets It: NYT Finally Gets another Education Reporter who Gets ItCommon Core, in 9-Year-Old EyesBy JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZJUNE 14, 2014On that April day, Chrispin was determined. As one of the smallest children in the fourth grade, he had grown accustomed to being underestimated. With the right luck, he thought, he would earn high marks wh
by mike simpson / 10h 
6-15-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: MORE, Change the Stakes Sponsor Jose Vilson Book Conversation in InwoodThis Is Not a Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education with Jose VilsonWed. June 18 * 5-7pm * Inwood Local Beer Garden * 4957 BroadwayRSVP on Facebook.Join a discussion with Jose Vilson on the joys and burdens of today’s education system, celebrating the release of his first book, This Is Not a Test,
by mike simpson / 10h 
Success Academy Charter Schools Force Mayor Bill de Blasio to Confront New Law - NYTimes.com
Success Academy Charter Schools Force Mayor Bill de Blasio to Confront New Law - NYTimes.com: Success Academy’s Expansion Plans Put de Blasio in a Tough SpotSuccess Academy Charter Schools Force Mayor Bill de Blasio to Confront New LawA charter school network’s plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a war over classroom space in New York City, only this time with the ground
by mike simpson / 10h 
Arne Duncan issues new statement with the ‘right lessons’ from Vergara trial - The Washington Post
Arne Duncan issues new statement with the ‘right lessons’ from Vergara trial - The Washington Post: Arne Duncan issues new statement with the ‘right lessons’ from Vergara trialIn case you weren’t sure what to think about last week’s verdict in the “Vergara trial” — in which a Los Angeles court judge tossed out state statutes giving job protections to teachers — Education Secretary Arne Duncan issu
by mike simpson / 12h 
Father's Day As A Healing Day - The Jose Vilson
Father's Day As A Healing Day - The Jose Vilson: Father’s Day As A Healing Dayby JOSE VILSON on JUNE 15, 2014in JOSEIt’s weird.With the World Cup in Brazil going and Father’s Day happening all around me (and for me), I’m reminded how, once or twice a year, I’d spend hours watching my father watch soccer in my grandmother’s (his mother’s) house in Brooklyn. I didn’t get why it was so exciting, espe
by mike simpson / 12h 
empathyeducates – Will California’s Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Change Schools?
empathyeducates – Will California’s Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Change Schools?: Will California’s Ruling Against Teacher Tenure Change Schools?Photograph Credit; Steven Depolo/FlickrBy Dana Goldstein | Originally Published at The Atlantic. June 11, 2014A judge said the state discriminates against poor and minority students by protecting the jobs of ineffective instructors. What will this mean f
by mike simpson / 13h 
Universal (for profit) Pre-K, DFER and the suits | Seattle Education
Universal (for profit) Pre-K, DFER and the suits | Seattle Education: Universal (for profit) Pre-K, DFER and the suitsFirst, a bit of background about my family and why I am concerned about preschool and what “Universal pre-K” really means.As I have mentioned before, my family is African American. My mother grew up in South Carolina in the early 1900′s with four siblings, a mother who was a music
by mike simpson / 13h 
Nite Cap 6-15-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPThe Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Carroll - Perdaily.comThe Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Ca
by mike simpson / 14h 
The Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Carroll - Perdaily.com
The Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Carroll - Perdaily.com: The Key to Ensuring Unconstitutionality-Strict Scrutiny A Key That Doesn't Fit in the Vergara Case By Kathleen Carroll(Mensaje se repite en Español)Reading the Vergara decision was like being on an old rickety roller coaster where each twist and turn seemed like th
by mike simpson / 14h 
Breaking News: Vergara Going “On Tour” |
Breaking News: Vergara Going “On Tour” |: Breaking News: Vergara Going “On Tour” Following up on my most recent post regarding the “Vergara Case Lost in Los Angeles,” it seems “they” aren’t stopping in Los Angeles.A VAMboozled! follower posted this recent op-ed on this topic on Aljazeera, in which the authors write about how “Students Matter, financier of the case (Vergara vs. State of California)
by mike simpson / 17h 
A Father’s Day Reminder: Read Aloud to Your Children | Live Long and Prosper
A Father’s Day Reminder: Read Aloud to Your Children | Live Long and Prosper: A Father’s Day Reminder: Read Aloud to Your ChildrenREADING ALOUDI started teaching elementary school in 1976 and from my very first day as a teacher I read aloud to my students. I had caught the read aloud bug from Lowell Madden, one of my Education School Professors and had it reinforced by Jim Trelease, whose Read Alo
by mike simpson / 17h 
Don't Undermine Due Process
Don't Undermine Due Process: On Tuesday morning, teachers across California got up, went to their schools and dedicated their day to helping students learn and grow.While our sisters and brothers led their classrooms, a judge in a Los Angeles courtroom said that for students to win, teachers have to lose.You’ve probably seen news about Vergara v. California. We want you to hear directly from us ab
by mike simpson / 17h 
My Grandfather, the Great Depression, and Today’s Teacher Wage Theft | Reclaim Reform
My Grandfather, the Great Depression, and Today’s Teacher Wage Theft | Reclaim Reform: My Grandfather, the Great Depression, and Today’s Teacher Wage TheftPosted on June 15, 2014by Ken PrevitiMy grandfather, Joe Tagler, was victimized with wage theft during the Great Depression. He was a motorman (driver) of streetcars for the Chicago Surface Lines, later to be taken over by the CTA, the Chicago T
by mike simpson / 17h 
6-15-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? Libraries are so overrated… (Not)My children’s high school has a library and full-time library staff.  Their middle school had a library and a full-time librarian; even their elementary school had a library with a librarian. But as a result of inadequate state funding (and outright stupidity on the part of some of our elected officials), many Connecticut children are attendi
by mike simpson / 19h 
6-15-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Did You Know?It's the end of spring so, I'm spring cleaning.  That means going thru my vast SPS files and throwing out/reordering. Naturally, I found some interesting stuff (but threw out two bags of paper).  Among the things I found:- Did you know I was an education activist in high school?  Me, neither but apparently I wrote, for the school newspaper, an op-ed in
by mike simpson / 20h 
Making Schools Poor by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Making Schools Poor by Diane Ravitch | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books: Making Schools PoorDiane RavitchBen Margot/AP PhotoA first-grade class of thirty children at the Willow Glen Elementary School in San Jose, California, where budget cuts have led to larger class sizes, January 24, 2013Last week, Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu in Los Angeles ruled that five California statutes protect
by mike simpson / 20h 
‘If you truly cared’ — angry president of largest teachers union sends message to school reformers - The Washington Post
‘If you truly cared’ — angry president of largest teachers union sends message to school reformers - The Washington Post: ‘If you truly cared’ — angry president of largest teachers union sends message to school reformers A 2013 Education Week commentary with the headline “The Plight of Teachers’ Unions” says:Teachers’ unions are under siege nationwide. Criticism by political leaders and education
by mike simpson / 20h 
A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools Part One 17 Days in November on Vimeo
A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools Part One 17 Days in November on Vimeo: A Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools Part One 17 Days in Novemberfrom N.O. Education Equity Roundtable 5 days ago / Creative Commons License: by nc nd ALL AUDIENCESA Perfect Storm: The Takeover of New Orleans Public Schools is the first in series of short videos, that reveals t
by mike simpson / 21h 
The Problem with Philanthropy - In These Times
The Problem with Philanthropy - In These Times: The Problem with PhilanthropyThe occasional $120 million check doesn’t offset tech billionaires’ erosion of the public sector.BY DAVID SIROTAEmailPrintTo understand the conflict between democracy and this kind of philanthropy, remember that private donations typically come with conditions about how the money must be allocated.Inequality and democracy
by mike simpson / 21h 
Opinion: Don’t tamper with teacher tenure - Opinion - NorthJersey.com
Opinion: Don’t tamper with teacher tenure - Opinion - NorthJersey.com: Opinion: Don’t tamper with teacher tenureJUNE 12, 2014, 5:42 PM    LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014, 5:42 PMBY MARK WEBERTHE RECORDMark Weber, a member of the New Jersey Education Association, is a New Jersey public school music teacher in Warren Township and a doctoral student in education policy at Rutgers University.IF
by mike simpson / 22h 
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 6-15-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: A Textbook Case Of Meddling In CaliforniaTIMES EDITORIAL BOARD | http://lat.ms/1y4tXzP June 15, 2014  ::  For all the criticism that's (justifiably) leveled at Texas over its right-wing rewrite of its history textbooks, California is surely the nation's capital of legislative interference with what should be the job of academics. The latest effort comes
by mike simpson / 22h 
6-15-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): George Saunders’s Allegory of Scarcity and SlackThe stories themselves, literally, are powerful and engaging or George Orwell’s 1984 and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible would not have endured as they have as literature people read again and again—and possibly should read ag
by mike simpson / 22h 
6-15-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Bobby Jindal Vetoes Common Core Bill; Meanwhile Rick Scott Deceitfully Claims “Common Core Is Out”From New Orleans Times-Picayune reporter Julia O’Donoghue: Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday vetoed a bill that many had seen as an endorsement of the Common Core academic standar
by mike simpson / 22h 
Morning Wink 6-15-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-15-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Andrea Gabor: An Inspection of New York State’s Secret ELA TestsSomehow, Andrea Gabor got a copy of most of the New York State English Language Arts Common Core-Aligned State tests.   She descri
by mike simpson / 23h 





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