2-23-14 empathyeducates – For Whites Only – Students and Teachers Matter
empathyeducates – For Whites Only – Students and Teachers Matter: For Whites Only – Students and Teachers MatterTeacher Linda Robinson works on algebra with students, left, Alicia Varney and Savannah Reed, both 16, at Union County’s Porter Ridge High, one of the schools that logged a strong performance on new state ratings of teacher effectiveness. Davie Hinshaw — dhinshaw@charlotteobserver.comInt
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Louisiana Educator: Jindal Loses Again
Louisiana Educator: Jindal Loses Again: Jindal Loses AgainPlease Help Make Sure He Continues to LoseWhen Governor Jindal rammed through his brutal attack on teachers and public schools in the 2012 legislative session he was warned that his new laws violated the constitution, violated basic due process rights of teachers, and improperly usurped the authority of our elected school boards. But he dec
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So What If It's Not Relevant Right Now? (Just Math It) - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson
So What If It's Not Relevant Right Now? (Just Math It) - The Jose Vilson | The Jose Vilson: So What If It’s Not Relevant Right Now? (Just Math It)by JOSE VILSON on FEBRUARY 23, 2014in MR. VILSONThis week, I’m supposed to teach my students how to solve a system of equations by elimination. It’s the hardest of the four ways for solving systems (graphing, substitution, guess-and-checking), and I’m n
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On Turning Public Spaces Into Forces of Consumption | educarenow
On Turning Public Spaces Into Forces of Consumption | educarenow: On Turning Public Spaces Into Forces of ConsumptionPosted on February 23, 2014 | Leave a commentThe common spaces traditionally provided for the public are slowly being eroded in the name of economic efficiency, victim to the ideology of pervasive market fundamentalism that serves as the scourge of our age. On the front edge of pos
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CURMUDGUCATION: Standardized Testing Sucks
CURMUDGUCATION: Standardized Testing Sucks: Standardized Testing SucksI am not a testing scientist. There are bloggers and writers and people who frequent the comments section of Diane Ravitch's blog who can dissect the science and the stats and the proper creation and forming and parsing of testing and testlettes and testicles (okay, maybe not those). I'm not one of those people; Mercedes Schneid
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2-23-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Why test-based school reform isn’t working — by the numbersAward-winning Prinicipal Carol Burris of South Side High School in New York has been exposing the problems with New York’s botched school reform effort for a long time on this blog. (You can read some of her work here, here, here, here, and here.) In the following post she looks at irrefutable data to show that the test-
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2-23-14 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: Are Florida Tea Party Voters Turning Away From Rick Scott and Jeb Bush?The mostly conservative Florida opponents of Common Core didn’t like the brush-off they received from Board of Education commissioner Gary Chartrand at last week’s public hearing. Chris Quakenbush, a
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Willful Ignorance Is Not A Desired Trait For Elected Officials | PWC Education Reform Blog
Willful Ignorance Is Not A Desired Trait For Elected Officials | PWC Education Reform Blog: Willful Ignorance Is Not A Desired Trait For Elected OfficialsFebruary 23, 2014 — pwceducationreformLast week, by majority vote, PWC School Board chose to send a letter to Governor McAuliffe asking him to allow Virginia to remain independent from the Common Core State Standards initiative. The vote was clo
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 2-23-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: John Marshall High School: ACADEMIC DECATHLON PUTS THE WORK IN TEAMWORKMarshall team members forge friendships, gain confidence and learn as they train for the statewide competition after winning the L.A. Unified contest. By Alicia Banks, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1cED2FT Academic Decathlon coach Larry Welch talks to members of the John Marshall High S
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A Teacher’s Advice to Bill Gates | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates
Teachers’LettersToBillGates | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates: A Teacher’s Advice to Bill GatesPosted on February 23, 2014by Teachers'LettersToBillGatesTeachers'LettersToBillGates:Dear Bill and Melinda,Are you out of touch with those who do not travel in the circles of American CEO’s?Do we need to do an intervention for you, CEO’s and the rest of the 1% corporate edreformer vulture philanthropists
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2-23-14 V.A.M.: Value Added Measure
V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: The Common-Core Pushers Rebrand their ProductAt the Common-Core Beauty Pageant, Rebranding is the Name of the Game. Who will win this year? Will it be Miss. Iowa Core, Miss Arizona College and Career Ready Standards, Miss Next Generation Sunshine State Standards, or any of one of a number of the other "Rebranders"? The Common-Core pushers realize the dwindl
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2-23-14 Wait What?
Wait What?: The sickness that has crept into Connecticut politics and governmentAs measured by the number of college graduates Connecticut is among the most educated states in the nation. As measured by per capital income Connecticut is wealthiest state in country, and if we were our own country we’d be one of the wealthiest and best educated countries in the world. And yet there is a […]The post
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Schooling in the Ownership Society: New religious charter believes in Value-Added
Schooling in the Ownership Society: New religious charter believes in Value-Added: New religious charter believes in Value-AddedStudents participating in By the Hand Club's after school program, say a prayer at the end of their chapel session before returning to their classrooms to begin their homework. | Jessica Koscielniak / Sun-Times“My faith motivates me to do more,” says Donnita Travis, the f
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2-23-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: REVIVE UFT : Mulgrew Forms New Group to Ally With MORE, Causing Split in Unity"Before we can move forward, we must resolve many outstanding issues from those dark years, starting with our working conditions, which are also our students’ learning conditions."... Michael MulgrewUFT President Mike Mulgrew is finding so much in common with the MORE caucus he has decided to b
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Morning Wink 2-23-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS2-23-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdDthe becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): remnant 56: “thus I, for example, in the midst of my unhappiness”remnant 56: “thus I, for example, in the midst of my unhappiness”.by plthomase
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2-23-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): remnant 56: “thus I, for example, in the midst of my unhappiness”remnant 56: “thus I, for example, in the midst of my unhappiness”.by plthomasedd / 6min 2-22-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdDTHE BECOMING RADICALRadical Sc
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2-23-14 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.: Sunday reads. Elijah Edwards, AFSCME Local 2858 Vice President (right) and I talk pension theft with Keeanga-Yahmahtta Taylor and Micah Uetricht of Jacobin Radio Chicago. One Newark means firing 700 union teachers, replaced by TFA kids. Finding: Conservative activists are manufacturing the perception
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Union Election in Los Angeles: Meet Candidate Caputo-Pearl - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Union Election in Los Angeles: Meet Candidate Caputo-Pearl - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Union Election in Los Angeles: Meet Candidate Caputo-PearlBy Anthony Cody on February 23, 2014 9:44 AMColeen Bondy, Los Angeles teacher, has prepared special coverage of the upcoming teacher's union election in her city. Here is her report:United Teachers Los Angeles, the teachers' union for L
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 2-23-14 Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Instructions to Teacher in Chicago about Which Kids Count MostThis letter from a teacher in Chicago public schools shows how gaming the system has become more important than helping each and every child achieve their best. Data matter more than students. Data matter more than learning. Numbers trump education and equity. The advice
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2-23-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: The “All-Time” Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & QuicklyI’ve been posting annual lists of the Best Ways To Create Online Content Easily & Quickly for seven years. I thought it would be useful for readers, my students, and me to review them all and identify my choices for the “all-time” best ones. These web
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2-23-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Fiction changed to informational text, #commoncoreThis looks about right.7 by Shaun Johnson / 25min A lot of discussion about these “data walls” latelyThe concept of the “data wall” has been gathering some attention lately, more so than normal. They’ve been with us, I don’t know, for a few years now. To be honest, I don’t have much experience with them. I certainly don’t have on
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2-23-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: How The Chinese Rig Their PISA Scores - And Why It Doesn't Matter AnywayThe next time some education reformer type spews alarmist clap trap around the PISA scores, you can lay this on them:Chinese experts are also less impressed than Truss by the Pisa scores. "Even though Shanghai students scored well on the test, this doesn't mean that Shanghai's education system doesn
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Open Letters To ‘D-List’ Reformers I Know. Part 1: Justin ‘Juice’ Fong | Gary Rubinstein's Blog
Open Letters To ‘D-List’ Reformers I Know. Part 1: Justin ‘Juice’ Fong | Gary Rubinstein's Blog: Open Letters To ‘D-List’ Reformers I Know. Part 1: Justin ‘Juice’ FongA little over a year ago, I wrote a series of open letters to ‘reformers’ I’ve known throughout the years. I was not surprised that the majority of them did not respond. On average, they each are making over $300K a year in the ed
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thoughts on living and teaching
thoughts on living and teaching: thoughts on living and teachingbyteacherkenFollow Email 11 Comments / 11 NewI have not blogged much recently. I have put more of myself into teaching, and I have decided to make some major changes in my life. As some may already know, on December 30, I took my first ever yoga class, at Flow Yoga Center on P Street, near Logan Circle, in DC. I had prior to th
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Newark: 700 teachers may be laid off, many replaced by TFA | Bob Braun's Ledger
Newark: 700 teachers may be laid off, many replaced by TFA | Bob Braun's Ledger: Newark: 700 teachers may be laid off, many replaced by TFAThe state administration of the Newark Public Schools (NPS) is expected to lay off hundreds of experienced city teachers and replace many with new hires, including more than 300 members of Teach for America (TFA). The report comes from union sources but is su
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NYC Educator: The Seat at the Table
NYC Educator: The Seat at the Table: The Seat at the TableThis is something our leadership always appears to want. And it's certainly true that it pays to talk to everyone. I'm not a big fan of Bill Gates, but you never know. Maybe one day, even someone as impervious to fact and science as he is may decide to listen. But since there's little evidence to support that supposition, it's best not to b
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Strengthening Leadership Strategies On Tap at NEA Summit | NEA Today
Strengthening Leadership Strategies On Tap at NEA Summit | NEA Today: Strengthening Leadership Strategies On Tap at NEA SummitFebruary 23, 2014 by egraham Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesBy Edward GrahamAs educators all across the country work to tackle the most pressing issues facing public education today, a group of over 550 educational leaders convened this weekend to discuss solution-b
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