Sunday, May 16, 2010
Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010 | Reflections on Teaching
Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010
As with most things, I’m more than a day late and a dollar shy on this one, which occurred on May 1st, but some recent events have led me to believe that it’s better to write late than not at all, so please indulge me. As with many thing, Ira Socol, has led me to this. Thank you Ira!
The posts that I’m about to put up will reflect my experience as the mother of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, so let me disclose my current policy about that. After reading this post, by Ira Socol, I decided that, like many “public” writers, I was using my son in my writing without really getting his permission.
First, I’m trying not to make Ms. Palin’s mistake of using my son as a “hunting trophy”. I share my particular
The posts that I’m about to put up will reflect my experience as the mother of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, so let me disclose my current policy about that. After reading this post, by Ira Socol, I decided that, like many “public” writers, I was using my son in my writing without really getting his permission.
First, I’m trying not to make Ms. Palin’s mistake of using my son as a “hunting trophy”. I share my particular
West Salem High School wins state band championship | OregonLive.com
West Salem High School wins state band championship
By James Mayer, The Oregonian
May 15, 2010, 10:34PM
West Salem High School took first place for 6A schools in the band division in the Oregon State School Activities Association / U.S. Bank / Les Schwab Tires Band/Orchestra State Championships this weekend at Oregon State University.South Salem High School took second place; Southridge High School in Beaverton, third place; Sprague High School in Salem, fourth place; and David Douglas, fifth place.
Students representing 65 high schools performed Wednesday through Saturday
In the 5A Band Division, West Albany High School won first place; Crescent Valley High School in Corvallis, second; Summit High School in Bend, third; Glencoe High School in Hillsboro, fourth; and Corvallis High School, fifth.
In the 4A Band Division, Douglas High School in Winston, won first place; Philomath High School, second; Cascade High School in Turner, third; La Grande High School, fourth; and Sisters High School, fifth. , second; In
“All 23 of the “Interesting Ways” presentations in one place” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
“All 23 of the “Interesting Ways” presentations in one place”
Tom Barrett is known for his “Interesting Ways” series, which include numerous ideas on how to use Web 2.0 applications (including Wordle, iPod, Google Wave, Prezi, etc.) in the classroom. The series, however, is not only limited to technology, and also includes topics like supporting reading comprehension and spelling.
He’s put them all in one place now. You definitely want to bookmar
Tons Of New Resources On Street Gangs
He’s put them all in one place now. You definitely want to bookmar
Tons Of New Resources On Street Gangs
I’ve just added about twenty additional resources to
More Oil Spill Resources
More Oil Spill Resources
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My Students Reflect On Standardized Tests
My Students Reflect On Standardized Tests
Thankfully, we completed the annual regimen of state tests this week. I’ve written quite a bit on these kinds of standardized tests — se
S. Phila. principal's lack of credential was known | Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/15/2010
S. Phila. principal's lack of credential was known
When they hired LaGreta Brown as the new principal of South Philadelphia High School last summer, officials knew she did not have an active Pennsylvania principal's certification, they said.
Brown was supposed to get emergency certification but never did. She served as principal for eight months anyway and resigned Thursday after The Inquirer raised questions about her credentials.
Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman acknowledged Friday that there could be others in the district with similar problems. "This may be an issue for more than just LaGreta," she said.
Brown was not certified to work as a high school principal in Pennsylvania, state records show. In 2000, she was issued a certificate to work as an elementary school principal. But that certificate became inactive in 2005 after she failed to complete continuing-education requirements, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education said.
The Philadelphia School District Office of Certification should have checked to make sure Brown's paperwork was in order, but her case slipped through the cracks, human resources chief Estelle Matthews said Friday.
"There was no follow-through," Matthews said.
A new policy will require teachers and principals to provide paperwork proving emergency certification within 30 days, Matthews said.
"We're not going to take their word for it," she said. "We didn't have a clear process in place, but we will."
Brown came to Philadelphia from Atlantic City, where teachers said she had created "a hostile work environment." Brown resigned from that district in advance of a school board vote on her termination.
Her tenure at South Philadelphia High also was tumultuous. On Dec. 3, the school was rocked by racial violence when 30 Asian students were attacked by groups of mostly African American students. Seven Asian students required hospital treatment, and a federal civil rights inquiry and state Human Rights Commission investigation are pending.
Ackerman said she had known about Brown's time in Atlantic City when she was hired and insisted that Brown received no preferential treatment.
Brown was supposed to get emergency certification but never did. She served as principal for eight months anyway and resigned Thursday after The Inquirer raised questions about her credentials.
Schools Superintendent Arlene Ackerman acknowledged Friday that there could be others in the district with similar problems. "This may be an issue for more than just LaGreta," she said.
Brown was not certified to work as a high school principal in Pennsylvania, state records show. In 2000, she was issued a certificate to work as an elementary school principal. But that certificate became inactive in 2005 after she failed to complete continuing-education requirements, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education said.
The Philadelphia School District Office of Certification should have checked to make sure Brown's paperwork was in order, but her case slipped through the cracks, human resources chief Estelle Matthews said Friday.
"There was no follow-through," Matthews said.
A new policy will require teachers and principals to provide paperwork proving emergency certification within 30 days, Matthews said.
"We're not going to take their word for it," she said. "We didn't have a clear process in place, but we will."
Brown came to Philadelphia from Atlantic City, where teachers said she had created "a hostile work environment." Brown resigned from that district in advance of a school board vote on her termination.
Her tenure at South Philadelphia High also was tumultuous. On Dec. 3, the school was rocked by racial violence when 30 Asian students were attacked by groups of mostly African American students. Seven Asian students required hospital treatment, and a federal civil rights inquiry and state Human Rights Commission investigation are pending.
Ackerman said she had known about Brown's time in Atlantic City when she was hired and insisted that Brown received no preferential treatment.
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Dallas ISD under Hinojosa: academic progress, fiscal crisis | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News
Dallas ISD under Hinojosa: academic progress, fiscal crisis
11:42 PM CDT on Saturday, May 15, 2010
Dallas school Superintendent Michael Hinojosa uses a spreadsheet to track his tenure on the job, just as a statistician follows trends.
The self-professed lover of data boasted one recent afternoon that he's outlasted all but two other big-city school chiefs, in Atlanta and New York City.
"I sort of beat the odds," he said incredulously. "I've been here five years."
Resiliency and tenacity are key ingredients for survival for an urban school superintendent – among the toughest jobs in public education. And Hinojosa has held on during a roller coaster ride of triumphs and scandals in the Dallas Independent School District.
Since he took the helm of the second-largest school district in Texas five years ago this month, his supporters and critics alike say that he has jump-started academic improvements that have garnered national
Rise in cases leaves Dallas area abused kids waiting for help
NorthJersey.com: A hot spot for higher teacher earnings
Half of the teachers in New Jersey who earned more than $100,000 work in Bergen and Passaic counties.
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More than 1,800 New Jersey public school teachers have broken the six-figure salary barrier, and half of them work in schools in Bergen and Passaic counties.
A quarter of teachers in Hackensack, Teaneck and Carlstadt and a third of those at the regional high school in East Rutherford earned six figures for the 2008-09 school year, according to data provided by the state.
The city of Passaic had 115 teachers with salaries above $100,000, the highest number of any district in the state. Hackensack had 98, Teaneck 93, Wayne 81, and in Ridgewood, 71 teachers were above the $100,000 mark.
Overall, the 1,847 teachers whose salaries were above $100,000 made up just 1.6 percent of the state's 116,000 public school teachers. The majority of teachers earned between $40,000 and $60,000, according to the data, the most recent available.
The median salary for teachers across the state was $57,467; it was higher in Bergen County, at $61,096, and lower in Passaic County, at $56,350.
Those are reasonable wages that you can try to support a family on, but they are not exorbitant wages," said Steve Baker, spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association.
A quarter of teachers in Hackensack, Teaneck and Carlstadt and a third of those at the regional high school in East Rutherford earned six figures for the 2008-09 school year, according to data provided by the state.
The city of Passaic had 115 teachers with salaries above $100,000, the highest number of any district in the state. Hackensack had 98, Teaneck 93, Wayne 81, and in Ridgewood, 71 teachers were above the $100,000 mark.
Overall, the 1,847 teachers whose salaries were above $100,000 made up just 1.6 percent of the state's 116,000 public school teachers. The majority of teachers earned between $40,000 and $60,000, according to the data, the most recent available.
The median salary for teachers across the state was $57,467; it was higher in Bergen County, at $61,096, and lower in Passaic County, at $56,350.
Those are reasonable wages that you can try to support a family on, but they are not exorbitant wages," said Steve Baker, spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association.
Schools Matter: Saving 300,000 Teaching Jobs Equal to 2 Months of War Expenses in Iraq and Afghanistan
Saving 300,000 Teaching Jobs Equal to 2 Months of War Expenses in Iraq and Afghanistan
(Slide from National Priorities Project) Click to enlarge.When the Wall Street bankster scheme was finally discovered in late 2008, the Feds under Bush rushed in $700 billion to rescue the the same fraudulent banks, insurance companies, and "lenders" that stole the money.
Since 2001, the U. S. has averaged wasting $111 billion per year in Iraq and Afghanistan. The peak war spending year was FY 08, when $184.5 billion was spent on both war fronts. That's over $15 billion per month.
ABG � Don't Blame The Governor… Yet. | Educational New York
ABG » Don't Blame The Governor… Yet.
The two categories compared in this analysis are the economic and budget issues as well educational policies including pre- and post- secondary education and what impact one plays upon the other. Education policies, since the start of the …. New York : Teachers College Press.
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HLOVE: New Collaborative BIP Event
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HLOVE: New Collaborative BIP Event
Harrison Macdonald Love was born, in Bedford New York , in 1985. He began his art education at an early age under the tutelage of his family who have a long standing connection to the arts. When he was seven, the Love family moved to ..
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Midwives-An Old Profession, A New Alternative | Education School …
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Midwives-An Old Profession, A New Alternative | Education School …
Midwives New York Co-Editor-in-Chief, histrion E. Austin, MD Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 – 07:01 PM.
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Is College for Everyone? – The Choice Blog – NYTimes.com
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Is College for Everyone? – The Choice Blog – NYTimes.com
There must be social graduations, today, similar to primary education in the past. Nothing else would explain college graduates with no ability to think analytically and act rationally.
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The Green Changemakers: Higher Education
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The Green Changemakers: Higher Education
Gatto was a New York State Teacher of the Year. An advocate for school reform, his books also include Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling.
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Month-long student strike at the University of Puerto Rico. � Fred Klonsky's blog
Month-long student strike at the University of Puerto Rico.
Little reported in the North American media, students at the University of Puerto Rico have been on strike for over 25 days.
The issue is budget cuts.
Puerto Rico Daily Sun:
An extraordinary assembly in which about 2,000 people participated on Thursday approved continuing the student strike that has paralyzed the Universidad de Puerto Rico for more than three weeks.
The strike was launched to protest a cut of $100 million in the university’s budget.
The assembly, convened by the General Council of Students to demand from the Negotiating Committee information about the status of the talks, voted to maintain the protest for an indefinite period despite the fear expressed by some participants about the possible loss of the school year.
More on University of Puerto Rico student strike.
In response to the previous post, I received the following:
[The following message from San Juan was sent late Friday by José A. Laguarta Ramírez, a former CUNY Grad Center student and presently member of the Puerto Rican Association of University Professors (APPU). Note: A number of important Puerto Rican unions have called a major workers' strike in support of the UPR strike this coming Tuesday. A solidarity rally has been called here in New York for Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.at the Puerto Rican government office at 135 West 50th Street (between 6th & 7th Aves.) in Manhattan.]
Subject: UPR UNDER SIEGE: SOLIDARITY WITH STRIKING STUDENTS URGENTLY NEEDED!!!
Yesterday, a massive student assembly ratified, with near unanimity, the ongoing 24-day system-wide strike at the University of Puerto Rico.
Events, however, took an ugly turn this morning, when riot police surrounded the breadth and width
Hopes for budget compromise dim amid Calif deficit - Boston.com
Hopes for budget compromise dim amid Calif deficit
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Having already cut billions from state programs and tried tax increases, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders from both parties say they are in no mood to compromise as they face California's latest summer of fiscal gloom.
At times somber, the Republican governor called for his deepest cuts to date on social welfare and health programs for the needy. He even proposed eliminating the state's main welfare program, which would affect 1.4 million people.
NH high school to students: Turn in cell phones
Mass. Ph.D. program explores genocide psychology
NH high school to students: Turn in cell phones
A New Hampshire high school is taking away students' cell phones during class time in an effort to improve test scores.
Mass. Ph.D. program explores genocide psychology
As a clinical psychologist, Cristina Andriani counseled victims of physical and sexual abuse, Vietnam War veterans and cult survivors. As a doctoral candidate, her understanding of trauma is expanding globally as she tries to unravel the psychological underpinnings of genocide.
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