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Monday, July 5, 2010
Nettye Goddard, Santa Clara Valley's pioneering teacher and administrator, dead at 87 - San Jose Mercury News
Schools Matter: Anyone But Weingarten: Vote Her OUT, AFT Delegates
Anyone But Weingarten: Vote Her OUT, AFT Delegates
“For the Department of Education to say, ‘Everybody else has to sacrifice, but our pet programs must be spared’— that makes me so angry I don’t even know how to say it,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, which has often been more supportive of administration initiatives than the National Education Association.Why, she is so angry that she can't speak anything bad about Arne Duncan. Randi is usually
NEA: No confidence in RTTT
Posted as a NCTE blog:
The National Education Association just voted "No Confidence" in the Race to the Top Guidelines & the use of competitive grants by the Dept of Education.I propose that NCTE do the same.
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES
WEEKEND QUOTABLES
NEA Pushes Back
Mr. President, your instincts were right—the path your advisers have laid out is not! ... Our members feel betrayed, and so do I.--NEA Pres. Dennis Van Roekel.More frustration
Mostly what we’ve seen out of this administration is a top-down, put-your-thumb-on-somebody kind
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Martin Luther King’s July 4th Speech | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Martin Luther King’s July 4th Speech
Martin Luther King gave a sermon on July 4, 1965 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. His topic was “The American Dream.”
You can read his entire sermon at the Martin Luther King Papers at Stanford. In fact, you can hear it, as well, though his spoken sermon is somewhat different than the written transcript.
Here is a lengthy excerpt, though I’d encourage you to read or listen to it in its entirety:
This is why we must join the war against poverty (Yes, sir) and believe in the dignity of all work. What makes a job menial? I’m tired of this stuff about menial labor. What makes it menial is that we don’t pay folk anything. (Yes, sir) Give somebody a job and pay them some money so they can live and educate their children and buy a home and have the basic necessities of life. And no matter what the job is it takes on dignity.
I submit to you when I took off on that plane this morning, I saw men go out there in their overalls. (Yes, sir,
You can read his entire sermon at the Martin Luther King Papers at Stanford. In fact, you can hear it, as well, though his spoken sermon is somewhat different than the written transcript.
Here is a lengthy excerpt, though I’d encourage you to read or listen to it in its entirety:
This is why we must join the war against poverty (Yes, sir) and believe in the dignity of all work. What makes a job menial? I’m tired of this stuff about menial labor. What makes it menial is that we don’t pay folk anything. (Yes, sir) Give somebody a job and pay them some money so they can live and educate their children and buy a home and have the basic necessities of life. And no matter what the job is it takes on dignity.
I submit to you when I took off on that plane this morning, I saw men go out there in their overalls. (Yes, sir,
NEA's 4th of July: Red, White, Blue ... and Green - Teacher Beat - Education Week #NEARA10
NEA's 4th of July: Red, White, Blue ... and Green
The National Education Association is quietly turning green.
For easy recycling, the representative assembly's internal newspaper, RA Today, is devoid of color and pictures and news stories this year: It prints just the resolutions. And delegates can access it through electronic channels rather than picking up paper copies.
And for the first year, the union has "green delegates." About 1,000 of the union's around 9,000 delegates have opted out of the traditional printed materials that delegates receive. Instead, they download all of the convention materials from a website.
The union hopes to have even more green delegates next year.
This appears to be more than just an RA thing, too. Back at the ranch, the NEA's headquarters on 16th Street in
For easy recycling, the representative assembly's internal newspaper, RA Today, is devoid of color and pictures and news stories this year: It prints just the resolutions. And delegates can access it through electronic channels rather than picking up paper copies.
And for the first year, the union has "green delegates." About 1,000 of the union's around 9,000 delegates have opted out of the traditional printed materials that delegates receive. Instead, they download all of the convention materials from a website.
The union hopes to have even more green delegates next year.
This appears to be more than just an RA thing, too. Back at the ranch, the NEA's headquarters on 16th Street in
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks | detnews.com | The Detroit News #spill
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks | detnews.com | The Detroit News
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100704/NATION/7040330#ixzz0skLx8T7U
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks
Cain Burdeau / Associated Press
Timbalier Islands, La. -- Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks.
The Gulf is lined with wooden shipwrecks, American-Indian shell midden mounds, World War II casualties, pirate colonies, historic hotels and old fishing villages. Researchers now fear this treasure seeker's dream is threatened by BP PLC's deepwater well blowout.
Within 20 miles of the well, there are several significant shipwrecks -- ironically, discovered by oil companies' underwater robots working the depths -- and oil is most likely beginning to cascade on them.
"People think of them as being lost, but with the deepsea diving innovations we have today, these shipwrecks are easily accessible," said Steven Anthony, president of the Maritime Archaeological and Historical Society.
"If this oil congeals on the bottom, it will be dangerous for scuba divers to go down there and explore," Anthony said. "The spill will stop investigations; it will put a chill, a halt on (underwater) operations."
The wrecks include two 19th-century wooden ships known as the "Mica Wreck" and the "Mardi Gras Wreck." The German submarine U-166 and ships sunk by other German submarines during World War II are within the spill's footprint.
The Mica was a 200-year-old, two-masted schooner that sank sometime before 1850, according to a report by the Minerals Management Service. It was discovered about 2,500 feet deep in the Mississippi Canyon during work to lay a pipeline.
In 2002, the Mardi Gras wreck was discovered by oilfield workers in even deeper waters: About 4,000 feet down about 35 miles off the Louisiana coast. The wreck got its name from the pipeline project where the wreck was
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20100704/NATION/7040330#ixzz0skLx8T7U
African college students to study at UConn - Boston.com
African college students to study at UConn
July 4, 2010
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STORRS, Conn.—Twenty student leaders from colleges in four sub-Saharan African countries are spending five weeks this summer at the University of Connecticut.
The students range in age from 19 to 26. They'll come from Senegal, Nigeria, Mali and the Ivory Coast for the leadership training programs from July 11 to Aug. 14.
They'll participate in classes, volunteer work, community visits and other events through UConn's Global Training and Development Institute, which is part of its Center for Continuing Studies.
It's funded with about $230,000 from the U.S. Department of State. It sponsors the programs nationwide to help develop future world leaders and promote a better understanding of the U.S. among people living abroad.
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Schools Matter: Globe Joins NYTimes and WaPo in Avoiding Facts about Charter Schools
Globe Joins NYTimes and WaPo in Avoiding Facts about Charter Schools
I am sometimes dizzied by the irony that Massachusetts, the birthplace of modern public education and the home of Horace Mann, is now leading the way toward the establishment of segregated corporate charter schools that resemble apartheid minimum security prisons more than they do schools funded with public dollars for the common good.
Rather than education functioning as the "balance wheel of the social machinery," as Mann envisioned, the present day segregated charter chain gangs serve to isolate, contain, and intellectually sterilize those whose economic disadvantages have been disguised by the corporate tanks of deficit thinking as defective cultural
Rather than education functioning as the "balance wheel of the social machinery," as Mann envisioned, the present day segregated charter chain gangs serve to isolate, contain, and intellectually sterilize those whose economic disadvantages have been disguised by the corporate tanks of deficit thinking as defective cultural
Today's Big Education Ape Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools #education #NEARA10
Today's Big Education Ape Posts on Parents 4 democratic Schools
- NEA Convention 2010: “What a Difference a Year Makes” | Intercepts #NEARA10 #edu #education
- Parents Debate the Budget! Round 6 Education News & Comment SAC City DAC #edu #education #parents
- Democurmudgeon: Defending the Indefensible: Big Oils “Shakedown” of American Taxpayers. #spill
- YouTube – NEA RA 2010 Video #NEARA10 #edu #education
- NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top” « Fred Klonsky’s blog #NEARA10 #edu #education
- College students, professors ease staff cuts at N.J. prisons by teaching inmates | NJ.com #edu #education
- YouTube – School house Rock – Fireworks #edu #education
- 1GOAL: About 1GOAL #edu #education #fifa10
- School Tech Connect: In Which I Re-Word The Thing I Always Post About.. #edu #education
- 2nd BANANA Last week’s highly rated post #edu #education #NEARA10
- EducationNews.org #edu #education
- Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools | U.S. Department of #Education #edu
- CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA)
- The Answer Sheet – Fun July 4 facts: Food, flags, fireworks, etc. #edu #education
- Diminishing state aid prompts Glen Ridge officials to consider converting schools to private, charter | NJ.com #edu #educati
- NEA Convention 2010: “What a Difference a Year Makes” | Intercepts #NEARA10 #edu #education
- Parents Debate the Budget! Round 6 Education News & Comment SAC City DAC #edu #education #parents
- Democurmudgeon: Defending the Indefensible: Big Oils “Shakedown” of American Taxpayers. #spill
- YouTube – NEA RA 2010 Video #NEARA10 #edu #education
- NEA RA: “No confidence in Race to the Top” « Fred Klonsky’s blog #NEARA10 #edu #education
- College students, professors ease staff cuts at N.J. prisons by teaching inmates | NJ.com #edu #education
- YouTube – School house Rock – Fireworks #edu #education
- 1GOAL: About 1GOAL #edu #education #fifa10
- School Tech Connect: In Which I Re-Word The Thing I Always Post About.. #edu #education
- 2nd BANANA Last week’s highly rated post #edu #education #NEARA10
- EducationNews.org #edu #education
- Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan to the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools | U.S. Department of #Education #edu
- CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA)
- The Answer Sheet – Fun July 4 facts: Food, flags, fireworks, etc. #edu #education
- Diminishing state aid prompts Glen Ridge officials to consider converting schools to private, charter | NJ.com #edu #educati
NEA Convention 2010: NEA Votes “No Confidence” in Race to the Top | Intercepts #NEARA10
NEA Convention 2010: NEA Votes “No Confidence” in Race to the Top
Much of the morning was spent in debate of New Business Item 2. It reads:
Efforts to amend and refer the measure were defeated on the floor, and it ultimately went to a vote unchanged, after about 40 minutes of debate. As you will be able to tell from the video I will post later, the voice vote was
While the National Education Association Representative Assembly supports and appreciates the significant increase in federal funding for education, the NEA takes a position of no confidence in the US Department of Education’s Race to the Top competitive grant policies and guidelines, the use of competitive grant policies and guidelines as a basis for the reauthorization of ESEA, and similar initiatives and policies that undermine public education.Introduced by Phil Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, the motion divided delegates. Supporters argued the Race to the Top process “brutalizes” teachers and students and is at its heart anti-union. Opponents thought the vote of no confidence was too harsh and undermined affiliates who had participated in crafting the process in their states.
Efforts to amend and refer the measure were defeated on the floor, and it ultimately went to a vote unchanged, after about 40 minutes of debate. As you will be able to tell from the video I will post later, the voice vote was
NEA's Delegates Vote 'No Confidence' in Race to the Top - Teacher Beat - Education Week #NEARA10
NEA's Delegates Vote 'No Confidence' in Race to the Top
After a protracted debate, delegates to the National Education Association approved a new business item that takes a position of "no confidence" in the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top guidelines, the use of competitive grants as a basis of the the ESEA reauthorization.
It came as a symbolic slam at the Obama administration. But as with President Dennis Van Roekel's keynote speech, it stopped short of actually calling out the U.S. president, a supporter of the program. And the debate over the item provided the clearest picture yet of both the internal and external difficulties the NEA faces pushing against an education agenda promoted by a Democratic, not a Republican, administration.
For one, the item passed by a razor-thin margin. Most resolutions pass with a simple voice vote. New Business Item 2 required a standing vote, where delegates pro and con stand, in turn. The room looked to be divided
It came as a symbolic slam at the Obama administration. But as with President Dennis Van Roekel's keynote speech, it stopped short of actually calling out the U.S. president, a supporter of the program. And the debate over the item provided the clearest picture yet of both the internal and external difficulties the NEA faces pushing against an education agenda promoted by a Democratic, not a Republican, administration.
For one, the item passed by a razor-thin margin. Most resolutions pass with a simple voice vote. New Business Item 2 required a standing vote, where delegates pro and con stand, in turn. The room looked to be divided
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