Gearing Up For Magnet Season - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Gearing Up For Magnet Season - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

Gearing Up For Magnet Season [image: PeerReview.jpg]There are a couple of posts over at CPS Obsessed for those among us who are gearing up for magnet applications and the like: ABC's of CPS includes information about parent workships later this month...New magnet application ...

Waiting For Superman Movie "Overblown" [image: 100927_talkcmmntillus_p233]I'm no apologist for the status quo -- but I'm no reformy over-enthusiast, either. So it's amusing and informative to see how easily the New Yorker's Nick Lemann punches holes in much of the nonsense that's out ...

Corinthian’s Shameless, Misleading Campaign � The Quick and the Ed

Corinthian’s Shameless, Misleading Campaign � The Quick and the Ed

Corinthian’s Shameless, Misleading Campaign

by Bill Tucker

Corinthian Colleges, which paid $6.5 million in 2007 to avoid a lawsuit alleging it misled students about career opportunities, is running full page newspaper ads warning that Gainful Employment regulations will cost 100,000 jobs and prevent a million students from going to college (see below). The ad campaign, which purports to defend students but instead seeks to instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the regulations, is a classic example of manufactured evidence and astroturf industry lobbying. The worst part is the blatant attempt to position Corinthian as the defender of low-income and minority students, the same students saddled with debt.

On the accompanying web site, Corinthian cites an “independent analysis by the Parthenon Group” as the basis

British Jamaican Rastafarian Writer, Dub Poet Benjamin Zephaniah on Poetry, Politics and Revolution

British Jamaican Rastafarian Writer, Dub Poet Benjamin Zephaniah on Poetry, Politics and Revolution

British Jamaican Rastafarian Writer, Dub Poet Benjamin Zephaniah on Poetry, Politics and Revolution

In London, the Prince of Wales Theatre was packed Sunday for a reading of the British production of The People Speak, a people’s history of Britain inspired by the work of the late historian Howard Zinn. We speak to Rasta and performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah.

This Week In Education: Events: Assigned Seating At Daily Show / Colbert Report Rally

This Week In Education: Events: Assigned Seating At Daily Show / Colbert Report Rally

Events: Assigned Seating At Daily Show / Colbert Report Rally

by Alexander Russo

Important event update: Word is out that seating at at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rally in DC will be assigned by the event organizers.

In the "Million Moderates March" area will be Nick Lemann (see

Two days of teacher performance debate Hechinger Report | Informing the Public about Education through Quality Journalism

Hechinger Report | Informing the Public about Education through Quality Journalism

Two days of teacher performance debate

Tying teacher performance and pay has been a hot topic recently. We’re Twittering live Monday and Tuesday from a conference on the topic put on by the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University.

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Education Week: New vaccine rules require shots for school kids

Education Week: New vaccine rules require shots for school kids

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How goes Iraq? View from a bookstore is revealing

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SD school district tweaks language classes' focus

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Students play computer games in school

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STEM creating student interest in math, science

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Citigroup shedding student loan business

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Fla dad charged for threatening kids on school bus, 1st Ld

“Scientifically Tested Tests” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Scientifically Tested Tests” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

“Scientifically Tested Tests” “Scientifically Tested Tests” is an op-ed in todays New York Times by Susan Engel, who is the director of teaching at Williams College. It says a number of good things critiquing standardized tests and makes some decent suggestions, including: ...

“College Grads Expand Lead in Job Security” College Grads Expand Lead in Job Security is the title of a Wall Street Journal article about the economic advantages of having a college degree. It would have to be modified to be made accessible to English Language Learners, but it has some good ...

Birds fly, fish swim, unions support tax hike

Birds fly, fish swim, unions support tax hike

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On (about) this date in history Mexico won its independence from Spain, declaring, "today we are a free and sovereign basket case." As of last week Mexico is a colony controlled by bureaucrats and cartels.

On to the news.

• In Legislative District 26, in the great northwest, Sen. Al "Sand Barge" Melvin can't seem to muster the barnacles to meet his challenger, Cheryl Cage, in a debate. According to one observer, "Captain Popeye has mistaken Olive Oyl for Bluto and is completely out of spinach."

Melvin won't attend a debate unless his requirements are met: He wants the debate to include the district's five libertarians, four homeless Greens, three House of Representatives candidates, two turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree. "I prefer to be lost in the crowd," he admitted.

Adm. Melvin is sailing out of an upcoming debate at Mountain View High School because "I'm allergic to public schools. Why can't we hold the debate at a GOP Unity Rally?"

The Educated Reporter: What’s Tony Danza’s value-added score?

The Educated Reporter: What’s Tony Danza’s value-added score?

What’s Tony Danza’s value-added score?

by Linda Perlstein

If you have ever wanted to hear an ’80s-era sitcom star utter the phrase “professional development workshops,” then A&E sure has a show for you. “Teach: Tony Danza” debuts October 1, with the first of seven one-hour episodes about the actor teaching—for real—tenth-grade English in a Philadelphia public school.

Naturally I am all in favor of bringing viewers/readers/listeners as deep into the classrom as possible, so they can better understand the challenges, successes and failures of American education. And as an avid gatherer of useless celebrity tidbits, I was happy to collect some about Danza: He is extremely bow-legged; he is obsessed with hand sanitizer; he sweats through his clothes a lot, which a student points out to him. But wow—I feel really bad for the 26 kids in Danza’s class.

Missing the POINT: Tomorrow's Big Merit Pay Study Will Tell Us… Nothing :: Frederick M. Hess

Missing the POINT: Tomorrow's Big Merit Pay Study Will Tell Us… Nothing :: Frederick M. Hess

Missing the POINT: Tomorrow's Big Merit Pay Study Will Tell Us… Nothing

Tomorrow, Vanderbilt University's National Center on Performance Incentives will publish the Project on Incentives in Teaching (POINT) study, reporting the results of a major three-year teacher pay experiment in the metropolitan Nashville Public Schools....

Has special-ed inclusion backfired? — Joanne Jacobs

Has special-ed inclusion backfired? — Joanne Jacobs

Has special-ed inclusion backfired?

by Joanne

Has special-ed inclusion backfired? On Hechinger Ed, Sarah Butrymowicz questions whether students with special needs are best served by spending all or most of their day “with a teacher who likely knows little about how best to teach them.”

Federal mandates that students must be educated in “the least restrictive environment” possible.

Some classrooms are led by a general-education teacher helped out by a special-education teacher, in a team-teaching model. In other cases, however, students with special needs receive instruction from specialists only a few hours a day or week in pull-out sessions. That is, many special-education students spend the bulk of their days being taught primarily by general-education teachers.