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School Tech Connect: The Woman Is A Myth Factory

School Tech Connect: The Woman Is A Myth Factory

The Woman Is A Myth Factory

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Lily Eskeslon does a nice job of refocusing the narrative against the Fox News person. What's interesting to me is the number of absolute bullshit, totally wrong things the infotainer repeats--- teachers are locked into their jobs with tenure; they can't be fired; everyone knows who the good and bad teachers in every school. She sounds like Oprah! Or the President!

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In my experience in administration, everyone does not know who the good and the bad teachers are, although sometimes this is true. What people are likely to know is the myths that circulate. One common theme I saw
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Dozens of Hiram Johnson students stage walkout - Sacramento Sports - Kings, 49ers, Raiders, High School Sports | Sacramento Bee

Dozens of Hiram Johnson students stage walkout - Sacramento Sports - Kings, 49ers, Raiders, High School Sports | Sacramento Bee

Dozens of Hiram Johnson students stage walkout

By Melody Gutierrez
mgutierrez@sacbee.com
Published: Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1B

Dozens of Hiram Johnson students staged a walkout Friday morning to protest myriad issues they say stem from a new administration.

Students say new Principal Felisberto Cedros and his administrative staff were not listening to their concerns about school safety, scheduling issues and cafeteria changes.

Cedros said he met with the estimated 60 to 100 students in a school auditorium after they walked out of second period and stood in a parking lot. He said there were a few genuine concerns, but he labeled others "silly" and based on rumors.

Hiram Johnson, which has struggled academically for years, has been undergoing major changes since Cedros was named principal at the end of the last school year. Over the



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Schools Matter: Rhee's Revolution Reaping the Rewards of Arrogance Run Amok

Schools Matter: Rhee's Revolution Reaping the Rewards of Arrogance Run Amok

Rhee's Revolution Reaping the Rewards of Arrogance Run Amok

by Jim Horn
A couple of clips from an insightful op-ed by Judith Warner in the NYTimes:
Around the country, supporters of education reform — or at least of the test-scores-driven, tenure-busting, results-rewarding sort of reform epitomized by organizations like Teach for Americaand championed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan — gave a collective gasp of dismay last month when voters in a number of districts handed primary defeats to candidates closely associated with just this type of reform. In New York, three state-senate candidates who ran on pro-charter-school platforms each failed to garner more than 30 percent of the vote. In Washington,

High School Senior, Sylvie Baldwin, Just Says No to Any More Testing

by Jim Horn
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UIC faculty may fight Ayers decision Supporters say fallout from 'Prairie Fire' dedication created conflict of interest for board chair Kennedy - Chicago Tribune

UIC faculty may fight Ayers decision Supporters say fallout from 'Prairie Fire' dedication created conflict of interest for board chair Kennedy - Chicago Tribune

UIC faculty may fight Ayers decision
Supporters say fallout from 'Prairie Fire' dedication created conflict of interest for board chair Kennedy

September 30, 2010|By Jodi S. Cohen, Tribune reporter

University of Illinois at Chicago faculty leaders are weighing whether to ask the board of trustees to reconsider its controversial decision to deny emeritus status to retired professor William Ayers.

It's the latest twist in a showdown 40 years in the making between Ayers, a Vietnam War-era radical who later joined the UIC faculty, and Christopher Kennedy, the university's board chair, who was 4 when his father, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated.

Following a passionate speech last week, Kennedy voted against Ayers' appointment, saying he was guided by his conscience and could not support someone who had dedicated a book to the man who assassinated his father. The other

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Bullying Round Up � Whole Child Blog - Whole Child Education

Bullying Round Up � Whole Child Blog - Whole Child Education
  • Klea Scharberg

    Bullying Round Up

    October 02, 2010 by Klea Scharberg

    For the past month, we here at the Whole Child Blog have been looking at bullying. A school and community that do not address bullying cannot ensure that each student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Listen to the Whole Child Podcast with guests Kevin Jennings, assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Safe [...]

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  • ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

    FAIL: Why Student Voice Isn't Enough

    October 01, 2010 by ASCD Whole Child Bloggers

    Effective bullying prevention and intervention requires direct action. It is important that everyone working to stop bullying sees student voice as a piece of that action, but not the whole pie. The cycle of engagement is one tool that can engage educators, students, and others as partners in eliminating bullying.

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  • Jessica Wakefield

    Get a WICKED Attitude About Bullying

    September 29, 2010 by Jessica Wakefield

    October is not only the month that many young people (and adults, too!) celebrate and enjoy Halloween; it is also National Bully Prevention Month. Why not integrate the two? Well, you can, more easily than you might think. Our partner the National School Climate Center’s (NSCC) BullyBust campaign has joined forces with the Broadway musical WICKED to [...]

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Thoughts on Public Education | Analysis, opinion and ruminations on California education policy

Thoughts on Public Education | Analysis, opinion and ruminations on California education policy
October 1, 2010

California has now joined nearly every state in requiring that children be five years old when starting kindergarten.
Hours before the midnight deadline for deciding on legislation, Gov. Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will move up the cutoff for kindergarten from Dec. 2 to Sept. 1 and fund an extra year of transition kindergarten for those 4-year-olds who no longer will be eligible for regular kindergarten because of the change.
The passage […]


Green-tech academies vetoed

Education legislation roundup
John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
October 1, 2010

“Green jobs” in conservation and alternative energy will require workers exposed to careers in those fields and trained in emerging technologies. But a bill to create 97 green high school career-tech academies was killed last night by Gov. Schwarzenegger.
The academies under SB 675 would have been financed by diverting $8 million from a small ($.00022 [...]

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LA teacher got good district review

District issues statement on suicide
John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
October 1, 2010

The Los Angeles Unified School District disclosed that the elementary school teacher who allegedly took his own life in response to the Los Angeles Times’ publication of an analysis critical of his teaching effectiveness, actually received a “great performance” evaluation by the district in July.
In a statement released Thursday, Deputy Superintendent John Deasy said, “In [...]

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Texas tales won’t pollute our texts

Vetoed bill wouldn't have made a difference
John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
September 30, 2010

Gov. Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would ensure that the Texas Board of Education’s revisionist view of American history won’t taint California textbooks.
Schwarzenegger called SB 1451 “duplicative and unnecessary.” It probably was unneeded though not necessarily for the reasons he cited. Last year, Schwarzenegger suspended the state Curriculum Commission for four years, making it [...]

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The tragic loss of reduced class size

The tragic loss of reduced class size

The tragic loss of reduced class size

Delaine Eastin

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My grandmother's favorite poem ends with the line,

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!' "

So much might have been so much better in California had Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and some feckless members of the Legislature not put their no-taxes pledge ahead of our children's destiny. With $17 billion in spending cuts in education over the past two years, many of the initiatives that were showing such promise are being axed by a penny-wise, pound-foolish set of policies.

In 1995, when I proposed cutting class sizes in kindergarten through third grade, then-



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Cal sports cuts: tough call, but right one

Cal sports cuts: tough call, but right one

Cal fans may be stunned by the decision to cut five sports teams. But few familiar with the burden that...





Governor vetoes university transparency bill

California's public university foundations, which manage some $1.6 billion across dozens of campuses...

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Charter school's gift-card offer in student-enrollment drive illegal - The Denver Post

Charter school's gift-card offer in student-enrollment drive illegal - The Denver Post
Charter school's gift-card offer in student-enrollment drive illegal 410/02/2010A Denver charter school broke a new state law by offering families $400 worth of gift cards if they brought new students to the school before the day the state takes a student census.
DPS believes enrollment numbers will reflect middle schools' turnaround 210/01/2010 - Not too long ago, Denver parents would begin fretting when their children would hit fifth grade, wondering which middle school they should choose.

Senate hopeful Buck speaking in public less these days 9710/01/2010 - Of the many differences between the primary election and the general election in the U.S. Senate race, one stands out as perhaps the most stark: GOP hopeful Ken Buck rarely speaks publicly anymore.
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