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Saturday, Feb. 05, 2011

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Miguel del Valle was elected City Clerk of Chicago in 2006, following almost 20 years in the Illinois Senate, where he chaired the elementary and secondary education committee. He was the first His...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - There was lots of behind-the-scenes reaction to last week's "wrecking ball" post. Most of the folks I sent it to seemed to think that such a thing wasn't possible given lack of money, or wise given...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Results of the community vote in Los Angeles Unified's Public School Choice program will be delayed by three weeks to coordinate with the district's recently revised schedule, officials said Thursd...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - At a time when corporate profits are through the roof, the Dow is flirting with 12,000, Wall Street paychecks are fat again, and big corporations are sitting on more than $1 trillion in cash, you’d...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Alexander Russo at This Week in Education has an outstanding post today about watching out for the “anti-reform wrecking ball.” I think the TFA/Michelle Rhee/KIPP/etc reformers can get incredibly f...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Seven takeaways from this week’s second marathon Panel for Educational Policy meeting, for those who don’t have time for 6,000-plus words, minute-to-minute updates:1. The teachers union and charter...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - According to a recent study, the high school drop out rate for Latinos in Toronto is now 40 percent, and despite attempts to change this, the school district has, so far, been unable to find a solu...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - LANSING, Mich.—A new study released Thursday contradicts Gov. Rick Snyder's contention that public workers' pay and benefits are out of line with the private sector, saying instead that state worke...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - fklonsky Wal-Mart replacing small family owned businesses. Here's another example. Historic south side restaurant.http://tinyurl.com/465ap...3 hours ago · reply

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Each dollar spent on a high-quality early childhood program in the Chicago Public Schools yields $4 to $11 in benefits to the economy, according to a new cost-benefit analysis. (Full disclosure: Ba...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - We have another guest blog post this week. Kendra Royster, an intern with the ACLU, attended a recent film screening and discussion about community organizing in education.A recent screening of “A ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Marist College poll released this evening shows that new Schools Chancellor Cathie Black has less public support than her predecessor, Joel Klein, did when he took the job eight years ago.Current...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - "Should we teach our children as though they have two lives, or one?"That's the question Jason Ohler poses in "Character Education for the Digital Age'.Current policy norms--blocking large portions...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Shannon Cuttle, founder and director of the Safe Schools Action Network (photo courtesy, Shannon Cuttle).Today is the 100th day of school. It’s also the 100th day of battling bullies.No one is figh...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Nowharvinmoore.com - How do you get in there? And how can they see out? This provocative editorial from Chester Finn of the Fordham Foundati...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - ERN AT PEP HEARING; KLEIN, ROMEROPosted by kennethlibby on February 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment The New York Times’ Barbara Martinez writes about the PEP’s decision to close a number of schools in NY...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Voters should have the chance to extend tax increases that would provide key funding to K-12 schools under Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2011-12 budget proposal, the Sacramento City Unified School District Bo...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Forever etched in my mind and soul is an image of Rosa Parks sitting softly, as she had in that historic picture of her looking out of a bus window, with a white man sitting behind her with a kind ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Black's troubles started Tuesday night, when she was at odds with another angry group of parents and didn't handle it well. While trying to speak to the crowd at Tuesday's school-

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Is Deasy Leveraging Himself To Passify UTLA?Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest in the nation, faces staggering budget cuts and a protracted battle with its teachers uni...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Houston's "reform" superintendent, Terry Grier complains that his performance pay system identified 92% of teachers as deserving bonuses, so he plans to cut it back. After the first year of the Dis...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Last night the Panel for Education Policy (PEP) met to close 13 schools. Thousands of students, parents and teachers from the closing schools and from across the city protested the vote at the meet...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Cocoa Puffs On The GroundI had the pleasure of attending EduCon 2.3 last weekend, surrounded by people I mostly met digitally and students I only envisioned through the stories of the Science Leade...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - by Carol BoydTwo years ago in the midst of the mayoral control crusades, Mayor Bloomberg retorted regarding the school governance legislation that “If the Senate passes something that differs by on...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Community Roots Charter School (CRCS) is across the street from the housing projects in Fort Greene,and the bathrooms and the lunchroom look plenty run-down. But don’t be fooled: the kids are all r...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The US government must break its ties to the dictatorship in Egypt. As courageous Egyptians are being bombarded with US tear gas and other Made-in-the-USA weapons, US officials hypocritically call ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The DOE’s School Closings and the Parthenon ReportByRon IsaacThe eyes of the Department of Education are on our children. More to the point, they have our kids in their sights. It’s not that they’r...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - This is a very long and complicated post, so I’ll give you a few take home points up front…Take home pointsCrude assumptions advanced by the “new normal” pundit crowd that across the board state ai...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Practitioner time. If media time (see previous post) often looks like speeded-up frames from 1920s films, then think of practitioner time as slow motion. One example should suffice.As computers spi...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Eliminating seniority-based layoffs is a policy idea that is making the rounds these days, with proponents making special appeals to cash-strapped states and districts desperately looking for ways ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jose Vilson, Beyond 2011Recently, Chuck Klosterman wrote an exceptional article on contemporary writer legend Jonathan Franzen in GQ Magazine, where Klosterman devotes a significant amount of time ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - By TaRessa Stovall“Black Children and Families are Facing the Worst Crises Since Slavery,” was the campaign tagline when the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) launched its Black Community Crusade for C...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Geoffrey Canada, standing, in a scene from the documentary Waiting for 'Superman'. Photograph: AP Photo/Paramount PicturesManagement and labour are hurtling towards an impasse, and a work stoppage ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A few years ago, the private school voucher movement looked pretty much dead. The definitive study of the nation's largest such program, in Milwaukee, found no evidence that 20,000 students who won...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I was down on the floor doing my morning crunches. I don’t usually watch Morning Joe on MSNBC, but I was hoping to see some pictures from Cairo. Instead I heard Chris Matthews say he was ashamed to...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Below is a comment by a retired teacher/mother who responded to Diane Ravitch’s piece, The President’s Speech, in Ed Week. It’s a testimony as to why America has done so well in innovation, and tha...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - On his weekly radio show this morning, Mayor Michael Bloomberg had some harsh words for those who lashed out at last night's Panel for Educational Policy meeting, at which it was decided 12 more ci...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - In his State of the Union, President Obama rightly proclaimed that we need to "out-educate." But what he should have added is that "We can't win the future with the education of the past." Despite ...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Del Valle urges reform in spirit of frequent diner Harold Washington February 4, 2011 (CHICAGO)--City Clerk and mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle visited today a frequent dining destination of the...

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What is 21st Century Learning? | Lefty Parent

What is 21st Century Learning? | Lefty Parent

What is 21st Century Learning?

by Cooper Zale

A recent Ed Week online article, “How Do You Define 21st Century Learning”, featured the thoughts of eleven people connected to the US education establishment as teachers, consultants or educrats. I was intrigued how each would frame this topic, relative to my own framing as a parent and more of a many educational paths (including unschooling) advocate.

Here is the article author’s framing of the question…

The term “21st-century skills” is generally used to refer to certain core competencies such as collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving that advocates believe schools need to teach to help students thrive in today’s world. In a broader sense, however, the idea of

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Teaching the Taboo « Bill Ayers

Teaching the Taboo « Bill Ayers

Teaching the Taboo

by billayers

A Book That Will Push Any Educator, February 5, 2011

By Tessa Strauss –

This review is from: Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom

I have to admit, I might be a little biased towards this book. Rick Ayers was my own high school teacher and I saw him create change in our large urban public school, along with inspiring students, teachers, and community members alike, and mentoring them through the process of creating change themselves. Rick’s personal standpoint on education and politics has always inspired and motivated me; in fact, it was in part because of his ability and persistence in pushing students to question the norm that motivated me to become a teacher too.

As a first year teacher in an urban public school, I am faced every day (every moment even) with ethical, political, social, and personal dilemmas that could paralyze me if I had nowhere else to turn. I know why so many teachers leave the education system after only a year or two in the classroom. This is hard work! There are pressures from every angle to be the best teacher, to have your students succeed academically, to pull students up from the bottom single-handedly, to do the impossible and be a superhero. Teachers play a lot of roles in their classrooms; I am prepared daily to be a friend, surrogate mother, listener, conflict manager, food

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NYC Public School Parents: Time to take back our schools! and the mayor's reaction to the protests

NYC Public School Parents: Time to take back our schools! and the mayor's reaction to the protests

Time to take back our schools! and the mayor's reaction to the protests

by Leonie Haimson
See video below of Thursday's night rally and Panel for Educational Policy meeting at Brooklyn Tech before the mass walkout. More information about the protests and the way the Panel rubber stamped the school closings and charter takeovers at NY1.

The Mayor responded on Friday with comments about how the vocal opposition of parents, teachers, students, and elected officials was "embarassing" and "undemocratic." See my response at the Brooklyn Eagle, Gabe Pressman's column, and the Wall Street Journal.

It is the height of arrogance for Bloomberg to criticize us for being undemocratic when he has treated our schools as his personal fiefdom, to do as he likes without any attention to our priorities, or the damage he is doing to our
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No Child Left Behind has been educational disaster | Recordnet.com

No Child Left Behind has been educational disaster | Recordnet.com

No Child Left Behind has been educational disaster

By Robert D. Morrow
Professor emeritus, University of the Pacific
February 05, 2011 12:00 AM

It's not often you get the inside scoop on legislation that has completely polarized educators and the public. However, such is the case with "true confessions" from Susan Neuman, a respected educator, University of the Pacific graduate and early federal driving force behind the implementation of No Child Left Behind.

Tracking her rise from grad student to college professor to assistant secretary of education can be compared to watching a chameleon change colors. Her career in higher education has been one of kudos bestowed on her as she became a top-notch researcher and a major supporter of early-childhood education. Her teaching journey took her from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and, currently, to the University of Michigan. She's established herself as

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Teachers Union President Says Bloomberg Governs Like Egypt's President - DNAinfo.com

Teachers Union President Says Bloomberg Governs Like Egypt's President - DNAinfo.com

Teachers Union President Says Bloomberg Governs Like Egypt's President Updated 74 mins ago

February 5, 2011 11:16amcommentprint

Teachers Union President Mike Mulgrew said Mayor Michael Bloomberg's democratic ideals resemble Mubarak's.

Teachers Union President Says Bloomberg Governs Like MubarakDoes this man share traits with an Egyptian autocrat? Teachers Union President Michael Mulgrew thinks so. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

By Tara Kyle

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Teachers Union President Mike Mulgrew intensified a standoff with Mayor Michael Bloomberg Friday, saying that the Mayor handles city schools like Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak handles protestors, according to the New York Post.

The verbal battles between Bloomberg and Mulgrew, who the Post reported once had a close relationship, began to escalate following Thursday’s Panel for Education Policy (PEP) meeting over the fate of failing schools.



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Teachers union president compares Mayor Bloomberg to Hosni Mubarak - NYPOST.com

Teachers union president compares Mayor Bloomberg to Hosni Mubarak - NYPOST.com

'Hosni' Bloomberg

Teachers union hits 'dictator'

By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief

Last Updated: 11:31 AM, February 5, 2011

Posted: 12:57 AM, February 5, 2011

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It's war.

Teachers union president Mike Mulgrew dropped a nuclear verbal bomb on Mayor Bloomberg yesterday, equating him with Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak for tearing into parents who heckled Schools Chancellor Cathie Black at a recent meeting.

The rapidly escalating war of words between the two men -- who were on friendly terms just a few months ago -- was sparked by comments the mayor made on his radio show yesterday directed at hundreds of parents who booed and yelled at Black during a meeting Thursday night on closing failing schools.

"This is embarrassing for New York City, New York state, for



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