Sunday, February 13, 2011

Evening Edition Feb. 13, 2011: Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now

Big Education Ape: Ed News Now


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blog.littlesis.org - Governor Andrew Cuomo’s austerity budget has won the backing of a coalition of business interests named the “Committee to Save New York,” which LittleSis analysts have been researching as part of o...

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huffingtonpost.com - The last Republican to serve as Mayor of Chicago was the deeply corrupt William "Big Bill" Thompson, who ended his term in 1931. Since then, the city has been run by what many call the "Democratic ...

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nypost.com - The number of black and Hispanic students who qualified for the city's top-tier high schools continued its downward trend in 2010 -- even though many more minority students are applying, new data s...

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chicagotribune.com - For months, Illinois education officials have courted private support for public education reforms that would test every kindergartner and revamp how teenagers study science and technology.In scale...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The first part of this was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is hosting an International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City on March 16-17. It is by “invitation only” and timed to take place right befor...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Payne, Mazany to plot course for Chicago schoolsPosted By Rebecca Harris and Lorraine Forte On Friday, February 11, 2011In CPS AdministrationFor the first time in almost a year, Chicago schools hav...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Big Education Ape: Ed News NowBig Education Ape: Ed News Nowindypendent.org - Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System. President Barack Obama and Education S...

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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - can be seen in the contents of a proposed Continuing Resolution introduced late. Friday night by the House Republican Leadership. Alyson Klein of Education Week presented the education cuts in this...

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mediabullpen.com - 16 recent articles Most Rocks & Stones Uncovered 6/6 1:13 PM: News organizations nationwide along with Hechinger Report news outlet and Education Writers Association collaborate to uncover looming ...

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wishtv.com - INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Education reform is at the top of the governor's priority list during the 2011 General Assembly, but already his proposals are being met with opposition from teachers. Hundred...

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huffingtonpost.com - It is the Great Chicago Mayoral Election of 2011 and here we are with three "serious contenders" who all seem more suited for a sweeps-week episode of "American Greed" than for mayor of Chicago. I ...

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mayoraltutorial.com - Eric, My concerns about Rahm are not fueled by him being an insider they are driven by his actual behavior. He’s running a patently dishonest ad that claims an Obama endorsement. He used illegal wo...

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huffingtonpost.com - Anderson Cooper's tough talk about the Egyptian government's "lies" was criticized by Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey on Saturday. Cooper, Rainey wrote, should not have called the governme...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - When asked “Should city employees be allowed to move to the suburbs?” Here is what the candidates had to say:Rahm Emanuel: He’s “open” to having that conversation.Miguel del Valle: No — that would ...

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mizmercer.edublogs.org - Sometimes, you can see where problems will come from in a group, or what groups will have conflicts. I was in an online group for new mothers based on our due date month. This was a rather diverse ...

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preaprez.wordpress.com - I want to share some thoughts about the last few days of being a teacher in the crosshairs of the right-wing bullies who want to take away our unions and our democratic rights to speak out for what...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:00 pm, February 13, 2011 Photo Credits: "Typical" Women South African Photographer Mike Mike, set out to find Miss Average in 41 different nationalities. In taking pictures of more t...

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host.madison.com - GAYLE WORLAND | Wisconsin State Journal | gworland@madison.com madison.com | | Posted: Sunday, February 13, 2011 11:00 am Junior Kenny Lyons sings in concert choir, plays bass in the school jazz co...

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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Feb 13 2011 Larry Ferlazzo First Person American is a neat website that has some resources now, but won’t be completely operational until July 4th. It has multimedia recounting the travels of moder...

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rosemont.patch.com - Today’s dinner menu will consist of meat at our house. One of our favorite meat dishes is called bulgogi. The name explains everything about the dish: “bul’ means fire or flame, and “gogi” means m...

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sacbee.com - It wasn't technically a corn dog Julie Raymond's kids reported was being served for breakfast at Leonardo da Vinci K-8 School last year.It was actually a pancake-encased sausage on a stick.But the ...

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democraticunderground.com - Abortions would be costly, more difficult to get under new bills (Ohio) Edited on Sun Feb-13-11 10:22 AM by AngryOldDem Source: Dayton Daily NewsCOLUMBUS — Abortions could be more difficult to obta...

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hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 9:00 am, February 13, 2011 Photo Credits: Berlusconi at Miss Italy Contest Thousands of women are expected to take part in marches in cities across Italy to protest against the country...

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Rhee's five big missteps

Rhee's five big missteps

Rhee's five big missteps


Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 13, 2011; 6:03 PM

Richard Whitmire's deft and revealing book about former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee chronicles a difficult time in the history of the city's schools, when good people fought hard against one another because of sharply contrasting views on how to help our children.

THIS STORY

The book is "The Bee Eater," the title a reference to a

D.C. schools using data from teacher evaluation system in new ways

by Stephanie McCrummen
While the main purpose of the District's controversial new teacher evaluation system is to rate teachers' effectiveness, officials are beginning to use the fresh troves of data it generates for other purposes, too, such as assessing administrators and determining which universities produce the be...

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School Tech Connect: First They Came For Fred

School Tech Connect: First They Came For Fred

First They Came For Fred

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Adorable picture stolen randomly from here.
Apparently it's going to take a New Business Item and a floor strategy to get the IEA leadership to chirp inabout the right-wing intimidation attack on Fred Klonsky. I'm usually very forgiving of teacher union leadership; in my mind it's a daily uphill battle leading a union, given how out-of-the-fight most of the membership is. But in this case, I think there's definitely a lack of brass.

What we have here is an out-of-state zealot group
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Schools Matter: An Indiana Teacher's Close Encounter with "Red Menace" Daniels

Schools Matter: An Indiana Teacher's Close Encounter with "Red Menace" Daniels

An Indiana Teacher's Close Encounter with "Red Menace" Daniels

by Jim Horn
Last Tuesday over a thousand teachers and parents showed up to lobby at the Indiana State House in Indianapolis. Below is a news clip of the event and below that is a testimonial from a 38 year veteran art teacher who had a close encounter with what turned into a bulging-eyed and red-faced menace--Governor Mitch Daniels.



TESTIMONIAL FROM A MEMBER AT WESTERN (HOWARD COUNTY) WHO LOBBIED TUESDAY

On Tues. Jan. 25th, 2011, I went to
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Radical government takeover of the rights of workers in Wisconsin. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Radical government takeover of the rights of workers in Wisconsin. « Fred Klonsky's blog
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Last Stand for Children First: Last Stand for Children First Attends the Teach for America Summit

Last Stand for Children First: Last Stand for Children First Attends the Teach for America Summit

Last Stand for Children First Attends the Teach for America Summit

by Last Stand for Children


I just got back from the Teach for America Summit in Washington, DC and though I am exhausted and hung over I am also extremely energized to continue my fight to get every student an excellent education. Many people think that our agenda is anti-teacher, but nothing could be further from the truth. We love teachers, but we simply want them to quit enriching themselves by draining future generations of their hopes and dreams by acting as vampires who feed on our children. It was amazing to see 11,000 like-minded people who weren’t
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Miguel del Valle: A Mayor For Every Neighborhood

Del Valle for Mayor | For All Chicago For Every Neighborhood: Miguel del Valle: A Mayor For Every Neighborhood
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The Answer Sheet - Veteran teacher: My problem(s) with Teach For America

The Answer Sheet - Veteran teacher: My problem(s) with Teach For America

Veteran teacher: My problem(s) with Teach For America

The first part of this was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers. He is a National Board-certified teacher and an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network. This is part of a post he wrote that appeared on his Education Week Teacher blog, Living in Dialogue. Following Cody's piece is a response from veteran educator Nancy Flanagan that further develops the discussion about the best way to develop teachers. Flanagan is an education writer and consultant focusing on teacher leadership who spentt 30 years in a K-12 music classroom in Hartland, Mich, and was named Michigan Teacher of the Year in 1993. She is National Board-certified, and also member of the
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Schools Matter: Mitch Daniels' Red Menace: Public Education

Schools Matter: Mitch Daniels' Red Menace: Public Education

Mitch Daniels' Red Menace: Public Education

by Jim Horn
You can tell when the Presidential political season is starting to warm up when the demagoguery contests set in, and this past weekend at CPAC, the would-be Napoleon from Indiana was strutting his stuff and wearing his poker face. In fact, he'll see Obama a Sputnik Moment and raise him a Red Menace. Whereas Obama exploits America's golden age of fear to direct a cram-down ed policy, Mitch Daniels uses it to stage an extermination campaign against public services and employees.

Don't know if Little Mitch has Rove and Luntz on his payroll yet, but this use of metaphor in his CPAC speech is real political genius that goes to the heart of this Koch Brothers Era of American Corporate Politics: the real Enemy, as evil as any dirty Commie Atheist, morphs, as fast as you can say Bolshevik conspiracy, into the
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Daily Kos: The Republican Assault on Education

Daily Kos: The Republican Assault on Education

The Republican Assault on Education

by teacherken <rss@dailykos.com>

can be seen in the contents of a proposed Continuing Resolution introduced late. Friday night by the House Republican Leadership. Alyson Klein of Education Week presented the education cuts in this blog post, upon which I am relying.

It is important to realize several things. First, as with any cuts in the CR, the fiscal year began October 1st, so the impact of percentage cuts carries even greater impact. Second, states and local school authorities are currently struggling to balance their budgets, and were already proposing cuts - in most cases severe, in some cases massive and catastrophic - based on their loss of revenue. In almost all cases they presumed the revenue

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Dear Rainy. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Dear Rainy. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Dear Rainy.

by Fred Klonsky

Dear Rainy,
Thank you for your email.
There is no more important principal to unionism, whether it is teacher unions or other unions, than the concept of an injury to one is an injury to all.
These people didn’t just want to secure my emails through FOIA. They wrote demanding that I be fired and are threatening a state-wide media campaign to do it.
I was heartened by the support I received in response to the EAG attempts to silence me because of my union
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Robert Schwartz: Bringing Teach for America Back to the Core

Robert Schwartz: Bringing Teach for America Back to the Core

Robert Schwartz: Bringing Teach for America Back to the Core

by Robert Schwartz
I prepare to depart for the 20th Anniversary Alumni Summit for Teach for America in Washington, D.C. and I reflect on why I am attending. Some of the reasons are obvious -- seeing friends and acquaintances from long ago (I joined TFA in 1994), networking with some of the top educators and social entrepreneurs (a who's who in education newsmakers), and a chance to see some of my former students working and going to college in DC. The real question on my mind -- does my attendance signal my agreement with the general direction of the organization?

I credit Teach for America with giving me my start into teaching. I decided late in college I wanted to be a teacher and this was the quickest path to get there. Attracted by the mission and the idea of being part of something bigger, it was also a convenient excuse to move from snowy upstate N.Y. to sunny L.A. I loved my two years as part of the corps. The L.A. office organized some great parties and every once in a while, a bunch of us science teachers got together to plan -- admittedly, much has changed in supporting corps members since then.

Much has changed in many aspects of TFA. Maybe I was blind to the plan all along, but I thought the main idea
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Apples to Apples « Strategicteaching's Blog

Apples to Apples « Strategicteaching's Blog

Apples to Apples

February 13, 2011 by strategicteaching

Apples to Apples

Let’s compare apples to apples. This is what I think whenever I hear one of those dire comparisons between the public schools in the United States and India…or China…or Japan…or Finland. Without exception the US stats pale in comparison. But are we comparing the same populations? Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit a high school in Shanghai. It was impressive. I observed diligent students in well run classrooms; computer use by all students; high college entrance rates. Definitely this was a high performing public school. Or was it something else? As I passed other schools in Beijing where student

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