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Pro-union protesters to target Rhee | Freeman Klopott | DC | Washington Examiner

Pro-union protesters to target Rhee | Freeman Klopott | DC | Washington Examiner

Pro-union protesters to target Rhee

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By: Freeman Klopott 05/08/11 8:05 PM
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Parents, teachers and students are coming to Washington on Monday to protest anti-union initiatives favored by former D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett.

The protest will focus its attention on the American Federation for Children's annual policy conference at the Washington Marriott, which Rhee, Walker and Corbett are scheduled to attend.

AFC backs initiatives by Walker and Corbett designed to reduce the hold of unions on the education systems and bureaucracies of their respective states.

Rhee repeatedly squared off against teachers unions as she pushed for reforms that held teachers accountable for student progress. Some of the results of her approach have been disputed following a recent USA Today article strongly suggesting that answers on student tests had been modified to



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/05/pro-union-protesters-target-rhee#ixzz1LrC1162h
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: NYC MAYOR'S BUDGET SEEKS TO LAY OFF 5% OF TEACHERS + LOOMING LAY OFFS AT SCHOOLS IMPERIL BLOOMBERG'S LEGACY

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: NYC MAYOR'S BUDGET SEEKS TO LAY OFF 5% OF TEACHERS + LOOMING LAY OFFS AT SCHOOLS IMPERIL BLOOMBERG'S LEGACY
NYC MAYOR'S BUDGET SEEKS TO LAY OFF 5% OF TEACHERS + LOOMING LAY OFFS AT SCHOOLS IMPERIL BLOOMBERG'S LEGACY Mayor’s Budget Seeks to Lay Off 5% of Teachers By DAVID W. CHEN and JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ | http://nyti.ms/mcsuGS Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presenting his budget on Friday at City Hall. The spending plan called for laying off 5,400 city workers. Pool ...
TEACHERS UNION CHALLENGES L.A. UNIFIEDS NEW EVALUATION PROCESS: UTLA says the district did not "engage in good faith negotiation" over a new teacher evaluation system that includes use of student test scores. L.A. Unified is seeking volunteers to test the system. By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times | http://lat.ms/kOy2ij United Teachers Los Angeles president A.J. Duffy addresses the Crescendo Schools board of directors on March 4. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) May 8, 2011 - The union representing ...
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Leading mathematician debunks ‘value-added’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Leading mathematician debunks ‘value-added’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Leading mathematician debunks ‘value-added’ -- *This was written by John Ewing, president of Math for America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving mathematics education in U.S. public high schools by recruiting, training and retaining great teachers. This article originally ...
Virginia’s ill-advised assessment experiment -- *This was written by Mary Tedrow, a National Board Certified Teacher and director of the Northern Virginia Writing Project’s Shenandoah Valley Satellite. She is also a member and past fellow of the Teacher Leaders Network.* * Read full article ...
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Complaining about civics illiteracy is as American as ignorance itself | Thoughts on Public Education

Complaining about civics illiteracy is as American as ignorance itself | Thoughts on Public Education
Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here - by Kathryn Baron Developmental education in California’s community colleges is a study in unintended consequences. The very courses designed to assist students who need a little help climbing over the ledge from high school to college level work will more than likely ...
Complaining about civics illiteracy is as American as ignorance itself - by Peter Schrag “Ignorance of U.S. History Shown by College Freshmen,” the headline said. “Survey of 7,000 Students in 36 Institutions Discloses Vast Fund of Misinformation On Many Basic Facts.” Sound familiar? In fact, the headline, above a long story in the New York ...
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NYC Educator: Educators4NYCEducator Policy Statement

NYC Educator: Educators4NYCEducator Policy Statement

Educators4NYCEducator Policy Statement

by NYC Educator
As you know, Mayor Bloomberg has announced his plans to reduce the teaching force by 12%. Many people are saying, oh, this means higher class sizes, and will thus be a disaster. Others are saying it's incredibly stupid to cut teachers while sitting on what is now a 3.2 billion dollar surplus.

We at Educators4NYC Educator choose not to wallow in negativity, but rather to seek new reforms. For example, Mayor Bloomberg will be saving over 300 million by laying off thousands of teachers. We see this as an opportunity for innovation. NYC is a city of innovation. For example, we're now not only using value-added methods, but fighting to make the results public, despite the fact that the actual results can be worse than meaningless.

We've also created a merit pay program that failed to substantively improve anything. We've devoted a lot of time and money to this plan, and
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Queens Teacher: Diane Ravitch & Deborah Meier

Queens Teacher: Diane Ravitch & Deborah Meier
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

by Mike Klonsky
The wisdom of the elites
"The fact is that what we’re experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. The policies that got us into this mess weren’t responses to public demand. They were, with few exceptions, policies championed by small groups of influential people — in many cases, the same people now lecturing the rest of us on the need to get serious. And by trying to shift the blame to the general populace, elites are ducking some much-needed reflection on their own catastrophic mistakes." -- Paul Krugman, NYT
Freedom riders
Nancy Flanagan responds to Duncan
"It's time to remember the Freedom Riders, who risked their very lives fifty years ago this week, to achieve democratic equality. Notsegregated charter schools which a handful of lottery-winners get to attend. Not classrooms staffed by two-year adventure teachers . Not watered-down, low-level curriculum and test items.' -- Edweek
Punishing L.A. high schools for low scores
"The original goal of the funding was to see what a struggling school
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Beaumontenterprise.com highlights California teachers’ call for week of budget protests « State of Emergency

Beaumontenterprise.com highlights California teachers’ call for week of budget protests « State of Emergency
Beaumontenterprise.com highlights California teachers’ call for week of budget protests “They (the state Legislature) have the opportunity to extend these taxes legislatively, and we believe that is the right way to go,”[California Teachers'] association President David Sanchez said. “If we wait until September, it will no longer be ...
San Mateo County Times blog quotes Redwood City School District Board Member Supporting More Funds for Education “I think part of the problem is that teachers, administrators and classified staff work so tirelessly to make up for the budget shortfalls that, in some ways, the public does not see the brunt of the problem,” Redwood City School District board ...
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Daily Kos: does Dionne have it right?

Daily Kos: does Dionne have it right?

does Dionne have it right?

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

Let me begin with the ending:

It’s axiomatic that government isn’t perfect and that we’re better off having a large private sector. It ought to be axiomatic that the private market isn’t perfect, either, and that we need government to step in when the market fails. The success of the auto bailout and the failure of the Republicans’ anti-Medicare campaign both teach the same lesson: The era of anti-government extremism is ending.

That is the conclusion of a Washington Post op ed by E. J. Dionne titled Rescuing Detroit: No news about government’s good news. Dionne calls Republicans to account, reminding us how critical they were of the administration's decision to bail out the auto industry.

If you prefer, we could begin with his very brief opening paragraph:

Don’t expect to see a lot of newspapers and Web sites with this headline: “Big Government Bailou
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Strategies 360/DMA Marketing Caught Red Handed | Seattle Education

Strategies 360/DMA Marketing Caught Red Handed | Seattle Education

Strategies 360/DMA Marketing Caught Red Handed

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…and other connections

Our Schools Coalition has not been active since September of 2010 after congratulating themselves on being a part of the bargaining process between the teacher’s union and the superintendent.

According to their website:

The coalition formed here strongly supports the following changes to the Seattle Public School teacher contract, to be renegotiated beginning April 2010 for agreement by the start of the 2010-2011 school year. We advocate that all

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Talking about School Reform and Feeling Depressed | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Talking about School Reform and Feeling Depressed | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Talking about School Reform and Feeling Depressed

by larrycuban

A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak to a group of Stanford University graduate students who were completing a joint Masters’ degree in education and business administration.

Many of the 18 students sitting around a seminar table had taught a few years in urban schools through Teach for America. Those who had no direct experience in schools had worked for consulting firms with contracts in major urban districts. Smart, savvy about organizations and passionate about reforming schools, the students wanted to hear my thoughts about reform that I had extracted from nearly a half-century of experience as teacher, superintendent, and researcher. I offered four lessons. Since I have written about each of these lessons in earlier posts I will compress the lessons and cite the earlier posts for those readers who want more

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