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A Sociological Eye on Education | Joel Klein vs. the so

eyeoned.org - Joel Klein is a hoot. Klein, who served as Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools from 2002 to 2010, recently took to the opinion pages of The Washington Post to crown his friends and croni...
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Waiting for a School Miracle

nytimes.com - TEN years ago, Congress adopted the No Child Left Behind legislation, mandating that all students must be proficient in reading or mathematics by 2014 or their school would be punished. ...
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SB-7 Clears the Way for New Assault on Chicago's Teachers

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chicagotribune.com - When it comes to organized labor, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has problems that stretch beyond the Chicago Teachers Union — and he inherited them from his predecessor.In the short term, Emanuel has to figur...
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Daily Kos: and now I am in Minneapolis #NN11

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Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-Hoo Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-HooBoo-Friggin'-HooFellas, you reap what you sow:A team of Democratic heavy-hitters soundly rejected an advertisement released today by the New Jersey Education Associa...
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Daily Kos: and now I am in Minneapolis #NN11

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Daily Kos: and now I am in Minneapolisand now I am in Minneapolisby rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)Perhaps it was a waste of time going to school yesterday. I was there primarily to let students tur...
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If You Blog, Blog About Education… - Lily's Blackboard #nn11

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - If You Blog, Blog About Education… - Lily's Blackboard – Lily's BlackboardIf You Blog, Blog About Education…Jun 15th, 2011 by Lily.I’m going to a blogger’s convention. I have a blog. Oh yeah. You’r...
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The UpTake Welcomes Netroots Nation | The UpTake

theuptake.org - The UpTake’s Nick Coleman introduces our fair Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis in a fast-moving, irreverent video inspired by Paul Wellstone’s classic “Fast Paul” campaign ad. Be sure to fol...
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      Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform Posts | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

      Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform Posts | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
      Using Storify For “Poverty Matters When…” An Arkansas educator with the Twitter handle BaldMisery recommended I try using Storify to share the “Poverty Matters When…” tweets. Here is what I came up with: [View the story "Poverty Matters When" on Storify]
      Today’s “Round-Up” Of Good School Reform Posts Here are some good recent posts on school reform related issues: On Treating Students & Educators ‘Like Rats in a Maze’ is by Diane Ravitch. I’m adding it to The Best Posts/Articles On National Research Council Finding That Carrots & Sticks Don’t ...
      Photo Galleries Of The Week Obviously, photos can be great educational tools with English Language Learners and with any students (see The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons). I post about many photo galleries, also called slideshows. To do it in a little more organized way, ...
      “The strange and wonderful world of ancient trees” The strange and wonderful world of ancient trees is a pretty amazing slideshow from Salon. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Trees.
      “Poverty Matters When…” I’m not quite sure how it all got started, but all of a sudden on Twitter tonight tons of people started sending tweets to Diane Ravitch starting “Poverty matters when…” And these were some amazing tweets. I used “Searchtastic” to bring them all ...
      A Great Opportunity To Develop Your Personal Learning Network A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the name commonly given to a group of educators who you can learn and gain support from, as well as the other way around. Online networks have dramatically enhanced the ability to develop these kinds of networks ...
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      Mayor Tony: TEACHER QUALITY MUST BE JOB 1 OF EDUCATION REFORM IN L.A. …+smf’s 2¢

      4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: Mayor Tony: TEACHER QUALITY MUST BE JOB 1 OF EDUCATION REFORM IN L.A. …+smf’s 2¢

      Mayor Tony: TEACHER QUALITY MUST BE JOB 1 OF EDUCATION REFORM IN L.A. …+smf’s 2¢

      by smf
      A study released last week by the National Council on Teacher Quality calls attention to just how dramatically L.A. Unified is failing when it comes to recruiting, training, evaluating and compensating teachers. Op-Ed By Antonio Villaraigosa in the L.A. Times | http://lat.ms/jJ14i3 June 16, 2011 - The crisis in Los Angeles public schools — where only about half of the students graduate from

      LEGISLATURE APPROVES MAJORITY BUDGET PLAN AHEAD OF DEADLINE!

      by smf
      Wed, Jun 15, 2011 5:25 pm - The state Legislature plowed through a package of majority-vote budget bills this afternoon, approving a plan to close the $9.6 billion deficit with more than seven hours left until the deadline for both houses to pass a budget. The latest on California politics and government Legislature approves majority budget plan ahead of deadline Posted by Torey Van Oot |
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      Deeper cuts to higher ed; flat K-12 spending | Thoughts on Public Education

      Deeper cuts to higher ed; flat K-12 spending | Thoughts on Public Education

      Deeper cuts to higher ed; flat K-12 spending - by Kathryn Baron

      by Kathryn Baron
      With Republicans sitting on their hands, Democrats in the Legislature cobbled together a “balanced” state budget Wednesday that will give K-12 schools about $50.4 billion, roughly the same amount of money as last year, while cutting an additional $150 million each from the University of California and California State University. However, K-12 schools and community [...]

      Rocketship’s bold expansion - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

      by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
      Rocketship Education is running three charter schools in San Jose today. It wants to have 29 operating in the city and surrounding communities within seven years. That prospect thrilled at least two of the seven members of the Santa Clara County Board of Education; saying closing the achievement gap is a civil rights issue that cannot [...]
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      Joel Klein vs. those status quo apologists - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      Joel Klein vs. those status quo apologists - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

      Joel Klein vs. those status quo apologists

      by Valerie Strauss

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      This was written by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. It appeared on the Sociological Eye on Education blog that he wrotes for The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, non-partisan education-news outlet affiliated with the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Pallas has also taught at Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Northwestern University, and served as a statistician at the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education.

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      Academic skills: Important ‘only if they make us more human’

      by Valerie Strauss

      This is a speech given by early childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a professor of education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Ma., when she won the Embracing the Legacy Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps for work over several decades on behalf of children and families. Carlsson-Paige is author of “ Taking Back Childhood” and the mother of two artist sons, Matt and Kyle Damon.


      Here’s Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s speech:

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      NYC Educator: Something for Nothing

      NYC Educator: Something for Nothing

      Something for Nothing

      by NYC Educator
      Nice if you can get it, and that's precisely what Mayor4Life Bloomberg is demanding from city workers. Basically, you give me 30 million a month, more than I would have saved by firing all those teachers, and I won't fire all those teachers.

      Yet nowhere in the article does it mention the actual emergency which necessitated all those firings, to wit, a 3.2 billion dollar surplus. Last year, you probably recall, the mayor dropped the firings by unilaterally canceling the 8% pattern raise all other city workers got for teachers. I'm still not clear how that's okay with PERB, which insists on the pattern for all whenever it's such a stinker no one wants it. In 2005 the UFT agreed to draconian concessions to get a compensation increase that didn't even keep up with cost of living.

      The real problem is this--if we give Bloomberg that money, it will not be enough, just as unilaterally canceling teacher raises was not enough. Next year, there will be another crisis. Perhaps the surplus will only be one or two billion, and we'll really need to cut back.
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      Getting ready for Netroots 2011 in Minneapolis Tomorrow through Saturday - blue cheddar blog #nn11

      Getting ready for Netroots 2011 in Minneapolis Tomorrow through Saturday - blue cheddar blog

      Getting ready for Netroots 2011 in Minneapolis Tomorrow through Saturday

      by bluecheddar
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      I’m packing up and looking at a pile of cash, a camera battery that needs charging…do I bring the protest signs? I know I want the extension chord. I hope I find my “Our House” key. It was stamped by jewelers outside the Capitol after the occupation got shut down.

      I’ll be leaving for Minneapolis to explain what happened to Wisconsinites for an audience of progressive bloggers and politicos. Unlike Fox, I have no interest in making stuff up.

      The 4:30PM CST panel I’m on tomorrow is called “Bloggers Unite! How the Netroots Rallied in

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      ASCD Inservice: How Do You Choose an Intervention?

      ASCD Inservice: How Do You Choose an Intervention?

      How Do You Choose an Intervention?

      ELSummerCover2011_blogThe October 2010 "Interventions That Work" issue of Educational Leadership was so popular, we've revisited it in this free, online, summer issue of EL on "Interventions: What's Working."

      So what's working?

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      A Standardized Testing Fairytale « Cooperative Catalyst

      A Standardized Testing Fairytale « Cooperative Catalyst

      A Standardized Testing Fairytale

      by dwees

      One upon a time there were some men who wanted to change the world. The problem was that these men did not feel powerful enough, and needed more power over the people around them. There was one group which kept challenging these men, “those darn liberals.”

      “We need to cut taxes!” They screamed as loud as they could. “If we cut taxes for the rich…we mean, everyone, then everyone will have more money to spend,” they reasoned, while the roads, bridges and neighbourhoods continued to decay. However every time they argued for change, some crazy left wing liberal would argue against them.

      They’d been trying for decades to dominate the world by controlling popular media, and by buying politicians, but every time they looked around there were still “those darn liberals” challenging their authority. It seemed like they could make hardly any headway in their plans to dominate every aspect of people’s lives because “those darn

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      Daily Kos: and now I am in Minneapolis #NN11

      Daily Kos: and now I am in Minneapolis

      and now I am in Minneapolis

      by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

      Perhaps it was a waste of time going to school yesterday. I was there primarily to let students turn in the take home final 2 days late for partial credit, but none did by the 8:30 deadline. I did get to say goodbye to those who students who showed up, but even my AP classes had at least 1/3 of the students missing, and my regular classes it was more than half.

      I could not make a non-stop flight that would get me to Minneapolis in time to really catch up with people, so I wound up connecting through Atlanta. Let's say that neither leg of the trip was pleasant, both planes were packed, and the 2nd had a crying baby several rows away for most of the flight. Still, I was able get several hours of sleep.

      And then I finally got to the Hilton, main hotel for Netroots Nation. And then the fun began.

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      Jazz, Basketball, and Teacher Decision-making | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

      Jazz, Basketball, and Teacher Decision-making | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

      Jazz, Basketball, and Teacher Decision-making

      by larrycuban

      When top jazz musicians select notes from a chord to improvise a melody, stellar basketball players drive toward the basket on a pick-and-roll, and effective teachers ask questions of students, the cascade of instantaneous micro-decisions that occurs in the heads of trumpet player Wynton Marsalis, the Dallas Mavericks’ Jason Kidd, and kindergarten teacher Vivian Paley would stun most non-musicians, non-basketball players, and non-teachers.

      Consider jazz and the swift decisions a Wynton Marsalis makes as he improvises. Jonah Lehrer describes a neuroscientist who used MRIs to study brain activity of jazz musicians improvising. one center that showed much activity was during improvisation had been identified for its function in language and speech. The neuroscientist argued that creating new melodies depends on that part of the brain where sentences are invented, where every musical note is like a word. Lehrer continues:

      “Of course, the development of these patterns requires years of practice, which is why [the neuroscientist]

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      Wednesday, June 15, 2011

      Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

      Jersey Jazzman: Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

      Boo-Friggin'-Hoo

      Fellas, you reap what you sow:
      A team of Democratic heavy-hitters soundly rejected an advertisement released today by the New Jersey Education Association, calling it “shallow name calling” and holding it up as an example of what has gone wrong with the state’s public school system.
      The ad campaign attacked Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), a lead proponent of proposed reform that would shift more pension and benefit costs to public workers, saying he cared more about appeasing party bosses like South Jersey Democratic powerbroker George Norcross than serving the public.
      Norcross told reporters gathered here this evening that the union was making personal attacks because it was afraid of real reform to give parents and
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      Jersey Jazzman: Betrayal

      Jersey Jazzman: Betrayal

      Betrayal

      by Duke
      What else would you call this?
      TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie and all four legislative leaders have announced a hard-fought deal to overhaul pension and health benefits for New Jersey's public employees.
      The top lawmakers include Senate President Stephen Sweeney (D-Gloucester), Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex), Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean Jr. (R-Union) and Assembly Minority Leader Alex DeCroce (R-Morris).
      I am sickened and disgusted by the easy capitulation shown by the Democrats on this. After years of enjoying teacher, police, firefighter, and other public worker support, they are now prepared to stab us all in the back.

      Every middle class public employee will take a huge pay cut and huge loss in benefits. And for their trouble,
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      All Education Matters: Dept. of Education's SWAT Team Story - Insider from the Department of Education Comments?

      All Education Matters: Dept. of Education's SWAT Team Story - Insider from the Department of Education Comments?

      Dept. of Education's SWAT Team Story - Insider from the Department of Education Comments?

      by C. Cryn Johannsen
      There are a number of higher education policy experts who share their thoughts on AEM. Congressional aides and student advocate groups also spend time on here. The comments from these individuals are oftentimes intriguing, especially when they suggest that the person is responding from an institutional perspective.

      Last week a story that originally aired on News10 in Stockton, California caught my eye. I was not the only one to pounce on the clip about the alleged Department of Education's S.W.A.T. Kenneth Wright had his door destroyed at approximately 6 AM. The story also sparked an curious response from a reader.

      Recap of the Stockton events


      [Note: If you've been following this story closely, skip ahead to the section entitled, "Reader's Curious Remarks"]
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      4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: SCHOOL LIBRARIANS GET THE THIRD DEGREE

      4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: SCHOOL LIBRARIANS GET THE THIRD DEGREE

      SCHOOL LIBRARIANS GET THE THIRD DEGREE

      BY GENA HASKETT / BLOGHER ORIGINAL POST | HTTP://BIT.LY/LRVAGL

      June 15, 2011 9:00 am - The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is having serious budget problems. There is a a section on district web site that shows a chart of how they spend the money. One of the LAUSD solutions is the closing of elementary and middle school libraries.

      Most of the library staff have received layoff notices. Senior high school libraries will remain open for the present time.

      There is a ignorant persistent cultural murmur about we have the Internet now, so we don’t need educated book pullers anymore. So that we are on common ground, please watch this video about what 21st-century school librarians actually do for K-12 students.

      School librarians or teacher librarians in California are dual credentialed. This means these are teachers with a library certification,

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