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Friday, February 24, 2012

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Drowning In A Rising Tide Of…

takingnote.learningmatters.tv - “The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.” Surely everyone recognizes the five-w...

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No Team Left Behind

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - February 23, 2012 (GBN News): Signaling a new flexibility in his signature Race to the Top program, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced today that he is giving local school districts greater ...

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Shame Is Not the Solution

nytimes.com - Seattle LAST week, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled that teachers’ individual performance assessments could be made public. I have no opinion on the ruling as a matter of law, ...

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Other People's Children

withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com - Hello Michael Moore and Matt Damon! I have a title for a new movie we would like you to make about the corporate school reform movement. We could call it "Other People's Children" because no school...

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There's No 'I' in 'Congress'

online.wsj.com - Mitt Romney is inevitable again, although his detractors can take heart that he's been inevitable before and it's never lasted. That's another way of saying we agree with the conventional wisdom th...

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Board Closes All 17 Schools!

teachersforjustice.org - Tonight, Feb 22, 2012, at about 6:15 PM, the appointed Board of Education of the city of Chicago closed, phased out, and turned around all 17 schools on their chopping block without a dissenting vo...

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Bible class: Arizona House says OK in high schools

latimes.com - Some Arizona lawmakers want to allow high schools to offer a class on the Bible's historical and cultural influence. Here, a personalized Bible is used during a class at a women's prison in Minneso...

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The noise of change

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday he’s sensitive to the “noise associated with change.” -- Sun-Times Somehow the words, "sensitive" and "Rahm" just don't sound right in the same sentence. Chicago's ...

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In Reality and Film, a Battle for Schools

nytimes.com - LOS ANGELES — On Tuesday officials in Adelanto, a California desert town, are set to consider whether parents there can be the first to take over a failing public school under a new state law that ...

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Hollywood vs. reality — Joanne Jacobs

joannejacobs.com - Adelanto parents attempt to take control of their failing school was rejected by the Desert Trails school board last night. Seventy percent of parents in the Southern California town had signed the...

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Summary of Budget and Interim Report Status

cde.ca.gov - Summary of disapproved budgets and negative and qualified certifications for local educational agencies. Fiscal Year Disapproved Budgets Totals (1) Budget Review Committee Fiscal Year Totals (2) Ne...

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The Crane Deal's A Crock

schooltechconnect.com - I started to regret saying anything positive about the Crane “deal” the instant I heard that Rahm had praised it. In the very same nanosecond, I started to worry that the deal won't be what it seem...

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Outside evaluator must tell us how well prepared are we for Common Core | Thoughts on Public Education

Outside evaluator must tell us how well prepared are we for Common Core | Thoughts on Public Education:

Outside evaluator must tell us how well prepared are we for Common Core - by John Affeldt

by John Affeldt
California, like many states, is embarking on an ambitious rewiring of its public school system. By the 2014-15 school year, it plans to implement new Common Core academic standards in English and math for all grades. The new standards were adopted by the State Board of Education only 18 months ago. Having all of our [...]

Munger-PTA initiative hits the streets - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Unfazed by disparagement from Gov. Brown’s politicos, civil rights attorney Molly Munger and her chief ally, the state PTA, launched a drive Thursday to collect signatures for the November ballot for a $10 billion tax initiative to benefit K-12 and early childhood education. “We would not do signatures if we did not feel confident,” Addisu Demissie, [...]

Financially strained districts on the rise - by Kathryn Baron

by Kathryn Baron
Nearly a third of California students attend school in a district facing dire financial circumstances. A report released yesterday by the State Department of Education shows that 127 of California’s 1,037 school districts are now designated as either in negative or qualified budget territory. And that’s before taking the January trigger cuts into account. Seven districts [...]
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Duncan’s equity commission and the ‘rising tide’ of avarice, hostility, testing - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Duncan’s equity commission and the ‘rising tide’ of avarice, hostility, testing - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Duncan’s equity commission and the ‘rising tide’ of avarice, hostility, testing

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by John Merrow, veteran education reporter for PBS, NPR, and dozens of national publications. He is the president of the nonprofit media production company Learning Matters. Merrow’s latest book is “The Influence of Teachers.” This post first appeared on Merrow’s blog, Taking Note.

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A test for politicians on educatioin (with cheat sheet)

by Valerie Strauss

Here are questions that education historian Diane Ravitch posed to politicans who make education policy. Ravitch, a research professor at New York University, is the author of numerous books including the bestselling “The Death and Life of the Great American School System ,” a critique of the flaws in the modern school reform movement. These questions first appeared on the Neiman Watchdog blog.

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School Tech Connect: The Crane Deal's A Crock

School Tech Connect: The Crane Deal's A Crock:

The Crane Deal's A Crock

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)
I started to regret saying anything positive about the Crane “deal” the instant I heard that Rahm had praised it. In the very same nanosecond, I started to worry that the deal won't be what it seems, that it would be steeped in patronage, and that it would somehow turn out to be a disaster for the neighborhood Crane serves and the teachers who work there. That's just how things roll under Rahm.

Of course, I could be wrong, but in the cold light of day this is what I started to realize. Let me list these things as

Things That Will Never Be Addressed

by noreply@blogger.com (Tim)
For example, this matter.

We are concerned that not all children will receive a well-rounded education, especially kids who are in schools with a high achievement gap and high drop-out rate. We do not believe that extending the day to include only more core subjects will address the achievement gap that separates too many of our city’s children.

Here's what's going to happen. There will be news articles about how wonderful recess, art music, and PE are and how quality, not just quantity is the new plan. Then, down the road, you'll start reading in non-
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