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Saturday, March 24, 2012

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Smiley & West featuring Pasi Sahlberg

smileyandwest.com - West:               From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West and this is Smiley & West. Duncan:  All of us have to move outside our comfort zone.  All of us have to change....
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What happens when charter schools close?

nola.com - Nearly four years ago, teenagers Lynntrell Westbrook and Damonika Stokes took a chance on an ambitious new charter school that promised a rigorous high school curriculum combined with regular commu...
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Help Save Flushing High School

urbanedmusic.blogspot.com - *I humbly ask in advance that if you would like to support Flushing HS, as well the other schools that face likely closure, please share this article with as many people as possible—politicians, la...
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Washington Post writes about Texas resolution

tasanet.blogspot.com - Valerie Straus, writer of The Washington Post's phenomenally popular education blog The Answer Sheet, just posted a lengthy entry about the debate surrounding high-stakes, standardized testing here...
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School Tech Connect: Today's Ed Reform Catechism

schooltechconnect.com - Modern ed reform is like an obscure religion with tenets you may not have heard of but which the true believers cling to with fervor. One of the tenets is that certain types of teachers can elimina...
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History of Neglect Leads to Today’s Pension Woes

iearegion28.wordpress.com - Senate President John Cullerton has called on legislative leaders to make pension reform a major focus during the upcoming legislative session. The President has recently led the Senate in passing ...
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blog.angryasianman.com - What's up, San Francisco? The Asian Art Museum invites you to another evening out for its monthly after-hours art/music mixer event, MATCHA. This month, they're bringing the comedy. It's happening ...
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: IN THE MAILBOX

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: IN THE MAILBOX: IN THE MAILBOXby Mike KlonskyTO:       Journalists Who Cover Education FROM:  Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director, National Center for Fair & Ope...
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An Urban Teacher's Education: Teaching Humanity

An Urban Teacher's Education: Teaching Humanity:
Teaching Humanity

by James Boutin


This is the first year of my career I've been tasked with teaching literacy directly. I have two groups of 9th-grade students whose literacy I'm responsible for improving in a detectable way.

Prior to this year, I'd never really thought about literacy all that deeply. Literacy - the ability to read, right? As someone trained in language arts, I know how to engage students with reading: engage and build background knowledge, make predictions, employ guiding questions, provide high-interest materials, reflect on and discuss reading after it's been done.

But I've never been formally trained in how to teach students to read - i.e. the processes around transforming words and syntax into meaning. The notion of fluency, while I've been passively familiar with it, has never playe



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The in box. “Fool me once.” « Fred Klonsky

The in box. “Fool me once.” « Fred Klonsky:


The in box. “Fool me once.”

by Fred Klonsky
Fred,
Here’s what I don’t understand about Sen. Cullerton’s rational: He’s offering a promise to honor the state’s previous promise as “something of real value”.
Call me silly, but fool my once…
If the state had honored it’s promise in the first place and not skipped it’s payments, there might be some belief in the state following through. But despite this, Sen. Cullerton sees offering a new contract promising to honor the original contract as having real value?
Again, fool me once…
As stated in the IL Constitution, current pensions benefits can not be diminished or impaired and 
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Seattle Schools Community Forum: Trayvon Martin

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Trayvon Martin:


Trayvon Martin

by Melissa Westbrook
FYI - Tomorrow, a rally and march for Trayvon Martin sponsored by the NAACP, Mothers for Police Accountability, American Friends Service Committee, and other activist groups. 

Rally at 4pm Sunday the 25th
Greater Mt.Baker Baptist Church,
2425 South Jackson Street

March at 4:30pm to
MLK Memorial Park,
2200 Martin Luther King Jr Way 

Trayvon Martin was 17.   He had friends, was bright (but got in trouble for tardiness) and had a close-knit family even though his parents had divorced.  He had played football but quit.  He continued volunteering at the team's concession stand for months anyway.  Three weeks ago he was visiting his father's fiancee's home and went out 
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SEA Candidate statements by Jonathan Knapp and Phyllis Campano | Seattle Education

SEA Candidate statements by Jonathan Knapp and Phyllis Campano | Seattle Education:


SEA Candidate statements by Jonathan Knapp and Phyllis Campano

by seattleducation2011
In the spirit of fairness, because I have posted information regarding Eric Muhs who is a candidate for President of the Seattle Education Association, to follow is a statement by Jonathan Knapp and his running mate Phyllis Campano.
Every governance election within a union presents a crossroads for the membership. At the crossroads of this election we believe that there are two paths available. We can go back to the illusory notion that before the “ed reformers” came along everything was fine. Under this view, all we have to do is say “no” to the very powerful forces that are currently defining “ed reform”: Gates, Broad, the Waltons, the Koch brothers, Grover Norquist, Democrats for Education Reform, League of Education Voters, Stand for Children, the state PTA, Excellent 
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: IN THE MAILBOX

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: IN THE MAILBOX:


IN THE MAILBOX

by Mike Klonsky
TO:       Journalists Who Cover Education
FROM:  Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director, National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest)
RE:       Test Cheating
DATE:   March 24, 2012

The Atlanta Journal Constitution's investigation of suspicious test scores around the nation is the latest example of how the widespread, politically mandated misuse of standardized tests is damaging U.S. public schools and the children they serve. Yes, cheating on standardized exams is very widespread -- FairTest has documented confirmed cases of test score manipulation in 33 states plus the District of Columbia in just the past three academic years with apparent 
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Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » 100 local academics oppose CPS teacher evaluation tied to test scores

Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » 100 local academics oppose CPS teacher evaluation tied to test scores:


100 local academics oppose CPS teacher evaluation tied to test scores

I will be speaking  Monday at the 


CReATE press conference:

March 23, 2012
EDUCATORS SOUND ALARM
ABOUT USING  “STUDENT GROWTH”
TO EVALUATE TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS

CReATE, a volunteer group of local education professors and researchers, will detail their concerns about a planned Chicago Public Schools evaluation system at an 11:00 a.m. news conference Monday, March 26, at the Hull House Museum, 800 S. Halsted St.


They will present a letter, signed by nearly 100 academics from 15 area universities, delivered to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, CPS CEO Jean-Claude Brizard and the Chicago School Board.  It calls the evaluation system scheduled to begin in the 2012-2013 school year flawed and in need of piloting.


The Illinois State Legislature approved In January 2010 an amendment to the Illinois School Code, known as the Performance Evaluation Review Act (PERA), which requires districts to include “student growth” as a significant portion of teacher and principal evaluation.  While most of the state does not have to implement a new evaluation plan for teachers until 2016, CPS successfully lobbied for the law to permit an earlier September 2012 date for at least 300 of its schools.


“The new evaluation system for teachers and principals centers on misconceptions about student growth, with potentially negative impact on the education of Chicago’s children,” the educators say.  “We believe it is our ethical obligation to raise awareness about how the proposed changes not only lack a sound research basis, but in some instances have already proven to be harmful.”


CReATE conducts, reviews, and distributes studies to address the needs of students, parents and schools, as well as promotes citywide learning and dialogue about educational issues through free public events.  Members have previously expressed concerns about CPS choosing directions with little to no evidence of effectiveness.
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