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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Education giant Pearson debuts the first class of its virtual ed tech startup accelerator — Tech News and Analysis
Education giant Pearson debuts the first class of its virtual ed tech startup accelerator — Tech News and Analysis:
The Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs In Education - Forbes
The Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs In Education - Forbes:
The Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs In Education
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People’s career choices should be based on passion over paychecks—and that’s especially true for those who are educating America’s youth.
But even if you’re pursuing a profession in education for the all right reasons—a desire to enrich the lives of students, you value the intangible rewards, you strive to give back to society and make a difference, etc.—you still have to wonder which are the highest- and lowest-paying positions in the field. And that’s not a bad thing, says Beverly Hardcastle Stanford, professor emeritus at Azusa Pacific University and co-author of the first eight editions of Becoming
6-27-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:
After Forty Years of Test-Based Acccountability, Almost Nothing and Less than Zero
Perhaps the NEA and AFT both adhere to an old model of lesson planning
Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership | the becoming radical
Arne Duncan, Civil Rights Visionary of Our Era
After Forty Years of Test-Based Acccountability, Almost Nothing and Less than Zero
The federal information clearinghouse, ERIC, had 9 entries for the subject, “educational accountability,” in 1970. By 1972, there were 440 entries for that year. In 2010, the number of entries peaked at 2,200. You may say, with good evidence to back it up, that “educational accountability” has essentially dwarfed or completely erased every worthy […]
Perhaps the NEA and AFT both adhere to an old model of lesson planning
This whole idea of monetizing lesson plans seems like a very antique method. This from the Huffington Post on a very similar initiative soon to be released by the NEA that is strikingly similar to AFT’s Share My Lesson, or whatever. The NEA’s is called, what, BetterLesson or something? I mean, OK, I guess. Who […]
Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership | the becoming radical
Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership | the becoming radical.
Arne Duncan, Civil Rights Visionary of Our Era
When he attended the star-studded premiere in 2010 for Davis Guggenheim’s slick propaganda film, Waiting for Superman, Arne Duncan called it a “Rosa Parks moment.” In making this stunning analogy, it became clear that corporate education reform schoolers were no longer going to sit at the back of the corporate jet. No longer would they […]
6-26-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: [image: gears] Ultra badass student activists in Chicago giving it to CPS #stuvoice by Chalk Face, PhD I am quoting, via Facebook: Just spoke out against the Board of Education with students from the CSOSOS! Most bad ass thing in the world! Security had no idea what was going on as students across the room stood up and spoke against the Board. It was pure chaos! My thirty second stand up speech: […] Duncan: Pay no attention to who is behind the #CCSS curtain by Chris Cerrone Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has been quite busy lately ma... more »
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-27-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all:
Who Should Save the Philadelphia High School Orchestra?
A Correction: NC Rep. Pittman Explains Why Certification is Not Necessary
Another Day, Another Teacher-Bashing by the NY Daily News
Burris: John King’s Absurd Educator Evaluation Plan
Uh-Oh. New Orleans “Miracle” Crumbles
Michele McNeil Fact-Checks Duncan
EduShyster: Why We Need Missionaries to Spread Excellence
Crazy Crawfish: Data Frauds in Louisiana
Why Doesn’t the Los Angeles World Affairs Council Want to Hear My Views?
EduShyster Visits Tennessee, Land of Bold Innovations
Who Should Save the Philadelphia High School Orchestra?
A reader explains why the Philadelphia All-City High School Orchestra is being closed and who should rescue it:
“Actually, philanthropy wouldn’t help. The orchestra is endangered because classroom instrumental music instruction has been eliminated from the budget (hence, no musicians to play in it). The cut was among those made to close a $300 million budget deficit caused largely by state cuts that fell particularly hard on the poorest districts. This is precisely the kind of problem that does not have a private solution but requires a public commitment to public education. (Though I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a raft of charter applications for schools specializing in instrumental music).”
“Actually, philanthropy wouldn’t help. The orchestra is endangered because classroom instrumental music instruction has been eliminated from the budget (hence, no musicians to play in it). The cut was among those made to close a $300 million budget deficit caused largely by state cuts that fell particularly hard on the poorest districts. This is precisely the kind of problem that does not have a private solution but requires a public commitment to public education. (Though I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a raft of charter applications for schools specializing in instrumental music).”
A Correction: NC Rep. Pittman Explains Why Certification is Not Necessary
Yesterday I posted a story from North Carolina about tweaks to the charter bill SB 337.
This is a correction sent to me by the reporter.
Originally the bill said that those in teach in charter schools did not need any certification.
At present, 75 percent of charter teachers in grades K-5 must be certified teachers, but the revised bill will drop that proportion to 50 percent, not zero.
One of those who was critical of certification requirements was Rep. Larry Pittman. He said he was misquoted in the original post, so the reporter dutifully printed his remarks in full.
This is a correction sent to me by the reporter.
Originally the bill said that those in teach in charter schools did not need any certification.
At present, 75 percent of charter teachers in grades K-5 must be certified teachers, but the revised bill will drop that proportion to 50 percent, not zero.
One of those who was critical of certification requirements was Rep. Larry Pittman. He said he was misquoted in the original post, so the reporter dutifully printed his remarks in full.
Another Day, Another Teacher-Bashing by the NY Daily News
Blogger Arthur Goldstein lacerates the New York Daily News for its latest assault on teachers.
One teacher was accused of having attended meetings of an organization called NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association). Was it true? Who knows? Did he do anything illegal? No investigation.
Goldstein, who recently received the coveted Skinny Award for excellence as a teacher-blogger, wrote:
“The Daily News, no longer content to have its editorial section lecture us on the perfidy of teachers, has now
One teacher was accused of having attended meetings of an organization called NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association). Was it true? Who knows? Did he do anything illegal? No investigation.
Goldstein, who recently received the coveted Skinny Award for excellence as a teacher-blogger, wrote:
“The Daily News, no longer content to have its editorial section lecture us on the perfidy of teachers, has now
Burris: John King’s Absurd Educator Evaluation Plan
Carol Corbett Burris, principal of South Side High School in Rockville Center, Long Island, New York, runs a good school. She wants to protect her staff and her students from ill-advised state interference. She wants to keep morale high. She has led the principals’ rebellion against the state evaluation plan. In this post, she reviews the evaluation plan that John King, our state commissioner of education (who has minimal experience as a teacher or a principal) imposed on the New York City public schools:
Recently Commissioner John King imposed a high stakes evaluation plan on New York City teachers. When you
Recently Commissioner John King imposed a high stakes evaluation plan on New York City teachers. When you
Uh-Oh. New Orleans “Miracle” Crumbles
Robert Mann, a professor of communications at Louisiana State University, recognizes that the point of charters and vouchers is to withdraw into gated communities.
He writes: “Private schools have long flourished in America for reasons legitimate (religious and scholastic), and some not so legitimate (race). But now many parents and taxpayers – manipulated by politicians who argue that the only way to fix public education is to weaken it with privatization – are giving up on the very idea of public schools.
“A strong component of Louisiana’s education “reform” agenda – led by Gov. Bobby Jindal and state education
He writes: “Private schools have long flourished in America for reasons legitimate (religious and scholastic), and some not so legitimate (race). But now many parents and taxpayers – manipulated by politicians who argue that the only way to fix public education is to weaken it with privatization – are giving up on the very idea of public schools.
“A strong component of Louisiana’s education “reform” agenda – led by Gov. Bobby Jindal and state education
Michele McNeil Fact-Checks Duncan
Michele McNeil analyzed Secretary Duncan’s remarks yesterday to the nation’s newspaper editors. She politely said they were not accurate.
Neil McClusky of CATO took the critique a step further.
Duncan needs to pretend that the federal government had nothing to do with the sudden adoption of these unknown standards. It just happened.
He claimed the Common Core was well underway before Obama was elected. McNeil politely says that’s not true.
Neil McClusky of CATO took the critique a step further.
Duncan needs to pretend that the federal government had nothing to do with the sudden adoption of these unknown standards. It just happened.
He claimed the Common Core was well underway before Obama was elected. McNeil politely says that’s not true.
EduShyster: Why We Need Missionaries to Spread Excellence
EduShyster has gotten to the root cause of all our education problems, most especially those in the inner cities of the action. The answer, she has discovered, is missionaries. Yes, there are too many teachers from the local communities. They lack the youth, the vigor, energy, and the sheer excellence of missionaries.
As she explains:
“If you are a member of the fastest (and best funded) congregation in the nation, the First Church of Education
As she explains:
“If you are a member of the fastest (and best funded) congregation in the nation, the First Church of Education
Crazy Crawfish: Data Frauds in Louisiana
If you read this post, you will never again believe any claim coming out of Louisiana. Crazy Crawfish (aka Jason France) used to work in the data division of the state department of education. He knows their tricks.
Why Doesn’t the Los Angeles World Affairs Council Want to Hear My Views?
This is a strange but true story.
As you know, I have a new book coming out in mid-September, and I plan to visit several cities on the west coast.
A reader of the blog reached out to see if the Los Angeles World Affairs Council would host me to speak at a luncheon.
I will be in Los Angeles October 1 and 2. I am speaking at Cal State-Northridge on the evening of October 2. So I
As you know, I have a new book coming out in mid-September, and I plan to visit several cities on the west coast.
A reader of the blog reached out to see if the Los Angeles World Affairs Council would host me to speak at a luncheon.
I will be in Los Angeles October 1 and 2. I am speaking at Cal State-Northridge on the evening of October 2. So I
EduShyster Visits Tennessee, Land of Bold Innovations
EduShyster has a hilarious post about Kevin Huffman’s plan to “crush” the achievement gap in Tennessee:
Pay teachers less.
It starts with a photo of a young woman standing by the side of the road holding a sign that says, “Will Teach 4
Pay teachers less.
It starts with a photo of a young woman standing by the side of the road holding a sign that says, “Will Teach 4
Diane in the Evening 6-26-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Lisa Fleisher of WSJ: Evaluations for Thee, But Not for Me by dianerav Lisa Fleisher of the Wall Street Journal reminds us what investigative reporting looks like. In New York City, we nearly forgot, especially since Michael Winerip of the New York Ztimes was taken off the education beat. Fleisher filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out whether top officials at the New York City Department of Education receive job evaluations. As we know, the Bloomberg DOE evaluates everyone in its *LISTEN TO D... more »
The earliest intervention: How to stop the achievement gap from starting? | Hechinger Report
The earliest intervention: How to stop the achievement gap from starting? | Hechinger Report:
CHICAGO—Her first baby, a boy she planned to call Jaidan, arrived stillborn on June 25, 2009, the same day Michael Jackson died. More than three years later, when a second chance at motherhood finally came her way, Dwana Harris was determined to do everything right.
So last fall, Harris was intrigued when she unexpectedly met a woman bearing information about healthy child development in the living room of a cousin with a newborn. Soon the woman was visiting her, too, in the meticulously clean one-bedroom apartment that she and her boyfriend share in a South Side public housing tower near Lake Michigan.
The earliest intervention: How to stop the achievement gap from starting?
CHICAGO—Her first baby, a boy she planned to call Jaidan, arrived stillborn on June 25, 2009, the same day Michael Jackson died. More than three years later, when a second chance at motherhood finally came her way, Dwana Harris was determined to do everything right.So last fall, Harris was intrigued when she unexpectedly met a woman bearing information about healthy child development in the living room of a cousin with a newborn. Soon the woman was visiting her, too, in the meticulously clean one-bedroom apartment that she and her boyfriend share in a South Side public housing tower near Lake Michigan.
After having a stillborn baby in 2009, Dwana Harris wanted to do everything right when a second chance at motherhood came her way. (Photo by Kim Palmer)
Harris, 28, had questions about what to ask at doctor’s appointments, what to eat and generally what to do to keep her unborn daughter on track. Her home visitor, Tammie Haltom, and a birthing coach named Sonia Collins
UPDATE: Indiana Continues It’s Slide Away From Common Core, PARCC | Scathing Purple Musings
Indiana Continues It’s Slide Away From Common Core, PARCC | Scathing Purple Musings:
Expect Student Test Scores to “Nosedive” With Common Core-PARCC Tests
Indiana Continues It’s Slide Away From Common Core, PARCC
Expect Student Test Scores to “Nosedive” With Common Core-PARCC Tests
From NPR reporter Gabriel Spitzer in Seattle.
Seattle families should expect steep drops in student test scores as public schools adopt new national learning standards, according to a report to be presented Wednesday evening to the Seattle School Board.
Starting next year, students in Washington, 44 other states, and the District of Columbia will be held to new, tougher standards known as Common Core. That could cause some sticker shock once test scores start rolling in a year later.
A new analysis from the publisher Scholastic says Seattle schools should prepare for a 10- to 33 percent drop in student proficiency, and that as many as half of tested students could come in below standards. The estimates come from comparing scores from the current state tests with theNational Assessment of Educational Progress, which is thought to employ a similar level of rigor to
From NPR reporter Gabriel Spitzer in Seattle.
Seattle families should expect steep drops in student test scores as public schools adopt new national learning standards, according to a report to be presented Wednesday evening to the Seattle School Board.
Starting next year, students in Washington, 44 other states, and the District of Columbia will be held to new, tougher standards known as Common Core. That could cause some sticker shock once test scores start rolling in a year later.
A new analysis from the publisher Scholastic says Seattle schools should prepare for a 10- to 33 percent drop in student proficiency, and that as many as half of tested students could come in below standards. The estimates come from comparing scores from the current state tests with theNational Assessment of Educational Progress, which is thought to employ a similar level of rigor to
Indiana Continues It’s Slide Away From Common Core, PARCC
No one would have predicted that even with Tony Bennett’s departure, a red state like Indiana would shift so decidedly away his reforms. But not every republican legislators was on board. In April, the Indiana legislaturevoted to re-write it’s school grade formula and to “pause” implementation of Common Core. Now they’ve backed away from the PARCC testing consortium. Writes StateImpact Indiana reporter Elle Moxley:
We dropped by the PARCC governing board meeting in Washington, D.C. — you know, just happened to be in the neighborhood — and noticed an absence: Indiana.
State education officials didn’t participate in talks Wednesday to set performance expectations on new standardized tests aligned to a set of nationally-crafted academic standards known as theCommon Core.
As a governing state in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers,
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