8-21-13 Radical Scholarship

Radical Scholarship:

What We Know Now and An Alternative to Accountability-Based Education Reform | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News

What We Know Now and An Alternative to Accountability-Based Education Reform | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News

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Daily Kos: Class Grades: The Unintended Lessons from Florida

Daily Kos: Class Grades: The Unintended Lessons from Florida

1 by P. L. Thomas / 3h 

Reading & Reacting: Common Core Gravy Train: Profit for Coleman, College Board, and Testing Mania | Haas | Learning

Reading & Reacting: Common Core Gravy Train: Profit for Coleman, College Board, and Testing Mania | Haas | Learning

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An Alternative to Accountability-Based Education Reform | the becoming radical

An Alternative to Accountability-Based Education Reform | the becoming radical

1 by P. L. Thomas / 7h 

It’s the Plan, Boss! | Class Warfare Blog

It’s the Plan, Boss! | Class Warfare Blog

1 by P. L. Thomas / 8h 

Radical Scholarship 8-17-13

Radical Scholarship: Radical ScholarshipFrom that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical....The situation required not just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the introduction of a new kind of society—cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian.-- Howard Zinn (1994), You Can't Be Neutral on a Movi

by mike simpson / 19min 

8-21-13 Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Philadelphia Public School Notebook:

Closed Philly schools — hot properties or a herd of white elephants?

by Elizabeth Fiedler for NewsWorks Sell off closed schools to help keep other Philadelphia schools open. In essence, that's the idea being pushed by City Council President Darrell Clarke.  Philadelphia public schools are expected to open on time, despite continuing squabbles over funding. But City Hall politicians are still battling over how to pull together the $50 million dollars in city aid th

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Countdown, Day 19: Facing the threat of split-grade classrooms

A big way for school districts to save money is to hire fewer teachers. And one way to hire fewer teachers is to fill each classroom with the maximum number of students allowed under the teachers' contract and to use "split grades," in which students on two grade levels are mixed together. For instance, if there are 44 1st graders and 44 2nd graders in a school, one can have two 1st grades and two

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Notes from the news, Aug. 21

Schools bring back staff, but many can only afford aides. Notebook Settlement in charter school whistle-blower suit. Inquirer State Rep. Sims to Pa.: Put your money where your kids are. Philly.com Letter to Mayor Nutter: All Philly school children need your help. NewsWorks Amid cuts and closures, Philly students build a shrine for their school. Next City Students, parents and school staff rally fo

2 by thenotebook / 8h 

8-21-13 Missouri Education Watchdog

Missouri Education Watchdog:

MO Legislators - Here's The Follow Up You Need to Ask

The following email was sent to all Missouri legislators from DESE. Will any of them ask the follow up questions that need to be asked? Dear Legislator, You may have heard about Missouri’s state assessments for English language arts and literacy and mathematics changing in 2014-15 to reflect school districts moving to the Common Core State Standards. We wanted to tell you more about these asses

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Common Core Aligned Math in Your Student's Backpack: Here's Proof it's Really Not About the Wright Answer.

Disclaimer: I know the word "wright" in the above title is misspelled and that's the point of talking about the Common Core aligned math homework coming home in your student's backpack.  You got the gist of my meaning and that's the most important emphasis of the message, right? There have been many articles the last few days about the teacher who was filmed on video stating the correct ans

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8-20-13 Missouri Education Watchdog

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Graphic Seen in School. Unattainable Goals and Free Stuff.I've heard from many parents who are horrified at what they have seen and heard on the first day of school.  This was seen on the first day of school somewhere in the United States (the teacher's face was cropped to protect her identity): Sounds like utopia.  Let's examine this teacher's graphic: All

by mike simpson / 5h 

8-21-13 Education Research Report

Education Research Report:

More than half of parents have not heard much about Common Core State Standards

Standardized tests have support among parents, who view them as a useful way to measure both students' and schools' performances, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.Key findings:• Sixty-one percent of parents think their children take an appropriate number of standardized tests and 26 percent think their children take too many tests.• Less than half of pa

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 46min 

What Americans are thinking about Common Core and other education policies

Although opposition to Common Core education standards is growing, an overwhelming majority of Americans remain supportive of these standards. A majority also back government funding of preschool education for disadvantaged children. At the same time, Americans are becoming increasingly resistant to demands for greater education spending and higher teacher pay. They give a higher evaluation to pri

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 3h 

Exemplary Science Standards: How Does Your State Compare?

With states weighing whether to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a new analysis from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute compares the existing science standards of thirty-eight states with the NGSS and with exemplary standards from three other states. (The thirty-eight are those states with standards that are either “clearly inferior” to the NGSS or “too close to call,” based on its

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 3h 

YESTERDAY

ELL learners: The early development of two languages is best approach

The Foundation for Child Development has issued a new report: PreK-3rd: Challenging Common Myths About Dual Language Learners:The most current scientific research suggests that the development of twolanguages from a child’s earliest years has specific impacts on a variety ofcognitive functions discernable as early as seven months of age that are persistentthroughout childhood and may even offer so

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 1d 

71% of undergraduate students received some type of financial aid

This report presents findings from the 2011-12 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, a nationally representative study of undergraduate and graduate students attending postsecondary institutions in the United States. NPSAS provides the most-up-to-date and comprehensive look at postsecondary student characteristics and student financial aid for the 2011-12 academic year.The survey includes abou

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 1d 

AUG 19

Students exercise artistic passions outside of traditional programs, fueled by new technologies

Even though schools are cutting back on arts education, young people are following their artistic passions outside of traditional programs, fueled by new technologies that enable them to create and share art, according to a new report commissioned by The Wallace Foundation. The report, New Opportunities for Interest-Driven Arts Learning in a Digital Age, delves into "interest-driven arts learning

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 1d 

Early Planning Is One of Several Steps Crucial to Successful Summer Learning Programs

The most important steps school districts can take to implement an effective summer learning program are to begin planning at least six months in advance and to include both district and summer site leaders in the process, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.RAND researchers examined six school districts in the study -- Boston, Cincinnati, Dallas, Duval County (Florida), Pittsburgh

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 1d 

The effects of bullying last long into adulthood

A new study shows that serious illness, struggling to hold down a regular job, and poor social relationships are just some of the adverse outcomes in adulthood faced by those exposed to bullying in childhood.It has long been acknowledged that bullying at a young age presents a problem for schools, parents and public policy makers alike. Although children spend more time with their peers than their

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Giving preschoolers choice increases sharing behavior

Getting kids to share their toys is a never-ending battle, and compelling them to do so never seems to help. New research suggests that allowing children to make a choice to sacrifice their own toys in order to share with someone else makes them share more in the future. The new findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.These experiment

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 1d 

Improving Post-High School Outcomes for Transition-Age Students with Disabilities

A new report reviews the research literature on strategies designed to help students with disabilities transition from high school to employment, postsecondary education and training, or independent living. The review deviates from previous evidence reviews on this topic by using the What Works Clearinghouse (WWW) systematic review procedures, focusing on direct measures of students' post-high sch

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 1d 

AP students at many schools struggle

Complete article...A Baltimore Sun analysis of test scores showed a troubling discrepancy between grades for AP course work and scores on the exams. In at least 19 high schools throughout the Baltimore region, more than half of the students who earned an A or B in an AP class failed the exam.Failure rates of 75 percent on the exam were common at Woodlawn and other Maryland schools with large numbe

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 2d 

Survey: Parents’ Attitudes on the Quality of Education in the United States

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research conducted a national survey of 1,025 parents or guardians of children who completed a grade between kindergarten and 12th grade during the 2012 - 2013 school year. Key findings of the survey include: • Parents believe that people—teachers and parents—play a bigger part in school quality than the amount of money spent for education. Two-t

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 2d 

State Assessments at an Urban High School: Using Extrinsic Motivation

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to discover the influence of a student achievement program implemented at one large urban high school that employed extrinsic motivation to promote student achievement on state assessments. Using organismic integration theory as the theoretical framework, 19 randomly selected students participated in structured interviews with their responses anal

by Jonathan Kantrowi... / 2d 

Leaving Boys Behind: Gender Disparities in High Academic Achievement

Using three decades of data from the "Monitoring the Future"cross-sectional surveys, this paper shows that, from the 1980s to the2000s, the mode of girls' high school GPA distribution has shiftedfrom "B" to "A", essentially "leaving boys behind" as the mode ofboys' GPA distribution stayed at "B". The authors' analysis reveals that genderdifferences in post-secondary expectations, controlling for s

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