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Wait What?: Numbers Don’t Lie, Unless Someone Wants Them To“Never in my career as a high school English teacher — as an instructor of reading and writing, as a purveyor of literature — have I been asked to collect more “student data” and create more “spreadsheets” than I have in the past several years.” - Barth Keck Barth Keck is an English teacher and […]The post Numbers Don’t Lie, Unless Someone Wants Them To (By Barth Keck) appeared first on Wait What2 by jonpelto / 4min 12-14-13 Wait What? All WeekWait What?: Wait What? All Week mark as readMalloy can tell it to the judgeFellow public sc
Disrupting Innovation | educarenow: Disrupting InnovationPosted on December 15, 2013 | Leave a commentThe buzz word everywhere is “innovation.” You can’t avoid it. And who wants to? It means positive change, connotes growth and goodness. It’s a wonderful word. Who can possibly be against innovation?Right?So last week I went to the Michigan Innovative Schools Conference. (The conference was at least partially hosted by the Michigan Center of Innovation for Education.)Let’s call it a growth experience.The main speaker was Michael Horn, the author of Disrupting Class, who spoke on the “need
North Jersey mom bloggers meet to talk about their lives online and off - NorthJersey.com: North Jersey mom bloggers meet to talk about their lives online and offSUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2013 LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 2013, 9:34 AMBY KARA YORIOSTAFF WRITERTHE RECORDPAGES: 1 2 > DISPLAY ON ONE PAGE | PRINT | E-MAILThe women greet one another like lifelong friends who are mid-conversation. Armed with a wealth of up-to-date personal information about the others, they inquire about a sick daughter or recent trip.JENNIFER BROWN / SPECIAL TO THE RECORDFor a few of these women, however, this
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 12-15-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: What Happens When Educators Make Their Own Documentary?In 2011, Rocky Killion, the superintendent of schools in West Lafayette, Indiana, had an idea: What if we made our own documentary about the schools? What if we became our own production crew? What if we traveled the country and interviewed experts with our questions? They did
12-15-13 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: VOTE DELAYED TO JANUARY ON L.A. UNIFIED’S iPAD PROGRAMThe death of school board member Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte is being cited as the reason for delaying a vote on the next phase of the $1-billion iPad project in L.A. Unified. By Howard Blume, LA Times | http://lat.ms/1cKbAG6 December 11, 2013, 6:37 p.m. :: Los Angeles Unified School District of
12-14-13 Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog
Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Video Games?With the release of the Xbox1 and Ps4 I am not going to sit around and play fire emblem on my Ds. The go to games this holiday season (parents take note) are violence filled so good you'll want to slap your mama releases like Call of Duty: Ghost, Dead Rising 3, and Assassin's Creed. All of wich are Restricted, but the FTC found 70% of restricted games are ad
12-15-13 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Study: Standardized Tests Don’t Measure “Fluid Intelligence”People might differ with my interpretation of a new study that has just come out (and I’d love to hear if you do), but it seems to me that it has found that standardized testing may measure how well a school is doing on training students on lower-level thinking ski
12-15-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Votes. Fred, I believe the original quote came from Stalin. His sense of humor ran in that direction, too. Monitoring election integrity has to be done everywhere, but in the Chicago Teachers Union’s major elections, the votes are counted by the American Arbitration Association, and in the Chicago Te
12-15-13 Education Research Report
Education Research Report: Using Above-Level Testing to Track Growth in Academic Achievement in Gifted StudentsAbove-level testing is the practice of administering aptitude or academic achievement tests that are designed for typical students in higher grades or older age-groups to gifted or high-achieving students. Although widely accepted in gifted education, above-level testing has not been subj
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: CATO Slams Michelle Rhee’s “Common Core Crud”H/T to Russ Walsh. CATO Institute scholar Neal McCluskey takes Michelle Rhee to the woodshed: I don’t dislike the oft-attacked Michelle Rhee. I don’t even know her. But I do dislike disingenuous or empirically anemic arguments
12-14-13 teacherken at Daily Kos: 222 years ago today
Daily Kos: 222 years ago today: 222 years ago todaythe Bill of Rights was ratified and went into effect. We do not honor this day as we do Constitution Day, the day the Convention accepted the document that established our system of government. We should. George Mason would not sign the original because it lacked a Bill of Rights, and after all, he was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rig
12-15-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Mary Pat Christie Isn't Laughing This WeekendThe George Washington Bridge traffic lane closures scandal in New Jersey just gets more and more troublesome for Governor Blustery himself, Chris Christie.In the beginning, when critics first began to ask questions about why Christie's Port Authority appointees closed lanes to the GWB on the NJ side in September for an alleged tra
Sacramento City Unified trustees to consider transgender policy - Education - The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento City Unified trustees to consider transgender policy - Education - The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento City Unified trustees to consider transgender policyBy Loretta Kalblkalb@sacbee.comPublished: Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013 - 12:00 amSacramento City Unified School District trustees are poised this week to approve new guidelines designed to accommodate and protect transgender students.The policy,
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Get Up, Stand Up: Boycott FedEx for their Hypocrisy and Support of TFA | Cloaking Inequity
Get Up, Stand Up: Boycott FedEx for their Hypocrisy and Support of TFA | Cloaking Inequity: Get Up, Stand Up: Boycott FedEx for their Hypocrisy and Support of TFAToday a reader gave me the heads up that FedEx wants to make a $300,000 commitment to Teach For America (TFA). (See http://blog.van.fedex.com/countlesspossibilities) They will donate a dollar of every One Rate transaction (Their attempt t
Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education | MyFDL
Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ Education | MyFDL: Teachers Seek to ‘Reclaim’ EducationBy: Michelle Chen Saturday December 14, 2013 6:48 am Tweet3 (Chicago Teachers Local Union 1/Flickr/Creative Commons)Originally published at In These TimesAfter years of being backed into a corner, on Monday public-school teachers stood up in defiance against what they see as their chief bully—budget-slashing school
Nite Cap 12-14-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP mark as read4LAKids - BLACK TO SCHOOL?4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: BLACK TO SCHOOL?: BLACK TO SCHOOL? BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN / CITYWATCHLA/ PUBLISHED BY THE LA PROGRESSIVE | HTTP://BIT.LY/1CJ3DRZDecember 13, 2013 :: Los Angeles
4LAKids - BLACK TO SCHOOL?
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: BLACK TO SCHOOL?: BLACK TO SCHOOL? BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN / CITYWATCHLA/ PUBLISHED BY THE LA PROGRESSIVE | HTTP://BIT.LY/1CJ3DRZDecember 13, 2013 :: Los Angeles Unified School District board member Marguerite LaMotte has only been dead a week, but the question of who will fill her seat and how it will be filled is fueling consternation—and some swift a
NYC Public School Parents: More on the uncharacteristically friendly audience faced by Commissioner King in Brooklyn
NYC Public School Parents: More on the uncharacteristically friendly audience faced by Commissioner King in Brooklyn: More on the uncharacteristically friendly audience faced by Commissioner King in Brooklyncredit Steven MazieThe Brooklyn stop on Commissioner King's "listening tour", as described here, featured one of the few friendly audiences he has faced, overwhelming supportive of t
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Hour of Code: My Kids WILL CODE!
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!: Hour of Code: My Kids WILL CODE!: Hour of Code: My Kids WILL CODE!We missed the first 2 days of Computer Science Education Week because we had Snow Days. As much as I enjoyed those two days off , I was kinda bummed about not being able to have my class participate in the Hour of Code.Wednesday, I had to leave early to attend a meeting, so we couldn't do it then.T
D.C. teachers offer wide range of views on city policies - The Washington Post
D.C. teachers offer wide range of views on city policies - The Washington Post: D.C. teachers offer wide range of views on city policies A D.C. Council hearing meant to solicit teachers’ views on improving city schools drew dozens of witnesses Saturday and offered a glimpse of the wide range of educators’ perspectives, particularly on the District’s controversial and politically charged teacher ev
Teaching in a Dystopic State ! : There's Gold in Them There Schools - And Wall Street Comin' to Stake Its Claim !
Teaching in a Dystopic State ! : There's Gold in Them There Schools - And Wall Street Comin' to Stake Its Claim !: There's Gold in Them There Schools - And Wall Street Comin' to Stake Its Claim !If you think all the "education reform" stuff in really about improving education, think again !"Education Reform" is just a back door approach to privatization. The claims of inferior
Mother Crusader: Highland Park Senior Faces Controversy In His Schools And Community Head On
Mother Crusader: Highland Park Senior Faces Controversy In His Schools And Community Head On: Highland Park Senior Faces Controversy In His Schools And Community Head OnThe below article is cross posted, with permission, from the Tumbler of Highland Park High School student Gabriel Trevor. I had the pleasure of presenting alongside Gabriel last weekend at an event sponsored by the Central Jersey C
Guess Who Really Wants Common Core Now? Principals! | deutsch29
Guess Who Really Wants Common Core Now? Principals! | deutsch29: Guess Who Really Wants Common Core Now? Principals!December 14, 2013On December 13, 2013, I received an email informing me that the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) has conducted two surveys and has found that “principals overwhelmingly support the CCSS (Common Core State Standards) initiative.”My first th
12-14-13 Saturday Matinée Special Double Feature News Breakout
Saturday Matinée Special Corporate Reform School Girls News BreakoutSpecial Sneak Preview - Witch Hunter starring Campbell Brown News BreakComing to a theater near you! mark as readPeg with Pen: But if you close your eyes...Peg with Pen: But if you close your eyes...: But if you close your eyes...This week and the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time thinking about teaching before NCLB and RT
Peg with Pen: But if you close your eyes...
Peg with Pen: But if you close your eyes...: But if you close your eyes...This week and the past few weeks I've spent a lot of time thinking about teaching before NCLB and RTTT. My students opened a restaurant once. We had to do all the math to determine the supplies needed for the pasta, bread, etc. Each of the children applied for jobs at the restaurant. They filled out job applications and we
Mother Crusader: When Broad Comes To Town: Taking A Sledgehammer To Crack A Nut
Mother Crusader: When Broad Comes To Town: Taking A Sledgehammer To Crack A Nut: When Broad Comes To Town: Taking A Sledgehammer To Crack A NutSACRAMENTO BROADSIDE CHECKLIST A reader offered this comment in response to the post about school closings in Sacramento:A “Broad” superintendent who follows its “play-list” to “capture” the school board and privatize the district as much as possible:– Conv
Take Your Students to see "12 Years a Slave?" This Teacher Did. - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher
Take Your Students to see "12 Years a Slave?" This Teacher Did. - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: Take Your Students to see "12 Years a Slave?" This Teacher Did.By Nancy Flanagan on December 14, 2013 2:44 PM I saw 12 Years a Slave last weekend. And I'm still reeling, flashing back from horrible scene to horrible scene, pondering the mindsets behind slave own
A poverty, not education, crisis in U.S.: Column
A poverty, not education, crisis in U.S.: Column: A poverty, not education, crisis in U.S.: ColumnNew studies show that the number of poor children is rising and the impact it has on learning.(Photo: Erich Schlegel for USA TODAY file photo)STORY HIGHLIGHTSOne study reveals that nearly half of all American public school students live in poverty.Another shows poverty and not race or national origin
Why it’s (long past) time for social and emotional learning
Why it’s (long past) time for social and emotional learning: Why it’s (long past) time for social and emotional learningBY VALERIE STRAUSSDecember 14 at 1:00 pm(By Matt McClain / FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jonathan Raymond, who is leaving his job at the end of the month after four years, wrote the following response to a recent column by New York
2nd Banana 12-14-13 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2 #1u
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST Nite Cap 12-12-13 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP mark as readNYC Educator: Padded Cell a Win-Win for KIPPNYC Educator: Padded Cell a Win-Win for KIPP: Padded Cell a Win-Win for KIPPSure
Morning Wink 12-14-13 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS mark as read12-14-13 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in EducationScathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Jeb Bush’s Rhetoric Proves Hypocritical When His Allies Seek to Defend Florida C
