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2-16-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: UFT Stands For - Utterly Failing TeachersJames Eterno posts that he received the following note from a teacher passing along an administrator's demands to the staff for Danielson walk-throughs:Dear Staff,Please note that I will be looking at the following in a walk through tomorrow.Please have these items labeled in a central location where I do not have to interrupt instruc
by mike simpson / 0min 
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 2-16-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why PBS/WNET Returned $3.5 Million to John Arnold’s FoundationInvestigative Journalist David Sirota wrote a brilliant series of articles about PBS taking $3.5 million about pension reform from the foundation of billionaire JohnArnold, a former Enron trader. After stonewalling, PBS decided there was a perception of conflict of inter
by mike simpson / 5min 
2-16-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Face to Face With Finland's Education SystemSo I've been going to rehearsals almost every night for the Rockaway Theatre Company Production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". One of the young ladies who sings along with the men's chorus in the number "Brotherhood of Man" does a solo that will knock your socks off.Recently I had an opportunit
by mike simpson / 10min 
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 2-16-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: This Weekend’s New Sochi ResourcesHere are the latest additions to The Best Sites For Learning About The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games: Our Favorite Moments of the Sochi Olympics (So Far) is from The Atlantic. Crazy Olympic team uniforms at Sochi is from The BBC. Jamaica Has an Official Song to Sync to Its Bobsled Run is
by mike simpson / 14min 
2-16-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Florida "Justice" ReduxA couple of questions to consider in the Jordan Davis murder by Michael Dunn:How does a jury convict of attempted murder charges (which it did) and fail to convict on murder charges (which it did not), when there is a dead body of the atttemptee in the room bleeding on the floor?If a black man in Florida, or anywhere else, shot with deadly force int
by mike simpson / 17min 
All Week 2-16-14 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE: #Edreform is Omni Consumer Products #robocopI’m not too excited about the Robocop reboot. It seems like it lost the original’s wit, humor, and surprisingly serious commentary about a largely predicted dystopian future. All right, enough serious talk about a movie with a car called the 6000 SUX. Although, very close to what soon became a reality: the SUV. But in honor […]1 by Shau
by mike simpson / 20min 
2-16-14 V.A.M.: Value Added Measure
V.A.M.: Value Added Measure: What Does P.B.S. Really Stand For: The Public Broaccasting Service or Pension B.S.?by Adam Bergstein / 4h 2-15-14 V.A.M.: Value Added MeasureV.A.M.: Value Added Measure: Humpty Dumpty Sat On a Wall (Courtesy of a Suburban Mother Goose)Below is an excerpt from one of two poems, referencing Greek mythology on a high-school PARCC Common-Core test (http://www.parcconline.
by mike simpson / 22min 
2-16-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): The Mistrial of Jordan Davis: More Evidence Problems for Denying RacismIn On the Killing of Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn, Ta-Nehisi Coates confronts the injustice of simply being born an African American son: Jordan Davis had a mother and a father. It did not save him. T
by mike simpson / 24min 
The Lego Movie: Making Education Reform Simple | Connected Principals
The Lego Movie: Making Education Reform Simple | Connected Principals: The Lego Movie: Making Education Reform Simpleby Sam LeDeaux • February 16, 2014 • 0 CommentsI’m not much of a movie guy, but I did see The Lego Movie last weekend. My son left with a list of new toys he wants, and I left thinking about the educational metaphor I just watched. If you have not seen the movie, don’t fret; I won’t
by mike simpson / 28min 
Portland Public Schools to present critical new offer today, with threat of Thursday teachers strike looming: PPS News | OregonLive.com
Portland Public Schools to present critical new offer today, with threat of Thursday teachers strike looming: PPS News | OregonLive.com: Portland Public Schools to present critical new offer today, with threat of Thursday teachers strike looming: PPS NewsFebruary 14, 2014 - In preparation for a strike scheduled on Feb. 20, teachers at Grant High School held a symbolic walk-out at 3:20 Friday after
by mike simpson / 39min 
NYC Educator: Brunch in NYC Schools
NYC Educator: Brunch in NYC Schools: Brunch in NYC SchoolsThe NY Daily News has discovered that lunch is served very early in city schools. I'm not particularly sure why, under 20 years of GOP mayors, that this escaped their attention. This is not remotely new. It turns out that, when you overload buildings and fail to create sufficient space, you can't fit kids on a reasonable schedule. When you
by mike simpson / 41min 
Are Your Schools Underfunded? Then Organize! | NEA Today
Are Your Schools Underfunded? Then Organize! | NEA Today: Are Your Schools Underfunded? Then Organize!February 16, 2014 by twalker  Filed under Featured News, Top StoriesLeave a CommentBy Amy JordanOn a cold Saturday morning, more than 100 educators, parents and students showed up to school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia, a big turnout for a meeting like this. Forty-three people spoke d
by mike simpson / 42min 

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John White’s Latest Course Choice Push Equals Large-scale, Free High School Labor | deutsch29
John White’s Latest Course Choice Push Equals Large-scale, Free High School Labor | deutsch29: John White’s Latest Course Choice Push Equals Large-scale, Free High School LaborFebruary 15, 2014Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and his hand-selected, anti-public-school sidekick, State Education Superintendent John White, really want their so-termed “online education” dollar siphon, Course Choice, to
by mike simpson / 10h 
solidaridad: Deasy says depriving PSO and AAPL of profits violates LAUSD kids' civil rights. I say these things violate them
solidaridad: Deasy says depriving PSO and AAPL of profits violates LAUSD kids' civil rights. I say these things violate them: Deasy says depriving PSO and AAPL of profits violates LAUSD kids' civil rights. I say these things violate them
by mike simpson / 10h 
Missouri bill to create ‘parental warning’ requirement to teach evolution debated | The Raw Story
Missouri bill to create ‘parental warning’ requirement to teach evolution debated | The Raw Story: Missouri bill to create ‘parental warning’ requirement to teach evolution debatedBy George ChidiSaturday, February 15, 2014 22:04 EST Education in science will be opt-out in Missouri, if a bill requiring schools to notify parents if “the theory of evolution by natural selection” is being taught at th
by mike simpson / 10h 
Replacing the 3 R’s With the 3 C’s | My Island View
Replacing the 3 R’s With the 3 C’s | My Island View: Replacing the 3 R’s With the 3 C’sFebruary 15, 2014 by tomwhitbyI was very fortunate to recently to meet Richard Peritz at FETC. Richard is a television producer for the EduTech Foundation. Rather than write about my interview conducted by Dr. Cindy Burfield. Much of the interview refers to transferring from 20th century learning to the 21st. It
by mike simpson / 10h 
CalSTRS shortfall will require a shared responsibility | EdSource Today
CalSTRS shortfall will require a shared responsibility | EdSource Today: CalSTRS shortfall will require a shared responsibilityFebruary 15th, 2014 | Add a Comment | By Rob Bonta / commentary1Assemblymember Rob BontaThe California Teachers Retirement System, or CalSTRS, is facing a significant unfunded liability with respect to its Defined Benefit Program. CalSTRS has a shortfall in funding of appr
by mike simpson / 10h 
IL Teachers’ Union gives $1/4 Million to ALEC Chairman. Betrayal or Incompetence? | Reclaim Reform
IL Teachers’ Union gives $1/4 Million to ALEC Chairman. Betrayal or Incompetence? | Reclaim Reform: IL Teachers’ Union gives $1/4 Million to ALEC Chairman. Betrayal or Incompetence?Posted on February 15, 2014by Ken PrevitiHanding the Illinois Chairman of ALEC, Kirk Dillard, a quarter of a million dollars is the single most debilitating blow to active and retired teacher morale that any public empl
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Welcome to Teaching & Learning 2014
Home : Teaching and Learning: "We are delighted to announce that BILL GATES will be speaking at the Teaching & Learning conference, which opens exactly four weeks from today at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Mr. Gates will be delivering a keynote talk at the 1:00 plenary session on Friday, March 14th."Mr. Gates joins an all-star line-up of keynoters inc
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Nite Cap 2-15-14 #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 CAPTeacher Depression in New York City southbronxschool.comhttp://www.southbronxschool.com: Teacher Depression in New York CityI have been reading MORE's demands for the new contract and find most of it pretty logical and to the point. But one thing
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Teacher Depression in New York City southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Teacher Depression in New York CityI have been reading MORE's demands for the new contract and find most of it pretty logical and to the point. But one thing is lacking.Where is the demand supporting teachers with mental health and substance abuse issues?We live in a country that;Major Depression Disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults, or about
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Laurel Sturt: Time for Teachers to Stand Up to Professional Bullies - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Laurel Sturt: Time for Teachers to Stand Up to Professional Bullies - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Laurel Sturt: Time for Teachers to Stand Up to Professional BulliesBy Anthony Cody on February 15, 2014 4:56 PMGuest post by Laurel Sturt.For as long as humanity has existed, feelings of insecurity and powerlessness have forged, in a crucible of inferiority, the cruelty which yet deni
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Newark voters will decide–either Ras Baraka or Christie’s plan to close city’s public schools | Bob Braun's Ledger
Newark voters will decide–either Ras Baraka or Christie’s plan to close city’s public schools | Bob Braun's Ledger: Newark voters will decide–either Ras Baraka or Christie’s plan to close city’s public schoolsRas Baraka outside Weequahic HS. A real school choiceNewark’s voters  won’t be able to stop Gov. Chris Christie’s plan to close and sell off the city’s neighborhood public schools and expand
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Charter School “Midyear Dump” Tactics | Teacher Reality
Charter School “Midyear Dump” Tactics | Teacher Reality: Charter School “Midyear Dump” TacticsFebruary 15, 2014 by TeacherRealityThis is an interesting must-read comment by one of Diane Ravitch’s readers. He talks about the “midyear dump” that often occurs in some charter schools as a means to improve the odds of school test scores. This is one of the games being played in Arne Duncan’s Race to th
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Contact Wyoming House Education Committee on HB97 | Truth in American Education
Contact Wyoming House Education Committee on HB97 | Truth in American Education: Contact Wyoming House Education Committee on HB97Filed in Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on February 15, 2014 • 0 Comments34From Wyoming Citizens Opposing Common Core:IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED: Now that HB 97 passed introduction. The Wyoming House Education committee will meet
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Class Action: An Activist Teacher’s Handbook | The Classroom Sooth
Class Action: An Activist Teacher’s Handbook | The Classroom Sooth: Class Action: An Activist Teacher’s HandbookPosted on February 15, 2014 | Leave a commentThe newest Jacobin project features articles about the coordinated fight back against corporate-style education reform and all the damage it has done to our public school system.  I say without exaggeration, that it is some of the most cogent
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Live at CATE: Are you an Upstander, a Bystander or a Victim? | Gatsby In L.A.
Live at CATE: Are you an Upstander, a Bystander or a Victim? | Gatsby In L.A.: Live at CATE: Are you an Upstander, a Bystander or a Victim?Biggest takeaway at CATE: pretty much everyone seems in agreement that the Common Core standards, though not perfect, are full of exciting possibilities (as opposed to the Common Core tests, which are almost inevitably paired with the phrase “train wreck.”)All
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WTF from your Big Brother: Here's looking at you, kids
Here's looking at you, kidsLove the name!
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2nd Banana 2-15-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2 #1u
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTRace to the Top Corporate Education Reform: A Page Out of IMF & World Bank Playbook?Race to the TopCorporate Education Reforms maybe the US version IMF and WB "structural adjustment policies". These policies were applied to the "Banana Republics" during the later part of the 20th century. Race to the Top has based ai
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AASA :: AFT’s Weingarten Asks AASA to Join in Combat for Public Schooling
AASA :: AFT’s Weingarten Asks AASA to Join in Combat for Public Schooling: AFT’s Weingarten Asks AASA to Join in Combat for Public Schoolingby Lisa Fingeroot  Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers.Teacher advocate Randi Weingarten issued a battle cry to AASA members Friday morning and asked them to join her in “reclaiming the promise of public education for each and every ch
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Morning Wink 2-15-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSBill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn Spark Lively and Thoughtful Exchange on Rag RadioBill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn Spark Lively and Thoughtful Exchange on Rag Radio: Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn Spark Lively and Thoughtful Exchange on Rag RadioFriday, 14 February 2014 09:17By Thorne Dreyer, TheRagBlog | Interview2font size   Print EmailActivist-scholars B
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2-16-14 Perdido Street School Week

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UFT Stands For - Utterly Failing Teachers

James Eterno posts that he received the following note from a teacher passing along an administrator's demands to the staff for Danielson walk-throughs:Dear Staff,Please note that I will be looking at the following in a walk through tomorrow.Please have these items labeled in a central location where I do not have to interrupt instruction.Student folderDisplay of work inside and outside of roomCom
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2-15-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekDe Blasio Has His Work Cut Out For HimEverywhere I went today, I kept hearing variations on the same theme:De Blasio is an idiot.Heard it at Starbucks, heard it on the train, heard it in the elevator in my building, heard it at work - de Blasio is in over his head, we miss Bloomberg.In the past, I might have defended Mayor de Blasio and pointed out
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 2-16-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

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Jonathan Pelto: Guess Which Corporate Sponsor Pays for PBS’ “The Teaching Channel”?
Jonathan Pelto points out that one of the most powerful mainstream media voices promoting the Common Core is PBS “The Teaching Channel.” Who sponsors the program? One guess.
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Grace Got It Right: What Education is for
After reading a letter by a student named Grace, this reader pointed out a crucial diggerence in purpose: the authors of the Common Core want to rank and rate everyone, but many educators have a humane vision, not of winners and losers, but of self-directed human beings. “Even kids like Grace know that an individualized, self-directed, self-paced approach is the real future of education. Helping
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Why Does PBS Ignore the Assault on Public Education? Can You Guess?
In the aftermath of David Sirota’s exposรฉ of PBS accepting $3.5 million for a series about pension reform, funded by the Arnold Foundation (and since returned), another question naturally arises: why has PBS shown little or no interest in the corporate takeover of and turmoil in public education? I appeared on Charlie Rose last year for about 15-20 minutes. But otherwise the viewers of PBS have n
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The BATs Have Their Own Common Core
This is the BATs’ Common Core of beliefs and values. It probably won’t go far because no one can make any money by adopting it. It won’t sell new hardware or software. It won’t sell new tests or textbooks. It won’t make any entrepreneurs rich. Not much of a future in this brave new market-based world.
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Louisiana Principal: When I Had to Test a Boy Treated for Cancer in Memphis
After reading the tragic story of Ethan Rediske, the boy dying in hospice who could not be excused from taking the Florida state test without documentation, this principal wrote about a student in her school. Bear in mind: Nothing is more important to the State of Louisiana than the tests: Not the boy’s health, not his life: Just his test score. If the state didn’t have his test score, how would t
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David Lyell Explains Why L.A. Is Jeopardizing the Future with Hasty iPad Purchase
David Lyell–a classroom teacher and UTLA officer– here describes the ongoing iPad fiasco in Los Angeles. Why did the district commit to spend $1 billion on iPads? To test the Common Core. Are tests more valuable to students than smaller classes, experienced teachers, and the arts, all of which are being sacrificed for iPads? Was the Pearson content reviewed? Who is investigating how decisions were
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Texas Parents Give Grades to Legislators: “It’s Ugly”
“Reformers” love to grade students, educators, and schools. Parent-led Texas Kids Can’t Wait has turned the tables. It here gives grades to the state’s legislators. Parent groups should do the same everywhere else. Newsletter I didn’t want you to miss seeing this great blog by Kim Burkett: IT’S REPORT CARD DAY FOR TEXAS LEGISLATORS … AND IT’S UGLY February 13, 2014 By Kim Burkett, PTA Mom Like m
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Why PBS/WNET Returned $3.5 Million to John Arnold’s Foundation
Investigative Journalist David Sirota wrote a brilliant series of articles about PBS taking $3.5 million about pension reform from the foundation of billionaire JohnArnold, a former Enron trader. After stonewalling, PBS decided there was a perception of conflict of interest since Arnold has been a prominent figure in the public debate about public pensions. And PBS returned the money. Here is an
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Diagram of the Brain of a Reformer
These two teachers have discovered the brain of a reformer and can demonstrate the comparison between the brain of a reformer and the brain of those who need reforming. Very impressive.
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When the Rubric Goes Horribly Wrong
We are all aware of long sustained efforts to turn education into a jargon-filled technical exercise, overlooking such mundane goals as the joy of learning I could not resist sharing this comment from a reader. The reader writes: “Once I was taking a writing course that featured a US Poet Laureate as a guest speaker. He was a grand speaker and told us about many experiences. “He told us that he
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Teacher: When Test Scores Measure Nothing
A teacher writes to challenge the claim that teachers are never fired and to explain why it is wrong to judge teachers by test scores: “Teachers do get fired. 3 in my own school in recent memory. Tenure only provides teachers the right to due process before they are let go for poor performance. And, how do you judge me on my students’ performance? I’m a special education teacher. I teach students
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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 2-15-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGPeter Greene: Pearson Press Release, 2015:Peter Greene, a high school English teacher in Pennsylvania, has concocted a press release by Pearson, issued soon after it purchased the U.S. Department of Education in 2015. In this press release, Pearson announces the release of the Common Core 2.0. Here is a sample: “*We’re pr

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2-16-14 Ed Notes Online Week

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Christie Denies Blowing Up Baraka Campaign Bus - Satire
Is the destruction of the campaign bus of a candidate who is an obvious threat to Christie BridgeGate, HobokenGate and CamiGate on steroids?Can't you see thug Chris Christie, having his Newark school takeover tactics threatened by a Baraka win for mayor, joking: "Of course I was there. I bought some sugar, put it in gas tank and set the bus on fire."The establishment, fearing a Baraka wi
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Face to Face With Finland's Education System

So I've been going to rehearsals almost every night for the Rockaway Theatre Company Production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". One of the young ladies who sings along with the men's chorus in the number "Brotherhood of Man" does a solo that will knock your socks off.Recently I had an opportunity to chat with her. I overhead someone mention Finland and I
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2-15-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineMills TA Calls on NYSUT to Lead Statewide Boycott of Grades 3-8 AssessmentWhile parents have been opting out, teacher organizations are beginning to revolt too. Can they pressure Iannuzzi to make this move? I'm guessing most likely not. When the Mulgrew pro-Cuomo team wins, NO CHANCE. Before you read the resolution check this sample Common Core 1st Grade Question. I

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