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Saturday, May 17, 2014

5-17-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD


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The Conversation: Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it
Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it
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MAY 15

My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Speakers
No institution has invited me to be the speaker at graduation, and none is ever likely to do so. But I feel compelled to offer this speech to gradates. So in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut—great American novelist who knew how to give a graduation speech—I’ll start by telling you exactly what I want you to learn from this speech: Don’t listen to graduation speakers. Now that I have the main point out
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MAY 11

On Foma and Mendacity: Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof may seem at first blush to share only the use of “cat” in their titles, but both works are masterful examinations of something central to the human condition: the lie. But Vonnegut’s foma at the heart of Bokononism and Big Daddy’s railing against mendacity  present contrasting dramatizations of “lying and liars,” as Brick
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Liberal Media
Flickr/Sean Winter By Gabriel Arana | Originally Published at The American Prospect. May 12, 2014 This article has been corrected. On the staff of The American Prospect, I’m the only member of an ethnic minority. That’s not because I bring all the variety the magazine needs, or […]
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Michelle Obama Cites View of Growing Segregation
Michelle Obama attended the “Senior Recognition Day” event with high school students in Topeka, Kan., on Friday. | Credit Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Reuters By Sheryl Gay Stolberg | Originally Published at The New York times. May 16, 2014 TOPEKA, Kan. — Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed […]
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60 Years After Brown v. Board of Ed, Pockets of Segregation Remain in Md. Schools
Roland ParkFourth-graders do classwork in their homeroom at Roland Park Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. The school is the most racially diverse school in the most segregated school district in the state. (Kim Hairston, Baltimore Sun /May 7, 2014) By Liz Bowie and Erica L. Green | Originally […]
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MAY 15

Hedge Fund Titans Hum a Happy Tune, Public Education Is For Sale
The families of kindergarten teachers make less in a year than the average top 25 hedge fund manager makes in 15 minutes. Photograph; Blanton Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amy Collins, left with her class on Monday, August 20, 2012 in Lealman, Florida. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, […]
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Civil Rights Complaint Alleges Unequal Treatment for New Orleans’ Black Public School Students
Photograph; M.K. Nguyen ends the protest with a Unity Chant as groups protest on the median in front of Sarah T. Reed High School to protest school closure, Monday, December 9, 2013. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)By Danielle Dreilinger | Originally Published atThe Times-Picayune. […]
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Halt Race-Based Education Policy Petition Delivered
Photograph; The petition was delivered five days before the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that outlawed school segregation. You Signed. Sealed. And Southern Poverty Law Delivered the Petition Demanding Florida Governor End State-Sponsored Discrimination Against Minority Students. […]
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‘Under Emanuel, Principals Have No Voice’
Pictured from left to right: Casey, Andrew, Tami Sirkin and Principal LaRaviere By Troy A. LaRaviere, Principal | Originally Published at The Chicago Sun Times. Letter to the Editor May 9, 2014 6:46 PM I am the son of a black father from the South Side and […]
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MAY 14

MAY 13

New Orleans Teachers and Students Wrestle With Racial Tension
Students at a fundraiser for Liberation Academy in New Orleans March 14, 2014. Some of the students who led protests over the district’s Collegiate Academy charter schools withdrew from those schools and enrolled in Liberation Academy, founded by parents and local activists. By Jordan Flaherty| Originally Published […]
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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 5-17-14


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4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT


  




Hollywood High Recognized On The National Register Of Historical Places.
by smf for 4LAKidsNews 16 May 2014  :: This afternoon a bronze plaque was unveiled on the front steps of the Hollywood High School Library recognizing Hollywood High’s historical significance. Hollywood High is and was and will forever be the most famous high school in America – and probably the world.  It was famous for being famous before Andy Warhol coined the phrase. The interorr walls of
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CORE WAIVER VIDEO: The California Office to Reform Education explains it all for you …or what if seven superintendents formed their own school board and reported directly to the US Dept of Ed?
by smf for 4LAKidsNews 16 May 2014  ::  Last week at the PTA convention the California Office to Reform Education – composed of the superintendents of a coalition of districts operating under a special accountability system to US Dept of Education for No Child Left Behind  (and entirely different from that of the rest of the state of California ) did a bit of parent outreach. The seven districts
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From the AALA Update: GOV. BROWN PRESENTS MAY BUDGET REVISION + LAUSD SCHOOLS DOMINATE NATIONAL ACADEMIC DECATHLON
From the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles Weekly Update Week of May 19, 2014 | http://bit.ly/1j2xus5 GOVERNOR BROWN PRESENTS MAY BUDGET REVISION May 15, 2014 | While scores of speakers addressed the LAUSD Board of Education regarding budget priorities at its meeting on Tuesday, May 13, 2014, Governor Brown released the May Revision to the 2014-15 State Budget. The revision brings good
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MAY 14

UNPACKING THE MAY REVISE: Proposed pension fund fix, New formula to identify low-income kids, No mention of transitional kindergarten expansion
The State is constitutionally responsible for the CalSTRS program – but Brown proposes to pass almost all the costs of fixing it to school districts and teachers, Some new thinking to identify children-in-poverty, The move to bring all 4-year olds into a universal pre-K program is ignored+unfunded. ALSO SEE: 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: First impressions: THE GOVERNOR’S MAY
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It’s A Small World meets Godzilla v. King Kong: PEARSON CONTRACT FOR COMMON CORE TESTING FACES LEGAL CHALLANGE + smf’s 2¢
By Sean Cavanagh | Education Week | http://bit.ly/1iLDwZw Another blogger reblogged an earlier version of this story with the Godzilla v. King Kong allusion; that headline was, as Teddy Roosevelt said, ‘stolen fair-and-square’ A Beaudry insider – and frequent commenter on the goings-on within the Puzzle Palace -  observes: Pearson, of
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MAY 13

First impressions: THE GOVERNOR’S MAY REVISE BUDGET + May Revision Budget Document
via email/in order received from ESEA Cabinet Report May 13, 2014 No major improvements for schools in May Revise by Tom Chorneau (Calif.) Focusing his attention and much of the $2.4 billion in unanticipated state revenue in other directions, Gov. Jerry Brown offered a revised education budget Tuesday with few major changes from what he proposed in January. Brown offered no new
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Lausd And The Ritualistic Killing Of School
Written by Odysseus Bostick - THE BOSTIC REPORT in LA CityWatch | http://bit.ly/1jCOx4D 13 May 2014  ::  If the Los Angeles Unified School District were a used car, parents would be reading the fine print of California’s historic lemon law by the end of first grade. The second largest school district in the nation is not the most well oiled machine, to put it kindly. It’s a labyrinthine of
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MAY 12

LAUSD’s MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL WINS ONLINE DECATHLON
by LA School Report | http://bit.ly/1slWrPW John Marshall High School Posted on May 9, 2014 2:31 pm ::   LA Unified has claimed a second victory in a major academic competition. Marshall High School won the 2014 U.S. Academic Decathlon Online competition, scoring 39,461 out of a possible 48,000 points. The win follows El Camino Real Charter High School’s victory in the 2014 U.S.Academic
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LA SCHOOLS BUDGET DISCUSSION: More teachers, custodians, health services, technology
  Annie Gilbertson | Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/RAJXIU Lee LeFever/Flickr May 12th, 2014, 5:00am  ::  The Los Angeles Unified school board is scheduled to discuss Superintendent John Deasy's 2014-2015 proposed budget at its meeting Tuesday - and it promises hours of debate over long lists of competing wants. lest you missed it: Regular LAUSD Board
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STATE’S NEW COMPUTERIZED EXAM TRYOUT PLAGUED BY GLITCHES: New exams, given for the first time on computers, really have been a test. But not always of Math and English.
At Fredrick Douglass Academy High School, Principal LaKeyshua Washington banters with senior Charles Rachal, 19, in the computer lab. ICEF had been reluctant to invest in technology upgrades in the former church the group leases for Douglass. (Don Bartletti, Los Angeles Times) HOWARD BLUME | Education - Los Angeles Times http://lat.ms/1l4dCmp May 11, 2014 | 10:58  ::  Educators
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FAMILIES IN SCHOOLS TWITTER PARTY THIS AFTERNOON: Parents are worth more than spare change! + smf’s 2¢
received by e-mail -------- Original message -------- From: Families In Schools Date: 05/11/2014 5:04 PM (GMT-08:00) Subject: Reminder: Twitter Party 05/12 - Parents are worth more than spare change! You are invited Join the #Yes2Parents Twitter Party! Monday, May 12th, 2014
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MAY 11

Duncan: “Achievement gaps among ethnic groups have not narrowed.”: NATIONAL REPORT CARD FOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS SHOWS STAGNATION IN MATH+READING + smf’s 2¢
Commenting on the 2013 NAEP 'report card' for US hi12th graders, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said,''achievement gaps among ethnic groups have not narrowed.' By Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor Staff writer | http://bit.ly/1kZRNUY May 7, 2014  ::  American high school seniors showed no improvement in their math and reading abilities in four years, according to the latest
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MAY 09

Lausd District 1 Election And Big Money Politics
Written by Larry Aubry, Opinion in the LA Sentinel |http://bit.ly/RxuxoS Published on Wednesday, 07 May 2014 12:00  ::  The special election for LAUSD School Board District 1 to fill the vacancy left by the death of Marguerite Poindexter LaMotte is less than a month away. However, the battle lines for choosing her successor were clear within days of her death: They are, Big money versus what’s
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La Schools’ New Parent Advisory Group Grapples With $6.8 Billion Budget
Annie Gilbertson| Pass / Fail | 89.3 KPCC http://bit.ly/SJQpye Annie Gilbertson/KPCC May 8th, 2014, 5:00am  ::  L..A. Unified parents were elected by their peers to make recommendations on Superintendent John Deasy's spending plans, but found important details missing. The first in a series of stories on how Southern California schools are being affected by new state laws giving parents and
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L.A. UNIFIED OVERTURNS CHANGES AT CARTHAY CENTER ELEMENTARY: Rather than the principal removing half the staff; she is removed
STEPHEN CEASAR | - Los Angeles Times http://lat.ms/1jJGMsP May 7, 2014  11:42AM  ::  LAUSD overturned a principal's decision to replace half of the teachers at Carthay Center Elementary Any teacher who applied to stay at the Carthay Elementary when it converts to a magnet school can do so. The Los Angeles Unified School District on Wednesday overturned a principal’s decision to replace half of
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