Thursday, June 19, 2014

Nite Cap 6-19-14 #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 CAP



After Thousand of Years, #China Changing Mind on #Testing ? #edreform | Cloaking Inequity
After Thousand of Years, #China Changing Mind on #Testing ? #edreform | Cloaking Inequity: After Thousand of Years, #China Changing Mind on #Testing ? #edreformI leave for China tomorrow. I will be accompanying the Teachers of the Year from several states as an NEA Foundation Global Fellow. We will visit schools in the Middle Kingdom over the next eight days.This will be my third trip to China. My
by mike simpson / 9min 
6/19/2014 – Dirty Secret In The Education Wars
6/19/2014 – Dirty Secret In The Education Wars: 6/19/2014 – Dirty Secret In The Education WarsJune 19, 2014 SubscribeTHIS WEEK: Breaking The School-To-Prison Pipeline … Business Leaders Don’t Know Education … Schools Hit In Recovery … Tests Are For Profits … How To Stop College DebtTOP STORYDirty Secret In The Education Wars: Money MattersBy Jeff Bryant“The dirty, little secret in America’s educat
by mike simpson / 53min 
NYC Educator: Little? Or Nothing?
NYC Educator: Little? Or Nothing?: Little? Or Nothing?There's a deal in place with Governor Cuomo to shield some teachers from Common Core junk science ratings. This is positive for those who are rated ineffective or developing due to Common Core junk science. Regrettably, those who are rated ineffective or developing due tonon-Common Core junk science are out of luck.John King isn't worried about
by mike simpson / 57min 
6-18-14 The Whole Child Blog — Insights on Making a Difference
Home Page — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGInsights on Making a DifferenceJune 19, 2014 by Klea ScharbergTeachers work every day for the benefit of their students. Learn how other educators make a difference in students' lives and learning in a special summer issue ofEducational Leadership and get inspired. This digital issue gives you instant access to stories about individuals, teams
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6-18-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Randi Influence Over NYSUT and Cuomo Endorsement? Peter Goodman vs Mercedes SchneiderNot endorsing is not the same as opposing and the majority of NYSUT local presidents oppose Cuomo.... Beth DiminoThere are some interesting posts up at Education Bloggers Network Central (bloggers plugged into the Ravitch network).Mercedes Schneider, a Randi Weingarten critic based in Louisiana, b
by mike simpson / 1h 
Choosing Democracy: Local Control Funding and Sac City Unified Board
Choosing Democracy: Local Control Funding and Sac City Unified Board: Local Control Funding and Sac City Unified BoardSacramento City Unified Board meeting tonight.  6 PM. Serna Center.At the June 5 meeting, the Community Priorities Coalition presented the board with alternatives.Funding of California’s k-12 public education system is changing fundamentally.  Some schools will get much more money
by mike simpson / 2h 
Would You Recognize Real Parent and Community Engagement If It Jumped Up and Bit You on Your Butt?
Would You Recognize Real Parent and Community Engagement If It Jumped Up and Bite You on Your Butt?Tonight SCUSD has an opportunity to support real parent and community engagement and authorize a New Charter School at the old Joseph Bonnheim Elementary site. The Plan has the support of students, parents and community leaders. From SacBee article Parents want to convert closed Sacramento campus int
by mike simpson / 3h 
6-19-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? Malloy fails to make a real difference with home foreclosure crisisSearch the state database of the hundreds of press releases that Governor Malloy has over the past three and a half years and you’ll find numerous PR documents bragging that the Malloy administration was successfully fighting to protect Connecticut families from the predatory foreclosure practices of banks an
by mike simpson / 3h 
Unidentified Bloggers Defending Themselves Anonymously |
Unidentified Bloggers Defending Themselves Anonymously |: Unidentified Bloggers Defending Themselves Anonymously“People should stand behind their own words…that’s doubly-true of people in public life.”For those of you who missed it, about two weeks ago Diane Ravitch posted a piece about (and including) a set of emails exchanged between Diane, Raj Chetty, and me about Chetty et al.’s now infamous s
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Almost One Half of Americans Haven’t Heard of Common Core | Truth in American Education
Almost One Half of Americans Haven’t Heard of Common Core | Truth in American Education: Almost One Half of Americans Haven’t Heard of Common CoreFiled in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on June 19, 2014 • 0 Comments1MSNBC/Wall Street Journal released a poll that shows almost one-half of Americans have not heard of the Common Core State Standards.  The poll was conducted between J
by mike simpson / 5h 
6-19-14 LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD
LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District): Morning Read: Immigrant education key to economy healthReport: Economic prosperity relies on boosting immigrant education Home to one-quarter of the nation’s immigrants and a top-destination for incoming refugees, California must significantly improve educational outcomes for immigrant youth if the state
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Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will - ProPublica
Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their Will - ProPublica: Violent and Legal: The Shocking Ways School Kids are Being Pinned Down, Isolated Against Their WillCarson Luke, a young boy with autism, shattered bones in his hand and foot after educators grabbed him and tried to shut him into a “scream room.” Kids across the country risked similar h
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6-19-14 Schools Matter #StopJebNow
Schools Matter: Louisiana Withdraws from PARCC and Jindal Moves to Block Pearson Test PurchaseIn the latest bad news for the Oligarchs' Common Core enterprise, Bobby Jindal has moved to sever the head from the Common Core monster in Louisiana.  He knows that without the Pearson tests that PARCC is force-feeding the states without the benefit of a bidding process, the Core will disappear within a c
by mike simpson / 6h 
“This is a B- student’s opinion”: Why the education reformers’ latest victory is built on sand - Salon.com
“This is a B- student’s opinion”: Why the education reformers’ latest victory is built on sand - Salon.com: “This is a B- student’s opinion”: Why the education reformers’ latest victory is built on sandMichelle Rhee may love the recent anti-union ruling from California, but an expert tells Salon it's seriously weak Just a little more than a week ago, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf M.
by mike simpson / 7h 
Shanker Blog » Contrarians At The Gates
Shanker Blog » Contrarians At The Gates: Contrarians At The GatesPosted by Matthew Di Carlo on June 19, 2014Unlike many of my colleagues, I don’t have a negative view of the Gates Foundation’s education programs. Although I will admit that part of me is uneasy with the sheer amount of resources (and influence) they wield, and there are a few areas where I don’t see eye-to-eye with their ideas (or
by mike simpson / 7h 
Morning Wink 6-19-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-19-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for allDiane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why Privatization of Public Services Harms SocietyYou will find this publication of great interest at this time. It is titled “Race to the Bottom: How Outsourcing Public Services Rewards Corpora
by mike simpson / 8h 
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-19-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Why Privatization of Public Services Harms SocietyYou will find this publication of great interest at this time. It is titled “Race to the Bottom: How Outsourcing Public Services Rewards Corporations and Punishes the Middle Class.” It was written by a group called “In the Public Interest.” The full PDF file is available for free. H
by mike simpson / 8h 
6-19-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: June’s Infographics & Interactives Galore – Part ThreeThere are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called “Infographics & Interactives Galore.” You can see others at A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics and by searching “infographics” on
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6-19-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: My suggestion is to call Dyett High School an “incubator.”The three-day community vigil at Dyett High School. For the past couple of days parents and members of the Bronzeville community have been holding a vigil at the neighborhood’s last open admission public high school. That would be Walter H. Dye
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6-19-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Aren’t California tenure policies in fact unreasonable? Plus 4 more Vergara questions asked and answeredLos Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu handed down a ruling in Vergara vs California this month tossing out California statutes providing job protections to teachers, siding with plaintiffs who argued that California children who live in low-income families receive an inadeq
by mike simpson / 8h 
6-19-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum
Seattle Schools Community Forum: I Must Be BlindI must be blind because I can't see what the Seattle Times editorial board sees when they look at the legislature's response to the McCleary decision.They say that the McCleary ruling has already done a lot of good. I'm not seeing that. What good has this ruling done? The legislature is no closer to fully funding public K-12 education now than they w
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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: VALLAS/RAUNER, 2 PEAS IN A POD
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: VALLAS/RAUNER, 2 PEAS IN A POD: VALLAS/RAUNER, 2 PEAS IN A PODThanks to S-T's Dan Mihalopoulos for stating the obvious.When it comes to some of the most important issues in education today, Quinn’s running mate in the November election — the former Chicago Public Schools chief executive Paul Vallas — appears to have plenty in common with Rauner. Effective or not, wha
by mike simpson / 8h 
6-19-14 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: U.S. and Education Reform Need a Critical Free PressU.S. and Education Reform Need a Critical Free Press. via U.S. and Education Reform Need a Critical Free Press.2 by plthomasedd / 58min 6-18-14 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: From A Horse’S Mouth:FROM A HORSE’S MOUTH:.2 by David Greene / 55min 6-17-14 @ The Chalk Face@ THE CHALK FACE: PREVIEW: New Film Opening June 17, 2014 –
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6-18-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University)
the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University): U.S. and Education Reform Need a Critical Free PressFew things are worse than mainstream media coverage of education. Except for that sentence above, which stretches hyperbole beyond credibility. But that is exactly where the mainstream media finds itself when covering e
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6-19-14 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION: Another CCSS Writer AwakensPsychology Today ran a great interview in January, talking to Dr. Louisa Moats, a psychologist, teacher, and researcher who was a contributing writer for the Common Core Standards, that is now making the rounds. The interview is worth reading in its entirety, but let me entice you with some highlights. And let me start by noting that David Coleman recruit
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6-19-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Sandra Stotsky: Don't Let Yourself Be Bullied By State Education OfficialsJessica Bakeman at Capital NY:ALBANY—A former Massachusetts state education official who has emerged as a national critic of the Common Core standards told parent-lobbyists at the Capitol on Tuesday that they should fight for their rights and empower their older children as activists. Sandra Stotsky, w
by mike simpson / 8h 
Is Common Core Dead in Louisiana? | Crazy Crawfish's Blog
Is Common Core Dead in Louisiana? | Crazy Crawfish's Blog: Crazy Crawfish's BlogZesty Louisiana Education PoliticsIs Common Core Dead in Louisiana?Posted on June 19, 20141Yesterday Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced he was withdrawing from PARCC testing and pulling Louisiana out of Common Core because while we believe in high standards for our children, we do not believe in federally impose
by mike simpson / 8h 
1.17 Million Children in U.S. Survive on $2 per Day or Less | janresseger
1.17 Million Children in U.S. Survive on $2 per Day or Less | janresseger: 1.17 Million Children in U.S. Survive on $2 per Day or LessPosted on June 19, 2014 by janressegerWe know how poverty among children constrains opportunity and affects school achievement, but it is difficult to consider what can be done. Yesterday’s NY Times published a short, comprehensive and extraordinarily moving column
by mike simpson / 9h 
NYC Educator: Chalkbeat NY---All the Reformy News that Fits
NYC Educator: Chalkbeat NY---All the Reformy News that Fits: Chalkbeat NY---All the Reformy News that FitsI rarely read Chalkbeat anymore. I appreciate that they send me their Rise and Shine every morning, as I'm kind of an ed. news junkie, but I haven't got the time to plod through their ponderous site and figure out what is new, what is recycled, and what is just glitzy nonsense. The comments on
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Details on La. Gov. Jindal’s Common Core and PARCC Exit | deutsch29
Details on La. Gov. Jindal’s Common Core and PARCC Exit | deutsch29: Details on La. Gov. Jindal’s Common Core and PARCC ExitJune 18, 2014In a press release on June 18, 2014, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal made a number of statements regarding Louisiana’s participation in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the associated Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARC
by mike simpson / 19h 
Seniority, Tenure and the Vergara Decision » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Seniority, Tenure and the Vergara Decision » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names: An Appeal for ActionSeniority, Tenure and the Vergara Decisionby JACK GERSON and ANDY LIBSONOn June 10, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu issued a ruling that threatens to strike down California education code statutes protecting teacher due process rights, including seniority and “tenure”. The la
by mike simpson / 21h 
Parents want to convert closed Sacramento campus into charter school - Education - The Sacramento Bee
Parents want to convert closed Sacramento campus into charter school - Education - The Sacramento Bee: Parents want to convert closed Sacramento campus into charter schoolBy Loretta Kalblkalb@sacbee.comPublished: Wednesday, Jun. 18, 2014 - 5:10 pmA group of parents tonight will urge Sacramento City Unified trustees to approve a charter schoolat Joseph Bonnheim Elementary, one of seven campuses clo
by mike simpson / 21h 
Who Is Protecting the Status Quo? | educarenow
Who Is Protecting the Status Quo? | educarenow: Who Is Protecting the Status Quo?Posted on April 23, 2013 | 1 CommentWhen an educator questions the dominance of testing as a tool for school reform, you will often see that educator criticized for ‘protecting the status quo.’ As an example of this accusation, here is a link to a recent opinion piece in the Detroit News. The article supports the new
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Nite Cap 6-18-14 #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 Tenure and Corporate Reform | Bill AyersTeacher Tenure and Corporate Reform | Bill Ayers: Teacher Tenure and Corporate ReformAnalogy Test:High-stakes, standardized testing is to learning as:a). memorizing a flight manual is to flyingb). w
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After Thousand of Years, #China Changing Mind on #Testing ? #edreform | Cloaking Inequity

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After Thousand of Years, #China Changing Mind on #Testing ? #edreform

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I leave for China tomorrow. I will be accompanying the Teachers of the Year from several states as an NEA Foundation Global Fellow. We will visit schools in the Middle Kingdom over the next eight days.
This will be my third trip to China. My first trip was a six month stay in 1996. I studied Chinese high school students’ achievement motivation as a NIH Fogarty Fellow at the Institute of Psychology in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (A few photos from my summer in China included in this post). My second trip to was in 2004. My visit to Beijing was part of a 16-country Around-the-World trip where we circumnavigated the globe via air during a four week period. Next time you see me in person, ask me to tell you the backstory about the trip.
Julian Vasquez Heilig at Great Wall of China (Shanhaiguan) in 1996
Julian Vasquez Heilig at Great Wall of China (Shanhaiguan) in 1996
I am looking forward to the 2014 trip. It is an interesting time to visit China. The country is potentially in the midst of an apparent sea change on high-stakes testing. Chinese society has been driven by testing for thousands of years, dating back to ancient times when civil servants were selected based solely on the imperial/civil service examination. While this old exam system was terminated in 1906, the high-stakes testing culture persists and it continues to play a critical role in selecting talents in contemporary Chinese society. The public school environment in China is testing-oriented largely because the sole mechanism of college access for the vast majority of high school students is the national higher education entrance examination. The testing culture cascades down from the higher education entrance examination through all levels of the educational system. As college admission rates determine secondary schools’ evaluation and enrollment, high school teachers often test students via test preparation classes. Since students that gain access to key high schools are more likely to enroll in selective universities, middle school students work hard to score at the top of their class in order to enroll in better high schools. Likewise, elementary school children are tested to determine which middle schools they will attend. Thus, extensive and systematic testing characterizes Chinese students’ entire educational experience.
To sum up, high-stakes test scores are not only the metrics determining students’ advancement from better elementary schools to key secondary schools to selective colleges, but are also determining a schools’ reputations. Thus, it comes as no surprise that teachers are forced to inundate students with testing. One common critique of the excessive focus on testing is that Chinese college students are said to have spectacular test scores but “low ability” (Zhao, 2010).
China’s recent education reform seeks to take the country in a new direction. Central to these reforms is a de-After Thousand of Years, #China Changing Mind on #Testing ? #edreform | Cloaking Inequity:
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6/19/2014 – Dirty Secret In The Education Wars

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June 19, 2014
THIS WEEK: Breaking The School-To-Prison Pipeline … Business Leaders Don’t Know Education … Schools Hit In Recovery … Tests Are For Profits … How To Stop College Debt

TOP STORY

Dirty Secret In The Education Wars: Money Matters

By Jeff Bryant

“The dirty, little secret in America’s education wars is that spending more money on schools is what most people really want – and for good reason, because it really tends to help. Yet what we’ve been seeing in a ‘reform’ agenda that has dominated the debate is an emphasis on anything else but.”
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NEWS AND VIEWS

Breaking The School-To-Prison Pipeline: Rethinking ‘Zero Tolerance’

The American Prospect

“The first federal measure to implement ‘zero tolerance’ in schools was the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 … Districts expanded on Congress’s obligatory punishments to include possession of drugs and alcohol; many began to require one- or ten-day suspensions for minor offenses like cursing or lying to an administrator. The suspension rate soared 87 percent between 1973 and 2006 … Even as most school districts across the country were cracking down in the mid-1990s, a different approach was being tried in Minnesota … As Minnesota’s pilots showed promising results, social-justice groups started pushing for restorative justice … Restorative-justice programs don’t cost a lot to implement … but they do require schools to have sufficient staff. The support staff on which the programs rely – counselors, assistant principals, restorative-justice coordinators – are often the first to go when budget cuts hit.”
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Business Leaders Lack Knowledge About K-12, Superintendents Say

Education Week

“Just 3% of school superintendents rate business leaders as ‘well-informed’ about public education, and 14% of the survey respondents say corporate leaders are actually misinformed … 95% of superintendents say that businesses are involved in their schools, according to the survey. By a nearly 3-to-1 margin, business efforts to donate money and goods and to support individual students outnumbered deeper engagement … 90% of superintendents who responded to the nationally representative survey believe that business’ engagement leads to a positive impact on education – although only 10% say the impact of that involvement has been evaluated.”
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Public Schools Are Hurting More in the Recovery Than in the Recession

FiveThirtyEight

“The slow economic recovery is taking a toll on the nation’s public schools… And school districts around the country have used them to hire thousands of foreign teachers … Total school funding fell in 2012 for the first time since 1977 … Adjusting for inflation and growth in student enrollment, spending fell every year from 2010 to 2012, even as costs for health care, pension plans, and special education programs continued to rise faster than inflation … Nearly 90 percent of big-city school districts spent less per student in 2012 than when the recession ended in 2009… The cuts are increasingly hitting classrooms directly.”
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Why Pearson Tests Our Kids

The Huffington Post

Education blogger Alan Singer writes, “‘Pearson Personalized Learning’ is not about supporting schools; it is about replacing them. And it is about replacing them without any evidence that their products work or any concern for the impact of their products on schools and student learning … Everything is actually organized around the Pearson goal of ‘finding business models for affordable schools’ … If you want to know how Pearson plans to operate, you have to look at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm … The main job of McKinsey is to help companies maintain profitability by closing subsidies, selling assets, shifting production, and laying off workers … A fair question to ask is, do we want the business model that led to the Eron scam and these other corporate disasters employed in operating American schools?”
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College Is Ruining Lives! How To Stop Student Debt’s Paralyzing Spiral

Salon

“Wrangling over student loans and interest rates and refinancing obscures the long-term vision – public colleges and universities should be free to attend. Or at least as close to free as possible … This idea is not far-fetched … That’s the long-term vision. In the meantime, there’s a seemingly small fix that would significantly relieve student debt burdens and reduce defaults: eliminating the student loan servicer middleman … There is no real need to subcontract out monthly payment collection of direct student loans to servicers … The Education Department’s contracts with student loan servicers expire this month. Instead of renegotiating the terms of the contract, another one of the president’s executive orders … the government should cancel its contracts with the company formerly known as Sallie Mae, now called Navient.”
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NYC Educator: Little? Or Nothing?

NYC Educator: Little? Or Nothing?:



Little? Or Nothing?

There's a deal in place with Governor Cuomo to shield some teachers from Common Core junk science ratings. This is positive for those who are rated ineffective or developing due to Common Core junk science. Regrettably, those who are rated ineffective or developing due tonon-Common Core junk science are out of luck.

John King isn't worried about it because only 1% of teachers were rated ineffective last year. Of course, NYC has 28% of the state's teachers and wasn't rated at all, so that's a significant portion to overlook. But John King's not worried about that. After all, if statistics mattered to John King, he'd be worried that 70% of our children were declared failures by this program whose merits he praises at every opportunity. (Funny how he sends his own kids to a Montessori school, where they won't benefit from this incredible program.)

This is yet another band-aid. First, we temporarily shield the kids from CCSS high stakes. Then, we temporarily shield the teachers from CCSS high stakes. With the incredible statewide anger we saw the King face last year, someone had to do something. The problem is, there's this underlying assumption that the problem is in the rollout. It's the execution, not the program itself. What is this based on?

There's never been any proof that Common Core has any validity whatsoever. It's never been field tested. Perhaps the most extensiveNYC Educator: Little? Or Nothing?:

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6-18-14 The Whole Child Blog — Insights on Making a Difference

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June 19, 2014 by Klea Scharberg
Making a Difference - ASCD Educational LeadershipTeachers work every day for the benefit of their students. Learn how other educators make a difference in students' lives and learning in a special summer issue ofEducational Leadership and get inspired. This digital issue gives you instant access to stories about individuals, teams, schools, and even a U.S. state that are passionate about teaching and learning.
In her "Perspectives" column, Editor-in-Chief Marge Scherer reminds us to remember why we do what we do. She writes,
With so much energy devoted all year long to tackling problems, summer can be a good time to recall why you went into education in the first place, reflect on your many accomplishments, and think about the good you have done and will do in your life as an educator. It's not about self-congratulation, but about looking inside yourself for the rejuvenation and answers only you can find.
Articles in the issue include
View the insights of these and other contributors to the issue in the infographic (PDF) below.




6-18-14 The Whole Child Blog — Identifying Technology to Support Differentiation
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: THE WHOLE CHILD BLOGIdentifying Technology to Support DifferentiationJune 18, 2014 by ASCD Whole Child BloggersPost written by Melinda Sota, Ben Clarke, Nancy Nelson, Christian Doabler, and Hank FienEducational technology is compelling, largely because of its promising capability in enabling differentiated instruction. In a classroom of 30 students wit
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6-19-14 Ed Notes Online

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"Flowers for Algernon" Author/Teacher Daniel Keyes - and My Tenuous Connection
Daniel Keyes, the author of “Flowers for Algernon,” the story of a man with an I.Q. of 68 who temporarily becomes a genius after surgery — a book that inspired the film “Charly,” starring Cliff Robertson — died on Sunday at his home in South Florida.  He was 86.... NY Times--- He told the Japanese newspaper The Daily Yomiuri in 1999 that the character of Charlie occurred to him while he was teachi
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Randi Influence Over NYSUT and Cuomo Endorsement? Peter Goodman vs Mercedes Schneider
Not endorsing is not the same as opposing and the majority of NYSUT local presidents oppose Cuomo.... Beth DiminoThere are some interesting posts up at Education Bloggers Network Central (bloggers plugged into the Ravitch network).Mercedes Schneider, a Randi Weingarten critic based in Louisiana, blogged about Randi's support for anti-teacher, ed deform Conn. Gov Malloy: AFT’s Weingarten Supports M
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6-18-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: What's Up Today, June 18, 2014: Jose Vilson, NYCEducator on Class Size, RBE on Abusive PrincipalsA quick reminder about tonight's: MORE, Change the Stakes Sponsor Jose Vilson Book Conversation in InwoodStill in Cape Cod at FIRST robotics conference so I can't make it. (I have so much to write about being with hundreds of people from all over the world and most states. And if your
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