8-6-14 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.:

Things getting weirder in Hinsdale. Board files police report against teachers who *like* on Facebook.

D86 board president Richard Skoda. If you thought the Tea Party crazies on the Hinsdale board of education are off the rails, things just got weirder. The latest episode began when the teachers posted an article about the District 86 negotiations on their Facebook page. The article was from a local online news site called The Patch. As sometimes happens, a totally unrelated photograph from a tota

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S.O.R.E. September luncheon with Jan Schakowsky.

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Ten minute drawing. Michael Mulgrew is misunderstood.

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At the Hideout. A sinking ship and a teacher in charge.

The after-party outside the Hideout last night.  The First Tuesday at a north side dive bar called The Hideout is becoming a Chicago phenomenon. Last night the place was so packed that folks unable to get in ended up sitting in the front patio holding a party of their own. Holding court in the back room where the bands I’m too old to even have heard of usually play were Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsk

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Congresswoman Schakowsky. “How I failed to live on the minimum wage.” Jan will be speaking at our September 3rd. S.O.R.E. luncheon.

Jan Schakowsky from Illinois’ 9th CD speaking to our Skokie Organization of Retired Educators luncheon last year. On September 3rd Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky will be speaking to our September luncheon of S.O.R.E along with Illinois Representative Laura Fine. I expect an overflow crowd for Jan, so make your reservations early. I’ll post the flyer shortly. Congresswoman Schakowsky has been a voca

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8-5-14 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.: In Hinsdale, Tea Party takes an axe to their teachers.Tea Party Hinsdale school board member Claudia Manley. Hey folks. Keep an eye on those local school board elections. Out in Chicago’s western suburbs the Tea Party extremists who were recently elected to the Hinsdale High School District 86 are in

by mike simpson / 8h 

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-6-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:

Dr. Deasy’S Speech To The Superintendent’S Annual Administrator’S Meeting

by smf for 4LAKidsNews Tuesday August 5, 2014  ::  This morning Superintendent Deasy hosted his annual back-to-school confab for principals and administrators in the new auditorium at Garfield High School. The highlight of these affairs is usually a barnburner of a kick-off-to-the school year speech from the superintendent to his assembled principals – a listing of the successes of the past year

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 8-5-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: L.A. Times Editorial: SCHOOL BOARD RACE TURNS NASTY FOR NO GOOD REASONAlex Johnson's attacks on George McKenna are misleading, if not downright inaccurate By The Times Editorial Board | http://lat.ms/1s9QdDU  Aug 5, 2014  ::  Negative campaigning is a legitimate if overused tactic. If a candidate for elected office has flaws, his opponent has every righ

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8-6-14 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):

Florida Retention Policy a Blight on Literacy, Children across US

The New York Times headline suggests we are finally poised to read a positive story about education: A Summer of Extra Reading and Hope for Fourth Grade. But education reporter Motoko Rich’s examination of third-grade retention policies based on the Florida model and sweeping across the U.S. is not about “hope,” but about a disturbing resistance by political leaders, the media, and the public to c

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8-5-14 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): A Call for the Next Phase in the ResistanceTeachers at every level of schooling have struggled against two powerful social claims: (i) education has always been labeled a failure by political leaders and the media (notably in the context of international comparisons and

by mike simpson / 8h 

8-6-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks:

E4E : Is it a cult full of clean cut college grads or a secret club of zombie capitalists? SIGN THE Oath

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INSIDIOUS CRONYISM Divides, Conquers , Disrupts , Defames , Tests, Punk Property Values, Astroturfs, Gentrifies Outsources, and TAKE OVER

                                         Mitchell's NewSchool Venture Fund also reportedly partners with Pearson, the education mega-corporation that owns a number of testing and textbook companies, along with one prominent for-profit virtual charter school,Connections Academy.http://www.thenation.com/blog/177675/ted-mitchell-education-dept-nominee-has-strong-ties-pearson-privatization-movement#

by Rene Diedrich / 1h 

SCAPEGOATING TEACHERS WILL NOT FIX OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Teachers = Solution, which the disaster capitalists are not interested in because failure is more lucrative(

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The Death of Teacher Mary Eve Thorson Galvanizes Efforts to Protect Colleagues With National Organization and Anti-Bully Bill

The Death of Mary Eve Thorson Highlights Teacher Abuse in America TEACHERS FOR MARY Support for teachers From Teachers On Thanksgiving Day, 2011, a thirty-two year old school teacher by the name of Mary Eve Thorson, stood in front of a moving-semi truck and ended her life. She left behind a 6 page suicide letter stating that she wanted to be the first to sign the petition, which would

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NYC Rubber Room Reporter and ATR CONNECT

NYC Rubber Room Reporter and ATR CONNECT

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Chicago Teachers’ New Political Awakening | Living in Dialogue

http://www.livingindialogue.com/chicago-teachers-new-political-awakening-2/ Monday, August 4, 2014 6:18 am  Chicago, Electoral Politics, Teachers Unions   Michelle Gunderson  3  625 

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Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due Process | Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due ProcessThe gover...

Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due Process | Bill of Rights Institute: Fifth Amendment: Due ProcessThe government may not deprive citizens of “life, liberty, or property” without due process of law. This means that the government has to follow rules and established procedures in everything it does. It cannot, for example, skip parts of trials, or deny citizens their rights as

by Rene Diedrich / 2h 

Documents Show What The Department Of Education Knew About Corinthian College’s Financial Situation

A deliberate shutdown — or an accident? Molly Hensley-ClancyFollow @molly_hc BuzzFeed Staff The Department of Education has consistently maintained that it “didn’t know” how precarious the financial situation of Corinthian Colleges was when it moved to cut off the for-profit college company’s access to federal funding — leading the to the for-profit college

by Rene Diedrich / 2h 

CHICAGO Public Schools Starved Out, Blown Up and Thrown Into Crisis : TIMOTHY MEEGAN' Crackpot" Conspiracy Theories " May Provoke Welcome Boycott by Parents and Students

http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/21628237-452/cps-starving-its-schools-to-justify-privatization.html#.U9-v6fldWSr BY TIMOTHY MEEGAN

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14 Years of Dedicated Service that Goes Beyond the Pale, Teacher Waldo Caballero facing Termination Thanks to Yet Another Standardized Test

 Recent years have been hard on teachers. Parents vilify them for not making tractable scholars out of their indifferent — and often out-of-control — children; they are assailed for their summer vacations; and their "modest" salaries are chronically suspect. Even Gov. Paul LePage regards public schools as dumping grounds for children whose parents cannot afford to send them to a private

by Rene Diedrich / 3h 

LAUSD Budget Unveils The “Sophie’s Choice” of Education Reform: How School Choice Is Pushed

 When we grew our school system from one conducted by itinerant, very young generalists to that of a modern, publicly funded collection of certificated and professional specialists, we developed a system intended to be integrated at the "student-level". That is, in attending specialized classes, these separate classes would all become blended inside of any given student. And any given st

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Teach for America Apostates: a Primer of Alumni Resistance

Art by Robert Rendo The Evolution of TFA into a "Huge Corporate Organization" To understand the arc of TFA from the early years to the present requires a long view. Alex Caputo-Pearl, who served in the inaugural corps in 1990, provides such a view. He still teaches in Los Angeles and serves in the leadership of a progressive union faction. He's watched TFA evolve

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Fwd: Low voter turnout predicted in LAUSD board race

www.hemlockontherocks.comcavete tyrannisqui doecet in doctrinaBegin forwarded message:From: Rene Diedrich <daughtersofbukowski@gmail.com>Date: August 4, 2014 11:46:04 PM PDTTo: Rene Diedrich <daughtersofbukowski@gmail.com>Subject: Low voter turnout predicted in LAUSD board racehttp://laschoolreport.com/voter-turnout-predictions-low-in-school-board-race/

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8-5-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

Hemlock on the Rocks: SXSWedu: How to Keep Friends and Influence No New PeopleYSXSWedu: How to Keep Friends and Influence No New Peopleby Rene Diedrich / 3h hide  //  saveTeach for America’s Wendy Kopp Embraces New Unionism in LEE and Retains Close Ties with Alex Caputo Pearlhttp://prospect.org/article/teach-america%E2%80%99s-deep-benAlex Caputo-Pearl is a member of Teach for America's inaugural c

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8-6-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School:

Will New Yorkers Ever Realize What A Thug Andrew Cuomo Is?

 Jason Riley at the WSJ:Why hasn't Mr. Astorino been able to capitalize? My sources tell me that the Republican is running a good campaign but that the governor's huge money advantage—as of mid-July the Cuomo campaign had $35 million on hand, versus $2.4 million for Mr. Astorino—has made it difficult for the lesser-known county executive to gain traction. The governor is using that war chest to at

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8-5-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School: The "Air Of Inevitability" Around Cuomo's Re-ElectionLaura Nahmias at Capital NY:ALBANY—More than half the 50 top donors to the state’s Republican party between 2003 and 2006 have given more to Cuomo and the Democrats this campaign cycle than they have to the G.O.P. and Rob Astorino, an analysis by NYPIRG’s Bill Mahoney shows. Of the 50 donors who gave the most to

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Sides in Polarized Education Debate Reflect Different Moral Frames | janresseger

Sides in Polarized Education Debate Reflect Different Moral Frames | janresseger:



Sides in Polarized Education Debate Reflect Different Moral Frames

Posted on August 6, 2014 by janresseger

George Lakoff is the cognitive linguist who has published a series of books (Don’t Think of an Elephant and Moral Politics, for example) about how people think about issues of public policy.  People don’t form political opinions, according to Lakoff, by examining empirical evidence.  They don’t evaluate how particular policies and programs are really operating in their communities or in the nation or the world.  Instead they vote their core values as those values are incorporated into the meta-narratives—frames—by which they understand how the world works.  Lakoff writes: “The debate is not a matter of objective, means-end rationality or cost-benefit analysis or effective public policy.  It is not just a debate about the particular issue…. The debate is about the right form of morality….” (Moral Politics, p 169)  If you want to speak to someone’s heart—and therefore that person’s vote—you must evoke the moral frame by which they understand how the world works.

On Monday, in her Washington Post Answer Sheet column, Valerie Strauss published a thoughtful piece along these lines from Arthur Camins, who examines the moral assumptions and values of those who promote creative disruption in education as the key to innovation.  (This blog has considered the issues around education policy based on the theory of creative disruption here.)  Camins wholeheartedly agrees with Lakoff about the role of values and morals in decisions that affect education policy: “It appears that the battles over what counts as better for education in the United States will be decided, not by the relative strength of evidentiary arguments, but instead by who most successfully claims the moral high ground.  Public acceptance of policy prescriptions does not turn on technical determinations, but on values identification and moral judgments.”

Camins believes today’s school “reformers” value individual merit, hard work, and motivation via competition and filter their understanding of what’s possible and how to get there through this lens: “Success (defined as beating the competition), reformers appear to reason, is Sides in Polarized Education Debate Reflect Different Moral Frames | janresseger: