Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Newt Gingrich Interview With Politico's Allen - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Newt Gingrich Interview With Politico's Allen - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Newt Gingrich Interview With Politico's Allen



Gingrich's New Book:
"To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular Socialist Machine"

 "Solving Our Education Crisis" Chapter Discussed
With Politico's Chief White House Correspondent Mike Allen
Videos Below

Clip #1 - Newt's Education Revolution. Gingrich addresses circumventing teacher union, teacher college and bureaucratic power, the case for allowing citizen "experts" to teach part-time, Pell grants for K-12, and an "open-ended charter school system."

Clip #2 - Newt grades President Obama on education. Discussion includes Race To The Top, Arne Duncan.

Clip #3 - Gingrich "Earning by Learning" program: paying kids to learn. Proposes competition between teachers and schools to accelerate learning, high school graduation, and putting kids to work earlier. Discusses life-long learning.

Clip #4 - Gingrich on "brain science" and technology. Discusses Kindle, iPod, Ipad vs. textbooks, on-line courses from MIT and Duke, on-demand 24/7 learning, social media.

For full transcript and link to Politico. Videos Below.
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Union boss Randi Weingarten forces Education czar Arne Duncan to add third stop on visit to NYC

Union boss Randi Weingarten forces Education czar Arne Duncan to add third stop on visit to NYC

Union boss Randi Weingarten forces Education czar Arne Duncan to add third stop on visit to NYC

BY MEREDITH KOLODNER
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, May 18th 2010, 4:00 AM
Kings Collegiate fifth-graders (from l.) Jessica Richards, 13, Anntrice Webster, 12 and Crystal Moore, 12, jump for joy in anticipation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's visit to their school.
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Kings Collegiate fifth-graders (from l.) Jessica Richards, 13, Anntrice Webster, 12 and Crystal Moore, 12, jump for joy in anticipation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's visit to their school.
National teachers union boss Randi Weingarten
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National teachers union boss Randi Weingarten

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National teachers union boss Randi Weingarten was so peeved about U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's itinerary in New York Tuesday that she got it changed.
His original schedule included only Public School 65 and Kings Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn, where he's slated to promote $700 million in federal "Race to the Top" funds.
Because of prior battles with PS 65's principal, sources said, Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, demanded the feds also add a Weingarten-approved public school to Duncan's list.
Reps for Obama's education czar were in frantic negotiations with union officials all day yesterday.
They briefly considered scrapping the pop-in at PS 65 to satisfy Weingarten, former head of the United Federation of Teachers.
The education secretary eventually caved in added a visit to PS 214 in East New York, Brooklyn, sources said.
His choreographed visit comes as the battle over charter schools heats up ahead of the June 1 deadline for New York to apply for "Race for the Top" money.
Assemblyman Karim Camara (D-Brooklyn), the lead sponsor of the bill to raise the charter cap to 460 statewide from 200, said the Rev. Al Sharpton is throwing his weight behind the effort.
"He said it's the civil rights issue of the day - the state of education," Camara told the Daily News.
Duncan wants New York lawmakers to add more charter schools - sweetening the state's application to win competitive "Race to the Top" cash.
The infusion of federal funds could stop the city from following through on its plans to lay off 6,400 teachers.
"We need to keep teachers teaching and keep children learning and keep America working," Duncan said.
Duncan chose PS 65 because several of its young teachers may be among the first to go if budget woes force the city into layoffs.
Parents were ecstatic the nation's top educator is coming to their classrooms.


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Bethesda play space in religious controversy Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.

Education- Everything you need to know about the world of education.

Bethesda play space in religious controversy


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Protesters call IB program un-American. Is it?

How American history is taught is clearly on the minds of protesters in Idaho who trying to get the International Baccalaurate program tossed out of schools because, they say, it is, anti-American, and of Arizona legislators who passed a law restricting ethnic studies.
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Does journalism's decline help education?

I am not happy about the loss of good people at the Post and other journalistic enterprises in the massive reorganization of the news business, but if schools are getting some talented wordsmiths that way, it may be a net plus.

DCPS says closed schools save $17 million

When Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee closed and consolidated 23 under-enrolled schools in 2008, she justified the highly unpopular decision in part by the prospect of significant savings that could be rolled into classrooms. At a meeting with Post editors and reporters in January 2008, she estimated that the school system would save $23 million in operating costs.
Two years later, DCPS says that its projections at the time were actually in the $15 to 20 million range and that it has seen reductions totaling $16.7 million. This includes lower costs for custodial service, security and salaries for principals, assistant principals and other school leadership. It does not cover anticipated savings in food services, and spokeswoman Jennifer Calloway said a complete analysis would have to be done by Chief FInancial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi.
The closings eliminated an estimated two million square feet of space in DCPS' building inventory. On average, according to District figures, 
Sean Gunn, 5, devours a cupcake that he helped decorate. The Playseum's vision, according to its Web site: "Where children create and parents relate." (Katherine Frey-TWP)
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EducationNews.org Scoring Race to the Top: A Look Behind the Curtain

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Fighting For Our Childrens Minds

5.17.10 - Tucker Carlson - The education special featured AFP Watchdog Jason Moore and his family, including five children, who live in Odessa.
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Scoring Race to the Top: A Look Behind the Curtain

5.18.10 - When the federal government gives out billions of dollars in grants, it can’t be done based on the gut feel of some policy wonks, however honest and well-meaning, that this state...
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Parents 'exaggerate murder fear'

5.18.10 - A survey suggests parents worry more about their children being murdered than the health threat caused by obesity. ...
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Protesters call IB program un-American. Is it?

5.18.10 - But allegations that the international education program is not only anti-American but also Marxist and anti-Christian have led to controversies
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Rise & Shine: Sect. Duncan reroutes NYC visit at union’s request | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Sect. Duncan reroutes NYC visit at union’s request | GothamSchools

Rise & Shine: Sect. Duncan reroutes NYC visit at union’s request

by Anna Phillips
  • The “new politics of education” has Race to the Top and other forces causing unions to change. (Times)
  • Union chief Randi Weingarten pressured Education Sect. Arne Duncan to reroute his NYC visit. (DN)
  • Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch thinks “her Michaels” will work out Race to the Top. (DN)
  • The Daily News says Duncan’s visit will give a well-timed boost to Race to the Top’s chance in NY.
  • At East Harlem TAG, parents focus on raising funds and improving the school’s image. (Times)
  • Bob Herbert: we need more schools like Bard HS, where students graduate with an assoc. degree.
  • Nearly two-thirds of VA & MD kids can’t read proficiently by the end of third grade. (Washington Post)
  • Bill Clinton and Al Sharpton are backing a bill that would raise NY’s charter cap. (Post)
  • In a poll run by a pro-charter group, 63 percent of respondents said they want the cap lifted. (Post)
  • Two I.S. 208 students were arrested for sexually abusing a 12 year old girl at school. (Post, NY1)
  • A Manhattan Inst. writer says Diane Ravitch’s testimony against charter schools is flawed. (Post)
  • Law & Order’s rubber room episode will include teachers who say they shouldn’t be there. (Post)
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News: Mission Accomplished - Inside Higher Ed

News: Mission Accomplished - Inside Higher Ed

Mission Accomplished

May 18, 2010
WASHINGTON -- If politics were as data-driven as baseball, and scorekeepers kept a statistic to measure how much impact a person had per day or week or month, Robert Shireman would almost certainly have made the all-star team.
The U.S. Education Department is expected to formally announce today that Shireman, the U.S. deputy under secretary of education, will leave his position July 1 after 14 months in the job. Shireman's departure was widely expected, given that he and his family had been happily ensconced in the Bay Area for more than a decade and that the primary goal that drew him back to Washington -- the prospect of securing the future of the government's Direct Student Loan Program and ending all lending through the competing Federal Family Education Loan Program -- was accomplished when Congress passed budget legislation in March.
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