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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addresses the school labor-management conference meeting in Denver.
Two Colorado school districts with innovative labor policies – Denver and Douglas County – share a national stage this week as representatives from 150 school districts nationwide meet in Denver for a conference on advancing student achievement through labor-management collaboration.
The by-invitation-only two-day conference, hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, is a first. Districts attending had to agree to send representatives from their school board, their administration and their teachers’ union.
“I would be the first to acknowledge that labor and management are going to have their differences,” U.S.
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Saying he had to go where the money is, Gov. John Hickenlooper has proposed cutting K-12 spending in 2011-12 by $322 million from current levels.
Funding of state colleges and universities would drop by only about $28 million from this year to about $519 million.
If approved by the legislature, the cuts would drop school spending to 2007-08 levels and reduce average per
The student member of the University of California’s Board of Regents was arrested in November on charges of sexual battery, UC Irvine student newspaper New University reported today, but no charges have been filed in the case.
Student Regent Jesse Cheng, a fifth-year undergraduate at Irvine, is a little more than halfway through his one-year term as a voting member of the Board of Regents.
According to New University, a UCLA grad student contends that Cheng “attempted to rape her in his off-campus apartment on Oct. 3 after she said no to his advances.” She reported the incident to police in late October, and
WEAC President Mary Bell tells what happens when Wisconsin teachers tried to sit at the table.
Bayard Rustin (1912 –1987) was an American civil rightsactivist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier. He is credited as the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (from Wikipedia) The school system of this country is a bad school system for many reasons, but one of the reasons in our large cities, take Harlem for an example, teachers teach three sessions within the regular
Paulo Freire
Here’s the question from @kandeezie:
How does a particular perspective (e.g. Feminism, Anti-Racism, Critical Pedagogy) critique the functioning of schooling in society?
My answer?
Well, any perspective you take, whether revolutionary or not, changes what your definition of schooling should
The genetic code of the principalship is written in the instructional, managerial, and political roles that each school leader must perform daily*.
Venn diagram of 3 overlapping roles
These overlapping and competing roles create a dilemma of identity: Am I a manager, a politician, or instructional leader? If I am all three, which do I do best? Which do I need to do more? Reconciling the conflicting demands of these overlapping roles is the daily task that principals wrestle with silently. Because these are familiar, I will describe them briefly.
Instructional role. Historically, the title of “principal” comes from the phrase “principal teacher,” that is, a teacher designated by a school board to manage the non-classroom tasks of schooling a large number of students and
I walked out of my school this afternoon, breathed in the fresh, cool air and thought about where to stop for a snack before going home. It’s a busy street that joins other busy streets, with lots of people and traffic and stores. It’s perfect if you like those things. If you don’t, it could be rather off-putting.
I saw a student of mine who graduated last year. I crossed the street and ran a bit to catch up with him….I thought he saw me. Maybe just ignores me because it’s not cool….or maybe I’m just a narcisist, thinking I’m worthy of being ignored and all. But would he really just ignore me?
(Maybe he would. But, on the other hand, as I am sitting here writing this in a notebook and eating my fries, three boys who were embarrassed when I said ‘Hi’ to them earlier have just stopped to say ‘good-bye’ to me on
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Teacher voice is critical in any discussion about education. Whether we’re in our schools or in think tanks, the progress we make as educators depends highly on whether the experts within the classroom can determine the parameters of their professionalism individually and collectively. Some people fear this, wondering whether too much teacher voice will elicit petulant jabber or
Sent the NY Post, Feb. 15, 2011
The New Relay School of Education: Not Off to a Promising Start
The new Relay School of Education ("Charters get own education graduate schoool," Feb. 15) appears to demand hard evidence of effectiveness by graduates: They must show that the students they teach have increased their standardized test scores, known as "value-added" evaluation.
A number of studies show that value-added evaluations have serious problems: Different tests produce different value-added scores, and teachers' value-added ratings vary from year to year, sometimes quite a bit.
Also, it is possible to game the system and produce increases in test scores just by teaching test-taking
Two and half hours north of Chicago, Madison, Wisconsin is ground zero in the fight to save the rights of those who work in public service.
But just across the border in Hammond, Indiana there are rank-and-file teachers who are talking about defying a state ban on teacher strikes.
Teachers in Indiana are being threatened with laws that could alter their rights to negotiate, revise teacher
The Education Action Group’s Kyle Olson is used to firing sharp criticism at teachers unions, but he was lambasted by a Huffington Post columnist for a “fib” that Olson calls “regrettable.”
Piven and late husband Richard Cloward are famous for their 1966 article in The Nation that proposed organizing the poor to pressure the federal government.
Peter Dreier, whom Olson has criticized for his links to ACORN, wrote on the Huffington Post that Olson lied to Piven in order to get her to consent to the interview
This analysis, which corrected the estimates made in an IBO report last year, did not take into account the large private subsidies that many charter schools receive.
Nor did it account for the fact that charter schools tend to enroll fewer high needs students than the communities in which they are located, including fewer students from families living below the
From Eureka Chicago, 2.15.2011Cuando llegué a Chicago, yo tenÃa cuatro años. Mi familia se estableció en el lado noroeste, y yo recuerdo que una de las primeras familias latinas en el barrio.
Cuando llegué aquÃ, no hablaba ni una palabra de Inglés. Me senté en la parte posterior de varias aulas Escuelas Públicas de Chicago sin la ayuda de la educación bilingüe. Un maestro, cuando yo tenÃa seis o siete años, me asignó para jugar y, a finales de año, me ha fallado. Esos recuerdos han dado forma a mi enfoque de la polÃtica pública. Cuando se convirtió en senador estatal en 1986, mi primer discurso centrado en la educación bilingüe.
Cuando hablo, pues, acerca de programas después de clases, sobre el aumento del número de Centros Comunitarios de Aprendizaje en un 50%, estoy reflexionando sobre mi propia vida. Pienso también, sin embargo, acerca de la gente que he conocido a lo largo del camino.
Chicago está listo para la reforma. He conocido a tantos padres que envÃan a sus hijos a las escuelas fuera del
From Huffington Post, 2.15.2011
by Miguel del Valle
On February 15, I released a new TV advertisement. The ad is on Chicago's major TV stations during their 10:00 news broadcasts.
The ad draws on this campaign's major themes: that the City of Chicago has fostered an oppressive climate for residents in the neighborhoods, and that we have the opportunity, on February 22, to do something about it.
Chicagoans can take this city in a new direction. We know that, yes, it's time, Chicago is ready for reform.
I have raised three beliefs central to this campaign:
A parking boot for two tickets older than one year, a $100 fine for a right-hand turn a
Claves para entrar al "college"
Muévete y evita la obesidad