Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Big Education Ape: 4-19-11 Supreme Leader Rahm Picks Brizard

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Right-wing ally fails to rehabilitate Rhee

Right-wing ally fails to rehabilitate Rhee

Right-wing ally fails to rehabilitate Rhee

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Rhee last week tried to rehabilitate her tattered reputation in the aftermath of a USA Today investigation on massive tests cheating and two blue ribbon studies on the not too miraculous DC achievement (read them hereand here). She appears to have failed.

Her defender, ultra-conservative Paul Peterson of Hoover Institute and Harvard, attacked the USA Today investigation and the academic studies by the National Academies of Science (National Research Council) and Dr. Alan Ginsburg, former director of program and policy, US Department of Education. (http://educationnext.org/the-case-against-michelle-rhee/)

Dr. Ginsburg called Peterson’s defense of Rhee factually and analytically wrong:

Peterson’s work has often come under fire from respected colleagues. Some say his unbridled enthusiasm for

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Teacher effectiveness linked to height — Stunning report - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Teacher effectiveness linked to height — Stunning report - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Teacher effectiveness linked to height — Stunning report

by By Valerie Strauss

Finally we have a research subject that tells us something concrete about effective teachers. Below is the lead “story” from the new spring edition of a satirical Onion-esque publication designed for those of us who religiously follow education policy and choose to laugh rather than cry about it. The publication is called Education Tweak(EdTweak.com), and it’s anonymously authored and published. The latest issue is the 15th; this and all the back issues are available at edtweak.com.

Teachers: Blame only where blame is due

by By Valerie Strauss

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Parent Trigger, Version 4 and counting | Thoughts on Public Education

Parent Trigger, Version 4 and counting - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess

by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
The State Board of Education has set aside most of Thursday to listen to arguments over draft regulations on the state’s contentious parent empowerment law known as the Parent Trigger. The 21 pages of regs are now in the fourth iteration in seven months. It’s a bear to read, with underlined text, bold [...]

Dollars for tamales: poor schools can’t get by on home cooking - by Arun Ramanathan

by Arun Ramanathan
For weeks, I haven’t been able to open my refrigerator without getting attacked by a bag of tamales. Our fridge is stuffed with bags of them. Two of the bags are ours. The rest were purchased by family and friends all over the Bay Area. The proceeds go to our daughter’s Spanish immersion elementary school in Oakland Unified. Like schools all over California, her school faces a massive deficit – in this case over $200,000. After hearing the news, a group of mothers worked for days [...]
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‘Tis the Gift to be Simple . . . or Not? « InterACT

‘Tis the Gift to be Simple . . . or Not? « InterACT

‘Tis the Gift to be Simple . . . or Not?

by Kelly A. Kovacic

This past Saturday, I visited the local Home Depot. My kitchen sink was clogged and I needed help. As I entered the store, I noticed a middle-aged woman just outside the front doors with a clip-board. She approached another customer and earnestly asked, “Are you interested in helping to save our schools?” Not getting the expected response, she added, “Unions are destroying our schools. Help us end their negative influence.” Initially wary and rushed, the customer stopped. “This is about Unions?,” he asked. When informed that the petition supported legislation to end collective bargaining in California, the customer signed and commented, “I just saw that Superman movie. Seems like just about the only good thing unions do is protect bad teachers.”

Even in our age of sound bites, I was struck by the simplicity of this exchange. In a minute or so, the complex discussion about education reform had been reduced to a few sentences. Reporter Jonathan Mahler in a recent NY Times article notes that this ongoing discussion about improving our schools is based on false dichotomies.

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This Week In Education: Philanthropy: Buy Stuff For Mom & You'll Fix Education

This Week In Education: Philanthropy: Buy Stuff For Mom & You'll Fix Education
Philanthropy: Buy Stuff For Mom & You'll Fix Education [image: ScreenHunter_08 Apr. 18 23.39]A trio of recent college grads. A converted school bus. A national road trip. It sounds like an MTV show but it's actually "responsibly," the brainstorm of three dudes (Antoine Grant and Stuart Felkner and ...
Media: No Pulitzer For LA Times' Value-Added Story [image: image from www.pulitzer.org] The bad news: Bloomberg News education reporters Daniel Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman didn't win the "public service" Pulitzer for their coverage of for-profit colleges. (They recently won the top ...
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“Kick-starting collectives:” Blogs and the New Culture of Learning | Connected Principals

“Kick-starting collectives:” Blogs and the New Culture of Learning | Connected Principals

“Kick-starting collectives:” Blogs and the New Culture of Learning

by Jonathan Martin


At a conference recently, I was approached and asked for advice about resources for using skype in the classroom to connect with schools in other countries. I started to answer the question with a specific suggestion (the Cool Cat Teacher’s Flat Classroom) when I stopped myself and took another tack in my advice-giving.

Instead, I suggested, I encouraged him to join the online community of educators, to join the network, and to be empowered to learn continuously rather than in discrete lumps.

Teach a man to fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and feed him as long as the fish supply holds out. But create a collective, and every man will learn how to feed himself for a

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School Tech Connect: I'm Predicting A Stormy Tenure

School Tech Connect: I'm Predicting A Stormy Tenure

I'm Predicting A Stormy Tenure

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Before this gets hemmed and hawed away as insignificant, here's a paragraph from Brizard's own resignation letter:


Which is fine, except that like many people bragging about
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Teach for America | Seattle Education 2010

Teach for America | Seattle Education 2010

Teach for America

by seattleducation2011

I missed the interview with Wendy Kopp on KUOW today although I can imagine all the sound bytes and hype. It now seems like an appropriate time to bring up a study that was done by the Great Lakes Center, Teach for America: A Review of the Evidence. Below are excerpts from the:

Executive Summary

(Notes in italics are mine.)

Teach For America (TFA) aims to address teacher shortages (which we do not have in Seattle with three colleges of education and graduates from these universities teaching part-time as substitute teachers in hopes of teaching in our Seattle Public School system) by sending graduates from elite colleges, most of whom do not have a background in education, to teach in low-income rural and urban schools for a two-year commitment. The impact of these graduates (churn) is hotly debated by those who, on the one hand, see this as a way to improve the supply of teachers by enticing some of America’s top students into teaching (which we already have graduates in education from the University of Washington, Pacific University and Seattle University) and those

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Gov. Jan Brewer Has A Mind Of Her Own … Kinda | The Jose Vilson

Gov. Jan Brewer Has A Mind Of Her Own … Kinda | The Jose Vilson

Gov. Jan Brewer Has A Mind Of Her Own … Kinda

by Jose

Let’s ignore for a second that Arizona has been the hot bed for ultra-conservative rogue policy for the last few years, and still hasn’t done a thing about those undocumented immigrants imprisoned in what networks would have us believe are cushy, metallic lounges. Gov. Jan Brewer, whose administration has been lauded for her right-wing activist stance against the wishes of the federal government, did two things today towards providing evidence to the rest of us that she’s not completely insane.

First, she vetoed a bill that would ensure that any presidential candidate would have to show their birth certificate in order to have their names submitted on the state’s ballot, also dubbed the “birther bill.” I already had a hard time with the word “birther” because it assumes that anyone who doesn’t have a birth certificate actually decided not to be born, but reluctantly did so because their mom needed space. I’m also troubled by the idea that, in a

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Brizard a perfect fit for autocrat Rahm

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Brizard a perfect fit for autocrat Rahm

Brizard a perfect fit for autocrat Rahm

by Mike Klonsky

But who will have the real power?
Jean-Claude Brizard "leaves Rochester not as a conquering hero, but as a controversial figure whom teachers and parents accused of an autocratic style of leadership in pursuit of an idealized vision including privatization and weakening teachers' bargaining power." -- Gapers Block
Brizard defied his Board's regulations on hiring, creating high-level positions without consent of his Board, while also dissembling about his actions in giving raises to his staff. In the wake of atesting scandal in D.C.spinning stats to support what he feels is "best for his students." 


Why have they put a muzzle on Brizard?

by Mike Klonsky
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Daily Kos: More indignation over Wall Street, but no action

Daily Kos: More indignation over Wall Street, but no action

More indignation over Wall Street, but no action

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

So says the inimitable Derrick Jackson in this Boston Globe op ed carrying the same title as this posting. Perhaps you responded positively to the bi-partisan report of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations co-chaired by Carl Levin that issued its "blistering" report last week, critical of the abuses of the banking industry? Well, let me jump ahead to Jackson's final paragraph:

The result is more rhetoric than actual reform. After two years of investigation, Levin said his staff “found a financial snakepit rife with greed.’’ But neither he nor the White House nor the regulators show any sign of jumping into the pit to kill the snakes.

In other words, more rhetoric and still no meaningful action.

Which should frustrate the hell out of anyoneere is more.

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