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Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

saveourschoolsmarch.org - You are here: Home » Events » State and RegionalUse this map to locate events and actions in your area, and to contact your state’s Information Coordinator(s)*. Click on the purple areas to learn h...

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Politico's Ben Smith: Dumbass

jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com - It really doesn't get any stupider than this:We reported in June that the Save Our Schools March, scheduled for Saturday in Washington D.C., presented itself as a grassroots effort without mentioni...

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Live Audio Coverage of the March, 7/30

saveourschoolsmarch.org - You are here: Home » Blog » #LovePublicEd » Live Audio Coverage of the March, 7/30Follow along and listen to commentary during the SOS March events on Saturday! Can’t make it to DC? No local events...

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Sharing the Train with T « Blog Archive « blkdrama

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Live Audio Coverage of the #SOSMarch, 7/30

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Live Audio Coverage of the March, 7/30Live Audio Coverage of the March, 7/30by TeacherSabrinaFollow along and listen to commentary during the SOS March events on Saturday!Can’t make it to DC? No lo...

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Obama and His Discontents

nytimes.com - The administration of President Obama has never held much regard for its left flank. Admonished by the vice president to “stop whining,” inveighed against by the president himself for “griping and ...

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Kohn: Why we have to save our schools - The Answer Sheet

washingtonpost.com - These are questions that veteran educator and blogger Anthony Cody put to Alfie Kohn, author of 12 books on education and human behavior. His books include The Schools Our Children Deserve , Punish...

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#SOSMarch An Urban Teacher's Education: SOS Conference Day 2

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - An Urban Teacher's Education: SOS Conference Day 2SOS Conference Day 2by James BoutinTaylor Mali began the day with a poem that cracked everyone up. He reminded us all with his fantastic use of wor...

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    A Round-Up Of Good School Reform Posts & Articles | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

    A Round-Up Of Good School Reform Posts & Articles | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
    Another Special Edition Of “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” (NOTE: I usually publish this kind of post once-a-week. However, even more links than usual accumulated during the past few days) I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time ...

    A Round-Up Of Good School Reform Posts & Articles Here are some recent good school reform-related posts and articles: Of course, I have to lead off with an article about the Save Our Schools March, which is happening later today in Washington, D.C. CNN interviews Anthony Cody about it in Teachers ...

    This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t” I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here ...
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    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: The Players, The Scorecard: WARREN FLETCHER and JOHN DEASY

    4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: The Players, The Scorecard: WARREN FLETCHER and JOHN DEASY

    The Players, The Scorecard: WARREN FLETCHER and JOHN DEASY

    NEW FACE OF UTLA

    English teacher brings new look as union leader

    BY CONNIE LLANOS, STAFF WRITER, LA DAILY NEWS | HTTP://BIT.LY/QJUNCK

    FIRST 100 DAYS FOR LAUSD SUPERINTENDENT

    John Deasy gets good marks from mayor, others

    BY CONNIE LLANOS, STAFF WRITER, LA DAILY NEWS | HTTP://BIT.LY/PRH0BO

    Warren Fletcher took over as president of United Teachers Los Angeles on July 1. He was photographed at the UTLA office on Thursday, July 28, 2011. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer) (Michael Owen Baker)

    7/29/2011 09:52:18 PM PDT - Most people would relish the chance to be called president -- especially the nation's second-largest teachers union, representing some 40,000 educators, substitutes and counselors.

    But Warren Fletcher, newly elected to head United Teachers Los Angeles, prefers to keep the title he's used for the last 28 years.


    John Deasy, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent, Tuesday, photographed on July 26, 2011. (Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer)

    0/29/2011 10:03:11 PM PDT A former high school chemistry and biology teacher, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy approaches his job as head of the nation's second largest school district like he would a science experiment -- methodically and with precision.

    His analytical and often unemotional way of doing business has already earned him a reputation with some for being disconnected and indifferent.

    But with his first 100 days just behind him,

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    #SOSMarch We are in Washington to Save Our Schools and We Want Answers! - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

    We are in Washington to Save Our Schools and We Want Answers! - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

    We are in Washington to Save Our Schools and We Want Answers!

    by Anthony Cody

    For me, the journey to today's Save Our Schools March started when I wrote an open letter to President Obamaraising serious questions about where we are headed with education reform in America. Those questions have still not been answered.

    Yesterday I had a chance to ask Arne Duncan a question, after his "Working Toward 'Wow'" speech. What I asked him was this:

    I worked in high poverty schools in Oakland for 24 years. The turnover rate for our interns is 75% after three years. Your proposal for the reauthorization of ESEA continues to label the bottom 10% of our schools as failures. Under these circumstances, who will choose to teach in these high poverty schools? Doesn't this contribute to the crisis in our profession?
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    Though Secretary Duncan responded, I

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    #SOSMarch Educator and Activist Marion Brady:

    Educator and Activist Marion Brady:

    Educator and Activist Marion Brady: “Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure”

    by cynthia

    “We must start with the recognition that, despite decade after decade of
    reform efforts, our public schools have not improved.” (Photo Illustration: Troy Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted from: Dr. Television and     noneck / flickr)

    Sooner or later, a reluctant Congress is going to have to do something about replacing No Child Left Behind. If senators and representatives will listen, they’ll learn why Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s “Race to the Top” initiative is a really bad idea, and why thoughtful educators think politicians, business leaders and wealthy philanthropists are bulls in the education china shop.

    Back in the 1980′s, corporate America, listening to privatizer Milton Friedman, came storming into the shop, not

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    #SOSMarch Daily Kos: Save Our Schools - today we march!!

    Daily Kos: Save Our Schools - today we march!!

    Save Our Schools - today we march!!

    by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

    This is the day!!

    We gather on the Ellipse in NW DC, at the end near the White House for Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action.

    We will have entertainment from around 10 AM.

    At around Noon we will begin with our speakers. We will be inspired by the likes of Linda Darling-Hammond, Angela Valenzuela, Pedro Noguera, Jonathan Kozol, Rita Solnet, Diane Ravitch, and Matt Damon.

    At around 2 we will step off to march around the White House.

    There will be thousands of us - parents, teachers, teacher educators, students, community groups, education supporters.

    We are marching, because for the Future of Our Children We Demand:

    Equitable funding for all public school communities

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    #SOSMarch Jersey Jazzman: Politico's Ben Smith: Dumbass

    Jersey Jazzman: Politico's Ben Smith: Dumbass

    Politico's Ben Smith: Dumbass It really doesn't get any stupider than this: We reported in June that the Save Our Schools March, scheduled for Saturday in Washington D.C., presented itself as a grassroots effort without mentioning the big teachers union's role in funding the event. ...

    What Planet Does Bill Gates Live On? Jeeze Louise: BOSTON -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates says success should not depend on the race or income of parents. Gates told the National Urban League on Thursday in Boston that education reformers must "end the myth" that poverty needs to be ...

    Education Writers, Please Get To Know Your Subject So before I go off on this Wall Street Journal article, let's review: - Rupert Murdoch not only owns the WSJ; he has his fingers in a lot of education pies: - We are getting increasing evidence that Murdoch isn't busy denying involvement in the ...
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    #SOSMarch The Save Our Schools March « Outside the Cave

    The Save Our Schools March « Outside the Cave

    The Save Our Schools March

    by Stephen Lazar

    I already wrote a bit personally about why I’m marching today, but as I get ready to head over to the elipse to join with thousands of my fellow teachers and our allies, I thought it was worth publishing what is bringing a very diverse coalition of people together in order to try to better the lives of children and young adults across the country:

    The SOS March Guiding Principals

    For the future of our children, we demand:

    Equitable funding for all public school communities

    • Equitable funding across all public schools and school systems
    • Full public funding of family and community support services
    • Full funding for 21st century school and neighborhood libraries
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    #SOSMarch Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: On our way to the SOS march

    Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: On our way to the SOS march

    On our way to the SOS march

    Diane Ravitch speaks at SOS pre-march conference
    It seems like I've been doing this most of my adult life. Coming to D.C. to march around the White House has almost become a yearly ritual, starting with the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle to end the war in Vietnam and the many wars since, and now -- in some ways a continuation of those great movements -- the struggle to save and transform our public school system.

    It's hot today in D.C. -- real hot. So to draw inspiration and fire myself up for 5 hours in the sun and on the hot city streets, I'm thinking of those strik
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    School Tech Connect: Ouch!

    School Tech Connect: Ouch!

    Ouch!

    by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
    Check out all the nicely packed narratives in the embedded info-graphic over at Progress Illinois. You'd have to spend a lot of time unpacking the grade-level narrative, the international comparison narrative, the impossibility of firing a teacher because of unions narrative. It's shock-doctrine, and they've not even bothered to re-word it. And this is the progressive media.

    Calm down, people. Consider your sources

    8:31 PM (9 hours ago)

    Studies Repeatedly Show...

    by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
    Just reflecting on one of the basic positions of corporate ed reform... This is Robin Steans, once again, testifying during the Jonah Edelman's recent tax-deductible mugging of Illinois education policy:



    The position is that teacher quality is twenty times more important than poverty in student achievement. Studies
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    Friday, July 29, 2011

    A Student Voice: Emma « Cooperative Catalyst

    A Student Voice: Emma « Cooperative Catalyst

    A Student Voice: Emma

    by Paula White

    The following is a guest post by Emma Gore, a rising 9th grader. She’d like to add her voice to the chorus of folks wanting to save our schools from the mediocrity of centering on standardized testing rather than a real education. Please respond.

    Feels like a Disney Movie

    When I was four, I was incredibly enthusiastic to learn and be a part of the schooling process I had heard so much about. When I walked through the kindergarten doors, the handle higher than my head, I knew I was going to change, however unsure how. The people around me, the world, it was all going to change because we were going learn something of substance and value. Simply the fact that we were being educated meant that

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    All Education Matters: Who's Terrified? Debt Ceiling Fiasco and Student Loans

    All Education Matters: Who's Terrified? Debt Ceiling Fiasco and Student Loans

    Who's Terrified? Debt Ceiling Fiasco and Student Loans

    by C. Cryn Johannsen
    It's politics as usual, and like many of you, I am underemployed, living with my in-laws, and absolutely furiouswith this bullshit in D.C. I want to play an active role in this country. I want to be engaged politically, and know it makes a f---ing difference. I am fighting tooth and nail, and can no longer afford to buy my own f---ing groceries, and these nitwits are playing with fire! Hey, a---holes, people OUT HERE ARE SUFFERING, and yet you march along like a bunch of nitwits.

    I know the political and social reasons why this is happening. Neoliberalism is bringing the whole f--ing thing
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