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#SOSMarch All Things Education: Restrictive and Inappropriate: How High-stakes Testing & NCLB Abuse Sped Students

All Things Education: Restrictive and Inappropriate: How High-stakes Testing & NCLB Abuse Sped Students

Restrictive and Inappropriate: How High-stakes Testing & NCLB Abuse Sped Students

by Rachel Levy

Friends of the the SOS March & National Call to Action blogged all this month about why they were marching in DC July 30th. And, today, we marched! I never wrote a post of my own, but this guest post by Chaya Rubenstein provides at least one reason for why I marched today and why I will continue to fight for real reform: federal education policy under Presidents W. Bush and now Obama such as NCLB and RTTT, and particularly high-stakes testing, are undermining quality public education. The effects of these policies on special education students are especially harmful and the special ed community has been especially under-represented (I, for example, have not blogged much at all about sped issues).

Chaya is a retired special education teacher, and is a vice president of Professionals in Learning Disabilities &
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Dispatch from the SOS Rally

Dispatch from the SOS Rally

Dispatch from the SOS Rally

by Kevin Carey



I went to the Ellipse this afternoon to attend the SOS Rally and while I’m going to write something longer and more coherent about it over the next couple of days, here are some semi-random thoughts (and one video) in the meantime:

  • I should have worn sunscreen.
  • If you’re Linda Darling-Hammond and you’re going to stand on a stage denouncing programs that are “staffed by revolving-door beginners and other untrained teachers, many of whom see it as charity work on their way to a real job,” why not just say “Teach for America”? Everybody knows who you’re talking about.
  • Taylor Mali recited his poem “What Teachers Make,” and it was really good, a highlight of the event.
  • Bob Schaeffer from FairTest argued that it’s not really true that NCLB was a bipartisan piece of legislation
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Missouri Outlaws Teacher-Student Facebook Friendship - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

Missouri Outlaws Teacher-Student Facebook Friendship - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

Missouri Outlaws Teacher-Student Facebook Friendship

According to Missouri Senate Bill 54, just signed by state Governor Jay Nixon, any social networking is prohibited between teachers and students. This includes not only Facebook, but any social network "that is exclusive and allows for private communication," according to ABC News.

How did this measure come about? Mashable notes that "inappropriate contact between students and teachers is at the root of the legislation," which is "designed to protect children from sexual misconduct by teachers, compelling school districts to adopt written policies between teachers and students on electronic media, social networking and other forms of communication."

From the bill:

Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child's legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian. Teachers also

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#SOSMarch School Tech Connect: Scenes From a March

School Tech Connect: Scenes From a March

Scenes From a March

by effacethefacade@yahoo.com (Tim)
Just going to embed some selected shots here from the SOS March and National Call to Action. I'm working on getting ID's on all the people in this show; give me a day or two.

What a wonderful event--- I'm so grateful for the herculean efforts of the organizers. Many of the giants in modern American education were at the event; I think that speaks to the importance of the day. I didn't see any billionaires; they must have been over at the Department of Education writing policy.

I have no idea how many people were there. I mingled a bit, did some interviews, but I spent most of the time crouching in the shade created by the people in front of the stage. My only crowd shots were early in the day.
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#SOSMarch in DC: And to think this used to be Rhee's town

SOS March in DC: And to think this used to be Rhee's town

SOS March in DC: And to think this used to be Rhee's town

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Guest post by Dobby44107

This used to be Michelle Rhee’s town.

This is where she made a name for herself as the no-nonsense education reformer, eagerly grabbing a broom to sweep away bad teachers and winning admiring accolades from the likes of Bill Gates and Eli Broad.

But on Saturday, thousands of teachers, parents, students and others who really care about education gathered on The Ellipse under a broiling July sun and essentially told Michelle Rhee and her kind they are no longer welcomed here.

They told her they had enough of her standardized testing terror. They told her they were tired of billionaires and corporations deciding what is best for their kids. And they told her they had enough of layoffs and program cuts.

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#SOSMarch Damon: "There are millions of us behind you"

Matt Damon speaks in support of teachers at the Save Our Schools Rally on the Ellipse in Washington D.C. #sosmarch
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Jersey Jazzman: At #SOSMarch ! Wrapping Up

Jersey Jazzman: At SOSMarch! Wrapping Up

At SOSMarch! Wrapping Up

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Well, the sun is just brutal, and that was a fairly long walk, so it looks like this is breaking up. Supposed to be some music, but I've gotta eat.

Really great event. I hope the coverage captures the positive spirit. I didn't hear one person talk about teacher pay, benefits, or collective bargaining; it was all really about overemphasis on testing, inequity, and respect.

That's really the issue more than anything else - a lack of respect for the profession, the field, the students, the
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Confessions of a Skeptic on Technology: Second Time Around | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Confessions of a Skeptic on Technology: Second Time Around | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Confessions of a Skeptic on Technology: Second Time Around

by larrycuban

With an upcoming second anniversary of this blog I have been offering earlier postings that I feel deserve a second look. Confessing cleanses the heart and mind. In admitting error, I alert readers to my stumbles along the way to make sense of school reform and classroom practice, particularly when it comes to integrating new technologies into teaching and learning. this post was originally published January 31, 2010.

A quarter-century ago, I wrote Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology since 1920. In that book I described and analyzed the history of machines deployed in classrooms (film, radio, instructional television, and the newly arrived desktop computer) to help teachers teach more, faster, and better. Then I did something foolish in the final chapter. I predicted future uses of the computer in classrooms from my vantage

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#SOSMarch Martha Infante: Why This Teacher Is Marching in Washington

Martha Infante: Why This Teacher Is Marching in Washington

Why This Teacher Is Marching in Washington


I am your child's history teacher. You may know me from the Ancient Egypt mummification project your child did in 6th grade when we did a comparative study of beliefs of the afterlife of ancient civilizations. That's a fancy way of saying we mummified a chicken in the classroom, a sneaky way to engage students in analysis and evaluation.

Or you might have heard your child talking about the fascinating way the Mongols conquered Asia in the 13th century with their amazing equestrian skills, but failed miserably to subjugate Japan when the Kamikaze wind sank their armada two times in failed attempts. That was the project where the students researched a primary source scroll depicting the invasion and worked in groups to decipher it.

But that was many years ago. That was before the standardized testing movement resulted in

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#SOSMarch - Get Up Stand Up

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4LAKids - #SOSMarch DIANE RAVITCH LAMPOONS EDUCATION CRITICS, CALLS FOR POLITICAL ACTION AT SOS SPEECH

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: DIANE RAVITCH LAMPOONS EDUCATION CRITICS, CALLS FOR POLITICAL ACTION AT SOS SPEECH

DIANE RAVITCH LAMPOONS EDUCATION CRITICS, CALLS FOR POLITICAL ACTION AT SOS SPEECH

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07.29.11 | 3:21 pm - WASHINGTON, D.C. – Education reformer Diane Ravitch gave a keynote speech Friday at the Save Our Schools and National Call to Action, speaking for one hour on the history of education while offering a litany of rebukes aimed at policymakers and stakeholders in toe with President Obama’s Race to the Top programs.

The former assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and noted professor of educational history spoke to an endeared audience of teachers, parent groups and community activists, who routinely interrupted Ravitch’s speech with applause, cheers and titters.

Barring no punches, she boasted news outlets have called her an adversary of Bill Gates, whose namesake foundation funds many education research projects that Save Our School organizers view as inimical to education.

During a faux-interview in which Ravitch lobbed questions at herself that she’s answered throughout her career, she spoke on the history of rhetoric on U.S. education, explaining commentators have been drumming the beat of educational crisis for a century.

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