Big Education Ape - PostRank Today's 10 - 9-5 pm

Big Education Ape - PostRank Today's 10 - 9-5 pm

A.J. DUFFY, closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck? 4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: A.J. DUFFY, EDUCATION REFORMER? Could Duffy have been a closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck?: A.J. DUFFY, EDUCATION REFORMER? Could Duffy ...

Cheating on state tests found at two Los Angeles schools - latimes.com Cheating on state tests found at two Los Angeles schools - latimes.com: Cheating on state tests found at two Los Angeles schoolsThree teachers at Short Avenue Elementary in Del Rey and one teacher at Animo Leadership in Inglewood are implicated. - ...

Online Class Requirement Another Unfunded Mandate in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings Online Class Requirement Another Unfunded Mandate in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings: Online Class Requirement Another Unfunded Mandate in Florida by Bob Sikes For an old republican war-horse like me, I’m always grateful to be sitting down when I ...

IEP Meeting Part 3 | Special Needs in Education IEP Meeting Part 3 | Special Needs in Education: IEP Meeting Part 3 IEP Meeting – This is part 3 of a 3 part series of videos depicting an IEP meeting created by students of Dr Humphrey’s ED-SPED 350 class at Boise State University. Article by Kate ...

Jersey Jazzman: Back To School Jersey Jazzman: Back To School: Back To School by Duke Another summer come and gone. Another break for Jersey Jazzman as I return to my first, best job: music teacher. Honestly, I do need a break from here. Not to say I won't post over the next month, ...

The Value Of College The Value Of College: The Value Of College For the past several years I’ve been reading articles about the value of a college education and whether or not the heavy burden of student loan debt was worth the “value” of going to college. This argument ...

Tests and Testing | Seattle Education Tests and Testing | Seattle Education: Tests and Testing by seattleducation2011 An excerpt from the Los Angeles Times article Cheating on tests found at two Los Angeles schools: *Locally, at six charter schools operated by Crescendo, principals were ...

Interview: Steve Denning offers Radical Ideas for Improving Education - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher Interview: Steve Denning offers Radical Ideas for Improving Education - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Interview: Steve Denning offers Radical Ideas for Improving Education By Anthony Cody on September 5, 2011 10:45 AM | No Comments | No ...

Blue Jersey:: Celebrate Labor Day: Resist! Blue Jersey:: Celebrate Labor Day: Resist!: Celebrate Labor Day: Resist! by Hetty Rosenstein *Fist in the air. Promoted by Rosi* Woe's me. Woe's us! Today, less than 10% of the American workforce is Organized, Obama failed to fight for the Employee ...

Labor Day Ruminations | Dissident Voice Labor Day Ruminations | Dissident Voice: Labor Day Ruminations by David Macaray Whenever Labor Day rolls around I get filled with subversive thoughts about the unfairness of it all. Consider: While it’s the workers who keep the operation going, it’s ...

Queens Teacher: No Child Left Behind: The Scam of the Century and How Students Are Paying the Price

Queens Teacher: No Child Left Behind: The Scam of the Century and How Students Are Paying the Price:

No Child Left Behind: The Scam of the Century and How Students Are Paying the Price

by Queens Teacher

By Jim Arnold
Superintendent of Pelham City Schools in Mitchell County, Georgia

We’ve done it now. Eleven years we had to educate the public, to register our protests and do everything in our power to warn people what was coming, and we blew it. We knew the moment would eventually come and we hem-hawed, looked at the ground, kicked at the dirt with our shoes and failed to look the opposition in the eye and face them down. All of us saw this coming, but very few took a stand and now we – and our students – are paying the price. We could have been prophets but failed the test.

We allowed the proponents of NCLB to control the discussion from the beginning. They wrote the language, sent out the media notices and explanations, wrote the definitions of AYP, Highly Qualified and leaned heavily on the fact that none of us would dare protest anything to do with a name that implies we would be providing a high quality education for every single child in America. They were right. We chose not to speak out, not to fight

140 Acapulco schools close, teachers afraid to show up - ContraCostaTimes.com

140 Acapulco schools close, teachers afraid to show up - ContraCostaTimes.com:

140 Acapulco schools close, teachers afraid to show up

By The Associated Press

Posted: 08/31/2011 10:42:00 AM PDT

Updated: 08/31/2011 10:44:32 AM PDT

Federal police officers, left, and soldiers patrol in Monterrey, Mexico, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Police in northern Mexico arrested five alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel suspected of setting a casino fire that killed 52 people, authorities said Monday. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik) (Hans Maximo Musielik)

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MEXICO CITY - Only one week into the school year, 140 elementary schools in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco closed Monday after teachers refused to show up for fear of extortion threats and kidnappings by drug gangs.

About 600 teachers in the slums on Acapulco's mountainsides said they were intimidated by recent cases of extortion and abduction, said Julio Bernal, schools delegate for the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Bernal said 140 of about 1,400 schools in Acapulco didn't open.

Two teachers said at least four of their peers had been kidnapped on the outskirts of Acapulco in the past eight days. The teachers agreed to discuss the situation only if their names were not used, saying they feared for their safety.

One of the teachers, who works at an elementary school, said she had seen men drive by the school with rifles sticking out vehicle windows. She said fellow teachers had received extortion threats demanding they give half of

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Educators4Excellence Structure And Financials Revealed

SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL: Educators4Excellence Structure And Financials Revealed:

Educators4Excellence Structure And Financials Revealed

by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher)

We here at SBSB pride ourselves at being at the forefront of information. We leave no stone unturned to find the truth. So it was with great pride when the crack team recieved some inside information on how Educators4Excellence was formed, its directors, financials, and by-laws. The crack team has just scratched the surface in what is known about the secret society that is Educators4Excelllence, but rest assured, the crack team will not give up.

First up are the by-laws of the secret society of E4E. Not only are Princess Sydney Morris and Little Evan Stone the co-founders and officers of E4E, but a little known person is as well. Her name is Anne-Margoriet Crousillat. Little is known about Anne-margoriet

They Can Slow Me Down, But They Can’t Stop Me..or Why I Have Decided To Fight From The Outside « EducationCEO's Blog

They Can Slow Me Down, But They Can’t Stop Me..or Why I Have Decided To Fight From The Outside « EducationCEO's Blog:

They Can Slow Me Down, But They Can’t Stop Me..or Why I Have Decided To Fight From The Outside

by educationceo

I have spent the past month recuperating from two round-trip drives home (Indiana, 12 hours each way but I managed to shave off an hour coming home the last time…no snitching!), a minor illness, and a 7 Day Mental Cleanse (upon the advice of my Life (saving) Coach @MyLifeKeys and @StephanieAlva). I will be honest, [...]

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES:

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Missing Studs Terkel on Labor Day

What would he say today about Obama, his chosen Democratic president, who came into office fortified with a Democratic House and Senate? “He would be so appalled and disappointed,” said Sydney Lewis, the woman Studs called his “amanuensis,” the transcriber and adviser on many of his books. Lewis, 58, is as furious at this administration as Studs would have

Technology Does Not Equal 21st Century Learning | Connected Principals

Technology Does Not Equal 21st Century Learning | Connected Principals:

Technology Does Not Equal 21st Century Learning

Posted by Akevy Greenblatt on 9/05/11 • Categorized as Best Educational Practices

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As our school embarks on a mission to become more of a 21st Century school combined with the fact that we are now a Google Apps school I have gotten a number of questions about technology and our dependency on it. One answer I gave is that I am sure there were glitches with the printing press but they didn’t get rid of that and the same is true with technology. it is not perfect and there will be glitches but that doesn’t mean we should get rid of it.

In a different conversation I had it became clear to me that the person assumed that technology is the same as 21st Century learning.

That prompted in my mind the following response.

For example finding something on the Internet in not necessarily 21st century learning. Having students research something or come up with questions and use the Internet as a resource for their research or their inquiry is

Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » What is the value of work? $3,558.00 v $3.41/h

Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » What is the value of work? $3,558.00 v $3.41/h:

What is the value of work? $3,558.00 v $3.41/h

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To put it all into perspective, let’s look at some numbers.

It was reported this week that twenty-five of the 100 largest U.S. corporations paid their chief executives more last year than they paid in federal income taxes

According to today’s Sun-Times editorial, “The vast majority of U.S. workers are fighting over an increasingly small shot at the American dream. America’s gaping income gap —the gulf between top earners and the rest of us — hasn’t been this wide since just before the Great Depression. More than 20 percent of the nation’s income now goes to the richest 1 percent of Americans. This is up from 7 percent in 1980. And the top 10 percent of earners pull in almost half the total income, a level higher than any year since 1917. Meanwhile the middle class,

A.J. DUFFY, closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck?

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: A.J. DUFFY, EDUCATION REFORMER? Could Duffy have been a closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck?:

A.J. DUFFY, EDUCATION REFORMER? Could Duffy have been a closeted reformer all those years? Or do his views simply reflect those of whoever signs his paycheck?

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Was A.J. Duffy, who recently was termed out as president of United Teachers Los Angeles, a closeted reformer all those years? (Los Angeles Times)

smf notes: Fortune China reports that school ‘reform’ propagandist-in-chief Steven Brill in his philippic Class Warfare makes a suggestion: (Brill’s) "Nixon-to-China" suggestion is for New York City: Hire Randi Weingarten, the powerful leader of the American Federation of Teachers, to run the schools. Brill says Weingarten actually told him she'd take the chancellor job. She even said Bloomberg offered her the post some years ago, Bloomberg denied this to Brill, adding, "It's a really stupid idea. Never in a million years." 4LAKids assumes that Mayor Tony, Monica García and Eli Broad will welcome Duffy to the reform fold with the same enthusiasm in the same time frame.

September 4, 2011 - On several occasions over the last few years, A.J. Duffy sat in a conference room with the editorial board of the

Cheating on state tests found at two Los Angeles schools - latimes.com

Cheating on state tests found at two Los Angeles schools - latimes.com:

Cheating on state tests found at two Los Angeles schools

Three teachers at Short Avenue Elementary in Del Rey and one teacher at Animo Leadership in Inglewood are implicated.

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Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy characterized the Short Avenue teachers’ actions as gross misconduct. (Al Seib, Los Angeles Times / September 5, 2011)

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By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times

September 5, 2011

The state has thrown out the test scores of a top-performing Los Angeles school and of the highest-scoring campus in the nationally known Green Dot charter group after cheating was uncovered involving several teachers.

Short Avenue Elementary in Del Rey and Animo Leadership Charter High School in Inglewood were barred from receiving academic rankings released last week by the California Department of Education. That action deprived the schools of the state rating that has become the key figure used by parents and officials to judge campuses in California.

At Short, three teachers are accused of changing answers or coaching students to the correct answers or both. At Animo Leadership, a science teacher is accused of fixing wrong answers.

L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy characterized the Short

Online Class Requirement Another Unfunded Mandate in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings

Online Class Requirement Another Unfunded Mandate in Florida | Scathing Purple Musings:

Online Class Requirement Another Unfunded Mandate in Florida

by Bob Sikes

For an old republican war-horse like me, I’m always grateful to be sitting down when I realize I agree with the ACLU. Florida’s new mandate that all students are required to take one online course to graduate provides one such moment:

A new state law that requires Florida high school students to take a class online is causing cash-strapped school districts to spend millions on new computers.

And it’s caught the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union, which said Thursday it is calling on school districts to ensure that students who do not have Internet access at home aren’t at a disadvantage when it comes to being able to take online courses.

“We are concerned about issues of access,” said ACLU spokesman Baylor Johnson. “There is a

IEP Meeting Part 3 | Special Needs in Education

IEP Meeting Part 3 | Special Needs in Education:

IEP Meeting Part 3

IEP Meeting – This is part 3 of a 3 part series of videos depicting an IEP meeting created by students of Dr Humphrey’s ED-SPED 350 class at Boise State University.

Article by Kate Gardens

Development of the educational framework with individualized mental health assessment pattern may formerly cover the evaluation of perception of whole.One of the primary tenets if this reform Maria Montessori, emphasizes

Jersey Jazzman: Back To School

Jersey Jazzman: Back To School:

Back To School

by Duke

Another summer come and gone. Another break for Jersey Jazzman as I return to my first, best job: music teacher.

Honestly, I do need a break from here. Not to say I won't post over the next month, but the frequency is going to be cut way back for a while. Teaching just takes up to much of the day, and when you add in family obligations, trying to get to the gym, and maybe even trying to write some music... well, something's got to give.

And I need to step back and just think a bit about what's happened with this blog over the past year. I never

The Value Of College:

The Value Of College

For the past several years I’ve been reading articles about the value of a college education and whether or not the heavy burden of student loan debt was worth the “value” of going to college. This argument has always bothered me. Today I read two articles (article 1, article 2) from my hometown newspaper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, discussing the cost of college and whether or not it was really economically worth that cost. “Value” is really about the monetary cost of college, and its preparation of a student for the world of work. Of course today the jobs aren’t out there and

Tests and Testing | Seattle Education

Tests and Testing | Seattle Education:

Tests and Testing

by seattleducation2011

An excerpt from the Los Angeles Times article Cheating on tests found at two Los Angeles schools:

Locally, at six charter schools operated by Crescendo, principals were ordered last year to require teachers to review the state tests in advance and then use that material to prepare students. L.A. Unified recently closed those schools in the aftermath of the scandal.

Such episodes underscore the pressures and pitfalls of testing systems that, nationwide, increasingly affect teacher and principal evaluations and whether schools achieve acclaim or censure and penalties.

This is the product of high stakes testing. It places the pressure on principals, teachers and students to “perform”, whatever that means. In our state, the ed reformers, with the assistance of the state PTA, will try again during the next legislative session to put a greater emphasis on testing as an indicator of the “success” of a school, a principal or a teacher.

Charter schools live or die by test scores. If the test scores of a charter school averages out to a number that is

Interview: Steve Denning offers Radical Ideas for Improving Education - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Interview: Steve Denning offers Radical Ideas for Improving Education - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher:

Interview: Steve Denning offers Radical Ideas for Improving Education

By Anthony Cody on September 5, 2011 10:45 AM | No Comments | No Recommendations

A couple of days ago I was surprised to find an insightful post in Forbes Magazine, offering us "The Single Best Idea for Reforming Education," by columnist and management expert Steve Denning. I wrote a post describing his idea, and also sent him some questions, because I think he offers some useful ways to reframe our concerns around the current direction of our schools. Here are his answers.

Interview with Steve Denning:

What would you say is the biggest problem with our educational system today?

The biggest problem that the education system faces today is a preoccupation with, and the application of, the factory model of management to education, where everything is arranged for the scalability and efficiency of "the system", to which the students, the teachers, the parents and the administrators have to adjust. "The system" grinds forward, at ever increasing cost and declining efficiency, dispiriting

Blue Jersey:: Celebrate Labor Day: Resist!

Blue Jersey:: Celebrate Labor Day: Resist!:

Celebrate Labor Day: Resist!

by Hetty Rosenstein

Fist in the air. Promoted by Rosi

Woe's me. Woe's us! Today, less than 10% of the American workforce is Organized, Obama failed to fight for the Employee Free Choice Act, the National Labor Relations Board is about to again be down to 2 members which will lead to gridlock, in Wisconsin and Ohio we lost public sector collective bargaining rights in spite of help and support from the Democratic Party, in New Jersey we lost public sector collective bargaining rightsbecause of the leadership of the Democratic Party.

The economy is going to worsen because our elected leaders are doing everything wrong. Everything wrong! Cutting the public sector instead of growing it. Ignoring climate change instead of embracing the actions that would change it and would grow the economy as a result. Attacking and cutting our public schools instead of pouring resources into them to make our citizenry the best educated in the world. Not regulating the banking an