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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Big Education Ape: 9-6-11 PM School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch EDition

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Working Together to Create World-Class Schools

whitehouse.gov - Posted by Arne Duncan on September 06, 2011 at 06:00 AM EDT Now that our nation’s children are back in school, I will be travelling through six states with this important message: our nation’s long...

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School ‘Reform’: A Failing Grade by Diane Ravitch

nybooks.com - Drawing by Edward LearIn Brill’s telling, anyone who opposes DFER’s definition of school reform is a defender of the status quo or a tool of the unions. He disparages the eminent scholar Linda Darl...

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The Pearson Graduate - The Texas Observer

texasobserver.org - It’s not hard to imagine Pearson’s vision of utopia.Pearson is a London-based mega-corporation that owns everything from the Financial Times to Penguin Books, and also dominates the business of edu...

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Troubled Schools Try Mimicking the Charters

nytimes.com - HOUSTON — Classrooms are festooned with college pennants. Hallway placards proclaim: “No Excuses!” Students win prizes for attendance. They start classes earlier and end later than their neighbors;...

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Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism:

hepg.org - Symposium: Unraveling the Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM Editors of the Harvard Educational Review The Double Bind: The Next Generation Lindsey E. Malcom and Shirley M. Malcom Inside the Doubl...

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Working-age adults make up record share of US poor

northjersey.com - WASHINGTON — Working-age America is the new face of poverty. Counting adults 18-64 who were laid off in the recent recession as well as single twenty-somethings still looking for jobs, the new wor...

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Wausau, Madison, Milwaukee and More |

bluecheddar.net - (There might be a few more errors in this post than normal tonight and you and I will just have to accept the fact. I have to leave for the 150th Solidarity Sing Along tonight. Which is sort of a ...

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Technology Immersion | Connected Principals

connectedprincipals.com - This is a cross post from my blog. As one of the technology leaders at my school, I have had to immerse myself in technology. This post describes some of the tools that I use on a day to day basis...

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The billionaire boys (and girls) club

schoolingintheownershipsociety.blogspot.com - Charles (left) and David Koch.Gavin Arensen at Mother Jones gives us a list of the biggest wing-nut billionaires who play with the Koch Bros. in their Vail, Colorado retreat. It includes:The DeVose...

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Apoya a tu hijo en el aprendizaje de inglés

vidayfamilia.univision.com - Los niños que leen mucho desarrollan facilidades para los idiomas. La lectura en cualquier idioma ayuda. Pueden leer juntos en español a veces y en inglés a veces. - Thinkstock LLC/Picture Quest VI...

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Finn-esse | Edwize

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Finn-esse | Edwize:Finn-esseby Ron IsaacChester Finn has more listings on his C.V. than there are plankton sucked into the megamouth of a feeding whale shark. Although he is an education policy adv...

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City Councilman Is Handcuffed at West Indian Day Parade

nytimes.com - A city councilman from Brooklyn was placed in handcuffs and briefly detained by the police on Monday afternoon during the West Indian Day Parade after an argument with officers over whether he was ...

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Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value

nytimes.com - CHANDLER, Ariz. — Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They’re studying Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” — but n...

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    What does Will Guzzardi think? « Fred Klonsky's blog

    What does Will Guzzardi think? « Fred Klonsky's blog:

    What does Will Guzzardi think?

    by Fred Klonsky

    Hi neighbors,

    I’d like to introduce myself to the list. My name is Will Guzzardi, and I’m running to be our next State Representative.

    Until recently, I was the associate editor at Huffington Post Chicago, where I wrote about a number of organizations, in our neighborhood and around the city, strengthening our communities and advocating for our families.

    I decided to run for State Representative from the 39th District because I believe we need elected leaders who listen to ordinary working families, and always put our concerns first. I’m running to stand for better schools and safer streets, to help families facing foreclosure, to foster smart economic development, and to demand a more honest and accountable government. We’re

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    City Beat: Mayor Johnson, Michelle Rhee get married

    City Beat: Mayor Johnson, Michelle Rhee get married:







    bp kevin ring.JPGMayor Kevin Johnson and his fiancée, education reformer Michelle Rhee, were married over the weekend.
    The couple was married on Saturday at Blackberry Farm, a luxury hotel in the Great Smoky Mountains outside of Knoxville, Tenn. About 40 relatives and close friends attended.
    "We had a small ceremony with an intimate group of family and friends and are thrilled to be starting our lives together," the mayor said in an email to The Bee. "We want to thank everyone who has sent us well-wishes, as we are so appreciative of the support."
    Photo caption: Mayor Kevin Johnson high-five's a student at Peter Burnett Elementary School during the first day of school Tuesday morning. Photo by Bryan Patrick
    The mayor's brother, Ronnie West, was his best man. Rhee's two daughters - who live in Nashville - were also in the ceremony.
    Rhee wore her Monique Lhuillier-designed wedding gown that she had planned to wear when the couple


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    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Someone Appears to be Listening

    Save Seattle Schools Community Blog: Someone Appears to be Listening:

    Someone Appears to be Listening

    by Melissa Westbrook
    I attended the Denny/Sealth press conference and ribbon-cutting for Denny today. The Superintendent had a press conference and I was glad I attended. (Can I just say that boy I miss Linda Shaw and Phyllis Fletcher when they aren't there? Most of these reporters are clueless.)

    The Superintendent had a lot of pep rally points that we've heard from her focus for this school year. But there was some more up-to-date info on certain subjects.

    Highlights:
    • She was asked about capacity management in West Seattle. She said that they had a team of staff and community working to help work on this issue (she didn't say but I assumed she meant the Demographics Taskforce). She said that the district wanted to be "prepared in advance and not just
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    Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » “New ERA” or 90 more minutes of test prep?

    Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » “New ERA” or 90 more minutes of test prep?:

    “New ERA” or 90 more minutes of test prep?

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    Look out, parents – be careful what you wish for.

    First, Rahm gathered the Coalition of the Willing Clergy and exhorted them to preach from the pulpit about the need for 90 more minutes in the school day. Now the mayor is urging parents to jump on his 90-more-minute bandwagon.

    Well, those of us who would actually like to see a longer day at some point had to be worried – but not surprised – to read this comment from CPS CEO J. C. Brizard tucked into a Sun-Times article yesterday about the “new

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    “Senator Maloney. Leave our pensions alone.” « Fred Klonsky's blog

    “Senator Maloney. Leave our pensions alone.” « Fred Klonsky's blog:

    “Senator Maloney. Leave our pensions alone.”

    by Fred Klonsky

    The Honorable Edward Maloney

    Dear Senator,

    Thank you for the news letter.

    While reading it and your survey questions my blood pressure went up about five points . Last February heart failure caused, partly by the forty-one years of pounding my body took as a Chicago Public School teacher, forced me into retirement.

    I spent twenty-five years at Simeon Vocational and sixteen years at Bogan.

    Let me describe my career as personal. I still keep count of my kids who have been murdered, five in the last twenty-five months alone.

    This brings me to your newsletter and survey. In your newsletter you brag about your
    work on SB7, which I have read . The bill as you know, or should know, will destroy the Chicago

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    How private companies are profiting from Texas public schools - The Texas Observer

    The Pearson Graduate - The Texas Observer:

    How private companies are profiting from Texas public schools.

    by ABBY RAPOPORT
    Published on: Tuesday, September 06, 2011
    Education Inc.

    IT’S NOT HARD TO IMAGINE Pearson’s vision of utopia.

    Pearson is a London-based mega-corporation that owns everything from the Financial Times to Penguin Books, and also dominates the business of educating American children. The company promotes its many education-related products on a website that features an idyllic, make-believe town. It’s called Pearsonville, and it looks like the international conglomerate version of SimCity. In this virtual town, school buses whizz through tree-lined streets, and the city center features skyscrapers and a tram. Tabs pop up to show you just how many Pearson products are available. A red schoolhouse features young kids using Pearson products to learn math (with Pearson’s enVision Math) and take standardized tests online. Nearby, at the Pearsonville high school, students use the company’s online instructional materials to study science. The high school also features online testing. Pearson online courses are available at the town library. At the model home, parents can use Pearson’s student information system to

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    Career-Focused Mentoring for All Youth: RAMPing Up Through Community Partnerships | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights

    Career-Focused Mentoring for All Youth: RAMPing Up Through Community Partnerships | LFA: Join The Conversation - Public School Insights:

    Career-Focused Mentoring for All Youth: RAMPing Up Through Community Partnerships

    by Patricia D. Gill

    Editor's Note: Our guest blogger today is Patricia D. Gill, Senior Program Associate, National Collaborative on Workforce & Disability for Youth at the Institute for Educational Leadership’s Center for Workforce Development. She directs RAMP (the Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program), a high tech career-focused mentoring program for youth with disabilities involved with or at-risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system. Today she reflects on the program, its outcomes, and what has been learned over its first few years.*

    As the Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program (RAMP) enters its third year, community partnerships have emerged as an important component to making the program work in all communities. With support from the Institute for Educational Leadership, the 12 RAMP sites around the country provide career-focused mentoring for youth with disabilities who are at-risk of or currently involved in the juvenile justice system. Unfortunately, as youth with disabilities are highly

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    This Week In Education: Thompson: Houston's Apollo Schools Have a Problem

    This Week In Education: Thompson: Houston's Apollo Schools Have a Problem:

    Thompson: Houston's Apollo Schools Have a Problem

    by john thompson

    Baseball-fieldEconomist Roland Fryar and "reformers" in Houston are bravely holding to their "Field of Dreams" theory of raising student performance. Build schools with the rigor of KIPP and low performing students will come. The New York Times' Sam Dillon reports on Apollo 20 which seeks to replicate five of KIPP's key characteristics in regular schools. The price tag for the first year at nine schools was $19 million. Dillon describes "mixed results." One



    Five Best Blogs: Bad Technology, Or Bad NYT?

    by Alexander Russo

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    Wakeup call for the digital revolution EdNext: Richtel’s piece should be a cautionary tale for our education policymakers: you ignore curriculum at your own – more importantly, at our students’ – peril.

    Good Teaching Trumps Hi-Tech Richard Lee Colvin: The next time the Times wants to examine the use of technology in classrooms, the editors should assign someone to the story who knows a lot more about education than about technology.

    Being careless with education history Sherman Dorn: History is not a storehouse of mythic images from which you can or should draw caricatures to make your point.

    Talking About Reforming Head Start New America: Less regulation, more experimental research (especially for Head Start’s youngest participant), more research, richer expenses, and a

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    Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine

    Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine:
    Kirkkojarvi School

    Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?

    The country's achievements in education have other nations doing their homework

    • By LynNell Hancock
    • Photographs by Stuart Conway
    • Smithsonian magazine, September 2011, Subscribe


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    It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme—by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a Kosovo-Albanian boy, had drifted far off the learning grid, resisting his teacher’s best efforts. The school’s team of special educators—including a social worker, a nurse and a psychologist—convinced Louhivuori that laziness was not to blame. So he decided to hold the boy back a year, a measure so rare in Finland it’s practically obsolete.

    Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around. This 13-year-old, Besart Kabashi, received something akin



    Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Why-Are-Finlands-Schools-Successful.html#ixzz1XCwHWJxH
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