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Shanker Blog » New Report: Does Money Matter?

shankerblog.org - Over the past few years, due to massive budget deficits, governors, legislators and other elected officials are having to slash education spending. As a result, incredibly, there are at least 30 st...

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Know Your Rights

ed.gov - OCR enforces several Federal civil rights laws that prohibit discrimination in programs or activities that receive Federal funds from the Department of Education. These laws prohibit discrimination...

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Chicago mayor stars in right-wing, anti-public school video

michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - Thanks to brother Fred I came upon this right-wing propaganda video targeting public school and teachers unions staring none other than Rahm Emanuel. "A Tale of Two Missions," co-stars the head of ...

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Questions for the Cuomo Commission – SchoolBook

nytimes.com - Jan. 6, 2012, 7:53 a.m. Governor Cuomo’s commission on education has an opportunity to change the direction of school reform. Right now, the state’s school system is in trouble. Federal tests show ...

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Kenzo Shibata: Education Reform: Where's the Debate?

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Clergymen Are Among Arrested Protesters

cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com - Updated, 6:26 p.m. | Four pastors, including a member of City Council, were among seven men arrested Thursday morning in front of the city Law Department during a protest of the city’s ban on allow...

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Wolk honored for her representation of rural counties

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The New Authoritarianism | Dissident Voice #OWS

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - The New Authoritarianism | Dissident Voice:The New AuthoritarianismJames Petras at Dissident Voice - 29 minutes agoWe live in a time of dynamic, regressive, regime changes. A period in which major ...

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Israeli schools under fire as underperforming

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The Education Gadfly Show Podcast

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Louder Than A Bomb - Trailer

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Etta James released from hospital

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Unemployment Dips to 8.5%, Latino Rate Also Falls Now at 11%

hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 12:39 pm, January 6, 2012 Photo Credits: Latino Unemployment Rate Drops The U.S. economy gained 200,000 net new jobs in December, bringing the unemployment rate down a tenth of a perce...

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Kenzo Shibata: Education Reform: Where's the Debate?

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Gates Foundation study paints bleak picture of teaching quality | GothamSchools

Gates Foundation study paints bleak picture of teaching quality | GothamSchools:

Gates Foundation study paints bleak picture of teaching quality

by Elizabeth Green

The study measured teachers against the criteria in Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Effective Teaching rubric, which is used in New York as a tool for observing teachers. Teachers scored better at classroom management than they did on measures of higher-order instructional challenges, such as asking productive questions.

A historic look inside the nation’s classrooms, including some in New York City, painted a bleak picture,

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The guy closes libraries. What a shmuck. « Fred Klonsky

The guy closes libraries. What a shmuck. « Fred Klonsky:

The guy closes libraries. What a shmuck.

by Fred Klonsky

Fresh from his video appearance promoting yahoo Kyle Olson and Islamophobe Juan William’s Anti-public Schools Week, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel went back to work and closed down Chicago’s libraries. Or at least closed them on Mondays.

Remember, it was just a month or so ago he got into it with the Chicago Teachers Union over longer school days.

Get it? More hours in school. Fewer hours in libraries.

Then, if you’re a true fan of irony, the Mayor removes all the chairs from the 5th floor of City Hall so that the elderly and handicapped who are sitting-in outside his office to keep some public schools open have to sit on the

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#edreform A YEAR IN REVIEW: Mayor Bloomberg Cathy Black

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A big new study: “All else being equal.” Well, that’s the rub, isn’t it? « Fred Klonsky

A big new study: “All else being equal.” Well, that’s the rub, isn’t it? « Fred Klonsky:

A big new study: “All else being equal.” Well, that’s the rub, isn’t it.

by Fred Klonsky

Anne and I were at Peet’s this morning before heading off for a little get away to the land of Recall Scott Walker.

“What are you laughing at?” asked Anne.

“There’s a big new study of teacher added value reported in the New York Times,” I said.

“And you’re laughing because…?”

“Well listen.” And I read:

Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’

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"Educators to King, Regents: 'Stop hurting our neediest students. Restore the SIG funding' ." January 06, 2012. NYSUT: A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org

"Educators to King, Regents: 'Stop hurting our neediest students. Restore the SIG funding' ." January 06, 2012. NYSUT: A Union of Professionals. www.nysut.org:

Educators to King, Regents: 'Stop hurting our neediest students. Restore the SIG funding'


ALBANY, N.Y. Jan. 6, 2012 - New York State United Teachers President Richard C. Iannuzzi and other educators who are working as partners to design rigorous teacher and principal evaluation systems will join forces Monday to oppose State Education Commissioner John B. King's decision to suspend School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding. They will specifically detail how SED's suspension of districts' SIG funding is hurting their most vulnerable students.
Labor and management representatives from many of the 10 districts receiving SIG funding will gather on the steps of the State Education Department Building, 89 Washington Ave., at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9. The group will detail how SED's action is hurting students and how the state bureaucracy is frustrating local efforts at school improvement.
Iannuzzi noted only a small portion of the requirements for SIG funding are developing teacher and principal evaluations. "The truth is: The majority of the federal money is to provide direct help to the state's neediest students. Small classes, extra tutoring,
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THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Meritocracy, testocracy, jobs, and IQ

THE PERIMETER PRIMATE: Meritocracy, testocracy, jobs, and IQ:

Meritocracy, testocracy, jobs, and IQ

by The Perimeter Primate
An old news piece, “Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops” (9/8/2000) was circulated a bit last week via internet exchanges relating to ed policy and teacher bashing.
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test...

Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent
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NJ's Request for Waivers Draws Criticism from Advocacy Group - State EdWatch - Education Week

NJ's Request for Waivers Draws Criticism from Advocacy Group - State EdWatch - Education Week:

NJ's Request for Waivers Draws Criticism from Advocacy Group

by Sean Cavanagh

The Obama administration has yet to make an official decision on states' requests for waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act, the sweeping, and in many districts, deeply unpopular law.

But the reviews are in on New Jersey's waiver plan from one advocacy organization, which claims the plan would diminish resources going to needy schools—a charge rejected by the state.

The objections to New Jersey's plan were raised by the Education Law Center, which advocates for equal opportunities for students, particularly disadvantaged ones. The ELC, in a Dec. 22 letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, asks federal officials to defer making a decision on New Jersey's waiver until "several serious concerns are properly addressed by the state."

The ELC, which laid out its concerns to New Jersey's acting commissioner of education Christopher Cerf a

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Gates Foundation report says schools need more than just once-a-year teacher evaluations - The Washington Post

Gates Foundation report says schools need more than just once-a-year teacher evaluations - The Washington Post:

Gates Foundation report says schools need more than just once-a-year teacher evaluations

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, January 6, 11:23 AM

SEATTLE — Once-a-year evaluations aren’t enough to help teachers improve, says a report by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

And school districts using infrequent classroom observations to decide who are their best — and their worst — teachers could be making some big mistakes, according to the second part of a multi-year study from the foundation.

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Preliminary results were posted online Friday.

Good teacher evaluations require multiple nuanced observations by trained evaluators. Those results should be combined with other measures, such as student test scores and classroom surveys, to gather enough information to both evaluate teachers and help them improve, the researchers found after

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'National Opt Out Day' Rejects Standardized Tests

'National Opt Out Day' Rejects Standardized Tests:

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Last year, stress about Pennsylvania's state standardized tests caused third grader John Michael Rosenblum to start scratching himself so hard in his sleep that he bled. That's when his mother Michele Gray knew she'd had enough.

So she opted out. "I realized standardized testing isn't serving our communities or schools," Gray says. "The amount of money we spend for these tests is in the tens of millions. Couldn't that be spent on other things, like more teachers?"

After conducting some research and finding The Huffington Post blog of opt-out advocate and Penn State University associate professor of education Timothy Slekar, Gray decided to pull her son John Michael and his brother, Ted, out of standardized testing. Instead, after consulting with her school,

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Digital | California initiative brings breath of fresh air

Digital | California initiative brings breath of fresh air:

California initiative brings breath of fresh air

by Michael Horn

Maricela Guerrero is principal at one of the Rocketship schools.

It’s an embarrassment that California, the state that led the technology revolution in America, is, according to Digital Learning Now, last in the nationin using technology to transform its education system from its current factory-model roots into a student-centric one.

California policy has done its best to create a byzantine—some might say bizarre—set of regulations to frustrate the power of online learning to do just that. From geographic barriers that limit the ability of students in certain locales to access online learning to restricting blended learning in some unfortunate ways, California has created a maze to frustrate would-be innovators.

There have been some attempts by legislators over the last couple of years to begin to rectify some of these problems, but they have only stalled. Although some charter school operators, such as Rocketship Education and KIPP Empower, as well as some school districts, like Riverside School District, have created

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This Week In Education: Thompson: The Benefits and Costs of Graduation Exams

This Week In Education: Thompson: The Benefits and Costs of Graduation Exams:

Thompson: The Benefits and Costs of Graduation Exams

by john thompson

DropoutsAfter reading Sarah Butrymowicz's Hechinger Ed analysis of Oklahoma’s new graduation law, I remain agnostic on whether students should be required to pass four End of Instruction tests to earn a diploma. About 16% of the state’s seniors began the year needing to pass one or more of their exit examinations. A law has been filed to delay the graduation requirement because the lack of a degree, for instance, would exclude young people from joining the military. Butrymowicz notes, however, that nearly a quarter of applicants also fail their armed forces entry exam, thus

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You May Have Missed the Corporate Takeover of Education… | Lefty Parent

You May Have Missed the Corporate Takeover of Education… | Lefty Parent:

by Cooper Zale

Because it may well have happened a long time ago before you and I were born! From my reading of history it began in the early decades of the 20th century and was solidified by the development of the “education industrial complex” in the 1960s. Now in the early 21st century we see this corporate public education system finally showing signs of collapsing due to the weight of its bureaucracy, corruption, regimentation, and entrenched interests. And as a result we see all the business foundations desperately trying to revive and sustain it, and the many billion dollar business market it represents.

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