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The impeccable logic of Turnaround schools

nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - Check out the new TV campaign on "Turnaround" schools produced by Last Stand for Children First. Though the campaign is focused on Chicago's efforts , the same strategies are being used here in NY...

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"Education Reform" As Collective Bullying

withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com - When I see the most powerful, and wealthiest people in this country, representing both major parties, attack public school teachers, it makes my blood boil. The education reform juggernaut, a "big ...

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NYC Educator: Martin Luther King's Legacy

nyceducator.com - I want to retch when I read Arne Duncan is going somewhere to pay tribute to MLK. In fact, King was assasinated while in Memphis, supporting striking workers. Duncan, conversely, is in the pocket o...

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The trouble with Alexander Russo

schoolsmatter.info - The irony is that Russo suggests we critics have been successful because WE are coordinating ourselves! And the "reformers" ought to do the same! We are seeing the most coordinated, sustained and s...

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David Beats Goliath – Wisconsin Style

forwardseeking.com - By Molly Belt “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead Nearly everyone who was a part of the...

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School Tech Connect: Red Line Blues

bigeducationape.blogspot.com - School Tech Connect: Red Line Blues:Red Line Bluesby noreply@blogger.com (Tim)What a ridiculous day...I planned to cover the CTU MLK event at Dvorak Elementary on the west side, but evidently you h...

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An Urban Teacher's Education: Something to Consider

anurbanteacherseducation.com - The assistant principal’s office is crammed into the corner of the second floor of the nearly ninety-year-old James Monroe Building in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. Behind me the door in...

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Huntsman Says He's Quitting G.O.P. Race

thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - January 15, 2012, 9:18 pm By JEFF ZELENYCHARLESTON, S.C. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy ...

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Donors Gave as Santorum Won Earmarks

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Study of Retail Workers Finds $9.50 Median Pay

nytimes.com - Retail workers in New York City earn a median of $9.50 an hour, most are part-time or temporary, and just 3 in 10 receive health insurance through their jobs, according to a new study of the city’s...

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Robert Reich (Free Enterprise on Trial)

robertreich.org - Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint ...

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Retail lobby demands help to create more new jobs

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NYC Educator: You Can Fool Some of the People...

NYC Educator: You Can Fool Some of the People...:

You Can Fool Some of the People...

by Miss Eyre
On the heels of NYC Educator's excellent post yesterday about the linking of MLK's legacy with education "reform" comes, (in)appropriately enough, Mayor Bloomberg again co-opting MLK celebrations to discuss his "reform" agenda. Only this time, even fewer of the people of this city are swallowing his line. King believed strongly, most certainly, in equality of educational opportunities for all regardless of race, economic status, or other factors. But he also would not have stood for the denigration of public workers or for union-busting.

King's legacy is often linked with that of Abraham Lincoln. Both were imperfect men who nevertheless summoned, again and again, great courage during seemingly impossible battles. Both, of course, are connected to the ongoing struggle for equality
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Darling-Hammond: Why Is Congress redlining our schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Darling-Hammond: Why Is Congress redlining our schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Darling-Hammond: Why Is Congress redlining our schools?

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by Stanford University Education Profession Linda Darling-Hammond, who directs the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. A former president of the American Educational Research Association, Darling-Hammond focuses her research, teaching, and policy work on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. This first appeared in the Jan. 30, 2012, issue of The Nation .

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Santorum: I ‘shouldn’t have’ voted for No Child Left Behind

by Valerie Strauss

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has changed his mind about No Child Left Behind. A decade after voting for the education reform legislation, he said in a debate on Monday night that he was sorry he had approved it.

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Hey Mr.Knowitall, 2 Weeks Detention…For Talking Seriously About Education « Cooperative Catalyst

Hey Mr.Knowitall, 2 Weeks Detention…For Talking Seriously About Education « Cooperative Catalyst:

Hey Mr.Knowitall, 2 Weeks Detention…For Talking Seriously About Education

by Jabreel Chisley

Inclusion within discussion…it’s the one dynamic every serious discussion needs in order to come to a serious conclusion. When discussions lack that dynamic they are often poor in concluding theory and therefore often miss the point of what’s trying to be achieved. It’s not because the people who leading the discussions are incapable of reaching a conclusion that helps everyone, it’s because they simply don’t know everything they need to know to reach that conclusion. It’s this failure to conclude that make discussions fall apart or face fierce opposition in the end…and it’s this failure to include that students across America are tired of when it comes to education and the academic revolution movement.

Education in America has always been an adult’s conversation; it’s been the conversation that was almost always discussed behind our backs by our teachers, politicians, union leaders, and principals. We were only ever included in the conversation when we were needed to drive the point home, encourage our parents to be on

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Cuomo and Bloomberg on Attack on Teacher Evaluations - NYTimes.com

Cuomo and Bloomberg on Attack on Teacher Evaluations - NYTimes.com:

Invoking King, Cuomo and Bloomberg Stoke Fight on Teacher Review Impasse

Michael Appleton for The New York Times

The Rev. Al Sharpton leading a policy forum, with a gun violence emphasis, on Martin Luther King's Birthday on Monday at the National Action Network headquarters in Harlem. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg spoke there.

By THOMAS KAPLAN and KATE TAYLOR
Published: January 16, 2012

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, each irate that a stalemate over teacher evaluations is endangering federal education aid, fixed their sights Monday on a shared opponent: what they derided as New York State’s education bureaucracy.

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Both men said the state could no longer tolerate a public school system they said was failing students, invoked the ideals of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and appeared ready for a fight.

At separate observances commemorating Dr. King’s birthday, the governor and the mayor ratcheted up their attacks on teachers’ unions and school administrators.

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Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Charter Discussion

Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Charter Discussion:

The Charter Discussion

by Melissa Westbrook
I still have to write a thread on the entire charter bill (the Senate and House bills are identical, SB 6202 and HB 2428) and a thread on why charters I think charters are a bad idea for our state. But let's catch up on what others are saying.

First, the Times. Oh Times, you always slay me. Always out the gate with that bad "teachers union." Seriously, first thing. Then, they always get something factually wrong (and I ask them to cite the page and line for this):

Each would be required to adopt a specific plan to serve educationally disadvantaged children.

I've read the bill twice and I'm going to read it again but I do not see that statement anywhere but it sure looks

Snow - It's Coming

by Melissa Westbrook
UPDATE: 7:33 pm - SPS Schools will open TWO HOURS LATE on Tuesday, Jan. 17th. Buses will be operating on snow routes tomorrow, which means that yellow buses run only on roads maintained by the City that receive snow removal.

If you missed it, there's a storm a'brewin'.

According to Cliff Mass:

The big question for days...the question on which the forecast depended on...was where the trough/low pressure would go. Head north of us, we get perhaps 4-8 inches of snow, followed by a few hours of rain and then the whole thing starts melting. The snow would start around 3-4 AM on Wednesday AM. This is the best case (if you don't like a crippling snow event).

The bottom line is that there is a serious threat on Wednesday of 8-15 inches of snow over the region, with a minimal turn over to rain. The biggest snowstorm in years. Anyway, before anyone goes out and buys a snowblower, lets see what tonight's runs show. If they continue this trend then Slushmageddon might be
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Here's a Brilliant Educational Reform Idea. (Not Really).

Missouri Education Watchdog: Here's a Brilliant Educational Reform Idea. (Not Really).:

Here's a Brilliant Educational Reform Idea. (Not Really).

by stlgretchen
Many states, including Missouri, has toyed with the idea of lowering the age of compulsory schooling to age 3. That's one way to ensure the implementation of universal pre-school. Educated Citizenry 2020 lists this as one of the long term educational goals for our state and follows Arne Duncan's long term vision includes the importance of early childhood learning and expansion of services.

Access to college and higher education has been a hot button issue of late as well. The Obama administration believes not only early childhood learning is important, so is higher education learning.
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Should California have second thoughts on Common Core? | Thoughts on Public Education

Should California have second thoughts on Common Core? | Thoughts on Public Education:

Should California have second thoughts on Common Core? - by forum

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With new assessments scheduled for 2014-15, many districts and state education planners are becoming immersed in preparing for the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts. California is one of 46 states to adopt them and has a lead role in one of two state consortia creating the new tests. Faced with [...]

New program shows the promise and possibilities for parent engagement - by Carol Kocivar

by Carol Kocivar
Have you ever taken a peek into the future? A quick snapshot into tomorrow? I did recently at a small elementary school in South San Francisco. Twenty-nine parents walked into the school’s multipurpose room to the sound of Pomp and Circumstance. Families grinned. Children clapped. Moms and dads marched to the folding chairs in the front of [...]
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Daily Kos: If you missed last night's Republican debate

Daily Kos: If you missed last night's Republican debate:

If you missed last night's Republican debate

by rss@dailykos.com (teacherken)

in which case you saved both brain cells and time, Charles M. Blow of the New York Times has a terrific piece on a key point of the debate which you should read. To encourage you to do so, allow me to offer just the final paragraph of Newt Gingrich and the Art of Racial Politics.

Gingrich seems to understand the historical weight of the view among some southern whites, many of whom have migrated to the Republican party, that blacks are lazy and addicted to handouts. He is able to give voice to those feelings without using those words. He is able to make people believe that a fundamentally flawed and prejudicial argument that demeans minorities is actually for their uplift. It is Gingrich’s gift: He is able to make ill will sound like good will.

Besides a right-on-target nailing of Gingrich by Blow, note also the audience response - and tell me that is not racist.

Oh, and if you have any doubt, the one time booing was directed towards Romney was not even remarks he made, but when as part of a question on immigration we heard the set-up including that his father was born in Mexico - that was strongly booed.

I don't know about elsewhere even in South Carolina, but the audience for that debate was hostile towards anyone who did not fit their idea of American - white, native-born, and Christia

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NYC Public School Parents: video: Bloomberg facing protests & boos at MLK Jr. event

NYC Public School Parents: video: Bloomberg facing protests & boos at MLK Jr. event:

video: Bloomberg facing protests & boos at MLK Jr. event

by Leonie Haimson
Students were out protesting the closing of their school followed by booing from the audience at today's MLK Jr. event at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Video thanks to NY1; more on Bloomberg's negative reception at Daily News here. Later in the day he met with more heckling at Al Sharpton's event in Harlem. When Bloomberg claimed test scores were up, the audience yelled "Wrong, wrong!"


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The Educated Reporter: Education Week: U.S. Schools Not Ready For Global Competition

The Educated Reporter: Education Week: U.S. Schools Not Ready For Global Competition:

Education Week: U.S. Schools Not Ready For Global Competition

by Emily Richmond
When I was on the daily news beat, there were a handful of annual reports that I relied on to help me do my job. Education Week's "Quality Counts" digest was always one of them.

The latest installment is "The Global Challenge: Education in a Competitive World." Ed Week's staff looks at how the pressure to compete globally is impacting the business of schooling at the local, state and national level. It's a thoughtful -- and hugely valuable -- resource for anyone who's thinking and writing about these issues.

The report grades states based on a host of factors, from school spending to adult outcomes to current levels of
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How Can Smart People Do Dumb Things? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

How Can Smart People Do Dumb Things? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

How Can Smart People Do Dumb Things?

by larrycuban

Top Federal Reserve officials in 2006–recall that was the time that the housing bubble was about to burst–”laughed about cars that builders were offering as signing bonuses.” These economists and investment bankers, the best and the brightest of those responsible for understanding the basic mechanisms that drive the economy, “gave little credence to the possibility that the faltering housing market” was shoving the economy into a recession. “We just don’t see troubling signs yet of collateral damage,” then President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (and current U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) said, “and we are not expecting much.”

Two years later, retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who presided over a growing economy for nearly two decades, apologized to a U.S. Congressional committee that the economic models he had used were flawed.

Then there was President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Don’t forget Enron. And surely, some of us recall those smart people falling for email scams from Nigeria promising millions of dollars for access to social security

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Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rangel takes U.N.O. into the lucrative charter business

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rangel takes U.N.O. into the lucrative charter business:

Rangel takes U.N.O. into the lucrative charter business

by Mike Klonsky
Juan Rangel
Sunday's NYT has a Chicago News Coop story, "A Lifetime of Close Ties and Growing Influence," about U.N.O. which has become the mayor's front group in the Mexican community. The machine boss is Juan Rangel, who successfully took U.N.O. into the charter school operating business.

While the city's neighborhood schools are being strangled by budget cuts, Rangel's ties with the mayor and his political clout in Springfield has charter operator U.N.O. sitting pretty. According to the Times:
The group, which ran a single charter school until 2005, now has 11
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