blogs.edweek.org - Follow me on Twitter at @AnthonyCodyThis week I engaged in another online debate with one of Arne Duncan's press secretaries, Justin Hamilton, who readers may recall asked me to "correct" my commen...
governor.ny.gov - Printer-friendly version Albany, NY (February 16, 2012)Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Education Commissioner John King, and New York State United Teachers President Richard C. Iannuzzi to...
usatoday.com - An increasingly intriguing question is bouncing around the sports world this week: Should the sensational Jeremy Lin be given a spot in next weekend's NBA All-Star Game?No matter how many millions ...
huffingtonpost.com - The Huffington Post published an excellent piece yesterday by reporter Chris Kirkham describing how the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) wants to buy up state prisons, all under the guise o...
gothamschools.org - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praised the agreement between the State Education Department and NYSUT. Just hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an deal about the structure of a new tea...
nytimes.com - Feb. 16, 2012, 12:03 p.m. New York State education officials and the state teachers’ union reached an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system on Thursday, just hours before a deadline imposed ...
ourfuture.org - Conventional wisdom among the Very Serious People in Washington DC has long maintained that the severely punitive nature of current policies governing America's public schools cannot be called an "...
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - From what I can tell, the part of the deal that was struck between the city and the UFT seems to be a good one: an external arbiter for the subjective teacher ratings by principals, which is necess...
motherjones.com - There's something surreal about watching a congressional hearing in which a room full of men spend a morning publicly discussing birth control, menstrual pain, ovarian cancer, and migraine headache...
cbsnews.com - (Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) Campaigning in Idaho on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested that he is opposed to a public school system overseen by the gover...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - If SB1467 becomes law in Arizona, the state's public school teachers could be fired for engaging in “speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the federal communications commis...
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,I do believe we are in that portion of the Roman Empire in which horses were considered "persons." Or was that just a mad movie I once saw about the fall of the Roman Empire?Some of the ...
edwize.org - New Teacher Diaries contributor Mr. Foteah writes that a positive change in his attitude toward a difficult student quickly resulted in a positive change in the student’s attitude in the classroom....
blog.coreknowledge.org - “Discernment and the Public Sphere” In her new book, Republic of Noise, long-time Core Knowledge Blog contributor Diana Senechal confronts a culture that has come to depend on instant updates and c...
nytimes.com - Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that cl...
nydailynews.com - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union struck a deal on evaluations Thursday morning. The city and the teachers union have struck a historic deal on teacher evaluations, the Daily News has ...
preaprez.wordpress.com - Alderman Dick Mell is sponsoring legislation calling for more decorum in the city council. Mayor Daley the elder was famous for turning off the microphone of any alderman who rose to oppose him. Th...
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com - February 16, 2012, 10:47 am By DAVE ITZKOFFA spokesman for Comedy Central said on Thursday morning that the taping of “The Colbert Report” had been suspended on Wednesday evening and would be again...
democraticunderground.com - http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/16/10426068-mccartney-says-the-beatles-considered-reuniting By Rolling Stone The Beatles had considered getting back together while all four members...
npr.org - Enlarge Krissy Clark for NPR Teacher Ruben Gonzalez conducts the South Gate High School band. According to Gonzalez, thieves passed up a computer as well as a stash of valuable flutes, saxophones a...
grist.org - DeSmogBlog has publicized documents that illuminate the Heartland Institute’s denialist agenda, and who’s footing the bill. The list of funders is interesting — Kochs, Philip Morris, Microsoft — an...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 16, 2012 Obama Administration Sends Congress the Consolidating and Reforming Government Act of 2012WASHINGTON, DC – This...
wirenh.com - Mainers are leading a national push to restore family farming It was 20 degrees below zero when farmer Jim Gerritsen got up on the early morning of Feb. 13. Gerritson operates Wood Prairie Farm i...
This morning my comrades in the schools of New York are writing rants about the foul deal that was worked out between their unions and the governor on teacher evaluation.
The deal is a hoax, of course.
Just like Illinois’ Senate Bill 7 is a hoax.
Like all top-down reform plans. These scams will do nothing to address or fix the real or imagined ills claimed by their sponsors.
Their sponsors know that. It is all about using teachers as punching bags for cynical political advantage.
Our union leadership cowers. They have no fire in their belly. Pressured by the likes of New York’s Governor
Education Next interviewed Ze’ev Wurman and W. Stephen Wilson about the Common Core Math Standards which 40 states have signed on to. They ask are they a step forward or backward? They are pretty clear that it is a step backward. Some money quotes…
Wurman in answering whether the CCSS for Math is higher than most state standards said:
They may be higher than some state standards but they are certainly lower than the best of them. For example, the 2008 report of the National Mathematics
The horse race of international rankings in education is based on misconceptions that can lead countries such as the United States to consider sweeping reforms that probably won’t improve academic achievement, according to a new report. The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education released yesterday by the Brookings Institution makes a case against Common [...]
Senators on the Budget and Fiscal Review Committee generally praised the rationale and framework of Gov. Brown’s proposal to overhaul school funding in a four-hour hearing Thursday but questioned the details, timing, and the disparate financial impacts on school districts. One message came across clearly: They won’t be rushed into adopting Brown’s weighted student formula. “These [...]
A few months ago, I wrote this article in response to some of the comments I read about my EdWeek / Jay-Z article. It was approved, but due to the backlash I received, they took it down. Never mind. I decided to publish it here. Also, look for some of the comments I received on Sunday.
After the last time I attempted convincing educators about Jay-Z’s credentials as a muse for their teaching, I decided that another rapper might be more fitting for this type of exercise: Calvin “Snoop Doggy Dogg” Broadus. Snoop Doggy Dogg a.k.a. Snoop Dogg a.k.a. Snoop has been a muse of mine for some time, and I wish
This week I engaged in another online debate with one of Arne Duncan's press secretaries, Justin Hamilton, who readers may recall asked me to "correct" my commentary a year ago after President Obama inadvertently criticized our over-reliance on standardized tests.
This time Mr. Hamilton took issue with a question I posed in advance of Duncan's latest Twitter Town Hall. I asked, "How can you say that we should not teach to test while NCLB waivers tie teacher & principal evaluations to test scores?"
To this, Hamilton (@edpresssec) replied: "False. Waiver states using multiple measure not testing only."
Obviously, Mr. Hamilton is engaging in some sophistry here, because I never said that test scores were the
Discussions are underway for radically changing how things work for Oakland school district employees and the students they serve.
Like a good newspaper lede, the opening line of the below human resources document makes you want to keep on reading — despite the fact that it’s an HR document.
“Current OUSD Human Resource practices are failing children,” it begins.
The ideas put forth in the discussion paper embedded below are comprehensive and wide-ranging, from strengthening relationships with local teacher colleges to creating “career ladders” for teachers, updating
On Tuesday evening, I’ll be speaking on a panel convened by the League of Women Voters about the strategic plan the Oakland school board adopted last year. The event, from 6-8 p.m. at Oakland City Hall, is titled “The Promise and the Challenge.”
I’ve been invited to talk about the role the community should — or needs to — play in meeting the plan’s goals. It’s a good thing I have a few days to do my homework first (and that I have this blog!), as the answer isn’t clear
Jon Stewart tried to engage Education Secretary Arne Duncan on “The Daily Show” Thursday night, but the effort was an exercise in the futility of conversing with someone who won’t deviate from his talking points.
In light of repeated cheating scandals on standardized tests in school districts across the country, the Education Department recently asked members of the public for ideas on how to prevent, detect and respond to irregularities on completed tests.
Would giving poor students more books solve the achievement gap? Matthew Haag/Reporter mhaag@dallasnews.com Feb. 16, 2012
DMN reporter Dianne Solis is attending the 41st annual convention of the National Association for Bilingual Education in Dallas this week. About 3,000 educators and students are in attendance, ranging from school principals from Queens to teachers from California to dissertation candidates from North Texas. Many of the attendees came from the Dallas ISD and about half are from Texas. Solis filed this report from Wednesday night's keynote speech: Book swap clubs, such as bookmooch.com, are one solution for combating a huge problem, the achievement gap, activist Stephen Krashen , a professor emeritus of the University of Southern California, said Wednesday night. The linguist and educational researcher was a keynote speaker at the 41st annual convention of the
I don’t know as much about BIZPAC chairman John R. Smith a well as my Palm Beach colleagues do. Nor do I know anything about his political action committee and whom he’s supported in the past. And it wouldn’t be fair for me – at least not now – to categorize Smith as a privatization zealot. But Smith has left quite a bit of stuff that’s easy to dissect in this opinion he posted in BIZPAC Review. He wasn’t pleased with the Palm Beach School Board’s search for a new superintendent. Smith doth protests too much, methinks.
Part of the problem with the search process is that voters have elected a board with a super-majority of members having no business sense or experience. Most of these board members have few skills and no knowledge about how to hire a person with the executive competence it takes to run a huge, sprawling, complex organization with a multibillion-dollar budget. It’s a recipe for disastrous decisions, because they can’t comprehend the proper and effective criteria needed for hiring a superintendent.
This board does know how to micro-manage, doing so with abandon, but it knows very little about
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