Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Recommendation, Development of a Growth Model - Legislative Report

Report to the Legislature: Recommendation on the Development of a Growth Model as Required by Education Code Section 52052.5(d).

California Department of Education

Report to the Governor and Legislature:

Recommendation on the Development of a Growth Model
as Required by Education Code Section 52052.5(d)

Executive Summary

This report is required by California Education Code (EC) Section 52052.5(d) that states the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SSPI) and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA) Advisory Committee, shall make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor on the establishment of an individual academic performance growth model by utilizing individual pupil results from a longitudinally valid achievement assessment system. These recommendations are due to the Legislature and the Governor by July 1, 2013.

When the Academic Performance Index (API) was designed in 1999, it did not include a student growth component. At the time, the California Department of Education (CDE) did not have the capacity to link the test results of individual students across years. In addition, the testing system was not designed to provide growth scores to students. Although the CDE now has the ability to link student scores from one year to the next through the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, neither the 1999 state standards nor the current assessment system (Standardized Testing and Reporting) provide a clear vertical articulation from grade to grade.

In 2003, EC Section 52052.5(d) required the PSAA Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the SSPI on the "appropriateness and feasibility of a methodology for generating a measurement of academic performance" based on individual student results.

This report recommends that implementation of a growth model be delayed until the statewide assessment system is reauthorized and new assessments based on the Common Core State Standards are fully implemented.

If you have any questions regarding this report, please contact Jenny Singh, Administrator, Academic Accountability Unit, by phone at 916-319-0437 or by e-mail at jsingh@cde.ca.gov.

You can find this report at the CDE API Web page. If you need a copy of this report, please contact Betty Miura, Research Analyst, Academic Accountability Unit, by phone at 916-319-0863 or by e-mail at bmiura@cde.ca.gov.

Questions: Analysis, Measurement, and Accountability Reporting Division | 916-319-0896

Dennis Van Roekel, Randi Weingarten and Tom de Boor Join Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, Bammy Awards Board of Governors | Business Wire

Dennis Van Roekel, Randi Weingarten and Tom de Boor Join Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, Bammy Awards Board of Governors | Business Wire:

Dennis Van Roekel, Randi Weingarten and Tom de Boor Join Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, Bammy Awards Board of Governors

Tom Murray, Katrina Stevens, Susan Bearden, Sharon Plante Join Academy Council of Peers

November 26, 2013 02:43 PM Eastern Standard Time

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, comprised of 225 influential education leaders and organizations, announced that Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association (NEA); Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT); and Tom de Boor, founder of AOL’s education, kids and parenting channels, have joined the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors. They join a cadre of other prominent leaders committed to education, including Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Diane Ravitch, John Merrow, Linda Darling-Hammond, Daniel Pink and Timothy Shriver as the voting members of the Academy who will help select the Bammy Awards honorees for 2014.

Additionally, several new members have accepted invitations to join the Academy Council of Peers. They include Tom Murray, Director of Technology and Cyber Education for the Quakertown Community School District in Bucks County, PA; Katrina Stevens, a former teacher, administrator, and education consultant with the Tuscany Group; Sharon Plante, Director of Technology at Eagle Hill-Southport High School in Southport, CT; Alex J. Podchaski, Director of Technology at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ; Susan M. Bearden, Director of Information Technology at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, FL. Bammy Award honorees automatically admitted to the Academy Council of Peers include Jesse Hagopian, Marilyn Rhames, Pam Moran, Tony Sinanis and James Ewing.

The Bammy Awards were created in response to the relentless national criticism of America's public schools while all that is right in American education is largely ignored.

Underscoring the notion that it takes a village to educate a child, the Academy identifies, recognizes and celebrates the contributions of education professionals, para-professionals and support staff across the entire field -- from teachers, principals and superintendents to school nurses, advocates, researchers, early childhood specialists, facilities maintenance staff, special needs professionals, school board members, parents and more.

About the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences

Members of the Academy include a profoundly eclectic cadre of persons involved in education, including the executive directors of NAESP, AASA, PTA, ASBO, ISTE, COSN and NASSP.

To learn more about the Bammy Awards 3.i, go to www.bammyawards.org. Send emails to info@bammyawards.org, or call 818-539-5971.

Contacts

Academy of Education Arts and Sciences
Jeannette Berbstein, 818-539-5971

JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education? | Reclaim Reform

JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education? | Reclaim Reform:

JFK, Arne Duncan and CCSS: The arts in your child’s education?

Posted on November 26, 2013by Ken Previti

How important are the arts in the education of your child?
Here are three revealing quotations.

“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgment. The artist… faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.”
- John F. Kennedy (Read HERE.)

“It’s fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who – all of a sudden – their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn’t quite as

Louisiana Educator: Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core

Louisiana Educator: Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core:

Almost Everything Parents and Teachers Should Know About Common Core

This is Part I of a Two Part Article

How The Common Core Developed

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12 education were adopted by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) in the Spring of 2010. Those standards had not yet been written at the time, so they actually were adopted sight unseen. The CCSS were an initiative by the National Governors' Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to standardize the teaching of English language arts and mathematics and later science and social studies for all states. The goal of the NGA and CCSSO was to modernize the teaching of those basic skills areas to raise the level of achievement of American students to a higher world class ranking and to make American students more competitive for the world job market.

There were no public hearings explaining the contents of the CCSS before their adoption. There was really nothing to share with the public at that time except that the standards were intended to be state of the art learning with emphasis on rigor and critical thinking skills for our students. From the very beginning, the push for the new standards did not come from parents or even from classroom teachers. It came from non-classrom teacher elites who believed they had the answer to improving U.S. student performance compared to other countries.

The driving force for the development of the CCSS came from the National Governor's Association with heavy influence from the Hunt Institute and philanthropic organizations such as the Gates Foundation, the Broad Foundation and a group called Achieve. (Thank you to Dr. Mercedes Schneider for finding the news storiesexplaining the involvement of these groups in proposing this standards effort.) The Obama administration as represented by Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan bought into the project from the very beginning. In June, 2009 Duncan announced that 350

North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice | Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

North Carolina NAACP President Defends Public Education And Calls On All Of Us To Stand And Fight For Justice

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In North Carolina, Republicans took the General Assembly in 2010 and the governorship in 2012. The takeover received unprecedented support from one right-wing multimillionaire, Art Pope — who, according to progressive publication, The American Prospect, singlehandedly provided about 80 percent of the funding for the state’s conservative groups.

Upon taking control, the Republicans began systematically dismantling the social infrastructure of the state. They slashed taxes on the top 5 percent and raised them on the bottom 95 percent. They eliminated the earned-income tax credit for 900,000 low-wage workers. They cut Medicaid coverage for 500,000. They ended unemployment benefits for 170,000. They threw about 30,000 kids out of pre-K, while transferring $90 million from public schools to vouchers. They voted to allow guns purchased without a background check to be carried in parks, restaurant and bars.

As the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP, put it: “They’ve drank all the Tea Party they could drink and sniffed all the Koch that they could sniff.”

In one “omnibus bill,” the legislature would create restrictive voter ID procedures that will disqualify estimated 318,000-registered voters.

Pope Francis calls unfettered capitalism as “a new tyranny”

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Schooling in the Ownership Society: The wild expansion of privately-managed charters

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The wild expansion of privately-managed charters:

Private Education Management Organizations Running Public Schools Expand –

44 Percent of Charter School Students in 2011-12 Attended Schools Operated by EMOs

New report shows 908,000 students in 2011-2012 attended privately-managed schools in 35 states plus D.C. – a major increase from 733,000 enrolled a year earlier. Michigan (204 schools) Florida (177), Ohio (110) and Arizona (108) have the most privately-managed schools.

An increasing number of for-profit education management organizations are expanding into online teaching.

BOULDER, CO – Across the nation, schools managed by for-profit firms such as K12 Inc, National Heritage Academies and Charter Schools USA, as well as nonprofit education management organizations (EMOs) such as KIPP, continue to increase the number of students they enroll, despite a scarcity of evidence showing positive results. Students across 35 states and the District of Columbia now attend schools managed by these non-

Parents' Message to de Blasio #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2

Parents' Message to de Blasio

Parents & students send a heartfelt message to the Mayor-Elect about high-stakes tests and the next NYC schools chancellor. Go to http://www.parentvoicesny.org to let de Blasio know you support this message too.

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