Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"

Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement":

“Does Family Engagement Matter?”

Does Family Engagement Matter? is a response to the now infamous “Broken Compass” book questioning the usefulness of parent involvement. It’s written by three of the top experts in the field – Karen L. Mapp, Anne T. Henderson, and Nancy E. Hill. I’m adding it to The Best Commentaries On The “Broken Compass” Parent Involvement Book.

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Sorry For Multiple Emails To Readers Using That Subscription Option — Problem Should Be Fixed Now

Readers who subscribe to this blog by email received multiple email notifications of yesterday’s post. I know it hasn’t been the first time this has occurred, but Edublogs has gotten on the problem and it should be fixed for good now. I apologize for any inconvenience…

by Larry Ferlazzo / 6h 

MAY 15

“Scoreboards and butterfly gardens: Is parent fundraising equitable in Montgomery?”

Scoreboards and butterfly gardens: Is parent fundraising equitable in Montgomery? is an article that appeared in The Washington Post. Here’s an excerpt: Parent fundraising and private donations have produced enviable results at some Montgomery County schools: athletic scoreboards, artificial turf, a nearly $250,000 elementary school improvement project. Other schools have seen little of such large

2 by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d 

MAY 13

Zuckerberg’s $100 Million Donation To Newark Schools — Parents & Children Lose

I’ve published a number of posts about the $100 million donation Mark Zuckerberg made to Newark’s schools, particularly its sham parent engagement program (see The Best Posts & Articles For Learning About Newark’s $100 Million From Facebook). There’s a big new article in The New Yorker about it but, if you don’t have time to read it, Salon has a very useful summary. Definitely check it out…

2 by Larry Ferlazzo / 4d 

MAY 11

“District of Columbia Expands Family-Engagement Program”

District of Columbia Expands Family-Engagement Program is the title of an Education Week post. Here’s an excerpt: Twenty-one schools will participate in the parent partnership program during the 2014-15 school year. Each participating school receives a grant for up to $25,000, Melissa Salmanowitz, spokeswoman for the District’s school system, wrote in an email. According to the release, the Family

2 by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d 

MAY 10

Guest Post: Report From The National Family Engagement Conference

I’ve previously published short reports on last month’s National Family Engagement Conference. Today, Carrie Rose, Executive Director of the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project, has written this guest post about it: Parent-Teacher Home Visits Fit DOE’s Vision Researcher Karen L. Mapp’s lifts up PTHVP in Family Engagement Framework CINCINNATI- Back in the day, did your grandma help with costumes for

4 by Larry Ferlazzo / 7d 

5-18-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:

UFT Contract: An Attack on Women

The contract proposal is an attack on feminism. 75% of UFT members are woman. The leadership expects the contract to pass because they anticipate that woman are willing and deserve to accept much lower pay in creases than they deserve.... Comment on Ed Notes After the UFT Brooklyn borough contract meeting, a pregnant teacher came up to ask [Borough Rep] Howie Schoor if anything was added to the co

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5-17-14 Ed Notes Online Week

Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineLayoffs in Newark and Jaisal Noor: Video on Ras Baraka Election in NewarkA mayoral election in Newark becomes a battle for the soul of the city... Jaisal Noor, The Real News, delivers - as usual.Newark may be a future model for the NYC school system despite the Baraka win, who in the New Yorker article admitted he was for a bunch of ed deform - like ending tenure. W

by mike simpson / 8h 

5-18-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs

With A Brooklyn Accent:

Charter Schools: The Education Equivalent of Subprime Mortgages

Charter Schools are looking more and more like the educational equivalent of subprime mortgages---a short cut to greater equity and opportunity that becomes the basis of a huge unregulated industry, which gives entrepreneurs the opportunity to make quick profits, and the very wealthy tax breaks and opportunities for investment.What makes both the charter school and subprime mortgage seductive is t

by Mark Naison / 2h

5-17-14 With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week

With A Brooklyn Accent:With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All WeekMark Naison EduNews Takes on Teach for AmericaHere it is!!! Mark Naison EduNews takes on Teach for America!!! http://youtu.be/PREZXh4coIoby Mark Naison / 2d MAY 11On the "Civil Rights" Defense of Common CoreIt is a grave error to portray the Common Core Standards as a Civil Rights measure opposed largely by right wing fanatics

by mike simpson / 7h 

5-18-14 Perdido Street School

Perdido Street School:

Daily News Picks Up Deadspin Report On Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Kevin Johnson

From the NY Daily News: In the days leading up to Donald Sterling’s lifetime ban from the NBA, one of the strongest advocates for disciplining the Clippers’ owner was former All-Star guard and current Sacramento, Calif., mayor Kevin Johnson. “The players are waiting for the commissioner to act decisively,” Johnson said in late April, speaking on behalf of the players’ union. “They want the maximum

by reality-based edu... / 1h 

What NYSED Commissioner John King Finds Disturbing

From Chalkbeat:King spoke at length in defense of the Common Core learning standards during a panel discussion at the conference, which was hosted by Schools that Can, a national nonprofit that helps district, charter, and independent schools collaborate. At one point, when assessing different arguments that he has heard educators make against the Common Core, he noted that some say the standards

by reality-based edu... / 16min 

Grand Jury Investigating Bridgegate Continues Its Work

This is bad news if you're Chris Christie - and maybe if you're Andrew Cuomo too: The top Port Authority executive who ended the George Washington Bridge lane closings testified before a Jersey grand jury probing the punitive shutdowns. Pat Foye appeared earlier in May before the federal panel in Newark as its Bridgegate investigation continued, the Bergen Record reported. The PA executive directo

by reality-based edu... / 38min

5-17-14 Perdido Street School Week

Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekWhat Comes After?There's a lot of talk in schools and around the Internet about voting the UFT contract agreement down and forcing de Blasio to give teachers a better deal in a second agreement.People say this will show the public that teachers are starting to stand up for themselves, they're not going to take getting humiliated or beaten up by the

by mike simpson / 8h 

How History is Erased with Digital Media. Revisionism Reigns. | Missouri Education Watchdog

How History is Erased with Digital Media. Revisionism Reigns. | Missouri Education Watchdog:

How History is Erased with Digital Media. Revisionism Reigns.

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I saw the above meme about Michelle Obama and was curious where she made this remark and to whom.  And that’s the beginning of an interesting journey.

I searched for “Michelle Obama and a piece of the pie”.  It led me to a Charlotte Observer story with a dead link that is not even accessible on the Wayback Machine.

http://www.charlotte.com/112/story/572303.html

She made this speech on April 8, 2008 and by the next day (according to one commenter), April 9, 2008, the link had disappeared from remarks on this Charlotte NC forum.

However, there were many articles written about her remark with the references to the Charlotte Observer article.  Memeorandum listed several articles who linked to the Charlotte Observer link:

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From the weeklystandard.com:

An article from HotAir gives the direct Instapundit link which hadHow History is Erased with Digital Media. Revisionism Reigns. | Missouri Education Watchdog:

Hey, Ras–you’re not going to rock the boat, are you? | Bob Braun's Ledger

Hey, Ras–you’re not going to rock the boat, are you? | Bob Braun's Ledger:

Hey, Ras–you’re not going to rock the boat, are you?

Mayor-elect Ras Baraka

The hedge-fund managers, the mainstream media, Cami Anderson’s friends in Montclair and Glen Ridge–during the election, they all tried to depict Ras Baraka as a revolutionary, as a radical, as a dangerous man with “fiery” and “incendiary” ideas and close ties to gangs. This was racist libel, of course, and it didn’t work but Newark’s new mayor should consider using those fears to the advantage of the city’s residents.

Baraka himself, speaking at Saturday’s launch of the sensible “Newark Promise” alternative to Anderson’s “One Newark” plan, hinted he is aware of just how nervous the rich and the white are about his ascendancy in New Jersey politics.

He did, after all, speak on the 60th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, a ruling that, with subsequent decisions, outlawed racial segregation in public schools.

“We are still in the same position we were 60 years ago,” Baraka told the crowd of several hundred at Lincoln Park.

“People can’t be talking about school reform without talking about school desegregation,” he said. “There is a deeper segregation going on in the schools.”

He is absolutely right, of course. As a recent Rutgers University study showed, New Jersey’s schools are to so racially isolated that as many as 100,000 African-American children go to school every day without ever seeing a white classmate. The study called the situation “apartheid schools.”

The Star-Ledger’s editorial board fecklessly called Baraka a “a black nationalist”–but they should only wish he was. A black nationalist wouldn’t be talking about school desegregation. He wouldn’t care about racial isolation. No, Baraka is a good, old-fashioned American progressive who believes in all the laws and court rulings Hey, Ras–you’re not going to rock the boat, are you? | Bob Braun's Ledger:

5-18-14 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE:

Free Reading Redux

Free Reading Redux. via Free Reading Redux.

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Autonomy Must Precede Accountabilty

Autonomy Must Precede Accountabilty. via Autonomy Must Precede Accountabilty.

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All Week 5-17-14 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ THE CHALK FACE The Conversation: Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned itThe Conversation: Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it. via The Conversation: Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it.Filed under: PAUL THOMAS: Becoming Radical

by mike simpson / 8h 

5-18-14 the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD

the becoming radical | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness (the public and scholarly writing by P. L. Thomas, Furman University):

Free Reading Redux

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak 1904 Paul Horton at Anthony Cody’s blog has offered a third installment of his defense of reading, recommending: David Mikics, a Professor of English at the University of Houston, has recently written a very good book on this issue, Slow Reading in a Hurried Age (2013). As reading and English teachers grappl

6 by plthomasedd / 48min 

Autonomy Must Precede Accountabilty

Nearly 2.5 years ago, I wrote directly about the essential flaw with the thirty-plus-years accountability movement in K-12 U.S. public education. That essential flaw is that accountability built on standards and high-stakes testing is a corruption of the concept of accountability—which may be better understood as “responsibility.” The corrupted “accountability” imposed on students, teachers, and s

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5-17-14 the becoming radical EMPATHYEDUCATES! | A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by P. L. Thomas, EdD

THE BECOMING RADICALRadical ScholarshipEMPATHYEDUCATES!the becoming radical  A Place for a Pedagogy of Kindness by The Conversation: Racial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned itRacial segregation returns to US schools, 60 years after the Supreme Court banned it1 by plthomasedd / 1d hide  //  saveMAY 15My Speech to the Graduates: Don’t Listen to Graduation Sp

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