James Baldwin said it best:
"For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."
A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAP
More questions on evals’ accuracy | Albuquerque Journal News
More questions on evals’ accuracy | Albuquerque Journal News:More questions on evals’ accuracyPrincipal Robin Hoberg had no answers when teachers at Double Eagle Elementary School asked her to explain what they believed were errors on their new teacher evaluations.Nor could she explain inconsistencies in how teachers were graded on attendance and student performance.Despite controversy surrounding
6-7-14 solidaridad - #TeamMcKenna
solidaridad: I'm on #TeamMcKenna because ALL students in LAUSD need representation, NOT just the few attending CCSA's lucrative charter outletsI'm on #TeamMcKenna because ALL students in #LAUSD need representation, NOT just the few attending @CALcharters' lucrative charter outlets.— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) June 7, 2014by Robert D. Skeels ... / 13min PESJA: When we say Eli Broad controls LAUS
House Of Cards - Corporate Deform in America - Trailer by BATA
House Of Cards - Corporate Deform in America - Trailer by BATAPublished on Jul 12, 2013House of Cards is a series of short videos created to bring to the forefront the key players in the corporate reform movement. Each week a new player will be featured along with information concerning their words and actions that have been aimed at the destruction of our public schools. Video created by Terri Mi
Can California Offer a New Model for Accountability? Or Are We Still Chasing Test Scores? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
Can California Offer a New Model for Accountability? Or Are We Still Chasing Test Scores? - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: Can California Offer a New Model for Accountability? Or Are We Still Chasing Test Scores?By Anthony Cody on June 7, 2014 11:23 AMA couple of weeks ago, Linda Darling-Hammond and Randi Weingarten offered an interesting take on the path forward regarding Common Cor
Morality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests by David Berliner |
Morality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests by David Berliner |: Morality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests by David Berliner A recent article in Education Week was written by David C. Berliner, Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. As pertinent to our purposes, here, I have included his piece in full below, as well as the dire
6-7-14 Saturday Matinée Double Feature "Just Sayin' " and "Corporate ED Reform: Something's Fishy!" News Breakout
Saturday Matinée Double Feature "Just Sayin' " and "Corporate ED Reform: Something's Fishy!" News BreakoutOne percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.comOne percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.com: One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatizationOutsourcing government not only leads to poor
One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.com
One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatization - Salon.com: One percent’s twisted new heist: What’s really behind privatizationOutsourcing government not only leads to poor services -- it's killing the middle class, an expert tells SalonJamie Dimon, Donald Trump, David Koch (Credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas/AP/Dan Hallman/Evan Agostini)As most experts and layman enthusiasts will te
Marie Corfield: NJ GOP is not stronger than Superstorm Christie
Marie Corfield: NJ GOP is not stronger than Superstorm Christie: NJ GOP is not stronger than Superstorm ChristieFor those readers old enough to remember, this image is a parody of the fierce reaction to President Gerald Ford's infamous but false response to NY City's 1970's financial crisis. Even though he never said those words, he might as well have because his reaction to the city's request for
Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand. | Reclaim Reform
Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand. | Reclaim Reform: Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests – of the state’s brand.Posted on June 7, 2014by Ken PrevitiThe multiple brand names for water and high stakes standardized tests are misleading – to say the least.Do not celebrate when a state pulls out of the Common Core tests
NYC Educator: The Waiting Is the Easiest Part
NYC Educator: The Waiting Is the Easiest Part: The Waiting Is the Easiest PartIt's been over five years since any NYC teacher has seen a raise, despite the nonsense purveyed by tabloids. I've repeatedly read arguments that step increases are raises, from Bloomberg and various teacher-bashing op-ed columnists. That most other city workers got not only step increases, but also actual raises, was nei
An Incentive Program for the Feds | Missouri Education Watchdog
An Incentive Program for the Feds | Missouri Education Watchdog: An Incentive Program for the FedsinShareRace To the Top was the Federal Incentive program for states to adopt common core and the assessments. Maybe what they need now is a state developed incentive program for them to clean up their act.Utah lawmakers are considering dropping their request for an extension of their No Child Left Beh
2nd Banana 6-7-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform #RealEdTalk #p2
BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POST We, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divest from corporate education reform. | Teachers' Letters to Bill GatesWe, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divest from corporate education reform. | Teachers' Letters to Bill Gates: We, the undersigned, demand the Bill and Melinda Gates
6-7-14 With A Brooklyn Accent:
With A Brooklyn Accent: Notorious Phd on the New Orleans Charter DistrictIt started under Bush,But Duncan Loved It,The City of New Orleans,Told teachers to shove it,When Katrina struck,They brought charters in,With TFA to staff them,Saying students would win,But 9 years later,The schools may be worse,What looked like progress,Is just the reverse.A privatized district,With revolving door staffWhere
Oregon Save Our Schools: Sen. Ron Wyden Doesn't Get It On Common Core
Oregon Save Our Schools: Sen. Ron Wyden Doesn't Get It On Common Core: Sen. Ron Wyden Doesn't Get It On Common CorePat Eck, an OSOS member, recently wrote to Senator Ron Wyden concerning the Common Core State Standards. Here is Wyden’s responding email which is confusing as he recognizes that many constituents have raised concerns to him, yet he continues to think Common Core and the testing to be
Morning Wink 6-7-14 AM Posts #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT #P2
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTS6-7-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All WeekJersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekSo Why Didn't the Police Ever Investigate Michelle Rhee?Remember the "amusing" story of how Michelle Rhee, in her first year of teaching in Baltimore, taped her students' mouths shut? How she tried to find the "humor" in making her se
6-7-14 Jersey Jazzman NJ Ed News Round-up Jammin' All Week
Jersey Jazzman:Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All WeekSo Why Didn't the Police Ever Investigate Michelle Rhee?Remember the "amusing" story of how Michelle Rhee, in her first year of teaching in Baltimore, taped her students' mouths shut? How she tried to find the "humor" in making her second graders bleed? Remember when Alex Russo told us, when he heard about the story: "I'm not s
6-7-13 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION:Curmudgucation WeekData-Driven DiscriminationIf you needed any more reason to be wary of the massive upsuck of student data from the education system, The Weekly Wonk offers more reason to fear our Data Overlords. Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Samuel Woolley, a pair of data wonks, have written "Decoding Discrimination in the Digital Age," a brief overview of some of the con
6-7-14 NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education
NPE News Briefs ← from The Network for Public Education:NPE News Briefsfrom The Network for Public EducationOpinion: Chancellor Should Take a Stand on Field Testing | WNYCSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña missed a crucial opportunity this week, as field tests started in schools across the city. She should have told parents and school leaders that they could choose whether to let their children part
6-7-14 THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education:THE WHOLE WEEK @ The Whole Child Blog Free Webinar: Technology Integration to Meet the Needs of the Common CoreJoin ASCD Faculty member Andrew Miller for an exciting, free webinar to learn how to integrate technology in your classroom to support students' needs and the Common Core. Monday, June 9, 2014, 3:00 p.m. eastern time Register now! In this webin
6-7-14 This Week in LA - School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD
LA School Report - What's Really Going on Inside LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District):Ca’s reduction of student suspensions leads most statesVia EdSource | By Susan Frey A report released this week by The Council of State Governments Justice Center calls on school districts across the nation to hold themselves accountable for a positive school climate as well as test scores. “Research and d
6-7-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida ALL Week
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:Scathing Purple Musings Color me purple in Florida ALL WeekRick Scott’s “Education Investment” a “Paper Tiger”The editors of the Lakeland Ledger focus on Polk County Schools woes they will experience under the education budget which Governor Rick Scott signed yesterday.
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 6-7-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetNewseum in D.C. to create free 9/11 curriculum for teachersIn an effort to teach current and future generations of young people about what happened to the United States in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Newseum in Washington D.C. will create a new interactive online curriculum that will be available for free to teachers and students everywh
6-7-14 Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership Society All Week
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog:Schooling in the Ownership SocietyMike Klonsky's SmallTalk Schooling in the Ownership SocietyBridging DifferencesQuick Review: 'Exit Strategy' Looks At A Doomed SchoolGuest blogger Susan Klonsky reviews Exit Strategy If there has been another theater piece about the impact of school closings, I haven’t heard about it. Ike Holter’s Exit Strategy at Jackalope Theater t
6-7-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekIpswich, Mass sixth grade students demand payment for taking Common Core Field TestsIn a Boston Tea Party like moment, a group of sixth-grade students from Ipswich, Massachusetts are making a stand. Like Connecticut’s public schools students, they were used as unpaid lab rats in this spring’s Common Core test of the test. Under the laws and regulations of the Unite
6-7-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum:Seattle Schools Community ForumSeattle Schools and SecurityA reader put up a letter from Queen Anne Elementary principal, David Elliott, that was written in light of yesterday's Seattle Pacific U shootings (QA Elementary is fairly close by as is Coe Elementary). Mr. Elliott calmly explains what they did once the event became known to this (and this happened as scho
6-7-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: Ed Notes OnlineFred Smith Calls Farina on Field Test Waste of Learning TimeFrom Schoolbook. Go Fred. No time now but I will add to this later about the Bronx teacher who was fired years ago because 4 of his 8th grade classes refused to take the field tests. Search ed notes for Doug Avella if interested. I've been too busy with the contract stuff so have neglected the great work Fr
6-7-14 Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherTen minute drawing. Rahm’s city of lights.by Fred Klonsky / 12min Keeping retirement weird. The kids play their ukes with the old guy. The west end of the parking lot of the huge old Harrison High School in Little Village was fil
6-7-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekZephyr Teachout Wants To Make Testing/Teacher Evaluation Protest A Centerpiece Of An Anti-Cuomo CampaignJummy Vielkind at Capital NY:ALBANY—Zephyr Teachout says it will be at least another week before she decides whether to mount a left-flank challenge to Governor Andrew Cuomo. “My decision is based on whether I can put together the resources to mou
6-7-14 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 Death to Common Core! Long Live Failed Education Policy!From the beginning of the call for and debate about Common Core, I have taken a clear stand against the promise of standards-based reform; for example, Why Common Standards Won’t Work: A call for national standards ensures that w
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 6-7-14
4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT New Orleans Rebuilds Education System With Charter Schoolsfrom the PBS NewsHour |http://to.pbs.org/1kKIFb1 June 5, 2014 at 6:29 PM EDT :: On September, New Orleans will be the country’s first all-charter school district. The evolution was accelerated after Hurricane Katrina, when state officials and others s
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Week… 6-7-14 …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EF
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFLLARRY FERLAZZO’S WEBSITES OF THE DAYThe Best Social Studies Sites Of 2014 — So FarHere’s one more in my series of mid-year “Best” lists (you can see all 1,300 of the lists here). You might also be interested in these previous posts: The “All-Time” Best Social Studies Sites The Best Social Studies Sites Of 2013 – Part Two The
This Week's Education Research Report 5-31-14 #SOSCHAT #EDCHAT #P2
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK'S EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORTInteractive teaching methods help students master tricky calculusThe key to helping students learn complicated math is to understand how to apply it to new ideas and make learning more interactive, according to a new study by UBC researchers. Pre-class assignments, small group discussions and clicker quizzes improve students’ ability to
6-7-14 Schools Matter All Week
Schools Matter: Schools Matter All WeekArne and the summer slidePosted on: http://stateimpact.npr.org/ohio/2014/06/05/the-impact-of-the-summer-slide/ Arne Duncan has suggested that year-round school is the solution to the summer slide. Thanks to the common core, year-round school will make things worse. Research tells us that those living in poverty have the least access to books. Students livin
All Week 6-7-14 @ THE CHALK FACE
@ THE CHALK FACE : All Week @ THE CHALK FACE Dr. Krashen’s Solutions Work! Preempt “summer learning loss” by addressing poverty, and ensuring access to books!Providing more access to interesting reading material by investing in public libraries and librarians is an excellent way to deal with summer learning loss. — Dr. Stephen D. Krashen Let’s talk about serendipity. This morning at teacher sent m
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 6-7-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGGeorge Joseph: Exposé of Trafficking in TeachersThis is an amazing story, written by investigative reporter George Joseph. It seems there are recruitment agencies that go to other nations, the Philippines especially, hire good teachers, charge outrageous placement fees, and send them to work in American schools. He writes
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James Baldwin said it best: "For these are all our children, and we will profit by or pay for whatever they become."A BIG EDUCATION APE NITE CAPWe Don’t Have Time To Wait For Schools to Improve. But Real Change Happens Slowly. And There Are No Cookie-Cutter Solutions. | Gatsby In L.A.We Don’t Have Time To Wait For Schools to Improve. But Real Change Happens Slowly. And There Are No Cooki
