6-8-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL:

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

I’ve started a somewhat regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention: ELLs Test-Drive New English-Language Proficiency Assessments is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The “Next Generation” Of State Testing. Multilingual or not, infants learn words best wh

by Larry Ferlazzo / 4h 

This Week’s Useful Posts & Articles On Education Policy Issues

Here are some recent posts and articles on educational policy issues: How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution is from The Washington Post. It’s long and important, and I’m adding it to A Collection Of My “Best” Lists On The Common Core. New teachers union chief is unapologetically adversarial is from The Boston Globe. It looks like some interesting stuff is going to be happenin

by Larry Ferlazzo / 7min 

Two Very Different Videos About “Walking In Someone Else’s Shoes”

Here are two very different videos I’m adding to The Best Sites For Walking In Someone Else’s Shoes: Here’s a video from the view of a Polar Bear. You can read more about it here:

by Larry Ferlazzo / 56min 

New Student Motivation, Engagement & SEL Resources

Our school year will be over in four days and, after a brief rest, it will be time for me to complete the third volume in my student motivation “trilogy” that should be published early next year by Routledge. It’s tentatively titled Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies for Teaching Resilience, Respect, and Responsibility (I’ve got to get that done by the end of the summer s

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June’s Infographics & Interactives Galore – Part One

There are just so many good infographics and interactives out there that I’ve begun a new semi-regular feature called “Infographics & Interactives Galore.” You can see others at A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Infographics and by searching “infographics” on this blog. I’ll still be publishing separate posts to individually highlight especially useful infographics and interactives, but you

by Larry Ferlazzo / 18min 

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

by mike simpson / 9h 

6-8-14 @ THE CHALK FACE

@ THE CHALK FACE:

To Jindal: Dump Common Core, PARCC, and White

Governor Bobby Jindal is apparently trying to muster up the courage to remove Louisiana from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and associated Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC) assessments that he signed Louisiana on for in the first place. Of course, Jindal has changed his position due to his national political ambitions. […]

4 by deutsch29 / 2h 

The well-meaning liberals of the world aren’t going to like the front page of the Washington Post

How Bill Gates bought us the Common Core. Thank you, and it wasn’t even my birthday. As a matter of fact, our right-wing brothers and sisters might not like this either since they believe this is a massive communist conspiracy. I’m also doubting, however, that many teachers know about this. I either hear glowing endorsements […]

7 by Shaun Johnson / 45min 

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

by mike simpson / 9h 

6-8-14 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):

Maxine Greene and the “Frozen Sea Inside of Us”

The image of Franz Kafka that captures most clearly Kafkan for me is the one of Kafka himself coming to consciousness in the morning, numbed from the waist down after sitting in one spot writing all night. He, of course, was lost in his text in a way that is something like dreaming—a hybrid of consciousness and unconsciousness. The text of Kafka that speaks most directly about Kafka for me is his

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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

by mike simpson / 9h 

Answer Sheet 6-8-14

Answer Sheet:

Did Bill Gates fund an ‘educational coup’?

My Post colleague Lyndsey Layton has written an illuminating story about the role Bill Gates and his money played in the Common Core State Standards initiative and its adoption by 45 states and the District of Columbia. In great detail, she explains how on one summer day in 2008, two men — Gene Wilhoit, then-director of […]

by Valerie Strauss / 10min 

‘Sweat shop’ kindergarten: ‘It’s maddening’

Last week I published some kindergarten schedules from school district Web sites that showed just how much kindergarten has changed in recent years as the drive to push curriculum down through the grades has gathered steam. Rather than learn through structured play, which is how experts say young children learn best, 5- and 6-year-olds are […]

by Valerie Strauss / 12min 

Just ask the teachers

One of the central features of corporate school reform is that those driving it haven’t bothered to seriously ask teachers to offer their solutions to improving public education. Meg White, an assistant professor in the School of Education at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, looks at this omission in the following post.   […]

by Valerie Strauss / 30min 

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

by mike simpson / 9h

6-8-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter:

KIPP LA Schools Receive Junk Rating from Standard & Poor's

Hmm.

by Jim Horn / 1min 

Bill Gates Steps from Behind the Curtain in Hopes of Saving Common Core

The Gates Foundation has provided Lindsay Layton of the Washington Post a story that is intended put a band-aid on the bleeding out of the Common Core Standards.  It's worth reading for an appreciation of how desperate Gates is to save his billion dollar baby from going down the drain, like his other self-serving educational thought disorders.With access to Gates and a bit of polished skullduggery

by Jim Horn / 6min 

Chicago Teacher Adam Heehan On How Common Core Threatens Good Teaching

from Chicago SunTimes:I teach Financial Literacy as a semester-long social studies course in a Chicago public high school. This quarter we focused on professional skills. My students must find living arrangements on a fixed salary, then explain their plan to the class.Students must calculate their biweekly net pay (based on last quarter’s grades, e.g. an “A” earns you $42,000 a year), and living e

by Jim Horn / 10min 

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

by mike simpson / 9h 

LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 6-8-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all:

Philadelphia: Celebrate The Notebook June 10

The Notebook is a reliable source for honest, balanced journalism in Philadelphia. If you are in the area, please celebrate its 20th anniversary, as well as its tribute to local high school journalists. Please reserve your spot for the Notebook’s annual Turning the Page for Change celebration on Tuesday, June 10, 2014, from 4:30 – 7 p.m. at the University of The Arts, Hamilton Hall, 320 S. Broad S

by dianeravitch / 24min 

Anthony Cody Disagrees with Randi and Linda

Anthony Cody does not agree with Randi Weingarten and Linda Darling-Hammond. They recently published an article saying that California would be a model for the success of Common Core, because the new tests would be used to help schools, not to close them or to evaluate educators. Cody posts a video from the Common Core website. Here is the script: “Like it or not, life is full of measuring stick

3 by dianeravitch / 14min 

Is Louisiana Superintendent John White Doing a Good Job?

Vote here: http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2014/06/education_supt_john_white_how.html#comments

by dianeravitch / 2min 

Friedman Foundation Disagrees with Peter Greene

The Friedman Foundation, which has been porting vouchers and the dissolution of traditional public schools for many years, here disagrees with Peter Greene’s critique of school choice. The foundation’s namesake, Milton Friedman, began advocating for vouchers in 1955. The idea didn’t gain any traction until 1990, when Milwaukee adopted a voucher program. Today, Milwaukee is one of the nation’s lowe

by dianeravitch / 0min 

Peter Greene: Why School Choice Is UnAmerican

Peter Greene maintains that advocates of school choice have sold us a pig in a poke. Or maybe they put lipstick on a pig. Whatever. He says that school choice is unAmerican. The goal of school choice is to turn us into consumers whose only interest is the welfare of our own child. But, he says, we all have an interest in the well-being of public schools, even if we don’t have children. Not only t

1 by dianeravitch / 9min 

Peter Greene: Why Conservatives Should Oppose School Choice

Peter Greene says that there are at least four good reasons why conservatives hold oppose school choice. Before I tell you what his four reasons are, I will tell you that there are even more reasons for conservatives to support public schools. Conservatives generally are not radicals or anarchists; they typically “conserve” traditional institutions, not blow hem up and start over. Conservatives us

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The Inside Story of How Bill Gates Bought the Common Core Standards

In a remarkable job of reporting, Lyndsey Layton of the Washington Post describes the creation of the Common Core standards. Two men–Gene Wilhoit and David Coleman–went to see Bill Gates in 2008 to ask him to underwrite national standards. He agreed, and within two years, the standards were written and adopted by almost every state in the nation. This is the closest thing to an educational coup i

70 by dianeravitch / 2h 

YESTERDAY

Breaking News: Alabama Judge Overturns Law Giving Public Funds to Private Schools

A circuit court judge in Alabama ruled that a law to give public dollars to private schools is unconstitutional. “A program that pro-public education activists have called a throwback to the 1950s–a time when Alabama tried avoiding integration by directing public school funds to private schools–has been ruled unconstitutional by a Montgomery County circuit court judge. “The Alabama Accountability

70 by dianeravitch / 9h 

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

by mike simpson / 9h 

6-8-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:

PEP Report: Teachers, Parents Make Demands on Farina; ATRs, Etc To Hold Rally at Tweed, Tues., June 10, 4:30PM

Just back from the gym and heading back outside soon. The last 2 days of wake, our anniversary, and a day of funeral have been crazy and tough. I'll try to blog about these remarkable 2 days if I can get it together. But first, back to business at hand.Lots going on.Below is the report from Lydia Howrilka, who was discontinued in her first year by an abusive principal who picked on the wrong perso

by ed notes online / 34min 

Video: Sean Ahern at the PEP on Diversity

by ed notes online / 1h 

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

by mike simpson / 9h