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
PAMEST 2014 Nominees - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education)
PAMEST 2014 Nominees - Year 2014 (CA Dept of Education): State Schools Chief Tom Torlakson Announces 2014 State Finalists for Prestigious National Teaching AwardSACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson today nominated six outstanding elementary school teachers as California finalists for the 2014 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAE
We Must Agree That We Need SPED Services—Even For High Functioning Students!
We Must Agree That We Need SPED Services—Even For High Functioning Students!: We Must Agree That We Need SPED Services—Even For High Functioning Students!JULY 22, 2014 BY NANCY BAILEY LEAVE A COMMENTThis past week has seen a flurry of special education talk surrounding the new goals of the Obama administration’s quest to toughen standards and make students—and they don’t specify which students, so
OTL Allies Named to NYC Community Schools Advisory Board | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity
OTL Allies Named to NYC Community Schools Advisory Board | National Opportunity to Learn Campaign | Education Reform for Equity and Opportunity: OTL Allies Named to NYC Community Schools Advisory BoardPosted on: Tuesday July 22nd, 2014Zakiyah Ansari (left) of the Alliance for QualityEducation and Ocynthia Williams of United Parents ofHighbridgewere named to the Community Schools Advisory Baord.Las
Why would anyone have remained a teacher when… ? | Reclaim Reform
Why would anyone have remained a teacher when… ? | Reclaim Reform: Why would anyone have remained a teacher when… ?Posted on July 22, 2014by Ken PrevitiDear Everyone,Not long after I began teaching Language Arts at the high school level in a Chicago suburb, I underwent very serious surgery that was unexpected. When I returned to the classroom, I was still healing and would be for many months to co
John Thompson: Oklahoma's Chief for Change Barresi in Trouble With Voters - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
John Thompson: Oklahoma's Chief for Change Barresi in Trouble With Voters - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher: John Thompson: Oklahoma's Chief for Change Barresi in Trouble With VotersBy Anthony Cody on July 22, 2014 10:15 AMGuest post by John Thompson. When I attended last year's Oklahoma Department of Education Vision 2020 annual conference, I put on a brave face, suggesting we were en
‘Say this, not that’: A slick PR guide selling charter schools preferred lies - The Washington Post
‘Say this, not that’: A slick PR guide to selling charter schools by key charter group - The Washington Post: ‘Say this, not that’: A slick PR guide to selling charter schools by key charter groupBy Valerie Strauss July 22 at 2:10 PM It appears as if the charter school sector believes that it needs to better hone its public messaging. At its recent annual convention, the National Alliance for Pub
This is Why Parents Are Not Invited to the Ed Reform Table. They Just Don’t Have the ‘Right’ Credentials. | Missouri Education Watchdog
This is Why Parents Are Not Invited to the Ed Reform Table. They Just Don’t Have the ‘Right’ Credentials. | Missouri Education Watchdog: This is Why Parents Are Not Invited to the Ed Reform Table. They Just Don’t Have the ‘Right’ Credentials.inShareThe closed fraternity of education reformersAndrew Ferguson writes in The Weekly Standard about the history and players in the education reform movemen
2014 LATINO STUDENT REALITY AT LAUSD- ABSENT IN ESPARZA & OLMOS' 2006 FILM "WALKOUT" - Perdaily.com
2014 LATINO STUDENT REALITY AT LAUSD- ABSENT IN ESPARZA & OLMOS' 2006 FILM "WALKOUT" - Perdaily.com: 2014 LATINO STUDENT REALITY AT LAUSD- ABSENT IN ESPARZA & OLMOS' 2006 FILM "WALKOUT"(Mensaje se repite en Espaรฑol)It seems that the motto of today's news is: If it doesn't make the reader feel good or shows our leadership and their allies in a bad light, it doesn't exist
7-21-14 The Whole Child Blog — Free Webinar: Digital Learning Strategies with Mike Fisher
The Whole Child Blog — Whole Child Education: Free Webinar: Digital Learning Strategies with Mike FisherJoin Mike Fisher, author of the ASCD Arias Digital Learning Strategies: How do I assign and assess 21st century work?, for an exciting, free webinar to explore six questions for deciding whether or not to digitize your instructional strategies, processes, or products. Thursday, July 31, 2014, 3:
Follow Your Heart | WagTheDog
Follow Your Heart | WagTheDog: Follow Your Heart Excerpts from Jim Carrey’s 20014 Commencement Speech at M.U.“Fear is going to be a player in life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what’s happening here, and the decisions that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or
7-22-14 Seattle Schools Community Forum Week
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Tuesday Open ThreadThe 2014 Band Jam event will take place at 6:30 pm this Friday July 25, 2014 at the Southwest Athletic Complex – 2601 SW Thistle St. (across the street from Chief Sealth International High School.)Band Jam is an annual band showcase intended to highlight what we all know to be the best part of the summer parade season – the bands. In addition to
7-22-14 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): Morning Read: New political action committee joins board raceMorning Read: New political action committee joins board race New political action committee forms in L.A. school board race A new political action committee has formed to influence the outcome of Los Angeles school board races, filling a gap cr
CPS Budget lies and budget liars - Substance News
Budget lies and budget liars - Substance News: BUDGET LIES AND LIARS -- That three quarters of a billion dollars that Rahm's people 'cut' from the CPS 'administrative' budget? David Vitale could tell you that it never existed -- if he checked his notes from 2006. Reminder -- If you're going to tell a lie, tell a whopper and repeat endlessly...George N. Schmidt - July 20, 2014Eight years ago, as th
New political action committee forms in L.A. school board race - LA Times
New political action committee forms in L.A. school board race - LA Times: New political action committee forms in L.A. school board raceA new political action committee has formed to influence the outcome of Los Angeles school board races, filling a gap created when a group of civic leaders, which includes former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, decided to sit out next month's key upcoming election.Th
Twenty-fifth Edition of KIDS COUNT Data Book Highlights Improvements Since 1990 - The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Twenty-fifth Edition of KIDS COUNT Data Book Highlights Improvements Since 1990 - The Annie E. Casey Foundation: Twenty-fifth Edition of KIDS COUNT Data Book Highlights Improvements Since 1990POSTED JULY 22, 2014, BY THE ANNIE E. CASEY FOUNDATIONSHARE VIA: National, State Policy Changes Have Resulted in Positive Changes for Children, but More are Living in High-Poverty Neighborhoods and in Single-
Morning Wink 7-22-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform
BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK AM POSTSImitating white privilege: Why our public schools don’t look like the public | The Hechinger ReportImitating white privilege: Why our public schools don’t look like the public | The Hechinger Report: Imitating white privilege: Why our public schools don’t look like the publicBy Andre Perry“Why can’t New Orleans have a charter school for middle class blacks
Imitating white privilege: Why our public schools don’t look like the public | The Hechinger Report
Imitating white privilege: Why our public schools don’t look like the public | The Hechinger Report: Imitating white privilege: Why our public schools don’t look like the publicBy Andre Perry“Why can’t New Orleans have a charter school for middle class blacks?” A black physician and parent of a teenage daughter unashamedly asked me this question as we deboarded a first class cabin from our flight
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 7-22-14 Diane Ravitch's blog #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Nevada Teacher to Senator Harry Reid: We Need Your Help!Angie Sullivan is a teacher-warrior who never gives up the fight for quality education in Nevada. She wants qualified teachers and adequate funding. She won’t back down. She wrote this letter to Senator Harry Reid: “@TeachForAmerica: “You’ve done so much to help our country.”
7-22-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Lee Sustar on #AFT14 Convention: Lots of Tough Talk - But Watch What They Do....to Randi Weingarten, "fighting forward" apparently means embracing the New York contract as a template for the entire union. The supposed benefits of the deal were hammered home throughout the convention. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose administration negotiated the agreement, spoke
7-22-14 Fred 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.: NBC’s Erin Carlson: “Karen Lewis for Eva Peron.” No. Madonna for Eva Peron. Lewis for mayor.“Lewis has been an Eva Peron-style champion for teachers facing layoffs, school closures and the loss of their pensions (along with police and fire unions).” NBC’s Erin Carlson. Ah. Chicago journalism. Here’s t
7-22-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: Seven Good “Reads” On Ed Tech© 2010 Brad Flickinger, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are several recent good pieces related to educational technology: 10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Google Docs is from Edudemic. Will Computers Ever Replace Teachers? appeared in The New Yorker. 3 Reasons Why Chromebook Be
7-22-14 Wait What? - Jonathan Pelto: Gubernatorial Candidate and A Really Nice Guy
Wait What?: Wait What? The Beginning of the end for the Charter School Industry in ConnecticutGovernor Dannel “Dan” Malloy ushered in the Charter School Industry to Connecticut as part of his corporate education reform initiative in 2012. As part of his “education reforms,” Malloy become the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure and repealing collective
7-22-14 Answer Sheet
Answer Sheet: Educator: The many reasons ‘I am ashamed to be part of the system’Back in May I published a post by a veteran elementary school teacher named Ralph Ratto with this headline: ‘Today was the first day I was ever ashamed to be a teacher.’ What prompted him to write it was his experience administering controversial new Common Core-aligned standardized tests to his students in New York. I
7-21-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: UninformedTo the editor: Antonio Villaraigosa asks"Why are teachers unions so opposed to change?"(July 21). I would like to know why Mr. Villaraigosa is so opposed to learning the facts about American schools and the Common Core. Villaraigosa claims that American students do poorly compared to students in other countries on international tests and that the Common Core wil
7-22-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Four Reasons Why I Am Pumped Up About the BATS March on Washington
With A Brooklyn Accent: Four Reasons Why I Am Pumped Up About the BATS March on Washington1. It is a celebration of the creativity of public school teachers, parents and students as well as a protest with songs, plays, flash mobs, banners, poems and chants. What it is NOT, is a litany of boring speeches.2. It is a multiracial event which show cases our movement's growing strength in the inner city
7-22-14 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION: The Hole in the Bucket of TeachersMany news outlets reported on a study from the Alliance for Excellent Education, which as you might guess from the buzzy name, is a DC based advocacy group that thinks CCSS is swell and aspires to have all students graduate with 21st century skills. Also, rigor.What does the study say? The study focuses on the attrition rate for teachers, and didn'
7-22-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Teachout And Astorino Make Joint Appearance To Hammer Cuomo On His Lack Of EthicsNick Reisman at State of Politics:Astorino, meanwhile, due to make a joint appearance with Zephyr Teachout this morning at the Tweed Courthouse — an eyebrow raising event that could garner both campaigns more attention during a relatively slow summer.Teachout, a Fordham law professor, is challen
GUEST: Ripoff “colleges”: Crushing debt and subprime education | Bob Braun's Ledger
GUEST: Ripoff “colleges”: Crushing debt and subprime education | Bob Braun's Ledger: GUEST: Ripoff “colleges”: Crushing debt and subprime educationPoliticians rain our money on ripoff schoolsBY LINDA STAMATOWe have been using public money to prop up private, for-profit colleges, while their students acquire crushing debt and questionable credentials. And, more than half of the students default o
UARK Study Shamelessly (& Knowingly) Uses Bogus Measures to Make Charter Productivity Claims | School Finance 101
UARK Study Shamelessly (& Knowingly) Uses Bogus Measures to Make Charter Productivity Claims | School Finance 101: School Finance 101Data and thoughts on public and private school funding in the U.S.UARK Study Shamelessly (& Knowingly) Uses Bogus Measures to Make Charter Productivity ClaimsPosted on July 22, 2014 Rate ThisAny good study of the relative productivity and efficiency of c
On Charter Schools, Say This, Not That | EduShyster
On Charter Schools, Say This, Not That | EduShyster: On Charter Schools, Say This, Not ThatA new guide to charter messaging urges advocates to steer clear of corporate speakOnce every four minutes, a passionate charter advocate accidentally lapses into the kind of clinical corporate speak that can leave listeners cold—not to mention kids out of the equation. Would that there were a way to remedy t
SKrashen: Uninformed
SKrashen: Uninformed: UninformedSent to the Wall Street Journal, July 21Antonio Villaraigosa asks"Why are teachers unions so opposed to change?"(July 21). I would like to know why Mr. Villaraigosa is so opposed to learning the facts about American schools and the Common Core. Villaraigosa claims that American students do poorly compared to students in other countries on international tes
When Districts Create Selective High Schools, Students Segregate by Ability. Duh? | janresseger
When Districts Create Selective High Schools, Students Segregate by Ability. Duh? | janresseger: When Districts Create Selective High Schools, Students Segregate by Ability. Duh?Posted on July 22, 2014 by janressegerThe Hechinger Report and WBEZ Chicago just published a welcome expose by reporter Linda Lutton that confirms the obvious. When you have school choice and when some high schools are co
In a Year, Child Protective Services Checked Up On 3.2 Million Children - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
In a Year, Child Protective Services Checked Up On 3.2 Million Children - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic: In a Year, Child Protective Services Checked Up On 3.2 Million Children2.5 million of those kids were declared 'non-victims.' Another 686,000 were 'abused' or 'neglected.' And an estimated 1,640 kids died as a result. The stories of Debra Harrell, the working mother who was arrested for let
RACE COURSE: The Ancor of Race | Bill Ayers
RACE COURSE: The Ancor of Race | Bill Ayers:RACE COURSE: The Ancor of RaceThe recurrent U.S. story—dominant, habitual, profoundly functional—is a tale of democracy and freedom, uplift and forward motion, perpetual improvement and never-ending progress. It echoes in our consciousness until it achieves the exalted status of a truth beyond doubt, a plain American fact: “America is the greatest countr
Q&A: UC Berkeley prof on teacher collaboration and the future of LA schools | 89.3 KPCC
Q&A: UC Berkeley prof on teacher collaboration and the future of LA schools | 89.3 KPCC: Q&A: UC Berkeley prof on teacher collaboration and the future of LA schoolsTeachers in charter and pilot Los Angeles public schools collaborate with and trust each other significantly more than teachers in L.A. Unified's traditional large public high schools, according to a new report from University o
NYC Educator: Pay Up, Mayor de Blasio
NYC Educator: Pay Up, Mayor de Blasio: Pay Up, Mayor de BlasioTo my mind, the worst thing about the 2005 UFT Contract was giving up seniority transfers and the UFT transfer plan so that veteran teachers could become ATR teachers. Rendering them week to week wandering subs a few years back made that even worse. And the cherry on that cake was giving them second-tier due process rights, the very wor
Trib Talk: Chatting with Lily | Lily's Blackboard
Trib Talk: Chatting with Lily | Lily's Blackboard: Trib Talk: Chatting with LilyJul 22nd, 2014by Lily.Lily Eskelsen Garcรญa joined Jennifer Napier-Pearce to talk about high-stakes testing, class sizes, immigration and other lessons she learned in Utah classrooms.Watch the conversation here:
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Report: Higher education behind on Common Core | The Hechinger Report
Report: Higher education behind on Common Core | The Hechinger Report: Report: Higher education behind on Common CoreIt says universities and colleges aren’t ready for new standardsBy Jon MarcusAmerica’s primary and secondary schools may be busy preparing for the onset of the Common Core standards, meant to better prepare students for college, but one key partner isn’t even close to ready: college
Initiatives you won’t see on November ballot | EdSource
Initiatives you won’t see on November ballot | EdSource: Initiatives you won’t see on November ballotJuly 21, 2014 | By John Fensterwald | No CommentsEarlier this year, the secretary of state’s office gave sponsors of six proposed education-related ballot measures the go-ahead to collect the 505,000 signatures each needed to appear on the November ballot. None qualified.Those that fell by the wa
A July 21, 2014, Update on Common Core, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced | deutsch29
A July 21, 2014, Update on Common Core, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced | deutsch29: A July 21, 2014, Update on Common Core, PARCC, and Smarter BalancedJuly 21, 2014On Sunday, July 20, 2014, I took the day off from writing. No book editing; no blogging.I think I have done so only for one other day since May.Instead, I read a book for the sheer enjoyment of reading. I chose my all-time favorite, a work
The Delusions Within Campbell Brown's Mind southbronxschool
http://www.southbronxschool.com: The Delusions Within Campbell Brown's MindEveryone's favorite ed deformer, Campbell Brown is back in the Daily News todaysharing her thoughts on the op-ed pages. This time she is attempting a new tact, claiming she is not attacking teachers at all but rather tenure. Yeah, sure. Let's have a looksee.Campbell blabbers; The tenacious New York parents who are challengi
Nite Cap 7-21-14 #BATsACT #RealEdTalk #EDCHAT
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 CAPTea Party support linked to educational segregation, new study shows - Jonathan KantrowitzTea Party support linked to educational segregation, new study shows - Jonathan Kantrowitz: Tea Party support linked to educational segregation, new study s
in Mather. He has been teaching for 12 years, including four years in his current position. He achieved National Board Certification in 2007. In March 2014, he spoke to members of the U.S. Congress on behalf of the National Board "advocating for increased concentration of certified teachers and mirroring the medical residency model in teacher prep." He also serves as vice-chair of the California Teacher Advisory Council. He was a California PAEMST finalist in 2012. The topic he chose to teach in his lesson as part of his application was that of the fundamental mathematics concept "base-ten place value." Mr. Kotko has a Bachelor of Science in physics from California State University, Sacramento.
