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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-21-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit: The Debate Over Common CoreCBS News Sunday Morning |  http://cbsn.ws/Z503yF ​ The curriculum for boosting K-12 students' academic performance has drawn critics on both sides of the political divide. CBS News September 21, 2014, 9:35 AM  ::  The core issue in education this brand new school year revolves around something called the Common Core. It's a pr

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-21-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Laura H. Chapman: When Economic Language Corrupts Educational PracticeMany years ago, I first heard the term “semantic infiltration.” It was used to refer to the way that words, when used often enough, can become reality, even when we don’t agree with the “reality.” LauraChapman describes the way that technocratic language has corr

by mike simpson / 10min 

Math Teaching–Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Math Teaching–Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Math Teaching–CartoonsFor the monthly feature of cartoons, I have found that the cartoonist’s pen spared no ink on popular attitudes toward math and how it is taught in schools.  Enjoy! see more @ Math Teaching–Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

by mike simpson / 12min 

9-21-14 Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… | …For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL: “‘The Marshmallow Test’: An Interview With Walter Mischel”‘The Marshmallow Test’: An Interview With Walter Mischel is my latest post at Education Week Teacher. I interview Walter Mischel, the creator of the famous Marshmallow Test to measure self-control and its long-term effects. Here are some excerpts: I’m adding it to Th

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9-21-14 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.: Darwin’s Mr. P would like some ukes for his kids.About a year ago my friend, attorney and musician Matt Farmer wrote a piece for Huffington Post about Darwin Elementary School’s music teacher, Joe Panganiban. He is known as Mr. P. Darwin is my neighborhood school, three blocks away. One of my daughter

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9-21-14 Schools Matter All Week

Schools Matter: Paying Off Time on the Lazy River with Lives on the Corporate TreadmillThe New York Times has a piece today about the latest in the recreational arms race at the second and third tier colleges that are educating the next generation of America's corporate drones.  It's called the Lazy River, which allows students to totally relax between fraternity/sorority parties and football week

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40 + A request in the form of a very different diary by teacherken

40: 40byteacherkenFollow    14 Comments / 14 NewA number with meaning today.It was a Saturday then, today it is a Sunday.It was late afternoon, September 21, 1974.  I was at the Bryn Mawr train station, heading into Philadelphia for a friend's party.I knew her slightly, she walked past me without acknowledging me so I called after her.She came back and we chatted.  She was coming from visiting her

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9-21-14 With A Brooklyn Accent: Educational Malpractice and the Tragedy of America's Teachers

With A Brooklyn Accent: Educational Malpractice and the Tragedy of America's TeachersSomeday, though I don't exactly know when or how, there will be a full account of the tragedy of America's teachers being forced to commit educational malpractice and deciding between keeping the jobs they need to feed their families and jeopardizing the educational well being and emotional health of the children

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9-21-14 Curmudgucation - Running a Business with No Employees

CURMUDGUCATION: Running a Business with No EmployeesThis week New York magazine profiled a new type of business, and while it has nothing to do with teaching, it's a business model that those of us who work in the ed biz should pay attention to.Modern business leaders in America face what seems to them to be a dreadful problem-- employees who want to be paid. Earlier this week, I was involved in a

by mike simpson / 26min 

empathyeducates – The Euphemism of Spanking (Hint: It’s Actually Assault)

empathyeducates – The Euphemism of Spanking (Hint: It’s Actually Assault): The Euphemism of Spanking (Hint: It’s Actually Assault)Illustration Copyright Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis/AP ImagesBy Chocolate, Pomp, And Circumstance | Originally Published at Chocolate, Pomp, and Circumstances . September 14, 2014Imagine: You’re at work. You’re scrolling through Facebook or playing Candy Crush instead of p

by mike simpson / 34min 

NYC Educator: Rolling With the Punches in an Age of Educational Deformity

NYC Educator: Rolling With the Punches in an Age of Educational Deformity: Rolling With the Punches in an Age of Educational DeformityFor those teachers who think that there once was a golden past of teaching before the era education deformity, let me assure you, you are right.  I had the privilege to teach for a full ten years before the deformity struck.  While things still seemed good, we tight

by mike simpson / 36min 

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The Mis-Education Campaign of the Climate Change Deniers

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The Mis-Education Campaign of the Climate Change Deniers: The Mis-Education Campaign of the Climate Change DeniersToday’s big People’s Climate Marches in New York City and 150 countries around the world, mark a new stage in the fight to save the planet from what Naomi Klein calls"the raw terror of ecocide." One of the greatest challenges faced by the m

by mike simpson / 40min 

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Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog 9-20-14

Ms. Jablonski's Class Blog: Strong Mayor Proposal for Sacramento: Debate on MondayStudents in periods 3 and 4, here is an opportunity for political participation credit by learning more about the controversial November ballot proposal backed by mayor Kevin Johnson to change city governance into what's commonly known as a "strong mayor" system. Details:The Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Assoc

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Evening Saturday morning reflection on teaching

Evening Saturday morning reflection on teaching: Evening Saturday morning reflection on teachingbyteacherkenFollow    9 Comments / 9 NewYes I know my title is somewhat contradictory, but I had too much else that had to be done this morning in order to draft one of my periodic reflections upon what it means to be a teacher, so I offer it to those who might be interested as the sky around me has tur

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solidaridad: Don't let Marshall Tuck rob California students of their own identities and dignity!

solidaridad: Don't let Marshall Tuck rob California students of their own identities and dignity!: Don't let Marshall Tuck rob California students of their own identities and dignity!All three of these individuals used their positions of power over school children of color to shut down Ethnic Studies Programs, close Heritage Language Programs, and shutter Dual Language Immersion Programs. In some

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Nite Cap 9-20-14 #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 CAPBETRAYAL, Part 2 | Bob Braun's LedgerBETRAYAL, Part 2 | Bob Braun's Ledger: BETRAYAL, Part 2 N JEA President Wendell SteinhauerThere was hope in the spring. In March and  April when the anti-privatization forces took to the streets, even in Trent

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BETRAYAL, Part 2 | Bob Braun's Ledger

BETRAYAL, Part 2 | Bob Braun's Ledger: BETRAYAL, Part 2 N JEA President Wendell SteinhauerThere was hope in the spring. In March and  April when the anti-privatization forces took to the streets, even in Trenton, and Wendell Steinhauer, the president of the 200,000-member New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) declared Newark’s fight was the fight of everyone who wanted to save public education.

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Coop’s Youth Part 4 – Not Quite a Girlfriend | Lefty Parent

Coop’s Youth Part 4 – Not Quite a Girlfriend | Lefty Parent: Coop’s Youth Part 4 – Not Quite a GirlfriendSeptember 20th, 2014 at 16:07Second semester of eighth grade started in late January of 1968, along with Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on U.S. television and the Tet offensive in Vietnam. My mom worried about an endless U.S. involvement in that war that might eventually lead to me being drafted

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Choosing Democracy: This important election - California

Choosing Democracy: This important election - California: This important election - California 

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Marie Corfield: NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia has no time to be diplomatic – Part II

Marie Corfield: NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia has no time to be diplomatic – Part II: NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia has no time to be diplomatic – Part IIPart I of this series on the round table discussion between NEA President Lily Eskelsen Garcia and NJ education bloggers and activists focused on the devastating effects of high-stakes testing on special needs children, and how edu-pren

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What's the Matter With Music Students Today? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

What's the Matter With Music Students Today? - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher: What's the Matter With Music Students Today?By Nancy Flanagan on September 20, 2014 4:41 PMEarlier this week, I was invited to be part of a panel discussion at a gathering of the Oakland County (MI) School Boards Association. The topic was education politics, and my co-panelists were Steve Norton, Ex

by mike simpson / 15h 

BustED Pencils BLOG: "Effective Educators" and public schools under attack in Wisconsin

BustED Pencils BLOG: "Effective Educators" and public schools under attack in Wisconsin: "Effective Educators" and public schools under attack in WisconsinBustED Pencils - Fully Leaded Education Talk - BustED Pencils:Dear Wisconsin Politicians and Department of Public Instruction,It is now time to pronounce standards and accountability based education reform dead.  No more high

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What’s Wrong with Standards-Based Education? Let Me Count the Ways - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform

What’s Wrong with Standards-Based Education? Let Me Count the Ways - UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform: What’s Wrong with Standards-Based Education? Let Me Count the WaysBY MORNA MCDERMOTT · SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 www.educationalchemy.comWhat are standards?The word “standards” in and of itself is not a dirty word. People have standards every day– for how they will negotiat

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solidaridad: Campaign to Promote Ethnic Studies Summitt Flyer, October 18, 2014

solidaridad: Campaign to Promote Ethnic Studies Summitt Flyer, October 18, 2014: Campaign to Promote Ethnic Studies Summitt Flyer, October 18, 2014Campaign to Promote Ethnic Studies Summitt Flyer, October 18, 2014 byRobert D. SkeelsCampaign to Promote Ethnic Studies Summitt Flyer, October 18, 2014CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTEETHNIC STUDIES SUMMITSaturday, October 18, 2014 ~ 9am-5pmCSULB Anatol Conference Ce

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Watch “Disruption” here today and march on climate change tomorrow | Seattle Education

Watch “Disruption” here today and march on climate change tomorrow | Seattle Education: Watch “Disruption” here today and march on climate change tomorrowThis is about our children and generators to come.What kind of world do we want to leave for them? "DISRUPTION" - a film by KELLY NYKS & JARED P. SCOTT from Watch Disruption on Vimeo.Watch “Disruption” here today and march on climat

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2nd Banana 9-20-14 Recap of Last Week's Best Post #EDchat #EDreform

BIG EDUCATION APE 2ND BANANARECAP OF LAST WEEK'S BEST POSTTeacher Refuses, Florida DOE Responds. FAIR testing suspended statewide #Florida | Continuing ChangeTeacher Refuses, Florida DOE Responds. FAIR testing suspended statewide #Florida | Continuing Change: Teacher Refuses, Florida DOE Responds. FAIR testing suspended statewide #FloridaSeptember 15, 2014Education      Rate ThisIf you think that

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Morning Wink 9-20-14 AM Posts #edchat #edreform

BIG EDUCATION APE - MORNING WINK  AM POSTSSounding Off: Educating Bill Green on Local Control | WeArePCAPSSounding Off: Educating Bill Green on Local Control | WeArePCAPS: Sounding Off: Educating Bill Green on Local ControlPosted on September 20, 2014by wearepcapsby Ron WhitehorneIn an interview with the Inquirer’s Kristen Graham,  Bill Green, dimisses  the importance of a referendum on abolishing

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-21-14

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MORE THAN 100,000 LA SCHOOL REPAIRS BACKLOGGED: Fire safety at risk in some schools

Annie Gilbertson and Claire Withycombe with Chris Keller | KPCC 89.3 | http://bit.ly/1AZHJCu Audio from this story :|: 4:06 Listen Dan Sapia shuts off water to the fire sprinklers at Hoover Street Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified school district. His plumbing crew is often pulled from one emergency job, such as repairing this water main leak, to another, leaving little

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Lausd High School Students Improve On Math And English Exit Exams …But Still Lag Behind Rest Of State And County

By Thomas Himes, Los Angeles Daily News | http://bit.ly/ZzslRM LAUSD Superintendent Dr. John Deasy says, “We’re making great progress in preparing our sophomores and other students for graduation.” Staff file photo Posted: 09/19/14, 5:00 PM PDT | Updated: 9/2o/2014 2 MP PDT  ::  A slightly larger portion of Los Angeles Unified’s high school sophomores proved competent in math and English

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The Debate Over Common Core

CBS News Sunday Morning |  http://cbsn.ws/Z503yF ​ The curriculum for boosting K-12 students' academic performance has drawn critics on both sides of the political divide. CBS News September 21, 2014, 9:35 AM  ::  The core issue in education this brand new school year revolves around something called the Common Core. It's a prescription for teaching and grading students that's

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4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit 9-20-14

4LAKids - some of the news that doesn't fit:4LAKIDS - SOME OF THE NEWS THAT DOESN'T FIT  Lausd Gets Approval For New Maywood CampusBy Arnold Adler, Los Angeles Wave Staff Writer | http://bit.ly/1AW8eJ9 Friday, September 19, 2014 1:55 pm  ::  MAYWOOD — Plans have been completed for the Los Angeles Unified School District's new South Region High School No. 8, to be built at 5800 King Ave. The school

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 9-21-14 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

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

Connecticut: Jumoke Academy Steered over $1 Million to Executive’s Husband

Jumoke Academy, once the star charter school of Governor Malloy and State Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor, paid over $1 million to the husband of an executive for renovations, according to the Hartford Courant. “HARTFORD — The Jumoke Academy charter school organization, now facing a state probe into allegations of nepotism, directed more than a million dollars in construction work to the h

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Ohio: Does Public Property Belong to Public or to Charter Organization?

This note of alarm comes from Denis Smith, a retired consultant in the Ohio Department of Education’s charter school office:     On Tuesday, September 23, the Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments in the notorious White Hat Management case, where the boards of 10 charter schools operated by White Hat Management have sued the operator to assert their right to control the physical assets of the sch

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Ken Futernick: What California Needs Most After Vergara

Ken Futernick, a wise educator who has written about the improvement of the teaching profession for many years, has a brilliant article in the Los Angeles Times about “grand bargain” post-Vergara. Futernick testified for the state in the Vergara trial. He has long understood that schools in urban districts with low scores often have poor working conditions, inadequate resources, and high teacher t

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Washington State Should Not Lose Its NCLB Waiver

In 2001, Congress passed a law called No Child Left Behind. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush in January 2002. It is the worst federal education legislation ever passed. It required that 100% of children in grades 3-8 must be proficient by 2014 or their schools are failing and subject to harsh sanctions. In no nation in the world are 100% of children proficient. This is an impossi

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Laura H. Chapman: More on the Corruption of Education by Econometric Language

Laura H. Chapman gives more examples of the distortion and corruption of education practice amd policy by econometric language. Students are performing on grade level if their scores on a standardized test are at or above the median on a percentile scale (1-99). On a large-scale test, a score at or near the 50th percentile (the median) will usually classify a student as proficient in the skills an

by dianeravitch / 17min 

Laura H. Chapman: When Economic Language Corrupts Educational Practice

Many years ago, I first heard the term “semantic infiltration.” It was used to refer to the way that words, when used often enough, can become reality, even when we don’t agree with the “reality.” LauraChapman describes the way that technocratic language has corrupted education by inserting its language into the ways we think about children and learning. She writes: An economic concept of growth a

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The First Day of School on an Island in Maine

A friend who moved to Maine sent me this lovely post about the first day of school at the two-room Ashley Bryan school, where children from two neighboring islands join to form a tiny school. It is an exciting day for everyone, children, parents, and community members. Even Ashley Bryan, Maine artist, was there to greet the children. “It has become a tradition for parents and townspeople to gather

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Yong Zhao: Why Marc Tucker Is Wrong: The Case Against High-Stakes Testing

Marc Tucker recently published a position paper arguing that our current system of test-based accountability, testing every student every year in grades 3-8, has failed and that we need a new approach. His approach, as Anthony Cody argued, would test at transition points but would still have high stakes and would test more subjects. Tucker wrote a post criticizing Cody and me and arguing that high

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LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONG Diane Ravitch's blog 9-20-14 #thankateacher #EDCHAT #P2

Diane Ravitch's blogLISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH ALL WEEK LONGDIANE RAVITCH'S BLOGPeter Goodman Predicts that Vergara East Will Be Tossed OutPeter Goodman, long-time observer of Néw York politics, predicts that local and state politics will play a large role in the anti-tenure case that was recently filed in Staten Island. Why Staten Island? It was chosen because it is the most conservative borough in

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Math Teaching–Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

Math Teaching–Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:

Math Teaching–Cartoons

For the monthly feature of cartoons, I have found that the cartoonist’s pen spared no ink on popular attitudes toward math and how it is taught in schools.  Enjoy!

 see more @ Math Teaching–Cartoons | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: