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Teaching Tots to Twitter Instills Love of Writing: Part II Transform Teaching With Twitter - The Educator's PLN
Teaching Tots to Twitter Instills Love of Writing: Part II Transform Teaching With Twitter - The Educator's PLN: Teaching Tots to Twitter Instills Love of Writing: Part II Transform Teaching With Twitter by Ary Aranguiz If students learn to tweet in the primary grades, is it possible we may begin to see an improvement over time in students' writing skills and overall attitude toward writing? I believe Twitter, if properly implemented, can support writing and reading instruction and promote a love of writing. Twitter in the elementary classroom can be essential for establishing the... more »
Did Self-Styled 'Mr. Morality' Scott Walker Father a Love Child in 1988? | MyFDL
Did Self-Styled 'Mr. Morality' Scott Walker Father a Love Child in 1988? | MyFDL: Did Self-Styled ‘Mr. Morality’ Scott Walker Father a Love Child in 1988? by Phoenix Woman Daddy, is that you? (photo: WisPolitics.com/wikimedia) This just hit the interwebs a couple of hours ago: Bernadette Gillick was a college freshman in 1988 when she first met Scott Walker. It was spring semester, and she had just transferred to Marquette University. She was assigned a room in O’Donnell Hall (then a women’s dormitory), which she shared with her new roommate, Ruth (not her real name). Ruth was dati... more »
Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky
Sunday links. « Fred Klonsky: Sunday links. by Fred Klonsky *Rahm brings Chicago together. Chicago cop wearing CTU buttons at teacher demonstration. Photo: John Kugler.* *John Dillon’s vocabulary of the day.* Hobson’s Choice. The perception of a choice when there really isn’t one. *Diane Ravitch talks about the War on Public Education* and Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin on the Ed Show. Excuse the Wal-Mart advertisement. *Matt Farmer can do more than play a mean guitar* and give a great speech. He produced the The Electric Rebel Monkeys. *Where are the job losses?* In the public sect... more »
Why some kids can’t do homework (and what teachers should do about it) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Why some kids can’t do homework (and what teachers should do about it) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: Why some kids can’t do homework (and what teachers should do about it) By Valerie Strauss T*his was written by Kenneth Goldberg, a clinical psychologist with 35 years of professional experience working with children, adolescents and adults. Now in private practice, he served previouslsy as clinical director for a children’s resident treatment facility, director of a psychiatric day-treatment program for the chronically mentally ill, and head of a rural mental-health ce... more »
Will Orange County School Board Be Next to Pass Resolution on High Stakes Tests? | Scathing Purple Musings
Will Orange County School Board Be Next to Pass Resolution on High Stakes Tests? | Scathing Purple Musings: Will Orange County School Board Be Next to Pass Resolution on High Stakes Tests? by Bob Sikes ***WMFE* Radio reports: The Broward County School Board has become the fourth in Florida to pass a resolution opposing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test as the primary means for measuring student progress. And now, an Orange County School Board member is leading a task force that will ask state education officials to re-evaluate the FCAT next month. Rick Roach of the Orange... more »
Even as a Student Activist, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Hated Student Activism « Student Activism
Even as a Student Activist, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Hated Student Activism « Student Activism: Even as a Student Activist, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Hated Student Activism by Angus Johnston If the voters of Wisconsin throw governor Scott Walker out of office in Tuesday’s recall election, it will be in large part the work of the state’s activist students, who have been organizing against Walker since the day he took office in 2011. For Walker, this is merely the latest chapter in a fight that goes back to before most of today’s undergrads were born. Scott Walker’s car... more »
School Tech Connect: No Posting Today
School Tech Connect: No Posting Today: No Posting Today by [email protected] (Tim Furman) There's nothing like actually blogging to give you respect for the effort it takes to crank out a consistently readable blog with a clear voice, interesting subject matter, and a strong point of view. Anyone who achieves it is living a transformed-by-writing life, I assure you. I'm not there yet but I know people who are. And they know who they are. I mention this because I often see some Twitter chat about the difficulty people encounter in getting kids to blog, and I have to say this one t... more »
Mayor/King 1% Kevin Johnson raises big money outside Sacramento - Elections - The Sacramento Bee
Mayor Kevin Johnson raises big money outside Sacramento - Elections - The Sacramento Bee: Mayor King 1% Kevin Johnson raises big money outside Sacramento Share By Phillip Reese and Ryan Lillis [email protected] Published: Sunday, Jun. 3, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A Last Modified: Sunday, Jun. 3, 2012 - 12:34 am Media baron Rupert Murdoch. Television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife, Lisa. Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg. Disney CEO Robert Iger. As Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson seeks a second term in Tuesday's election, his campaign has been bolstered by large contributions f... more »
Firing Day at a Charter School | Seattle Education
Firing Day at a Charter School | Seattle Education: Firing Day at a Charter School by seattleducation2011 *I am re-posting this in full from CoLab Radio. A must read.* An image of Dany Edwards. Art by Sean Flaherty, who was also fired from this charter school on June 1, 2011. I just quit my job as a teacher in an urban charter school. Even though I still don’t have another job and I support myself entirely, it is the best decision I ever made. It is especially liberating this week while my colleagues – and after five incredibly stressful years on the education front lines, my truly ... more »
Newsflash: Bloomberg Backs Down on Social Promotion « Diane Ravitch's blog
Newsflash: Bloomberg Backs Down on Social Promotion « Diane Ravitch's blog: Newsflash: Bloomberg Backs Down on Social Promotion by dianerav The Bloomberg administration in New York City made national headlines in March 2004 when the Mayor unilaterally decided to end social promotion. He told the city’s “Panel on Educational Policy” (the successor to the once-powerful Board of Education which Bloomberg turned into a toothless group) that students should not be promoted if they scored at the lowest level on the state tests. Bloomberg controlled the eight votes on the 13-member pane... more »
Drum Roll: The Bunkum Awards « Diane Ravitch's blog
Drum Roll: The Bunkum Awards « Diane Ravitch's blog: Drum Roll: The Bunkum Awards by dianerav Just days ago, the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado announced the winners of its annual Bunkum Awards. These are awards given to the worst educational research of the previous year. Being mundane or trivial is not enough to win these awards. They go only to “prime exemplars of incompetent science.” The Grand Prize for Bunkum, or “Cancer is Under-rated” award,” went to the Progressive Policy Institute, for its report “Going Exponential: Growing the Charter Sch... more »
For Shame, Penny Pritzker « Diane Ravitch's blog
For Shame, Penny Pritzker « Diane Ravitch's blog: For Shame, Penny Pritzker by dianerav One of the most powerful videos I have yet seen is making its rounds of the Internet. I urge you to watch it. Matt Farmer, a parent of children in the Chicago public schools, addresses a rally of the Chicago Teachers Union, where he “cross-examines” Penny Pritzker, the billionaire member of the Chicago Board of Education. Farmer is a trial lawyer. He describes how he bristled when he heard an interview on the radio in which Pritzker described what Chicago students need: enough skills in reading... more »
Why Do We Treat the Tests As Scientific Instruments? « Diane Ravitch's blog
Why Do We Treat the Tests As Scientific Instruments? « Diane Ravitch's blog: Why Do We Treat the Tests As Scientific Instruments? by dianerav I posted a blog called “A Reader Wants to Know,” in which a teacher asked how he could be evaluated on test scores when the students were in the middle of the second semester. How were the scores affected by the teacher of the previous years? Other teachers have asked how they can be evaluated by scores when so many other factors affect test scores. A reader commented on this blog with the most pertinent question of all. Why do we (and state ... more »
Schools Matter: Nashville School Board Puts the Brakes on KIPP Expansion
Schools Matter: Nashville School Board Puts the Brakes on KIPP Expansion: Nashville School Board Puts the Brakes on KIPP Expansion by Jim Horn Recently Mayor Karl Dean and the corporate fat cats who made him mayor shoved through a $16,000,000 giveaway to renovate the Nashville KIPP test prep factory. We can only wonder now if that decision will be revisited after considering last year's results on state tests, even though this information was available to Dean's staff when the decision was made. KIPP Nashville had the lowest value-added scores in social studies and science of a... more »
University of Minnesota Scientist Drops Bombshell About Walker: Says He Fathered Child at Marquette | Uppity Wisconsin
University of Minnesota Scientist Drops Bombshell About Walker: Says He Fathered Child at Marquette | Uppity Wisconsin: University of Minnesota Scientist Drops Bombshell About Walker: Says He Fathered Child at Marquette by Jud Lounsbury Yesterday, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Bernadette Gillick was best known as a nationally recognized scientist for her research into how the brain recovers from injuries. After today, she will likely be forever known for coming forward and telling the world that Scott Walker fathered a child and refused to take responsability for it while at Ma... more »
Daily Kos: Imagine you are in a classroom
Daily Kos: Imagine you are in a classroom: Imagine you are in a classroom by [email protected] (teacherken) the teacher asks as question. The answer the student gives is not what is expected. What should happen next? The answer is, it all depends. Perhaps the teacher should ask WHY the student gave that answer. It may be the student has a misconception that by asking for clarification the teacher can help correct that misconception immediately. It is also possible that the way the question was asked pointed the student in the wrong direction, or was misleading. By clarifying the qu... more »
Not true that urban schools fail all students: Intown white high school students outperform suburban counterparts. | Get Schooled
Not true that urban schools fail all students: Intown white high school students outperform suburban counterparts. | Get Schooled: Not true that urban schools fail all students: Intown white high school students outperform suburban counterparts. by Maureen Downey A Midtown reader sent me an interesting analysis of Georgia SAT scores, *similar to one that I ran a few years ago*, showing that white students in metro schools outperform suburban counterparts. Except he went a bit deeper. Here is why he compiled the data and what he hopes we learn from it: Since my analysis has some n... more »
Sacramento County education board races hotly contested - Education - The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento County education board races hotly contested - Education - The Sacramento Bee: Sacramento County education board races hotly contested Share By Diana Lambert [email protected] Published: Sunday, Jun. 3, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1B A once-sleepy school board election – in which candidates often ran unopposed and rarely accumulated large war chests – has turned into a hotly contested race bringing in nearly $175,000 and prompting armies of volunteers to call their neighbors and walk the streets promoting candidates. Teachers unions are throwing tens of thousands of dollars ... more »
The Best Places For ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers To Get Online Professional Development | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
The Best Places For ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers To Get Online Professional Development | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…: The Best Places For ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers To Get Online Professional Development by Larry Ferlazzo There are quite a few very good ways for ESL/EFL/ELL teachers to get online professional development. I’ve already shared some of those ways in previous “The Best…” lists, including: The Best Ways ESL/EFL/ELL Teachers Can Develop Personal Learning Networks The Best Online Videos Showing ESL/EFL Teachers In The Classroom Here are three other resources that are worth c... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Bush = Obama = Duncan and the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.03.12
Missouri Education Watchdog: Bush = Obama = Duncan and the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.03.12: Bush = Obama = Duncan and the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.03.12 by stlgretchen Jeb Bush (R) loves Obama's (D) & Duncan's (D) education plan. Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for 06.03.12. The elections are quickly approaching. *Will Republicans change the tide (either on the state or national level) and stop the centralization of education?* It looks doubtful, according to these tweets: - *Delaware Republicans failing to make the grade on education issues ... more »
Applause for Teachers « Diane Ravitch's blog
Applause for Teachers « Diane Ravitch's blog: Applause for Teachers by dianerav On Saturday afternoon, I went to a matinee of the Broadway show “Godspell” with family. It is a very engaging show with a wonderful young cast. I enjoyed their boundless energy. Most of them seemed to be just a few years out of high school or college, and so very talented and attractive. If any of you are in New York City this summer, go to the TKTS booth in Times Square and buy a ticket. Every seat in the house is a good one. The star of the show, by the way, is a graduate of the Los Angeles High Scho... more »
