NEH Education (NEH_Education) sur Twitter. Paul Mulshine, Amoral Self-Indulgence & New Jersey School Finance. On most days, I can simply laugh off a ridiculous Paul Mulshine column in the Star Ledger. Most of his claims regarding education, taxation and the intersection of the two range from flat-out incorrect to wacky and misguided. But Mulshine’s claims in his column on Wednesday June 22nd necessitate a response. For several years, I have been a professor where one of my primary responsibilities has been to train future school administrators. I believe strongly that well-informed well prepared and knowledgeable school administrators can and should play a critical role in guiding public education policy.
Any local school administrator would likely want to find ways to manipulate the state formula for allocating aid in a way that drives more aid to their district. Mr. Here is a clip of what Mulshine had to say about Earl Kim: Let’s actually take a simulated look at why Earl Kim might be concerned about the Doherty plan. Here’s what it looks like in pictures. Like this: Like Loading... Related. Klein Once Called Snow Day for Caroline Kennedy. Former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein once called a snow day after Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg asked him for the favor, according to a published report. In its gossip column "Gatecrasher," the Daily News reported that Klein and Kennedy appeared at an event recently, and told the story. Klein said that soon after Mayor Bloomberg named him chancellor in 2002, he visited Kennedy Schlossberg in Martha's Vineyard, where her son, Jack, asked if he had the power to declare snow days.
Klein said he did and the boy asked for one on his birthday, Jan. 19. Klein said he would. The boy attended private school, but Klein said he knew that a public school snow day often meant the day off for private schools too. Several years later, Klein had still not called a snow day for the child. But one day when it was "really snowing bad," Klein said Kennedy Schlossberg called him and said, "It's not [Jack's] birthday, but he's got a paper due tomorrow. Joint Committee of Conference in Wisconsin on Budget Repair Bill (3/09/11)
Msnbc: Wis. GOP set to pass anti-union bill - Politics. MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has officially taken away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of the state's public employees. Walker signed the bill to do so privately Friday morning. He planned an afternoon news conference in the Capitol. The Wisconsin law will take effect the day after it is published by the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State has 10 days from the signing, excluding signings, to publish it. The explosive measure passed the Assembly on Thursday following more than three weeks of protests that drew tens of thousands of people to the Capitol in opposition. That ends — for now — a three-week battle that saw all Democratic state senators flee to a neighboring state and as many as 80,000 protest at the Capitol building. The Wisconsin governor said the new powers for state and local government in the bill would save $30 million in the current budget year, which ends June 30. "What we're doing here, I think, is progressive.
Msnbc: Wis. GOP set to pass anti-union bill - Politics. Naomi Klein: Wisconsin's Shock Doctrine. March 9, 2011 At a time when Citizen’s United has made it possible for corporations to dominate the political arena, unions serve as the last line of defense against the privatization of the public sector and as one of the few remaining voices for the working class. That's why the right is trying to take labor down. The Nation’s Naomi Klein joined MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show last night to talk about how the GOP has manipulated the current financial situation to push through unpopular policies that would have never gotten them elected. Wisconsin isn't alone in their fight against the GOP's attempt to end collective bargaining for public workers: sixteen states currently face similar assaults. “What this fight is really about is not unions vs. taxpayers, as we’ve been told. Click here to read all of Klein's articles for The Nation.
—Sara Jerving Share. A 'Summary Opinion' Of The Hoxby NYC Charter School Study. Almost two years ago, a report on New York City charter schools rocked the education policy world. It was written by Hoover Institution scholar Caroline Hoxby with co-authors Sonali Murarka and Jenny Kang. Their primary finding was that: On average, a student who attended a charter school for all of grades kindergarten through eight would close about 86 percent of the “Scarsdale-Harlem achievement gap” [the difference in scores between students in Harlem and those in the affluent NYC suburb] in math, and 66 percent of the achievement gap in English. The headline-grabbing conclusion was uncritically repeated by most major news outlets, including the New York Post, which called the charter effects “off the charts,” and the NY Daily News, which announced that, from that day forward, anyone who opposed charter schools was “fighting to block thousands of children from getting superior educations.”
I would like to revisit this study, but not as a means to relitigate the “do charters work?” (pdf)how_NYC_ charter_schools _affect_achievement_sept2009. Caroline M. Hoxby Stanford economics. Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level Massive Teacher Cheating Scandal Erupts in Atlanta. Who’s the most influential educator in America? As always, remember that John’s book The Influence of Teachers is for sale at Amazon. A month or so ago, I speculated about the most influential person in American education — then two weeks ago I expanded upon those musings in a feature for the New York Daily News. In both columns I put forth four nominees — Wendy Kopp, Big Bird, Arne Duncan and Joel Klein — and chose Joel for his remarkable network of eleven protégés now influencing what happens in schools and classrooms around the nation.
I was attacked for my choice by people who feel that his influence has been negative, or even destructive. Few seemed to notice that I neither praised nor condemned the former Chancellor’s policies. No one challenged that he changed New York City schools in dramatic ways — nor could they. Remember that before mayoral control, New York City had 32 separate districts, quite a few of them known as jobs programs for cronies with little regard for student outcomes. Education Next : Education Next is a journal of opinion and research about education policy. Education Next (EducationNext) sur Twitter.
Wendy Kopp. Wendy Sue Kopp (born June 29, 1967) is the Founder and Chair of the Board of Teach For America (TFA), a national teaching corps. She is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations that apply the same model as Teach For America in other countries. Background[edit] Teach For America[edit] In 1989, Wendy Kopp proposed the creation of Teach For America in her undergraduate thesis at Princeton University. Shortly after graduating from Princeton, Kopp founded Teach For America. In 2007, Wendy founded Teach For All, a global network of independent nonprofit organizations that apply the same model as Teach For America in other countries.[3] In 2013, Wendy stepped down from her position as CEO of Teach For America and assumed the role of board chair for the organization. [4] Personal life[edit] Kopp is married to Richard Barth, president of the KIPP Foundation.
Honorary Doctorates[edit] Awards[edit] Books[edit] Trivia[edit] [edit] Biographies: Wendy Kopp interview: Eight questions for Wendy Kopp. Charlie Rose - Wendy Kopp Teach for America Founder & CEO Wendy Kopp interview Teach For All. David Brooks, Diane Ravitch, and the education wars. As always, remember that John’s book The Influence of Teachers is for sale at Amazon. Last week in this space, I speculated about the most influential educator in America. Although I put forth more than a half dozen names, most respondents ‘voted’ for Diane Ravitch, the historian/policymaker/apostate whose book, The Death and Life of the Great American Public School, is a best seller. Her landslide victory is not particularly surprising, because she is a Five Star General in the ongoing education wars; her badly outgunned army includes the two teachers unions, Linda Darling-Hammond and a lot of teachers. The opposing side includes Brian Williams and NBC’s Education Nation, Oprah Winfrey, Teach for America, Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee, charter school supporters, Waiting for Superman and a lot of powerful business and financial leaders.
Add to that list David Brooks, the influential columnist for the New York Times. Here’s a sample: Is Diane Ravitch vs. Brooks’ money line follows: Smells Like School Spirit. Invitation to a Dialogue - Fixing the Schools. Follow the money - Substance News. George N. Schmidt - April 04, 2011 "Follow the money," was the advice the character (and news source) "Deep Throat" gave to the Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Washington Post's history-making investigation of the Watergate break in during the run-up to the 1972 presidential election. As most people still know (if not from history, from the movie "All The President's Men"), the Post's reporting led to the scandals that forced the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Arne Duncan (above left) was still several years from being picked by America's billionaires to run the U.S. Or look at it another way as tax time approaches and teachers labor over their tax returns. Six members of the Pritzker family each wrote a check for $50,000 to Stand for Children in December 2010. December 2010 was a month for investing in politics for Chicago hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin (above, second from right). Penny Pritzker gets NY teacher pension money - Substance News. Julie Woestehoff - February 17, 2011 Why is the NY teachers’ pension fund enriching anti-public schools Penny Pritzker? Some are already boycotting Hyatt Hotels. You know that I think we should all be boycotting Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and other billionaire supporters of privatizing public schools.
But the problem is that most of the anti-public school crowd is made up of investment bankers, hedge funders and others whose jobs I can’t even begin to describe, much less figure out how to include in the boycott. UNTIL TODAY… .....when I read that one of my favorite non-favorites, Penny Pritzker, has started up a new private equity firm which has just received a $50 million commitment from the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System. What?????? As teacher-blogger Fred Klonsky pointed out last fall, Penny is a prominent member of Chicago’s Civic Committee, which wants to get rid of teacher pensions.
Wish I had won the lottery so I could refuse to let them manage my money. Illinois Review: Current education reforms are mere down payments," school reformer says. By Nancy Thorner MUNDELEIN -- Bruno Behrend, Director, Center for School Reform at The Heartland Institute, was the featured guest at the April 15th meeting of the Republican Assembly of Lake County, Ray True, Chairman, at the Comfort Inn in Mundelein. His was a timely discussion of Education Reform in IL, as it coincided with news reports outlining a proposed "landmark education reform deal" by IL legislators to curb tenure, layoffs by seniority, and teacher strikes. Behrend warned that the existing bureaucracy, encompassing administration, teachers unions, and private interest enriched by the existing system are banding together to bleed tax payers while providing poor, and declining, educational product.
Citizens are confronting a gigantic government education complex (cartel), starting at the Federal Department of Education, encompassing fifty state agencies with 50 different school codes, which operates around 15,000 school districts. Mr. What then can be done? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Themes in the News: "I Can Barely Afford to be Here" Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System. A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money.
It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs. Teachers, their unions under attack, are becoming as replaceable as minimum-wage employees at Burger King. We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire children to think, those who help the young discover their gifts and potential—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests.
Catherine Ferguson Academy - By Any Means Nessesary. Christina community doubting Del. Dept of Education's decisions. Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 11:42pm Christina community doubts DE Dept. of Ed's decisions Updated Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 10:21pm Members of the Christina School Board are ready to go up against the state Department of Education. WDEL's LeAnne Matlach has more. It's a plan they chose, but members of the Christina School Board say the transformation plan for partnership-zone school, Glasgow High isn't being executed as they thought. Board president John Young spoke out at Tuesday night's board meeting after several Glasgow teachers were relieved of their positions.
The transformation plan the board chose for the school required teachers to re-interview for their positions but Young says too much importance was placed on interviews. "From what has been described to me thus far by effective teachers, it appears we have centered on the sole metric of a high-stakes interview process that was not executed to fidelity by either governing instrument, the MOU or the partnership plan," he said. University isn't just a business – and the student isn't always right | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. Lord Browne made the student as consumer the centrepiece of his rationale for change, but higher education is no ordinary marketplace, says Dr Paul Greatrix. Photograph: Murdo Macleod In his independent review of higher education funding, Lord Browne made the student as consumer the centrepiece of his rationale for change.
Unfortunately things aren't quite as straightforward as they first appear. Higher education is not just like any other business and there are real issues with the information available to assist prospective students. However, student behaviour is changing and there is some evidence that they are becoming rather more demanding. We are all consumers. We are all customers. However, higher education is a slightly unusual kind of business and differs from other businesses in a number of ways. HE is usually a one-off transaction and there are few opportunities for repeat sales of the same product (except with under-graduate to post-graduate progression). Informed purchasing. For Detroit Schools, Hope for the Hopeless. Teachers: the new enemy of the states? The Republican-fueled assault on collective bargaining in Wisconsin has (rightfully) been THE topic in the political arena recently.
In defense of the collective bargaining rights for public employees, the teaching profession has often been invoked. For much of my professional lifetime as a teacher, I would have wagered that invoking the plight of teachers as a reason to support or oppose opposition would have been a high-percentage move. The level of verbal and legislative invective being hurled at the profession lately, however, has me wondering if the enemies of schoolteachers don't think they now have the upper hand with the voting public. Just look at some of the items on the legislative agenda from coast-to-coast: Idaho: A series of bills are working their way through the GOP-dominated legislature which will hit most of the items on the right-wing anti-teacher wish list. [Recent] events point to a convergence that is remaking the politics of education. Up to 100,000 protest Wisconsin law curbing unions. Diane Ravitch: Eight Civics Lessons from Governor Walker.
Rachel Maddow Show. Rachel Maddow MSNBC (maddow) Rick Snyder is killing Michigan, and serving the remains to corporations. The Bartleby Project. Bartleby (projectbartleby) Timothy D. Slekar: Rejecting Standardized Testing With The Bartleby Project. Jon Stewarts Cribs: Teachers Edition Exposes Lavish Lifestyles - Education -... Karl Rove's Secretly-Funded Crossroads GPS Attacks Unions in Nationwide Ad. AlterNet: Wisconsin Firefighters Shut Down Bank That Funded Walker. Madison Reacts to Gov. Walker Signing Anti-Labor Bill Madison Student Walk-out. Madison- The Protests Continue 2. Republican Tactic Ends Stalemate in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin capitol re-occupied! | THOSE WHO USE IT. Michelle Rhee Really Has Animated the School Reform Debate. Rheeform: Fibs and Firings.