Posts tagged "nightcap"
by Philissa Cramer,
at 6:45 pm
- The new “marshmallow test” involves the internet and kids seem to be failing to resist temptation. (Slate)
- Common Core fan: Pearson shouldn’t mix curriculum and tests, no matter what NYSED says. (CC Watch)
- New York State policies on who gets tested meant a hospitalized child got a surprise test. (Answer Sheet)
- In defense of “last in, first out” seniority layoff rules: Their arbitrariness is a virtue. (Eric Horowitz)
- Michael Mulgrew has decreed that students in his school district will not take midterms. (Inside Nova)
- A graphologist is among those to weigh in on the value of teaching cursive in schools. (Room for Debate)
- Sixth-graders at Isaac Newton Middle School are using social media to make positive change. (HuffPo)
- A teacher exhorts others to speak out about teaching, even when it seems hard to do. (Jose Vilson)
- Within individual schools, the newest teachers tend to get the highest-need students. (Teacher Beat)
- More kids are eating the free lunch at Democracy Prep since the school upgraded its food. (Economist)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 8:31 pm
- The city’s Children First Networks were named one of government’s top recent innovations. (Ash Center)
- A Florida honors student was arrested and expelled because of a rogue science experiment. (Gawker)
- Just as happened here, Oregon teachers were unnerved by an surprise shooter drill. (Teaching Now)
- A top Department of Education official disputes reporting critical of the city’s CTE programs. (City Limits)
- An airy 19th-century surgery theater in Midtown West is the new home of a private school. (City Room)
- A parent asks why city schools give grades for P.E. classes that don’t factor into GPAs. (Insideschools)
- A teacher trainer answers her most common question: How to coach resistant teachers. (Art of Coaching)
- An activist L.A. teacher from Teach for America’s first cohort has been laid off — again. (Dana Goldstein)
- Chicago’s instruction, observations, and teacher evaluation work come as its murder rate rises. (Atlantic)
by Geoff Decker,
at 8:30 pm
- Server problems halted the state’s computer-based tests for a second straight day. (State Impact)
- For a second straight year, Florida’s parent trigger bill died in dramatic fashion. (Miami Herald)
- A DOE official faced tough questions from parents over a student data-sharing plan. (Village Voice)
- A mother wonders how to deal with teachers who enable her underperforming son. (MotherLode)
- Obama covered a lot of ground at presser today. But he didn’t touch education. (Answer Sheet)
- Former state schools chief David Steiner took issue with a Times editorial about the Common Core.
- Buffalo’s teachers union head says he’ll fight to win back an abandoned teacher eval side deal. (WGRZ)
- The Walton Foundation announced it was giving a $8 million donation to StudentsFirst (L.A. Now)
- New research suggests that math tutoring for some young students doesn’t improve learning. (Reuters)
- A student from Seward Park Campus was arrested this afternoon for biting a teacher. (DNAInfo)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 8:59 pm
- A teacher who tweeted about N.Y’s tests knows now that the state is serious about secrecy. (RL Ratto)
- A series of graphs show striking changes in UFT membership and voter turnout over time. (JD2718)
- A teacher argues that apathy is the main reason that active teachers rarely vote. (Chaz’s School Daze)
- A teacher says retirees should vote in union elections, but only for certain positions. (NYC Educator)
- Watch tonight’s public forum on the controversial inBloom student data warehouse in full. (UStream)
- A math teacher says his experience struggling with topology at Yale helps him help students. (Slate)
- The feds give free breakfast and lunch to poor students. Wealthy students will now get brunch. (Onion)
- Added security at city high schools means recent alums can’t always come back for a visit. (Yahoo News)
- A teacher has an insider’s take on the hours of instructional time that’s lost to testing. (Accountable Talk)
- NBA player Jason Collins’s high-profile coming-out story includes advice for teachers. (Teaching Now)
- Andy Rotherham: Democrats made an unforced error by making the Common Core an issue. (Eduwonk)
- A student with autism successfully auditioned for a selective school, but others did not. (Insideschools)
- Obama’s big second-term education problem is his first term policies ignored equity. (Answer Sheet)
- Indiana is hitting “pause” on Common Core implementation, the latest state to push back. (Politics K-12)
- A Long Island high school reopened today after $10 million to repair Sandy damage. (SchoolBook)
- Foster parents blog about their challenges getting help from the Department of Education. (Fosterwee)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:34 pm
- Teachers for Education Reform offers animated gifs on education policy. (Teachers React to the News)
- One reaction to Mulgrew’s reelection as UFT chief could be yawn. That might be wrong. (Teacher Beat)
- A city Department of Education official is running for school board in Irvington, N.Y. (Facebook, Twitter)
- The principal of the Brooklyn New School reacts to the state’s longer, harder reading test. (Insideschools)
- StudentsFirst Tennessee’s “reformer of the year” sponsored a bill considered homophobic. (Daily Kos)
- Philadelphia won’t expand its charter school sector this year because of its budget crunch. (Notebook)
- A new task force will tackle longstanding overcrowding in two Queens school districts. (SchoolBook)
- Tim Daly: When students cheat, no one cites the stakes to explain their misconduct away. (TNTP)
by Geoff Decker,
at 10:06 pm
- The schools chief in Florida, a Common Core leader, questioned the PARCC tests. (State Impact)
- The gifted grading fiasco in NYC highlighted the arbitrary nature in which we identify students. (Time)
- To become a political progressive, Al Shanker had to think like a educational conservative. (Shanker)
- A suitcase that turned out to be empty caused a Williamsburg high school to evacuate. (DNAInfo)
- It’s been two weeks, but the Michelle Rhee cheating scandal in D.C. still has legs. (Learning Matters)
- A study of teachers’ web logs reveals they don’t spend much time looking at student data. (AEFP)
- On UFT election day, our editor offered some outsider analysis about the internal politics. (Schoolbook)
- Across the nation charter school teachers are unionizing, most recently in Los Angeles. (LaborNotes)
- Parents are upset that the city is proposing to move their school into a new neighborhood. (Tribeca Trib)
- A case for why the current reform policies will succumb to a powerful counter-revolution. (The Atlantic)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 7:24 pm
- This brief history of Pearson’s problems with testing has a lot of recent New York entries. (Answer Sheet)
- In Alabama, criticism of the Common Core ranges from thoughtful to the truly absurd. (State Ed Watch)
- A Liberty University professor says she backs the Common Core because her students need it. (Atlantic)
- The UFT endorsed Kirsten John Foy in the race to succeed Al Vann on the City Council. (City & State)
- An education researcher makes a case for why the state should release test items. (GS Community).
- The city Department of Education is disputing a report saying it withholds information. (Gotham Gazette)
- One of the online TV shows that Amazon might make features three not-great teachers. (Teaching Now)
- A teacher in Cambridge, Mass., describes getting her students through the first day post-bombing. (WSJ)
- Boston’s school superintendent announced her resignation today, after a tragic year. (District Dossier)
- Do hedge fund managers support school reform only to make money? A real test exists. (Eric Horowitz)
- A teacher says the plan to pro-rate student scores by attendance in evaluations is flawed. (NYCDOEnuts)
- There’s a dad out there who draws something new on his kids’ school lunch bag every day. (Colossal)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 8:37 pm
- The state’s annual math test for grades 3-8 starts Wednesday. One teacher’s worries. (GS Community)
- A site has already been set up to collect comments about tomorrow’s Common Core math tests. (Reddit)
- Jose Vilson: Remember that testing’s effect on students is worse than on teachers. (Teaching Quality)
- The American Girl dolls and stories used to be great toys for making feminists, but not anymore. (Atlantic)
- The country’s newly minted teacher of the year says American schools aren’t in crisis. (Answer Sheet)
- A parent who is alarmed about being on her neighborhood school’s wait list gets advice. (Insideschools)
- Two students at a struggling Chicago school who won big scholarships want to study education. (WBEZ)
- A Chicago teacher says the This American Life episodes about Harper High were too soft. (TeacherPOP)
- A Brooklyn teacher offers a webinar about how his school created its crisis response team. (Simple K-12)
- New York City is launching a two-year certificate program in blended learning for teachers. (Hechinger)
by Philissa Cramer,
at 9:12 pm
- A teacher says last week’s reading tests were too long to be fair to students. (On the Shoulders of Giants)
- TC Readers and Writers founder Lucy Calkins wants comments on New York’s tests. (ELA Feedback)
- A Center School student says the state’s test was “twisty” but not intellectually taxing. (Insideschools)
- A testing defender says there’s no pointing in separating tests from how they’re used. (More Thoughtful)
- Some Chicago high schoolers are planning to walk out of their second day of testing this week. (WBEZ)
- Checker Finn is the latest to predict that testing companies will unseat national consortia. (Flypaper)
- A study finds that states’ variation in student performance is more about states than students. (Shanker)
- In the building cited today for inequity, teachers are sharing space for ice cream. (Inside Co-Location)
- A chess teacher asks how her students can keep winning if they won’t do homework. (Elizabeth Spiegel)
- Author Philip Roth eulogizes his high school homeroom teacher, who died recently at 105. (Times)
- A sprawling argument for labor solidarity spans Seattle, Chicago, and New York’s bus strike. (Jacobin)
by Geoff Decker,
at 7:45 pm
- The group creating tests for New York proposed how ELLs will receive support. (Learning the Language)
- Emailing and texting raise concerns that school boards are violating transparency laws. (Edweek)
- Uncertified Bridgeport superintendent Paul Vallas is back in school following a lawsuit . (District Dossier)
- Could politicians like Andrew Cuomo cave to growing test resentment as scores drop? (Dana Goldstein)
- A New Jersey district chose Singapore Math curriculum for its elementary schools. (Madison Patch)
- UFT President Michael Mulgrew explained why he still supports the union’s charter school. (ICE UFT)
- A Boston charter school teacher argues that standardized tests benefit low-income students. (Atlantic)
- ICYMI: Anthony Weiner’s education positions haven’t changed much since 2009. (GothamSchools)
- P.S. 22′s chorus sang “Please Come to Boston,” a tribute to the city after its tragic week. (P.S. 22 Chorus)
- Here are six ways that parents and teachers can talk to children about disaster. (Daily News)
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