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Charter Schools Are Failing and Our Democracy Pays the Price

September 28, 2018 by Dr. Rocio Rivas

“The ideals of education, whether men [sic] are taught to teach or plow, to weave or to write, must not be allowed to sink into sordid utilitarianism. Education must keep broad ideals before it, and never forget that it is dealing with Souls and not with Dollars.” 1902, W.E.B. DuBois, educator and civil rights leader. Not […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Los Angeles, Parents, Profiteering, Research Tagged With: charter school super-networks, charter schools, democracy, neo-liberalism, parents, privatization of public education, Public Education, segregation, Students

SBAC/CAASPP or PARCC: Question the Tests

June 3, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Pamela Casey Nagler is a longtime Claremont resident, a former student of Claremont public schools and a high school teacher at nearby Montclair High School. She remembers taking one standardized test when she attended Claremont High School – the Ohio Achievement Test – that was essentially an aptitude test to identify an individual’s strengths and […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Profiteering, Research, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: CAASPP, PARCC, SBAC

“Value-Added” for Teacher Preparation Programs? Your Comments Needed NOW on Proposed Regulation Changes

January 27, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

UPDATED February 2, 2015:  We submitted the link to this post to the official regulations.gov site where it was recorded. At the time of sending, almost 3500 comments from teachers, faculty at GSEs (graduate schools of education), and others with an interest in the training of public school teachers had submitted comments. In our submission, […]

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy, Fixes, Research Tagged With: Arne Duncan, Department of Education, Title II, United States Department of Education, Value Added Methodologies, Value-added

Blood Money*

August 26, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

By Joseph K. We are being asked (key word “asked”) to be trained (key word “trained”, like dogs,) by Pearson “Learning” August 29th and 30th. Pearson is going to pay us. Make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, the money they are going to pay us is blood money. And the blood money they are going […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, Los Angeles, NCLB, Research Tagged With: Joseph K., Pearson

End Corporal Punishment in Schools: Grassroots Efforts Meet A Movement From the Fashion World

March 12, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Twenty states still allow children to be beaten (paddled) as a form of school discipline. The disproportionate numbers of African American boys and girls, and children with disabilities who are hit by teachers calls into question whether–and if–corporal punishment can be used fairly at all.

Filed Under: Educators, Parents, Research, School Districts Tagged With: Corporal Punishment

Go Read It: Columbia Journalism Review–"Tested: Covering Schools in the Age of Micro-Measurement"

March 8, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

Release of “value-added” student achievement scores as a way to measure teachers in the Los Angeles Times (and an attempt to release them in the NY Times) has roiled the discussion on education policy as shaped by billionaire philanthropists and business-minded school superintendents. The Columbia Journalism Review exhaustively documents editorial debates over the release of the data.

Filed Under: Los Angeles, New York City, Research Tagged With: Value-added

CRES #14, a New School in LAUSD & An Interview With Windy O'Malley of Echo Park Moms For Education

February 16, 2011 by K12NN Site Admin

The construction of a new K-8 school in a diverse corner of Los Angeles, part of LAUSD, sparks passionate disagreement and discussion about who should run the school: a charter management organization, or LAUSD in partnership with the community?

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Research, School Districts Tagged With: LAUSD

Flawed Study: Unclear Results on Single-Sex Schooling

December 24, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

Both supporters and detractors of single-sex schooling find little support in a recent study released by South Carolina’s State Board of Education.

Filed Under: Educators, Research Tagged With: South Carolina

Students Know What Makes for Effective Teaching

December 12, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

Students have savvy things to say about how effective their teachers are in helping them learn.

Filed Under: Educators, Innovations, Research, Students Tagged With: Value-added

PISA Round-Up: Shanghai 15-Year Olds on Top

December 7, 2010 by K12NN Site Admin

Shanghai teens best all other teens for reading, writing, math achievement on the global PISA test.

Filed Under: Educators, Research, Students Tagged With: PISA OECD

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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