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Leave At 3:00 PM? Hardly — Teachers Pay To Be Overworked

January 27, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Guest blogger Susan DuFresne is an experienced teacher in Washington state. (She is not pictured.) This is part of a series called Voices From the Classroom.   A teacher’s workload is impossible. Twenty-four hours is not enough. I worked a 15 1/2 hour day yesterday & the to-do list is still ridiculously long. After teaching […]

Filed Under: Educators, NCLB, Sea-Tac, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: High Stakes Standardized Tests, McCleary v Washington, Washington

LA Times Report on Teacher Evaluations Incorrect

January 25, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Heather Poland (A Teacher’s Perspective) is a teacher in California. This piece is part of a series called Voices From the Classroom. It’s reposted from A Teacher’s Perspective with permission. Recently, the LA Times reported that, “Major California school districts are failing to comply with a state law that requires them to evaluate teachers in […]

Filed Under: Educators, LAUSD, Los Angeles, NCLB, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Too Good For the LA TImes, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: California, Common Core State Standards Testing, high stakes standardized testing, LAUSD, VAM

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

January 24, 2015 by Robert D Skeels

Join NPE’s letter writing campaign to Sen. Alexander and the HELP Committee

Friends, I  wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign “Urge Senator Lamar Alexander and the members of  Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee to put an end to annual standardized testing”. Network for Public Education (NPE) is calling on Congress to support the adoption of Option 1 in Senator Lamar Alexander’s “Every […]

Filed Under: Federal Policy, The Testing Industry Tagged With: CCSS, corporate education agenda, high stakes standardized testing, NCLB, NPE, Pearson, Privatization, resistance, RTTT, struggle, The Network for Public Education

People-Powered Public Education News: K-12 News Network Turns Four!

January 23, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN fourth birthday

It’s January, 2015, and K-12 News Network has been doing ground-breaking, people-powered public education news covered from the classroom up for FOUR years now! Thank you, readers, bloggers, and activists, for being folks actively making a new kind of education news. Some highlights from our first four years: In August, 2010, when the LA Times […]

Filed Under: Ed Tech, Educators, Federal Policy, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Parents, School Boards, School closures, School Districts, State Education Law, The Testing Industry, Voices From the Classroom Tagged With: #educolor, citizen media, ed tech, iPads, ipads for schools

Fix Education Testing and Accountability to Reauthorize No Child Left Behind

January 22, 2015 by K12NN Site Admin

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is now chair of the education committee in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension committee, and has officially opened the door to reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB, also known as the ESEA, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act). He’s seeking emails and letters talking about testing and accountability […]

Filed Under: Educators, Federal Policy, Fixes, NCLB, Parents, The Testing Industry Tagged With: ESEA, High Stakes Standardized Tests, NCLB

Guest Commentary on Marshall Tuck by Joining Forces for Education’s Ellen Lubic

October 30, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Joining Forces for Education was formed in response to Ben Austin’s public school bulldozer outfit, the Walton Family Foundation funded Parent Revolution. Ellen Lubic occasionally contributes to Professor Ravitch’s site.   The Real Marshall Tuck, and Why He Insures My Vote for Tom Torlakson for California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Now that the billionaires such […]

Filed Under: Elections, LAUSD, Los Angeles, School closures, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Marshall Tuck, Wall Street Investors

ICYMI: Video Highlights From the Network For Public Education’s PUBLIC “Education Nation”

October 15, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The Network for Public Education

MSNBC has a show that is practically a commercial for the privatization of public education called “Education Nation.” Fans of charter schools, “school choice,” and other trendy approaches to education that enrich ed tech companies are all invited. Voices of those who feel the public education system — for all its flaws — is worthwhile […]

Filed Under: Charter Schools, Chicago, Detroit, Ed Tech, Educators, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, School closures, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Carol Burris, Common Core, Diane Ravitch, High Stakes Standardized Tests, MSNBC Education Nation

Los Angeles Unified Must Refocus: Five Ways Bad Ed Tech Deals in LAUSD Hurt Kids Right Now

October 1, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Recently released investigative reports by Southern California radio station KPCC have increased public scrutiny of Superintendent John Deasy’s cozy relationships with Apple and Pearson executives in the period 2011 to 2013, before both corporations won the 2013 bid to supply Los Angeles Unified with iPads and software. This is the infamous “$1 billion iPad” deal […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Educators, Los Angeles, School Boards, School Districts, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, iPads, LAUSD, MiSiS, Superintendent John Deasy

iPad Watchdog Stuart Magruder’s Re-Appointment: Which Way Will LAUSD Go?

June 10, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

The question for many school districts around the country this spring was this: how are they supposed to give computer-based, end-of-year Common Core State Standards (CCSS) tests? For over a year in Los Angeles Unified, parents, students, teachers, and community members have wrestled with the details of Superintendent John Deasy’s 1:1 iPad program and its […]

Filed Under: Big Ed, Budgets, Ed Tech, Los Angeles, School Boards, The Testing Industry Tagged With: Deasy, John Deasy, LAUSD, LAUSD School Board, Superintendent John Deasy

Actual SBAC Testing Conditions (California)

May 3, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

K12NN will be posting experiences teachers have as they prepare their students for the SBAC or PARCC Common Core State Standards tests or actually administer them as testing season rolls out across the country. The SBAC and PARCC tests are to be administered by computer and they function as the end-of-year summative assessment for students. […]

Filed Under: Common Core, Ed Tech, The Testing Industry Tagged With: California, SBAC

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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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