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#not4sale #notyourmascot: (Repost) American Indian Graduation Rates and Stereotypical Images On and Off the Field

April 19, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

This wonderful piece is re-posted with permission from Dr. Debbie Reese and her American Indians in Children’s Literature site. As you think about the ugly perpetuation of racist caricatures of American Indians by major sports teams, think also about how many high schools around the nation still feature outdated native-themed mascots. Isn’t it time to […]

Filed Under: Athletics, Students Tagged With: #not4sale, #notyourmascot, American Indians, Native Americans

SBAC Field Tests: An Experiment With Chromebooks

April 17, 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, Educators, The Testing Industry Tagged With: SBAC

United Way's Corporate NPIC Astroturf was thick in front of LAUSD last Tuesday

April 11, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

“By what logic does United Way engage in an activity that is shunned by all the other charities?” — Professor Ralph E. Shaffer Amid all the misleading and mendacious reports in the corporate media about Tuesday’s desk charade, there is one revealing Los Angeles Times photo of so-called “students” setting up desks on Beaudry Boulevard […]

Filed Under: Los Angeles, School Boards Tagged With: Astroturf, Corporate Education Reform, John Deasy, LAUSD, neoliberalism, NGO, Nonprofit Industrial Complex, NPIC, Privatization, UWGLA

American Statistical Association has just released a very important document on Value Added Methodologies

April 9, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

“The President of the United States and his Secretary of Education are violating one of the most fundamental principles concerning test use: Tests should be used only for the purpose for which they were developed. If they are to be used for some other purpose, then careful attention must be paid to whether or not […]

Filed Under: The Testing Industry Tagged With: AGT, CCSS, High Stakes Standardized Tests, LAUSD, NCLB, RTTT, Value Added Methodologies, VAM

Photo Gallery from EmpowerED 2014

April 3, 2014 by K12NN Site Admin

Filed Under: Los Angeles, Uncategorized Tagged With: EmpowerED, rdsathene, ResistTFA, Student Organizing, Students United for Public Education (SUPE)

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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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