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Randi Weingarten: Stop the Testing Obsession

Randi Weingarten: Stop the Testing Obsession | The Nation: ". . . . What is similar is the focus on how to ensure teachers are the best they can be, and how teacher evaluation has to be more than a snapshot, more than a principal coming in once a year. A lot of countries have focused on career ladders, student learning and teacher peer review, and those are elements of reform proposals that we and our managers have made [in some American schools]. Take Singapore. They have a teacher evaluation system that does include student learning measures. What is really different is that, except maybe for Chile, testing is not the centerpiece of these other nations’ accountability systems for teachers. Instead, testing is the centerpiece of an accountability system around children. In other nations, kids see tests as consequential. In the United States, teachers see student tests as consequential, but the kids don’t see it. . . . "

Sadly, the news from the teaching front isn’t good | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper: "Nadia Zanariri is leaving public education. A successful Advanced Placement World History teacher at Miami Beach Senior High School and a mentor teacher for Miami-Dade County, Zanariri is calling it quits after nine years. Not because her high school is a challenging urban school with a mix of students – although it is. And not because her classes are overcrowded – although they are. Zanariri is leaving public education because next year Florida will require public school teachers to be evaluated on a value added model, a methodology that has a margin of error as high as 66 points. . . "

Survey: Teachers work 53 hours per week on average
Washington Post (blog)
I spent many years as a teacher and it is the hardest and most satisfying work I've ever done. A new report from Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, called Primary Sources: America's Teachers on the Teaching Profession, ...

Teacher Accusing Officer of Rape Says She Feared Being Killed
New York Times
The teacher who prosecutors say was raped at gunpoint by a drunken off-duty police officer last August wept on Friday as she testified that she had feared her attacker would kill her even if she followed his commands to remain silent and keep her eyes ...

Teachers concerned over education reform plan
KTBS
Within just this week, it's already been a controversial battle over the governor's aggressive plan in the fight for state education reform. Now that certain bills will go before the full House and Senate, lawmakers say it's time to review and ...

About 19500 public school teachers in state get pink slips
Los Angeles Times
“The wave of education layoff turmoil brought on again by state cuts is rolling through classrooms and the families of our students,” he said in a statement. “When you continually lay off teachers, you break the bonds of learning, and you send the ...

Utah governor vetoes bill to curb sex education in schools
Reuters
Gary Herbert on Friday vetoed a controversial bill banning public schools from teachingcontraception as a way of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. The bill, which also sought to bar instruction on homosexuality or other aspects ...

LA Unified haunted by an old deal
Los Angeles Times
Teachers never imagined molestation cases when they won a deal to expunge unproven misconduct allegations from files after four years. Supt. John Deasy is shown before the start of a public hearing at the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School ...

Los Angeles Times

Fairfax investigates allegation of racially insensitive behavior by high ...
Washington Post
Fairfax County school administrators are investigating a student's allegations of racially insensitive behavior by a veteran English teacher at George C. Marshall High School. Ninth-grader Jordan Shumate said that during class this month, ...

Teachers should get on board
Buffalo News
By News Editorial Board With a state-imposed deadline for a teacher evaluation plan fast approaching, Buffalo Interim Superintendent Amber M. Dixon is still working to craft a compromise with teachers. The union should do what is right for the district ...

PALMER: Measured debate on education bill likely to be repeated during mediation
Vancouver Sun
Often the reply from Education Minister George Abbott was stripped of rhetoric as well. The two had their clashes — pretty much any time talk turned to the government's insistence thatteachers be bound by the net-zero mandate that has been accepted ...

Layoff notices go out to teachers; more than two dozen local educators get ...
Lake County News
This past week marked the annual deadline for teacher layoff notices to go out across the state and the county. California Education Code requires school boards issue preliminary pink slips by March 15, and then make the final decision on layoffs by ...

BC grad ceremonies threatened by teachers' job action
CBC.ca
There is growing concern among BC's high school students that the next stage in the teachers' contract dispute could threaten their extra-curricular activities — including graduation ceremonies. On Thursday the government passed legislation suspending ...

Fourteen reasons schools are troubled (and no, it's not all about teachers)
Washington Post (blog)
By Ronald Willett It is both bizarre and egregious to see a big lie used in the movement to allegedly reform America's public K-12 schools: That is, America's teachers are the fulcrum and sole arbiters of whether US public K-12 education is working.

Leaders of teachers union push for pay cut
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The MPS Children's Week Campaign, which will be discussed with the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association membership beginning Saturday, is asking educators to give up 2.6% of their salary next year, or about five days of pay, ...

Broward teacher imprisoned for 1500 child porn images
Sun-Sentinel
A Broward County school teacher who had more than 1500 child porn images on his laptop computer was sentenced to four years in federal prison on Friday. Jerome Pearson, 44, of Hialeah, was a math teacher at Everglades High in Miramar until he resigned ...

Teacher evaluations now hinge on student progress
Dayton Daily News
“Many states that are looking at this right now, and a lot of them are tied to Race to the Top grants,” said Patrick Gallaway, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education. The remaining half of the evaluation will be based on a teacher's growth.

Persistent racial gaps shown in education data
Kansas City Star
By JOE ROBERTSON They knew when they opened a new portal to civil rights education data that they were opening a volatile box. The US Department ofEducation's statistics on school experiences divided by race and ethnic groups expose communities anew ...

Kansas City Star

Governor vetoes abstinence-only education bill
Daily Herald
Gary Herbert vetoed a controversial bill Friday evening that would have prohibited teachers from instructing students about contraceptives, premarital sex or homosexuality. Despite pressure on both sides of the issue, Herbert acted against the measure ...

Surprise: Teachers crave evaluation
Christian Science Monitor
By Amanda Paulson, Staff writer / March 16, 2012 Social studies teacher Stafanie Hardgrave (c.) works with eighth graders Angel Martin (l.) and Cyrill Tan at Aki Kurose Middle School in Seattle. Read education headlines these days, and the take-away ...

Christian Science Monitor

Cepeda: Teachers aren't happy - guns, drugs don't help
LubbockOnline.com
By Esther Cepeda MetLife published its most recent “Survey of the American Teacher” last week, illuminating a dramatic decrease in teacher job satisfaction. The number of teachers “very satisfied” with their jobs has dropped to the lowest level in two ...

Higher education funding is vital
Citizens Voice
Tom Corbett's eagerness to blithely slash funding for universities raises the question of whether he sees higher education as a component of the commonwealth's global competitiveness. Corbett has proposed average 25 percent cuts in state funding for 14 ...

It's Politics: The education of Molly Munger
Pasadena Star-News
California school districts have been handing out pink slips to teachers like Rust Belt factories in 1980s. People across the state have grown tired of news headlines about school district deficits, and classrooms packed with more than 40 students, ...

UPDATE 1-Utah governor vetoes bill to curb sex education in schools
Chicago Tribune
(Adds comment, background and details) By Bob Bernick SALT LAKE CITY, March 16 (Reuters) - Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Friday vetoed a controversial bill banning public schools fromteaching contraception as a way of preventing pregnancy and sexually ...

In Utah, will restricting sex ed hurt or help teen health?
Salt Lake Tribune
But the Bountiful High graduate is glad his health teacher was able to share basic information about contraceptives as part of a lesson that promoted abstinence. "I feel like it's an important class to have because if the kids aren't aware of [the ...

Teachers need more support
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
This decline in teacher satisfaction is coupled with large increases in the number of teacherswho indicate that they are likely to leave teaching for another occupation. Two-thirds of teachersreported that their schools have had layoffs of teachers ...

Golden Apples for the best: Two area teachers honored for superior performance
Beloit Daily News
A beautiful summer-like day became even brighter for two Stateline Area teachers after they learned they were the recipients of this year's Golden Apple Awards, presented to top teachersby the Golden Apple Foundation. Gina Tuula, a fifth grade teacher ...

Budget 2012-13: Education Highlights
Times of India
The Budget seems positive for the education sector, with good amounts allocated to highereducation and school education exempted from service tax. Right to Education (RTE)-Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) received Rs 25, 555 crore allocation, ...

A Working Woman's World: Out-Learning and Under-Earning Men
The Atlantic
But women, at every step up the credential ladder, still earn less than men with the same level of education. (Indeed, in the survey, a majority of working women said they earned less than their spouse, and only one-fifth said they had more opportunity ...

South Colonie teachers take less to keep some jobs
Albany Times Union
By Tim O'Brien COLONIE — South Colonie teachers are giving up part of their raises next year to save some jobs. Teachers were slated to receive a 3 percent raise in the 2012-2013 school year, but agreed to freeze three-quarters of their pay and step ...

Remainders: Teachers report 10-hour workdays in new survey ...
By Philissa Cramer
A new report by Scholastic and the Gates Foundation details how hard teachers work. (Hechinger) The author of Hip-Hop ... (Education Sector); An Upper West Side magnet school emphasizes tech-driven project-based learning. (DNA Info); Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch ...(NYC P.S. Parents); A teacher at a selective school says the TDRs might finally start dialogue on pressure. (GS Community); Randi Weingarten ... 8:00 amCelebration of Teaching & Learning. Monday, March 19 ...
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Jim Sleeper: How Yale's Singapore Venture Imperils Liberal Education
By Jim Sleeper
Liberal education probably couldn't survive without markets and states, but Yale's Richard Levin should be reminded that, in effect, in a liberal capitalist republic like ours, markets and states can't survive without liberal education. ... Teachers · Lunch Box · Standardized Testing ... "But in political philosophy there's a living, unwritten constitution: Yale is really what we do -- our research, teaching, and conferences. Without that ..... Teacher Pension Funds Largely Underfunded, Study says ...
College on HuffingtonPost.com

Postdoc fellowship: New Circles of Learning for Engaged Scholars ...
By Candice Scharf
The fellow will work on a Lilly-funded project entitled New Circles of Learning for Engaged Scholars Studying Congregations. Boston University School of Theology seeks a post-doctoral Research Fellow for a period of three years, beginning ...
The Immanent Frame

Teacher At George C. Marshall High School Tells African American ...
By Chuck Carroll
A teacher at George C. Marshall High School reportedly asked a student to read a Langston Hughes poem "blacker" as he recited it for his freshman English class.
CBS DC

School Teacher Testifies Against NYPD Officer Accused Of Raping ...
By mzielinska
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A school teacher who accused an off-duty New York City police officer of raping her in Upper Manhattan took the stand Friday. Recounting in vivid detail the alleged attack, the 25-year-old victim — with tears in ...
CBS New York

Earl Martin Phalen: 600 Summer Learning Scholarships for Chicago ...
By Earl Martin Phalen
About two-thirds of the ninth-grade achievement gap between lower and higher income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities during the elementary school years. As a result, low-income youth are less ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

GTU flays Chief Education Officer for statement on student failure ...
By KNews
Bynoe pointed out that teachers are teaching but many parents are unsupportive and this indirectly causes students to disrespect the education system. “Children say they don't have to fight up to pass no class because school has to forward ...
Kaieteur News

Learning about the #needs of others and connecting the dots ...
Nowadays we meet "the whole world" in the social networks. We get to know different cultures and traditions, different values and different insights. THE OTHERS are different from US. They have different imaginations on life. They see the ...
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