Renee Moore's Public Library

16 Oct 09

Teacher Magazine: Reaping What We've Sown: How Schools Fail Low-Income Parents

My blog article on poor parents as it appeared in TM. Also picked up by ASCD smartbrief

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25 Sep 09

Eager Students Fall Prey to Apartheid’s Legacy - NYTimes.com

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Teachers’
Most teachers in South Africa’s schools today got inferior educations under the
Bantu system, and this has seriously impaired their ability to teach the next
generation
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  - Compare this to what happened to an entire generation of Black educators in the South after the Brown decisions. Hundreds of veteran Black teachers, many with advanced degrees and years of experience, were summarily fired by school districts rather than given positions in the newly integrated schools. Others suffered demotions, lost of benefits, and other indignities. A large part of that was retaliation as Black teachers were considered among the leaders of civil rights activism within their communities. - on 2009-09-25
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- including teacher absenteeism
- this deficiency was worse in poor and working-class communities
- Teachers’
- implicitly challenging the powerful South African Democratic Teachers’ Union
  - How many of these are fully qualified teachers, or are these lower ability persons recruited to work in these more challenging and stressful schools (think urban or rural poor)? Are all of these teachers members of and protected by the Union? What is the Union's position and who is its leadership? - on 2009-09-25
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- Teacher vacancies commonly go unfilled for months, she said. Principals
  cannot select the teachers in their schools or discipline them for
  absenteeism.
- critical an effective principal and disciplined teachers are to student
  achievement

04 Aug 09

100 Best Blogs for Teachers of the Future | Clear View Education Blog

Blogs worth closer look.

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02 Aug 09

21st Century Learning: The Fabric of Community- The Key to Transforming Education

This is the article Anthony Cody responds to in his post

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Living in Dialogue: Reform, Transform, Or Just Hang On for Dear Life?

<a href="http://www.teacherleaders.org"><img src="http://www.teachermagazine.org/media/2008/04/30/tln_logo2.gif" border="0" height="110" width="220" alt="Teacher Leaders Network" align="right" /></a> After 18 years as a science teacher in inner-city Oakland, Calif., Anthony Cody now works with a team of experienced science teacher-coaches who support the many novice teachers in his school district. He is a National Board- certified teacher and an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network. With education at a crossroads, he invites you to join him in a dialogue on education reform and teaching for change and deep learning.

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school reform

10 Jun 09

Up Against the Wall | Learning Matters

John Merrow raises interesting problems related to using growth model in educational measurement.

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national standards

28 May 09

New Push Seeks to End Need for Remedial Classes Before College - NYTimes.com

Explores disconnect between high school instruction and college readiness.

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remediation

- This recent article in NYT, profiles one community college freshman faced with the now common problem of being placed in remediation for basic English even though she has just graduated with a diploma from high school. It highligts many important and disturbing issues about the lack of consistency in our educational system. - on 2009-05-28
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The two systems don’t communicate well at all.”
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- Even some high school honors students failed college placement exams and were
  assigned to her developmental courses, she said.
  
  “Boy, were they surprised,” Ms. Manchin said.
  - I had a niece in this situation. A member of the high school honor society, who had taken honors English courses all the way through high school. Yet the state college wanted to put her in remedial English based on her ACT subscore for the English section of the test. This is disturbing when we have considerable documentation that these college entrance tests (ACT, SAT) are not good predictors of the performance of African American students in college settings. So why are colleges still making these decisions based on flawed information? - on 2009-05-28
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- Three English teachers and five math teachers were uncertified, she
  - Anybody see a connection between the high percentage of uncertified persons in this school and the dismal performance of its graduates who attempted college? Why do they even refer to these people as "teachers"? They're just sitters. - on 2009-05-28
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The Selling of School Reform

The strange coalition of EEP as ed reformers

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school reform policy

25 May 09

Teacher Quality: Conversations on Quality - Rethinking Schools - Volume 20 No. 2 - Winter 2005/2006 - Rethinking Schools Online

Interview with Gloria Ladson Billings on Teacher Quality

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23 May 09

Looking at the classroom from the other side

Why students dropout

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students matter

Prepare teachers well, create the conditions for excellence | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

Interview with Linda Darling-Hammond on teacher preparation and quality. Especially like her point that teachers in other countries are given more paid time for collaboration than U.S. teachers are.

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teacher preparation school reform

Q. What sort of support do teachers need to become more effective, from
professional development to time for collaboration with colleagues?

A. In
most high-achieving countries,
teachers
have 15 to 25 hours a week where they are planning collaboratively with their
colleagues, so they are not just making up lessons at the kitchen table on a
Sunday night by themselves.
- Probably the single most important improvement we could make to professional development in most schools. - on 2009-05-23
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22 May 09

Digitally Speaking / Voicethread

BillF PD wiki on how to set up and use VoiceThreads with students.

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classroom tech voicethread

11 Jul 08

eduwonkette: Guest Blogger Mica Pollock on: Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School

Through the lens of social science, eduwonkette takes a serious, if sometimes irreverent, look at some of the most contentious education policy debates. <em>(Find eduwonkette's complete archives prior to Jan. 6, 2008 <a href="http://www.eduwonkette2.blogs

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Teaching profession

CyberEnglish: Students make great teachers

Ted Nellen's CyberEnglish blog. Ted is a pioneer in use of Web technologies with students.

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Teaching English

TeachMoore

Carnegie Scholar and former Mississippi Teacher of the Year Renee Moore writes about education policy, teacher leadership and effective classroom practice in high needs schools in her blog TeachMoore.

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MyBlog

10 Jul 08

Who is responsible? | In Practice

Teachers often complain about the sheer number of things they are expected to do in their job. Emails circulate listing the various ‘jobs’ a teacher does:

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