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Saturday, July 01, 2017
Breakfast at Applebee’s supports Carroll Co NAACP education fund
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
9-year-old destroys Florida’s new standardized test in front of school board - The Washington Post
By Valerie Strauss April 7, 2015
"Meet Sydney Smoot, a 9-year-old fourth grader in Hernando County, Fla., who has more confidence than many adults. Smoot wrote (with help from her mom) and powerfully delivered (all by herself) a speech about Florida’s new standardized test, the FSA, or Florida Standards Assessment that drew loud applause from the audience."
Read more - this is fascinating... and well-written... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/04/07/9-year-old-destroys-floridas-new-standardized-test-in-front-of-school-board/?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1
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Monday, March 09, 2015
Some parents across the country are revolting against standardized testing - The Washington Post
By Emma Brown March 7, 2015
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/some-parents-across-the-country-are-revolting-against-standardized-testing/2015/03/05/e2abd062-c1e1-11e4-9ec2-b418f57a4a99_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
"A growing number of parents are refusing to let their children take standardized tests this year, arguing that civil disobedience is the best way to change what they say is a destructive overemphasis on tests in the nation’s public schools.
The resistance comes as most states roll out new tests aligned to the Common Core academic standards and as Congress struggles to rewrite the federal law that has defined the role of testing in schools for the past decade.
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“What I’m hearing from the opt-out parents is maybe this is the last chance to get the legislature’s attention,” said Mark Neal, an Ohio superintendent who is an outspoken critic of the new Common Core tests.
Neal pulled his son, a third-grader, out of PARCC testing this year — one of the Common Core exams — as did the parents of about 20 percent of students who were supposed to take tests in his small district east of Columbus.
“We’ve never had anything like this before,” Neal said. “We’ve never had this many tests, we’ve never spent this much time testing.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/some-parents-across-the-country-are-revolting-against-standardized-testing/2015/03/05/e2abd062-c1e1-11e4-9ec2-b418f57a4a99_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1
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Thursday, November 06, 2014
Teaching pre-K: Higher standards, not enough training, and the importance of purposeful play.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/schooled/2014/11/06/teaching_pre_k_higher_standards_not_enough_training_and_the_importance_of.html?wpsrc=slatest_newsletter&sid=5388f43add52b8e41100cd7e
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"As public prekindergarten expands in New York City and other parts of the country, teachers face competing tensions: On the one hand, there’s new pressure to teach more challenging academic material at younger and younger ages.
On the other, there’s mounting concern about the wisdom of shoehorning kindergarten and even first-grade content into the preschool years. Today’s pre-K instructors, for instance, feel much more compelled to teach children their numbers up to 100 or how to begin sounding out words than they used to.
Increasingly, early education experts agree that the best solution is to follow Markarian’s model: Mold and challenge young minds, but do it through purposeful play.
That’s not as easy as it sounds.
“That kind of teaching is much more difficult, and it takes a lot of training,” said Deborah Stipek, a professor of education at Stanford University. It’s much easier to lecture and pass out worksheets or to let kids engage in nonpurposeful and disorganized play—simply ensuring “they don’t beat each other over the head with blocks,” she says. “Really effective teaching is both playful and organized.”"
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Salisbury News: This is a "Good" example of Education 2014 style
This is so sad... just saying. http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2014/04/this-is-good-example-of-education-2014.html
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Lemon the Duck Banned from Classroom
Lemon the Duck Banned from Classroom
At least one popular member of Hathaway Elementary Schoolwill not return to the classroom this year.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Democratic Advocate, February 28, 1949: Mechanicsville School PTA dinner honors public officials
Democratic Advocate, February 28, 1949.
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/02/democratic-advocate-february-28-1949.html http://tinyurl.com/y9pec97
The guests will be invited to the auditorium where a turkey dinner will be served by the patrons. A short program will follow the dinner when the toastmaster, Mr. J. Randle will call on the superintendent, Mr. Samuel Jenness, the President of the Board of Education, Mr. Clyde Hesson, the President of the County Commissioners, Mr. Emory Berwager, the P.T.A. President, Mrs. Clarence Dell, and the Principal, Mr. Ralph Yealy who will also give brief remarks.
Democratic Advocate, February 28, 1949.
19490225 Mechanicsville PTA dinner honors public officials
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama Back to School Event
Back to School Event
http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaResources/PreparedSchoolRemarks/
Arlington, Virginia
September 8, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Public Schools Is A Local Responsibility
Democratic Advocate, July 23, 1948.
Public Schools Is A Local Responsibility - Federal Government Cannot Do A Better Job For Public Schools Than Local Communities Is The Belief—Washington, D. C., July
— One might almost be expected to believe that education of the youth of the country is a National political issue in 1948.
Government statistics show that in 1870 illiteracy in the United States was 20 percent. The average percent of illiteracy among native whites in the United States is less than two percent.
To say that the support of local schools is not the responsibility of the communities in which children live is dodging the issue. It is just as much the duty of parents in small districts to send their children to school as it is to put clothes on their backs and food in their stomachs.
The trouble that exists in nearly every part of the United States is the growing demand that the National Government must furnish the means and money to carry on all kinds of civic responsibilities, including paying the teachers and all the school expenses.
The Federal Government cannot—and will not—do a better job for public schools than local communities.
Democratic Advocate, July 23, 1948.
19480723 Public Schools Is A Local Responsibility Demo Advo
Thursday, November 29, 2007
20071127 Kelsey Volkmann: Jail, money issues ruin chance at security access, students told
Jail, money issues ruin chance at security access, students told
BALTIMORE - Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner 2007-11-27
Students have yet another reason to stay out of debt, avoid arrests and earn good grades.
They need clean financial, police and school records if they hope to earn the security clearances required for many of the military-related jobs coming to
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State education officials have met with leaders from school systems across the state to create a syllabus for a consumer literacy course called Personal Resource Management. The class, which would launch statewide next school year, would teach students about financial planning and how to maintain good credit.
Some school systems, including
The state also plans to launch a Web site next year that will give parents and students tips on how to attain security clearances.
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Read the entire article here: Jail, money issues ruin chance at security access, students told
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
20071112 “Schools, Union and Taxpayers” by Michael Barone in National Review On Line
"Schools, Unions & Taxpayers" - - - Michael Barone in National Review On Line
From
MTA suggests that fellow taxpayer-advocates ask their state legislators to discuss - frequently and publicly - the perils to the taxpayer arising from the leadership of Maryland's teachers and public employee unions.
{See http://www.examiner.com/a-1024548~Time_for_Grasmick_to_go.html}
{See http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2007/11/its-so-complicated-and-just-too-hard.html}
Related: Taxes Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) or Taxes Maryland or Taxes or Maryland General Assembly Oct. 29 2007 Special Session
Scroll down for chapter and verse from Michael Barone.
MICHAEL BARONE: "The AMT has no deduction for state and local taxes, and tends to hit high earners in high-tax states like
These states tend to have highly paid unionized public employees, and their union leaders surely understand that the AMT threatens to create political pressure to lower state and local taxes and therefore spending.
If voters can’t deduct their state and local taxes, their tax burden will go way up, and they may start a tax revolt. Better not let that happen! So eliminating the AMT is an imperative for Democrats.
Their [the union leaders] goals are to increase pay, which runs counter to taxpayers’ interests, and to minimize accountability, which runs counter to citizens. Republicans are not their reliable adversaries union leaders get cozy with Republican legislators when they can, by letting them know they wont oppose them." [Underscoring MTA's throughout.]
November 12, 2007
Leaving the Children Behind
In favor of the unions.
By Michael Barone
Education is not ordinarily thought to be in the purview of a Federal Reserve chairman. So it’s striking when Alan Greenspan in his memoir, The Age of Turbulence, raises the subject.
“Our primary and secondary education system,” he writes, “is deeply deficient in providing homegrown talent to operate our increasingly complex infrastructure.” The result: “Too many of our students languish at too low a level of skill upon graduation, adding to the supply of lesser-skilled labor in the face of an apparently declining demand.”
So if you’re concerned about widening disparities in income, Greenspan tells readers attracted to his book by its publicists’ promise of criticism of George W. Bush, then what you need to do is to “harness better the forces of competition” in educating kids.
As Greenspan concedes, we have done that to some extent. Governors Republican and Democratic have worked to make public schools more accountable, charter schools provide some needed competition, and the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act has further prodded states and localities in those directions. But except for a few cities, notably
Vouchers are adamantly opposed by the teacher unions, which spent millions persuading
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The teacher unions are an incredibly important source of money and volunteers for the Democratic party — about one in ten delegates at recent Democratic national conventions have been teacher union members or their spouses. When they snap their fingers, the Democrats jump. Vouchers threaten to dry up dues money, and that is that.
Teacher unions are not the only public employee unions important to the Democrats — nearly half the union members in the country are public employees. And you can see their power exerted as well in House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel’s tax reform proposal.
Rangel, who deserves credit for raising the issue of broad tax changes, proposes vast tax increases in order to eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax. The AMT, originally designed to make sure that a few millionaires could not avoid paying income tax, has never been indexed for inflation, and threatens to engulf 20 million taxpayers next year unless Congress passes another one-year “patch” or, as Rangel wants, abolishes it.
The AMT has no deduction for state and local taxes, and tends to hit high earners in high-tax states like
Looking ahead to future fiscal burdens, many people understand that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid threaten to consume an ever-larger share of the economy over the years. But so do state and local governments if public employee unions get their way. And to get it, they rely on taxpayer’s funds — all their dues income comes from the public fisc.
Read the entire column here: "Schools, Unions & Taxpayers" - - - Michael Barone in National Review On Line
National Review Online - http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTU0NWM2M2Y5ZTgzNWFhODFjZWYxZTQyOWMzMDMwYTA=
Richard FalknorExecutive Vice-President
Maryland Taxpayers Association, Inc.
http://www.mdtaxes.org