{"id":11772,"date":"2014-01-05T01:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=11772"},"modified":"2014-01-05T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T17:30:48","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-happy-happy-merry-merry-and-up-the-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-happy-happy-merry-merry-and-up-the-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Happy Happy Merry Merry! and Up the Rebels!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We<\/strong><\/span> Say F<\/span>ight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"IVAW<\/a>\"IVAW<\/a>IVAW in Chicago, December 2013<\/p>\n

\"Education<\/a>Education for Revolution a special issue collaboration of the journals Works & Days and Cultural Logic has just been launched. networkedblogs.com\/SrLbJ?ref=nf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

US judge releases dying civil rights lawyer convicted of aiding terrorism \u00a0<\/strong>A federal judge has granted Lynne Stewart, a prominent former civil rights attorney who was convicted of aiding terrorism, a “compassionate” release from prison because she is dying of cancer.
\nStewart, 74, has been serving a 10-year sentence for her 2005 conviction on helping a client, blind Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, smuggle messages from prison to Egypt’s Islamic Group, which the U.S. government had listed as a terrorist organization. \u00a0\u00a0 america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/1\/1\/us-judge-releasesdyinglawyerconvictedofaidingterrorism.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Testing the Common Core \u00a0<\/strong>The education world is scrambling to avoid its own version of a full-scale HealthCare.gov<\/a> meltdown when millions of students pilot new digital Common Core tests this spring.
\nTechnological hiccups, much less large-scale meltdowns, won\u2019t do: The results of the Common Core tests will influence teachers\u2019 and principals\u2019 evaluations and other decisions about their jobs. Schools will be rated on the results. Students\u2019 promotion to the next grade or graduation from high school may hinge on their scores. And the already-controversial Common Core standards, designed to be tested using a new generation of sophisticated exams that go beyond multiple-choice testing, may be further dragged through the mud if there are crises. \u00a0Read more: www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/12\/common-core-testing-problems-seem-inevitable-101568.html#ixzz2pVjex3fs<\/a><\/p>\n

Berliner:\u00a0Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America\u2019s Youth <\/strong>\u00a0–The research question asked is why so many school reform efforts have produced so little improvement in American schools. The answer offered is that the sources of school failure have been thought to reside inside the schools, resulting in attempts to improve America\u2019s teachers, curriculum, testing programs and administration. It is argued in this paper, however, that the sources of America’s educational problems are outside school, primarily a result of income inequality. Thus it is suggested that targeted economic and social policies have more potential to improve the nations schools than almost anything currently being proposed by either political party at federal, state or local levels. \u00a0\u00a0 www.susanohanian.org\/show_research.php?id=544<\/a><\/p>\n

Shocker! Minnesota Teaching Ranks Segregated! \u00a0AND—<\/strong>A federal survey from 2008, the latest data available, found that nationwide, just 17 percent of educators were minorities while 40 percent of the country’s students were children of color. \u00a0\u00a0 www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_24808352\/can-minnesotas-achievement-gap-be-closed-by-diversifying<\/a><\/p>\n

NM Paper Warns Vs Test Opt-outs\u00a0<\/strong>School boards and the state Public Education Department should be more willing to listen to the concerns of teachers and parents who say the testing has gone too far. But parents should think carefully about all the potential consequences before deciding to opt out of those tests. \u00a0\u00a0 www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-opinion\/ci_24798520\/editorial-right-balance-needed-school-testing<\/a><\/p>\n

Enrollment an F for Michigan’s Bad Bank School System \u00a0<\/strong>Kenneth Wong, a professor of education at Brown University who has researched statewide recovery school districts across the nation, cites the EAA\u2019s 24 percent drop in enrollment from fall 2012 to fall 2013 as a significant sign of trouble.
\nThe district and its leaders should pause and consider whether they are matching the right educational partners and services with students in a city with high poverty and illiteracy, he said.
\n\u201cThis is a strong warning signal as to whether to keep this going. The leadership team would really have to make a strong argument \u2018if you give us another two years,\u2019 \u201d he said.
\n\u201cWhy is this justified to go forward?\u201d From The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20131230\/SCHOOLS\/312300023#ixzz2pVdV0sI9<\/a><\/p>\n

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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF iPADS IN SCHOOLS <\/strong>This a financial analysis of the quoted financial data on iPads and Apple as published in Bloomberg BusinessWeek in the article “The iPad goes to School.”<\/p>\n

First- $50,000,000\/30,000=$1,666.66 each not $678.00 as later quoted. Second-10,000,000 iPads in schools in the U.S. X $599 = $389,000,000<\/p>\n

10,000,000 X $770=$500,500,000
\n10,000,000 X $1,598 = $1,038,700,000
\nAmount approved by the LAUSD Citizens Oversight Committee
\n10,000,000 X $2,355 = $1,530,750,000
\nAmount approved by the LAUSD Citizens Oversight Committee<\/p>\n

Apple will sell 78,000,000 iPads this year<\/p>\n

Apple sold 10,000,000 iPads to students in 2013<\/p>\n

10,000,000 X $599 = $5,990,000,000
\n10,000,000 X $770 = $7,770,000,000
\n10,000,000 X $1,598 = $15,980,000,000
\n10,000,000 X $2,355 = $23,550,000,000<\/p>\n

50,000,000 K-12 students in the U.S. X $1,598 = $79,900,000,000<\/p>\n

The industry states that education is a $167,000,000,000 market, what do they have in mind for the difference of more than \u00bd to steal also? If you do not run the numbers you know nothing.<\/p>\n

They give the base numbers just not the division to individual units and that is how you know what it costs to compare. \u00a0\u00a0 susanohanian.org\/show_research.php?id=541<\/a><\/p>\n