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Labor Day 2013 & Teachers - Musical Media For Education

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Labor Day 2013 & Teachers

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This Labor Day Musical Media for Education (MME) honors public school teachers. To make the holiday more meaningful, please peruse the linkography below, a critique of changes currently threatening the teaching profession in the US.
"EDUCATION REFORM"/PRIVATIZATION & TEACHERS IN THE US —->

Mr. Conti’s Resignation Letter
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/teacher-resignation-letter-gerald-conti_n_3046595.html
Open letter to President Obama-Bill Ayers
http://www.good.is/posts/an-open-letter-to-president-obama-from-bill-ayers

Bill Gates’ technocratic dystopia-Anthony Cody 
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2013/05/dystopia_a_possible_future_of_.html

Elite attitude toward teachers-Professor Naison
http://withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com/2013/08/to-nations-elites-teachers-are-losers.html

Reason for the Destruction of the Teaching Profession- Chris Hedges
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_united_states_is_destroying_her_education_system_20110410

Gates’ RESPECT Teacher Evaluation
http://atthechalkface.com/2013/04/27/more-on-the-respect-blueprint-attracting-the-desperate-and-the-naive/

A teacher’s perspective on standardized testing (blog)
http://www.pernilleripp.com/2013/05/maps-testing-makes-me-feel-like-bad.html?utm_source=+Is+Summer+Break+%22Broken%3F%22+May+10+%2C2013&utm_campaign=Is+Summer+Break+%22Broken%3F%22&utm_medium=email

Teacher Appreciation Week Hijacking
http://reclaimreform.com/2013/05/07/teacher-appreciation-week-has-drastically-changed-within-one-week/
Teach for America (4)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-adv-teach-for-america-20130804,0,866908.story

http://www.networkforpubliceducation.org/news/nyc-public-school-parents-the-biggest-scandal-of-teach-for-america/

http://www.demos.org/blog/yes-teach-america-political-organization

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jul/17/teach-for-america-criticism-educators

Teacher Resistance-Jesse Hagopian 
http://www.good.is/posts/how-mass-civil-disobedience-at-a-seattle-high-school-catalyzed-the-education-spring

BATs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/07/12/how-mad-are-some-teachers-this-mad/

Teacher Un-resignation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/08/11/teacher-who-left-why-i-am-returning-to-school/?fb_action_ids=10201819099703798&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210201819099703798%22%3A226831037467956%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210201819099703798%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
Presentation:
"David Coleman is considered to be the architect of the Common Core Standards. ‘The most important thing to know is that it was actually teachers who had the most important voice in the development of the Common Core standards,’ he says. He started working on the standards years ago, as one of the founders of the private consulting group Student Achievement Partners. Today, he’s president of the College Board, which administers the SAT. Coleman credits 45 governors thus far for putting their political differences aside and moving to adopt Common Core."
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/14/177175296/core-curriculum-puts-education-experts-at-odds

Reality:
"Recent critiques of the Common Core Standards by Marion Brady and John T. Spencer have noted that the process for creating the new K-12 standards involved too little research, public dialogue, or input from educators. Nowhere was this more startlingly true than in the case of the early childhood standards—those imposed on kindergarten through grade 3. We reviewed the makeup of the committees that wrote and reviewed the Common Core Standards. In all, there were 135 people on those panels. Not a single one of them was a K-3 classroom teacher or early childhood professional."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/29/a-tough-critique-of-common-core-on-early-childhood-education/


Police, Don’t Stand So Close To Me (music video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM
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