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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
When you ask Ohio Governor Ted Strickland who has left an indelible mark on who he is today, he’s quick to answer.
“The most important influences in my life have been teachers.”
“Teachers have incredible power and monumental influence. What’s most important…is that (teachers) need to be respected by the government.”
Governor Strickland has begun to speak publicly about his 6 point plan to improve the educational system in the state of Ohio. Officially unreleased at this point, his plan leaves no student—or teacher—behind. Strickland recently spoke exclusively to The CEA Voice about his 6 point plan.
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Posted in Middle Schools, Charter Schools, High Schools, Elementary Schools, Privatization, Labor, Vouchers, Ohio Education Association, Professional Development, Faculty Representatives, Columbus City Schools, NCLB, CEA | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
The blogosphere has been awash recently with posts about the 25th anniversary of “A Nation At Risk” (ANAR). For the uninitiated, ANAR was a report received by President Ronald Reagan that American schools were lacking compared to other nation’s educational systems. Without reform, the report said, American students would be in a race– for the bottom.
The CEA Blog has been fortunate enough to acquire a slightly used Flux Capacitor and retrofit a union-made car for the trip of a lifetime. We asked a number of edu-bloggers the question “What would the American educational landscape be like today if A Nation At Risk were never released?” and loaned them the time machine. Their trips produced interesting posts; they’ll begin popping up next week.
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) recently released “Sizing Up State Standards 2008″, a report that analyzes the content standards written by individual states. Ohio’s K-12 Math and Science standards were ranked as “model” standards, but English and Social Studies weren’t ranked. You can read what AFT wrote about it on their blog, or download (PDF) the whole report.
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Welcome to the Carnival of Education! This is the 167th carnival, and the second time The CEA Blog has hosted this wonderful collection of rantings, musings, quotations, ideas, thoughts, inspirations, realizations and the like. The 168th edition will be hosted by the Education Wonks; email them at owlshome {at} earthlink {dot} net, or use this handy submission form. Yes, for those of you wondering, the picture is a snapshot of our fair city. Without further ado, click on the jump below and…. let’s Carnival!
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Posted in Best Practices, Labor, Middle Schools, High Schools, Elementary Schools, NBCT, NCLB, National Education Association, Professional Development, Faculty Representatives, Columbus City Schools, High Stakes Testing, CEA | 6 Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2008
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Grammy award winning musical jack-of-all-trades Tom Chapin and songwriting partner John Forster aim their guitar and songwriting skills at satirizing No Child Left Behind and the testing mania that has engulfed the nation. “Not On The Test” is available for free download with the lyrics here.
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
The CEA Blog would like to wish everyone a happy, safe and restful spring break. Some recent highlights from around the edu-blogosphere: merit pay for wardens at prisons, students engaging in civil disobedience, using mixed numbers in real life, and the achievement gap between college basketball teams participating in March Madness.
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
“Market forces have changed the employment and education landscape in our community,” said Superintendent Harris, introducing the recommendations made by the Linden Area Task Force’s Feasibility and Implementation Team to the Columbus Board of Education.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The Columbus Dispatch has recently run a story on the ongoing testing saga students and teachers in the Columbus City Schools have been forced to endure since returning from Winter Break. The amount of testing at all grade levels in CCS has been the subject of a grievance sent to arbitration by your Association as well as an earlier Speakout on The CEA Blog.
“When you need to be spending time teaching children to read, you are testing them,” said Columbus Education Association President Rhonda Johnson. “That’s taking away valuable classroom time.”
You can read the entire story here.
Posted in High Schools, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, NCLB, Columbus City Schools, High Stakes Testing, CEA | 4 Comments »
