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Governor Scott Walker to Deliver School Choice Policy Address at D.C. Summit
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will deliver a keynote address on school choice to the second annual National Policy Summit of the American Federation for Children, the organization announced today. The address will take place in Washington, D.C., on Monday, May 9, 2011.

Governor Walker, who recently proposed a historic expansion of Milwaukee's highly successful school voucher program, is expected to discuss prospects for expanding parental choice in Wisconsin and across the country. The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, which began 20 years ago, is the longest-running modern school choice program in the country.

The governor's address at the School Choice Now: Empowering America's Children policy summit will follow a series of afternoon panel discussions and a luncheon address by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett. More than 300 school choice advocates from across the country will attend the summit, which will take place at the Washington Marriott (1221 22nd St NW) in Washington, D.C. (Register: www.FederationForChildren.org/Summit)

"Governor Walker is one of the country's most visible leaders in the fight to provide children with enhanced educational options, and we're excited to welcome him to our signature annual event," said Betsy DeVos, chairman of the American Federation for Children. "Governor Walker is leading the battle to bring hope for a brighter future to thousands of struggling Wisconsin children. The Governor shares our belief that a child's zip code should not prevent them from getting a quality education, and we're thrilled to host him in a forum with so many other reform-minded leaders."

Before becoming Wisconsin's 45th governor in January, Governor Walker served as the Milwaukee County Executive and prior to that, as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. In both of his previous elected offices, Walker distinguished himself as an outspoken advocate for school choice, including both private school choice and public charter schools.

In just its second year, the AFC National Policy Summit is already becoming a renowned destination for conversations with some of the country's leading school choice leaders from both political parties. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and CNN analyst and author Roland Martin were featured guests at the 2010 event, and, in addition to Governors Walker and Corbett, this year's event will include former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee.
AFC is a national, non-partisan 501(c)(4) organization dedicated to the advancement of school choice—particularly for disadvantaged families—through school vouchers, tax credit scholarships, and public charter schools.For more information about the summit and to register online, please visit www.FederationForChildren.org.

Hummmmm... from the list of folks noted, and Walker's assault on public schools and unions, I have doubts about this. Anyone have more info?
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PISA 2009 Results

PISA 2009 Results presents the findings from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on reading and also assessed mathematics and science performance. The report comprises six volumes:

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/54/12/46643496.pdf


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NEWS / Education minister endorses 'supports' for gay students
Marcus McCann / Toronto / Tuesday, May 17, 2011


The early-morning event, organized by Egale, was a fundraiser for My GSA, a program that supports students who are part of gay-straight alliances or who want to start one.

Dombrowsky has been dodging questions about GSAs in Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic school system since news broke that the Halton Catholic District School Board had banned them. Since then, trustees have partially lifted the ban, but students are still forbidden from calling their clubs gay-straight alliances.

“What’s important is that the school board ensure that there is a group that will support the needs of those students,” says Dombrowsky in an interview with Xtra at the event. “It’s important that the school community decide what they want.”


Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky addresses the My GSA breakfast.(Marcus McCann) But Dombrowsky remains evasive about whether students at St Joseph’s Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga should be allowed to have a club with the word gay in its title.

“We’ve said, ‘Every student deserves to be supported,’ not ‘It must be done in this way.’ But we’ve made it very clear that it’s not an option, that it must be in our schools,” she says.

After Dombrowsky addressed the breakfast, James Ryan, president of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association (OECTA), spoke. In a tacit rebuke of Dombrowsky, Ryan did not mince words.

“The members that I represent are absolutely committed to all our students, including gay, lesbian, bi and trans students,” he said. “My association and our members have no problem with gay-straight alliances.”

Other union leaders piled on. Sid Ryan, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, thanked OECTA for taking a stand on the issue of Catholic GSAs.

“I want to acknowledge the Catholic teachers. It’s really brave of them to get behind gay-straight alliances,” he said.

Fred Hahn, the openly gay president of CUPE Ontario, a major financial backer of Egale’s GSA work, added that non-teaching staff (secretaries and maintence personnel) at high schools also support GSAs.

The event featured Jordan Todosey, who plays trans high schooler Adam Torres on Degrassi: The Next Generation, and Mike Grassi, one of the show’s writers.

The audience was a mix of students, teachers and Egale donors. At the head tables were a number of politicians, including Dombrowsky, Liberal MPP Yasir Naqvi, former health minister George Smitherman, and city councillors Janet Davis, Shelley Carroll and Kristyn Wong-Tam. Halton Catholic trustee Paul Marai was also on hand.


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i haven't been reading this thread, not because of the gay stuff, but just that this feels like the Year of Hating Teachers. i have stopped reading my NEA morning update for the most part too. It feels like i am getting clobbered every morning. Thank god for Lynn Ravich. And Obama darling, i am NOT voting for you unless Newt is looking good to win.
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I totally agree with you. And this is an issue most folks don't know much about. But most of what we know about history comes from these textbooks. They are the source of our culture's working knowledge. It is where censorship and cultural agendas are played out. Columbus is the classic example of this. Curriculum still states that he is taught as an explorer looking for spices. In the spite of autobiographical diaries in which he describes his quest for gold and methods for enslaving native Americans.
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I totally agree with you. And this is an issue most folks don't know much about. But most of what we know about history comes from these textbooks. They are the source of our culture's working knowledge. It is where censorship and cultural agendas are played out. Columbus is the classic example of this. Curriculum still states that he is taught as an explorer looking for spices. In the spite of autobiographical diaries in which he describes his quest for gold and methods for enslaving native Americans.
This really is something that awareness needs to raised about. Has to be extremely frustrating for teachers pouring themselves into their work. And with the shift to the "testing" in public schools.

My late partner taught elementary grades and she and a team teacher (a Native American) gave their 5th grade class the "real" history of the slaughter of Native Americans within the California Mission system. This was before the curriculum and testing requirements were in place as they are today.

The class was taken to a Mission on a field trip wherein one little girl asked the Mission guide at one point- "Where are the mass Indian graves." He said- "We don't talk much about those much."

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A bill passed Friday by the Tennessee Senate would forbid public school teachers and students in grades kindergarten through eight from discussing the fact that some people are gay.

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Swedish School Eliminates Gender

Erin Gloria Ryan — A preschool in Sweden is doing its part to make Tucker Carlson's bowtie spin around in shock and surprise.

CNN reports that the Egalia preschool in Stockholm will eliminate gender specific pronouns, and refer to the children present as "friends" rather than "boys" or "girls." Also on the chopping block? Fairy tales that further gender stereotypes, to be replaced with tales of families featuring gay and lesbian couples.

The school is funded by Swedish taxpayers, but if it ever finds itself in dire financial straits, it could always make extra money by charging American conservatives a hefty fee for a Halloween House of Liberal Horror tour of the facilities.

Scandinavian countries are known for their hippie dippie socialist ways, leading the world in gender equality.

"Society expects girls to be girlie, nice and pretty and boys to be manly, rough and outgoing," teacher Jenny Johnsson told the AP. "Egalia gives them a fantastic opportunity to be whoever they want to be."

It's a whole school of Storms!

This school, with its crazy ideas of equality and non sexualization of children, represents a serious international crisis. With Sweden going genderless, where will America's creepy uncles get their Swedish bikini team garage calendars?

No 'Boys' and 'Girls' at Gender Neutral School in Sweden [CNN]

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Wow! Just saw this thread for the first time. I'm not prepared to talk about any of the issues already raised yet, but I wanted to offer myself as an additional source, maybe to supplement the sources I see above.

I've been in editorial in textbook publishing for 20+ years. Some smaller specialty houses, as well as "biggies" with the multi-million dollar series (Houghton, Silver Burdett, Macmillan....). Recently I've worked in high-stakes assessment. But I didn't handle Georgia!

Anyway, I'll read at the links you've provided and see if I have anything to add. I just wanted to offer my perspective if it's relevant to discussion.

In textbook publishing, we often say: Textbooks are like hotdogs. If you knew what went into them, you wouldn't want to eat one.

(ha ha, "wouldn't want to eat one," we're a riot, we textbook editors)
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I would love to see teachers' responses to the above. I searched and searched for the "teacher thread", but couldn't find it. If anyone knows where it is and wants to post this there, that would be cool. I would just enjoy watching a teacher discussion on this.

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Ah! Indeed. I've worked in textbook publishing for more than 20 years. At a major house, such as Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt, Silver Burdett, the process with Texas is this:

They deliver late the info we need to get started, having lost time that could go into fact-checking and proofreading, because they've argued and argued over mundane points. It is completely political. Every bit of pedagogy is deliberated based on who it will make angry.

We start developing a textbook series, usually K-6 for me, which to give an idea of scope can have a budget of several million dollars. Several meaning, like, 20,000,000.

We race through prototyping and development, sending each stage to Texas for them to review. If one person says, gosh, I think this should be more neutral, or more "determined," or the sun on that page should "look sunnier," we run through the books again and check that the point doesn't influence anything else. Then they send it back, after the deadline we say we needed it to assure QA. (every deadline to us is missed, no question)

Then they say, No, not sunnier that way.

Okay, I've really gone on here, but the point is that the basic problems in the process reside with the political nature of state curriculum and instruction being overseen by people who need to meet political expectations.


And besides that (!!!), every frigging book ever printed has mistakes in it. These are books that have to be broken into multiple volumes, they're so long. Page counts reach over a thousand. Yes, big errors will be found.


Sheesh, I didn't even hit Toughy's point about how TX is determining what students in NY learn, and most other places, too. TX and California are all that count in the market. You don't want to know some of the "philosophies" they wish to push forward. As TX goes, so goes the nation, in textbooks.
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