Piping Hot Ed Blogs

It's been pretty quiet around here for various reasons. Which, since I am a geek, gives me some time to tinker. I've been experimenting with Yahoo! Pipes, a new service from Yahoo who's motto is "Rewire the web" which is what I've been doing with my Ed blog feeds. I took a bunch of my favorite blogs and ed news sources and poured them into one "pipe" and sorted them by date. The result is the mix of stories you see below. You can always see what it finds as the top stories right here.

Pipes is a new tool. It has some rough edges, and lots of enhancements are needed. But it's pretty simple to mash up your own pipe. Enjoy.

G-Town Talks writes: Teacher’s Rule or Principal’s Rule?

As the high school principal, I feel personally responsible for everything that happens in our building. Everything. So what to do, and I KNOW every principal will relate to this post, when teachers have complaints about school rules? Let’s use cell phones and MP3 players for an example. (And…

This Week in Education writes: Reporter Refutes Claims Of Junk Journalism

Refusing to knuckle under to the bullying views of know-nothing education bloggers like Kevin Carey and me , a brave education reporter named John Krupa from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Northwest takes on the notion that, in this case at least, the Wall Street Journal's recent story on…

NYT publishes: Face Book: A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but Status

As an independent college counselor, Loren Pope’s passion lies in promoting the virtues of small, little-known liberal arts colleges.

NYT publishes: Justices Hear Arguments on Autism-Case Dispute

The Supreme Court heard an appeal that will clarify the rules that prevent parents of children with disabilities from appearing without a lawyer.

This Week in Education writes: New America Takes Old View Of For-Profit Universities

New New America higher ed guy Stephen Burd takes an unfortunately predictable and under-nuanced swipe at the University of Phoenix and for profit higher ed companies in general in his post Fed Up at the University of Phoenix . In the piece, Burd rehashes the discredited NYT story from earlier this…

The Quick and the Ed teases: Bogusness Questioned

This Week in Education writes: Girls Like Them

I'm just starting to sift through all the great work that's collected at Listen Up!, but this first video, " A Girl Like Me ," already lets me know that there's lots of powerful stuff here. Broadcast on NPR in the fall, A Girl Like Me (2nd from the top) shows young African…

Joan Jacobs writes: It’s all about them

Gen Y college students are number one in narcissism, concludes a new study, “Egos Inflating Over Time.” Self-esteem has social costs, notes the Los Angeles Times. People with an inflated sense of self tend to have less interest in emotionally intimate bonds and can lash out when rejected or…

Joan Jacobs writes: Teachers vs. JROTC

At a 5,000-student, nearly all Latino high school in Los Angeles, the Junior ROTC program has lost nearly half its cadets in recent years, reports the LA Times. Some Roosevelt High teachers are trying to get the program dropped. Teacher Gillian Russom said (color guard drill) training instills the…

EduWonk writes: Perfect Storm?

Continuing the movie meme, ETS has a new report out, America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future . If you follow this issue it's nothing you haven't read/heard before, skills, economy, and demographics. Still worth checking out though the demographic section…

Eduwonk writes: An Inconvenient Truth

I'm pretty sure that it was the moment when the huge Teach For America screen banner and the picture of Sherry Lansing in a classroom during TFA Week came on the TV screen that Oscar night stopped being so much fun for all the folks who make at least part of their living beating on TFA. An open…

EdWise writes: Teacher Voices

A new New York City teacher blog, Teacher Voices, makes it debut with a timely piece on the problem of school safety. It is written by a Staten Island high school English teacher with a lively writing style, and is well worth a look.

EduWonk writes: Matt V. Mickey

Matt Yglesias and Mickey Kaus are doing something many political candidates don't want to: They're debating firing teachers. Though I think this specific issue -- "tenure" and firing teachers -- gets much more play than it deserves (the real underlying problem is a culture that…

And that is my small contribution to the ongoing efforts to rewire the web. Again. I've lost count...