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This chapter looks interesting:

Class struggles: The UFT story, part 3

“The schism in the union over radical politics [is] a major reason for stalling the growth of a teacher union for decades.” Revolutionary politics and ideology take center stage, as the original Teachers Union becomes a battlefield, pitting leftist against leftist and splitting the union.
Clarence Taylor's "Reds at the Blackboard" focused on the old Teachers Union which disbanded in 1964 after suffering from anti-left attacks.

Of course for another view, check out the review at New Politics of the Kahlenberg Bio on Shanker by Vera Pavone and me: Albert Shanker: Ruthless Neocon


Effective Union Organizing

A video series put together by Jason Mann from the British Columbia Federation of Teachers about social media and how to use it for effective union organizing.

The first series was called New Media For Union Activists Roadmap and it's still available on-line at:
http://www.newmediabootcamp.ca/welcome/
I watched some of them and need to rewatch as they are loaded with information.

The second series started last week and it's called "Online Campaigning for Union Activists"

You can sign up for this free series at :
http://act.bcfed.ca/online-campaigning-for-union-activists/

Total Pageviews Since July 2009

State of the Union

See my article in depth:
Reforming the UFT is the Prime Directive
Visit the new SOTU blog http://sotuuft.blogspot.com

Must read: The Case for Large High Schools

Susan Crawford turns the parent choice argument on its ear at Schoolbook.

Diane Ravitch: Great new site (warning: satire)

http://www.standillinois.org

A DC teacher's story:

Why the DC Impact system Bloomberg wants NYC schools to emulate caused me to leave teaching -

http://t.co/Wy5wSPgw

Oldie but goodie; Norm mentioned on FAIR Re; Education Nation

http://www.fair.org/blog/2011/09/27/critics-and-questionable-sponsors-at-nbcs-education-nation/

You Don't Have A Choice - Join the Revolt

The Best Among Us: Join the Revolt On Wall Street or Stand On The Wrong Side of History
Chris Hedges

2011-10-02
http://susanohanian.org/show_commentary.php?id=976

Hedges says, There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history.

GEM Teachers and parents OCCUPY DOE- VIDEO FROM OCT 5, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cuFUC9iSE&feature=player_embedded

Norm's Message from the Trenches: A Little Bit of Personal History on School Organizing - Part I

http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2010/11/school-organizing-little-bit-of.html

I haven't done Part 2 yet but hope to soon.

GEM (Norm) Debates E4E (Sydney) on Teacher Seniority in Costco Mag

Don't sneeze at this one: 8 million copies in print.
http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/201108#pg19

MUST READ: How theCorporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other

Friday, June 17, 2011

How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other

Great Debate in Chicago

http://parentsacrossamerica.org/2011/05/chicago-teacher-debate-on-education-nation/

Class Bias, Class Size and Online Learning

Amazing piece by Leonie Haimson.

Good Article on Value-Added

The Answer Sheet
Leading mathematician debunks ‘value-added’

Ex-Harlem Success Teacher Comments on Eva the Diva

Ex-HSA Teacher has left a new comment on your post "Fear and Loathing at Evil's Harlem Success Empire ...":

I am a former Harlem Success teacher. Not many people who work/worked for her like her very much. I once made the comment that she is very nice when I first was hired. Two of her closest colleague responded immediately almost in unison, "Eve is not nice!" Over time I realized that there was a lot of political games going on. Another colleague once said to me that he was tired of "being part of a political campaign." Sending out 15,000 applications for only 400 seats in a school is reprehensible. The money that paid for those mass mailings could have paid the yearly salary of another teacher not to mention the heartache of all those parents who applied but did not get a spot. She does good work trying to give disadvantaged students a quality public school education but at a great cost to staff AND the school's educational budget! school budget.

GEM's Julie Cavanagh Debates E4E member on NY1 on LIFO and Seniority

http://www.ny1.com/?ArID=134963

Davis Guggenheim Compared to Riefenstahl

“Waiting for Superman" is the second most intellectually dishonest piece of documentary work I have seen. It is surpassed only by Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will," the pro-Hitler propaganda classic, in that regard. Uses personal narratives of adorable children to create narrative suspense that overrides public policy discussion with pure emotion in unscrupulous attack on teachers and their unions, among others

Timothy Tyson
Professor of African American Studies and History
Duke University

A Familiar Voice on Unions

"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike"
- Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933

How Teaching Experience Makes a Difference

Even as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michelle Rhee and others around the nation are arguing for experienced teachers to be laid off regardless of seniority, every single study shows teaching experience matters. In fact, the only two observable factors that have been found consistently to lead to higher student achievement are class size and teacher experience, so that it’s ironic that these same individuals are trying to undermine both.
- Leonie Haimson on Parents Across America web site


Full article with charts here.

Outsource our children

The Answer Sheet
Jon Stewart's hysterical defense of teachers

Weingarten/Gates Foundation announce drone-driven teacher evaluation

According to a press release issued by the Gates Foundation, the AFT and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, these three have entered a ground-breaking partnership to evaluate teachers utilizing the drone technology that has revolutionized warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. A bird-size device floats up to 400 feet above a classroom and instantly beams live video of teachers in action to agents at desks at Teacher Quality Inspection Stations established by the AFT and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

When asked if the drones were authorized to drop bombs on teachers who exhibit inadequacy, Chester E. Finn, Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, replied, "Don't be ridiculous. Gates money puts other methods at our disposal."

Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.5-million-member American Federation of Teachers said the powerful union has signed on to the drone project...

More at Substance

Rare, undercover footage from a principals’ retreat in Omaha

Principal Training Summit Video

Posted on January 23, 2011 by mrteachbad
http://teachbad.com/2011/01/23/principal-training-summit-video/


My Old Co-Worker and Chapter Leader, David Dow Bentley III, Now a Theater Critic

  • The People's Critic

Teacher Value-Added Data Dumping by Norm Scott

My Article on Teacher Value-Added Data Dumping in ...


The Real Reason Behind Push for Standardized Tests: It's All About the Adults

On standardized testing in our schools

A must read article about the standardized test industry.
Written by an insider who has worked as a test scorer, the article outlines a multinational industry based on an army of temporary workers paid by the piece at $0.30 to $0.70 per test, translated in the need to grade 40 tests per hour to make a $12 salary. The article goes on to show how the companies gauge the grading "results" based on the need to ensure new contracts to continue profiting off of our youth. The original article is from Monthly Review. Here it is on Schools Matter blog.

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/12/on-growing-use-of-corporate-test.html

Rockaway Theatre Company 2010 Highlights- See Norm Act (badly)

Rabbit Hole, Cactus Flower, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Rockaway Cafe (Halloween review), Odd Couple

http://vimeo.com/19171234

Notice the balding guy in Odd Couple. Not Laurence Olivier.

Did You Attend One of Eva's Harlem Success Academy Soirees for the Rich?

Moskowitz Aims Charters at Wealthy- So Much for Closing the Achievement Gap

You know, let's close that gap for rich kids. Why should their parents pay 30 grand for a private school when the public can foot the bill?

See Gotham Schools report

From Sharon Higgins

Something passed along to me by D. Ravitch.

http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-tangled-web-we-weave.html?spref=tw

A must, must, must, must read.

Parallels between America today and Germany in the 1920's and early 30's

"Resentment and obstruction are all the right wing in America have to peddle. Their policies are utterly discredited. Their ideology - even by its own standards - is a sham. They are so bereft of leaders, their de facto leader is a former drug addicted, thrice-divorced radio talk show host. That is literally the best they can muster. But they have built a national franchise inciting the downwardly mobile to blame the government, not the right, for their problems, exactly as Hitler did in the 1920s."

The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment

Published on Sunday, March 15, 2009 by CommonDreams.org

It's Class Size Stupid

Pissed Off Teacher nails the ed deformers

A Howl of a video as our friendly robots talk education

Now playing at Seattle Education
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/aunty-broad-says-no-on-the-levy/

Thanks to Sharron Higgins

So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities?

If you have five minutes to spare, this short cartoon film, "So you Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities?" is both very funny and scary at the same time.

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7451115/?ref=nf%C2%A0

Brian Jones on Education Nation Panel with Brill, Rhee, Weingarten, etc.

http://tiny.cc/wf4jh

"Charter Starter": a video spoof

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnrrw5CV3Gw

Sean Corcoran Findings on Value Added Measurement of Teachers Raises Doubts

Wide margins of error, instability on city’s value-added reports

Click above for Elizabeth Green report at Gotham Schools.

Chicago View of Unity/UFT on Charters

After many meetings and debates, the Chicago delegation succeeded in working with the New York United Federation of Teachers, Local 2 (UFT) to push the AFT to take stronger stands on charter school accountability and school closings — though many delegates from Chicago would have liked the language to have been even stronger.

Generally speaking, the New York delegation represented organizing charters as the best model for handling their role in reshaping unions, despite the fact that according to many reports few charter schools in New York have been organized as is the case in Chicago. This logic is the same touted by the Progressive Caucus of the AFT. The few that have been organized are a part of the UFT local though they have separate contracts negotiated with the help of UFT. The Chicago delegation reflection the mindset that allowing new charters to continue to proliferate while attempting to organize existing charters is an end game in which public schools and the union lose.

Jen Johnson, CTU, Local 1 in Substance

Video of Chicago/CORE Deal with UFT/Unity on School Closings at the AFT Convention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhailiqr4uQ

Ravitch: Why Public Schools Need Democratic Governance

http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k_v91/docs/k1003rav.pdf

NYC Parent Commission on School Governance

  • Parent Commission - Mayoral Control Recos 2010

More Videos of HSA vs. Mosaic Prep

Harlem Success Academy Vs. Mosiac Prep - Voices of Parents and Teachers

Rose Annette Jiminez and other parents speak at the Harlem Success Academy attempt to expand in Mosaic Academy.

Norm's Article on Seniority in The Indypendent

FIRST PERSON: Teaching Under Assault: Two visions of education clash as Bloomberg prepares to lay off 6,400 teachers

By Norm Scott, in the Jun 2, 2010 issue

After teaching elementary education for 27 years at PS 147 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I was offered a technology job at the district level in 1998.

Surprise: On AOL - Analysis of Closing of Metropolitan Corporate Academy in Brooklyn

I only had time to skim this but looks worth checking out:

Part 1: Did 'Failing' School Get Failed by the System?

Part 2: Champion Debate Team Rejects City's Verdict

Part 3: How Education Reform Can Turn Into a Shell Game

Part 4: When a School Year Ends in Purgatory

Ed Notes Greatest Hits: HSA Rally and Founding of GEM

SEE MY VIDEO ON HARLEM SUCCESS RALLY 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEp7rg_L5JI

Angel Gonzalez and I attended that rally and used the footage to promote our conference on Mar. 28, 2009, which is where the concept of a group like GEM emerged. Until then we had basically been a committee of ICE working with the NYCORE high stakes testing group. The actions of Eva and crew helped spawn GEM. Mommie Dearest!!

I have more video somewhere. I was hoping to get Leni Riefenstahl to edit it but she died. We would have called it "Triumph of the Hedge Fund Operators."


Video - Bill Gates at the AFT: Bringing in a Trojan Horse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ezri0pVOg


AFT Gates- California teacher chastises Randi for actions at Gates Protests
AFT Gates- Randi chastised for actions by California teacher


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSSSYQuIcs

Charter School Scandals - from Sharon Higgins

  • CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS
    7 years ago

Ravitch Debates Charter School Shill James Merriman

On NY1 Video Clip:

http://www.ny1.com/content/118229/story

Diana Senechal on Harlem Children's Zone

Sorry Geoffrey Canada, but failure IS an option, a reality, and even a boon - Diana Senechal

Washington Post Class Struggle
2010-04-09
http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=9289

The writer takes a look at the Harlem Children's Zone where failure is not an option but some grades are not mentioned.

Source: Ohanian

Parents Speak Out Against Mayoral Control of Schools at Tweed

Inside Schools has the video scoop.

MUST READ- Leonie on Eva

Haimson on Eva's saturation charter school mailings

An Oldie But Goodie: The Disparity Gap

At the Education Roundtable

Video of Chicago's George Schmidt and CORE Shredding Arne Duncan and the Chicago Corporate Model


Labor Beat video hosted at:
The video is hosted on blip.tv: http://blip.tv/file/2428857

Great Post on Teacher Quality at the Morton School

I'm very tired of the myth that schools are bursting at the seams with apathetic, unskilled, surly, child-hating losers who can't get jobs doing anything else. I recently figured that, counting high school and college where one encounters many teachers in the course of a year, I had well over 100 teachers in my lifetime, and I can only say that one or two truly had no place being in a classroom.

More at: http://themortonschool.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-teachers-stupidright.html

UFT Election Results 2004/07 Compared

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pgxRf3gM4qtyBFmTshSW1fQ&hl=en

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