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Showing posts with label Al Shanker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al Shanker. Show all posts
Friday, August 17, 2012

Albert Shanker on Merit Pay

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Shanker says some interesting and contradictory things in these statements. I raise the issue here to support my theme that in any ways Rand...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Arne Duncan, Segregationist?

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Would the first African-American president appoint as an education secretary someone who has led Chicago backwards in terms of integration a...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

NY Teacher Reporter Responds to Our Shanker Book Review

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Last year Vera Pavone and I reviewed Richard Kahlenberg's "Albert Shanker: Tough Liberal" for New Politics (A Journal of Socia...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Accountability?

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Think it costs too much to reduce class size and provide other services to kids and parents in urban school systems? Create a phony one way ...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Kahlenberg on Shanker: He's Baaack

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Vera Pavone and I reviewed Kahlenberg's "Tough Liberal" for New Politics and you can download a pdf or click on the link at t...
Friday, June 6, 2008

Shanker Blows Up the World

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The review Vera Pavone and I wrote, "Albert Shanker: Ruthless Neocon" of Richard Kahleberg's "Albert Shanker: Tough Libe...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Obama, Clinton, the UFT, Shanker, Kahlenberg

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Boy, that's a mouthful. With today's primaries promising to be somewhat important (my belief is that Obama has been damaged to such ...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Seniority Be Damned!

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When you get on an airplane, peek in the cockpit. Do you feel better or worse if there's a gray-haired gent sitting in the pilot's s...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Was the Nation Really At Risk?

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... Twenty Five Years Later Richard Rothstein has done some work on "A Nation At Risk" report which started the current ed "...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Randi and Al

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Update: Some audio and video of a Kahlenberg "Tough Liberal" appearance at NYU on April 1 is posted at David Bellel's blog . E...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Message from TAG: Weingarten - Failed Labor Leader

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UPDATED April 2 The message below was sent from Teachers Advocacy Group (TAGNYC). They blame Weingarten, perhaps not realizing the longstan...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Shuffling the Deck on the UFT Titanic

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"He won't last 6 months." Thus spoke an observer upon hearing Jeff Zahler was replacing the affable and capable Michael Mendel...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Triangulation 2 from George Schmidt and a Question on Shanker and Democracy

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This is a video of a statement/question I made at the Century Foundation breakfast in November sponsoring the Kahlenberg book tour which was...
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Sunday, December 23, 2007

The Roots of UFT Policy Forum

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Thurs. Dec. 27 11-2pm in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. We are running a forum this Thursday at 11 am in Brooklyn that will delve into th...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Bush Profiteers collect billions from NCLB

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This is the first piece of 23 parts (so far). Kathy Emory attended the high stakes testing conference John Lawhead and I attended in Birm...