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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Memories and Tragedies

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About 10 years ago I go a call on Thanksgiving night from a former student from a correctional institution upstate. He was serving life (and...
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Memories: Teachers in Charge

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As teachers have been shunted aside and de-skilled in the corporate takeover of school systems I still cling to the increasingly unlikely th...
Monday, February 18, 2008

A Web of Intrigue

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UPDATED Tuesday, Feb. 19, 9 pm Is there a vast neoliberal conspiracy to impose a market-based system on urban public schools in partnership ...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

F-U Time

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The day I turned 55, I visited a school on my weekly run as a district tech support person. The principal, one of my generation, congratulat...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Giving up on The Voucher Band-Aid

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While I don't agree with their reasoning, a NY Sun opinion piece and Sol Stern (see article in NY Times ) are disavowing vouchers, one ...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Broken Hearts Rally: Updated

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Updated, Sat., Feb. 16 At the DA on Feb. 6, an amendment calling for a Feb. 14 rally as an addition to the official UFT resolution fighting ...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The Randi Weingarten Succession Obsession

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Part 2 : Who will sit on the throne? Part 1 is here . With Ed McElroy's announcement that he would retire in July as AFT President, Ran...
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Eduwonk in Amazing Discovery

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Eduwonk Discovers Culprit Obstructing Ed Reform Finding the key to the obstruction to finding solutions to education problems in this countr...
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Randi's Time Has Come - Coy No More

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AFT Pres. McElroy Announces Retirement I want to let you know that AFT secretary-treasurer Nat LaCour and I plan to retire at the AFT conve...

An Ode to Bloomberg

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I entered Eduwonkette's Valentine Poetry Contest , using a poem (comment #3) by a Bloomberg Presidential shill as a framework. Graphic b...
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Monday, February 11, 2008

Update on Feb. 14 Rally at Tweed

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The latest I heard was that there are groups assisting but not sponsoring. For instance, there was an error that Time Out for Testing was a ...

Queen Bee Meets Queen Bee

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Norm in The Wave: Following are excerpts from my bi-weekly column in the Feb. 8 issue of The Wave (www.rockawave.com), Rockaway Beach, New Y...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008

More on Obama and Education in Chicago

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Finally, we are getting some hard core information on Obama and the Chicago school issue from someone involved in the front lines and this l...
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Smearing Obama: More Wind from the Windy City

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George Schmidt's critical look at the Obama Ed program which we posted here seems to have been joined by Alexander Russo. I get the fee...
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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Rally to Oppose Budget Cuts or Another Sell-out?

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Excuse my cynicism, but is this the same coalition that sold us out in the Keep the Public in Public Education Coalition? - a NYC parent o...
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Dear Lord Chancellor Klein

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This email was seen floating around inboxes. Don't know who wrote it, but Kudos: Dear Lord Chancellor Klein, Tis I your humble serv...
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Thursday, February 7, 2008

The Conscious Classroom and Social Justice

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This year I have shifted my priorities from working mostly on union related matters to broader-based activities, like working with Sally Lee...
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Lead Teachers should be chosen by....

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With the Lead Teacher program, supported strongly by the UFT and the DOE, being threatened by budget cuts, we are hearing demands for it to ...
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Speculation on Randi Weingarten's Successor

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Part 1. See part 2 here. A few weeks ago, Elizabeth Green at the NY Sun nailed a very interesting story on Randi Weingarten's "suc...
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Mayoral Control: what we can and cannot learn from other cities

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Gotbaum's Commission on School Governance report. Lots to wade through but it might be worth a look. Download it here: http://pubadvocat...