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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

$220 Billion for Bail Out, Zilch for Schools

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The Ed "reformers" always talk about accountability in terms of "no excuses" for poverty, large class sizes, etc. They a...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

8th Grade Retention Battle at Tonight's PEP

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It is the 4th anniversary of the Monday Night Massacre where 3 PEP members were fired by Bloomberg because they were going to vote against t...
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Under Bloomberg schools are micromanaged and budgets cut...

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... while the Construction Industry Gets to Run Around Like Free Range Chickens. Sent this morning from a friend whose office is down the bl...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

News from the Blogs

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Grading the Schools on Terror – Under Assault writes As long as everyone’s going around designing “grading” systems for schools – first Klei...

Rubber Room on the Radio

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David Bellel has put up the audio with a slide show of the this american life radio program – produced by Joe Richman , Anayansi Diaz -...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Spitzer Redux

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Selections from ICE-mail on Spitzer: Michael Fiorillo writes: Now that the tsunami-like tide of revulsion and moralizing has ebbed somewhat,...
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Jumping Checker

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Susan Graham blogging at A Place at the Table at this link with a post called "Lessons Not Learned"and Nancy Flanagan at Teacher...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Two Awful Opeds in NY Times

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David Bellel places Andrew Rotherham/Eduwonk in his true role as a high-priced hooker for the phony Ed reform establishment. Anyone surprise...

"I Blame the NY Times"

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A NYC teacher, a Teaching Fellow from one of the first cohorts who after 5 years moved west and is still teaching, writes: Out here, I hear ...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Eduwonk Gets Wonked - Et tu NY Times?

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Vera Pavone responds to the NY Times triple whammy on Sunday and Monday. As an example of the kind of reporting that doesn't fit the T...
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Trusting Elizabeth, Not the NY Times

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Recently, a potentially hot news story was broached to some people in ICE. The first reporter they asked for was the NY Sun's Elizabeth ...

Debating Mayoral Control

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A debate on mayoral control has been heating up at the NYC Education News Listserve , where I have been arguing against a centralized system...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Worth Reading....

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...on teacher quality, the corporate model, pay for performance, NYC school governance, mayoral control, and commentary on Rotherham / Eduwo...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Spitzer Does as Spitzer Says

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I didn't vote for Spitzer. Everyone said we had to in order to save public education. The UFT led the cheers. Spitzer even came to a Del...
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PS 106 Redux

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Here is a section of a piece that appeared in my School Scope column in The Wave on Friday, March 7. The rest of the column included section...
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Merit Pay Defeated in GED-Plus

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by Marjorie Stamberg The merit pay proposal in GED-Plus has been solidly defeated--ballots were counted on March 6. Many chapter members wor...
Saturday, March 8, 2008

Mayoral Control No Better With Checks and Balances

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Even some of the severest critics of Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein - many of them on Leonie Haimson's NYC education news listserve...
Thursday, March 6, 2008

The UFT Delegate Assembly

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Early reports on the March Delegate Assembly was that the UFT passed a resolution in support of the Puerto Rican teachers. Considering info ...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Dropping Richard Rothstein on Chester Finn

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I attended the Manhattan Institute luncheon at the Harvard Club for Chester Finn's new book "Troublemaker." Finn, known as Che...
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