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Friday, August 21, 2009

Washington DC: How to Wipe Out a Public School System

When we met in Los Angeles last month with teacher activists from NY, Chicago, LA, San Francisco and Washington DC, the DC crew gave an exce...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

On Teacher Power - and we don't mean the power of union leaders

Teacher unions are being assailed for having too much power. But since I started teaching in 1967, at no point did I think I had any power. ...

Joel Klein on TV in Oz

Our Aussie contact Trevor Cobbold sent us the latest on the adventures of Joel in Oz. Hi everyone, You might be interested that Joel Klein ...

Incoming- DUCK

Excuse the sloppy formatting. There is so much stuff coming in and I'm really falling behind. Here are a bunch of links to check out, ma...

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

(Revised) Organizing Parents: Harder Than Herding Cats (Much)

Updated Aug. 18, 10 PM I was chastised on a number of issues related to my earlier posting of this piece and number one was my confusion reg...

Guessing Your Way to a Third (and Fourth) Term as Mayor

Diana Senechal's piece at Gotham - Guessing My Way to Promotion - h as caused some comments. Her research shows you could score a level ...

Monday, August 17, 2009

ICE Throws it Down for the 2010 UFT Elections

ICE/TJC presidential candidate James Eterno throws it down in his post at the ICE Blog . An excerpt from Eterno's post: We are posting ...

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Town Hall Meetings Urge NY State Legislature to Pull the Plug

August, 2015 NYC Raucous town hall meetings have been springing up in all boroughs of New York City urging NY State legislators who supporte...

Jean Shepherd - On NPR -Hearing Voices

Talk about the Woodstock nostalgia craze going on this weekend (later, see my personal story - no, I was not there but in Europe that summer...

Friday, August 14, 2009

There's a lot of gnashing of teeth over the details of mayoral control bills - Updated

UPDATED Aug. 17, 1AM: The GEM blog has some details: Disparate bills signed into law? I gave up the ghost on trying to stop mayoral control...

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Rationality on Social Promotion is the Missing Ingredient

I really take issue with the fact that the writer of this piece opposes efforts to end social promotion. Social promotion is a big problem i...

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Stringer Puts Patrick Sullivan Back at PEP – Ed Notes Had the Video of Stringer Offer to Sullivan a Month Ago

Anna Phillips at Gotham has a report on Patrick Sullivan's appointment to the Panel for Educational Policy by Scott Stringer. Back from...

Mid-Summer Course Correction

School Scope column By Norm Scott From The Wave, Friday, August 14, 2009: www.rockawave.com There have been enough things going on in th...

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Unsocialized Promotion

Lots of reporting going on today over the politically tinged BloomKlein announcement they were going to end socialized promotion in 4th and ...

Monday, August 10, 2009

What's wrong with charter schools?

This recent comment at Gotham Schools by Ceolaf is worth repeating in a main line post. And yes, Ceolaf, we want more, especially on the tra...

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Come to an Ed Notes Teabag Party and Town Hall Meeting

I've had it with all that socialist government interference. Why I was just driving and had to stop at a traffic light. And a STOP sign....

At Schools Matter: Commentary on: A teacher explains why she is leaving

Teacher retention, or lack thereof, is the topic of the day. This post by teacherken , "A teacher explains why she is leaving," ...

The Great Healthcare Debate

I was going to write this as an addendum to another post, but since NYC Educator put up this great post today ( In Which I Face Down the Gri...

Saturday, August 8, 2009

UFT Contract Questionnaire and UFT Cast of Thousands Contract Committee

The cone of silence descends on the UFT negotiating committee. Here is a follow-up to our post on the UFT Survey on Thursday (The UFT Surve...

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