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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Wild Night at CEC1 Meeting on Girls Prep Charter: Updated

Last night saw an outpouring of public school parents from many schools on the Lower East Side (district 1) opposing the DoE/Girls Prep char...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

This is the prelude to disaster

This is the prelude to disaster - how convenient of Mulgrew to leave the ATR situation in the hands of a mediator and then blame the mediat...

Times Article on High School Grades Reveals Dark Underbelly of Large School Closures

Over the last three years, high schools that received the lowest marks from the city have been the ones with the highest percentages of poor...

Commentary by Loretta Prisco

The NYS Regents is considering using museums and cultural institutions to prepare teachers instead of universities. I earned a college degr...

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

David Pakter Has Advice for Whistle Blowers

After the Lehman HS whistle blower blow-up a few weeks ago (see links below), where teachers supposedly slipped proof of the principal tampe...

Teacher Contract/Seniority Defended on Lopate Show

There's a discussion going over arts education on the Leanard Lopate show on WNYC over a report showing that arts education improves stu...

Monday, November 16, 2009

CAPE Throws it Down

I have this blog from CAPE (Concerned Advocates for Public Education) listed on the sidebar, but I just read it again and it gets better an...

The Math Wars Revisited: Lisa, Why Doth I Love Thee....

...let me count the ways. Below, Lisa Donlan , parent activist from District 1 on the Lower East Side, leaps into the fray of the discussion...

PEP Reports from Eterno and Sullivan

ICE/TJC presidential candidate James Eterno, a chapter leader who defends his school and teachers to the hilt, reports on the Panel for Educ...

The Maddening Logic of the AFT/UFT and now DC

Candi Peterson has a laid off teacher report from DC. Here is the section that makes critics of the Weingarten/Mulgrew policies want to scr...

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Jay Matthews Tribute to Jerry Bracey

Many trashers of the ed deform crowd love to make fun of Jay Matthews. But his tribute to Jerry Bracey, one of his arch educational enemies...

Teachers Selling Lesson Plans? I'm Buying

As a teacher, I was at my best in front of an audience. But I was lousy at lesson planning in an empty room. I would be at home trying to th...

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Koss Comments on Teaching to Test

From today's NY Daily News, thanks to Rachel Monahan. Note the following incredibly disingenuous quote from DOE spokesperson David Canto...

Friday, November 13, 2009

Dear Dumb Bob Compton

After hearing Bob Compton on yesterday's Brian Lehrer show make some statements about education that were right in line with the ed defo...

Bogus Charges Hurt Effort to Remove Teachers Who Should Be Removed: Teacher says, "Take a lap (run)"

....sees words twisted into asking a student to "sit on his lap." DOE turns it into sexual harassment charge and 2nd year rubber r...

Hoxby Hocked: Headline-Grabbing Charter School Study Doesn’t Hold Up To Scrutiny

We reported on the Hoxby charter school story supposedly showing that NYC charter schools are succeeding beyond expectations on Sept. 24. C...

New Report Challenges Charter School Civil Rights Policy

For Immediate Release *New Report Challenges Charter School Civil Rights Policy* Los Angeles-November 12, 2009- A new civil rights report ra...

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Renowned Arizona Charter School Asks Disruptive Students to Leave

Whoopee!! The Basis School is featured and the filmmaker, Bob Compton, just answered Brian Lehrer's million dollar question. Some stude...

Teachers are the best indicator.....blah, blah, blah

I just heard it again on NPR in a Beth Fertig report: Someone she was interviewing said, "Teachers are the best indicator of whether a ...

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Yankee Parade Brings Back Memories

This must be "student gets out of prison" story week. (See " So, You Get a Phone Call, Revised "). The Yankee parade r...

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