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Written and edited by Norm Scott: EDUCATE! ORGANIZE!! MOBILIZE!!! Three pillars of The Resistance – providing information on current ed issues, organizing activities around fighting for public education in NYC and beyond and exposing the motives behind the education deformers. We link up with bands of resisters. Nothing will change unless WE ALL GET INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE!

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Friday, July 15, 2011

UFB- A Left Handed Rant

FORE So at this time I was supposed to be under the influence having my wrist - which looks like it has a golf ball embedded in it - and ...

Live blogging from surgery

Friday july 15 Well, not exactly live blogging which is hard to do under general anathesia. I went for little bike ride yesterday. Had a sli...

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Chicago Hopes (We're Gone)

Why I went to Chicago My role in all this ed stuff is support. Support for the newer generation of teacher activists along with the older...

UFT Provides Buses for SOS in Washington

Click above for info It is time to start focusing on the big 4 day Save Our Schools event in Washington starting in two weeks. You can ...

ICE's Jeff Kaufman Dissects Educators 4 Excellence and Judges Them "Antiunion"

I interviewed Jeff Kaufman, chapter leader of Aspirations HS in Brooklyn, on July 12 for almost an hour about the tenure situation at his s...

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Jonah Edelman Caught With His Pants Down

OMG, the wires are buzzing with the ed deform gaffe made by Jonah Edelman at the Aspen Festival of Ed Deform where he bragged about manipula...

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Eva Moskowitz Indoctrination Tactics Exposed

I wanted to redo this video I shot at an HSA bund rally in March 2009 before commenting on Michael Winerip's stripping away of the Mosko...

Clarence Taylor's Reds at the Blackboard - a History of the NYC Teachers Union

I've been reading Clarence Taylor's new book along with Marjorie Murphy's Blackboard Unions a basic history of teacher unions fr...

Monday, July 11, 2011

The Antidote to Ed Deform: New Teacher Underground - CORRECT LOCATION

CORRECT LOCATION: AN INCORRECT LOCATION HAS BEEN FOUND CIRCULATING ON SEVERAL LISTS FOR OVER 30 DAYS. THE SESSIONS BEGIN TOMORROW. PLEASE ...

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Albuquerque screening of "The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman" Is a Hit

One of the major goals of the film has been to activate people. And the results have been overwhelming as educators and parents all over the...

Tenure Extensions Lead to Growing Disaffection of Young Teachers - What Say You E4E, TFA?

And now it's some of the high-quality, newer recruits - the same ones the administration was trying to save from layoffs - that are ...

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Short Commentary and Labor Notes Coverage of Chicago Conference

Yesterday was a chat n chew day. I want to report more about what we chewed and chatted about (how about that stuffed deep dish pizza with e...

Friday, July 8, 2011

An Ordinary Teacher....

....Talks to Teach for America Thanks to (now former) NYC teacher James Boutin for this: Interesting take on TFA from a former NYC school ...

Chicago Notes

Last Update: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 3AM GEM At LaCASITA Friday, July 8, 2011, 6AM Chicago As usual, I'm the only one up. We ar...

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Chicago: Teachers from Around Nation Rally at Banks

No time now for details but the conference was powerful yesterday, followed by a march and rally at the banks. Here are a few pics - look a...

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Julie C live tweets from Chicago Plus Slideshow from Opening Speakers

Julie is tweeting at #Chicago @jcavanagh15 Here is a down and dirty slideshow of the opening meeting.

Chicago Chats/UFT Giving Up Co-Location of Charter - With a Little Help From Friends

Weds., July 6 We just woke up to the news that the UFT made a deal with Christine Quinn to move its charter out of a public school in East...

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