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Tuesday, September 3, 2019

School Scope: Off the beach and back to school for you, but not for me

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Posted to The WAVE for publication Sept. 6, 2019. School Scope: Off the beach and back to school for you, but not for me By Norm Scott ...
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Friday, August 30, 2019

Daily Howler on Elimination of G&T - Trashes NYT coverage, How WIll teachers teach?

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....are the people on this panel really "education experts?" Or are they possibly just liberal/progressive bubble-dwellers, like...
Thursday, August 29, 2019

"In Search of a Russiagate Scalp: The Entrapment of Maria Butina" John Kiriakou

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she met and began dating Patrick Byrne, the founder and CEO of Overstock.com. We learned recently, thanks to Byrne himself , that he was ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

School Scope for Aug 30: Bits ‘n Pieces

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WWW.Rockawave.com School Scope:   Bits ‘n Pieces By Norm Scott I got a call from Gail at Fios that my monthly...
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Sunday, August 25, 2019

School Scope: Those SHSAT Tests, Part 2

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Published in The WAVE: WWW.Rockawave.com - August 23, 2019 School Scope:   Those SHSAT Tests, Part 2 By Norm Scott...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

DSA, the Rank-and-File Strategy, and Organizing the Unorganized

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Any serious effort at building a powerful socialist movement in the U.S. will have to involve transforming existing unions and dramaticall...

Dystopian fiction? Lunacy? They won’t need us...We’ll be a problem. The solution: climate change will kill some, the bots will deal with the rest.

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To elites, we are tools at best, useless eaters at worse. They are trained to look at us and figure out how much value they can extract: as...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Merit pay Dies in Newark But don't forget Weingarten Role in Getting it passed in the first place

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Mr. Christie and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten hailed the contract as a model for cooperation that teache...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

President of Puerto Rico Teacher Union Resigns Over Conflict of Interest

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There's a long history of the relationship between the various versions of the Puerto Rico Teachers Union over the past 15 years. There ...
Friday, August 16, 2019

2019 -- Politico's Big Joke: MORE Wants to take over UFT - by not wanting to win Elections

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What's left of MORE prides itself on being intolerant and insular. It does not wish to deal with viewpoints that vary one iota from th...
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School Scope: The Politics of Newsies

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I have two columns in The WAVE this week, both related to Newsies. [Memo From The RTC: The Oldies But Goodies] School Scope   The Poli...

Memo From The RTC: The Oldies But Goodies

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Memo From The RTC   The Oldies But Goodies The Wave     |   on   August 15, 2019   By Norm Scott [Read School Scope column – my analys...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

A Day At the Beach With DSA

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There are now numerous elected officials from congress to school boards who classify themselves as socialists, something we hadn't seen ...
Friday, August 9, 2019

The 2019 DSA Convention: Showdown at the Caucus Corral - Bread and Roses Caucus and MORE

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It’s true that Bread & Roses doesn’t make any pretense about having more than a couple overarching goals for the organization, citi...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Memo from the RTC: Newsies Ends Most Successful Run in RTC History - Norm Scott

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https://www.rockawave.com/articles/memo-from-the-rtc-63/ Memo from the RTC: Newsies Ends Most Successful Run in RTC History By Norm Scot...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Democratic Socialist Convention Update: If Not Bernie, What?

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When a convention of the Democratic Socialists (DSA) breaks into the mainstream, like this ABC report, we are in new territory. [UPDATE -...