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Friday, April 13, 2012

Randi and Hilary (Rosen) and Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein

The real question: who is doing more to help get rid of tenure: Rhee or Randi ----Ed Notes In my last post I asked the question whet...

Hard Questions from A Principal to Randi Weingarten and Richard Ianuzzi and a Teacher's Response

Randi's statement that New York's APPR was the best one negotiated in the whole country, should have been immediately challenged. W...

Thursday, April 12, 2012

UFT Buries Voices of Dissent on APPR

I received this email to GEM awhile ago. More and more people are expressing their dissent while the UFT continues to sell the snake oil. Th...

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Closing Schools United - Rally April 19, 4PM

Retired Teacher on the Impact of a U-Rating

Jo-Ann Demas worked in the corporate world as a graphic artist before she became a special education teacher in 2006. She worked at an ele...

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Chicago Teachers Union Forces Rhambo Retreat

The surprise compromise followed a burgeoning revolt by parents concerned the 7.5-hour day would leave young kids exhausted and older ki...

Pat Dobosz Videos and Reports on Grover Cleveland, MS 126, IS 71 and Beginnings With Children Charter School

Report from Pat Dobosz -- below, see all the videos she posted, including one of our pal Frances Lewis HS Ch Ldr Arthur Goldstein, who sp...

Monday, April 9, 2012

GEM's Mollie Bruhn Keynote at Connecticut Educators Association

GEMers Mollie Bruhn and Julie Cavanagh were invited to give the keynote at the Connecticut Educators Association on March 31, 2012. Mollie...

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Educational Stop and Frisk Infects Schools: The Michael Stanzione Files Continued

Corporatism is the new racism. This fact is proven every day in all of New York City’s schools. The battle against corporate school refo...

On Eric Chasanoff - Let's Hold Reporters Accountable: Rachel Monahan and Erin Durkin at the Daily News

UPDATED Sunday, Apr. 8, 3PM I am Eric Chasanoff and proud to be a teacher. Today, we are all Eric Chasanoff -- or as JFK would have sa...

The Michael Stanzione Files: As Case Falls Apart, NY Post to the Rescue

Coming to a cell phone near you The other evening, just as my 24 guests were sitting down to a sedar, I get a call from the NY Po...

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Success Charter Family Handbook: Range of School Responses Leading to Expulsion

- Expulsion BINGO - Success Charters ARE NOT PUBLIC SCHOOLS They forgot to include " the marching up and down stairs hour of power...

Success Academy Family Handbook (Only Available in English): An Expert's Guide to Manipulation, Part 1

What better proof for all the ills of many charter schools, but especially those under Eva Moskowitz than this handbook for parents from Eva...

Gary Rubinstein Rolls Steve Brill

We will look back at the remedies proposed by the reformers the way we now look back at the use of leeches to cure diseases. --- Gary Rub...

Thursday, April 5, 2012

From the Guy Who Gave You Cathie Black: The Self-promoting Bio of David Steiner

I can't think of many people I have less respect for than the Merryl Tisch/Bloomberg former State Ed Comm suckup worm David Steiner wh...

High stakes testing - John Merrow -- a sign the media is turning on the ed deformers

Because I spent three years chronicling the tenure of Michelle Rhee in Washington, DC – another city with a spate of thus-far-unexplained ...

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