Archive for June, 2007
Don't let schooling interfere with your education. – Mark Twain
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- Bloomberg gets my Stuffing-the-Bird AwardThis year's winnerSpeaking on podium with Arne Duncan, Mayor Bloomberg says his strategy for winning federal RTTT funds is firing teachers.Duncan responds: “If folks are just making changes to chase the money, that’s the wrong thing to do,” Duncan said today. “The money will last for two, three or four years. We want the kinds of changes that will last […]
- Bloomberg gets my Stuffing-the-Bird Award
- JD2718
- UFT November Delegate AssemblyFor years I took notes at DAs. What was the point. But I regret taking notes last week. What follows is from memory. The “quotes” are really paraphrasings. This was, before I jump in, one of the more discouraging President’s Reports I’ve heard… because we are facing tough times. But it was also one of the [...]
- UFT November Delegate Assembly
- The Jose Vilson blog
- A Message from This ExtraterrestrialToday, I had the distinct pleasure of going to two separate conferences: one on Black and Latino males in high schools and the other on Blackness in America as it pertains to the release of the hardcover Black Book. In both instances, I found myself immersed in an idea that sits at the root of these conversations in whichever category or “subgroup […]
- A Message from This Extraterrestrial
- NYC Educator
- I'm Thankful I Already Have TenureI can't say I'm too jazzed about the mayor's call to use test scores to make tenure decisions. As you know if you read my blog, I'm all for making teacher evaluation fairer, more circumspect, and more rigorous. But using test scores to make tenure decisions gets a big ol' thumbs-down from Miss Eyre, who, if she is thankful for anythi […]
- I'm Thankful I Already Have Tenure
- TuttleSVC
- This is the Kind of Rhetoric you get with an Unlimited Budget and No ScruplesHarold E. Ford Jr., Louis V. Gerstner Jr., And Eli Broad:(on Race to the top)... the administration must continue to hang tough on two critical issues: performance standards and competition. (emphasis added)To many educators, one of the key issues going forward to negotiating "NCLB II" is whether or not there will be a role for performance standard […]
- This is the Kind of Rhetoric you get with an Unlimited Budget and No Scruples
