Stuff I found while drinking my morning coffee.
Ànimo Inglewood, a Green Dot charter school.
Internet Filtering
If you have ever had your class doing internet research and the filter keeps jamming you up, you will resonate to Andy Carvin’s piece on his blog, Learning.now.
Green Dot on the front page of the NY Times
Ed bloggers have been talking about Green Dot and unions for months. The NY Times just noticed it.
And so has the anti-teacher union wing-nuts. The Fordham Foundation blogger and Darth Vadar of privatization, Checker Finn is concerned about the coziness between Barr and teacher unions.
Illinois to ban teacher strikes?
The Sun-Times reports that there is talk in Springfield (how do they have time? Shouldn’t they be working on school funding?) of legislation to outlaw teacher strikes. It is aimed at Chicago teachers who are in the middle of negotiations. But as bad as that is, only a fool would think it would stop there.
More on using union heroes’ names for union busting charter schools
My brother Mike’s Small Talk brought it up yesterday. I linked it to Rotherham Watch. Now Leo Casey follows up in a very personal post on Edwize. He writes:
There is an incredibly thin, transparent veneer to the right wing rhetoric in education which seizes the mantle of the civil rights movement. The notion that Chavez would have given a moment of his day, much less his good name, to an anti-union institution is shameless.
