Posted by: preaprez on: August 10, 2007
In an earlier post about the NEA and NCLB, I responded to a statement by Jim Horn of Schools Matter that local affiliates had been warned not to sign the Educator Roundtable petition which opposes NCLB reauthorization.
I said that as president of a local affiliate, I never saw such a warning.
Today I received a [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: August 10, 2007
Big Hat, No Cattle by Randy Newman
Big Hat, no cattle
Big head, no brain
Big snake, no rattle
I forever remain
big hat, no cattle
I knew from the start
Big boat, no paddle
Big belly, no heart
Posted by: preaprez on: August 10, 2007
Call your state reps at 800-651-0315
The broken system of funding public education in Illinois will not be fixed with the budget that is currently being considered. This budget does little to address the inequities in the Illinois school funding system. An adequate and sustainable revenue source to fund public education has not been established and [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: August 10, 2007
Deputy Chancellor for Organizational Strategy, Human Capital, and External Affairs for the New York City Department of Education
In a long post over at Eduwonk, guestblogger Chris Cerf, who must have one of the longer titles for an education bureaucrat, writes about merit pay.
I write this as our own state legislature is three months late [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: August 10, 2007
Linda Perlstein.
I posted a review of Linda Perlstein’s book Tested a week or so ago from Daily Kos.
Today there is an interview in USA Today (Short. After all. It’s USA Today) with Perlstein, a former Washington Post reporter.
Q: In one memorable scene, a district supervisor watches kindergartners in gym class waft a parachute into the [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: August 10, 2007
Don’t forget. If you live or are visiting the Chicago area on Wednesday, August 15th, plan on attending the discussion between Green Dot’s Steve Barr, the CTU’s Marilyn Stewart and my IEA’s Executive Director, Jo Anderson. Small Talk blogger, Small Schools Worshop Director and older brother, Mike Klonsky will moderate. The time is 6:30 - [...]
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