Posted by: preaprez on: 31 May, 2008
Gail Collins
Ben Joravsky
Carnival of Mathematics
Posted by: preaprez on: 30 May, 2008
A moment of silence no more.
Last year as thousands of students, community activists and teachers converged on Springfield demanding that the legislature and the governor solve the state’s school yearly funding problem, the legislature turned a deaf ear. Instead the legislature found time to pass a law requiring a moment of silence at the beginning [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 30 May, 2008
Brooklynjak writes:
As far as I know there is only a call for support from a collection of groups including NYCORE, Teachers Unite, Center for Immigrant Families and Time Out from Testing. They are asking for people to write letters supporting Avella to Klein and ccing them to Randi Weingarten, so I assume from that that [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 30 May, 2008
From EducationNotesOnline:
Where is Leo Casey and Edwize on Test Boycott?
Fred Klonsky at PreaPrez wants to know how the UFT has responded in supporting the teacher in the student testing boycott case?
He writes:
One of their leaders, Leo Casey, seems to have no problem finding time to write on EdWize, the UFT blog, long, very long theoretical [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 29 May, 2008
I have one more week until the end of the school year.
With that, I will have one more year as president of my local. We have term limits. I have served four terms with a break in the middle. Plus I’m getting old and it is getting to be time for others to step up.
It [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 29 May, 2008
I am in love with Daniel Burd, the Canadian teenager who developed a microbe that disintegrates plastic bags for his school science project. Take that, Great Garbage Patch! I knew the kids would save us.
Posted by: preaprez on: 29 May, 2008
Waiting to hear.
I posted on Saturday in my Three Over Coffee about the students at I.S. 318 in the Bronx who boycotted taking yet another standardized test.
Their teacher, Doug Avella, was blamed and sent to the DOE’s notorious Rubber Room.
From 900 miles away, it is kind of hard to follow all the details. But can [...]
Posted by: preaprez on: 28 May, 2008
U Utah Phillips, folksinger, hobo, organizer and anarchist has died at the age of 73.
Posted by: preaprez on: 28 May, 2008
Join thousands of Chicago-area students, teachers and parents to celebrate education and urge state leaders to improve school quality and funding in Illinois. Students will showcase their talents and triumphs, and speak out on the importance of a high-quality education.
WHAT: “Shout Out for Schools” rally
WHEN: Tuesday, June 10th, 10 am - 12 noon
WHERE: Solider Field [...]
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