Archive for November, 2009
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
- Puzzle: Who am I?I must have posted this once before, but I forget. And two classes worked this last week. And had fun. So I’ll share: There are five true and five false statements about the secret number. Each pair of statements contains one true and one false statement. Find the trues, find the falses, and find the number. 1a. [...]
- Puzzle: Who am I?
- 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
- Help Consumers and Get FiredAfter they gambled and lost, we taxpayers bailed out Bank of America. But would they return the favor to American consumers?Here's ex-BoA employee Jackie Ramos, explaining that BoA has programs to help people pay their bills--only people who actually need the help don't qualify. For trying to help Americans drowning in debt, Ms. Ramos was fired.
- Help Consumers and Get Fired
- TuttleSVC
- Russo:TWIE:Good news. Starting on this week, longtime education industry insider Marc Dean Millot (pictured) is going to be posting a weekly piece on the education industry on this site. I've been a fan of Millot's for a long time, though we come from different ends of the political spectrum and don't always come to the same conclusions.Excellent ne […]
- Russo:
