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July 28, 2012
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Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- WEEKEND QUOTABLES"Safe passage"? Yale kids will walk past this abandoned and boarded up building at 73rd & Princeton on way to their "receiving" school. | Jessica Koscielniak ~ Sun-TimesRev. Marshall Hatch, in front of Tilton “That was a cartel, right on the side of the school. . . . This is where the folks know how to find them.” -- Sun-TimesAngele […]
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- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- Our Indifference about "Pension Reform" or Breaking our Contract We define indifference as a lack of interest, an unimportance or insensibility. As the Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel states: “[It] is more dangerous than anger and hatred.” We might add that indifference courts a complicit relationship with political and social injustices and that, conversely, these injustices owe their success and power to indifferen […]
- Our Indifference about "Pension Reform" or Breaking our Contract
- John Dillon’s Pension Education
- Let's Make A Deal: SB2404Let’s Make Deal: SB2404Quite honestly, I was at first befuddled when it came to choices as a retiree looking at SB2404. I’m not good at choices. I lose at Blackjack without fail.Could be worse. I could be an active teacher looking at SB2404. Thank goodness I’m not an active anymore. The spreadsheet on the IEA Fact Sheet reads like a graduate level test […]
- Let's Make A Deal: SB2404
- NYC Educator
- Chancellor, Bloomberg-StyleI'm surprised at how many people are shocked at NYC Schools Chancellor Walcott's sales presentation to principals last Saturday. It's encouraging, of course, that the principals gave him such a cool reception. After a decade of crap that never works, it's good to see that even administrators are not buying it. Bloggers I read regularly ar […]
- Chancellor, Bloomberg-Style
- CPS Chatter
- Giving Rahm a Week to RememberThis week has been insane. In my personal life, in my social life, and in my career I am facing a ridiculous number of challenges this week, but there’s also some real coming out of it. I am reminded of A Christmas Carol, where a miserly old skinflint who cares more about money than about […]
- Giving Rahm a Week to Remember
- Jersey Jazzman
- Bloomberg Blows Up the Reformy ArgumentWhen the mayor of Reformytown admits one of the fundamental arguments of the corporate reformers is wrong, that's news: Some advice from career counselor Mayor Bloomberg: If you are a so-so high school student, steer clear of college — and learn to clear clogged drains. Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show Friday that going to trade school to become […]
- Bloomberg Blows Up the Reformy Argument
- TuttleSVC
- For a Polarized Debate, a Lot of People are on Both SidesDan Meyer has called our attention to the recent NCTM keynote by Uri Treisman:This is the core of Treisman's critique:So the notion was: "Let's focus on teachers as the central driver of reform and rethink how we evaluate teachers." They had the view that teachers were the single most important in-school factor in student achievement. And […]
- For a Polarized Debate, a Lot of People are on Both Sides
- Ken Previti’s Reclaim Reform
- SB2404: SummarySB2404: Summary Tagged: betrayal, government, IEA, Illinois, lies, pensions, retirement
- SB2404: Summary
- Roger Sanders
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- IEA LOCAL 28
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- Chapter Leader’s Notes: Mayoral forum at the Bronx UFTNotes by Donald March, chapter leader of Christopher Columbus HS Bronx Mayoral Forum. May 8, 2013. Christine Quinn, Bill DeBlasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu As has been the case at these forums or late, Christine Quinn arrives ahead of the pack and is allowed to speak and take questions first. She is a rather forceful […]
- Chapter Leader’s Notes: Mayoral forum at the Bronx UFT
- Diane Ravitch
- NECAP and Central Falls High SchoolJim Morgan writes about the NECAP, the New England Comprehensive Assessment Program that RI Commissioner Gist defends and the Providence Student Union oppose, and reflects on the tragedy of Central Falls High School, which Superintendent Frances Gallo and State Commissioner Deborah Gist threatened to close in 2010: “I teach in a district adjacent to Central […]
- NECAP and Central Falls High School
