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December 30, 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 […]
- WEEKEND QUOTABLES
- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- What do we believe about Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s exclusion of Illinois judges from his pension reform bill?“Leaving the judges out of pension reform: ‘I would call this buying off the judges. It’s a very sad situation…’” (Ann Lousin, a professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago who helped draft the Illinois Constitution in 1970, from Judges left out of Illinois pension reform plan).Are we to believe, as Madigan and other liars and thieves do, that Illin […]
- What do we believe about Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s exclusion of Illinois judges from his pension reform bill?
- 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 Walcott Addresses BullyingHi. I'm New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, and I think it's about time we addressed bullying. Personally I've had it with bullying. That's why I'm making 80 thousand teachers give lessons on it. After all, I've made them come back for full school days on June 24th and 25th, after they've given grades and their […]
- Chancellor Walcott Addresses Bullying
- CPS Chatter
- I Feel Like I’m Living in a Dystopian Movie2012 – Rahm Emanuel shuts down the mental health clinics 2013 – Rahm Emanuel closes the schools 2015 – Newly reelected Mayor Emanuel announces that he will be removing all public services from the South and West sides of the city in a cost cutting move 2016 – After bands of teens raid downtown shops […]
- I Feel Like I’m Living in a Dystopian Movie
- Jersey Jazzman
- God Bless OklahomaAny time a school is slammed by tragedy, we all feel a special, terrible pain. Stay safe, everyone. Posting resumes tomorrow.
- God Bless Oklahoma
- 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
- https://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=tshttps://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=ts
- https://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsIllinois?ref=ts&fref=ts
- IEA LOCAL 28
- jd2718
- 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
- Uri Treisman’s Powerful Speech on Equity to NCTMUri Treisman of he Dana Center at the University of Texas spoke about mathematics and equity at the annual NCTM meeting in Denver. But he spoke about much more. He spoke about student performance on international tests; about the effect of poverty on achievement; about opportunity to learn; about the Common Core; about charter schools; […]
- Uri Treisman’s Powerful Speech on Equity to NCTM
