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Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- WEEKEND QUOTABLESJeb Bush:"Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families." -- NPR CTU president Karen Lewis“Recently they announced a plan for a ‘quality, 21st century education’. Their 21st century plan looks more like a 19th century plan.” -- WBEZTom HaydenWe are edging closer to the neo-conservative dream of total conflagration in the Muslim Middle East. D […]
- WEEKEND QUOTABLES
- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- Pension Obstructionist: Chicago Tribune by John DillonDear Representative and Senator: We do not often get second chances, but all of you in the General Assembly are about to be granted another test of your allegiance to the Illinois Constitution and your political fortitude to find real and honorable answers to the Illinois “pension crisis.” Let’s be clear about one real truth. No matter how many of you are s […]
- Pension Obstructionist: Chicago Tribune by John Dillon
- John Dillon’s Pension Education
- The Real Pension Obstructionist: A Letter to a LegislatorPension Obstructionist: Chicago TribuneDear Representative and Senator,We do not often get second chances, but all of you in the General Assembly are about to be granted another test of your allegiance to the Illinois Constitution and your political fortitude to find real and honorable answers to the Illinois “pension crisis.”Let’s be clear about one real tr […]
- The Real Pension Obstructionist: A Letter to a Legislator
- Ken Previti’s Reclaim Reform
- What do education advocates do on their day off?What do education advocates do on their day off? The task given Sisyphus by the ancient Greek gods of eternally pushing a massive rock up a hill to have it roll down again and again is precisely what we do. … Continue reading →
- What do education advocates do on their day off?
- Roger Sanders
- IL GA SPECIAL SESSION ON PENSIONS ON WEDNESDAY1TQ has called a special session of the General Assembly for Wednesday. The Senate is scheduled to...
- IL GA SPECIAL SESSION ON PENSIONS ON WEDNESDAY
- IEA LOCAL 28
- Rogers Park Neighbors For Public Schools
- We're On Our Summer ScheduleSummertime, and RPNPS is going to light scheduling mode. We'll be active in the Artists On The Wall event in June, so look for some pictures later in June.I myself will be out of town until August; I don't have internet service out in the woods, so posting here will be very, very light until we gear up again in the fall. If I'm able, I'll […]
- We're On Our Summer Schedule
- Chicago Public Fools by South Side CPS Mom
- Peoria Story
- Public to school board: keep the green spacePEORIA -- The Peoria District 150 School on June 17 heard more than a dozen different eloquent speakers contend that turing the 82-acre Peoria Stadium site into a Walmart or other big box store is a terrible idea. No one...
- Public to school board: keep the green space
- NYC Educator
- Reformy John Doesn't Need Any Stinking Laws--NYC Teacher Ratings Violate StatuteOne of the great selling points of the education law that mandated junk science, for the UFT, was that we would get to negotiate precisely how the junk science would be used to fire us. So they wouldn't just be firing us, we'd be firing ourselves. This is what comes of having that much-coveted "seat at the table." Unfortunately, Mayor Mik […]
- Reformy John Doesn't Need Any Stinking Laws--NYC Teacher Ratings Violate Statute
- CPS Chatter
- Toilet Paper for CPSTomorrow night at 6 PM, Barbara Byrd Bennett will be inside taking softball questions from the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board’s Bruce Dold at Chase Auditorium (10 S. Dearborn). Outside the auditorium, there will be a toilet paper drive for Chicago’s Public Schools whose budgets are squeezed so tight, they literally half to make a decision […]
- Toilet Paper for CPS
- Jersey Jazzman
- Newark's Charters: Perception Is NOT RealityApparently, the hue and cry in Newark against state control of the schools (coming from the elected school advisory board, the elected city council, the students, the teachers, and the parents) is getting so loud that State Superintendent Cami Anderson and State Education Commissioner Chris Cerf feel like they have to show at least a little acknowledgment of […]
- Newark's Charters: Perception Is NOT Reality
- TuttleSVC
- As a Parent, I've Found This to be Generally TrueBill Fitzgerald:And this is my single biggest take away from the event: teachers are left explaining a system they didn't develop and didn't choose. Teachers become the public face of policy decisions that originate thousands of miles away. When policy makers create a mess - and I would describe a set of standards that are poorly understood, backed […]
- As a Parent, I've Found This to be Generally True
- jd2718
- The Fixation With Standardized Test ScoresLynne Winderbaum takes down the new NYC Teacher Evaluation System and standardized test scores I wish Governor Cuomo [link] and Mayor Bloomberg [link] were not on record as wanting to fire teachers. I wish that Race to the Top did not force unproven reforms on states in order to compete for a piece of the pie […]
- The Fixation With Standardized Test Scores
- Diane Ravitch
- Parent Revolution Creates a “Truth Site” to Debunk MeParent Revolution, funded with millions of dollars by the Walton Family Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the Broad Foundation, has decided to create a “truth site.” The story says: “The site’s initial focus will be on attempting to debunk claims made by NYU education historianDiane Ravitch, who earlier this month quasi-apologized for calling Parent Revo […]
- Parent Revolution Creates a “Truth Site” to Debunk Me
- Ed Shyster
- The Looming Excellence EmergencyWill the education reform movement exhaust the word “excellence” before the achievement gap is *crushed*? Imagine a world without excellence. Experts say that with the education reform movement on schedule to exhaust the superlative as soon as 2016, an excellence-deprived … Continue reading →
- The Looming Excellence Emergency
- Schooling in the Ownership Society
- From the Wall Street Journal: 'The marriage between companies and the state'The June 10th WSJ calls the Snowden affair, "a wake-up call for Booz Allen and us." I'm not sure who the us is here, but they do make some great points.In the increasingly intimate marriage between companies and the state, Mr. Snowden is emblematic of many things: For business, he signifies the liabilities that companies doing intelligence wor […]
- From the Wall Street Journal: 'The marriage between companies and the state'
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