Posts tagged ‘iowa senator tom harkin’
Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk- Riding LessonsEh? What's that, sonny...?Funny thing happened in first day of summer session. My students went around the table and introduced themselves and said the usual about what they do; where they teach; goals and passions. One student says, "I give writing lessons out in Oswego." My interest is perked. I ask, at what school do you teach writing? Stu […]
- Riding Lessons
- Glen Brown: Teacher/poet/musician
- Why are approximately 600 TRS retirees paying more for health insurance than anyone else?Jeri Shanahan, a retired teacher, has researched the issue for several years; she has talked to dozens of legislators and various officials over this duration, but the injustice remains unresolved.The Issue:Retirees, 65 and older and not eligible for Social Security and Medicare, will pay the highest premium for Teachers’ Choice Health Plan in 2014: $719.96 […]
- Why are approximately 600 TRS retirees paying more for health insurance than anyone else?
- 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
- PENSION REALITY SHOW - PREVIEW OF SPECIAL SESSIONIt appears as though Madigan will not call for a vote on his amendment to SB2404 today, thus...
- PENSION REALITY SHOW - PREVIEW OF SPECIAL SESSION
- 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
- UFT on Evaluation SystemOn Sunday I posted about the new evaluation system, and about how effective ratings started at 9 according to NYS statute, but started at 15 in Reformy John's decree. Today I spoke to a UFT source, who told be this was not accurate, because we start with 13. When I asked what that meant, he said if we reached the target, which was 60%, we would get the […]
- UFT on Evaluation System
- CPS Chatter
- Breaking the Cardinal Rule of BloggingThe cardinal rule of thumb is that when you have a blog and you want to build readership, you have to update frequently. People visit blogs for new information and if they come to your blog and there’s nothing new, they’ll stop checking back. It’s especially true after you’ve had a popular blog post. Well, […]
- Breaking the Cardinal Rule of Blogging
- 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
- Michael Feuer: The Flaws of the NCTQ ReportSome in the mainstream media have given credence to the report of the Nationsl Council on Teacher Education about teacher preparation. They should have talked to some of the institutions that were graded before venturing an opinion. In this post, Dean Michael Feuer of the George Washington University School of Education explains how far wrong […]
- Michael Feuer: The Flaws of the NCTQ Report
- 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
- Another attack aimed at colleges of educationThat great "revolutionary" thinker Arne Duncan, set the stage back in '09, when he discredited all colleges of education, labeling them as "mediocre" and calling for "revolutionary change—not evolutionary tinkering."Now the National Council on Teacher Quality has taken Duncan's cue and has come out with what it's […]
- Another attack aimed at colleges of education
