blogs.edweek.org - Follow me on Twitter at @AnthonyCodyThis week I engaged in another online debate with one of Arne Duncan's press secretaries, Justin Hamilton, who readers may recall asked me to "correct" my commen...
governor.ny.gov - Printer-friendly version Albany, NY (February 16, 2012)Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New York State Education Commissioner John King, and New York State United Teachers President Richard C. Iannuzzi to...
usatoday.com - An increasingly intriguing question is bouncing around the sports world this week: Should the sensational Jeremy Lin be given a spot in next weekend's NBA All-Star Game?No matter how many millions ...
huffingtonpost.com - The Huffington Post published an excellent piece yesterday by reporter Chris Kirkham describing how the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) wants to buy up state prisons, all under the guise o...
gothamschools.org - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan praised the agreement between the State Education Department and NYSUT. Just hours after Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an deal about the structure of a new tea...
nytimes.com - Feb. 16, 2012, 12:03 p.m. New York State education officials and the state teachers’ union reached an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system on Thursday, just hours before a deadline imposed ...
ourfuture.org - Conventional wisdom among the Very Serious People in Washington DC has long maintained that the severely punitive nature of current policies governing America's public schools cannot be called an "...
nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com - From what I can tell, the part of the deal that was struck between the city and the UFT seems to be a good one: an external arbiter for the subjective teacher ratings by principals, which is necess...
motherjones.com - There's something surreal about watching a congressional hearing in which a room full of men spend a morning publicly discussing birth control, menstrual pain, ovarian cancer, and migraine headache...
cbsnews.com - (Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) Campaigning in Idaho on Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum suggested that he is opposed to a public school system overseen by the gover...
michaelklonsky.blogspot.com - If SB1467 becomes law in Arizona, the state's public school teachers could be fired for engaging in “speech or conduct that would violate the standards adopted by the federal communications commis...
blogs.edweek.org - Dear Diane,I do believe we are in that portion of the Roman Empire in which horses were considered "persons." Or was that just a mad movie I once saw about the fall of the Roman Empire?Some of the ...
edwize.org - New Teacher Diaries contributor Mr. Foteah writes that a positive change in his attitude toward a difficult student quickly resulted in a positive change in the student’s attitude in the classroom....
blog.coreknowledge.org - “Discernment and the Public Sphere” In her new book, Republic of Noise, long-time Core Knowledge Blog contributor Diana Senechal confronts a culture that has come to depend on instant updates and c...
nytimes.com - Leaked documents suggest that an organization known for attacking climate science is planning a new push to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools, the latest indication that cl...
nydailynews.com - Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers union struck a deal on evaluations Thursday morning. The city and the teachers union have struck a historic deal on teacher evaluations, the Daily News has ...
preaprez.wordpress.com - Alderman Dick Mell is sponsoring legislation calling for more decorum in the city council. Mayor Daley the elder was famous for turning off the microphone of any alderman who rose to oppose him. Th...
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com - February 16, 2012, 10:47 am By DAVE ITZKOFFA spokesman for Comedy Central said on Thursday morning that the taping of “The Colbert Report” had been suspended on Wednesday evening and would be again...
democraticunderground.com - http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/16/10426068-mccartney-says-the-beatles-considered-reuniting By Rolling Stone The Beatles had considered getting back together while all four members...
npr.org - Enlarge Krissy Clark for NPR Teacher Ruben Gonzalez conducts the South Gate High School band. According to Gonzalez, thieves passed up a computer as well as a stash of valuable flutes, saxophones a...
grist.org - DeSmogBlog has publicized documents that illuminate the Heartland Institute’s denialist agenda, and who’s footing the bill. The list of funders is interesting — Kochs, Philip Morris, Microsoft — an...
whitehouse.gov - The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release February 16, 2012 Obama Administration Sends Congress the Consolidating and Reforming Government Act of 2012WASHINGTON, DC – This...
wirenh.com - Mainers are leading a national push to restore family farming It was 20 degrees below zero when farmer Jim Gerritsen got up on the early morning of Feb. 13. Gerritson operates Wood Prairie Farm i...
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