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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Big Brother (NJDOE) is Watching?

Jersey Jazzman: Big Brother (NJDOE) is Watching?:


Big Brother (NJDOE) is Watching?

Diane Ravitch reports on what it's like to dare to criticize the reformyists:
I got an email last night from Leo Casey at the United Federation of Teachers, informing me that the UFT had just received a dump of emails from the New York City Department of Education, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Leo noticed that Deborah Meier and I were mentioned several times in the emails and so he shared the trove with us.
Pretty ugly stuff. Read it here, in two parts, if you can open a google document: 
The first thing I noticed was the chummy exchanges between the public officials in change of the New York City public school system and the top dogs of the