Watching from a distance. NY teacher evaluation blows up.
New York’s bully-boy Mayor.
Watching from a distance, I responded with a smile when I heard that the negotiations over teacher evaluations between the UFT and New York’s Mayor Bloomberg blew up yesterday.Governor Cuomo had put a deadline for an agreement to evaluate teachers based on student test scores, a stupid idea to be sure.
We’ve covered that territory before.
Cuomo threatened that without an agreement, the city schools would be denied $250 million.
Now some in the NY press are screaming that the teachers (read the Union) cost the schools all that money.
Seattle’s Garfield High teacher: “Why we boycotted the MAP test.”
Jesse Hagopian has taught in Seattle Public Schools since 2006, serves as the Black Student Union’s faculty adviser and is the recipient of the Abe Keller Peace Education Award. He wrote this op-ed piece for the Seattle Times.
WALKING the same halls once trod by Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, Bruce Lee, Brandon Roy and Macklemore makes teaching at Garfield High School exhilarating.
When I look at the students in my history classes, I see young people who may be the next to turn the world inside out. Garfield has a long tradition of cultivating abstract thinking, lyrical innovation, trenchant debate, civic leadership, moral courage and myriad other qualities for which
No school today in Grayslake. Strike continues. Next talks on Sunday.
