UPDATE: Change the Stake's Fred Smith on Common Core Ed Notes Online: Seattle Teacher Jesse Hagopian

Ed Notes Online: Seattle Teacher Jesse Hagopian at "The Schools NYC Children Deserve":

Change the Stake's Fred Smith on Common Core and Duplicty of Tisch, Surransky, King and Walcott

by ed notes online

When Bill Gates, the entire DOE/SED mafia, Obama and the UFT/AFT all line up on the same side, forget the details, just run like hell. Sorry, don't run. Attack back.

Aside: Just in from a teacher

Today is the beginning of testing day and also the beginning of what will eventually become a crescendo of resistance by parents, some of whom are not just opting out but claiming child abuse. The other day I heard a story that the DOE had denied a request for a 10-minute break for the 3rd grade test, which is longer than it need be 

Portelos goes where NYC Press corps fears to tread: Is Test Tampering Rampant in NYC too?

by ed notes online

The DOE and UFT better get that boy out of the rubber room they "abolished" and back into a classroom before he has time to research all 1700 schools.

Oh, you will hear how the press can't afford investigative journalism. Here is a study of one school.

Imagine how many people were put on the Atlanta case. But not in Rhee's DC. And not in Klein/Walcott's NYC. And not in Duncan's Chicago. Only Beverly Hall will go to prison. Who is at fault here in NYC? Well, we know what is more important. Tracking down where 

Seattle Teacher Jesse Hagopian at "The Schools NYC Children Deserve"

by ed notes online

What a story Jesse has to tell as he followed Julie's speech. I'll shut up for a change and let him tell it. Coming next: Janine Sopp from Change the Stakes and Angelo Lugo on the School to Prison Pipeline. Plus a 5th grader with a letter about testing to Walcott.

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Seattle Teacher Jesse Hagopian at "The Schools NYC Children Deserve" from Grassroots Education Movementon Vimeo.