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Real education reform would focus on ____________ | Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates

JUN

26

2013

by Harry Proudfoot – Dear Bill, Someone posted something on Facebook today I have to take issue with here. The post suggested the math skills learned in high school are not applicable in real life. Actually, we use the skills taught in math classes every day. The important thing we are supposed to get from ...

Another Day, Another Trashing of Teachers | NYC Educator:

JUN

26

2013

by NYC Educator – The Daily News, no longer content to have its editorial section lecture us on the perfidy of teachers, has now taken to the pages of its “reporting” to do so. In fact, to save time, they appear to be simply writing the same story every day. Teachers are a bunch of ...

Admin’s ” Not So Confidential” Emails Part 7-Terminating Another Teacher | Educator Fights Back

JUN

26

2013

by Francesco Portelos – Continued from Admin’s “Not so Confidential” Emails segment. There was another teacher that my principal tried to terminate. There was an OSI investigation on them that comes after this interesting email to the assistant principals. The teacher was later alleged to have ripped a student’s shirt while the student was running around class. ...

McGraw-Hill! Welcome to the trough! | YouTube

JUN

26

2013

by zeno ricci – The Regents Exam in NY has been saved from the corrupt hands of the teachers. McGraw-Hill is here to make it all better. Welcome to the trough but, hey, at least get in line with the rest of the corporate suckers. Click here to view the video via McGraw-Hill! Welcome to ...

Carol Burris on Problems with APPR and the English Regents | Ed Notes Online

JUN

26

2013

by Norm Scott – Wouldst our union do a tenth of the work Carol is doing to expose the bullshit from the crooks at the NY State Ed Department, the leaders of whom if justice is ever served, would be removed in handcuffs. Carol suggests writing them. My suggestion would be to go after them with ...

‘Badass Teachers’ Fights for Public Education | Take Part

JUN

26

2013

by Suzi Parker – A group calling themselves the Badass Teacher Association (BAT) launched a campaign on Monday against America’s federal education policies. The 15,000-plus strong Internet group spent Monday making thousands of calls to the White House switchboard to tell President Barack Obama to replace Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education. Instead, the teachers ...

City “reevaluating” McGraw-Hill contract afterscoring snafus | GothamSchools

JUN

26

2013

by Philissa Cramer – The city is “reevaluating” its contract with CTB/McGraw-Hill after the electronic exam scoring system the company built for the Department of Education crashed and burned this month. A department spokeswoman, Erin Hughes, said officials had not yet decided what to do about the contract because they have been so focused on ...

Ex-state senator picked to lead DFER’s New York fundraising | GothamSchools

JUN

26

2013

by Geoff Decker – Democrats for Education Reform is reuniting with an old Albany friend as it prepares to resume a larger presence in the state. The political action committee’s New York chapter named former state Senator Craig Johnson as board chair, Executive Director Joe Williams said. Johnson’s role on the board, which is unpaid, will ...

Closings – the final day | Substance News

JUN

26

2013

by Jean Schwab – There were plenty of hugs and tears on June 24, 2013, the last day of school at Ana Roque deDuprey School and Von Humboldt Schools in East Humboldt Park. The two schools, which have shared the century old Von Humboldt building since Roque deDuprey was closed down fiave years ago, had ...

Sacramento closes nine schools | Substance News

JUN

26

2013

by George N. Schmidt – Sacramento California, where the school board is elected, joined the neoliberal racist attack real public school serving children who live in poverty with a vote to close nine of the city’s real public schools. Last week, a group representing the children who will be affected by the closings filed a ...

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