NPE Webinar: Uncovering the Truth About Education Reform – June 4, 2013 | The Network For Public Education
Learn from the Experts: Mercedes Schneider and Michael Corwin Are you frustrated when corruption goes on and nobody even seems to notice? Do you want to learn how to uncover the truth about what is happening to our schools? We are presenting a special webinar where two outstanding experts will share tips and techniques. Michael ...read moreNPE Endorsement: Marie Corfield for New Jersey State Assembly – Election June 4th. | The Network For Public Education
The Network for Public Education has endorsed another candidate. Marie Corfield is running for the state assembly, in an election that will take place on June 4th. Marie became an art teacher in 2001, and has taught at Robert Hunter Elementary School in Flemington since 2004. She Vice President-elect of the Flemington-Raritan Education Association and ...read more
Philly HS Senior Asks the Big Question | Jersey Jazzman
by Jersey Jazzman – I am increasingly convinced that the resistance to corporate reform that is most effective is being led by students. It certainly was in Newark, and it looks like it was in Philadelphia. Here’s a clip of the Philly walkout, including a senior who boils it all down to one important question: ...read more
by EduShyster – Creative destruction Creative destruction is basically a fancy way of describing the process of making expensive organic lemonade out of the ashes of a now shuttered lemonade stand. But Koppitalism also sees promise (and profit) where others see only despair. Take Philadelphia, for example, where 23 public schools are closing and the ...read more
On Common Core: The Leading Groups Are Wrong Again | Diane Ravitch’s blog
by a reader to Diane Ravitch’s blog; posted by Diane Ravitch – Yesterday I posted a statement endorsed by leading education organizations that endorsed the Common Core but called for more time to implement the new standards. ############## This reader disagrees. The reader commented: “The joint statement issued by the National School Boards Association, National ...read more