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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

7-16-13 Ed Notes Online

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Weiner owes bump in the polls to black voters, Spitzer Soars Over Stringer, Does Lhota Have a Chance? Moskowitz in Future
I'm ordering pins for the UFT leadership to wear: December 31, 2029. Weiner owes his bump in the polls to black voters, 31 percent of whom favor him for mayor, compared to Christine Quinn's 16 percent and Bill Thompson's 14 percent. Weiner also leads among men. ... Village Voice‘Tabloid Twins’ Spitzer and Weiner lead in new NYC poll.... Support from African-Americans boosted Weiner and Spitzer, th


Video – MORE Summer 2013: High Stakes Testing and the Schools Our Children Deserve
MORE kicked off the summer series by taking a look at the effects of high stakes testing in our schools. Parents from Change the Stakes joined us to discuss why a growing parent movement against the high stakes nature of these tests is mounting not just in NYC but statewide and nationally. We discuss HST and its use as a vehicle for enabling destructive policies such as school closures and ranking
Critics of Tim Wise for Support for Teach For America
Posted to MORE ListservesDear New Orleans activists,Some of you may remember Tim Wise, who was an anti-apartheid activist at Tulane in the late 1980s, and then went onto to work with the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism (LCARN), one of the organizations that emerged in the fight against David Duke's various runs for state wide offices in the late 80s and early 90s. He later worked wit
Stop and Frisk: My Articles in The Wave
Over the past few weeks I wrote a few pieces for The Wave on S and F and race issues.Published July 5, 2013