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Thursday, July 18, 2013

7-18-13 Ed Notes Online

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You Get What You Pay For - from a NYC Parent
A debate on the NYCEd listserve resulted in a teacher of all people joining the ed deform chant of "throwing money at things is not the solution" and that Bloomberg's failures in ed deform despite the expendutures is proof that money doesn't work. His solution is strengthening School based Support Teams. I won't go there now other than to say that I posted all the ways Bloomberg's spending was mis


7-17-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online:  TODAYEdushyster Blows Up Democracy Prep 100% Grad Rate and New Yorker Shill PieceI was going to do a piece on the New Yorker article on the publicity seeking Democracy Prep but was so spitting mad I couldn't think straight. To our rescue comes Edushyster. Did DP give UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a speaker's fee as part of the PR machine hype, which to charters like DP is thei