Happy Independence Day from Bill Gates
From Kristen Gwynne, an associate editor and drug policy reporter at AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter: @KristenGwynne Soon your children will hook up their computers to their wrist bracelets. Measuring and monitoring each emotion and blaming the teacher for all of them. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Kindly Fund Research into Student-Worn Bracelets Monitoring Teacher Effectiveness […]
Change in Union Leadership in DC Signals End to Corporate Appeasement
Looks like we may have another urban center with a real union leader, rather than the kind of corporate stooge and rubber stamp modeled nationally by Van Roekel and Weingarten. Whether the new union leaders in DC will garner the kind of teacher and parent support that we see in Chicago for Karen Lewis will […]
What on GGE is a “teacherpreneur” and why?
The argument from CTQ, if I follow, is that the teacherpreneur impacts teachers, who in turn impact students. So, that means the teacherpreneur impacts all of the teachers’ students. This completely ignores all of the potential mediating variables, or the teacher’s actual autonomy and identity in this entire situation. There is a tremendous fatal flaw […]
NEA’s Van Roekel Uses Duncan Lies to Pimp for Common Core: Calls Critics “Confused”
From AJC: The opposition to Common Core: “If you don’t want it, what do you want instead? And what is in the standards that you don’t want a child to know? One of the things that makes those standards so amazing is that 45 states agreed on the same thing. Democratic and Republican governors came […]
7-2-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: AFT’s New Action Strategy: Write a Letter Begging Arne to Help Stop What His Policies Have CreatedThis morning my email box had a copy of a letter from AFT employee, Sabrina Stevens, on behalf of her boss, President Randi Weingarten: Hey, there! I hope this message finds you well. I think we’ve only met briefly (at the first SOS March), but I’m getting in tou