Revised: UFT: Call Arthur Goldstein at Once!
[I am reposting this article because the formatting was not clear the first time round. Arthur was quoting the linked article, but I did not set off the quoted sections correctly. My mistake, not his. I think I got it right this time.] Edwize, the house publication of New York City’s powerful teachers’ union, just published a strange and somewhat incoherent article, saluting the collapse of test
How Come Commissioner King Knew the Test Scores in Advance?
Carol Burris is not only the principal of the year in New York, as chosen by her colleagues, but she knows her statistics. In this article, she explains Commissioner of Education John King’s magic trick of predicting the scores before the tests were given. It was magic of the highest order. And Burris has a brilliant idea about how to close the achievement gap: “And so to all of the wannabe Kresk
Any Hero Educators in North Carolina?
North Carolina is blessed to have a state superintendent, June Atkinson, who has said publicly that in her thirty years as an educator, she has never known a worse time for public education in the state. So far, she has been unable to slow down or shame the privatizers now running the state’s education system into the ground. She needs help. This North Carolina teacher wonders if there are distric
UFT: Call Arthur Goldstein, Classroom Teacher
Edwize, the house publication of New York City’s powerful teachers’ union, just published a strange and somewhat incoherent article, saluting the collapse of test scores and the arrival of Common Core, which is sure to return authority to teachers and end teaching to the test. Got it? Neither do I. Here is what high school teacher Arthur Goldstein says about this essay: A rather incredible piece i
Mark Naison: The Fatal Arrogance of Our Elites
http://withabrooklynaccent.blogspot.com/2013/08/to-nations-elites-teachers-are-losers.html To The Nation’s Elites, Teachers are “Losers!” There is a reason that people like Bill Gates, Chris Christie, Rahm Emmanuel, Jeb Bush, Andrew Cuomo, Eli Broad, Michael Bloomberg and yes Barack Obama will never really listen to teachers voices. And that is because, in the competition for money, power, and po
Will LA Mayor Choose Corporate Reformer to Advise Him?
This Los Angeles parent explains why parents are alarmed by the prospect that the new mayor Eric Garcetti might choose Thelma Melendez, one of Arne Duncan’s deputies as his advisor. She writes: “In making this appointment, the Mayor should follow his creed to lead by listening and consider first and foremost the concerns of public school parents, the only “special interest” group whose only conc
LISTEN TO DIANE RAVITCH 8-12-13 Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: Chile: The Most Pro-Market School System in the World, Part 1This is the first of three posts written by Professor Mario Waissbluth about education in Chile. I invited him to contribute to the blog, because Chile represents our future if we continue our present course of action towards a market system built around the principles of
