8-21-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:

Flaming Fred

The in box. Jim Keating on Illinois penisions.

My friend Jim Keating published this in the latest issue of the newsletter of the Du Page chapter of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association. In 1968 Vietnam a war correspondent saw US troops burning down a village and asked an Army major why. The Army officer was reported to reply, “ To save the village, it became necessary to destroy it.” In 1968 Vietnam the military was telling our reporte

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From the archives. The NEA and Pearson.

  While the delegates to the National Education Association’s national convention last July in Atlanta were not ready to formally criticize the Common Core Standards that had been enthusiastically endorsed by NEA’s President Dennis Van Roekel, they did pass a number of resolutions condemning the use and misuse of the testing that accompanies the national standards. The criticisms of the testing a

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8-19-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Rahm Emanuel. Worst. Mayor. Ever.  Catching crabs with the grand kids on Block Island, Rhode Island. Jesus Christ, Rahm. Can’t I leave Chicago for a God-damn week without you screwing things up even more? I’m writing this sitting on a bench behind the Block Island library. It’s the only place in town

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