NYSED Commissioner John King Whines
Via B-Lo Ed Scene, we present to you a video snippet of rookie teacher/NYSED Commissioner John King trying to quell a hostile crowd attacking him for the corporate education reform agenda they're promoting and not doing a very good job of it:As B-Lo Ed Scene demonstrates, King is full of crap when he says his kid is getting the same Common Core treatment all the children in public schools are gett
TIME Magazine: Neither Retirement Nor Death Shall End The Reign Of Bloomberg
You only think he's going away:Mike Bloomberg is about to be unemployed for the second time in his professional life. The first was in August of 1981, when Saloman Brothers fired Bloomberg from the only full-time job he had ever known. The second time will be January 1, 2014, when he hands control of New York City over to the next mayor.The cover story of this week’s TIME magazine is about what B
Eva Moskowitz - A Cancer In The School System
Eva Moskowitz's charter schools - uncontrolled cancerous growth: Like many public school parents and veteran educators, Lynn Manuell is fed up with the special treatment granted charter schools during the Bloomberg era. She’s tired of the endless co-locations of charters in regular public schools decreed by the bureaucrats at Tweed.... Special ed teacher Manuell has witnessed the inequities of cha
Common Core Child Abuse
Newest Pearson/Common Core/NYCDOE innovation - multiple choice standardized tests for four and five year olds: Goodbye Play-Doh, hello No. 2 pencils. Because of a tough new curriculum and teacher evaluations, 4- and 5-year-olds are learning how to fill in bubbles on standardized math tests to show how much they know about numbers, shapes and order.... One of three tests obtained by the Daily News
10-10-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Ed Deformer Says If You're A Critic Of Charters, You're A Segregationist@DianeRavitch @rweingarten YOU, the 'historian', are on the same side of history as the segregationists who fought to keep ppl in the hood.— Dr. Steve Perry (@DrStevePerry) October 9, 2013Ravitch responds:@DrStevePerry @rweingarten George Wallace and Strom Thurmond fought for school choice. Dr. ML King f