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Sunday, October 13, 2013

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Common Core Madness - It's Time To Take Down Cuomo Over This Too
A teacher leaves a comment on the Poughkeespie Journal story about NYSED Commissioner King canceling his Common Core town hall tour after he got beaten up on Thursday by parents agnry over the state's reforms:It's about time the facts about Common Core have come to light. I'm all for educational reform ... it should be an on-going endeavor by every district in the state. But this national-wide, wh

Desperate John King Tries To Blame Teachers Unions For His Poughkeepsie Meltdown
The Buffalo News reports that NYSED Commissioner John King is blaming "special interests" for hijacking the PTA-sponsored town hall meeting on Common Core in Poughkeepsie and using this as an excuse for why he canceled the rest of the town hall series:State Education Commissioner John King on Saturday canceled appearances at four upcoming PTA-sponsored community meetings, following a bar

Does Commissioner John King Have SED Officials Monitoring The Internet For Education Reform Heresy?
Apparently the informational text reading police are unfamiliar with literary techniques like figurative language: The Niagara County Sheriff's Office was asked by Albany police on Friday to investigate a perceived threatening comment made on social media by a teacher at George Southard Elementary School. An Albany detective who contacted the sheriff's office said the teacher had posted "can'

Is Commissioner John King Now A Liability To The Education Deform Movement?
CNY Teacher posts that NYSED Commissioner had a difficult week.On Thursday, he got beaten up pretty badly at a state PTA-sponsored town hall meeting on the Common Core in Poughkeepsie, as parents attacked him over his education reform agenda, problems with the Common Core standards, the inBloom data project and King's hypocrisy for sending his own kids to Montessori Unlimited, a private school wit



10-12-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street SchoolIn Which I Use The Danieslon Rubric To Evaluate John King's EffectivenessNYSED Commissioner John King has deemed the Danielson rubric the evaluator tool of choice for teacher observations in New York City.I have deemed the Danielson rubric the evaluator tool of choice for NYSED Commissioner observations in Poughkeepsie.On Thursday, NYSED Commissioner Kin