Thursday, October 31, 2013

10-31-13 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:






Tish James @ the PEP: We Want Our Schools Back
Not up to the impact of James' galvanizing speech at the Oct. 15 PEP where she laid bare the DOE policy of inequality. Here she does some posturing and I hated her use of the charter standard use of "scholars" -- is she coopting them? But she rises to the occasion at the end with her call of "We want our schools back."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYwb_mCehTY>




10-30-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Fred Smith On the Empress TischWhat clear and astute observations... Loretta PriscoFred, thanks for this scathing and brilliant portrait. Helps me make sense of my visceral reaction of horror at her presentation. So much feigned reasonableness and caring. So little capacity for hearing the truth.... Jeff NYes, Fred- so right on! Let's not forget that the "flawed accountabilit