Stupid Shit Education Reformers Say: Education Nation Edition
There are two ways to improve our schools. Hire better people and improve the ones we have. Everything else is just noise. #EducationNation— Todd (@ToddWhitaker) October 6, 2013Gotta love the motivational speaker/education professor/car salesman Todd Whitaker weighing in on complex issues like public education, poverty and teaching with so pithy and ignorant a tweet.But what else can you expect fr
Murdoch/Klein Amplify Tablet Chargers Melt, Suffer Multitude Of Other Problems
There has been such a heavy sell of the Amplify tablet in the media lately, including a long Times Magazine piece a few weeks ago.Turns out Joel Klein and Rupert Murdoch should expend less effort on the p.r. around Amplify tablets and more on the safety and workability issues: A North Carolina school district has suspended the use of 15,000 tablets after reports of multiple hardware issues, includ
Chris Christie Lies Over NJ Transit/Sandy Story
Chris Christie loves to blame stuff on others: A report by The Record is contradicting Governor Chris Christie's recent account of why NJ Transit moved hundreds of pieces of rail equipment into a flood zone prior to Sandy. The Governor this week blamed that decision on a low-level employee, whom he said made the call with no input or oversight from top managers. But a Record examination of agenc
Education Reform Elites Hate Democractic Processes
It's so much easier to impose, threaten and punish:When we put this draconian treatment of those questioning test policies side by side with the takeover of whole school districts by state governments, the imposition of Mayoral control of public schools, and the mass closing of public schools over the protests of community residents in cities like New York and Chicago, we see that when it come to
Maybe They Can Use The Post And Daily News For The Third Grade MOSL Tests?
"If you can read the @nydailynews or the @nypost, you can do college level work," says @joelhota, lamenting many kids graduate hs unready to— Erin Durkin (@erinmdurkin) October 3, 2013You can be successful at college if you can read the Post or Daily News?Try you can be successful at the fourth or fifth grades if you can read the Post and the Daily News.Not too much complex text in these
Bryant High School Confines "Crazy" Students To Outside Trailer That Funcations Like A Jail Cell
I remember a time when Bryant High School was a decent school.But then Bloomberg took over autocratic control of the school system and began his systematic plan to destroy all the large schools.And that brought us stuff like this:This school treats its most troubled students like trailer trash, whistleblowers say. The principal of William Cullen Bryant HS in Long Island City, Queens, has rounded
Science Teacher Complains Common Core Turns Him Into Literacy Teacher, But He Still Supports The CCSS
A common complain with the Common Core - no matter what subject a teacher teaches, he/she must become an ELA teacher and teach informational texts:At the beginning of the school year, I start off my class with a quote. In my best orator voice, I exclaim, “We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated but the winner of the science fair. We n
10-5-13 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Perdido Street SchoolOff Duty And Undercover NYPD Cops Took Part In The Biker Chase Of Man In SUVThe Daily News reports: A pair of NYPD detectives rode last weekend with the motorcycle mob that battered a Manhattan dad as his terrified family watched, a source told the Daily News. The two cops apparently waited several days after Sunday’s brutal assault before informing supe