Farina With Support of Real Reformers Has Chance to End 12 Years of Toxicity
The appointment of Carmen is the best news that has come out in education in 2013. I am eternal optimist and believe that maybe, just maybe things will turn around. After going to some training that Carmen gave way back when, I completely changed the way I taught. Those were the best years of my very long career.... Loretta Prisco, ICEMay amateur hour be finally and mercifully over.... Raging Hors
Farina the Choice
Bloomfield also predicted that Farina and her staff would implement a longer-term cultural change at Tweed. “There will be a new system-wide respect for educational experience,” he said, “there are a lot of people fresh out of college who either as a matter of data expertise or particular program expertise tell principals what’s needed. There will probably be an early but not immediate conversatio
Who's to Blame? Round up on Lawrence Scott and Natalya Sokolson Gordon
Let's see now. An investigator for OSI so abuses his position by trying to extort sexual favors from a teacher under the threat of a losing her job and the most that happens to him is that he is forced to resign? Shouldn't he be doing a perp walk?I posted the story this morning - NY Post Points to Corruption in OSI, DOE Investigations Unit? and others have too. Chaz reminded me that he did an expo
Patrick Sullivan resigns from NYC Board of Education
This is a sad day for the children, teachers and parents of the city. I've watched Patrick Sullivan often be the lone voice of sanity in the midst of the sickness of ed deform.We hope that one of Bill de Blasio's first steps is to appoint Patrick back to the newly constituted Board of Education (which we no longer expect to be called the PEP since by law -- which Bloomberg violated for 12 years --
12-29-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Skynet is Coming: On the movie "Her", artificial intelligence, neural networks and The TerminatorIn coming years, the approach will make possible a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that will perform some functions that humans do with ease: see, speak, listen, navigate, manipulate and control. NY Times The scary thing is that I actually understood today'