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Sunday, February 16, 2014

2-16-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:







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A teacher’s common core. “In my classroom, I teach compassion, sharing, and cooperation,” she wrote.
My friend and devoted reader Bill Ayers send this along: Much of the work that teachers do is difficult to measure, and it would be a grave mistake to seek to quantify every aspect of teaching performance with dubious “value-added” digital reporting-driven metrics.  A kindergarten teacher in South Hadley, Massachusetts conveyed this to fellow teachers and administrators through her social media p


Sunday reads.
  Lyndon Johnson was a casualty of Vietnam? Talk about your revisionist history. You won’t find his name on that black wall in DC. Those men and women were the casualties. And thousands more Vietnamese. In prison for the crime of being poor. We are CoMo sexuals. ALEC’s stand-your-ground law. Another racial murderer beats the rap. More of Toni Berrios’ photo shopped campaign dirty tricks. The shi



What will the people think of us if we tell them lies?

In a post on the IEA’s Kirk Dillard endorsement, Glen Brown comments and quotes from something I wrote: “It’s a plan that will fail. In the 2010 Republican Primary there were about 750,000 voters in Illinois. We can expect roughly the same in March. Rauner is polling at 40% – 20 points more than Bill Brady who is in second place. Dillard is last, polling at 11% or somewhere between 70 and 90 thous
2-15-14 Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherGlen Brown. Choosing Dillard is a sad state of affairs- Glen Brown “…According to [IEA President Cinda] Klickna, who spent more than 30 years as a high school English teacher, ‘Senator Dillard has consistently shown that he values