Venial Sins. I once taught the whole child. No we develop interventions.
- Venial Sins is a public school teacher. I teach in the same district as Mark, and never before have I felt such a high degree of pressure to make sure every student is meeting goals or standards. In the past, primary grade students were believed to be developing at different rates, and what one child could do in kindergarten, another may not master until second grade. We “taught the whole child,
Sunday book review section. Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity.
Strike for America: Chicago Teacher Against Austerity Michah Uetricht. Verso Press. The announcement of the return of former Illinois Education Association Executive Director Jo Anderson arrived in my email box almost simultaneously with the arrival of Micah Uetricht’s Strike for America. Uetricht’s brief book contains a back-stage look at the creation of the Chicago Teacher Union’s CORE caucus
Sunday reads.
Elijah Edwards, AFSCME Local 2858 Vice President (right) and I talk pension theft with Keeanga-Yahmahtta Taylor and Micah Uetricht of Jacobin Radio Chicago. One Newark means firing 700 union teachers, replaced by TFA kids. Finding: Conservative activists are manufacturing the perception of a public pension crisis in order to both slash modest retiree benefits and preserve expensive corporate su
2-22-14 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 teacherJay Rehak. Fixing our fund begins with a guaranteed source of revenue.— Jay C. Rehak, president, Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund Board of Trustees, English teacher, Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, wrote this to the Chicago Tri