Ralph Kiner Dies
From Eye on Baseball:Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner passed away at his home in California on Thursday. He died peacefully from natural causes with his family at his side. He was 91.“With the passing of Ralph Kiner, the baseball world has lost one of its greatest ambassadors and the Hall of Fame has lost a wonderful friend,” said Jane Forbes Clark, Chairman of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Muse
Let's Have More Meetings
I wanted to meet with you to talk about that meeting you're having about how we need to have more meetings, but I was stuck in another meeting and couldn't meet with you today. Can we meet tomorrow?Sigh...
The Problem With Always Making Students Show Their Work
From David Ginsburg at Ed Week:As a new teacher, I upheld the longstanding requirement among math teachers that students must always show their work. And like many teachers, I deducted points when students refused to comply. But the more pushback I got from them--"you shouldn't make us work the problems out if we already know the answers"--the more I questioned the wisdom of this rigid r
Daily News: ATRS's May Be Returned To Classrooms
The Daily News that reports teachers who are "undesirable: - i.e., ATR's - will be placed back into schools under a plan by NYCDOE Chancellor Farina: A pool of teachers whom principals don’t want to hire may be headed back into the classroom, the Daily News has learned. City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has had internal discussions with her staff about placing most of the 1,200 educators
2-5-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Common Core, CCSS Tests, APPR, And InBloom Are A Package DealThe Cuomo administration yesterday:“Common Core is an issue about which there has been a lot of dialogue,” Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa said in a statement Tuesday that both affirms the standards and distances the administration from its rocky rollout. The proposed moratorium on its implementation is “premature
