With A Brooklyn Accent:
With A Brooklyn Accent Go BATs All Week
A Gates Foundation Dictatorships - A Response to My Video on "Common Core Stealth Standards"
"Letter I just got in response to what I said about Bill Gates in my "Common Core Stealth Standards" Speech ( now on youtube)Dear Mr. Naison,I apologize for contacting you at your Fordham email, but I just watched a youtube video of your talk about the Common Core Stealth Standards, and had something to share. I am hoping you won’t mind. In your talk, I felt the last year and a half
FEB 06
Guest Post by Art Believeau " I Used to Be a Good Teacher
Guest Post by Art Believeau" I Used to Be a Good Teacher"http://mrbchs.blogspot.com/2014/02/i-used-to-be-good-teacher.html.
Why the Left as Well as the Right Opposes Common Core- A Video
Why the Left as Well as the Right Opposes Common CoreA Speech to Parents in Peekskill NY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3cl00sPWnY
FEB 03
The Badass Teachers Association "Evaluate That" Campaing Goes Viral
The Badass Teachers Association exploded last night on Facebook and Twitter with their #evaluatethat campaign. The idea came to the Facebook page via Georgia BAT Stephanie Lavender Weber who was staying the night with her students in school due to the snow storms that hit Atlanta last week. Stephanie proudly posted about staying with the students and taking care of them until their parents could c
Evaluate That!!!
I have students sleep over when they’re thrown out of the houseEvaluate That I give them money for carfare when they have no way to go homeEvaluate That I stand between them and a knife aimed at their chestEvaluate That I tell my students that I love them and remind them they’re the bestEvaluate ThatI tell them that they’re brilliant when their tears fall on the testEvaluate That#evaluatethat
JAN 31
A Common Core Rap
Notorious Phd's Common Core RapMy Core's not common,Neither's my brain,These tests they're givingDrive me insaneMy parents hate them,My teachers too,Someone was lookingFor students to screwTo make them helplessTo make them failTo get them readyFor Walmart or jailBut I'm not readyTo give up this soonMy parents taught meTo shoot for the moonSo I won't settleFor second bestIt's time to removeAll Comm
"School Choice" Is Not only About Charters and Vouchers
Where are all the advocates of "school choice" when inner city parents and students organize in defense of their neighborhood schools threatened with closing, as they have done in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and now Newark? Somehow, they only mobilize when inner parents want charters or vouchers. They have no problem with Mayors and Governors shutting down public schools that have b
