Mulgrew Writes The Times
A letter to the editor from Mulgrew:Re “Teachers’ Push for Back Pay May Pinch City” (front page, Feb. 5):The question for New York City is not whether it can afford to pay competitive salaries to the teachers of the city’s more than one million schoolchildren, but whether it can afford not to.How can we have a world-class school system as long as the city has the largest class sizes, the neediest
Let's Change The Name Of Of The CCSS To "Common Cuomo Core New York State Standards"
There has been so much negativity and opposition to Common Core arising around the country that some states are thinking about changing the name of the Common Core State Standards to something else even as they keep the standards themselves mostly intact.Florida, for example, has changed the name of the Common Core State Standards to the "Florida Standards," making some 37 clarifications
What A Surprise That A "Blended Learning" Course Is A Disaster
Mayor Bloomberg loved all things techie - especially when it came to replacing humans with computers or computerized programs.So of course we got all kinds of computerized nonsense in the NYDOE during his 12 years in power and one of the more infamous was the iZone, which was a highly-touted education program that was supposed to combine online learning with classroom learning into an highly effec
2-8-14 Perdido Street School Week
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Perdido Street School: Perdido Street School WeekSome Reaction To Cuomo's Common Core PanelHere are some comments left at the Capital Confidential reporting Cuomo's Common Core panel announcement:Once again the Bully of New York fails to include the real experts in the field. Educators have been saying all along what is best for student achievement but it has fallen upont deaf ears. Sorry knuckle
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