Another story of a good teacher rated as bad by a system our union leadership helped create.
IEA Executive Directory Audrey Soglin. Today’s Tribune features a story by Dawn Turner Trice about Gage Park high school teacher Victor Harbison. The Gage Park High School teacher wants his students to succeed academically, but he also wants them to learn how to solve problems affecting their lives and community. In short, he wants to teach them to be good citizens. It’s an area of teaching that’
John Broderick, Jr. Pensions are not a gift. They are a promise.
- John Broderick Jr., a former chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, notes that the views expressed are his own and not necessarily those of the University of New Hampshire Law School, where he serves as dean. Note that New Hampshire does not have the constitutional pension protection clause that the Illinois Constitution contains. May 13, 2014 There is talk these days in New Hampshi
Drugs in the war on poor kids.
“For now, we’re left with one of the ironies of income inequality: a rare instance of poor children getting more of something than they need.” More than 10,000 American children ages 2 and 3 are being medicated for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). They are mostly poor kids. This is a finding in a report from the Center for Disease Control released last Friday. Is ADHD a label give
5-18-14 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.: Sunday reads.Pension theft is now called “pension smoothing.” You never would have thought I would have good words to say about principals. But I’m never too old to change. The gathering resistance to standardized tests. Danny Glover on Freedom Summer. Rahm’s fundraising loop-hole is very lucrative. I