Chicago Teachers Union adopts resolution opposing the Common Core State Standards.
Today the Chicago Teachers Union passed a resolution opposing the Common Core standards. A similar New Business Item was not permitted to be voted on at the recent Illinois Education Association state convention. It was ruled out of order by IEA President Cinda Klickna. The NBI had been introduced by veteran Park Ridge fifth grade teacher and delegate, Jerry Mulvihill. From CTUnet: Today, members
Jose Vilson’s This is Not a Test is released today.
Jose Vilson’s book, This is Not a Test, was released today. I thought I would repost the review I wrote last March. This is Not a Test. Jose Vilson. Haymarket Books My friend Professor Bill Schubert, who is also my professional mentor, advocated the very Deweyian idea of teacher lore as a basis for educational research. Schubert’s idea is to extend to teachers “a progressive faith acknowledging t
Getting rid of the wiener on the Fifth Floor.
The news hasn’t been great for Rahm this week. There was the story that his motorcade regularly speeds through school zones and red lights. His sexist snub of the great Whitney Young High School girls basketball state champions. The arrest of his fugitive money-laundering Comptroller in Pakistan. The editorial in the Tribune that called him a “walking personality disorder.” And that was just THIS
Tuesday night with Karen Lewis and Chicago’s political nerds.
Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke are members of that very small circle of people that can justifiably claim the titles of Chicago journalists. They both write for the Chicago Reader. Full disclosure. Joravsky is an old friend. Old enough that I think twenty years ago he threw me off his bowling league team. They weren’t very good. Clearly, I was worse. Joravsky and Dumke have now created something uni
5-6-14 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.: Maybe I’m amazed. Rahm can’t afford to buy his own Paul McCartney tickets. And no lunch with Rauner.Fresh on the heels of stories about Rahm’s law-breaking motorcades and his snub of the great Whitney Young girls state championship basketball team comes the latest scandal. Actually, it’s not a scandal