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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

5-7-14 Schools Matter

Schools Matter:






Chicago Teachers Join National Opposition to Common Core
BY CTU COMMUNICATIONS  |  05/07/2014CHICAGO – Today, members of the House of Delegates (HOD) of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) passed the following resolution that enjoins the city’s educators to growing national opposition to the Common Core State Standards, saying the assessments disrupt student learning and consume tremendous amounts of time and resources for test preparation and administrati

Charter Schools: New Report on Massive Fraud, Abuse, and Mismanagement
  Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, & Abuse

KIPP's Gritsters Get Hammered for Amoral Character Goals
Capitalism is neither moral nor immoral; it is amoral.  There is no room at the bottom line for pious judgments of right or wrong that might affect the balance sheet.  Capitalism is about the accumulation of capital to make more capital and nothing else.  There was a time in our not-so-distant past when capitalists chose to make money in ways that supported some of the humane individual and group


5-6-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: Can a Weingarten Stamp of Approval Mean Anything Good for NYC Teachers?The saddest part of Randi Weingarten’s rainy day trip to Lake Placid to get some press press photos of her protesting at the DFER ed deform meeting is that the Misleaders of the AFT and NEA have endorsed most of the agenda of the hedge funders inside the meeting, whether it is bonus pay for test scores, teacher