Tuesday, August 5, 2014

8-5-14 Hemlock on the Rocks

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Comrade DeFacto Tourette's Jeers at Alex Caputo-Pearl Lies and Issues A Call to Action
John DeasyI had raised this in exposing the cover-rops by collaborator  Pres A. Caputo/Pearl   (on al Jazeera interview).  UTLA knows the 'score' and the officials are political willing tools for the LAUSD purges-- ruining of their own dues pays , This goes back to Duffy /Perez regimes  and even further.Now so many  members careers arehemorrhaging by the  many hundreds and even thousands. ALL


Dana Goldstein on L.A. Teacher Alex Caputo-Pearl and the Real Deal Behind Closing Schools
To be fair, this is an interesting look at how well Pearl moves between the reform and conform . He has an engaging voice and employs a very credible tone. But here's the deal. Smaller schools are BETTER. You do not cram 3500 kids in school built to hold ( they look like prisons in the hood)  a mere 2000 . Small schools are not what Gates wanted. I was part of his experiment with SLCs . These



UTLA's talk of a strike: 'breathtakingly irresponsible' according to Deasy, who already has the drop on teachers with his PR Firm's carefully crafted new image
Deasy on UTLA's talk of a strike: 'breathtakingly irresponsible'FROM LASR-- the pro Deasy Deform Authority  As LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy prepared to deliver his "State of the District" speech to school leaders and educators at Garfield High School today, he sat for a wide-ranging interview


Fwd: Al Jazeera: The Inside Look into Teacher Jail
www.hemlockontherocks.comcavete tyrannisqui doecet in doctrinaBegin forwarded message:From: Søren Sørensen Date: August 5, 2014 12:33:37 AM PDTTo: Rene , Arlene Schery , Jeffrey Barry , Alex Caputo-Pearl , George Buzzetti , Eric Bidna

LAUSD Chief Deasy Refines Reformy Rhetoric to Lift Students Out of Poverty Where They Have a Choice of College Ready or Career Prepared
LAUSD Chief Deasy Sounds Optimistic Note Ahead Of New School Year « CBS Los Angeles Dontchhoooo Believe IT!
SXSWedu: How to Keep Friends and Influence No New PeopleY
SXSWedu: How to Keep Friends and Influence No New People
Teach for America’s Wendy Kopp Embraces New Unionism in LEE and Retains Close Ties with Alex Caputo Pearl
http://prospect.org/article/teach-america%E2%80%99s-deep-benAlex Caputo-Pearl is a member of Teach for America's inaugural class in 1990 and has maintained a close relationship with its founder Wendy Kopp Teach for America's Deep Bench "Is this our Egypt moment? Will we seize the moment?" Former New York
Education Scandals Could Impede Reform Efforts - Courant.com
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-education-reform-reax-0803-20140804,0,3015662.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Courantcom-OffTheBeat+(Courant.com+-+Off+The+Beat) Education Scandals Could Hurt Reform Efforts, Advocates Say
8-4-14 Hemlock on the Rocks
Hemlock on the Rocks: Local Accountability and Astroturf: Local Control without the Local Control | Cloaking InequityHow can we banish No Child Left Behind's top-down and narrow paradigm? Local control has been a bedrock principle of public schooling in America since its inception. NCLB sent us in the opposite direction of this traditional notion. A return to a traditional locally based educationa