Latest News and Comment from Education

Monday, September 8, 2014

9-8-14 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.:







Diane Ravitch’s dinner with Bruce Rauner.




Da Coach.





Retirement and fine dining. More bologna than pâté.
My Logan Square neighborhood has become a Chicago dining destination. It seems that every week brings the announcement of another new restaurant for the twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings that have discovered the place we have called home for the past 40 years. The Sunday Farmers Market across from the Centennial Monument is another foodie destination, drawing visitors from far outside the n

NYC Educator. A time for every purpose under heaven.
- NYC Educator is a teacher, local UFT leader and union activist. I was pretty surprised to read a story in the NY Post with a picture of a few dozen white teachers wearing NYPD shirts. Apparently they’d triumphed over the insidious UFT, which had somehow advised them against wearing said apparel. There was talk of appropriate apparel, and vague threatened consequences for wearing things deemed i


9-7-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Sunday reads.Whitney Young High School alums Bill Drew, Carlos Rosa and Sam Spitz canvassing my 35th Ward for Carlos. Mary Mitchell: Last week, (Chicago police officer) Evans was charged with two felonies for allegedly shoving his service revolver down a suspect’s throat and holding a Taser to the man