Sunday, June 30, 2013

6-30-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER

@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER:

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Apparently, ANYONE can open a charter school now #NCSC13

I’m sure you heard about the wonderful slate of speakers available at the 2013 National Charter Schools Conference, which includes hit hip hop artist Pitbull. Yeah! Well, I have a couple of alternatives.                 Or, yes, the Kimye National Achievement Academy of the Arts and Media!!

An Open Letter to New Teach for America Recruits

Dear New TFA Recruits, It is summertime, which for those of you newly accepted into Teach for America, means you are enduring the long hard days of Institute.  I congratulate you on being accepted into this prestigious program.  You clearly have demonstrated intelligence, passion, and leadership in order to make it this far. And now […]

Get a TNTP Math Teacher and Neutralize Poverty Today!

Every time I think I’ve discovered the bottom of the corporate education (Corped) sewer, I find out that there is more down there where that came from. The New Teacher Network, which was managed for awhile by the Queen of Real Pain and Fake Gain, Michelle Rhee, keeps piling it up.  With a combination of […]

Gaiman’s Mythical Folding of Childhood into Adulthood | the becoming radical

Gaiman’s Mythical Folding of Childhood into Adulthood | the becoming radical.

Where’s @NCTQ on this one? Lazy. Pathetic. Ideology.

What the hell are you paying for then?

Common Core Seuss Standards? Perhaps. #commoncore

From an educator: We do not like the Common Core.It tells us not of what’s in storeUnless the kids don’t pass their testsOur futures will be put to rest. The kids will cry, struggle and fretAnd not learn to THINK, (the worst thing yet)The only thing that will occupy mindsIs finding the RIGHT answer every […]

United Opt Out to release a national Declaration of Independence this Thursday, VIDEO

The group United Opt Out is about to take, what I think to be, a major and much more aggressive stance towards the current regime of Arne Duncan and his sycophants. Please watch the following teaser for the release of UOO’s Declaration of Independence this coming July 4th. Also look ahead to state-by-state refusal guides. […]


All Week 6-29-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: Thought for the Dayplthomasedd at @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER - 3 hours agoOn my WeatherBug smartphone App, the pollen tab notes: This lack of change in airborne pollen will continue to affect those who suffer from allergies and those who live with allergy sufferers. How is it, then, that the “no excuses” education reform crowd is unable to admit th

6-29-13 @ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER
@ THE CHALK FACE knows SCHOOLS MATTER: What’s wrong with being a “badass?”by Chalk Face, PhDTomorrow at 6PM EST, we’re going to interview Mark Naison, someone who’s been with us in this fight for a long time now. He has recently gathered a group of people in an effort to organize the Bad Ass Teachers association on Facebook. In what, a week, there’s almost 20,000 members? The discussion is lively