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Monday, July 22, 2013

7-22-13 Ed Notes Online

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Newark's NEW Caucus on Chicago Layoffs
Some of them were union activists, trying to make their public schools and their union better.... NEW CaucusThe Chicago layoff story while hiring Teach For America scabs (Mark Naison: Teach for America-Our Modern Day Pinkertons) is a declaration of nuclear war. RBE did a good job the other day in branding Rahm Emanuel a murderer (Rahm Emanuel's School Closings Put Children's Live). In a fair socie
Jeff Kaufman Covers Trayvon Martin Protest in Los Angelos
Jeff is spending the month in LA attending the National Academy on Constitutional and Political Theory. He was at the Trayvon Martin rally and send these videos and pics. He said, "The woman with the cut out paper is, of course, a teacher from East LA (middle school math). We met teachers from various schools in LA United included one who had been in the rubber room 3 times."
This Was The Week That Was: Norms Social Notes
It's been a busy week at the ole homestead. So, given my disappearing Mighty Max: 7 weeks oldmemory, I'm doing a day by day chronicle of the last week so I don't do the same things this upcoming week where the only thing on the agenda is going to see Dirty Wars Monday and the MORE summer series: UFT leadership, Friend or Foe on Thurs. (Come on down -- $3 happy hour beers -- I may have a few BEFORE


7-20-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Gotham Schools Funders: You Get What You Pay ForYesterday I posted hits from my fellow bloggers to Gotham Schools' increasingly pro ed deform agenda (NYC Teacher Bloggers on the Loose: Slam Gotham Schools Coverage) -- they don't even bother defending themselves against these charges. NYC Educator hit them hard:when an astroturf group like Students First NY holds a rally to announc