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Sunday, April 20, 2014

4-20-14 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.:



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Sunday reads.
Recruiting new members at the IEA Representative Assembly. On Easter Sunday the NY Times’ house conservative expresses interest in the resurrection of…Marx. Beware of corporate reformers who steal the language of The Movement. Defending public schools from the wolves of Wall Street. Matt Farmer’s Graze to the Top. Farewell to The Hurricane. Pistols shots ring out in the barroom night Enter Patty


Sunday book review section. This is Not a Test.
  This is Not a Test. Jose Vilson. Haymarket Books Professor Bill Schubert, who is my professional mentor, advocated the very Deweyian idea of teacher lore as a basis for educational research. Schubert’s idea is to extend to teachers “a progressive faith acknowledging that they are researchers and theory builders in their professional lives.” In an age of education experts who have no experience



4-19-14 Fred All Week 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.: Fred All Week Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacherKeeping retirement weird. Stopping the Tom Foolery.Joe from New Jersey commented on my blog about Governor Christies diversion of public employee pensions, “ummm, NJ is a blue state you nincompoop. Christie has done more for the p