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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

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Common Core Considered "Radioactive" And "Toxic" These Days
The AFT leadership may have decided that the Common Core still holds "promise" but much of the rest of America is looking to bury the standards in the same place they put nuclear waste:The National Governors Association (NGA) owns the copyright – along with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) – to the Common Core State Standards. When the nationalized standards are mention


Why I Want Arne Duncan And John King To Remain In Power
The NEA has called for Secretary of Education Privatization Arne Duncan's ouster.The AFT put him on some kind of improvement plan (a lame way of saying they were calling for his ouster without actually calling for his ouster.)Many rank-and-file teachers across the country have called for Duncan to step down or be fired.But you know who hasn't called for Duncan's firing?The functionaries on the cor


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Perdido Street School: Is Chris Christie In An "Unholy Alliance" With Andrew Cuomo Over The Bridgegate Scandal?Fred Dicker raises the question in his NY Post column today:One of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s jobs as this year’s head of the Republican Governors Association is to help elect more GOP governors, but don’t tell that to people working on Astorino’s campaign. “Chris Christie