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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Charter Schools Destroy Catholic Schools Too

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The Daily News takes a look at what the charter school movement has done to Catholic schools: Emotional students and teachers packed up year...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Dark Day In New York

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Here is Diane Ravitch's Education Week post about what the new evaluation deal will mean for New York State students, schools and teache...
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Teachers Unions Are The Villains In Hollywood Once Again

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The NY Times reports that anti-teachers union activists have moved from using documentaries like "Waiting for Superman" as propag...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

Life During Wartime

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The sound of test scores, off in the distance, I'm getting used to them now, worked in a small school, worked in a big school, I've ...

The Nightmare To Come

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Let's start out by giving the credit, or the blame, to the person who deserves it the most for all these new teacher evaluation systems ...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Who Would Want To Become A Teacher These Days?

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No one in their right mind, that's for sure. The president cheerleads the firing of teachers in Rhode Island and puts into place policie...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Gang of Four

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Dedicated to Andrew "Makes The Trains Run On Time" Cuomo:
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Cuomo's Power Grabs

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Teachers weren't the only group to experience Andrew Cuomo's dictatorial power grabs this week: ALBANY — In his proposed budget for ...
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The UFT Leadership Try To Cover Their Asses Over The New Evaluation System

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UFT President Michael Mulgrew and NYSUT President Richard Iannuzzi got taken to the cleaners on the teacher evaluation deal with the state t...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

King Standardized Test

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The education reformers are crowing this morning over the NYSUT/UFT cave-in to Cuomo in the evaluation agreement. As usual with the reformer...
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The UFT And NYSUT Caved On Everything

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After yesterday's cave-in to Cuomo, Tisch, King and the corporate education reform interests, the unions in NY State no longer serve any...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Test Scores Count For 100% Of The New Teacher Evaluations In New York

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The NYSED, the Regents chancellor and the governor all say that test scores only account for 40% of the new teacher evaluation system. Class...

A Riot Of Their Own

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Debt-driven austerity measures and the sharp economic downturns in the Eurozone have led to youth unemployment rates that are as high as 50%...
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Only 45% Of New Yorkers Approve Of Cuomo's Education Policies

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Looks like the Sun King isn't as popular on education issues as he thinks: On the eve of Gov. Cuomo's deadline for a deal on new tea...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

"Long-Term Criminality" At Murdoch Paper

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Not a surprise: (Reuters) - An investigation into Rupert Murdoch's top-selling British newspaper, the Sun, has uncovered evidence that i...
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Judge: Sports Scores No Longer Have To Be Accurate

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Working off today's court finding that the NYCDOE only has to provide Teacher Data Reports to the press, not vouch for the accuracy of t...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

City Wins Teacher Eval Case - Set To Release 12,000 Teacher Evaluations To Press

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The judge ruled teachers have no right to privacy in this matter, even though the city's Teacher Data Reports are flawed and have large ...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Moral Rot At The Core Of Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire

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Here's the latest: Rupert Murdoch faces a revolt from journalists and employees at The Sun who feel he is throwing them to the wolves i...
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Joel Klein's News Corporation Putsch

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The crisis at News Corporation continues to spread this morning: Dark rumours were swirling as long ago as last spring, when Rupert and Jame...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

News Corp. In Crisis Once Again

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Five more News Corporation employees arrested in the Murdoch phone hacking/police bribery scandal today - bringing the total number arreste...
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