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nightcap
July 2, 2009
Remainders: Bloomberg’s frank talk about Klein’s social skills
- Announcing a (not-so-)new organization, Teachers Unite, to do what the UFT “has failed to do.”
- Getting her autistic son to eat broccoli was a joy, and the result of hard work, for one mom.
- Bloomberg on Klein at WFP event: “Could he have better social skills? We all could, I suppose.”
- Warren Buffett gave the Gates Foundation another $1.25 billion.
- Yes, some NEA teachers booed and hissed when Arne Duncan mentioned merit pay.
- “Darkness at noon” is how Leonie Haimson summarized the Board of Ed meeting.
- More city students are donning cap and gown, but that doesn’t make the diploma meaningful.
- The religious right is opposing an Obama education department pick because he is a gay activist.
- A Native American-centric high school is an example of segregated education in the inner city.
- Brushing up her resume in case Michelle Rhee fires her next: one teacher’s summer goal.
- No Child Left Behind’s tutoring program produced small benefits, studies say.
- Teachers should help define teacher performance, a Green Dot teacher says in an online chat.
- Familiar bromides, David Bloomfield says of the new special education recommendations.
- Wikis can help your school increase collaboration.
- Ruben, our Community section contributor, probably got a job! But is it the right job for him?
- A greatest-hits mix of Arne Duncan’s NEA speech today:
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