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January 5, 2010
Remainders: Tisch hosts RttT summit for lawmakers in Brooklyn
- More than 100 city schools are competing to see who can reduce their energy consumption the most.
- Merryl Tisch held a “summit” with lawmakers today in Brooklyn to gather support for raising the charter cap.
- Some school districts, especially in Michigan, are hesitant to sign onto their states’ RttT plans.
- Grace Church School, a private K-8 school in Greenwich Village, is expanding to high school.
- Should teachers lower grades because of bad behavior in class? A parent wonders at InsideSchools.
- Norm Scott spreads the word of the Jan. 21 anti-school closure protest outside of Bloomberg’s residence.
- Liz Willen on the news that another kindergartner was left alone on a school bus: “This is not okay”…
- …While a class of kindergartners may have been left alone on a Brooklyn playground for half an hour.
- A Harvard professor told the NEA that technological advances will mean schools will need fewer teachers.
- New Orleans could be a model for school systems seeking to draw teachers from all over the country.
- Diane Ravitch says the deregulation of public education will create a new “Wild West of entrepreneurship.”
- And here are some “hot spots to watch” in early education issues this year.
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January 5th, 2010 8:49 pm
Bad behavior in class pretty much precludes positive participation, a very important aspect of any class I ever wanted to attend or teach.
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January 6th, 2010 8:37 am
Now, I’m not a fan of Bloomberg and I do think that there SHOULD BE a protest, BUT not at his residence! This is a public issue and all the attention should be brought to Tweed and City Hall. Bringing this to his home will only piss him off - and close his mind.
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January 6th, 2010 3:46 pm
“Bringing this to his home will only piss him off - and close his mind.”
About the funniest thing I read today.
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January 7th, 2010 7:26 am
Home, on Fifth Avenue or Fingerboard Road, is a place of refuge and safety, This is not a good idea and will promote sympathy for the Mayor and anger towards the demonstrators.
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