Selective middle schools are also being told to take more students with special needs. (Insideschools)
A crib sheet of flaws in first-round NCLB waiver apps that could be helpful for New York. (Politics K-12)
Charlotte Danielson dishes on good teaching, evaluations, and New York City’s missteps. (SchoolBook)
A teacher rounds up top Tweets from a Long Island principals’ forum on evaluations. (NYCDOEnuts)
A Christian school that all four of Chancellor Dennis Walcott’s children attended is closing. (AP)
A look at the Posse Foundation, which helps city students get in to selective colleges. (Opinionator)
It turns out that Bad Teacher day is a day when students wear Led Zeppelin t-shirts. (NYC Educator)
A charter school proposed for the Bronx will offer a gifted model and fencing classes. (Riverdale Review)
A teacher describes the blatant, uncreative plagiarism among her Spanish students. (Edwize)
Eric Nadelstern: The state should adopt teacher peer review, like my high school had. (SchoolBook)
A critic of credit recovery suggests a good way to let overage students graduate faster. (GS Community)
The new principal of Columbia Secondary School came from a school on the MLK campus. (Spectator)
The Observer says Gov. Cuomo’s leadership on teacher evaluations is a good first step to merit pay.
Mike Petrilli reviews three years of President Obama’s education policy leadership. (Education Next)
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It’s easy to review three years of Obama education leadership. Ask Bill Gates what to do,then do it. Utter a line or two at SOTU that makes it sound like you didn’t applaud mass firing of teachers in RI. Hope few teachers remember ed. secretary Duncan called Katrina best thing to happen to ed. in NOLA. Also, as you pretend your ultimate ed. agenda differs from that of GOP, also pretend said ed. secretary did not tour with Newt Gingrich in 09. Then, score the endorsement of both NEA and AFT because they dimly hope you aren’t as overtly nuts as the guys your ed. secretary hangs with.
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Sweet-sassy-molassey! That was good.
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Right on NYC Educator! Here’s the plan: Have the teachers who were fired create a blog reminding the president what they went through and that poverty is not a poor person’s problem. Let’s post the video of Gates at the AFT convention in Seattle and replay it in a Groundhog Day form. Let’s showcase every natural disaster as a chance for education reforms even if an entire city is underwater and the lost of life is the birth of charter schools. Give students with special needs and the ELLs the opportunity to attend the school that Obama’s girls attend so he can show the nation that he cares about the most challenging students. Finally, let’s have the teachers from Finland speak to Duncan about education, reforms, no testing policy, and teacher development programs.
I feel that those above reminders should be remembered.
“My big problem with the rollout of the Common Core is that, if some teachers hadn't read this article, they might have felt like they were the only ones confused about the CCS rollout too.”
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