UFT’s Leo Casey would like to adjust Mayor Bloomberg’s “Big Muddy” education analogy. (EdWize)
A student critiques his eighth-grade self as he works through ninth grade at P-TECH. (Smarter Planet)
Liza Featherstone: February’s PEP meeting proves more than ever a need for change. (Brooklyn Rail)
Even teachers in New Jersey are defending the city teacher pilloried in the New York Post. (Capital NY)
The Gates Foundation seems to be making fewer and fewer grants to charter schools. (Russo)
Joshua Greenman defends value-added reports, despite the fact that they confuse many. (Daily News)
Parent recounts the trials of her first foray into elementary school theater production. (Schoolbook)
Advocates for Children criticizes Gov. Cuomo’s proposal to restructure early intervention. (InsideSchools)
Advocate calls for parents and educators to pay more attention to education opportunity gaps. (Edvox)
The new schools opening this year include a harvest theme and a health sciences theme. (Schoolbook)
Principals of two new schools set to open in Union Square describe their recruiting efforts. (WNYC)
Queens English teacher wins $25,000 foundation prize for literature-focused teaching. (Schoolbook)
Education Sec. Arne Duncan calls for educators to strengthen and grow arts programs. (U.S. DOE)
House education committee has put off debate over science testing in NCLB law. (Curriculum Matters)
An homage to Dr. Seuss takes on the National Education Association. (Ed is Watching)
Mike
The teachers at the “worst” teacher’s school in Woodside should walk off the job until the mayor agrees to come and observe her. Let’s see if he’ll stand by the value-added score the city gave her. I’d be happy to see my dues money go toward covering fines and lost wages.
FIGHTtheFIGHT
Mike,
You have exactly the right idea of the fight that needs to be fought. I hope everyone understands the Mayor’s strategy. He is taking the fight to us! He is trying the employ the tactic that the best defense is a constant offense.
We are either going to stand by and take it. He is killing long time institutions such as Newtown H.S., Grover Cleveland H.S.. John Adams H.S., etc.
But essentially, we are calling for him to give up Mayoral Control Now! We have to take the fight to him otherwise he will employ this strategy right until he leaves. By doing this he keeps a lot of the real issues coming to the forefront. Complete mismanagement of every technology initiative under his administration. The mismanagement of budgets across this entire system. He will push this system to collapse but be long gone before it actually happens and the blame will fall on the inheriting mayor. At that point, pension reform and complete privatization of this system is a done deal.
The sharks are circling folks! The time is long past fighting back and not at PEP meetings. They are putting placards in businesses. They are going door to door to have petitions signed demanding the mayor give up Mayor control of the school system.
We have stand together and make our voices heard.
Let’s go people… if you think we can wait him out, the damage will be so severe the choices will be very limited.
Supporter
“Even teachers in New Jersey are defending the city teacher pilloried in the New York Post”. What kind of story headline is that? Why shouldn’t they defend the teacher who was labeled with distorted data? Teachers across the country support the teachers of NYC with the political struggle that we are going through because teachers across America know that they are the next targets for ed-deformers.
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Bloomberg rests his silver-cuff-linked shirtsleeves on a scuffed conference table inside City Hall and talks about how eager he is to take on next year’s $3 billion deficit. “Look, the more complex the job, the more satisfying it is if you do it correctly,” he says. “And I had a $6 billion deficit coming in.” Will he erase this one the same way, largely through higher property taxes? “No,” Bloomberg responds immediately.
“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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