David Brooks lauds Brooklyn’s New American Academy’s unique model as a “great experiment.” (Times)
The new head of a SUNY board with charter school authority is a CUNY professor with qualms. (Post)
Bronx Science’s Pi Day celebration included a recitation and a pie-eating contest. (Riverdale Press)
Lisa Nielsen, a skeptic in the DOE’s technology office, criticized new social networking rules. (Post)
A few dozen teachers protested the New York Post’s treatment of teacher ratings outside its offices. (Post)
The Post says the teachers’ protest outside the paper’s office shows teachers don’t care about students.
Joel Klein: School choice’s systemic impact is hard to know now but is bound to be good. (Daily News)
The new head of the national rugby program is a 20-year English teacher at a city private school. (Times)
Debate is raging in Tennessee over a legislative proposal to keep teacher ratings private. (Tennessean)
A Brazilian city is outfitting its students with microchips to alert parents about truancy. (AP)
Ellen
“Sources in the charter community — fearing retribution — expressed
their
worries about the O’Brien appointment anonymously. They likened it to
putting the fox in the hen house.”
Public school advocates express their concerns publicly, but are called
reactionary and resistant. Charter school advocates express their
concerns anonymously have qualms and fear retribution.
When you steal money from kid’s education, when you seize public buildings, when you give CEO’s 350,000.00 dollar a year salary, when divide communities and create animosity do you think no one will notice?
Ya think they’re fearful for a reason?
Ellen
sorry, for the error, …..when you divide communities and create animosity…..
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