NYSUT is opposing a bill meant to help charter schools serve high-needs students. (GothamSchools)
Parent activists are trying to galvanize their neighborhoods in advance of the mayoral race. (Daily News)
A school aide who was accused of but not indicted for molesting children wants his job back. (Post)
The family of a boy who was beaten by classmates at a Brooklyn middle school is suing. (Daily News)
Brooklyn students are graduating after beating violence, disability, and language issues. (Daily News)
The AFT teachers union is launching a lesson plan- and curriculum materials-sharing site. (Times)
American children who are deported to Mexico with their parents struggle in school and beyond. (Times)
GUest
Back to Regents pool grading where I watched two idiots give an entire school’s students 0 and 0 on short responses where the kids got 3-5 on the essay. They were from a new, small, “academically selective” high school.
How come no coverage anywhere in the media about it?
They sent out a test exam booklet missing the last page – missing the last essay prompt.
They screwed up the Italian test.
Seems like a big deal to me.
But somehow the papers managed to ignore the story this morning and instead cover the lack of a teacher evaluation disclosure agreement.
So the lack of a teacher evaluation disclosure agreement is news but the city sending out a Spanish exam missing the last page of the booklet and screwing up the Italian test isn’t?
Hmm.
No wonder so many teachers feel like the corporate media and the corporate media wanna be’s have an agenda when it comes to reporting the education news.
What gets reported as news seems awfully selective.
http://twitter.com/nycdoenuts nycdoenuts
I would have liked to see more coverage about test errors as well (The state screwed up on the Global Regents too. They had to issue a ‘correction’ to the rubric of one of the DBQs because the original had an error). After the embarrassments in May, I think we in the high schools are looking to ID any mistake as our own Pineapplegate.
But I wouldn’t expect to read anyone of that in the newspapers. Not to defend GS, but this is the only site where I’d expect to read that NYCeducator post…and as a teacher/blogger, I can tell you, I’d expect to be reading it at night…not first thing in the morning.
Guest
Make noise about this!
Sympathetic
At least you were able to grade tests yesterday. At my boyfriend’s school they spent the entire day “training” on how to grade a test most of the teachers have been grading for over ten years. He said it’s a nightmare; can’t drink in the room, can’t talk, no cellphones allowed, no food allowed, no air conditioning. I feel so sorry for teachers these days. I’m so happy he’s resigning and no matter what career he chooses he will be more respected.
Mr. Flerporillo
I don’t think I can get much angrier than I feel right now after reading about this kid who got attacked at Roy H. Mann. No words.
akil
“NYSUT is opposing a bill meant to help charter schools serve high-needs students. ”
This seems a little misleading/biased. You could just as easily say that the bill is meant to help individual charter schools continue to not serve high-needs students.
Mr. Flerporillo
Which probably would be equally misleading. It would be nice if somebody could just cut through the B.S. and describe the real practical and strategic appeal the bill has for charters, and the real practical and strategic threat it poses to the NYSUT. As Tony Montana said, “In this country, you gotta get the money first.”
akil
Agreed. I was just pointing out that the original headline was not as innocuous as it may have seemed at first glance.
Nycdoenuts
Ok, I’m a big hater of this bill, but I saw nothing wrong with that phrase.
At this point I’m wondering if it’s just me, or if people don’t realize that some of these topics are so polarizing that it really is impossible to sound impartial.
Maybe it’s just me
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