A former New York City teacher is chronicling his SOS attendance to the last detail. (Urban Teacher’s Ed)
Two new novels present thinly veiled portraits of Park Slope’s P.S. 321 and Tribeca’s P.S. 234. (Times)
Lafayette HS produced the most baseballers of any city school; most top producers are closed. (Times)
The ACLU is suing a La. charter school that expels girls even suspected to be pregnant. (Mother Jones)
Being forced to a higher floor means warmer classrooms at a space-sharing school. (Inside Colocation)
Pennsylvania has done away with the requirement that superintendents have taught. (District Dossier)
An educator lists 10 axioms about education that he says are incorrect and even harmful. (Answer Sheet)
And a city teacher pokes holes in beliefs held by the ed tech “missionary set.” (Schools as Ecosystems)
A teacher grapples with the question of whether selling her work compromises her. (Shoulders of Giants)
A Common Core advocate pans materials by the educator behind the city’s literacy curriculum. (Flypaper)
It’s not just what a teacher says or does but how he says or does it that matters, a coach says. (Coach G)
Sold Out
Superintendents now don’t need any teaching background in one state and a charter school can kick out pregnant girls in another state. Looks like the ed-deformers are cheering from their penthouses today as they further watch our public school system go to Hell in a hand basket.
Turnaround Teacher
How come you didn’t include the Daily News article on Lehman?
Wow! Shamefully poor presentation and lack of coverage of the SOS convention!
It was a convention, not a march and rally with celebrities in protest! That in itself is not a story, and the scale of it is a misrepresentation of a non-story!
Are you guys asleep at the switches or showing your political/financial colors, in bright fluorescents?!
Coverage gaps are likely due to the size of GS’s editorial staff, which appears to consist of two reporters and two editors.
Anonymous
Not just a gap. It’s the Remainders lead, yet it’s totally misrepresented.
Rather than a rally, it’s a convention for solutions and policy stands. That’s really the story.
http://twitter.com/nycdoenuts nycdoenuts
Suits me. The great SOS stories for the year has been who’s in charge and the momentum loss that has occurred because of the debate over Common Core (something I support) within the movement. I stayed home this year partly because I didn’t see a strong consensus around accepting people who don’t completely hate the Common Core.
If you ask me, the press, Gotham Schools included, did the movement a great big favor by completely ignoring the gathering this year. I hope some of the leadership and philosophies issues are resolved (in favor of a more inclusive ‘big tent’ approach) over the Fall and into next year.
It was my impression that you were bemoaning the “lack of coverage of the SOS convention.”
I don’t know if using “rally” instead of “conference” in the headline qualifies as “shameful,” even if it may be misleading. And when you have a tiny editorial staff, you have to write copy, including headlines, very quickly. Just something to consider.
Anonymous
So, there seems to be more to this story that doesn’t meet the eye.
Nycdoenuts
There’s a lot more to this, the story that doesn’t meet the eye. That’s a big reason why I’m a little relieved that GS et. al. missed the boat and that it never actually got to meet the eye.
I hope next year is awesome though! I sure would like to go.
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