A handful of schools labeled failing by this year’s progress reports did well last year. (Insideschools)
Bloomberg criticized N.Y.’s teachers union for backing Democratic senate candidates. (Daily News)
Some celebrated local musicians helped raise money to keep I.S. 171′s band program running. (WSJ)
A former Stuyvesant debate coach says the school should teach ethics to entering students. (Forbes)
The Times has a shortlist of celebrated baseball players who graduated from city high schools. (Times)
A look at KIPP Infinity Charter School’s efforts to combat teacher burnout and turnover. (Andrea Gabor)
A nonprofit is looking for teachers and other mentors to coach girls on technology. (Iridescent Learning)
The new Peck Slip School is seeking artificial turf for its mostly-dirt downtown playground. (Tribeca Trib)
A Chicago inpatient teacher disputes the role of “grit” laid out in Paul Tough’s book. (The ChalkFace)
A New Teacher Project spokesman says “Won’t Back Down” goes beyond typical narratives. (Atlantic)
Two educators attribute New Dorp High School’s successes to “empowered” teachers. (Atlantic)
A Detroit student labelled “unpopular” by others is in her school’s homecoming court. (Detroit News)
The U.S. Department of Education found a N.J. district segregated students with disabilities. (EdWeek)
nycdoenuts
Nice! The guy who gave Republicans running for the Senate a million dollars criticizes the group who gave money to the Democrats!
I wonder how much of his pubic criticism has to do with the fact that the Republicans in NYs Senate expressed frustration with the mayor’s nagging for votes just a few months ago?
NYC Teacher
In reference to the article about Mayor Bloomberg criticizing NYSUT for throwing their support behind Democratic candidates for NYS Senate I wrote:
For a “supposedly” bright man hizoner is a bit of a dummy if he can’t figure out why the NYSUT would like to replace Republican State Senators who have been “paid in full” by Bloomberg. Look at Long Island Senator Flanagan who was doing Bloomberg’s bidding by trying to eliminate seniority protections ONLY for NYC Teachers. When questioned why he was pushing that legislation he told his constituents not to worry about it because it only effected NYC not Long Island teachers. Another genius who couldn’t figure out that many of his constituents ARE NYC teachers. Throw the bums out!
“Those who can.. TEACH. Those who cannot pass laws about teaching.”
For a
“supposedly” bright man hizoner is a bit of a dummy if he can’t figure
out why the NYSUT would like to replace Republican State Senators who
have been “paid in full” by Bloomberg. Look at Long Island Senator
Flanagan who was doing Bloomberg’s bidding by trying to eliminate
seniority protection ONLY for NYC Teachers. When questioned why he was
pushing that legislation he told his constituents not to worry because
it only effected NYC not Long Island teachers. Another genius who
couldn’t figure out that many of his constituents ARE NYC teachers.
Throw the bums out!”Those who can.. TEACH. Those who cannot pass laws about teaching.”
For a
“supposedly” bright man hizoner is a bit of a dummy if he can’t figure
out why the NYSUT would like to replace Republican State Senators who
have been “paid in full” by Bloomberg. Look at Long Island Senator
Flanagan who was doing Bloomberg’s bidding by trying to eliminate
seniority protection ONLY for NYC Teachers. When questioned why he was
pushing that legislation he told his constituents not to worry because
it only effected NYC not Long Island teachers. Another genius who
couldn’t figure out that many of his constituents ARE NYC teachers.
Throw the bums out!”Those who can.. TEACH. Those who cannot pass laws about teaching.”
For a
“supposedly” bright man hizoner is a bit of a dummy if he can’t figure
out why the NYSUT would like to replace Republican State Senators who
have been “paid in full” by Bloomberg. Look at Long Island Senator
Flanagan who was doing Bloomberg’s bidding by trying to eliminate
seniority protection ONLY for NYC Teachers. When questioned why he was
pushing that legislation he told his constituents not to worry because
it only effected NYC not Long Island teachers. Another genius who
couldn’t figure out that many of his constituents ARE NYC teachers.
Throw the bums out!”Those who can.. TEACH. Those who cannot pass laws about teaching.”
http://twitter.com/leoniehaimson leonie haimson
A “handful” of schools labeled failing did well last year? Insideschools found that out of 102 schools that earned D’s or F’s this year, 24
earned A’s and B’s last year. 24 schools is a lot more than a “handful” unless you’re talking about a species yet unknown. There would have been even more top ranking schools that failed this year if the DOE hadn’t built in a brake in the formula, as Markowitz pointed out w/ PS 234.
Former Turnaround Teacher
Does the DOE realize the absurdity of celebrating that many star baseball players graduated from NYC schools, when almost every school on the list has either been closed, or was on the “Turnaround” list last year and would have been closed?
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