Shael Polakow-Suransky: The DOE’s networks are better and less expensive than ever. (Schoolbook)
A series on homeschooling explores how and why some city parents are doing it. (NYMag 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Leonie Haimson, a Shared Learning Collaborative critic, recounts her SLC visit. (NYC P.S. Parents)
Assessing 26 years of student work, a parent decides city schools served her children well. (The Villager)
Teach for America’s Wendy Kopp: Education belongs in tonight’s foreign policy debate. (Time)
A teacher reports from the “early engagement” meeting at his school, P.S. 154. (South Bronx School)
Newark’s teachers contract, if approved, will include peer review as well as merit pay. (In These Times)
Democracy Prep students got out of class today to sing “Vote for Somebody” on TV. (Anderson Cooper)
Ezekiel Emanuel, a doctor, says kids would be healthier if their schools let them chew gum. (Opinionator)
Younger teachers are more willing to accept student growth in evaluations, a survey says. (Teacher Beat)
TNTP’s Tim Daly argues that Chicago’s new contract will inhibiting school improvement. (Eduwonk)
In the quest for “completely data-driven” education, what is the role of qualitative data? (Shanker)
Finland’s school architecture improved with its test scores in recent years. Are they related? (NYMag)
In England, a new dictate for school architecture bans curved walls as a cost-cutting measure. (Guardian)
Noryeln
“The networks are better and less expensive than ever”…….Then someone has to tell me why the mayor, the general public and every newspaper in this town feels it’s okay to beat up on the schools.
Where are we in this argument?
Schools are getting better?
Schools are better?
Schools are a danger to our national safety?
schizophrenia run amuck
BloombergMustGo
“Shael Polakow-Suransky: The DOE’s networks are better and less expensive than ever.”
Absolutely. That would be because they further the DOE’s twisted and abusive agenda to demoralize teachers and administrators and, in fact, provide almost no useful support other than to parrot the latest hogwash coming out of Tweed. They have almost no actual specific subject knowledge, especially at the middle school level. The majority of questions either go unanswered or are answered with obfuscations and the party line.
The situation has become pathetic and untenable and only exists due to the psychotic single mindedness of the Great Dictator, Bloomberg and his reign of terror, incompetence, and corruption.
Chalkduster
Regarding PS 154, SO Bronx has been blogging about the debacle that is his school and the idiocy of the DOE, Doomberg, and failed advocation policy for years. His research and first hand experience is at PS 154 prove that corporate education policy is completely failing New York City students. If you have read his blog posted here, take the time to read backwards and study other posts.
Pogue
In Michael Bloomberg’s DOE schools are doing better because he and his cronies SAY they are doing better, not because they ARE doing better.
Smoke and mirrors and happy-feely announcements.
This city is currently run by crooks and their spokesmen.
Larry Littlefield
As more and more “public school” money goes to the retired, I expect homeschooling to become more common here. Much more common. Perhaps assisted homeschooling, with help from younger teachers who can’t get teaching jobs paid as tutors.
Eventually, I expect the UFT to insist that those homeschooling be forced to pay a fee to be used as dues and pension contributions.
It will be like the sidewalks, a piece of city infrastructure that the city stopped maintaining in the 1970s despite high taxes. Adjacent property owners are expected to do it for themselves. And are charged a permit fee for doing so.
Janed234
My network has really been there to support me as a first year teacher.
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