Remainders: A Staten Island student describes riding out Sandy

by Philissa Cramer, at 7:00 pm

A Staten Island teenager documented on radio her Sandy experience after not evacuating. (SchoolBook)
Here’s a flashback to what schools might have worried about this week if not for Sandy. (GS Archives)
Last week, long before the storm, some city students took field tests, and here’s a guide. (Daily News)
A review of “Black Swan Green” says the novel should replace “Catcher in the Rye” in schools. (Slate)
A city teacher and parent argues that teenagers should read more non-fantasy fiction. (Insideschools)
A teacher laments putting students’ writing style and structure before their content. (Urban Teacher’s Ed)
Are free online courses the biggest innovation in education in 2,000 years? Some say so. (Tech Review)
Los Angeles applied for Race to the Top-District even though its union isn’t on board. (Politics K-12)
More singing charter school students say they don’t care who you vote for if you just vote. (YouTube)
Despite what Mitt Romney says, education spending has grown least under Barack Obama. (Rick Hess)
We still need teachers to volunteer to present their students’ work. (Now details really are coming soon!)

Leonie

that’s “Black Swan Green”, not “Black Green Swan”
Pogue

Hey, the teacher-bashing/pro-privatizing Daily News editorial board endorses Mitt Romney for president…

Who’ da thunk it?
Guest

Anybody but Obama and Arne Duncan, right?
Guest

Sounds like a mallard.
Pogue

Not really. But, if you think the editorial board of the Daily News is for anyone but their rich, little friends…I have a marathon for you to run in.
No Not Quinn, please

PLEASE, TIME TO START THE COVERAGE ON “NOT VOTING FOR CHRISTINE QUINN”. SHE IS BLOOMBERG’S PUPPET AND WILL BE HORRID FOR THE TEACHERS AND KIDS. SHE’S A MESS!
Mr. Flerporillo

I thought you were for Romney, Pogue, to send a message to Obama that he couldn’t take teachers for granted anymore. Change of heart?
Pogue

Romney? If I wanted to vote republican, I’d vote Obama.

I’ll be voting Jill Stein tomorrow and Elizabeth Warren in 2016.

I don’t like the two (actually, one) parties and the main-stream-media dictating who my candidate choices are.
Mr. Flerporillo

“the two (actually, one) parties”

very mid-1990s.

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