A Chicago teacher says his school spent more than 12 hours on testing in three weeks. (Answer Sheet)
A comprehensive series examines Chicago’s high absenteeism rate in elementary schools. (Tribune)
In honor of Veterans Day, Teach For America is ramping up veteran recruitment. (TFA via Eduwonk)
The UFT’s activities for retired teachers include a trip to Good Housekeeping’s headquarters. (POed)
A school choice advocacy group wants New York State to adopt statewide open enrollment. (NYFERA)
Parents push back against the idea that opting out of testing is somehow elitist. (Parent Voices NY)
A new film about the fight over Khalil Gibran Academy is being screened tomorrow. (GS Calendar)
The winners of an essay contest for Japanese students describe the healing power of sports. (Times)
Harbor School students explain why building oyster reefs could stop the next Sandy. (Dot Earth)
A TNTP study of teacher retention in D.C. says performance pay helps, but not principals. (TNTP)
The president of Denver’s school board says voters clearly support its reforms. (EdNews Colorado)
Indiana’s new schools chief’s platform included opposition to the Common Core. (Curriculum Matters)
Mr. Grey
TNTP should take their propaganda elsewhere. Any teacher worth his or her salt knows that they are the ultimate spin masters of the ed-deform movement. Voters in many states voted down ed-deform agendas at the local level and the tide is finally starting turn against those who seek to profit from public education and destroy the teaching profession.
noryeln
On the NYFERA report’
If we follow that logic in NYC, children will be bused to districts such
as D 31, Staten Island; D 26 Whitestone Queens; D 15 Park Slope,
Brooklyn; D 20, 21,22 (i.e., Bay Ridge, Marine Park, Brighton Beach)
the East Side and parts of the West Side.
Where ya gonna put ‘em Mr. Brooks?
Will these moves bleed out the poorly performing district, who will never be able to make up the time/resources/money lost?
Sufficiently lucrative sounds suspiciously cannibalistic…….we don’t eat our young…..well at least not yet.
Pogue
Teach For America honors no one. It is a nefarious, union-busting organization aimed to harm the middle and working class.
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