A New Jersey suburb is split over the installation of armed guards in its schools. (WSJ)
About 100 students nationwide have been suspended for making ‘Harlem Shake’ videos. (Post)
Here’s a detailed (and graphical) analysis showing where UFT union dues go. (GothamSchools)
After skipping court, the DOE was ordered by a judge to rehire a bus driver they’d fired. (Post)
Bronx Science’s athletic director was forced out and replaced amid track hazing claims. (Riverdale Press)
A retrofitted school bus will tour the city for the next week to register voters. (GothamSchools, NY1)
Online privacy advocates are suing the federal government over a student data initiative. (Daily News)
Leonie Haimson writes that the potential benefits from sharing student data aren’t worth the risks. (News)
Administrators at Brooklyn College are debating the popularity of a child development program. (News)
http://twitter.com/BNiche B
Geoff, quick edit: “Harlem Shake”, NOT “Shuffle”. Sadly, the nation isn’t suffering from nostalgic feelings of the Chicago Bears, Jim McMahon, the 80s, and the Super Bowl Shuffle.
Marko
How about installing more metal detectors in schools? It’s a smarter idea, and less expensive. NYC public schools are an example that they work. Crime rates have dropped dramatically in schools thanks to them.
gdecker1
Thanks, B! But don’t be surprised when the Harlem Shuffle meme takes off next.
Theorem_Ox
Not that I’m opposed to metal detectors in every situation, but you have to know your population.
I’ve learned that students determined to bring knives and guns inside the building will do so in spite of metal detectors. It took two schoolwide lockdowns in a month at one NYC high school campus I’ve taught at with metal detectors and posted armed police for that one to really sink in.
Otherwise, (in the case of another high school campus where I was a frequent visitor), it worked remarkably well in sending an implied message that the school is unsafe and in affecting attendance. (The predecessor school at that building had a rough reputation; the students in the current schools was a different group altogether).
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tommy-Calderon/100000263260717 Tommy Calderon
Since you felt the need to publish the distribution of UFT dues (why this concerns anyone but UFT members is beyond me), when will you be publishing the distribution of DOE funds, the DOE vendor and consultant contracts, and the financial statements of Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Walcott?
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