If you’ve ever wondered where you can find the biggest collection of superheroes, find a place where there are lots and lots of public school teachers. Find a place that looks like Albany’s Empire State Plaza on June 8, 2013. This is the day when almost 20,000 educators, parents, and citizens showed up to tell […]
At our usual time, Sundays at 6PM EST, we’re going to be joined by Jesse Hagopian to discuss the successful MAP boycott and his new website, I am an Educator. Then, join us for a special episode on Thursday at 6PM EST when we’ll be joined once again by Dr. Mercedes Schneider so she can […]
Ah, well, it appears as if both Hart and Ms. Weingarten dutifully responded to Ms. Schneider’s concerns regarding the AFT’s survey on the CCSS. I definitely missed this back and forth because who can follow everything that’s happening? Amiright? In any event, here’s the Weingarten response and the one from Hart. I’ve even read the comments […]
At the Chalk Face was joined by intrepid researcher and educator Mercedes Schneider for an interview in January of this year as she demolished the state of LA’s flawed school evaluation data. You can listen to that here. My, how time flies. Today, she really dug into the March 2013 survey of teacher attitudes towards the […]
From Peg with Pen. Show Peggy your support by commenting how much you want her to write for us on a regular basis. The admissions of error, the requests for moratoriums, the recognition that perhaps testing has gone too far, are running like wildfire in the last few weeks. We have Randi calling for a moratorium. […]
As readers of @thechalkface already know, both the NEA‘s Dennis Van Roekel and AFT’s Randi Weingarten support the use of VAMs in teacher evaluations. Of course they will never admit to it and instead typically refer to VAM usage as using student generated “data.” However, out of EdWeek today we learn that the NEA is actually […]
This article needs a few, okay, a lot of edits. So, I’m taking the liberty of rewriting it. Go ahead and read the original article first, and then let’s see if we can clarify the real message here. Randi Weingarten, president of the national teachers union, American Federation of Teachers, has famously been praising the Common […]
I support teachers’ unions. However, the AFT’s and NEA’s national leaders need to be to openly criticized. At the leadership level they are unable to counter the “adults first” narrative and they are complicit in the corporate takeover of our public schools. First, teachers’ unions have been absolutely horrendous (except in Chicago) in demonstrating […]
So, now we are at least clear on one item. The President of a large educators’ union concurs that the Common Core Curriculum, imposed upon public schools in nearly all states, means to prepare young persons to simply “confront the new economy.” This occurs while the affluent amongst us, who will not experience anything like […]
Ingredients for a great thin soup: Asparagus, Fennel, and Turnips. @aftunion
I call it AFT soup for short. It’s really good and very easy to make. Ingredients 1 bundle chopped asparagus 1 fennel bulb sliced, not the greens 1 diced turnip 4 cups veggie broth 4 garlic cloves, chopped fine 800 AFT teachers, roughly 1/3 from NY state alone Directions 1. In a 4 quart pot, […]