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Highlights from At the Chalk Face, 6PM EST every Sunday, #blogtalkradio
May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Join us this Sunday 6PM EST as we interview public school activists from Nashville
February 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Distractions Are Us, Progress Tells Us So!
November 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A friend posted this article from the Nov. 1, NYT to his Facebook page the other day: “Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say.” I’ll note that “a version” of this was published as “For Better and for Worse, Technology Use Alters Learning Styles, Teachers Say” in the print edition. You decide if the […]
Is Maverick Education Partnership (CFN 407) Complicit in PS 154′s Failing??
November 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
More from my blog; South Bronx School Is it funny, the ironic kind of funny, how Uncle Mike and his henchmen want to publicly out teachers TDR’s and shame teachers? Yet, where is the voracious callings to show what those who are running the schools actually do, where they are, and what their assessments are? […]
Man, this whole #edreform debate can die in a pit of snakes!
August 10, 2012 By 4 Comments
Here’s the deal. I was at one of the whitest places on Earth yesterday: an urban farmer’s market in a gentrifying neighborhood. These spaces tend to be dominated by white, middle to upper middle class folks, and especially new parents. At a table eating a veggie quesadilla, I overheard a conversation between two couples in […]
Where are we on the so-called #parent #trigger laws?
August 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This is my opinion. What I might say here could be controversial. Here it goes. As I’ve stated before in another forum, parents are NOT experts in education, as they are not experts in medicine (unless you’re an actual physician, or an educator). You take your child to a doctor to receive treatment. You send […]
A new study states: parents support teachers and vice versa. Thanks #captainobvious
March 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Education Week reports on a MetLife survey highlighting a 15% drop in teacher satisfaction in the last two years. Higher satisfaction seems to be correlated with more parent involvement. Well, they see a connection, but I think a whole host of other factors are going to come with that increase in parent involvement, so it’s […]
From NYC parents on an #optout of their children, @unitedoptout
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A very passionate plea. Read here for deets. My favorite part? However, we refuse to be intimidated by threats coming from the Department of Education into submitting to practices that we consider both unethical and harmful to our children. And we will challenge any actions taken by the DOE to punish our child or his wonderful […]
High stakes and apparently high risk as well
February 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve always been flummoxed by the aura of mystery and security surrounding tests, as if these are hallowed documents protected by very sacred rites of confidentiality. Accountability, its sacred texts, and the high priests are very sensitive about critique, or even the slightest hint of disruption of their upcoming services that will take place in […]
#CPS parents question longer school day
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This from a site called Pure Parents: I’m sharing, with permission, the report from a parent meeting at Mt. Greenwood school last week with CPS representatives pushing the 7.5 hour day. The notes indicate CPS’s position that there will be no extra money to implement the extended day. The parents also expose several CPS statements […]
#Parents as a privileged position
September 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A new letter to go viral: Is this parody or not, you decide? #commoncore
Based on a previous post on the food edition of common core, I happened upon another letter dictating what is best for common core implementation. If only we had well-behaved, clean, happy, stable, plastic children, then CCSS would go off without a hitch. Let’s keep piling on those cosmetic changes, people. We’ll get there.