Here’s the show’s website here. I’ll see about posting an archive thereafter. This is a new place we should all consider following.
Lois Weiner’s book: join the club
January 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Takeaways from the #ctustrike: collaboration?
September 21, 2012 By 1 Comment
The author here suggests that one of the biggest takeaways from the teachers’ strike in Chicago is collaboration, or perhaps what the AFT refers to as “solutions driven unionism.” She underscores a positive case example in my home state of MD: Successful examples of smart educational investment in partnership with teachers’ unions do exist. Take […]
Wish we could join @ctulocal1 and #CTU #teachers for Labor Day
August 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
You best be there if you’re FOR public education in Chicago. [click the post title for the poster]
Quoting labor scholar so someone can explain the #AFT alliance with #gatesfoundation
July 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
To quote Stanley Aronowitz (1983, p. 160): “Some who have advocated the return to ‘basic’ education as the primary focus of elementary and secondary schools have, indeed, invoked machine methods as effective for socializing students to the office and the factory of the future where the interaction of the worker with the machine replaces human […]
Peg With Pen (@unitedoptout) has a great piece on the sell out #union leadership, #AFT, #UFT, & #NEA
May 28, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Peg calls them out for what they are: sell outs. I’m going to have to read this report on Transforming the Teaching Profession. From what Peg quotes, it sounds vague, ambiguous, ambivalent, generic, placating, and conciliatory. Make sure children are fed and safe? Are you serious? Such common sense so common that Common probably wrote […]
Great speech to the school board in Miami-Dade, FL
February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There’s a lot of anti-union stuff going on in Florida right now, especially measures that actually hinder the ability of teachers to actually do their job in a way that makes them successful. It’s almost as if these M-F’ers want public school teachers to fail their students. Could that be it? Here’s the speech:
Robert D. Skeels: How Administration Tries to Cow Teachers Into Submission
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The #NEA is suffering a membership crisis. Well, that’ll learn you!
January 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I can’t say why membership in the NEA is declining: Over the last three years, the NEA has shed around 169,000 members, and while an increasing number of its ranks are retiring, the union is facing something of a numbers crisis among working education employees. Perhaps it is an economic downturn, or is it that […]
Still burned, but forgiving #Ravitch
March 1, 2011 By 1 Comment
There was a time I was quite burned by Diane Ravitch. As an up and coming social studies teacher educator, I did not like to hear from various conservative reformers, one of whom was Ravitch, that a social studies focusing somewhat on social critique or social justice was partly responsible for the dumbing down of […]
Started a profile at myEDmatch for kicks, what a strange, reformy thing this is
I saw that a friend on Facebook “liked” something called myEdmatch. Apparently, finding a teaching job is like online dating. To wit: Complete the Core Beliefs Profile so myEDmatch can suggest schools that would be good matches based on your core beliefs about education. So, is this tHarmony, or something? I filled out some beliefs with […]