What is an edujob? An edujob is a fancy way that some supposed reformers like to refer to teachers. It sounds like these are jobs that add nothing to a school and simply are adults getting in the way of a child’s education—what’s sad is that is exactly how many of these so-called reformers feel [...]
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CORE Wins!
June 13, 2010After an election on may 21st that saw CORE and UPC each take about 1/3 of the Chicago Teachers Union votes, it all came down to a runoff between CTU and CORE on this past Friday, June 11th. The result was a resounding CORE victory 60% to 40%. For me personally, it means I will [...]
Supposed Education Reformers Don’t Do Irony
April 20, 2010Following the #RTTT channel on Twitter, I’ve noticed that the neo-liberal education reformers who post on there seem terribly deficient in their ability to notice irony. Maybe that’s why so many people who seem intent on destroying the public education system as we know it and exacerbating the differences between the haves and have nots [...]
The Solution to Texas Textbooks
March 15, 2010To watch my fellow liberals rub their hands and shake their heads in frustration over reports of the Texas Board of Education’s new social studies curriculum could almost be amusing if it wasn’t so sad. It isn’t that I don’t understand how terrible it is to see people like Cesar Chavez and Thomas Jefferson written [...]
What Doesn’t Work: AUSL
March 6, 2010Over the past decade, turnaround schools have been tried hundreds if not thousands of times across the country. A turnaround is what just happened in Central Falls where all the teachers are let go, a select few are rehired, and the school brings in a new principal and faculty to work their educational magic. Sometimes, [...]
Race To The Top – Sweet Sixteen Preview
March 4, 2010What do you expect when you have a basketball player and not an educator leading the Department of Education.
Judgment at Central Falls Part 3
February 20, 2010[Continued from Part 2] It was a wet Rhode Island Monday April 28, 2008 when Maida Lopez entered Central Falls High School. There were already over 40 parents in a chaotic jumble in the main office trying to find their children so they could bring them home from school for the day. The city of [...]
Judgment at Central Falls Part 1
February 18, 2010I have no intention of making this blog an apologist for everything that teachers or their unions. I’ll admit that like all professions teachers have their own bad apples. However, when I see a lot of people lose their jobs and every news source in America applaud their firing, I feel obligated to dig just [...]
Education Reform and the Status Quo
February 8, 2010“Education is the most important problem facing the United States today” “Only the massive upgrading of the scholastic standards of our schools will guarantee the future prosperity and freedom of the Republic.” “The chronic shortage of good scientists, engineers, and other professionals which plagues us today is the result of time wasted in public schools.” [...]
Michelle Rhee’s Double Standard on Sex with Children
January 24, 2010In the February issue of Fast Company magazine, Michelle Rhee was asked about the 266 teachers that she laid off this past October. Her jaw dropping response was, “I got rid of teachers who had hit children, who had had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school,” Rhee says. “Why wouldn’t we [...]
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