2013. As I entered the last couple months of 2013 and started reflecting on the past year I was not initally overcome with warm reflections….it was more like….well, exhaustion.Some Days Are Diamonds, Some Days Are ...
Message to Farina and de Blasio: Undo the Damage
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"The schools of Baghdad and Kabul will recover sooner than the NYC school system under your management." ... Norm Scott to Joel Klein --- quoting my self from a c.2004-6 PEP meeting.Eterno and Epstein: Revoke Jamaica High School's Death Sentence... ...
Newark: Cami Anderson Uses Network Model to Kill Neighborhood Schools
|| Monday, 30 December 2013 || || Leave a comments
UPDATED: If Carmen Farina wants to make a quick mark she should begin dismantling the Networks - ASAP. They are a mechanism purposely designed to destabilize the links between a school and the neighborhood. As our pal from Newark points out here, they ...
Summer School for Teachers Report from an Undisclosed Urban Location
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Dropped from a drone, found on a Rockaway beach. I won't say which city but it is not NYC.I had the privilege of attending ten days of training in a Summer Institute. The primary advantage of attending the institute is I lost the last two weeks of ...
Farina With Support of Real Reformers Has Chance to End 12 Years of Toxicity
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The appointment of Carmen is the best news that has come out in education in 2013. I am eternal optimist and believe that maybe, just maybe things will turn around. After going to some training that Carmen gave way back when, I completely changed the ...
Farina the Choice
|| Sunday, 29 December 2013 || || Leave a comments
Bloomfield also predicted that Farina and her staff would implement a longer-term cultural change at Tweed. “There will be a new system-wide respect for educational experience,” he said, “there are a lot of people fresh ...
Who's to Blame? Round up on Lawrence Scott and Natalya Sokolson Gordon
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Let's see now. An investigator for OSI so abuses his position by trying to extort sexual favors from a teacher under the threat of a losing her job and the most that happens to him is that he is forced to resign? Shouldn't he be doing a perp walk?I ...
Patrick Sullivan resigns from NYC Board of Education (formerly the PEP)
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This is a sad day for the children, teachers and parents of the city. I've watched Patrick Sullivan often be the lone voice of sanity in the midst of the sickness of ed deform.We hope that one of Bill de Blasio's first steps is to appoint Patrick back ...
Skynet is Coming: On the movie "Her", artificial intelligence, neural networks and The Terminator
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In coming years, the approach will make possible a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that will perform some functions that humans do with ease: see, speak, listen, navigate, manipulate and control. ...
NY Post Points to Corruption in OSI, DOE Investigations Unit?
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In a meeting at his office on Nov. 14, 2012, Gordon said, Scott boasted that he could get teachers fired — or off the hook. “I have the power to get rid of you just like that,” she said he told her, snapping his fingers, ...
Paul Krugman on the imbalanced boss-worker power relationship applied to NYC principals and teachers
|| Friday, 27 December 2013 || Paul Krugman,UFT || Leave a comments
The massive power imbalance between principal and teacher in NYC is not due to a weak economy but to a weak union. Let me expound on this point....employment generally involves a power relationship: you have a boss, who ...
Not a Wonderful Life: Education Writer’s Block
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Walcott Public Schedule - To Hand Honorary Diploma to 100 year old
|| Thursday, 26 December 2013 || || Leave a comments
Come on Norm he's just trying to improve the graduation numbers.... Jane M from Change the StakesAnd so it comes to this -- but not the worst way to end it – Unless Walcott closes the nursing home on the way out or opens ...
Farina Delay: Charter lobby, ed deformers and UFT and allies working behind the scenes?
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Who might be opposing a Farina appointment? I know some people are left scratching their heads at what seems on the surface an unholy alliance. Can we talk?We know that de Blasio has been getting pressure from the Obama administration to appoint a pro-test ...
Will de Blasio's DOE rescue Adult Education from Superintendent Rose-marie Mills?
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