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Education Deformer Pursuit Of The Holy Grail.
Since the turn of the century, education deformers have been in pursuit of the "holy grail" that would make every American student academically proficient. This futile search for education excellence...
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The Parent From Hell.
In every class you always have a parent or two who believes their child walks on water when they can't even swim! However, what's even worse, there is always the parent from hell who believes their...
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High Schools With Untrustworthy Principals In Queens.
One of the more stressful environments teachers find themselves in is when they do not trust their Principal, be it for incompetence, vindictiveness, or just being plain abusive. When there is a lack...
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A Great Loss To The Blogosphere. No More Perdido Street School
To my great shock and dismay I read that Perdido Street School is no longer a source of very important education news. The author Reality Based Educator (RBE) has discontinued his blog and that is a...
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In Defense Of A Discontinued Teacher
In yesterday's New York Post there was a story about a teacher accused of sexually abusing students who ended up being discontinued by the DOE. Before I go into the story let me tell you that there...
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The DOE Finds 36 High Schools Abuse The Credit Recovery Program. Or Did They?
The DOE's task force on cheating quietly found that 36 high schools abused the "credit recovery"programsbut in typical DOE fashion, refused to identify any of the 36 high schools and protecting wayward...
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One Renewal School's Bogus Rubric To Give Failing Students A Passing Grade.
I was contacted by a teacher who decided to blow the whistle on how his school makes it virtually impossible to fail the students at the renewal school he works in. If a student shows up once and...
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Maspeth High School, DOE Credit Cards, And Marcella Sills.
Give the New York Post reporter Susan Edelman credit, she is the only education reporter that does not buy into the education deformer narrative that students don't need more resources and smaller...
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The Renewal Superintendency, Run By Favoritism And Not Competence
The New York Post wrote another article showing that Superintendent Amiee Horowitz was more interested in hiring her friends than competent educators to run her renewal Superintendency. To her its...
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You Want My Dues. Then Stop Selling Us Out And Do The Following!
Unless you have been hiding under a rock and far too many teachers do so. There is a UFT election coming up. The four UFT caucuses are "Unity", MORE, New Action, and Solidarity. In this round MORE...
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When Mutual Consent Is Not Mutual When It Comes To The ATR.
I keep hearing from "Unity"how they negotiated a wonderful contract back in June 2014 that also made the ATRs a "second class citizen". To "Unity" leadership it was how they savedthe ATRs their jobs...
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School Diversity And Reality.
The big push by Chancellor Carmen Farina is to try to diversify schools but how do you do this without forced integration which was declared illegal by the Supreme Court back in 2007? Trying to...
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Teacher Quality And Minority Schools - Its The Student Discipline Issue!
Yesterday Chalkbeat published an article that showed that minority schools have less qualified teachers, suffer from high teacher turnover, lack a Masters degree, and are less likely to be certified in...
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The DOE And UFT Change The ATR Field Supervisor Rules To Help Terminate ATRs.
Quietly, and with little publicity, the DOE has issued new guidelines on how field supervisors (assassins) can recommend to the Superintendent that the "U" rated ATR should be subject to the 3020-a...
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Another Principal Missing In Action While Nepotism Is The Rule On The...
Here we go again. Yet, another failing Bloomberg small school, with a Leadership Academy Principal, has been exposed for its many failings. Despite a tepid 56% graduation rate, only 4% were "college...
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City Makes A Mistake And So Did I.
I took down my previous post because the union had informed the Chapter Leaders of the problem. However, my Chapter Leader failed to inform me that the W2-C was simply a correction for suburban...
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Age Discrimination Is Evident In The ATR Pool.
I can only laugh when I read how the DOE is telling the media that they are encouraging principals to hire veteran ATRs when the truth is so very different. The only thing the DOE is trying to do is...
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Poverty Is The Reason We Can't Narrow The Academic Achievement Gap.
The education reformer holy grail is to reduce the income/racial academic achievement gap and to attempt to achieve this goal they come up with different strategies to try to make it happen with little...
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The Real Problem In Schools Is The Poor Leadership Exibited By Principals.
If you read the newspaper editorials or the education reformer organizations, the key to successful student achievement is a quality teacher. All other factors are ignored being social-economic...
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Students With Cellphones Are A Distraction To Good Teaching And Learning
One of the worst decision that the DeBlasio Administration made was rescinding the cellphone ban and allowing students to carry their cellphones into school. The result of this ill-advised decision...
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