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How Many Members Does Educators 4 Excellence Really Have? Not Many I Guess.
The UFT elections are fast approaching and the three caucuses, "Unity" MORE' and "New Action" will be busy going to the schools and handing out leaflets on why they are best suited to lead the union in...
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The Two Versions Of The Failed Teacher Evaluation Talks.There's The Truth And...
We all know that the State has taken away $240 million dollars of much needed school funding as the "teacher evaluation system" talks have failed. The finger pointing for the failure comes from two...
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Another Disgusting Example Of DOE's Double Standard When Disciplining...
Here we go again. The Daily News reported that a Bronx junior high school "Leadership Academy Principal" Emmanuel Polanco used his alter ego as "El Siki" to produce a smut video that borders on...
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The DOE's New Testing Procedures Hurts The City's Most Vulnerable Students.
The nincompoops at the DOE has done it again. In their ever consuming effort to make sure teachers are incapable to grade their own school's students, they have hurt the very students that they claim...
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The Fallacy Of Charter School Academic Achievement.
The media claims that the answer to improving academic achievement in the New York City schools are more charter schools. The education reformers falsely claim that charter schools give more students...
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It's The Teacher's Fault
A student, lets call him "Kenny", comes from a high poverty family. His father has long ago left the family and he is being raised with his three siblings by a mother who relies on government support...
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Where Did Educators 4 Excellence Get $250,000 To Air A Television Commercial?
I am puzzled how an organization that represents less than 1% of the teachers (a hundred or so) and that has no dues can afford to air a television commercial that cost $250,000? Of course I m not so...
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Bill Gates Is Wrong, The New York City Small Schools Do Not Work.
Bill Gates has realized that small schools do not work and wants to spent his billions on other educational initiatives like quality teaching, another murky and unworkable initiative However, Bill...
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Yet Again, The Independent Budget Office Shows That Closing Schools Have A...
For the fourth time in as many years the City's Independent Budget Office (IBO) found that the DOE closing schools had a greater percentage of "high needs" students, defined as Special Education,...
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Mayor Bloomberg Once Again Puts His Foot In His Mouth About Class Size And...
Mayor Bloomberg's continued disrespect for the teachers in the New York City Public Schools shows up again when the Mayor on his radio show stated that class size is irrelevant. According to the Mayor...
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The DOE, UFT, And The Rubber Room.
The assailed teacher wrote a very heart-felt article on his evolution as a clueless "newbie teacher" who worshiped his Principal to a knowledgeable Chapter Leader who. with eyes wide open, sees the...
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The City Saw A Dramatic Increase In Poverty & Homelessness. Where Is The...
In the last couple of months the Bloomberg Administration has received a double dose of bad news, First, at the beginning of the 2012-13 school year the poverty rate in New York City has risen...
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Why Do I Love Teaching? It's Seeing My Students Succeed.
My son asked me why I still teach since he hears and reads my complaints about the injustice and incompetence of the DOE and the politicians (Bloomberg, Cuomo, Obama, etc) who rather scapegoat teachers...
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ILearn....Is It Rigorous Enough?
The NYC DOE has told many schools to use the "ILearn" program as a "credit recovery" course that meets the City criteria of "rigorous instruction". While I believe that the "ILearn" program is...
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Is The DOE Trying To Shortchange Special Education Students By Witholding...
It has come to my attention that many of the District 75 schools have informed their teachers that the DOE has not authorized the school's Administration to implement the Chapter 683 program. The...
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Another Principal Acting Badly And The DOE Does Nothing About It.
The DOE "double standard" continues when disciplining teachers and administrators as the New York Post exposed another despicable example of a Principal doing something that would have removed and...
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Mayor Bloomberg Claims He Fights Obesity By Banning Large Sodas But Actually...
The Emperor, oops I mean Mayor Michael Bloomberg lost hi scase for reducing large sugary drinks and ranted about how the Judge's decision was a terrible decision and defies "common sense. The Mayor'...
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The DOE's Fair Student Funding Fiasco Forces Principals To Hire The Cheapest...
Back in 2008, ex-Chancellor Joel Klein and his flunkies at Tweed come up with a program to encourage principals to hire "cheaper teachers" and force them to put the school's budget first and their...
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Why Chancellor Walcott Should Go To Jail.
Clueless Chancellor Dennis Walcott has shown what a wonderful role model he is to the students by defying a judge's decision to allocate $240 million dollars to the New York City schools and has...
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Classroom Management 101
One of the most difficult aspect of teaching is how to mange a classroom. Effective classroom management requires at least five years of experience and an understanding of the ever changing classroom...
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