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Saturday, July 20, 2013

7-20-13 Ed Notes Online

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Newark Schools for Sale: Cami Anderson, Cerf Keep Turnaround Board Member Campbell Brown Under the Sheets
Turnaround has refused to provide information about its failed foray into Orange schools. Now, Turnaround For Children is interviewing schools in Newark for September. What is Turnaround and what is its proposed role in Newark? The best source for information would be Turnaround, right? Wrong. ...Newark Schools for Sale Ted Cohen sent this follow-up report after his last post here (Newark Confiden


Kerrie Dalman the president of the Colorado teachers association writes pro-inBloom oped
Leonie Haimson 10:33am Jul 20 Hi, Kerrie Dalman the president of the Colorado teachers union just wrote a pro-inBloom oped in the Denver Post; saying how the sharing of personal student data with inBloom and for-profit vendors will help teachers reach students more effectively. http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_23688519/inbloom-great-teaching-tool If you are a teacher and disagree, it would b
Call for Waiver from teacher evaluations in NY
This came in an email as a suggestion for MORE to take up the cause and I think it should. But I wonder if the UFT which supports and vehemently defends the new evaluation system will be calling for a waiver. It is now possible for states to request a waiver from teacher evaluations for the upcoming school year.  Randi Weingarten and the AFT (parent body of the UFT) has asked for it and, in an ast

Gotham Schools Funders: You Get What You Pay For
Yesterday I posted hits from my fellow bloggers to Gotham Schools' increasingly pro ed deform agenda (NYC Teacher Bloggers on the Loose: Slam Gotham Schools Coverage) -- they don't even bother defending themselves against these charges. NYC Educator hit them hard:when an astroturf group like Students First NY holds a rally to announce something that's not actually going to happen, there's a pictur


7-19-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: NYC Teacher Bloggers on the Loose: Slam Gotham Schools Coverage And TFAAnother blogger slams Gotham Schools, more and more a wholly owned subsidiary of the charter school movement. I spend much more time reading other bloggers than writing my own -- that should be painfully obvious in terms of the deteriorating quality over here. Blame the heat. Or lower mental capacity. Or too ma