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Monday, September 2, 2013

9-2-13 Ed Notes Online

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NEW MORE VIDEO: MORE Teaching, Less Testing!
I am wowed by this film by the MORE Media committee.Posted at:http://morecaucusnyc.org/2013/09/02/more-teaching-less-testing/Sign the petition here: MORE Petition for Moratorium on NYC Teacher Evaluation System « Movement of Rank and File Educators 
MORE Petition for Moratorium on NYC Teacher Evaluation System
There was some discussion over this petition on MORE listserves but some of the details are too dense for me to understand it all. Some thought the call for a moratorium was not strong enough when what is needed is total opposition. Others feel that given we are stuck with it this is the next best thing to call for.A few don't feel as threatened by the new system. See the comment on the MORE blog

On the Democracy Prep Plantation: When Zero Tolerance Becomes Psychological Warfare
UPDATED:all the teachers at this charter school are white and from out of state. The school's administrators did manage to get two coaches that are African-American from the New York City area. They are the two in charge of the detention room. Is there something wrong with that picture?.....his teachers were directed to video tape him in every classroom. One of the teachers according to him follow

9-1-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Real Politics: Will They Turn de Blasio into Mark Green and make Lhota King?If De Blasio wins the runoff and then the nomination, there will be an attempt to "Mark Green" him. But I don't think they will be able to do that easily.Most interesting would be a run-off with Thompson -- watch the unions battle that one out. But all along some of us have watched the machinations -- ie,