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Thursday, October 3, 2013

10-3-13 @ THE CHALK FACE

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Secretary Duncan Answers Critics
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan—who has no experience in education except through political appointments (and being a student himself)—has in the last several months chastised newspaper editors and what Duncan has labeled “armchair pundits” (who, for the record, tend to be k-12 public school teachers, teacher educators, education historians, scholars, and researchers; in other words, […]

More on LAUSD: Bond Money, Aquino, Broad, and (Again with) Pearson
Yesterday, I wrote a post on some of the conflicts of interest and obvious profiteering posed by the involvement of Deasy, Apple, Pearson, and Gates in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) iPad fiasco. In this post, I examine more of the situation as I reflect upon issues raised by the June 2013 Los Angeles Daily News article cited […]

10-2-13 @ The Chalk Face
@ THE CHALK FACE: Dear Secretary Mister Duncan, SirMy name is Jill O’Malley Conroy, and five months ago today I became one of those “arm chair pundits” you described to our fellow Americans yesterday. My alternate name in this “alternate universe”, or “blogosphere”, as you also dubbed it, is The Indignant Teacher. My goal as such right now is to make sure our […]by jillconroy / 51min 10-1-13 @ The