Chancellor Fariña vs the Charter Schools
NEWS ROUNDUP! Chancellor Fariña is feeling the heat for some remarks she made recently about how charter schools inflate their test scores by pushing some low-performing students out right before they give the tests. Supporters of charter schools are now calling for proof. Read more: Chalkbeat NY Times Chalkbeat NY Post NY Daily News United […]
UFT Contract Fight Drags On
Wait, didn’t the city and Union come to terms on a new UFT Contract?? They did. Then what’s this fight about? As we outlined here, there are more retirees than expected. According to the Teachers’ Retirement System, there was a 48 percent increase in retirements by UFT members employed by the DOE at the end of […]
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SCHOOLS ARE NOT BUSINESSES Our schools are inundated with ideas and practices that are borrowed from business in the name of education reform. These business practices have questionable applicability to schools, and in some cases are just a really poor fit. After all, you don’t want any reject parts if you are a school, you […]
Who Teaches Pre K
Mayor DeBlasio said that NYC is going to hire an additional 8000 teachers to teach Pre-K in the coming years. Who are these teachers? Who teaches Pre K? Where do they come from? How do they get certified? We take a look in this video. Sign up for our Email Newsletter For Email Marketing you […]
UFT Contract Review
We’re taking a look at the new UFT contract. It was much-heralded, when it was passed. How is it going, now? Chalkbeat’s blog did a series on this, that we’re putting together here. It follows three of the main points from the UFT Contract: Raises for Leadership Roles 80 Minutes of PD each Week Parent […]
4 Terrible Values Taught to Leaders
The Terrible Values This post also describes some work detailed in Senge et al’s Schools That Learn. (pp.414ff) The author, Charlotte Roberts, draws upon a view of human action that claims we act consistently with 4 basic values Remain in unilateral control Maximize winning and minimize losing Suppress negative feelings Be as rational as possible […]
Beware the Quick Fix in Schools
by Jared Gellert I’ve had the pleasure of reading Schools That Learn by Peter Senge et al. over the past month. My next few blog posts will address ideas raised in the book. “Shifting the Burden” = How We Solve Problems One core issue in our educational system is our persistent attempt to solve problems […]
TIME Magazine Bashes Teachers
Randi Weingarten and Michael Mulgrew delivered 100,000+ petitions and letters to Time Magazine “A cover that suggests that teachers need to be smashed is dead wrong,” says AFT President Randi Weingarten. If you missed the coverage of the delivery of our 102,000 petition signatures to Time Magazine on Thursday afternoon, watch the video. The UFT […]
