Matt Farmer Writes a Song for Plutocrat Bruce Rauner
Chiara says: I was surprised by this piece about the tennis star making money off charter schools. It’s isn’t deferential and worshipful: “But in the...
Month : October 2014
BATS Respond to TIME
The leaders of the BATs sent the following letter to TIME magazine in response to the magazine’s insulting cover story about American teachers: They wrote:...
George Joseph Describes TFA’s Rapid Response Team for Critics
George Joseph, writing in The Nation, describes how Teach for America deals with critics. It has a rapid response team to debunk criticism, and it...
Brian Ford Writes a Letter to the Editors of TIME
Brian Ford, teacher and author, wrote this letter to the editor of TIME magazine, in response to the demeaning cover about teachers as “Rotten Apples”...
Steven Singer: Why Can’t Teachers Fire Tech Billionaires?
Steven Singer, teacher, was outraged by the cover of TIME that said it’s nearly impossible to fire bad teachers but tech millionaires have figured it...
Is Katie Osgood Dangerous?
Katie Osgood is a special education teacher in Chicago who has worked for years with children in high need. She has been critical of Teach...
The Massachusetts Teachers Association Blasts State Plan re Evaluations
Yesterday, I posted about the plan by Massachusetts to strip teachers of their licenses if their evaluations were poor. As it happened, the Massachusetts Teachers...
Indiana: Republicans Abandoned Public Education
Conservatives are supposed to conserve. however, these days conservatives are intent on smashing their community’s public schools and substituting a market-based system. this is Wall...
Philip Kovacs: My Son’s Teacher is a Witch!
Philip Kovacs brought his kindergarten child to school, and his teacher was dressed as a scary witch, dispensing candy, really terrifying! Kovacs thinks what would...
Breaking News: Cortines Fires L.A. Technology Chief
Ramon Cortines, the new superintendent of schools in Los Angrles, is moving swiftly and decisively to clean up the district’s technology mess. Today he fired...