Sunday, April 22, 2012

Something in the Air Upstate as Teachers Rebel Against Teacher Evaluation System Based on Student Test Scores

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The Buffalo teachers' union and the school district still cannot reach an agreement on the new evaluation system.  Instead of caving in,...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

DA VOTES TO CONSIDER RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT LEGISLATION TO END OF MAYORAL CONTROL

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Two bills have been introduced in the State Legislature to end the mayor’s majority control over the New York City Board of Education.  On...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

ALL-STAR PANEL TUESDAY AT BERGTRAUM

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If you are anywhere near Murry Bergtraaum High School on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., you must stop by to see this truly distinguished panel of edu...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

WALCOTT & PRESS CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF CHAZ PROVES WHY WE NEED INDEPENDENT ARBITRATORS

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I can't believe that Chancellor Dennis Walcott and the press are using the case of Eric Chasanoff to try to make the case that the Chanc...
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Friday, April 06, 2012

DOE OFFICIALS DEAF AS USUAL AT BRYANT HIGH SCHOOL JOINT PUBLIC HEARING

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The other night three of us from Jamaica High School traveled over to Bryant High School in Western Queens for their Joint Public Hearing.  ...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

BUFFALO TEACHERS HANG TOUGH

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It appears the teachers in Buffalo, who have been without a contract for eight years, are hanging tough on opposing the new evaluation syst...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

TIER 6 A HUGE DEFEAT FOR THE NEXT GENERATION

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No spin from NYSUT or Leo Casey or President Mulgrew on the legislation to stick anyone hired in April or thereafter with a Tier VI pensio...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

BUFFALO TEACHERS SAY DON'T BLAME US FOR NO SHOW KIDS AND JAMAICA COLLEAGUES WRITE FOR NATIONAL BLOGS

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Should teachers be held accountable for student test score gains even if the students don't show up for class?  Yes says the NYC DOE and...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

DA REPORT: MULGREW SPINS OBLITERATION OF TENURE AS WE KNOW IT AS A GAIN

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The March Delegate Assembly was totally uneventful. In the usual marathon President's Report, Michael Mulgrew was in full spin cycle.  H...
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Sunday, March 04, 2012

JULIE CAVANAGH, ARTHUR GOLDSTEIN AND WILLIAM JOHNSON SUCCESSFULLY TAKE ON EVALUATION SYSTEM

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The NY Times and Daily News have great pieces on the folly of rating teachers by student test scores. They are written by teachers.   Julie ...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

UNION DOES RIGHT BY TEACHERS WHO RECEIVED LOW TDR SCORES

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We criticized Leo Casey last week when we felt he was trying to sell us a lousy evaluation agreement as a professional gain.  If the UFT rea...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH LEO CASEY DEFENDS INDEFENSIBLE EVALUATION AGREEMENT

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UFT and NYSUT leaders (basically the same people) are obviously alarmed that their deal on evaluations for teachers is not going over that w...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

LONG ISLAND PRINCIPAL CONTINUES FIGHT AGAINST NEW EVALUATION SYSTEM

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Carol Corbett Burris is a principal in Rockville Centre, Long Island.  One of my former colleagues at Jamaica works for her and is very sati...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Shifting the Burden of Proof and Proving a Negative: How the Fundamental Structure of Tenure Has Been Eviscerated

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In the wake of the new agreement (not fully implemented in our school district yet) it has become apparent that we have lost a major par...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

EVALUATION AGREEMENT BAD NEWS FOR TENURED TEACHERS

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The UFT and New York State United Teachers (All of the local unions in the state) gave away the store in today's agreements with the cit...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

PEP SCHOOL CLOSING FIASCO: SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?

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For the fourth time in the last three years, I attended a school closing Panel for Educational Policy meeting at Brooklyn Tech.  At last Thu...
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Friday, February 03, 2012

VIDEO AT WASHINGTON IRVING CLOSING HEARING OTHERWISE KNOWN AS GROUNDHOG DAY

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It is appropriate that the videos from the school closing Joint Public Hearing for Washington Irving were sent to me on Ground Hog Day.  In ...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

POLICE CRIME STATISTICS ARE AS PHONY AS EDUCATION STATISTICS

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Professor Eli Silverman and my brother Professor John Eterno have written a fascinating new book explaining problems with data driven crime ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

DA REPORT: DEMOCRACY DEFEATED AGAIN BY UNITY

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The Unity majority brought out the retired troops to Wednesday’s Delegate Assembly (I saw people I   have not seen in years) to make sure ...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

BLOOMBERG GOES AFTER US AGAIN

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Mayor Bloomberg made attacking teachers the centerpiece of his state of the city address last week.  His attacks are tired and getting old a...
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