Saturday, April 29, 2006

The Abuse Of The Classroom Teacher & My Union's Poor Priorities

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At this week's delegate meeting you would expect that the big issues would be teacher retention, classroom conditions, and improvements ...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

New York City & Teachers Union Agree On a Bonus & Housing Subsides For New Teachers To the System What A Deal, Or Is It?

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The New York City Department Of Education (DOE), with the approval of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) have started a 1.5 million dol...
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Friday, April 21, 2006

Marriage & Men Why It Is Important For Our Society

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Many people seem to downplay the social unraveling of our society. Some cry racism. Others yell it's the seperation of the classes. W...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Schools Are To Be Graded - A Tale Of Two Schools

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The New York City Department of Education (DOE) has decided to grade the public schools based upon testing, attendance, school safety, and...
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Saturday, April 08, 2006

Boys And Pencils

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In my decade-long teaching career there has been one recurring theme. That is approximately 25% of the boys in my classes do not bring penc...
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Monday, April 03, 2006

Seventeen and No Credits

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The New York City Department Of Education's (DOE) policy on teenagers who are seventeen and are classified as a freshmen creditwize is...
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Saturday, March 25, 2006

Latina Students and High School Sports - Why are so Few Participating?

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In my decade-long time as the girls' varsity soccer coach I have always had between five and eight players of hispanic heritage. Howeve...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Bill O'Reilly's Interview With John Stossel - Where Was Randi???

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I am a casual viewer of Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox cable and was shocked to see that teachers-bashing 20-20 reporter, John Stossel ...
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Sunday, March 12, 2006

NYC Public Schools & The Absent Father

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The New York Daily News published an article today about the low high school graduation rates of boys in the New York City high schools. Th...
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Thursday, March 02, 2006

DOE's Assault On The Large High Schools

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In New York City, like most of the country "education reform" in the form of small schools is all the rage. The Department of Edu...
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Friday, February 24, 2006

Johnny Can't Pass The Test? It's The Teacher's Fault!

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The Department Of Education (DOE) and their media followers (Daily News, New York Post, & The Sun) love to blame the teachers when somet...
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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Culture of Disrespect in the Classroom

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Well, the winter break is here and none to soon. Since the beginning of the semester I have two students curse at me and three who told me ...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

The Office Of Special Investigations Double Standard

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The New York City Office Of Special Investigations (OSI) was created to investigate educator misconduct from the school chancellor to the sc...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Undefendable

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Yesterday Epiphanny Prince scored 113 points in a 137 - 32 win over Brandeis High School in a Public School Athletic League (PSAL) basketba...
Thursday, January 26, 2006

My School , NCLB, & The NYC Department Of Education

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Let me state this first. I believe in high-stakes testing and I have no problem using these tests for promotion or identifying student weak...
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Friday, January 20, 2006

Why Can"t The Students Learn?

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My Assistant Principal came to me and asked me how can we improve test scores in the science department. My simple answer; Get me better s...
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Saturday, January 14, 2006

Public vs. Charter Schools, is 20-20 Right? Wrong!

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I watched Friday's 20/20 propoganda program how the public schools cheat our children and can only laugh how one-sided John Stossel'...
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Saturday, January 07, 2006

Where's Our Dues Going To?

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As teachers we pay quite hefty dues to our teaching organizations with the expectation that the money will go to education related causes. ...