Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Mayor's Poodle, Chancellor Dennis Walcott, Demostrates Why He Is Clueless About The Classroom.

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The Mayor's poodle, Chancellor Dennis Walcott, held a press conference where he stated that he will close 50 poorly preforming middle sc...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

The New York City Schools Are Not Adequately Preparing High School Graduates For The "Real World" And That Is A Major Problem.

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The DOE propaganda machine is working full time in presenting the most optimistic face on the high school graduation rate and national SAT s...
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

How Does One Define A "Quality Teacher"? To The Various Groups It Means Many Different Things.

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Everybody wants a "quality teacher" in the classroom. It doesn't matter if you are a traditional educator or an education re...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Difference Between Smart Principals And Stupid Principals When Hiring Teachers For Their Vacancies.

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Over the summer I applied to ten vacancies in my subject area and received not one interview. I had no better luck at the DOE "job fai...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The DOE "Job Fair" Was Like Going To An Oldies Convention But Without The Music. What A Waste Of Time.

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I went to the mandatory DOE "job fair" for ATRs at the Brooklyn Museum and I felt I was at an oldies convention with almost all t...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

The DOE's Effort To Improve Student Academic Achievement Is Doomed To Fail With The Present Policies In Place.

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The DOE keeps coining up with various strategies and policies that they claim will be the "be all and end all" method to improve ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2011

"Breaking News" - The "Rubber Room" Is Alive And Well At Tweed!

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I have been informed that Tweed has started a new "rubber room" on the twelfth floor in the Chambers Street building where all 3...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

A Tale Of Two Teachers Who Went To A Hiring Hall And Why The ATR Crises Is Just Getting Worse For Senior Teachers.

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Two teachers wrote about their experiences at a DOE "job fair" and the very different results they ended up with shows why the D...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

We Finally Know Why Student Academic Achievement Is So Poor. It's SpongeBob and Apple Juice!

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There has been an increasingly bitter debate on why it has been difficult to raise student academic achievement. For the educators, except ...
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Saturday, September 10, 2011

The DOE Is Encouraging Principals To Hire TF and TFA Teachers While Experienced Teachers Are Not Even Granted Interviews. "Children First". Really?

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It is becoming increasingly clear that Tweed's efforts to vilify ATRs as lazy, incompetent, and bad teachers along with severe budget cu...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

The DOE Is Already Violating The New ATR Agreement By Not Giving The Most Senior ATRs First Shot To Fill A Position In Their Subject Area.

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One of the provisions in the ATR Agreement between the union and the DOE was that any vacancies or long-term placement would first be offere...
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Sunday, September 04, 2011

The Queens High School Statistics Show The Disconnect Between Graduation Rates And The Students' Readiness For College And Employment.

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The Bloomberg Administration claims with much fanfare how the high school graduation rate has increased over the years. However, educato...
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Thursday, September 01, 2011

If I Was The Chancellor It Will Really Be "Children First" Not "Tweed First, Children Last" As It Is Now.

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It is September and the beginning of a new school year but unfortunately, we have the same old failed system run by those non-educators at...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Characteristics Of A Teacher That Principals Want According To The DOE Toolbox - The Reality Is Very Different. Today, All ATRs Have Been Assigned

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The DOE policy not to place excessed teachers in vacancies has resulted in over 1900 teachers without a permanent assignment as the sch...
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Saturday, August 27, 2011

All ATRs Are To Be Placed Next Week. Or So That Is What The DOE Central Office Claims.

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I have been informed that all ATRs will be placed into schools next week by the Central Bureaucracy. How will these placements be determ...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Accountability For The Schools But Not For The DOE Bureaucrats As The Children Of PS 51 Were Exposed To Toxic Chemicals & Tweed Did Nothing About It.

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The DOE's motto is "children first. Always". Of course the reality is much different...
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Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Mayor's Poodle, Chancellor Dennis Walcott, Fails To Live Up To His Promise To Take Action Against Cheating Principals - What Else Is New?

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Chancellor Dennis Walcott has once again failed to live up to his promise to change the culture of the DOE by allowing a high sch...
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