Sunday, September 29, 2013

ATRs Should Not Accept Positions In These Queens High Schools.

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Lately the New York Post has been turning away from bashing teachers and have been  identifying some really bad principals, he...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

The Real Reason That There Is A Lack Of Arbitrators In The 3020-a Hearing Process.

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Friday on his radio show Mayor Bloomberg blamed the UFT for the glacial pace of the 3020-a hearings.  A seemingly frus...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Principals Abuse The Credit Recovery Program To Achieve Artificially Higher Graduation Rates The Data Shows.

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The Department of Education released figures on how much "credit recovery" i ncreased the citywide gradu...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Hypocrite Chancellor Dennis Walcott Hires A Man Who Was Found Guilty Of Harassment And Retaliation To Be Principal Of Troubled Flushing High School

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The hypocrite Chancellor has done it yet again.  He proclaims that there is "zero tolerance" of teachers a...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Mayor Bloomberg's Legacy Is His Contribution To The Widest Wealth Inequality In New York City Than In Any Other City In The Nation.

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One of the more obvious and at the same time, disturbing results of Michael Bloomberg's tenure as Mayor of New Yo...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Diane Ravitch's Book Exposes The Education Reform Agenda As A Hoax.

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Diane Ravitch's new book, "The Reigin of Error" exposes the education reformer agenda as being flawed and not in the best i...
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Sunday, September 15, 2013

To Be A Quality Teacher, One Must Have A Passion For Teaching.

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I am sick and tied of reading articles by so-called "education reformers" and charter school supporters...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Real Losers In The Mayoral Primary Are Michael Bloomberg And Christine Quinn.

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The Daily News published an editorial today that stated that the losers in the Bill de Blasio victory was Anthony Wi...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Why Doesn't The Union Tell The ATRs That They Are Not Subject To The Teacher Evaluation System?

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I was reading the union propaganda rag, the New York Teacher, and noticed that the paper published an article that sai...
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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Chancellor Dennis Walcott's Teacher Approval Ratings Are In Cathie Black Territory And That's Bad, Real Bad.

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Well if there is any question how teachers feel about Chancellor Dennis Walcott, the 2013 Learning Environment sur...
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Thursday, September 05, 2013

Back Into The ATR Pool For Me.

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Well, I am back into the ATR pool, complete with weekly assignments, administrative abuse, and student disrespect. ...
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Monday, September 02, 2013

Why Teaching Experience Counts. My Story.

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I was appalled by the New York Times inaccurate "puff piece" on charter schools and why teacher experience...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Campbell Brown Fails To Understand How The Teacher Discipline Process Works And That's A Shame!

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Failed journalist and pseudo-reform advocate, Campbell Brown can't seem to understand that when teachers are accused of misconduct that ...
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Sunday, August 25, 2013

The DOE's Corrupt Investigative Process.

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What does Mayor Bloomberg his poodle, the clueless Chancellor Dennis Walcott, and the failed journalist, Campbell ...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Michael Mulgrew's Knockout Of Campbell Brown

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I am usually critical of my union for allowing Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his cronies at Tweed to poison and dis...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The DOE's Scarlet Letter

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Only in the bizzaro world of the New York City Department Of Education (DOE) does a teacher who was found innocent of c...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

My Interview With A Disgruntled Education 4 Excellence Member.

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During the summer I was contacted by a teacher who wanted me to hear his story about joining and eventually leaving Educators 4 Excellence...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Why I Believe It Will Be A Bill de Blasio/Bill Thompson Runoff.

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After watching the Democratic mayoral debate, I am more and more convinced that it will end up to be a Bill de Blasio/John Thompson runoff...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Mayor Bloomberg's Legacy Is That The Achievement Gap Is Wider Now Than When He Came Into Office.

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Well, the results are in and the academic achievement gap between Asians and Whites on one hand and Blacks and Hispanics on t...
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Saturday, August 10, 2013

To The Education Reformers. It Really Is About Community, Family, And Poverty.

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The revised New York State tests came out and as predicted, every school district saw drops in the passing rates.  In the well-to-do schoo...
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