Sunday, July 30, 2017

Smaller Class Sizes Improve Student Academics, Except When They Get New Teachers.

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A ground breaking study on the effects of class size on student academics in the New York City classroom have s...
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Friday, July 28, 2017

The DOE Tries To Lowball The ATR Pool Number And Costs As The ATR Buyout, Once Again, Fails.

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The Independent Budget Office (IBO) crunched the numbers dealing with the ATR pool and found that the DOE ...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

My Response To The Bronx Principal.

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In a previous post on the hiring of ATRs, a Principal from a Bronx school commented why he wouldn't want to ...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

The Difference Between The Typical Urban And Suburban School.

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There are stark differences between the typical urban and suburban public school and these inequalities are the major r...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

How To Really Drain The ATR Pool.

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Over the decade, the DOE has tried many different ways to reduce the ATR pool and has utterly failed as the to...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

From Reaching For The Stars To Back To Basics.

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Over the last few years, many schools were pushing their students into higher level Math and Science courses.  This w...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

The Truth Why ATRs Are Not Being Picked Up By Schools.

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I was disgusted by the self-serving ATR bashing article by non-educator Daniel Weisberg who, once again,  fals...
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Saturday, July 15, 2017

Why It Made No Financial Sense To Take The ATR Incentive.

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In the last two months at least three UFT leadership officials tried to convince me that the ATR incentive was a...
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Thursday, July 13, 2017

Here's How The DOE Policy Changed On ATR Hiring.

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I have received and digested  Randy Asher's webinar and I believe this is how the DOE policy on ATRs changed...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017

The New York Post Editorial Board Are A Bunch Of Hypocrites.

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In today's New York Post, the paper's Editorial Board made it seem that all ATRs are "bad" o...
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Monday, July 10, 2017

Few ATRs Will Be Rated Effective By Principals Under The New DOE Policy.

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Over the years, many ATRs were rated "effective" or "highly effective" by school principals ...
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Sunday, July 09, 2017

Charter Schools Hoping That SUNY's Proposed Rules Will Allow Them To Hire More Unqualified Teachers.

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Because of the increasing difficulty that charter schools are having in hiring certified teachers and the high ...
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Friday, July 07, 2017

I Support Lower Class Sizes And A Certified Teacher In The Subject Area Being Taught.

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I'm glad to see that a group of parents, along with Class Size Matters , Alliance Of Quality Education and Publi...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2017

Don't Hold Your Breath In Expecting SCI To Investigate Administrative Academic Fraud.

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Most knowledgeable educators know that the investigative units of SCI, OSI, and OEO are not fair and impartial....
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Monday, July 03, 2017

District 75 Schools Force Teachers To Teach Academics Rather Than The Life Skills Students Need.

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District 75 have the most disabled and behaviorally challenged students in the public school system.  These sch...
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Saturday, July 01, 2017

What Will The Next Contract Contain?

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Sometime in 2019 the City and the UFT will start to negotiate a new contract.  By law the next contract should ...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

TRS Is Converting Our Bond Fund To A Balanced Fund On January 1, 2018. Should You Invest In It?

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My sources tell me that the Teachers Retirement System (TRS) is finally throwing in the towel and eliminating t...
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Monday, June 26, 2017

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - Teacher Turnover At Charter Schools, The Fatal Flaw.

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One of the fatal flaws the charter schools and their media allies try to hide is the extremely high teacher tu...
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Sunday, June 25, 2017

Academic Fraud Cointinues As The Common Core Algebra I Regents Cut Scores Are Reduced Again.

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New York State Education Department, instead of making the Regents exam a test that measures a student's academic ...
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Saturday, June 24, 2017

Why Renewal High Schools Continue To Fail.

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An admittedly biased study done by the pro-charter group, Families For Excellent Schools. have shown that the R...
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