Funny as hell
If you don’t know about the whole Cathie Black controversy in NYC, look some of it up here. In response to it, I think this is funny as hell. Maybe Sarah Palin can beg for a waiver to be President in...
View ArticlePrince Mike’s Latest "Stinging Setback"
After turning the whole selection process for Chancellor of Schools into a blatant scam to serve the NYC Oligarchy, now we find out that it was all for nothing. Cathie Black is out after three months...
View Article#Black-listed in #NYC
Yeah, probably won’t be the first one to have come up with that one for a title. In any case, I understand that Cathie Black is indeed out after a measly 95 days. The reasoning: justifiable. And I’m...
View ArticleSteiner’s NY Waiver Machine in High Gear for Bloomberg’s Latest Toadie
Standards and accountability remain laws of the land when it comes to being tough with hungry kids living in motels with their families, but when it comes to the Oligarchs’ choices to run the urban...
View ArticleEdu-commentary… assembled
I thought I would try a new, semi-regular feature picked up from the blogosphere: gathering comment and commentary from around the education world for your unadulterated enjoyment, or perhaps to your...
View ArticleAfter 9 Years of Corporate Reform Schooling, New Yorkers Conclude Bloomberg...
Even with his own media empire to tout his puffed up edu-exploits, and even with a herd of imported thin-lipped British economists as edu-advisors, and even with a passel of lawyers led by Joel...
View ArticleThank you, Mike Bloomberg, For Reminding Us Who the Enemy Is
Bloomberg, Murdoch, and the rest of the 1%er media titans have been poisoning the Web and the airwaves during the past week with their sanctioned story of crime-ridden and diseased encampments of...
View ArticleBloomberg Wants to Double Teacher Salaries–By Doubling Class Size
In the early 19th Century, an efficiency zealot before his time named Joseph Lancaster came up with a monitorial system for schooling the urban poor, wherein a single teacher served as overseer for...
View ArticleHow to Create a Real Revolution: Another Decade of Testing
As the video shows below (from Norm Scott), the pent-up anger is running hot and fast just below the surface. Bloomberg’s suited guardian goons (NYPD or Blackwater?) are more aggressive and surly, and...
View Article@assailedteacher calls for a strike in NY
I remember a strike at my elementary school. Teachers were holding signs at the end of the long driveway that lead up to our school, which is now a soccer field. I can imagine that as a student, I was...
View ArticleGuest Post: Tough Educational Challenges Make for Bad ‘Reforms’
By John Thompson There is an old saying that, “Tough cases make bad law.” Similarly, the New York Department of Education, due to its size, is a tough educational challenge. Ordinarily, Eric...
View ArticleGoodbye to PS 154 in The Bronx?
Wow, I have been gone for some time now. According to SBSB records the last blog post was October 2. Unfortunately, I have been quite busy of late and have had a bad case of writer’s block. But not to...
View ArticleIs Maverick Education Partnership (CFN 407) Complicit in PS 154’s Failing??
More from my blog; South Bronx School Is it funny, the ironic kind of funny, how Uncle Mike and his henchmen want to publicly out teachers TDR’s and shame teachers? Yet, where is the voracious callings...
View Article#SMDH on teacher evaluation…
When is it time to just give up? All these excuses from those who still have this unyielding faith in technocratic methods that just aren’t working. Bunch of crybabies, all of them. Now what might work...
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