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Why Would Any Sane Person Want to Teach?

Steve Nelson | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, Teacher Rankings, Education Reform, United Federation of Teachers, Race to Nowhere, New York Teachers, NY Teacher Rankings, NYC Department of Education, Education News

The latest skirmish in the education wars came as the New York Times published performance rankings for New York City public school teachers. Teachers don't need metrics-driven scolding. They need small classes, professional development and moral support.

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Who I Am and What's On My Mind

Peter Zucker | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: PS 154, southbronxschool.org, Justice, Education Deform, District 7, Bronx, NYC Department of Education, Education News

This is a big step for me. For too long, except here on the HuffPost, I have lived in the world of anonymity, or better yet, using a pseudonym. I feel...

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Toxic Classrooms: Will NYC Schools Get Rid Of PCBs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Claire Gordon | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: New York City Schools, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Mayor Bloomberg, New York Communities for Change, NYC Schools, Michael Bloomberg, New York Pcbs, Pcbs in Schools, Birth Defects, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, New York Schools, Nyc Schools Pcbs, NYC Department of Education, Pcbs, Education News

At the end of the 2010-2011 school year, Michelle Chapman's 10-year-old daughter started complaining about headaches and fatigue. Her symptoms stopped...

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Revamping Sex Education: A New Approach to the Birds and the Bees

Richard Buery | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Teen Pregnancy, New York City Schools Chancellor, Social Innovation Fund, Parenting, Mayor Bloomberg, Sex Education, NYC Department of Education, Sex Ed, Dennis Walcott, New York News

New York City should consider a more comprehensive initiative that takes into account all aspects of a young person's growth and development, not solely strategies associated with understanding and reducing sexual risk-taking.

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Why 8,000 Eighth-Grade NYC Students Don't Have High School Placements Yet

Michele Somerville | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Educational Reform, NYC High Schools, Standardized Testing, Reform, Discrimination, Educational Discrimination, Racism in Schools, NYC Department of Education, DOE NYC, Nyc Charter Schools, Education News

We don't need more "selective" or "elite" schools. We need good, safe, solid, diverse high schools for every young person in the system.

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City Penalizes Principals Who Save Money With Exorbitant Tax

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyc Budget Cuts, Nyc School Budget Cuts, Nyc School Principals, Ny News, Department of Education New York, NYC Department of Education, New York News

With big cuts in education funding expected next year, many principals have tucked away rainy day funds. Under a new city policy, principals who save...

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Black Fights For School Funds, Cuomo Insists Layoffs Unnecessary

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, Robert Duffy, Ny News, New York Budget, New York Department of Education, Cathie Black, Andrew Cuomo, Gov Cuomo, New York Budget Cuts, NYC Department of Education, New York News

Cathie Black has experienced what may be her first successful public outing as chancellor. Yesterday the chancellor went to Albany to convince lawma...

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When 'Failing' Schools Close and Whiter, Brighter Schools Open

Michele Somerville | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Upper West Success Academy, Cathie Black, Nyc DOE, School Reform, Eva Moskowitz, Millennium Brooklyn, Separate but Equal, Failing Schools, Schools Chancellor, NYC Department of Education, Education News

The matter of school closings is complex and polarizing. Evidence suggests the only solution to the problem of "failing" (DOE speak for "black and Latino") schools is to open new, small schools.

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Cathie Black Heckled (Again) As 12 Schools Close

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Closing New York, School Closing, Budget Cuts, Ny News, Nyc Charter Schools, Cathie Black, Charter Schools Nyc, NYC Department of Education, New York News

Everywhere she goes, it seems, Cathie Black is followed by throngs of devoted detractors who "boo" and jeer her at every opportunity. Early Friday ...

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Panel Votes To Shutter 10 Schools During Raucous Meeting

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Closing New York, School Closing, Budget Cuts, Nyc Charter Schools, Ny News, Cathie Black, Charter Schools Nyc, NYC Department of Education, New York News

UPDATE: NY1 has video! Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, after hours of sitting on the podium saying nothing, chimed in at around 1AM. "I cannot speak ...

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Bloomberg's Secret Plan To Fire Bad Teachers

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyc Teachers Union, Ny News, Rubber Room New York, Teachers Nyc, Teacher Layoffs Nyc, Mayor Bloomberg Teachers Union, Mayor Bloomberg, NYC Department of Education, New York News

Seniority might not save poorly performing New York City teachers from getting axed. With substantial teacher layoffs seeming inevitable, the Bloom...

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Student Play Censored for Being Critical of NYC's School Closure Policy

Brian Pickett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamaica High School, Censorship, NYC Department of Education, Brian Pickett, School Closure, Education News

As an educator -- seeing students engage with a classical text, making direct connections to their own lives and the politics of the times we live in -- it doesn't get any better than this.

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Another Vague Plan, Part Two: "Professionalizing Teachers"

Leonisa Ardizzone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manifesto, Teaching, NYC Department of Education, Structural Violence, Education News

It is insulting to teachers to say that they need to be professionalized. Especially when many of the professionals who are saying this have never been teachers themselves.

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Another Vague Plan: A Manifesto without Teeth

Leonisa Ardizzone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joel Klein, Educational Equity, Manifesto, Educational Reform, NYC Department of Education, Structural Violence, Education News

I finally made it through my backlogged reading pile to read the "Manifesto" by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee et al. that appeared in the Washington Post in October, and I am completely underwhelmed. This is a manifesto?

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City Teachers Fired For Flirting With Students On Facebook

nypost.com | PERRY CHIARAMONTE and YOAV GONEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Facebook Teachers Students, Ny Department of Education, Facebook, Stephen D'Andrilli, Chadwin Reynolds, NYC Department of Education, Laurie Hirsch, Ny News, New York News

They threw the Facebook at 'em. At least three educators from city public high schools have been fired in the past six months for having inappropriat...

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