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The Global Search for Education: Campus Talk

C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.01.2013 | Impact
Read More: Dr. Elizabeth Englander, Learning Disabilities, The Global Search for Education, Finland Education System, Dr. Eero Castren, Dr. Andrea Vazzana, Kathy Bostjancic, NYC Department of Education, Gary Carter, C. M. Rubin, Seth Godin, Idealist Group, Consulate General of Finland, Body Image, Teachers, Cyber-Bullying, Neurobiological Learning, Campus Seminar, Impact News
C. M. Rubin

"Campus" is a professional seminar for all New York City public school teachers that will be held this Saturday, May 4th, with the aim of allowing experts on a diverse range of topics to share perspectives with educators on recent developments in their spheres.

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'Twas the Night Before State Tests...

Leonisa Ardizzone | Posted 04.16.2013 | Parents
Read More: High-Stakes Testing, NYC Department of Education, State Testing Mandates, Standardized Testing, Test Prep, Education, Teaching to the Test, State Testing, education123, Parents News
Leonisa Ardizzone

I told my daughter that from the first moment I began teaching, I knew that the tests were unjust and I despised them. My disgust with them has only grown with each passing year.

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City Targets 17 Schools for Closure

| Posted 01.08.2013 | New York
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By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer NEW YORK CITY — Seventeen schools have been placed on the chopping block for sub-par performance, Depar...

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At Least 34 Students Injured In Pepper Spray Incident

| Posted 10.17.2012 | New York
Read More: Middle School Pepper Spray, Pepper Spray Queens, Queens, NYC Schools, Pepper Spray, Virgil Grissom Middle School, NYC Department of Education, South Ozone Park Middle School, Video, Ny News, Queens School Pepper Spray, South Ozone Park, NYC Education, Students Pepper Spray, Nyc-Pepper-Spray, New York News

By Ben Fractenberg, Joe Parziale SOUTH OZONE PARK — At least 34 students were injured, including 11 who were hospitalized, when a young student a...

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NYC Still Paying $22 Million For Teachers In 'Rubber Rooms'

Posted 10.16.2012 | New York
Read More: New York City Department of Education, Francesco Portelos Rubber Rooms, Mayor Bloomberg, Rubber Rooms New York, Ny News, Francesco Portelos Nyc, NYC Teachers, Rubber Rooms, Bloomberg Rubber Rooms, NYC Department of Education, Nyc Teachers Salaries, Nyc Rubber Rooms, Francesco Portelos, New York News

The city and teachers' union may have agreed to shut down the usage of "rubber rooms" -- reassignment centers for educators awaiting discipline hearin...

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Teacher Scolded For Instructing Students To Send Letters To Inmate Friend

AP | Posted 10.02.2012 | New York
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NEW YORK -- A teacher has received a warning letter from the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board for making her fifth graders write Christmas ca...

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96% Of Students Arrested In NYC Schools Are Black Or Latino

The Huffington Post | Inae Oh | Posted 08.15.2012 | New York
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A new report conducted by the NYCLU and released on Monday reveals the NYPD arrested 882 students in 2011. Ninety-six percent of students arrested...

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Why Would Any Sane Person Want to Teach?

Steve Nelson | Posted 05.05.2012 | Home
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, Home News
Steve Nelson

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

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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Claire Gordon

Toxic Classrooms: Will NYC Schools Get Rid Of PCBs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Claire Gordon | Posted 12.13.2011 | Home
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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 | New York
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
Richard Buery

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 | Home
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, Home News
Michele Somerville

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 | New York
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 | New York
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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 | Home
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, Home News
Michele Somerville

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

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 | Home
Read More: Manifesto, Teaching, NYC Department of Education, Structural Violence, Home News
Leonisa Ardizzone

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

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 | New York
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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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