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Still burned, but forgiving #Ravitch
There was a time I was quite burned by Diane Ravitch. As an up and coming social studies teacher educator, I did not like to hear from various conservative reformers, one of whom was Ravitch, that a...
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The #NEA is suffering a membership crisis. Well, that’ll learn you!
I can’t say why membership in the NEA is declining: Over the last three years, the NEA has shed around 169,000 members, and while an increasing number of its ranks are retiring, the union is facing...
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Robert D. Skeels: How Administration Tries to Cow Teachers Into Submission
Talk by PESJA/CEJ activist and District 2 LAUSD Trustee Candidate Robert D. Skeels at the Support Cadre Resisting Administrative Maltreatment (SCRAM) Caucus Meeting at CTA State Council of Education on...
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Great speech to the school board in Miami-Dade, FL
There’s a lot of anti-union stuff going on in Florida right now, especially measures that actually hinder the ability of teachers to actually do their job in a way that makes them successful. It’s...
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Peg With Pen (@unitedoptout) has a great piece on the sell out #union...
Peg calls them out for what they are: sell outs. I’m going to have to read this report on Transforming the Teaching Profession. From what Peg quotes, it sounds vague, ambiguous, ambivalent, generic,...
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Quoting labor scholar so someone can explain the #AFT alliance with...
To quote Stanley Aronowitz (1983, p. 160): “Some who have advocated the return to ‘basic’ education as the primary focus of elementary and secondary schools have, indeed, invoked machine methods as...
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Wish we could join @ctulocal1 and #CTU #teachers for Labor Day
You best be there if you’re FOR public education in Chicago. [click the post title for the poster] Tagged: chicago, labor day rally, teachers, union
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Takeaways from the #ctustrike: collaboration?
The author here suggests that one of the biggest takeaways from the teachers’ strike in Chicago is collaboration, or perhaps what the AFT refers to as “solutions driven unionism.” She underscores a...
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Lois Weiner’s book: join the club
Online book club starting soon. Click the image for info and how to get the book on holiday discount from Haymarket. Tagged: future of our schools, lois, union, weiner
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On the pro-union Rick Smith show this evening, talking testing.
Here’s the show’s website here. I’ll see about posting an archive thereafter. This is a new place we should all consider following. Tagged: radio, rick smith, testing, union
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Started a profile at myEDmatch for kicks, what a strange, reformy thing this is
I saw that a friend on Facebook “liked” something called myEdmatch. Apparently, finding a teaching job is like online dating. To wit: Complete the Core Beliefs Profile so myEDmatch can suggest schools...
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Beyond a seat at the table: FOOD FIGHT!!
Teacher union members have been asking for our national and state associations to stand up for our profession as they have capitulated on policies such as teacher evaluations using test scores and...
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From Wayne Au on Facebook: MI teachers’ union encourages boycott of student...
What an interesting idea: refuse student teachers from a university that supports a certain reform initiative. As a humble graduate student, like a lot of graduate students everywhere in teacher...
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NEA and AFT Offer Appeasements; Locals Prefer Democratic Response
An article appeared in the Albuquerque Journal recently, titled, Two Teacher Unions Step Up Actions Against PED. The article outlines how the national and state-level unions plan to put pressure on...
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The Axiom of the Abandoned: “I Am the Union”
I am pro-union. Teachers need strong representation and advocacy. But it’s broken right now. Just when I thought that the speeches and editorials from Dennis Van Roekel and Randi Weingarten were...
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