You Think You Understand the New Eval System? You Don't. Here's Why

Attending a monthly Chapter Leader meeting during the weaning days of Joel Klein's Chancellorship felt a lot like visiting the crew who ...

Poverty in America

If you read one thing this week, make sure it is NBC's web based report on the Geography of Poverty: A journey through forgotten America...

About Eliot

Once, after class, I mentioned to my high school Global Studies teacher that I wanted to grow up to be a high school social studies teacher....

Bubbles. (or 'There is no "We. There is only "Them" and "Them")

Yeah. I couldn't decide on a title. Sorry. Now that Choice will come to the USDOE, folks are wondering what the  public education advoc...

Welcome To the Party, Pal!

Now that Trump's choice for education has a name, Betsy DeVos, the elite educationnados have finally decided to pay some attention to th...

Rhee for Sec-Ed: New Name. Same Threat.

I've been trying to sound to alarm all week about the real threat faced by public schools from the incoming Trump administration. Pardon...

Eva Eva Eva.

With the Daily News reporting that Eva is most definitely not going to be the US Education Secretary  , one questions should be on everyone...

New Name Floated as Education Secretary (NOT Eva)

As New York elites and activists brood over the possibility of Eva Moskowitz being appointed Education Secretary, a new name is making its w...

Trump's New Education Secretary

Oh, I'm going to have so much fun with this, I may just have to start writing again. Today, the New York times reported a list of leadin...

A Tote, A Charter Rally and A Guiding Principle

My grandmother is 84 years old. She likes to go the dollar store and buy little things here and there for the people she knows. She bought m...

JUST Like Tammany Hall

        (No cute satire today, folks. Just a rant from a brilliant, very angry dude) Before the first seniority laws were passed in the city...

Is There A Dichotomy Between Practitioner and Advocate?

I recently read on the ICE blog a few thoughts about an activist's need to write more about being  a teacher. James Eterno, the primary...

My Career As A Teacher

Year one : Welcome to our school. We have run out of chalk. Please buy your own.  Year three : Here's a handout on the workshop model. F...

Why Are Our Copays Going Up!!???

Just this month, I wrote three long (and dense) pieces describing the healthcare crisis that NYC Employees are facing. Feel free to read it....

The Secretive Teachers

A reformer's car broke down in front of a school after hours. He knocked on the door to ask for help and, sure enough, the school was fi...

MORE's New Steering Committee

Strike a chord for a democratic way of doing things. As of March 1, The MORE candidate for UFT president, Jia Lee (whom I wholeheartedly sup...

"SHOW MY FRIENDS AND TEACH THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I had read on the excellent NYCEducator blog yesterday that Alan Singer had  noted  how the teacher in question from the Success debacle  w...