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...

Here's Why Trade Unionists MUST Vote For Jia Lee

Ednotes has a pretty good blog up about J ia Lee's Candidacy for UFT president on the MORE slate.  I first became aware of Jia Lee at an...

New Eval System Slowly Taking Shape

Lots to talk about from NYSED's suggested proposals to the new new evaluation system (see the PowerPoint here). They vote tomorrow and ...

UFT Wants Independent Evaluator To Count For MORE Than Anyone Else In the State

Have you ever wondered from where where the phrase 'The Devil is in the Details" comes? I mean we all know it and most folks have u...

Back When Three Months Looked Like Six Weeks (Your DOEnut of the Week!)

DOENuts rule #42: There are three types of people that, while wonderful,  should never be taken at their word: *A School or district leader ...

Silver's Arrest: Why Teachers Have Nothing To Worry About (This Year) (updated)

It is often been said that NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver ("Shelly" to all of the people he knows and many he doesn't) ca...

Yet Another Joel Klein Lie?

I'm not surprised that no one else caught this. One of the results of this slow death of the social studies in American schools is that ...

January 1st 2014: The Day After No Future

Many thanks to my guest blogger, Kevin Kearns (a very intelligent New York City teacher and fellow MOREista) for hashing out these thoughts ...

Just Some Quick Information About How the Scores will be Compiled.

Since writing this piece about the initial press release, I've had an opportunity to look over the full decision. There is way too much ...

Making Sense Of the New Eval System

Update(and warning): the details of the plan have been released since the writing of this piece, leaving some of it inaccurate (local 20 wil...