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Here’s where I’m about to lose my mind: the #aft resolution on #CCSS...
So, I see this on Twitter, a snapshot of an AFT resolution on the Common Core: As we speak, I’m trying my best to avoid distraction and plan my week of second grade language arts and math. I’m going to...
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I’ve too felt the wrath of critique of #NEA and #AFT, it will continue
EdNotes Online has a piece on the knee jerk reactions from folks defensive of unions when they hear criticism. This site and some other folks went through this recently with critique of the NEA during...
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@mikeklonsky plans for #unions to be a big part of the #SOSMarch convention...
Great, Mike. And drafting a resolution no less. Resolutions are fine. Teachers’ unions function in important ways, defending the social safety net and bargaining rights for teachers, which puts them...
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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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GUEST POST: Julie Gorlewski Responds to AFT
Julie Gorlewski, State University of New York at New Paltz Response to Raising the Bar: Aligning and Elevating Teacher Preparation and the Teaching Profession (A report of the American Federation of...
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Nice sentiment from AFT, but…
Great quote. I totally agree. But what will AFT do about its support of the CCSS, which is diverting millions of dollars from supporting low-income schools to tests. a Filed under: CHALK FACE: General...
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May the odds be ever in your favor, #commoncore
So, now we are at least clear on one item. The President of a large educators’ union concurs that the Common Core Curriculum, imposed upon public schools in nearly all states, means to prepare young...
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The teacher “bar exam” will work, if and only if…
… You completely abolish alternative certification programs, like Teach for America. That’s it. AFT President Weingarten cannot proclaim this: Under the AFT plan, prospective teachers who have...
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#aft and #nea are wrong on Common Core and VAMs.
I support teachers’ unions. However, the AFT’s and NEA’s national leaders need to be to openly criticized. At the leadership level they are unable to counter the “adults first” narrative and they are...
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Gates and AFT: Together At Last
This article needs a few, okay, a lot of edits. So, I’m taking the liberty of rewriting it. Go ahead and read the original article first, and then let’s see if we can clarify the real message here....
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#nea was for VAMs but now against? I’m so confused!
As readers of @thechalkface already know, both the NEA‘s Dennis Van Roekel and AFT’s Randi Weingarten support the use of VAMs in teacher evaluations. Of course they will never admit to it and instead...
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Ask and receive: quick examination of the #gatesfoundation tax returns for...
They’re public, available here in all 692 or so pages. There’s other documents as well. Why’d I do this? Well, after a Twitter conversation, I kind of wanted to see how all of their education projects...
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The #AFT’s new lesson plan sharing site is problematic in a number of ways,...
Here’s some background first via the NYT. Weingarten and TSL’s CEO are already making the rounds; I saw them on CNN just this morning. Here’s some more detail: Both TSL and the union have invested...
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On my fifth day of #summer #school, the #NEA wept, according to @mikeklonsky
Correction: It was Fred K., not Mike K. Sorry. Went to the Newseum today with the entire school, perhaps more on that later. You see, I’m teaching second grade at a DC charter school this summer. I’ve...
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Big kerfuffle about the #NEA challenge issued by @unitedoptout
I’m back, temporarily. Power’s still out, may not get it back until the evening of the fourth. So, five days! that’s a record for me at least. In any case, I’ve missed most of the back and forth...
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Here’s where I’m about to lose my mind: the #aft resolution on #CCSS...
So, I see this on Twitter, a snapshot of an AFT resolution on the Common Core: As we speak, I’m trying my best to avoid distraction and plan my week of second grade language arts and math. I’m going to...
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Guest Post from Peggy Robertson: The greatest fight of our lives
From Peg with Pen. Show Peggy your support by commenting how much you want her to write for us on a regular basis. The admissions of error, the requests for moratoriums, the recognition that perhaps...
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@rweingarten fantastic at one key thing: triangulation #AFT
It’s something I could never do: talk out of multiple sides of my mouth. I try not to have it many ways, but one, the way I know and feel is right. Granted, we all do things that run counter or...
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@rweingarten has some explaining to do re: #AFT #commoncore survey
At the Chalk Face was joined by intrepid researcher and educator Mercedes Schneider for an interview in January of this year as she demolished the state of LA’s flawed school evaluation data. You can...
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Dutiful responses from Hart and @rweingarten. Relieved? M-haps. #commoncore
Ah, well, it appears as if both Hart and Ms. Weingarten dutifully responded to Ms. Schneider’s concerns regarding the AFT’s survey on the CCSS. I definitely missed this back and forth because who can...
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