Skip to main contentRemainders: For Bloomberg, 12 ways of talking about the UFT
By | February 5, 2013, 12:18am UTC - Mayor Bloomberg has been effusive, reserved, and scathing when talking about the UFT. (SchoolBook)
- On Super Bowl Sunday, a teacher parses online notes to identify seven defenses of the union. (Assailed)
- A math teacher updates about his self-help regimen of focusing on tough stuff. (Rational Expressions)
- A mother shares her conflicted feelings about having her son screened for special needs. (Insideschools)
- The Department of Education is looking, internally, for a chief charter school evaluator. (Simply Hired)
- A former teacher riffs, critically, on a recent report about democracy-focused schools. (Commonal)
- Alabama no longer plans to adopt common exams aligned to the Common Core. (Curriculum Matters)
- New Jersey is playing catch-up with technology to be prepared for Common Core exams. (N.J. Spotlight)
- In letters, educators and parents share their thoughts on testing’s value — or lack of value. (Times)
- Rhode Island’s schools chief has decreed that districts must do away with seniority hiring. (Pro Jo)
- Researchers say the data in the Gates Foundation’s latest teaching study don’t hold up. (Teacher Beat)