Friday, May 8, 2015. posted a photo suggesting menacing police dogs could quell Baltimore protests. This has made some rounds in the media. It was broken on Blue Virginia.

Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Morton Parents Against Sinking Standards. We are a group of committed parents, students, and community members who are trying to improve the education at J.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. New College of the Humanities. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. New College of the Humanities.

How Mayoral Control of DC Schools Has Failed. Peter MacPherson explains it clearly. Having the Good Sense to Swallow my Male Pride. Some weeks ago at the gym, I noticed a cute young woman lifting significantly more weight than I was accustomed to for myself. I soon discovered that would be impossible unless I injured myself. T that calls into question.

Janet Kilgus, IEA-Retired Chairperson. IEA Board of Directors Report. Retirees have been busy working with A Better Illinois and IEA promoting the graduated income tax initiative with our legislators, colleagues, family, and community members. Retirees on the Pension Defense Team were trained to be leaders in this task for IEA and have been available to make presentations and promotions throughout the state.

Reports show Indiana school funding lagging. Recent reports on state education funding suggest Indiana is slipping when it comes to providing fair and adequate support for public schools. Exhibit A, and the most discouraging example, is an annual report by researchers at Rutgers University and the Education Law Center. The report, Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card.

Closing the Teach For America Blogging Gap. Visions of a different Teach for America. This past winter I developed a bit of a habit of reading critiques of TFA online. Because TFA could be so much more.

Monday, January 28, 2013. Who Pays in Author Pay? Surely not, and surely a business model built on volunteer payments alone cannot sustain itself in the long-run. Sunday, June 1, 2008. 8226; Relying on statistics is not more accurate when the statistics are improperly used. Indeed, statistics can misle.

Sunday, June 7, 2015. Across the country, it is becoming ever clearer that the charter experiment has failed. Charter school teachers in my city are organizing unions. Just this week, the teachers of the Urban Prep Charter Network voted for a union. As charters have been called out on all kinds of greed and misuse of public funds.

Diary of a Public School Teacher! About Diary of a Public School Teacher. I have wanted to do a TED talk. So, when I received an email saying that TEDxWilmington. Was looking for speakers, I jumped at it.