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Please think before you take a swipe at teachers unions
There are legitimate criticisms I find of teachers unions, but then there are regular examples of foolish, illogical digs. In the And your mortgage is probably more than what you earn in any year category: Recently Mike Antonucci tried to gin up a story based on the fact that pensions are liabilities, forgetting that long-term liabilities are […]
Calling Joe Williams and Charlie Barone!
Tina Collins has an explosive charge in the UFT blog this morning, alleging that DFER comprises DINOs (Democrats in Name Only). We'll see how DFER responds (as I'm sure they will). Some broader context: Wall Street tends to make and give money opportunistically. Traders were happy to donate to Obama and the Democrats in 2008 […]
Catherine Lugg starts blogging
Welcome to Cath Lugg, a friend and historian of education who's just joined the small coterie of blogging historians of education: Diane Ravitch, Larry Cuban, and Adrea Lawrence. One meta-note: My apologies for the light blogging over the past week. Last week I had to prepare for and attend a special magistrate's hearing over the […]
Not exactly covered with glory in L.A.
The big K-12 story this week is the L.A. Times series on value-added measures of intermediate and middle-school teachers in reading and math in the Los Angeles Unified School District. My brief impression: I don't think anyone in L.A. is covering themselves in glory this week. Folks such as Alexander Russo and Rick Hess have […]
Gates speech at AFT
Originally written Saturday, July 10: I’ve figured out how to hang this electronic device onto the back of the chair in front of me while my old PDA foldable keyboard is synced and sitting on my lap, so I can write this blog entry in the middle of the AFT session. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka […]