Know what union membership means before you write, Ray
Ray Fisman wrote a laudatory article released Friday by Slate about NYC’s P.S. 49 principal Anthony Lombardi, an article with themes remarkably similar to what Robert Kolker wrote for New York Magazine in 2003, even down to quoting Randi Weingarten calling Lombardi a tyrant without crediting Kolker. Fisman links to an Inside Schools page summarizing […]
My AFT convention
Being a Florida delegate at the AFT convention is much easier than being a delegate at the NEA convention: NEA delegates must be at the Florida Education Association daily caucus at 7 am (which is still easier than the FEA leadership, who have a 6 am meeting before the state’s 7 am caucus). Here in […]
Weingarten on eve of the AFT elections
I’ve now seen Randi Weingarten speak three times in the last 30 hours, to different audiences and for different purposes. I can see how articulate and comfortable she is in different settings, including when challenged by one AFT delegate on an issue close to his heart. My (admittedly incomplete) judgment is that she is whip-smart, […]
Off to Chicago
My flight is delayed 40 minutes, so I have a few more seconds of free Tampa airport wireless. I’m a delegate to the AFT national convention this weekend, and I have no idea how much time I’ll have online. I’ve brought some work with me in case I get bored (ha!). I return in the […]
Can reporters raise their game in writing about education research?
I know that I still owe readers the ultimate education platform and the big, hairy erratum I promised last month, but the issue of research vetting has popped up in the education blogule*, and it’s something I’ve been intending to discuss for some time, so it’s taking up my pre-10:30-am time today. In brief, Eduwonkette […]