The following was just posted on the Take Action Long island! (TALI) website. Rally at Senator Jack Martin’s Office 151 Herricks Road Suite 202 Garden City Park, NY 11040 FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014 3:30-5pm This Friday, at several locations … Continue reading
NYSUT Board approves ‘no confidence’ resolution
The following article was posted on the NYSUT website explaining the details of the recent “no confidence vote” in regards to the policies of the NYSED Commissioner. UTN president Antoinette Blanck, a NYSUT director, participated in the discussion and voted … Continue reading
Capitol Tonight: NYSUT’s Iannuzi on Commissioner King
Randi Weingarten: Teaching and Learning Over Testing
Randi Weingarten President, American Federation of Teachers www.huffingtonpost.com I’m often asked how I can be in favor of the Common Core State Standards while opposing the standardized-testing fixation in education and other failed market-based education strategies. The question is as … Continue reading
Carol Burris: Student privacy concerns grow over ‘data in a cloud’
Original article was posted in the Washington Post by Valarie Strauss Privacy concerns have been growing over a $100 million student database – largely funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and operated by a nonprofit organization, inBloom Inc. — … Continue reading