BUYER: Megan Ellison LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA PRICE: $30,000,000 SIZE: 8+ acres (over three parcels), 9,204 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 8 bath...Read more »
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Message to Farina and de Blasio: Undo the Damage
"The schools of Baghdad and Kabul will recover sooner than the NYC school system under your management." ... Norm Scott to Joel Kl...Read more »
Monday, 30 December 2013
Newark: Cami Anderson Uses Network Model to Kill Neighborhood Schools
UPDATED: If Carmen Farina wants to make a quick mark she should begin dismantling the Networks - ASAP. They are a mechanism purposely design...Read more »
UPDATE: David Murdock
As Your Mama first reported on the 11th of December of picked up by the kids at Curbed this week , multi-billionaire businessman David Mur...Read more »
Summer School for Teachers Report from an Undisclosed Urban Location
Dropped from a drone, found on a Rockaway beach. I won't say which city but it is not NYC. I had the privilege of attending ten days of ...Read more »
Keira Knightley Snags New Digs in London
BUYER: Keira Knightley and LOCATION: London PRICE: £3,930,000 (list price) SIZE: 2,775, square feet, 5 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms YOUR MAMAS NO...Read more »
Farina With Support of Real Reformers Has Chance to End 12 Years of Toxicity
The appointment of Carmen is the best news that has come out in education in 2013. I am eternal optimist and believe that maybe, just maybe ...Read more »
Sunday, 29 December 2013
Farina the Choice
Bloomfield also predicted that Farina and her staff would implement a longer-term cultural change at Tweed. “There will be a new system-wi...Read more »
Who's to Blame? Round up on Lawrence Scott and Natalya Sokolson Gordon
Let's see now. An investigator for OSI so abuses his position by trying to extort sexual favors from a teacher under the threat of a los...Read more »
Patrick Sullivan resigns from NYC Board of Education (formerly the PEP)
This is a sad day for the children, teachers and parents of the city. I've watched Patrick Sullivan often be the lone voice of sanity in...Read more »
Skynet is Coming: On the movie "Her", artificial intelligence, neural networks and The Terminator
In coming years, the approach will make possible a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that will perform some functions that ...Read more »
NY Post Points to Corruption in OSI, DOE Investigations Unit?
In a meeting at his office on Nov. 14, 2012, Gordon said, Scott boasted that he could get teachers fired — or off the hook. “I have the pow...Read more »
Friday, 27 December 2013
Paul Krugman on the imbalanced boss-worker power relationship applied to NYC principals and teachers
The massive power imbalance between principal and teacher in NYC is not due to a weak economy but to a weak union. Let me expound on this po...Read more »
End of Week Mish Mash
After nearly four long years on the market Grammy winning singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow re-listed her Tennessee Farm for $3.85 million, $3....Read more »
Not a Wonderful Life: Education Writer’s Block
The Wave - Published Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 - www.rockawave.com --> Not a Wonderful Life: Education Writer’s Block By Norm Scott Tu...Read more »
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