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PREA PREZ: 08/21 - 08/28
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Now, we can hardly get our breath. Taxed and schooled and preached to death. Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Saturday, August 27, 2005. Posted by Fred Klonsky at 8/27/2005. I stopped at EI. On the way home from school on Friday night. The first EI of the season. There were lots of old and new faces from Emerson and Lincoln. Lots of shop talk and reports on what we did over summer break. To worry about when the topic is NCLB. It must be said that our NEA leadership, and President Re...
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PREA PREZ: 10/09 - 10/16
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Now, we can hardly get our breath. Taxed and schooled and preached to death. Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Saturday, October 15, 2005. Posted by Fred Klonsky at 10/15/2005. Friday, October 14, 2005. Vivian Malone Jones, "Definition of Courage," Dies at 63. She was a remarkable woman. She was full of grace and enormous courage. She knew exactly what she was doing and why she was doing it," said Culpepper Clark, the dean of the College of Communication and Information Scien...1 The...
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PREA PREZ: 10/02 - 10/09
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Now, we can hardly get our breath. Taxed and schooled and preached to death. Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Saturday, October 08, 2005. Computer Guy Left Holding the Bag. In the case of the phony Rod Paige-George Bush "Texas Miracle," and the lies and gross misreporting of drop outs at Sharpstown High School, the Harris County Grand Jury came back with just one indictiment. It was against the.COMPUTER GUY! The Houston Chronicle reports the sorry story. San Dimas, Calif., high ...
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PREA PREZ: 08/14 - 08/21
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Now, we can hardly get our breath. Taxed and schooled and preached to death. Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Saturday, August 20, 2005. August 10th, a group of us from PREA attended the IEA’s membership mania This is a slight bit of hyperbole. There wasn’t much mania. It was, for the most part, a positive training opportunity for local leaders from districts in Chicago's northern suburbs. But, that’s not what I want to talk about in this post. I want to talk about Wal-Mart. This wa...
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PREA PREZ: 09/04 - 09/11
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Now, we can hardly get our breath. Taxed and schooled and preached to death. Tell me, how can a poor man stand such times and live? Saturday, September 10, 2005. TEACHER AND WAR HERO FOUNDED THE UNION. Teachers in Mendota, Illinois, continued to walk the picket lines last Friday. Last Wednesday, Raymond Elias of Mendota, Minnesota, died at the age of 81. Orv Yess, a fellow counselor at the school, said Elias was devoted to his students, sided with parents more often than with administration and always fo...
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Twitter, 1; teachers, 0 | *headdesk*
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March 25, 2009. Twitter, 1; teachers, 0. Yet another) primary curriculum shakeup. The report is due next month, but unsurprisingly, a draft found its way to The Guardian. Children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian has learned. However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.
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Conversation | *headdesk*
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March 23, 2009. An article on the BBC website. Describes the frustration parents have in trying to goad their kids into sharing information about school. A few observations:. 2 Further to point 1, as the government actively works to disinvolve parents in the upbringing of their kids, we can all expect more of the same. 4 “Only 16% of children volunteered information about their day at school.”. Laquo; Friends in strange places. Tuesday links.fo’ reals. When my eldest was at primary school I took her back...
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Nobody wants your stinkin’ Sats | *headdesk*
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March 27, 2009. Nobody wants your stinkin’ Sats. That head teachers and teachers in England are threatening to boycott next year’s national Sats tests in primary school. The National Association of Head Teachers and the NUT teaching union say the tests taken by seven and 11-year-olds damage children and schools. They want assessments by teachers instead, and an end to league tables based on the 11-year-olds’ results. What is the government’s enlightened response? Laquo; Twitter, 1; teachers, 0. Email (Ad...
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Is there no limit to my cynicism? | *headdesk*
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March 20, 2009. Is there no limit to my cynicism? US First Lady Michelle Obama is set to break the ground for an organic garden on a patch of the south lawn to grow produce for the White House kitchen. Local primary school pupils will help her with the planting and harvesting of the vegetables, herbs and salad crops. Laquo; Remember that study. Friends in strange places. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Life not imitating art.
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Tuesday links..fo’ reals. | *headdesk*
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March 24, 2009. Tuesday links.fo’ reals. My brain has been flat-lining today.so I present the Steele-Colbert rap battle, which surely needs no intro nor any commentary. Enjoy 😉. Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c. Conservative Rap Battle – Michael Steele’s Response. Colbert Report Full Episodes. Edit: not sure why wordpress has issues with embedding and I’m too tired to check it out, so just click the link ‘conservative rap battle.’. Twitter, 1; teachers, 0. Lol ta 4 that. On March 25, 2009. Your Right to Know.
