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Education Worker: Does Romney "Love" Teachers?

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Wednesday, October 31, 2012. Does Romney "Love" Teachers? Paul Toner, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and middle school social studies teacher in Cambridge, MA, tells the truth about Mitt Romney. In the third presidential debate Mitt Romney proclaimed twice, “I love teachers! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Back to school...

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Education Worker: September 2014

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Multiple Measures or Multiple Data Points? I am cross posting something I wrote for VIVA. The trend during the Race to the Top/NCLB “flexibility” has been for states and localities to go down a rabbit hole of “multiple measures”, where a variety of components are added together, producing a nu...2) The use and misuse...

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Education Worker: Human Rights Principles in the Union

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Human Rights Principles in the Union. Help me with this - its something I have been thinking a lot about, especially with regard to union political endorsements. We believe that unions are indispensable institutions for the promotion of human rights and the public good. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Progressive union...

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Education Worker: PISA and Poverty: Time for Both/And Solutions

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Thursday, August 23, 2012. PISA and Poverty: Time for Both/And Solutions. Leans to the left. The Program for International Student Assessment. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Describes PISA as follows:. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). By poverty, with the metric being the number of students on free o...

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Education Worker: Teacher Negotiation Reform: Beating Swords Into Ploughshares

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Thursday, July 5, 2012. Teacher Negotiation Reform: Beating Swords Into Ploughshares. This is a cross posting from my friend Patrick Ledesma's Leading from the Classroom. On Ed Week Teacher Magazine. He was kind enough to let me guest blog. I'm putting it here for readers who normally read my stuff on Education Worker. Our previous negotiation h...

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Education Worker: Favorite Quotes

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Go forward until apprehended! The New Hampshire Grants [AKA Vermont] in particular now abounds in the most active and rebellious race on the continent and hangs like a gathering storm on my left." - British General John Burgoyne. First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;. 8220;Teacher Unions have ...

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Education Worker: My Garden Sprouts

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Monday, April 9, 2012. How often does a book on education achieve both literary and visual artistry? How often would you expect any book on education to be both practical and inspiring? Had you asked me these questions a couple of weeks ago, I would answered seldom to the second question and never to the first. Both questions together? Illustrat...

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Education Worker: Business Unionism: A Smedley Butler "Racket?"

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Sunday, September 2, 2012. Business Unionism: A Smedley Butler "Racket? Brian Walsh served as vice president of VT-NEA. He is a graduate student at the Labor Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. And is currently teaching high school and interning at the Vermont Workers Center. In Burlington VT today. 8221; guaranteed unions legal r...

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Education Worker: A Real Teacher Appreciation Week

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Monday, April 23, 2012. A Real Teacher Appreciation Week. What would real teacher appreciation look like? Teachers are professional education experts. If one week a year, teachers could make that expertise known in tangible ways in the places that education policy is made, that would be real teacher appreciation. In my ideal world every teacher ...

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Education Worker: Administrative Success is a Union Issue

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Bringing the teacher voice to unions and ed policy, My views DO NOT represent the views of NEA or VT-NEA unless they say so. @musicvt. Education Worker Scoop.it! Sunday, September 23, 2012. Administrative Success is a Union Issue. Reform is a loaded word. When I speak of union reform, I am thinking of efforts to democratize unions and make them more responsive to membership. Others however may be attaching union reform efforts to specific neo-liberal "reforms.". In TURN, we use. Refers to the war fightin...