tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post1186082456507728121..comments2024-01-15T15:23:15.700-05:00Comments on B-LoEdScene: Can We Just Throw Meryl Tisch and John King in the Deep End Instead?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-63476521634500360742013-04-24T19:01:23.125-04:002013-04-24T19:01:23.125-04:00Interesting find OR. Do you think while the media ...Interesting find OR. Do you think while the media investigates the "secret deal" that the BTF and district made - someone might ask about Rafal-Baer's credentials? Or will her lack of experience - like King's, Campos', etc - be ignored. Jedinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-5969180526997060012013-04-23T22:27:58.506-04:002013-04-23T22:27:58.506-04:00Could we throw Regent Bob Bennett in the deep end ...Could we throw Regent Bob Bennett in the deep end as well? Bob must be getting tired of dragging his little commissioner boy around New York State and writing the script for him. I am waiting for Bob to just put the little commissioner boy on his lap and just do the speaking for him instead of wasting time writing the scripts. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-13421783938720311162013-04-23T07:29:57.670-04:002013-04-23T07:29:57.670-04:00And how about the new chick being quoted from stat...And how about the new chick being quoted from state ed, Julia Rafal-Baer. Google her and one of the first hits is her NY Times wedding announcement. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/fashion/weddings/julia-rafal-michael-baer-weddings.html?_r=0<br /><br />And if that photo and the bride and groom description don't make you vomit, how about her salary in the NYSED? $115,000. She just started working in 2012. She has about a year with Teach for America (2010, it appears, from SeeThroughNY). Yes, that's right. What a shock. A TFAer in State Ed! She's in charge of our APPRs!!! Office of Teacher and Leader Effectiveness...how would she know what is effective?Old Representativenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-70244717980633273442013-04-22T20:43:14.875-04:002013-04-22T20:43:14.875-04:00I like how he said that the tests were to better i...I like how he said that the tests were to better inform parents and teachers about children's progress and inform instruction, blah, blah...and then he flew off the handle when he found out that the tests couldn't be used to fire Buffalo and Rochester teachers this year. But that's the real purpose of the testsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-50159535264147651742013-04-21T20:04:48.333-04:002013-04-21T20:04:48.333-04:00It occurred to me after reading King's stateme...It occurred to me after reading King's statement about suburban high school graduates, that there are many reasons why a student in college doesn't finish or do well. And I'm not sure any of the reasons have anything to do with not being "college ready". Maybe they can't afford to continue. College costs a lot of money. Maybe they must work. College costs a lot of money. Maybe they don't like it. Maybe? Perhaps the Commissioner needs to work for the parents and students in the public schools, ya know the ones he SHOULD be working for, and not against. Stop worrying about some made up catastrophe that does not exist. My suburban district is doing just fine in SPITE of King, et. al.Julie S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811638297838636919.post-30217357895241954372013-04-21T19:57:54.980-04:002013-04-21T19:57:54.980-04:00Three editorials in the NY papers praising the CC ...Three editorials in the NY papers praising the CC Federal Standards to high heaven and saying NYers should be happy that scores fall 40% because that will show all of us just how bad teachers and schools are now.<br /><br />Unsaid in these pieces of propaganda was the agenda you have posted about here, Sean. Also unsaid was the failure of the NYSED, the Regents or the NYCDOE to provide the curriculum to teachers to teach these new standards. The lies, deceptions and half-truths these people tell are astounding.<br /><br />But as you said, parents in the suburbs are fighting back now that the reform movement has taken the fight to them. I wonder if the reformers really thought the suburbs would roll over the way the cities did? They're an arrogant bunch, so it's possible.<br /><br />In any case, as you say, they have a fight on their hands. John King ought to be careful about going to L.I. or Scarsdale.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.com