Jonathan Pelto notes the hypocrisy of Governor Dannell Malloy, one of the most anti-teacher governors in the nation, issuing a smarmy proclamation in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week.
The trick is to bash teachers day after day, but say really kind (if insincere) things this week and right before the election.
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He learned to do this from Obama and Duncan
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The only thing worse than a Republican is a CORPORATE Democrat….
You mean a Cwhoreporate Dimocrap?
Duane Swacker: TAGO!
Let me turn this around a bit. To Señor Swacker and all of you in our public schools who day in and day out are doing the right thing even when you are vilified and bashed—
Thank you very much!/Muchísimas gracias!/Domo arigatoo gozaimasu!
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IMHO, the author of the following quote had folks like you in mind:
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” [Mother Teresa]
Krazy props to all of you from your local neighborhood KrazyTA.
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I think I’m gonna just monitor the Common Core get eaten alive by testing 🙂
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Cara Tanimura, DOE: Interim assessments will help give feedback to teachers about student progress before they take @SmarterBalanced
We’ll have the states buy assessments before the Big Show assessments , and then it will be off to the races. Pre-pre-pre assessments. Maybe post assessments. No telling how far it could go.
Today, class, we shall be doing a practice run of the preassessment of the benchmark assessment that we shall be taking to ensure that we are on track for the assessment assessment. I assume you’ve all seen the data wall in the hallway. We can do better than that, can’t we? Good. Today’s preassessment of the benchmark assessment will contain 12 evidence-based selected response items, four multiple select response items, four technology-enhanced evidence-based selected response items, and four technology-enhanced constructed response items.
Consider yourselves very fortunate. In my day, back in the dark ages, we used to come to English class and read poems and short stories. That was before we understood the importance of data.
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I think you better make sure Big Test doesn’t plagiarize your work here (minus the last paragraph of course) and use it in a manual!
Just a tad ironic that these supposedly data obsessed reformers have NO evidentiary DATA to support their reform initiatives. NONE. ZERO. ZILCH. NADA. And they ignore studies that debunk their CCRAP. Makes on believe that their claims may be a bit disingenuous. Makes them pretty much full of CCRAP.
But this is politics today. It’s what you say not what you actually are. Same with ads. We the reformers are for better schools and equality for all. blah blah.. But a closer look and you see they aren’t for that at all and neither is this guy for teachers. And here you have a large insight into how so much in our education system has gone south. They are saying one thing and doing another..How we get people to see and stop listening to their PR machine I don’t know. Except when the reality of what it’s doing to their kids hits parents they hopefully will revolt. And of course this blog which allows no hypocrisy to slip through. Thanks Diane.
Julie,
This is why a small but growing group of Connecticut educators have started a grassroots movement; the Connecticut Association of Professional Educators. Collectively, our professional voices must be heard for the children of Connecticut. You can read about what we’re trying to do at http://www.cape-teach.org.
Wonderful that you are doing this, Len. One note: the quotation is not from Socrates. As best as I can tell, the original of this was Plutarch, from “On Listening to Lectures”:
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth (De Recta Ratione Audiendi, 18, 47, c).
Not as pithy as the adage that it became, but a great truth, nonetheless.
I feel so imbalanced, for, you see, I bash Governor Malloy every day of the year . . . .
Malloy is typical. Whenever an email comes out from the big kahuna’s thanking us “FOR ALL WE DO” and saying “I appreciate you”… it is a false platitude. But like anything these days, I think of it as “ED REFORM LATIN” kind of like the childhood game of pig Latin. But reformers just way the opposite of what they really mean by saying the opposite. Here is a favorite “least favorite” of the week…
So Ed Week comes out with stats always seem to suggest that public school teachers believe in common core (but feel the roll out needs fixing). NOT IN MY SCHOOL !
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