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Advice to Chicago Teachers: Steer Clear of Weingarten
President of the AFT, Randi Weingarten, emerged today with a statement to the New York Times that feeds that vitriol that corporate ed deformers are trying to promote against Chicago teachers: “You...
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Kindergarteners: Get Ready to “Confront the New Economy”
Earlier today, I had a short Twitter conversation with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. It went something like this: Randi: not the implementation or roll out, but...
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Weingarten Gets Arrested for the Cameras in Philadelphia While Remaining...
Randi Weingarten is in Philadelphia, pretending to put herself in between the closing of 23 schools and the opening of a new batch of corporate welfare charter schools to replace them. Below is her...
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Time for Weingarten to Go
Too bad it took Randi Weingarten 10 years to “get arrested” when the writing was on the blackboard with the obviously insane, destructive and impossible goals of NCLB calling for 100% proficiency by...
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@rweingarten is trying to drive that bus…
AFT President Randi Weingarten tried to throw us all under the bus with this abhorrent collaboration with a member of the Gates Foundation. Here’s the original piece with response from Anthony Cody and...
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“I Would Prefer Not To”: A Call for Non-Cooperation
Writing about a call for a moratorium on implementing and testing Common Core State Standards (CCSS) from union leadership, Anthony Cody ends his blog post with three questions: What do you think?...
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Do We Need Another Edu-Proclamation, or Do We Need Resistance Strategies to...
Every few weeks it seems another group of luminaries signs on and circulates another proclamation or declaration making it clear what perpetrators who aren’t listening “must do” or “should do” to...
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Full-Page Ad for VAM-Based Teacher Evaluation and Common Core, Paid for by...
BY VICKI PHILLIPS AND RANDI WEINGARTEN [from March 25, 2013 The New Republic] Sponsored content by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and American Federation of Teachers. Some see us as...
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Corporate Education’s Friend, Randi Weingarten
Diane Ravitch has at her blog an unmoving tribute to her friendship with Randi Weingarten, and AFT is soaking it for all it’s worth in their most recent newsletter. After all, if there is one name...
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Evidence? Randi Weingarten Ignores the Evidence
In Evidence? Secretary Duncan, You Can’t Handle the Evidence, I note that Duncan simply refuses to acknowledge the abundant evidence that Common Core is a failed standards/testing paradigm. Now Randi...
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Did The American Federation of Teachers Really Do This???
Last month, Boston voters elected a new Mayor, arguably with a little help from a mysterious political action committee that dumped $480,000 into the campaign during its final days. One Boston...
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On the defense of @rweingarten by @dianeravitch
It’s really quite simple, actually. Simple for me, at least. To begin, you can review Ravitch’s personal defense of the President of AFT. The American Federation of Teachers is a political...
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Comparing CC Support with Evidence Against
AFT president Randi Weingarten has recently changed positions on value-added methods (VAM) for teacher evaluation, but maintains support for Common Core (CC). With that shift to rejecting VAM, based on...
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What Does It Mean To Be In Solidarity?
Last weekend the Network for Public Education (NPE) held its first conference in Austin Texas. Now I have attended many conferences over the years. For me they tend to be inspiring, lots of good...
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Weingarten Patrolling the Web to Urge Patience for Obama/Gates Agenda
This morning Mark Naison posted a thoughtful response to the President’s corporate kowtowing and hope-turned-hype speechifying, and who else besides AFT’s own CEO, Randi Weingarten, quickly responded...
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