Sentences with phrase «angry teachers»

It'll be Randi Weingarten, Diane Ravitch and their army of angry teachers who will drive a stake through the heart of Common Core, not me or any other current critic.
Images in newspapers and on TV of angry teachers in the streets of Chicago and New York with placards demanding higher wages while their students are locked out of their schoolrooms for days stand in stark contrast to the well - dressed, soft - spoken teachers of our childhood.
Angry teachers held a mock grand jury Tuesday night and indicted Governor Cuomo for such things as depriving students of enough school aid to meet the State Constitution and forcing standardized tests on students.
When the leaders of the American Federation of Teachers — whose president Randi Weingarten hopes to become Secretary of Education — endorsed Clinton without holding local meetings to consult the members, hundreds of angry teachers rebelled and signed up with Labor for Bernie.
And when you take the personality of a man desperately seeking perfection, and clash it with a foul - mouthed, insensitive, angry teacher hell - bent on getting nothing but perfection out of his students.
When ineffective, frustrated or angry teachers call parents about their child, they tend to «dump» the problem in the parents» lap.
And if we're not willing to do so, don't complain when Diane Ravitch and her armies of angry teachers complain that we are asking them to perform miracles.
In fact, how intimidating could it be to more conservative candidates to have to enter a building stuffed to the gills with angry teachers to file for office?
Like wildfire, social media has burned with offers to help teachers run for office and encouragement for those who have said they would, but this public spending tsunami is missing one very large component: accountability and transparency for funds already in the system, and those being added as Oklahoma legislators continue to daily pass funding measure after funding measure to appease angry teachers in the hope they'll return home.
Education policy expert Jay Greene addresses this phenomenon in The Army of Angry Teachers which was posted on Education Matters, his own blog, and elsewhere last week.
There's no point in having angry teachers teach unhappy kids.»
I know this might invite the wrath of Diane Ravitch's Army of Angry Teachers, but I suspect that the average hours worked by U.S. teachers is significantly less than the OECD says (and the WSJ repeats).
The other day, for purposes of replying to an angry teacher who used textbooks made by our publishing house, we asked our resident botanist to respond and he wrote a long statement.
One of the most loved clips from Rowan's vast back catalogue, a hilarious sketch where the angry teacher played by Rowan invites a father in to Wales: Geographical and historical treatment of Wales, including maps and statistics as well as a survey of its people, economy, and government.
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She probably expected the worst — an angry teacher and a trip to the office.
These angry teachers didn't know about the class (set up for months, by the way).
What feels like success to angry teachers is actually sowing the seeds of failure for the teacher union.
Diane Ravitch and Valerie Strauss may provide psychological comfort to angry teachers (some of whom seem so irate that they may need professional psychological help to manage their anger), but it undermines the double - game that is at the heart of the teacher union strategy.
But when the public face of the teacher unions is the Army of Angry Teachers, they no longer seem like Mary Poppins.
But when the public face of the teacher unions is the Army of Angry Teachers, they no longer seem like Mary Poppins and begin to look a lot more like longshoremen beating their opponents with metal pipes.
Reformers have delusions of influence because of the thousands of followers they have on Twitter and the number of hits to their web sites, failing to realize how much bigger the likes of Diane Ravitch and her Army of Angry Teachers are in social media.
Angry teachers and parents voice concerns at Lodi Unified School District meeting over class sizes, transportation
We already have a taste of the kind of resistance teacher unions will put up against the Gates nationalization effort in the slogans emanating from Diane Ravitch and Valerie Strauss» Twitter feed, supported by their Army of Angry Teachers.
Not surprisingly, the post was met with negative responses by, well, angry teachers.
The teacher union - backed SOS (Save Our Schools) March on Washington — will have the Army of Angry Teachers and others taking to the streets and screaming about various education issues such budgetary shortfalls that must be made up by «taxing the rich.»
Greene writes «But when the public face of the teacher unions is the Army of Angry Teachers, they no longer seem like Mary Poppins and begin to look a lot more like longshoremen beating their opponents with metal pipes.»
The angry teachers pointed to a general agreement among AFL - CIO labor leaders that none of its unions would make an endorsement before July 30th, after all candidates were properly vetted on a variety of issues.
There were critical school - board members and angry teacher - union officials who dislike some of Deasy's policies, playing the role of rogue dissenter.
Nadya Miranda, 23, is the mother of a student whose treatment by an angry teacher at Success Academy in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, was surreptitiously videotaped.
teachers» strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education — stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations, dilapidated schools, angry teachers, underserved students.
In response to a question from ConnCAN's CEO, Malloy talked about how people were mad and how he stood up to the angry teachers and led the way forward for the General Assembly.
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