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IEA responds to the Trib’s journalistic terrorism. But in the Trib?
When the Chicago Tribune (which owns the now infamously teacher bashing LA Times) ran a story suggesting $100,000 a year teachers were commonplace in the state of Illinois (I wish!) it was the last...
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John Dillon. A Bitter Pill: Illinois Supreme Court’s decision and Chicago...
- John Dillon is a retired teacher, pension activist and blogs at Pension Vocabulary. Bitter Pill is an idiom that arises from usage nearly a century ago or in some lexicons even earlier. Imagine a...
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“Dr.” Terrence P. Carter. Arne Duncan’s superstar. The story the Chicago...
“Doctor” Carter, superstar. In 2007 the Chicago Tribune wrote: The Chicago Public Schools system has 126 openings for principals next fall, and has only 33 current principals ready to take the jobs....
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George Schmidt. John Kass, the Tribune’s scab pundit.
The Chicago Tribune’s scab columnist who yesterday demanded Karen Lewis “come clean.” - George Schmidt is a retired Chicago teacher and publishes Substance News It should have been no surprise to...
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Rahm’s walk in the PARCC.
The Chicago Tribune came out busting Rahm and CPS CEO Barbara Byrd Bennett’s chops on the issue delaying the PARCC test. PARCC is the assessment component of the Common Core curriculum Educators know...
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I can’t resist posting this comment about the Tribune and Hinsdale senior...
Chicago Tribune Editorial Board: Learn from Fred! Although this unfair mistreatment of a student took place as far back as the beginning of March, the Trib Board is only now catching up to the story...
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Katrina envy.
In 2010 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was famously quoted as saying that Hurricane Katrina was “the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans.” It was a thoughtless, stupid...
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Disaster-based school reform. Before there was McQueary and Miner there was...
The reaction to the Chicago Tribune’s Kristen McQueary and her op-ed piece hasn’t really died down yet. For those of you who were in Kazahkstan last week and missed it, the hapless McQueary wrote a...
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Chicago Tribune: Teacher compensation is a perk.
It has been just a few days since the Chicago Tribune embarrassed itself by publishing the ghoulish op-ed by Kristen McQueary which called for a devastating natural disaster like Katrina to hit...
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