Archive for the ‘LAUSD’ Category
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Deflecting Criticism: When Bad Behavior Trumps Incompetence And Insubordination.
28 Oct 2013Being a parent means witnessing a lot of prima donnish, irascible and irrational behavior. So by virtue of my alter-profession…
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Follow Aquino’s Yellow Brick Road…
16 Sep 2013Last Friday — the 13th, no less — yielded some surprisingly providential news as Superintendent Deasy’s top deputy, Jaime Aquino,…
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Should Common Core Override Common Sense?
12 Sep 2013The latest salvo from federally-forced EdReform, the “Common Core” and its implementation, seems to be branded by a scarcity of…
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But … Magical Thinking Does Not Belong In Classrooms
09 Sep 2013LAUSD’s director of curriculum and instruction, Gerardo Loera, “can’t reiterate enough about the excitement in the field about improved instruction”,…
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“We’re going to find you another job”
06 Mar 2013That’s the directive Kate Anderson has been flinging into every sound bite she can leverage these past weeks. With her…
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For Whom The Vote Tolls
28 Feb 2013I am so frustrated by the school board race in LAUSD4: I just have no idea what is going on…
