March on Wall Street to Oppose Bloomberg's Mass Teacher Firings. Share Mayor Bloomberg announced Friday that he intends to eliminate 4,100 teaching jobs through layoffs and another 2,000 through attrition.
In response, a broad coalition of students, unions and activist groups have planned a May 12 march on Wall Street to demand the big banks and millionaires start paying their fair share during these times of economic crisis. “There is no revenue crisis; there is an inequality crisis,” On May 12’s organizers said in a written statement. “The Big Banks that crashed our economy, destroyed jobs, caused millions to lose their homes, and bankrupted city and state budgets, are reaping record profits—and yet they are refusing to pay their fair share of what it will take to rebuild our economy. From Wisconsin to Wall Street people are fighting back! The event website features videos from participants who explain why they'll be taking part in the march. THE MARCH ON WALL STREET - #ONMAY12. LRB · Howard Hotson · Don’t Look to the Ivy League.
At the heart of the Browne Report and the government’s higher education policy is a simple notion allegedly grounded in economics: that the introduction of market forces into the higher education sector will simultaneously drive up standards and drive down prices.
City prepares to spend nearly $1 billion on education consultants as it fires 4,100 teachers. Aaron Showalter for News Parents and students rallied in support of New York City schools on Thursday afternoon in lower Manhattan.
The city plans to lay off 4,100 teachers this year, and $1 billion on consultants. As the city prepares to lay off 4,100 teachers, the Department of Education is planning to spend nearly $1 billion on consultants next school year, a new analysis shows. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer blasted the agency's budget as a "black hole" and took issue with the 6% increase on consultants, after his office pored over the latest budget documents. "There are a whole lot of troubling increases that have nothing to do with spending money in the classrooms," said Stringer, noting the city's plans to lay off teachers was "political gamesmanship" and the "solution" may lie in the $20 billion Education Department budget.
March On Wall Street: Thousands Of Teachers, Advocates Rally Against Bloomberg Cuts (PHOTOS) Thousands of teachers, social workers, union members and more took part in a march Thursday against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans for wide-ranging budget cuts -- and against the Wall Street bankers they blame for the city's budget woes.
Activists reported that the NYPD had arrested several marchers, but the demonstration took on a mostly joyful cast, with colorful signs, raucous chants and even a stilt-walker. The May 12 Coalition's organizers promised a big turnout of more than 10,000 marchers, and while immediately pinning down the crowd's size proved difficult, at least that number turned out. Demonstrators from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) alone, which faces more than 4,000 teacher cuts if Bloomberg's budget is enacted as is, numbered in the thousands. Rev. Al Sharpton, UFT President Michael Mulgrew and an array of city councilmembers and state elected officials laid the blame for the budget cuts squarely at Bloomberg and Wall Street's feet. Teachers March on Wall Street to Protest Bloomberg Cuts. Myron Miner on the Chicago Public Schools and Producerism.
This week the Illinois Chapter of Last Stand for Children First joined students across the state in celebrating historic legislation that is now only awaiting the Governor's signature.
SB7 will finally free school children from the threat of teachers unions complaining about having too many students in classrooms or going on strike--a problem that has plagued the Chicago Public Schools since their last strike in 1987. I am not going to write about SB7 though, enough reformers are lauding it already. Instead, I am going to look at an exciting new trend coming out of Chicago that I am referring to as the Bialystock Method or Producerism. The Producers (1968 film) The Producers is a 1968 American satirical dark comedy cult classic film written and directed by Mel Brooks.
The film is set in the late 1960s and it tells the story of a theatrical producer and an accountant who want to produce a sure-fire Broadway flop. They take more money from investors than they can repay (the shares they've sold total more than 100% of any profits) and plan to abscond to Brazil as soon as the play closes, only to see the plan improbably go awry when the show turns out to be a hit.
The film stars Zero Mostel as Max Bialystock, the producer, and Gene Wilder as Leo Bloom, the accountant, and features Dick Shawn as L.S.D., the actor who ends up playing the lead in the musical within the movie, and Kenneth Mars as the former Nazi soldier and playwright, Franz Liebkind. The Producers (1968) trailer. PERSBERICHT @ISObestuur. Journalism Primary Sources: Rosen and Shirky, Part 5. A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part 2 - Advice.
The Guardian Project: Building Mobile Security for a Dangerous World. Guardian Project founder Nathan Freitas; photo by Nancy Scola.
Ethan Zuckerman points out the ironic difficulty of the situation. "Mobiles are both utterly essential devices for activists," explains the senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, "and ones that are profoundly unsafe for activists to use. " Unsafe how? Cell phones and other mobile devices are trackable, monitorable, and in some countries, often tied to the real-life identities of their users. Capturing protests in Egypt's Tahrir Square on a (non-Android) Nokia phone; photo credit: darkroom productions. Activiteiten > Dukenburg Dinoburg - Winkelcentrum Dukenburg Nijmegen. Folia: 'Boete langstudeerders onrechtmatig' Welkom bij de AOb. De Nationale Onderwijsgids - voorpagina. Nat. Onderwijs Gids (Onderwijsgids) Tying High-School Diplomas to College Applications - Head Count. Hopes and wishes won’t get more students to attend college.
Oregon House approves bill adding college application requirement to high school diploma. SALEM -- Oregon students may soon need to submit a college application in order to get their high school diploma.
Beaverton Democrat Rep. Tobias Read sponsored the idea, saying the proposal is one way to increase education levels in Oregon within the state's current budget constraints. Amsterdam op weg naar één universiteit. Vervoerders zijn klaar met bedrijf achter chipkaart. Stichting Collectieve Actie Universiteiten. Juridische strijd om tweede master. TV - Voor studenten, door studenten » Blog Archive » Interview STCAU omtrent ‘bombrief’ aan universiteiten. Studenten verklaren universiteiten de oorlog. Truth is our profession. Malcolm Gillies discusses the reality of university reputation Nothing could have been more prophetic than Times Higher Education’s piece on “Eastern eminence” in its cover story on the World Reputation Rankings (“The name says it all”, 10 March).
Featuring an illustration of a University of Tokyo building riding atop Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa, it preceded by one day the real thing, when some Japanese universities a little north of Kanagawa did indeed ride a great wave to destruction. The surfeit of baleful news from around the world these past few weeks reminds us why universities are here and what is most important about them. Culminating THE’s exploration of brand values, virtues and vices - with Harvard University coming between Coca-Cola and Pepsi in brand value and worth more than 10 times the University of Oxford - the article’s general conclusion is that there are “only a handful of globally recognised brands in higher education”.
List of Corporate Social Media Strategists, Corporate Community Managers in 2010. Nieuws - ‘Plannen Zijlstra zijn oude afspraken’ De mediagebruiker in 2015. Hong Kong Venue for British Council's Conference Reflects Shifting Trends in Education - International. By Aisha Labi Hong Kong Going Global, the British Council's annual higher-education conference, drew more than 1,000 participants here last week from nearly 70 countries, with a concentration of delegates from Asia, and focused on such topics as efforts to establish regional education hubs, the impact of transnational education, the influence of international rankings, and enhancing the experience of international students. The myth of the ‘superteacher’ - The Answer Sheet. This was written by educator Anthony Cody, who taught science for 18 years in inner-city Oakland and now works with a team of science teacher-coaches that supports novice teachers.
He is a National Board-certified teacher and an active member of the Teacher Leaders Network. This post appeared on his Education Week Teacher blog, Living in Dialogue. Andrew Blair: @carllygo too many HE seni... Greg Lukianoff: The 12 Worst Colleges For Free Speech. Dubbelstudent wordt vanzelf braaf. Violent demonstrators: "We are not UK Uncut"
There have been many stories in the press over the past 24 hours suggesting some sort of link between the excellent UK Uncut and the violent actions in London on Saturday 26th March. Negen trekkers voor innovatie. POWned: Langstudeerboete onrechtmatig. Havana: 'Boete langstudeerders onrechtmatig' The Communication Paradox. Remember The West Wing, the cult TV series? Its last episodes describe the end of President Jed Bartlet’s term and portray his Chief of Staff and former Press Secretary, C.J. Craig, deluged with job offers as she struggles with the emotions of leaving her beloved President. Emissaries of Fortune 500 corporations, CEOs of fictitious tech companies, heads of NGOs are all making the trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with high six-figure contracts in hand. Corporate tax cuts don't spur growth, analysis reveals as election pledges fly.
ATL. Association of Teachers and Lecturers: the education union. Head teachers' union joins fight to save pensions with boycott threat - Education News, Education. NUT : National Union of Teachers - The largest fully qualified primary and secondary education union. KSU: EventMay 11th: Quality Measurement in Higher Education. Jara Gomez, F.I. (Fabiola) - Medewerker pagina Universiteit Utrecht. Christian Bröer - dr. C. (Christian Bröer) Broer. K.U.Leuven wie-is-wie. Politiek geschokt en boos over wantoestanden hbo - Bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. ‘Minder topverdieners NPO’ HBO-accreditatie: een wassen neus. European students deliver joint statement on future EU education.
FSA Congres. FSA Congres. FSA Conference (FSAcongres2011) sur Twitter. FSA Conference. 5828. 2011 College Commencement Speakers. Bad Education. De etui van het geweten. Excellente student gehuldigd door Zijlstra. Student Avery Doninger looses free speech battle after calling school officials 'douchebags' in online rant. Failing universities face being taken over by private companies. Martha Nussbaum Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. The silent crisis(pdf) ch1 NOT for profit Nussbaum. University of Chicago Law School. Welkom bij PiCarta, het startpunt voor toegang tot de NCC en andere bestanden. Amazon.co. Met Sensor naar het bal!
School Funding Deception Alert! (in a CAN) promovendi voeren actie voor salaris. Facebook's Growing Role in Social Journalism. Matt Blaze: Shaking Down Science. Dedicated to restoring our government to citizen control. British Press Awards. UK universities could learn a lot from Europe. Kamer wil toelichting De Jager. How We’re Financing Meaningful Journalism « Knight Garage. News in the Interstices: The niches of mobile media in space and time. Charter school's $125K experiment - 60 Minutes. The Future of Higher Education.
The Future of Higher Education. OCW stuurt HO ouderwets. Veerman, the Movie. CHEPS Center for Higher Education Studies. DE WETTEN (50 jaar onderwijsvernieuwing) UK: Zijlstra uni's vegen alles op een berg. In Wisconsin, Koch Brothers Have Much More to Gain than Power Plants. Investing in news innovation in Europe. Culturele adviezen voor Halbe Zijlstra.