Equity or Excellence/ New York...
Equity or Excellence. Pick one, because according to the New York Post, when it comes to education, you can’t have...
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Ron Isaac’s Commentary: ...
It’s all the rage in education circles and beyond. Should the competitive admission test entrance requirements for the...
read moreRon Isaac’s: Tests as Fi...
The State Education Department leads by example. Last week it was the virtue of recycling. They feel it works for them. After all,...
read moreBob McManus: Latest Secretion
There’s a place in the Guinness Book of Records awaiting Bob McManus, of the New York Post. His streak is among the...
read moreProfessional Development: UFT ...
The new state budget is “the best the children of New York City have had in years,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew ...
read moreThe Lost Discord: the Moribund...
Do high schools still have debating teams? Perhaps in name only, as most combat sports are forbidden, and debating would be the...
read moreTabloid Pyrite
The New York Post is a goldmine for education stories. Fools gold. Its investigative reports glisten with malice and...
read moreRon Isaac’s Budgetcrats ...
“What’s not to love in this budget?” many school principals have asked. But often they speak too...
read moreRon Isaac’s Charter Scho...
The New York Post, which cannot present straight education-related stories without a slant, laments that the “charter school...
read moreDo Yourself a Favor by Doing M...
Brooklyn Borough President and mayoral candidate Eric Adams was accused of deliberately violating the Department of Education’s...
read moreStrike of Columbia University&...
The “Ides of March” ( March 15) is notable for two momentous events. The first one, the assassination of Julius...
read moreThe Pronoun Wars
“Mommie Dearest”? That’s the title of a book about actress Joan Crawford written by her adopted...
read moreKeep Your Distance!
Alternate side of the street will go into effect tomorrow, Milky Way time. The signs are up and enforcement personnel are...
read morePocket Change
Nine-tenths of a billion dollars is not pocket change, even for New York City. So those pockets ought to be well-stitched to...
read moreThe Children’s Rescue pl...
“Education advocates”, which as legitimately defined, is limited to public school supporters. The term does not...
read moreStrike of Columbia University&...
The “Ides of March” ( March 15) is notable for two momentous events. The first one, the assassination of Julius Caesar,...
read moreDr. Seuss: Toss Him?
The rage over the partial expungement of Dr. Seuss’s literary oeuvre is due not only to their intrinsic content, but also to...
read moreState Sen. Brouk’s Propo...
What they know won’t hurt them? Or what they don’t know will hurt them? Perhaps what they know will hurt them? Maybe...
read moreAn Economics Lesson?
Like a famished wolverine over a shank of elk, the New York Post’s cover featured what to them was a story equally...
read moreDeliberately Belated Commentar...
It’s March 4th. Black History Month ended three days ago. I deliberately “forgot” to make this commentary timely....
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