It’s the annual song of the last day of school right? Only this time it’s not about summer it’s about the budget! Yesterday we were informed by our NYC Schools budget liaison that paper is not a necessity in the classroom. He didn’t really mean that of course but he couldn’t say what the DOE [...]
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No More Paper! No More Books! No More Teachers…
Posted in education, kids, politics, society, tagged budget cuts, Common Core Standards, Common Core State Standards Initiative, Education, Educators, nyc public schools on June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Why Aren’t Parents Rioting in the Streets?
Posted in education, politics, rant, society, tagged charter schools, Education, egypt, for-profit school, joel klein, new york city, nyc public schools, parenting, Private school, PTA, riots on February 2, 2011 | 45 Comments »
This is the question an educator asked me yesterday. A private school educator in New York City. We were among over 200 people invited to Barry Diller’s IAC headquarters in Chelsea to have lunch and listen to the presentation for a brand new private school in Manhattan called Avenues The World Schools. I wasn’t invited [...]
Parental Involvement in Schools – How Thomas Friedman Missed the Point
Posted in education, family, life in nyc, parenting, politics, rant, society, tagged public school, budget cuts, Education, family, new york times, nyc public schools, PTA, Thomas Friedman, education reform, parental involvement on November 28, 2010 | 7 Comments »
This past week Thomas Friedman wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times, U.S.G and P.T.A, about parental involvement making a difference in student achievement. When I first read the article I yawned. Tell me something I don’t know. Kids do better when parents are involved? Of course. Kids do better when parents lay down [...]
Look Out Ahead: Too Many Kids, Too Few Schools : Westside Independent
Posted in education, kids, life in nyc, parenting, westside independent column, tagged Education, nyc public schools, parenting, raising kids in the city, upper west side on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Look Out Ahead: Too Many Kids, Too Few Schools : Westside Independent I’m up on my virtual soapbox. How bad is the school overcrowding situation on the Upper West Side? Check out my latest parenting column in the Westside Independent.
It’s All About the Teacher
Posted in education, kids, life in nyc, parenting, tagged Education, nyc public schools, parenting, teacher apprecation day, teaching on May 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week. I’m sure there’s a Hallmark card out there for it, but the only reason I know about it is through the various teachers and educators I follow on twitter. (Those tech minded teachers are a very chatty and resourceful bunch!) It’s funny to me that Teacher Appreciation Week is [...]
My Daughters are Poets (and now everyone knows it)
Posted in books, education, kids, life in nyc, tagged children's books, nyc public schools, parenting, poetry, twins on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I don’t usually publicly brag about my daughters but I am making an exception for this. Thursday, April 29th was Poem in Your Pocket Day in NYC. All the children in my daughters’ school carried poems in their pockets and read them aloud to each other, to teachers, to administrators and to whomever would listen. [...]
The Sex Talk? There’s No App For That
Posted in books, education, kids, life in nyc, parenting, politics, review, tagged children's books, children's health, family, kids, nyc public schools, parenting, planned parenthood, puberty, sex, sex education, sex talk on April 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“Mommy, what happens if you’re pregnant and you don’t want to keep the baby?” This is the question my seven year-old daughter asked me first thing on a Monday morning a few weeks ago. It took me a minute to rouse my brain and get my head around what she was asking while the sun [...]
City Parenting, Stereotypes, and The New York Times : Westside Independent
Posted in kids, life in nyc, parenting, westside independent column, tagged new york times, nyc public schools, parenting, raising kids in the city, upper west side on April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Why does everyone pick on us Upper West Side moms? My latest parenting column at the Westside Independent. City Parenting, Stereotypes, and The New York Times : Westside Independent
I am one of THOSE PTA moms – and Proud of It!
Posted in life in nyc, nyc moms post, politics, Y! Motherboard, tagged charity, Education, nyc public schools, parenting, PTA, raising twins on March 2, 2010 | 16 Comments »
In the last few months I’ve read several blog posts railing against the PTA moms at various schools. The complaints are usually the same – they’re overbearing and pushy, busy bodies trying to vie for the principal or teacher’s attention, do-gooders who get off on making the rest of the parents feel bad. Yeah, yeah. [...]
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