[UC] Important fraud article, teacher evaluation

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20110501_City_school_s_fast-rising_test_scores.html This is very good reporting for corporate media and raises very important issues. What I hope is becoming more obvious is that the school reform propaganda has always been designed to distract and deceive

[UC] fwd: Found female tabby - 48th & Chester

FOUND Female Cat (48th & Chester, 19143)Date: 2011-04-29, 7:53PM EDTREPLY TO: comm-zrefg-2353900...@craigslist.org Found a female cat with a pink collar (no name tag) in our backyard at 48th & Chester Ave. She is VERY pregnant and I have made an appointment to have her spayed at P.A.W.S. on Grays F

Re: [UC] End of events, Clark Park Secrecy, 01-11

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[UC] post hole digger

Does anyone have a post hole digger that I can borrow for a few days? You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see .

Re: [UC] post hole digger

As the rug said to the floor, don't worry, I've got you covered. Call me and I'll meet you at the back door with it. Rick: 215-748-5788 On May 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Lewis Mellman wrote: > Does anyone have a post hole digger that I can borrow for a few days? > > You are receiving this

Re: [UC] Important fraud article, teacher evaluation

Good stuff. Targeting only the production of higher scores often leads to falsified results. Happens with Scientific Research all the time, funding or publishing biases for "significant" or "optimistic" results . I saw "Waiting for Superman" and the idea about how do you evaluate, seemed a ma

Re: [UC] Important fraud article, teacher evaluation

It IS a major blank. They also ignore research about charter schools not doing better than public schools in the majority of cases. They kind of mention in the film that only 17% of charters did better than public schools, but if you blinked you missed it. The WI report for the charter/voucher s

[UC] This is a hoot!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/01/obama-official-birth-video_n_855945.html Pres. Barack Obama releases even more birth info, I love this man's sense of humor, at White House Correspondents' dinner while Trump watches from audience. Very funny. Another clip says Donald was booed at his a

Re: [UC] Important fraud article, teacher evaluation

On 5/1/2011 11:47 AM, Richard Conrad wrote: It also seemed to me that they downplayed the value of proper funding way too much in the film, decrying "throwing money at the problem". Rick, I didn't see the movie, but read an analysis and it was either covered on Grit TV or Democracy Now. Y

Re: [UC] Important fraud article, teacher evaluation

On 5/1/2011 12:48 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote: My students are burned out and bored from all this testing. With the timetable and the hyper micromanaging of corporate bean counters there isn't enough time to teach other things I.e. civics, social studies, science if you teach in the inner-city.

Re: [UC] Important fraud article, teacher evaluation

Let us not forget that in addition to corporate "philanthropists" promoting charter schools, the public schools must share what sparse funds they have with charter schools. Now after more than ten years of doing this, scoring above most charter schools, cutbacks, pay freezes, personnel cuts, progr

Re: [UC] post hole digger

On May 1, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Lewis Mellman wrote: > Does anyone have a post hole digger that I can borrow for a few days? > --- The West Philly Tool Library has several: http://www.westphillytools.org/tools?title=post+hole&tid=All William H. Magill Block Captain 4400 Chestnut Street mag...@mc

[UC] Re: [UCNeighbors] This is a hoot!

"Trump told the *Wall Street Journal*'s Washington Wirethat he wouldn't be afraid to give President Barack Obama a piece of his mind that evening, should the two have a chance to speak." Let's hope not too big a

[UC] Re: [UCNeighbors] This is a hoot!

How sweet it is, K.T., indeed... Did you notice later that the networks interrupted programming shortly before 11pm, and as a result, preempting the conclusion of Trump's show The Apprentice... so ironically, just minutes before the payoff moments... and then later, after 11pm, the President's