In the Washington Post Today. Hope it is useful as the midterms get close. washingtonpost.com/education/2018…

You really can’t make this stuff up—its so over the top. But at least this Trump official has found a way for we educators to increase test scores—Its via semen-exposed woman. dailykos.com/stories/2019/1… Were it April 1 I would think it a joke--but its apparently real!

This dog epitomizes my view of McDonald's "food"

#FreeHappy If you've ever seen an elephant family in the wild you would know how cruel it is for this animal to be alone. Change that NOW!

.@NYGovCuomo@NYGovCuomo I support the demands of the 80+ orgs that sent you this letter: bit.ly/PardonShakoure Do the right thing, Governor. Pardon Shakoure. Reunite him with his family in Queens #FreeShakoure

“People will believe anything you say about public schools as long as it’s bad” (Gerald Bracey, 2009, Education Hell: Rhetoric Versus Reality).

My Bunkum award for 2016: nepc.colorado.edu/think-tank/bun…

A recent blog of mine about American schools: niusileadscape.org/bl/the-purport…

My thoughts about teachers’ unions and solidarity, written this past May Day: journals.library.csuci.edu/ojs/index.php/…

Spanish version of thoughts about teacher unions, written this past May Day: journals.library.csuci.edu/ojs/index.php/…

Diane Ravitch recently published a comment of mine about our recent PIRLS scores--the international reading test. If interested you can read it at dianeravitch.net/?s=Berliner

Hear! Hear! x.com/GeneVGlass/sta…

It is way past time. Between now and May 1st teachers have to agree on the gun legislation they want. They can consult with Giffords and Kelly, and others who have suffered, such as the parents who have already lost children to these horrible events typical of our culture.

If by May 1st they have not received assurance that their legislation for sanity in gun ownership will be acted on soon, they need to walk out of our schools. It would be May Day, when workers should exert their strength!

Our country’s legislators, and the voters who send them to make our laws, can then choose: Teachers and (most) parents for sane gun laws, or, the NRA that provides our legislators money to avoid making the laws that could reduce the carnage we see too frequently.

Almost all of America’s 3 million teachers— nurturers and guardians of our youth-- want sensible gun laws. They deserve that. But they have to be ready to exert the power they have by walking out of their schools if they do not get what they want.

They have to exert the reputational power that 3 million of our most admired voters have. Neither the NRA nor their legislative puppets will be able stand up to that.

My advice is to start meeting now, write model legislation, submit it to state and federal legislators, and if rebuffed, close down our schools until you get what you (and the rest of us) deserve.

Just made a donation to ME4AZ 2017 mitziepstein.com/donate_stripe?…

My co-authored letter in the Washington post : washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sh…