The currents of education are turbulent and ever changing. Ask any teacher who’s been in the classroom for a certain numbers of years, and they’ll tell you about all the […]
Read moreAuthor: Brandon Melendez
Brandon is the Editor-in-Chief and President of Maglomaniac and a contributor at Polite on Society. He is the author of the Eat Your Serial title Ten Years Gone: Pomp and Circumstance, as well as several columns at Maglomaniac. Brandon writes about education, politics, pop culture, and the human experience at large.
With No Curriculum Available, Teacher Evaluations Remain on Schedule
This year New York City has rolled out a new evaluation program for Teachers that includes 22 domains and subdomains from a modified version of Charlotte Danielson’s rubric from effective […]
Read moreWalcott Bans 50 Words and the Entire World From Tests
nbsp; As a teacher and a parent there are core philosophical questions that I have to deal with on a daily basis. Paramount among these questions is the one of […]
Read moreDouble Jeopardy For Zimmerman May Be Double Jeopardy For Everyone
Following the unjust verdict in the George Zimmerman case, the Justice Department has toyed with the idea to continue its suspended investigation into the possibility of classifying the crime as […]
Read moreA Protest More Disruptive Than Violence
Recently, at a rally in New York City, the city workers all joined the United Federation of Teachers in an open protest for contracts for Teachers—and indeed all City Workers, […]
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