Michelle Rhee Kicking Ass Taking Names

July 24, 2010 by 7 Comments


Looks like our school Chancellor,  Michelle Rhee supported by Mayor Fenty are gone in a firing rampage. They are about to fire 241 teachers who did not meet standards set forth by a new district-wide evaluation system.

The new system, known as IMPACT, for the first time ties D.C. teachers’ job performance to their students’ performance on standardized tests.

According to a statement on the D.C. Public Schools website, IMPACT “seeks to create a culture in which all school-based personnel have a clear understanding of what defines excellence in their work, are provided with constructive and data-based feedback about their performance, and receive support to increase their effectiveness.” Read more of this post

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Can we continue living without the Social Media ever again?

June 7, 2010 by 5 Comments


Either I have a lot of catching up to do with this  Social media thing or these guys – Scott Heiferman (CEO of Meetup), Chris Hughes (Executive Director at Jumo) and Reshma Saujani, Congressional Candidate for the 14th district in New York, are on dope? The things they are saying at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt conference in the clip below,  makes you feel we are nothing without the social media anymore.  Do they make sense? or I am way behind the social media phenomena?  :-(

Back in the day before the Internet…long before “social media”…people WERE ENGAGED in real world activities. We didn’t NEED social media to help us along. Read more of this post

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