Randi Weingarten was elected president of the American Federation of Teachers in Chicago on July 14, 2008. The following is an excerpt from her acceptance speech.
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July 15th, 2008
Randi Weingarten Elected AFT President
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March 4th, 2008
Common Core
I recently joined a new organization called Common Core, which will advocate for the subjects neglected by the federal law called No Child Left Behind as well as by the pending legislation intended to promote the so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
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February 8th, 2008
Where It’s At
When I was in graduate school at Teachers College (a few years before the Web), Ernest Rothkopf introduced us to an interesting framework for thinking about the settings where education takes place, in the context of considering when educational technologies should be used -- he divided them up into informal settings like museums or public television stations (the “arcade”); formal educational settings like schools (“contract”); and training programs in the military and businesses (“closed”).
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