Upcoming Events
Tue., Sep. 16, 2008DFER Happy Hour with Chris Gabrieli
Join us for a special evening with Chris Gabrieli, co-chair of the National Center on Time and Learning.
Location: Galway Hooker, 7 E. 36th St., Manhattan, NYC
When: 6:30 PM
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Tue., Sep. 23, 2008
Education BBQ With Stig and DeShawn
Reforming public education, one hamburger at a time. Join us for an evening with Stig Leschly and DeShawn Wright, of the Newark Charter School Fund.
Location: Home of Ken Hirsh, 114 W. 13th St., NYC
When: 7:00 PM
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Thu., Sep. 25, 2008
Kevin Johnson Night
Join us for this special event for former Phoenix Sun's star Kevin Johnson, candidate for Mayor of Sacramento, Calif.
Location: The home of Brian Zied, 188 E. 64th St., Apt. 3501, NYC
When: 7:00 PM
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Thu., Oct. 16, 2008
Ed BBQ With Zeke Vanderhoek
Reforming public education, one hamburger at a time. Join us for an evening with Zeke Vanderhoek, founder of the Equity Project Charter School.
Location: Home of Ken Hirsh, 114 W. 13th St., NYC
When: 7:00 PM
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November 30, 2007
Must Be Slow At Disneyland
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This post is based on facts which turned out to be completely bogus, and a mea culpa is posted here. I apologize for believing what I read on the official United Federation of Teachers blog by its Vice President. On behalf of DFER, I wish to apologize to cartoon characters everywhere for falling for the union's smear campaign.
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The UFT's Leo Casey has an amazing post over at EdWize about the decision that some thin-skinned Disney exec apparently made to deliberately remove Leo's name from the American Teacher Awards honor roll.
Leo, who won one of the awards for social studies in 1992, irked the Disney brass by organizing a public letter critical of ABC-TV's sponsorship of John Stossel's Stupid In America, which was very critical of the teacher unions.
How petty. Forget for a moment that the unions nationwide ended up providing a uniquely viral platform by which their collective anger effectively "promoted" the program to the average American who had never heard of it, this is just stupid.
If this is really a battle between Disney and Leo Casey, I have to say Casey wins hands down. What a stupid decision.
