John King

Here's How New York City's New Teacher Evaluation System Works

There was the drama and the mayoral temper tantrum. There were numerous missed deadlines, negotiation room walk-outs, separate plans, fed-up union members and, in the end, threats of intervention on behalf of Governor Andrew Cuomo and state education chief John King. Now, months later, after sacrifi ... More >>

Gov. Cuomo Has Decided: The State Will Take Over Teacher Evaluations

Looks like State Education Commissioner John King wasn't kidding. Yesterday, the Associated Press was informed by an anonymous Cuomo administration official that, in his 30-day budget amendments coming up this week, the governor will position Albany to be the central arbiter of a still-not-disclose ... More >>

State Ed Head John King Is Not Waiting Any Longer For A Teacher Evaluations Deal

But can you really blame him? After the collapse in talks between the Mayor's Department of Education and the UFT last month, Albany went ahead and extended the deadline for yet another month for the City (and other areas - it's just not us!) to come to some sort of agreement on teacher evaluations ... More >>

Sex Mad: Why the Rightblogger Obsession With Ladyparts Never Ends

With all the recent women's health controversies -- Komen/Planned Parenthood, contraception in Catholic hospitals, and Virginia's plan to wand women who want abortions -- and their potential to steer women's votes away from Republicans, you'd think conservatives would prefer to get back to talking a ... More >>

Evaluate Teachers? Let Students Also Do It

Governor Cuomo has political capital—why waste it on more reliance on standardized testing?

Ally Ally Alinsky! Rightbloggers See Saul Alinsky Everywhere -- Even Among Themselves

Now that Newt Gingrich, newly amplified as a Presidential candidate, is regularly using Saul Alinsky as a club to beat Obama, the conservative obsession with long-dead community organizer has gone bigtime. Perhaps overexcited by this new opportunity to lecture America about one more thing that they ... More >>

Rightbloggers Herald the Rise of Our Next President, Michele Bachmann. (Or Some Guy Who Isn't Running.)

In the future, everyone will be a serious Republican Presidential candidate for 15 minutes. We're close to that now. Last Monday several GOP contenders for the big job debated in New Hampshire, and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's relatively lulu-free performance appears to have pushed he ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead [BREAKING]

​CNN is confirming that Osama Bin Laden is dead. More to come when President Obama speaks at the White House in the next 5-10 minutes. UPDATE 10:56 P.M.: From Fox News' website. "Usama Bin Landen Dead Fox News Confrims." For real: ​ UPDATE 11:03 P.M.: CNN is reporting that the Pres ... More >>

The Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Long Goodbye

A stop at the Joyce Theater for the Legacy Tour

For Those Who Gripe That TV Anchors' Private Lives Should Not Be Discussed...

​...And that such people need to stay cloaked in privacy in order to do their jobs... ..why aren't you screaming bloody murder over this item?

The Choreography Carnival -- Soloists and Companies Entice You to Fall for Dance

Body Power

Performers counter anomie with dire athletics

English as a Second Language

From 'Memoirs of a Geisha' to Gwen Stefani's Harujuku Girls, Asians get lost in translation

The Fresh and the Stale

Merce Cunningham keeps ahead of the times; Cuba's National Ballet fancies up tradition

Tripping Down Memory Lane

'Total Recall' the GOP Motto? Not for Rice and Powell

Good Things in Black Boxes

Humanity in Geometry, Hell in Miami, and Dancing With Shadows

Theater

Music

The Trouble With Harry

Pataki’s Wannabe Cop Gets Nailed

Polishing Up History