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NYC Reads must be enhanced, not ended
Barry Williams / New York Daily News Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is pictured on March 5, 2026. (Barry Williams / New York Daily News) PUBLISHED: August 20, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT In just a few weeks, classroom doors will reopen across New York City. Yet, during a time that should be marked by energy and excitement, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew made headlines in sending a disappointing message to educators, advocates, and families.
If McMahon Really Wants to ‘Invest in Teachers,’ She Should Listen to Them
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter A few weeks ago in Washington, D.C., I sat beside several teachers and watched Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s new education secretary, testify in front of the Senate.
Opinion: If McMahon Really Wants to ‘Invest in Teachers,’ She Should Listen to Them
A few weeks ago in Washington, D.C., I sat beside several teachers and watched Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s new education secretary, testify in front of the Senate. He had already told reporters that “the Department of Education’s a big con job” and he’d “like it to be closed immediately.” He said he wanted McMahon to “put herself out of job” — a comment widely taken to mean he wants her to dissolve the Department of Education.
What We’re Reading this Week: HQIM Edition đź“-
November 16, 2024 Filed under: virtual school — Michael K. Barbour @ 7:37 pm Tags: blended learning, cyber school, education, high school, Highlander Institute, Throughline learning, virtual school An item from a K-12 blended learning organization. What We’re Reading this Week: HQIM Edition We’ve been a professional learning organization for nearly 20 years.
Curriculum Alone Won’t Fix America’s Reading Crisis - Teachers Must Have a Say
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter The first day of school is a time of new beginnings, and few changes loom larger this school year than the fact that districts across the country are overhauling their approach to curriculum selection — fully embracing the science of reading.
New Survey Shows Teachers Want Change. Their Contracts Could Help Make It Happen
Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter An inherently contradictory challenge about my time as a sixth-grade teacher in the Bronx still sticks with me and feels particularly poignant as Teacher Appreciation Month comes to a close: Teachers have been asked to do far too much with far too little while not being supported to maximize their unique talents. This has been the status quo for far too long.
Pond muddies the waters of the mailbox rule
Editor: Mo Bell-Jacobs, J.D. Sec. 7502 sets the standard for timely filing with the IRS of a tax return, refund claim, or other document, as well as timely payment of tax. Pursuant to Sec. 7502(a), a return, claim, or payment is deemed to be filed or paid on the date of the postmark stamped on the envelope in which it was mailed to the required IRS address with sufficient postage, even if it is received after the filing or payment due date. Except as provided in Sec.
Improving schools’ curricula improves learning
Gathered in front of a large group of educators last month, New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks said it best, “we can’t just have a free-for-all.” The free-for-all that the chancellor referred to, during a panel discussion with educators, is New York City’s current process for curricula selection. The city’s current process is an inconsistent, school-by-school approach, that forces many educators to spend their own time and money creating curricula from scratch.
"Ag A" Excels in Economic Impact at Agrellus Proving Ground
The performance of Ag A Adjuvant yielded a high level of effectiveness, at scale, in two separate farming operations.
Agrellus Moves HQ into Texas Tech Innovation Hub at Research Park
Texas Tech Innovation Hub at Research Park Fast growing startup Agrellus moves its Corporate Headquarters into the Texas Tech Innovation Hub at Research Park Agrellus was cofounded by several Texas Tech Alumni as Texas dominance in Cotton and Peanut Ag research continues in West Texas” — Chris Johnson LUBBOCK, TEXAS, USA, February 7, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- AGRELLUS, INC., North America’s Agricultural Marketplace for input solutions influencing over 365,000 farming operations has moved its...
Agrellus Proving Ground for Manufacturers Applauded by Farm Leaders
Agrellus Proving Ground Crop Term Initiative "Single Shot" and "Crop Term" Proving Ground initiatives provide Farm Leaders with much needed, Independently Certified input data It’s not often that a product gets such high praise from the farming community right off the bat.” — Evan Stone LUBBOCK, TEXAS, USA, February 6, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- AGRELLUS, INC., North America’s Agricultural Marketplace for input solutions influencing over 365,000 farming operations continues its launch of...
The Argument for Native Mobile Software Development
MartianCraft Staff MartianCraft has been an iOS-focused design and development agency for well over a decade. We had three apps waiting for approval when the App Store rolled out. So yes, we are biased when it comes to native iOS development, and Swift is our gold standard. With that said, we also understand the appeal of cross-platform development. It can seem like getting something for nothing - two apps from one development process.
Agrellus Marketplace and Farm Leaders Launch Proving Ground for Ag Manufacturers
There were 2,132 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 298,336 in the last 365 days. Proving Ground delivers over 370 data points, harvested to reveal agronomic and economic performance data at farm scale.
Passport revocation as a collection tool
The IRS has announced its intention to increase enforcement. Given the annual tax gap and anticipated federal budget increases, this should come as no surprise. The annual tax gap — the estimated difference between taxes owed and taxes collected — is about $600 billion (Sarin,"The Case for a Robust Attack on the Tax Gap," Treasury website (Sept. 7, 2021)). Tax professionals can expect increased numbers of examinations, deficiency notices, liens, and levies.
SwiftLint Makes for Clean Code and Happy Clients
Last year, I took over the lead development role on a large older app for a MartianCraft client. This app is critical for the client’s business, but through the years, over a dozen different developers had worked on it. Going around the code, you could see the layers of work from different developers in their different coding styles. It was almost like looking at layers of sedimentary rock formed from the features added by different hands.
Removing Mental Blocks
We’ve all been there. Sitting at a desk, staring at a computer display, watching the cursor blink in Xcode. Time feeling like it has come to a standstill. The dreaded mental block. No matter how long we have been developing software, inevitably we all have a mental block from time to time. Sometimes we get past the block easily, but other times we may have to apply specific techniques to help us conquer it. What is a Mental Block? A mental block can manifest itself in various ways.
SEC Proposes Amendments to 13(d) and 13(g) Reporting Requirements – Accelerates Filing Deadlines and Addresses Group Formation Activity
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SEC Proposes Amendments To 13(d) And 13(g) Reporting Requirements – Accelerates Filing Deadlines And Addresses Group Formation Activity - Corporate/Commercial Law - United States
United States: SEC Proposes Amendments To 13(d) And 13(g) Reporting Requirements – Accelerates Filing Deadlines And Addresses Group Formation Activity 17 February 2022 by Evan D. Stone , Peter Fetzer and Irtaza Asif Foley & Lardner Your LinkedIn Connections with the authors To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com.
SEC Proposes Amendments to 13(D) And 13(G) Reporting Requirements – Accelerates Filing Deadlines and Addresses Group Formation Activity | JD Supra
On February 10, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced proposed rule amendments to beneficial ownership reporting requirements under Sections 13(d) and 13(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Proposed Rules”). The Proposed Rules, if adopted, will be of significant consequence to 5%+ owners (alone or in Section 13d “groups”) of public equity securities.
Teachers Are the Best Experts On How to Spend the American Rescue Plan Money
Evan Stone is co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Educators for Excellence. Previously, Evan taught sixth grade in the Bronx, New York, while earning his master's degree in teaching from Pace University. While teaching, Evan helped co-found E4E with colleague, Sydney Morris. Full profile → The American Rescue Plan is sending an additional $128 billion in federal dollars to elementary and secondary schools to help students recover from the difficult year of learning caused by the pandemic.
Evan Stone: Lessons Learned And The Future Of The Commercial Real Estate Industry
I have been trying to decide what I wanted to write about in my first column in many years for D CEO. As I reflect upon this past year, it has been challenging on many levels as we look at old forgotten lessons and new ones that will shape our industry and personal lives well into the future. While much has been written about working from home, the value of the office, and what happens to our industry from now on, I wanted to share my perspectives, too.
The Pandemic Is Exactly Why We Need Standardized Testing
Evan Stone is co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Educators for Excellence. Previously, Evan taught sixth grade in the Bronx, New York, while earning his master's degree in teaching from Pace University. While teaching, Evan helped co-found E4E with colleague, Sydney Morris. Full profile → In the next few weeks, nearly all school districts in the U.S. will offer at least some in-person instruction.
Experts Share Top 10 Predictions on DFW's Commercial Real Estate Market
Following a true Black Swan year, it isn’t easy to predict what 2021 will deliver. We all saw disruption across most sectors, deep job losses, and dramatic changes to how we had done business and operated. Simple things we all took for granted, such as going to work and school each day, were all turned upside down. What follows are our collective views for the coming year.
Analysis: New Survey Shows Teachers Think Cleaning & Ventilation, Smaller Classes and PPE Are More Important than Vaccines for Reopening. But Unions & Districts Aren’t Listening
The most surprising thing about the chaos surrounding school reopening decisions across the country is how little actual teachers have been part of the process.
Taxpayers need to know their limitations
When does the three-year assessment period in Sec. 6501(a) begin? How long does a taxpayer have to file a claim for refund under Sec. 6511(a)? What if a taxpayer has an approved extension to Oct. 15, 2020? What if the Oct. 15, 2020, extension was postponed for a natural disaster? These questions can vex practitioners in a normal year, but in 2020, the IRS postponed the April 15 statutory filing and payment deadline to July 15, 2020 (see Notice 2020-23).
Want to help teachers? Get them the vaccine
By Evan Stone and Sydney Morris New York Daily News | Dec 12, 2020 at 5:00 AM With the FDA set to give final approval for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that health-care workers and nursing home residents receive the first doses. Even with this recommendation, the order of who gets vaccinated will be determined by individual states. Gov.
Driving Across a Socially Distanced America
During COVID-19, what can you do to highlight the changes and needs in our country and communities? Brian Bowen Smith got into his car to drive across America and document this unique time. Reese Witherspoon was an early supporter of Brian Bowen Smith‘s series of socially-distanced portraits of diverse people across America during the COVID-19 quarantine. He has been traveling throughout our country in his 1958 Ford f100 taking thought-provoking and awe-inspiring photographs.
Stone & Morris: This Teacher Appreciation Week, We Need to #SendTeachersLove, Celebrate Them and Listen to Them
Evan Stone is co–chief executive officer and co-founder of Educators for Excellence (E4E). Sydney Morris is co-chief executive officer of Educators for Excellence (E4E).
Stone & Morris: This Teacher Appreciation Week, We Need to #SendTeachersLove, Celebrate Them and Listen to Them
Moving curricula online. Distributing new computers to hundreds of students. Checking in on students and their families and advocating to ensure they have internet access. Finding ways to get meals to students so they don’t go hungry while schools are shuttered. Adjusting to a new reality, while caring for themselves and their own families — educators are doing all this while working to maintain a high bar for instruction and learning.
A fresh start on school discipline isn't optional for underrepresnted students
The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. It’s never been more important to take a new look at how we think about school discipline. We need to shift away from thinking of discipline as the thing you do to punish a student who is acting out or to rein in a chaotic class.
Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge trailer
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We Can Do Better Than Just Thanking Teachers With Free Coffee and Donuts
Evan Stone is co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Educators for Excellence. Previously, Evan taught sixth grade in the Bronx, New York, while earning his master's degree in teaching from Pace University. While teaching, Evan helped co-found E4E with colleague, Sydney Morris. Full profile → Sydney Morris is co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Educators for Excellence. Previously, Sydney taught second and third grade at P.S. 86 with Teach For America in the Bronx, New York.
Perspective | A path forward on school discipline in the shadow of Betsy DeVos’s dismantling of protections
Education Perspective Perspective Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events By Layla Avila, Evan Stone and Cami Anderson January 16 at 6:00 AM As education leaders, we take our commitment to students and families very seriously, not only to provide them with an excellent education that affords them access to the fullest range of life’s opportunities but also to ensure they are emotionally and physically...
SEC Announces Upcoming Roundtable on the Proxy Process
On July 20, 2018, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that it intends to host a roundtable in the fall 2018 to hear from market participants regarding the SEC’s rules governing the proxy process.
Perspective | As unions await a key Supreme Court decision, a simple plea: ‘Educators want their voices heard’
Across the country, frustrated and fed-up teachers have staged school walkouts to demand fair pay and adequate resources for public schools. One common denominator of these public actions: They occurred in states with laws that weaken unions and their ability to collectively bargain for better wages, benefits and working conditions — which, when it comes to public education, are teaching and learning conditions.
Get New York State’s teacher-evaluation law right
Highly skilled educators are critical to providing students with a quality education and opening doors of opportunity for their futures. The state has a fundamental responsibility to improve students’ access to great educators, while supporting teachers to become even more effective.
Evan Stone: DeVos Must Listen to Teachers and Support Students, Not Suspend Them
In a speech two weeks ago, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said she couldn’t think of a single successful Obama or Bush education initiative. I can think of several that this administration has already rescinded or is considering ending. For example, our former president’s guidance to empower districts, schools, and teachers to end our country’s suspension and expulsion pandemic and reduce racial disparities in school discipline.
What Does It Mean to Be in a ‘Good’ School Versus a ‘Bad’ One?
Five years ago, I left a failing school. Having taught in struggling schools for my entire career, the choice was difficult because I left a school that eventually closed, for a high-achieving one. Some people told me I was a sellout. One person said, with good intentions, that my talents would be wasted in this new environment. I didn’t disagree with him. I felt like a sellout, especially because I grew up in poverty.
Lincoln High School Alumni Support Tour - Education Post
Teachers Are Ready to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline But They Need the Trump Administration’s Help 2.6 million. That is the number of children suspended from U.S. public schools in one calendar year—2.6 million. That data, released in 2014 by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for… This Video of Denver DREAMers Challenged Me to Check My Privilege Being the “Type A,” driven overachiever that I am, I tend to be a planner—often, to a fault.
Teachers Are Ready to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline But They Need the Trump Administration's Help
2.6 million. That is the number of children suspended from U.S. public schools in one calendar year—2.6 million. That data, released in 2014 by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, shocked educators and advocates alike.
Rick Hess Straight Up
Note: Sydney Morris and Evan Stone, co-founders and co-CEOs of Educators for Excellence, are guest posting this week. E4E is a national teacher-led organization working to ensure that teachers have a meaningful voice in the creation of policies that impact their classrooms and careers. It was the spring of 2010, and we were two teachers at PS 86, an elementary school in the north Bronx.
News Blog
Elevating educators’ opposition and concerns about the nomination of Betsy DeVos February 2, 2017 By Evan Stone and Sydney Morris Educators for Excellence does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected or appointed office, but we do amplify the positions of our members. More than 91 percent of E4E members oppose Betsy DeVos’ nomination for U.S. Secretary of Education, based on a post-confirmation hearing survey of 743 E4E educators.
How to go deeper in education: Report solutions
In recent years, The Hechinger Report has ramped up its focus on solutions-oriented reporting in education, with the belief that reporting on what’s working can ultimately evoke more change than just focusing on problems.
Students and teachers owe Arne Duncan their thanks for innovation, leadership
For over six years, schools and school children have had a champion in Arne Duncan. Setting aside the political ups and downs that accompany tremendous change and challenging policy debates, Secretary Duncan has demonstrated a strong commitment to education through his longstanding tenure as our U.S. Secretary of Education.
Why new Senate ed bill falls short of LBJ’s “War on Poverty” standard
Last week, when the U.S. Senate passed the Every Child Achieves Act, a bipartisan group of legislators took a step toward ending the nearly decade-long delay in reauthorizing the nation’s seminal education law. As the House and Senate begin committee work to merge their two separate bills into one, we should reflect on the origin of this law and keep sight of its original purpose. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B.
Revise evaluation law with input from parents, teachers
In the education world, there is often little agreement. Indeed, controversy surrounds even the seemingly simple question of how to best teach addition and subtraction. And yet, the recently passed teacher evaluation system has created a rare moment when groups from a variety of perspectives all see eye to eye.
Evan Stone: The teacher evaluation system we deserve
This month, nearly 200,000 New York students opted out of state standardized exams. While the opt-out movement has made a bold statement about the over-emphasis on testing in public education, it won’t and shouldn’t serve as the catalyst to end testing. But it is a cry for help. The key is to focus this energy on how to improve the quality and use of assessments — not to scrap them altogether. The debate about testing is to a large extent a debate about teacher evaluation.
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