Some New Links for Spring

It’s been months since I overhauled the blogroll. In the interim I’ve probably added and deleted without notice, which is not good.

Anyhow, here are some that I either just added, or added and think I forgot to mention. If I missed you, let me know:

• Tanya Khovanova. She knows math (for real) and has a great sense of what puzzles should do. She also reduces my degree of separation from Israel Gelfand by 1 (her advisor). The variety and playfulness of the puzzles, but from a serious perspective, those are the main selling point. Spend time in the archives, very rich.
• The Washington Teacher. Candi is a Building Rep (that would be Chapter Leader in NYC), a delegate, and a Trustee in the Washington Federation of Teachers. She’s active, she’s very critical of the WFT president, but Rhee is her main target. I don’t know enough details on the ground to have a sense of how much I agree, but I recognize and appreciate the activism and the tone.
• The Frustrated Teacher. Education, Politics, Humor. Generally progressive. From San Francisco.
• Nick Hershman at Divide by Zero. I usually don’t go in strong for web-too-oh guys, but Nick, against form, takes the math seriously as well. We should have more reflective math teachers blogging…
• Mr. D writes Mr. D’s Neighborhood. Sharply written, new(ish?) Bronx Teaching Fellow. History. New, as of a month or so ago. Lots of potential. Take a look.
• Vlorbik shut down, and moved to Community College Calculus. Let’s see where that leads…

Also, an individual post worth pointing out:

• Joel’s 20 Blogs I wish were around when I started teaching. He includes me! But there’s 19 more to look at. So you want to teach is a nice source of general advice, and then very specific band teacher stuff.

Lately I’ve been much liking (this list should look familiar!):

• Math Notations, Kate(t), and 360 for math teaching and math fun
• Jose and Fred for laying down a political/educational bassline/theme
• NYC Public School Parents for dredging up the muck in NYC Ed politics, with an agenda I feel comfortable with. (and yes, that’s a knock on any blog site that thinks it is possible not to have an agenda, and that considers passing slips of paper to be worth five stories if the slips are white, come from a union, and have questions on them but to be worth zero (0) stories if the slips are green with Ben Franklin on them, go from the mayor to a chancellor to a former chancellor and are then used to secretly purchase a celebrity endorsement.)

Finally, a story that you should read somewhere, doesn’t really matter where, Bloomberg is recruiting student interns for his next campaign in the schools. Just in case you hadn’t noticed that his power was going largely unchecked….