HOW TO READ SUBSTANCENEWS.NET... New readers navigation guide
Our readers are increasing, and we are hearing from more and more people as people interested in the resistance to corporate "school reform" around the USA and especially in Chicago increase. We have a few procedures and a few simple rules that our readers need to know to navigate substancenews.net.
Our HOME PAGE is the first thing we need to share about.
It's like a Russian novel -- very long, and it could go on forever and ever. We begin each Home Page on the first day of the month and update it daily. The Substance monthly Home Page increases "content" over the month, with the most recent day at the top, and the days streaming "backwards" to the first day of the month. At that point, we "flip the chapter" and a new Home Page, dated the new month, begins.
To find any news or analysis from previous months, you need to go to BACK ISSUES and type in that month. For example, anyone who wants to read substancenews.net reports about the build up to the Chicago Teachers Strike of 2012 can go to any month from 2012 and find our stories. The Substance coverage of the May 23 Auditorium Theatre rally, and the following march, can still be found in May 2012. Our coverage of the pre-strike meetings can be found especially in August and early September 2012.
And of course the strike coverage can be found massively in September 2012.
The current Substance website went "live" in 2007 and has been updated every day since then. Prior to 2007, we were at another Web address, during the early years of our ability to be on the Web: www.substancenews.com. That address still exists, and readers can find our materials from February 2002 through late 2006 at that site.
Substance has no Web presence prior to 2002. We were in print before that, but haven't had the resources to put our stories and analyses on the Web. If someone provides the resources, we will put the entire content -- all the way back to 1976 -- at substancenews.net.
COMMENTS. Substance has rules for Comments that are different from other Web activities. Most blogs allow comments to be anonymous. We don't. People who want to comment to substancenews.net must provide us with their first and last names and with an accurate email address. Whenever we get an anonymous comment, we delete it. Whenever we get a comment we suspect may be a pseudonymous troll, we immediately send that person an email and ask for further verification. Usually, those individuals are lying, and their work is also deleted.
The Russian Novel approach may be the best way to get to understand Substance. Tolstoy provided his readers with both "content" and analysis. The difference is that once Mrs. Tolstoy finished re-copying "War and Peace" for the printer, the story went into print.
Substance will continue as long as our reporters report stories.
By: Bernie Eshoo
IB schools -- should principals reapply too for their jobs to go 'wall to wall'?
(directly copied Lincoln Park HS Performance Evaluation)--"Effective Leadership ...Does the leadership focus on results and school improvement?" Rating ... "WEAK" Question - LP is becoming a wall to wall IB school, if some teachers have to reapply for their jobs, why isn't Principal Boraz mandated to reapply??? Clearly Mr. Boraz did not receive a acceptable rating.