Diane Ravitch's piece is so essential I'm reluctant to excerpt from it at all. But these key points stand out to me: The new evaluation system pretends to be balanced, but it is not. Teachers will be ranked on a scale of 1-100. Teachers will...
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The blog over at the LSE, British Politics and Policy at LSE, has an interesting post on the relationship between teacher pay and educational attainment outcomes. A fuller summary of the.
I thought everyone might need their feelings reassured for Thanksgiving. Luckily, the Denver Westword has provided us with some extra-special classroom posters from 1973. Now, let's all gather around and.
Yglesias thinks I said something that I didn't in my post from earlier on school reform: Erik Loomis stands up for teachers by asserting that their professional skills are irrelevant to poor children: ... If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times....
In this amusing article naming Tom Friedman "The Bard of the 1%," the real kicker is the last paragraph: It is also worth noting that Friedman implies that the Chicago.
Very possibly, your next senator from the state of Montana: This time around, Rehberg set his sights a little lower down the educational ladder. On a tour of a Montana.
It's possible that some education "reformers" really do care about improving childhood education. But many of them care about union-busting much, much more.
Given the massive attack by conservatives on teaching U.S. history (particularly with the Texas textbooks), I am very pleased to hear of Jerry Brown signing a bill ordering the teaching.
Dana Goldstein: I recently picked up Ross Perlin's "Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy." The book is a scathing critique of intern culture,.
Comparative lessons. It's also worth remembering that one of the things these countries don't do is fire lots of teachers based on extensive standardized testing and hope a whole bunch of good teachers magically show up to replace them.
Would saying that her reputation is an utter fraud too strong? Perhaps, but I'm tempted to say it anyway. It's amazing how much you can get out of bashing teacher's.
My friend Ken Sherrill sends along the following note: Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on.