What’s a “good teacher”? Do tenure protections prevent schools from removing “bad” teachers? What forms of evaluation help students and teachers? And just how broken
Category: Teachers Unions
Teaching and Learning, Tenure and Due Process
Laura Fuchs, a teacher with seven years experience at one of the more challenging high schools in the DC Public School system, joined the Education
Testing Disruptions and “Course Correction”
A reading coach in Orange County, Florida has been keeping track of how often students are pulled out of English class for district- and state-wide-testing.
Investigation, Evalution Re-Evaluation, Possible Class-Action Suit in Store for WTU
Washington Teachers Union president Liz Davis told the Education Town Hall that a class-action suit is among the possible responses to errors in calculating teachers’
Big City Schools News and Big Grant for School Vouchers
Parents, Teachers Celebrate Fariña as New York City Schools Chancellor On Monday, Bill de Blasio, newly elected mayor of New York City, announced his choice
inBloom, Bill Gates, and the New York Regents
Chicago Public Schools decided last week against adopting inBloom, a secure cloud system for student data. (See Sun Time report.) While Illinois remains one of
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