Layoffs hit hardest in L.A.'s most troubled neighborhoods

It's a familiar California refrain. Roughly 2,500 teachers in Los Angeles were informed they might not be returning to...

Forum on Teacher Retirement Benefits

WHAT: A forum sponsored by REL Southwest (Regional Educational Laboratory at Edvance Research) featuring professors Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky,...

Fear and loathing in the nation's school districts

by Kate Walsh A few weeks ago NCTQ released the first of many planned reports looking at a district's teacher...

Massachusetts takes it on the chin again for upping teacher standards

Once again, Massachusetts, the leader among states in education reform, is the target of potshots as it implements rigorous teacher...

Real research on the merit of teaching bonuses

How much do recruitment incentives work to attract and retain smart people in the classroom? That's the question explored in...

Stagnant achievement gap not the only worrying trend

ETS has released an update to its 2003 study looking at the nation's progress on the Achievement Gap and there's...

What rabbis can teach about teaching

Since we're largely in the dark about the value of most current modes of teacher preparation, our fingers get to...

A third way: San Diego avoids layoffs through early retirements

In this season of cash-strapped budgets, school districts around the nation are engaging in teacher layoffs. There's no good way...

Classroom vets v. Teach For America: Who do you love the most?

Even as teacher layoffs loom in districts across the nation, Teach For America appears as attractive an option as ever...

Multiple intelligences: no; multiplying intelligence: yes

Richard E. Nisbett's new book, Intelligence and How to Get It, is a good-natured treatment of the explosive topic...

Test scores linked to teachers: New York Assembly chair says no; Dallas says yes

Last year, the New York legislature banned the use of any district's student test scores to decide if a teacher...

Early-career teachers in the spotlight: Q & A with Teach Plus founder Celine Coggins

At the end of last year Celine Coggins was named one of three winners of an "educational entrepreneur" fellowship from...

What a teacher has to do to get fired: We STILL don't know!

Time to close the story on kindergarten teacher Wendy Portillo and we're not too pleased with the outcome. As this chart...

Controversial alt cert route has surprising win in Oklahoma

We were stunned to hear that the Oklahoma House recently approved ABCTE in a unanimous vote. The legislative...

Learning why some children have a hard time learning

We came across a threesome of studies this month that provide a deeper understanding of why some children achieve less...