We're not afraid of 60 Minutes! Battling back on their take on pension plans

"60 Minutes" raised fears about newly threadbare retirements with a piece this month entitled "401K Recession". While the title...

What we're all learning about collective bargaining

The five finalists' papers from NCTQ's first national research competition on collective bargaining, culminating at a March 26 conference held...

Think the uniform salary schedule is uniform? Think again.

Education Sector's latest chart you can trust looks at the salary structures in some of the nation's...

Unions agree with Obama except when they don't

After eight years of opposing education plans out of the Executive Office, teachers' unions are facing a new and harder...

...And the winner is! NCTQ collective bargaining conference

Congratulations to the winners of NCTQ's Tr3 research competition: Kristine Lamm West and Elton Mykerezi from the University of Minnesota Twin...

Pensions bring discord to Music City

Teacher pensions may not be the topic of the next Taylor Swift Billboard topper, but those-in-the-know thought the topic was...

Union tussles in Rhode Island and West Virginia

East Providence, Rhode Island, school board members are exhibiting more chutzpah than Wall Street executives. Board members in the...

Hawaii: Where so much is wrong, is anyone doing it right?

It's hard to state this delicately. Apparently, the professional board charged with licensing Hawaii's new and existing teachers ... stinks....

Teacher preparation: Defending what can't be defended?

Nobody has ever claimed it would be easy to close down ed schools, no matter how much evidence there is...

No surprise here: TFA, TNTP applications surge

Fueled by a diminishing economy, Teach For America and The New Teacher Project are both reporting a record number of...

Continuing Series: What does it take to fire a teacher?

Chicago Public Schools being investigated for hundreds of abuse claims An investigation by a local Chicago TV station has unveiled...

Common sense from Common Good

New York City attorney and Common Good organization founder Philip K. Howard has once again taken on our litigious society,...

Conflicting perspectives from MetLife and NEA

According to MetLife's latest annual survey , teachers' career satisfaction is greater than in earlier years of...

NCTQ Collective Bargaining Conference

Register Now -- NCTQ Conference on Collective Bargaining Join us on Thursday, March 26, 2009 for NCTQ's first research competition and...

Minnesota miracle with math turnaround specialist Prof. Bill Schmidt

We've grown so accustomed to Massachusetts' trailblazer stature in education that perhaps we were a little blasé over its decision...