KIPP's conundrum

About two dozen teachers at a KIPP charter school are organizing to become members of the New York City teachers'...

Georgia school district granted waiver for meeting state requirements

Gwinnett County Public Schools just outside Atlanta is the first district in Georgia to take advantage of a new state...

Drug testing of teachers: Does a contract make a difference?

Can teachers be subjected to random drug testing? In December, a federal judge in West Virginia struck down a local...

Best ideas department

If you paid any attention to the annual New York Times Magazine's "Year in Ideas" list, you might have noticed,...

Grading policy change neglects teacher views

The Fairfax County school board in suburban Washington recently voted unanimously to change its grading system, lowering the points needed...

Unusual bedfellows in the Big Apple

Randi Weingarten, both the head of the national AFT and the local president of the New York teachers' union, the...

Another take on the promise of peer review

Faced with the fact that there are almost no data out there that support the effectiveness of peer review programs,...

Columbus teachers' union quits tutoring business

It looks like a tutoring program run by the Columbus Education Association's tutoring program has ended--before it even started. The...

Extended vacation in Rio Rancho?

Based on recent events, school districts might benefit from a crash course in planning and public relations. We reported last...

Pa. ed schools complain about new certification regs

Education schools in Pennsylvania are howling over changes to the state's standards for teacher preparation, claiming the state is undermining...

Unchartered territory in Massachusetts

After putting up with a new principal every couple of years, the 20 teachers employed at the Conservatory Lab Charter...

Just who is earning performance pay in Texas?

Researchers have issued interim findings on the nation's largest experiment with performance pay,sponsored by the state of Texas, and they've...

Back to business as usual in Washington state politics

The Washington Education Association (WEA) recently lost a minor battle in a decade-long judicial dispute with the state and its...

California's mandatory eighth grade algebra nixed for now

In August 2008 we reported in A Good Deed to Raise Academic Standards That Will Not Go Unpunished...

Improving teacher quality by hiring better teachers

The New York City Department of Education's treasure trove of data on teacher and student characteristics and performance has been...