Our take on Quality Counts
by Kate Walsh and Sandi Jacobs It's January, so it must be time for Quality Counts, Education Week's annual report card...
by Kate Walsh and Sandi Jacobs It's January, so it must be time for Quality Counts, Education Week's annual report card...
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that some teachers in Utah have abandoned the state teacher union, an affiliate...
Tired of its school districts slow pace in negotiating new teacher contracts, the Minnesota state legislature has imposed a deadline...
In an unprecedented move, Chicago Public Schools is dismissing the faculty and staff working in eight of its schools. This...
While teachers unions generally oppose standard school accountability measures, New York's UFT is the first to propose an alternative....
A new evaluation tool for principals has come on the market. Named "VAL-ED" (groan--we did), it purports to measure leadership...
States continue to equate high entry standards into teaching with a pile of coursework requirements, regardless of their actual value....
Necessity drives competition. A bill passed by the Michigan legislature last fall will require school districts to solicit...
Amidst relentlessly bleak international comparisons of the math performance of U.S. students, the math preparation provided by ed schools is...
That's right. NCTQ is hiring. We're looking to fill two new positions--Issues Director and Field Director. See here...
When we're wrong, we're wrong. And we certainly were wrong last month about our unnecessarily gloomy interpretation of a...
by Kate Walsh No matter how many times it happens, it's always hard to lose friends. It's hard to understand how...
Evidence that the nation's teacher pool is attracting greater talent is welcome indeed, but it's hard not to take issue...
In the nation's second largest school district, we're seeing a case of life imitating art--if the Three Stooges can...
A new study examining teacher absentee rates in North Carolina has turned up some surprising results. Yes, teachers take off...