Better luck next time for merit pay in Little Rock

The Walton Family Foundation's effort to jump-start performance pay in Little Rock, Arkansas has been shot down by the district's...

Status Quo running scared in Longhorn territory

As part of Texas Governor Rick Perry's $10 million performance pay initiative, nine schools in the San Antonio area will...

You mean recess isn't a class?

There's a surprisingly controversial notion floating around the Iowa legislature: time spent at pep rallies and recess shouldn't be considered...

Teaching Teachers How to Teach Reading: Don't Rock the Boat

The title of the latest book from the National Academy of Education certainly raised our hopes, making us think that...

NEA fears it's not in Kansas anymore

A new Kansas licensure proposal would enable school districts, rather than the state, to do their own screening and training...

Teacher truancy in the Windy City

Reportedly under pressure from parents, Chicago Public Schools will begin tracking its teachers' absentee rates in Fall 2006. Principal James...

Merit pay in the Buckeye capital?

A recent proposal by U. Penn professor and frequent dabbler in teacher pay reform models Ted Hershberg to the Board...

New Orleans, new addresses

Nearly half a year since Hurricane Katrina struck, just three of New Orleans' 115 public schools are now in operation,...

Aloha, TFA!

Hawaii will be throwing leis around the necks of some talented new college grads in the next few years. The...

State of the budget

Editorial by NCTQ President Kate Walsh Somewhere between the President's State of the Union speech and the release of his FY07...

Humble pie all around

It's attracted less attention than the gold-plated 2004 Mathematica study of Teach For America, but the National Bureau of Economic...

Gender gap investigated

While Harvard president Larry Summers provoked a fury last year by raising the specter of differences in cognitive ability between...

Merit pay update

Merit pay update Here are the most recent developments on the merit pay front. First prize definitely goes to Florida, which...

Tarheel teacher tempest

Like most states, North Carolina faces teacher shortages that are worse in certain subjects and certain schools. And like many...

Alabama catching up

Starting this May, new teachers in the Yellowhammer State will finally have to start passing a subject matter test in...