Another swipe at status quo teacher ed

This fall, Southern Methodist University in Dallas opened its doors to more than a thousand graduate education students for an...

Lone Star State gets merit pay

Texas Governor Rick Perry has issued an executive order establishing a new incentive-based pay system smartly targeted at 100 high-needs...

Department of scary statistics

A story out of West Virginia indicates that either the Mountain State has an enormous problem with teachers sexually abusing...

TFA and the Discomfort Zone

Editorial by Kate Walsh While Napoleon, Custer, and Rommel might have wished otherwise, it's generally hard to win a battle by...

Highly forgiving

Hardly blind to the political minefield that lay ahead, Spellings & Co. have told state education officials that they will...

NYT sees it our way

The New York Times takes a few potshots at the Bush Administration for its happy talk about the recent disappointing...

Tenure turmoil

A voter initiative on the California ballot for tomorrow (November 8) could put teachers in that state under closer scrutiny:...

Victory in Denver

Denver residents last week approved a new and fairly radical pay-for-performance program for teachers. While ProComp is inordinately complicated and...

Early warning

In an era when an increasing number of K-12 teachers get master's degrees, the Economic Policy Institute has released a...

Revealing school budgets in California

Recent studies out of Paul Hill's Center for Reinventing Public Education and Ed Trust-West have revealed the funding inequalities that...

Value-added, Buckeye style

Ohio is revolutionizing the way its schools measure student progress by adding itself to the short list of states using...

Rhode Island roundup

Following upon previous state efforts to learn more about the impact of collective bargaining agreements, Rhode Island-based Education Partnership offers...

More details emerge on NYC-UFT contract

While a 15% pay raise for New York City teachers is what has grabbed all the headlines, the city's newly...

Are districts misspending Title I funds?

An emerging issue destined to gain even more traction in the next year (if NCLB teacher quality provisions actually get...

A bold move in Minnesota

Minnesota's school districts keep lining up to take a bite out of the $86 million that Governor Tim Pawlenty has...