Paras Get Relaxed Deadline

The US Department of Education announced last week that they would extend the deadline for paraprofessionals to become highly qualified...

Profiling Alt Cert Teachers

Alt cert guru C. Emily Feistritzer and her National Center for Education Information have released the results of a nationwide...

Toeing the line of decency

Jodi Kilpatrick, an elementary school teacher in Carroll County, Georgia, was recently accused of forcing a student to lick her...

New York's $20 Million Rubber Room

Newsday reported last week on yet another bureaucratic nightmare in New York City: over four hundred teachers are currently reporting...

NYC Teachers' Unexamined Exodus

Ironically, while New York City spends millions of dollars paying allegedly abusive teachers to twiddle their thumbs in "rubber rooms,"...

Dispositions or attitudes?

In the May 31 edition of the New York Sun, journalist Jacob Gershman puts a face to a troubling trend...

More Teachers, Please

It's high season in the teacher recruitment biz. Here's the rundown: California: The Governator is refusing to roll over...

Value-Added in Gotham!

New York Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is set to announce a new plan for value-added technology to be used in...

No New Merit Pay for the Lone Star State

Texas' merit pay proposal is dead for now, due to the Longhorn lawmakers' inability to figure out how to cut...

Views That Leave Us Scratching Our Heads

"Does he think teachers are whores - that you have to pay them more to do this?" -- Steve Blazak...

Education Preparation and Training Pales by Comparison

The Finance Project, a DC group dedicated to producing decision-making that sustains good results for children, families and communities, is...

Seeking Good Writers

A recent New York Times Op-Ed by Brent Staples revisits the controversy over the newest feature in the SAT, the...

Merit Pay: Not So Fast, Governors!

Kate Walsh President NCTQ These days there's not an issue of this newsletter where we're not passing along to you the latest news...

Merit Pay Updates

In California: Arnold Schwarzenegger has all but admitted defeat on his merit pay proposal. Now his hopes are pinned on...

Out of the Jailhouse, Into the Classroom

For further evidence that state certification systems don't function well even for the easy stuff, look to the latest from...