Cut-Rate Reforms in Virginia

There?s nothing but bad news on the teacher quality front this week, mostly of states? own making. We?ve...

What Bridge Are We Building?

Three rotten apples this week go to Pennsylvania for deciding to follow the pack after all, buying into the...

Roadblock in Alabama

And one more rotten apple this week--not to the state of Alabama, but to its university system. It is...

Heading for the Hills

In perhaps a troubling sign, Denver Public Schools is reporting that teachers are leaving its school system at a much...

Idaho Considers Merit

And finally there is some good news this week as more states are considering merit pay packages (however meager most...

Diverging Paths on the Road to Education: Steiner v. Butin

Washington's education world packed the Progressive Policy Institute's conference room last week to witness this town's modern equivalent of gladiatorial...

How Not to Appease Your Critics

A new National Board study authored by Leslie Vandevoort, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and David Berliner was released last week, claiming that...

Déjà vu in the Tar Heel State

North Carolina officials are now mulling over a new teacher incentive program—less than three months after the state legislature yanked...

Performance Pay, Easier Said Than Done

Maryland: The Baltimore Sun reports that schools termed "challenging" in the Anne Arundel school district in Maryland—those that missed their...

Alabama Stalls Again

There's probably no other state that will have to travel as far as Alabama in order to meet the January...

TAP expands into Minnesota

The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), the Milken Family Foundation?s ambitious and we think ingenious program to restructure the teaching career,...

Where Teachers' Kids Go to School

Public school teachers know of what they speak when it comes to schools, and their views are most transparent when...

NCTQ Announces New 35-Member Advisory Board

We are pleased to announce a new advisory board for our organization, comprising 35 leading thinkers, educators and reformers devoted...

Taking the Debate to a Whole New Level

A real cannonball was hurled in the teacher pay debate this week with the release of a serious study from...

Denver Sticks by Performance Pay

After all the fanfare last winter over Denver teachers? acceptance of a pay-for-performance package, it turns out that the school...