If You're Not Part of the Solution

This past Sunday's New York Times Magazine chronicles social activist Geoffrey Canada and his ambitious goal to radically improve the...

Stotsky Turns a Critical Eye on U.S. History Teachers

In a recent paper presented at the National Association of Scholars conference, Sandra Stotsky, Research Scholar in the School of...

North Carolina Bags Incentive Program

The North Carolina House of Representatives announced this week that they have cut $3 million from the state budget that...

Corporal Punishment Lives On In Many States

Last week's Houston Chronicle looks at the practice of spanking or paddling unruly students. We were surprised to learn that...

In Some Places, Teachers' Unions Really Are Terrorists

Teachers' unions in the United States have not always behaved well over the years but even the most extreme examples...

Study Finds Teach For America Teachers As Good in Reading and Better in Math

Editorial by NCTQ President, Kate Walsh In 1989, a senior at Princeton University by the name of Wendy Kopp laid out...

Group Looks at Hiring Practices in Philadelphia

A helpful new study from Research for Action, a Philadelphia-based non-profit, concludes that teacher recruitment efforts in the City of...

Mentoring Lite and Induction Done Right

While criticizing the value of teacher mentoring is about as politically incorrect as denouncing laws that protect cute puppies, educator/publisher...

Teaching English from a Diverse Perspective

Policy wonks Robert Holland and Don Soifer of the Lexington Institute have taken a look at various education reforms across...

Move Over Randi and Joel

In a spat that makes us nostalgic for the good old media joustings of Joel Klein and Randi Weingarten, LA...

A Reversal of Roles

Teachers' unions are used to standing up to administrators, politicians, annoying watchdog groups, even dissenting teachers but generally they shy...

Weapons of False Information

In the April 2, 2004 edition of TQB (Vol. 5, No. 8), we reported on an opinion piece written by...

Sandra Feldman to Resign

The new educational policy blog, Eduwonk, confirmed last night the many rumors floating around Washington this week that Sandra Feldman...

NCATE Nods to its Critics

At least not rhetorically immune to its many critics, the nation's leading accrediting body of schools of education, the National...

Steiner and Bloggers Greet the Heat

Sparked by a report in the new blog, Eduwonk, other blogs were all abuzz in the last couple of weeks...