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There was some good news for teachers in Oklahoma this week, some bad news for teachers in Chicago and an...
There was some good news for teachers in Oklahoma this week, some bad news for teachers in Chicago and an...
Documenting disparities in educational experiences of poor and minority populations got a little easier this week with two new reports...
Clark County School District in Nevada, the fastest growing school district in the United States (building 157 new schools in...
It looks like the Rhode Island state legislature will come up short on its goal to implement a statewide teacher's...
Finally, we received a letter from one of the authors of the certification studies that we criticized in the last...
Once again, does teacher certification matter? The question has been asked and answered so many times for so long, that...
The Delaware Department of Education has announced new accountability standards for teachers that include student achievement (as measured by standardized...
Senator John Kerry turned more than a few heads last week when he unveiled a proposal to spend $20 billion...
According to a report by the actuary of the fund that bankrolls teacher retirements in New Jersey, the state is...
In a good article in the just-released edition of Education Next, Alexander Russo looks at the struggles of graduates of...
As we have reported (TQB Vol. 5 No. 9, April 16, 2004), there has been quite the brouhaha over whether...
In an interesting letter to the editor in the latest edition of Education Next, Ben Rarick from the University of...
This week, NCTQ released the first of several state report cards, entitled Necessary and Insufficient: Resisting a Full Measure of...
On Monday, the Pennsylvania Department of Education denied a request by the Philadelphia Inquirer to make public the number of...
In the April-May edition of Policy Review, Frederick M. Hess, director of educational policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute,...