Backers Back Out in California

After gathering a purported 900,000 signatures and spending an estimated $2.5 million (including $750,000 from the California Teacher Association [CTA],...

Virginia to Count SAT Scores of Teachers

In a wise concession to flexibility, the Virginia state board of education voted unanimously last month to exempt prospective teachers...

The Rush is On

Hoping to avoid new and tougher standards for certification in the state of New York that took effect as of...

Maryland Poised to Drop Much Abused Plan

Maryland's program to lure retired teachers and principals back into the classroom (by promising not to reduce their pensions) as...

Reform Stifles World Order

In news that rivals our recent piece about a Palo Alto principal outlawing extra credit for bringing tissues to the...

Highly Qualified Teachers, A Matter of Definition

U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige's Monday announcement of changes to No Child Left Behind's teacher quality provisions brought quick and...

Inching Forward on Value-Added Adoption

In a recent edition of the Teacher Quality Bulletin, we reported on Ohio's plans to use students' test scores to...

Resistance Lingers to Texas Teacher Reforms

News of the Texas State Board of Educator Certification (SBEC) decision to pass a measure that would allow teachers with...

Challenging the Constitutionality of Teacher Prep Programs

The Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative legal foundation headed by William Perry Pendley, is arguing that the federally financed...

No M?s

Last month, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it had reached its new limit on H-1B visas a category...

Romney Tries to Free Up the Hatchet

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has recently endorsed a 10-point plan that, among other things, would make it easier to fire...

Federal Study to Look at Teacher Education Programs

Hidden within the gloomy depths of a fiscal 2004 appropriations bill lies a $1.5 million allocation for the Institute of...

Continuing to Rethink Teacher Pay

Florida Last year the Florida legislature passed a law that scrapped the traditional salary schedule for teachers in favor of...

Alternative Certification Measure Passes in Texas

By an extremely narrow margin, the State Board of Education in Texas approved a measure last week that will permit...

Is It True There's No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?

For those of you who have been on Mars the past two weeks, you might have missed that Secretary Paige...