Bush Ends NBPTS Funding
President Bush's recently released 2005 budget allots no federal money to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). It...
President Bush's recently released 2005 budget allots no federal money to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). It...
Texas Texas governor Rick Perry has proposed a $500 million incentive pay plan that includes giving $2,500 bonuses to teachers who...
Alabama Governor Bob Riley wants to fire bad teachers. Last Thursday he put forward a plan for tenure reform to...
What is one reason teachers react with skepticism to bonus offers from lawmakers and school districts? Maybe because teachers have...
The interim superintendent of the Minneapolis school district has proposed a radical shift in the way that the teachers are...
Jack Wenders, a professor of economics at the University of Idaho and Senior Fellow at The Commonwealth Foundation, has written...
And now it's time for the weekly updates from the tumultuous world of the Highly Qualified Teacher provision of No...
The Iowa Board of Educational Examiners has floated the novel but silly idea of requiring that student teachers in Iowa...
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation has announced the winners of its second annual Fordham Prizes, established to honor those who...
This Saturday, 20,000 Iraqi high school teachers will begin U.S. supervised teacher training. We thought that we'd take this opportunity...
In Louisiana, Orleans Parrish School Board member didn t much like teachers voicing their irritation at having been sent the...
For the past few decades, most states have been requiring new teachers to pass subject matter tests as part of...
The latest issue of AFT's excellent journal American Teacher takes a hard look at the current state of teacher's contract...
Reluctantly, Anne Arundel County (MD) Executive Janet S. Owens has submitted a proposal to her County Council that would give...
Three sister teachers in the Chicago Public Schools system used a math curriculum-writing project to bilk the Chicago school system...