Maryland Teacher Standards Get Slammed
According to some observers, Maryland might as well hire smart 6th graders to teach math in its middle schools. In...
According to some observers, Maryland might as well hire smart 6th graders to teach math in its middle schools. In...
Virginia has the nation s highest cut-off score on the Praxis I basic skills test. Usually Virginia gets lauded for...
Kudos also to Michigan state senator Jud Gilbert (R-Algonac) for proposing a bill that may offer a model to school...
Last Wednesday, Education Week released their annual "Quality Counts" edition. It contains some useful, albeit depressing, statistics on teacher quality...
The Los Angeles Times reports that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has the support of the state's largest teacher's union for...
More news of troubled teacher pension funds. Texas's teacher pension shortfall grew by more than 50% last year. While the...
Good for Leon Botstein. Decrying the "unfortunate stranglehold" that education schools have on teacher training, the iconoclastic president of Bard...
There are 900,000 teachers' aides, or paraprofessionals, across the U.S. By 2006, Just like teachers, the No Child Left Behind...
We're continuing to track a pattern of problems with teachers' retirement funds across the nation. In Pennsylvania this week, Governor...
Since 1995, the Dallas school district has taken a mercenary approach to get more teachers to teach and more students...
The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards reports that 8,196 teachers have received their National Board certification this year, another...
Officials in Michigan are ready to unveil new grade-level teaching standards for reading, writing, and math and according to initial...
If you think that American teachers are averse to standardized tests, try Britain. The nation's largest teachers union tried to...
The racial gap in student achievement isn't one of the biggest issues in education; it's one of the biggest issues...
Try to imagine this happening in the good ole USA: the government fails to release funds to pay teachers' salaries,...