Massachusetts Decides Not to Test Teachers

Massachusetts Education Commissioner David Driscoll has caved in on his proposal to test Bay State mathematics teachers. In order to...

No Vacancies

Stories out of the state of Pennsylvania and the city of Baltimore this week add to mounting evidence: The teacher...

North Carolina Teacher Attrition Data

Teacher turnover data can be hard to come by; for whatever reason school districts don't seem very interested in reporting...

Broad Foundation Steps Up To The Plate

The Broad Foundation, headed by Eli Broad who is chairman of SunAmerica, Inc., recently awarded New York City $4 million...

Detroit Teachers to Strike Over Charters

We at TQB are against union-bashing. But what are we to make of the fact that the Detroit Federation of...

An Offer You Can't Refuse: More Money For Less Work

Chicago teachers are getting an incredible raise. After winning its most generous contract concessions in 11 years, the Chicago Teachers...

Atlanta Having Trouble Meeting Promised Bonus Payments

This is a pretty bad projection, even for the government: a program that cost $100,000 in Fiscal 2000 is expected...

New Frontiers in School Staffing

In the wake of Hurricane Isabel, it seems fitting to us Easterners that the Las Vegas area school district uses...

A Job Description for Principals

The Center on Reinventing Public Education has a new report that tries to capture the essential qualities and functions of...

How Urban Districts Lose Quality Teachers

A blockbuster report released this week by The New Teacher Project provides hard data on a problem that until now...

OECD Report Released

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released its annual Education at a Glance report this week. The report contains...

Exporting Our Worst

Rebuilding Iraq includes the formidable task of reconstructing their education system from the ground up. Luckily, we have sent over...

NYC Brouhaha

Attack of the Killer Memos New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and United Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten are...

NYC Lawsuit Challenging Certification as Racist Dismissed

A class action lawsuit brought on behalf of 3,500 to 5,000 teachers of color in Federal Court against the New...

One Step Forward, Two Back in the Garden State

In other teacher certification news, we've been following New Jersey's efforts to draft a new set of teacher professional standards...