Real Merit Pay Really Works

The Chattanooga, Tennessee, school district deserves national attention and appreciation for getting serious about improving its low performing schools. Like...

Georgia and the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge

Our guess is that as soon as states begin to report the percentage of their teachers who are highly qualified,...

New School Year Brings New NCLB Stories

The beginning of the 2003-04 school year brings us one year closer to the 2006 deadline for having a highly...

Hiring, Firing, and Licensing in New York

The strictures of state licensing requirements in New York seem to be causing both confusion and anger. In New York...

Death, Taxes, and Rising Health Care Costs?

The return of students to school in September also means that ongoing contract negotiations between districts and teachers will become...

Classroom Valets

British teachers unions are mad as heck--and they're not going to take it anymore. Now, due to a new labor...

International Comparisons Reveal Lack of Rigor in U.S. System

The Educational Testing Service has released a must-read report that provides valuable (yet all-too-rare) international comparisons on teacher preparation and...

American Board Tests Are Up and Running

The American Board teacher exams, the first national alternative to traditional teacher certification, have hit the market. The first exams...

Just How Effective is Online Training

The prospect of training teachers through the Internet draws instinctive skepticism from many. But it might be time to set...

What Do Teachers Think?

There are some compelling nuggets to be found in a new survey of teacher attitudes put out by the non-partisan...

Good Legislation Alert

A vital and well-crafted piece of legislation is making its way through the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....

Vigilante Justice In a New York Middle School

Middle school teacher and, more notably, Dean of Discipline at I.S. 145, William Rinni has just been reassigned to the...

The Toughest Question in Teacher Quality: Are Teachers Underpaid?

There s no shortage of rabble rousing in ed journals and teachers lounges on the merits and need for...

Rising Violence Against NY Teachers

There s a disturbing wave of violence against teachers in the nation s largest school district. According to United Federation...

Surprise! Smarter Teachers=Higher Student Achievement

A new report from Louisiana finds that relatively simple tests of teachers can serve as reasonable proxies for teacher quality....