Sick Leave Headaches

There's been plenty in Wisconsin to raise teachers' temperatures, but moves by districts to cut sick leave now that teachers...

Wireless mentors

The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) announced version 2.0 of its Teachers Learning in Networked Communities (TLINC)...

Bargain hunting among teacher preparation courses?

You've got to applaud National Louis University's hipness — it's offered a discount on an entry-level graduate course in education...

Inputs vs. Outputs? Why Should We Have to Choose?

This month, Washington, D.C.-based think tank Ed Sector published an article in Phi Delta Kappan about NCTQ's national review of...

Nat'l Rev Myth Buster #7: Let's hear it for innovation- that's built on strong core principles

Over the last two months, we've worked to dispel myths and misconceptions regarding our national review of teacher preparation programs. Today's post...

Heart Pitter Patters for Terry Grier

Being a serious, hard-nosed education reform research and advocacy organization, we don't send a lot of mash notes, but we...

Re-testing for results?

Ohio has come up with a new solution for turning around failing schools: re-test the teachers. Teachers from schools in...

Thank you, Council of the Great City Schools

We are honored that the Council of the Great City Schools—which represents sixty-five superintendents responsible for educating almost 7 million...

Book review: Brill offers beach reading for the ed reform set

Steven Brill's new tome Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools hits the shelves just as millions...

Choosing talented teachers

Novice teachers face a steep learning curve, and their successes and failures can affect their students' learning and their own...

STAR continues to shine a light on teacher effectiveness

It feels like we've become a broken record arguing against class size reduction initiatives as a cost-effective investment for increasing...

School turnarounds: Who's really left behind?

Current school turnaround policies that require schools to replace no less than 50 percent of their staff offer an overly...

Catching up with PDQ: From our Pretty Darn Quick Blog

Friends don't let friends turn themselves "upside-down" when they can barely stand upright NCTQ is a friend, not foe, of...

The court "likes" Missouri teachers

Maybe Missouri can trust its teachers after all. When the legislature passed a law earlier this month banning teachers from...

The Price of Making Teacher Evaluations Public

Last Thursday, the courts handed the UFT their second straight loss on the sensitive issue of making teacher evaluations based...