Closing the Talent Gap: Attracting and Retaining Top-Third Graduates to Careers in Teaching
Fresh thinking on improving the teaching profession
Fresh thinking on improving the teaching profession
Charter and district teachers aren't so different, after all
Value-added measures have their place but are no panacea
A little teacher quality info goes a long way
Hubris alert! We don't have it all figured out yet
It isn't perfect, but it's well-worth the watch
As China calls for education innovation, Oprah takes matters into her own hands
A party in search of a platform
Far be it from me to take on Nicholas Lemann ? former Managing Editor of the Washington Monthly, former staff reporter for the Washington Post, staff writer for The New Yorker, author of The Big Test (about the SATs), and current dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism ? but?.
Whitney Tilson, commenting on yesterday's New York Times story on the plan to close Catholic schools, has it about right:
Want to mentor a child? Plan on sticking around for awhile. At least ?till they make it to college.
?Suppose for a minute that the child care industry were as well organized as the teacher's union, do you think that preschool would be considered such an unquestionably good public investment?? ?Rob Manwaring, Senior Policy Analyst at Education Sector
?Closing the Talent Gap,? a new report from McKinsey & Company, uses data to usefully describe ideas we already know, specifically that: