Redesigning Teacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators
Susan Moore Johnson and John P. PapayEconomic Policy Institute2009
Susan Moore Johnson and John P. PapayEconomic Policy Institute2009
Thomas Toch and Chad AldemanEducation SectorSeptember 2009
Jean Johnson, Andrew Yarrow, Jonathan Rochkind, and Amber OttPublic AgendaOctober 2009
Having touted teacher quality as an important spoke of his reform wheel, it was only a matter of time before Education Secretary Arne Duncan took on the largest purveyor of teacher training: education schools.
In this excellent biographical article in City Journal, Sol Stern takes a closer look at the life and works of E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Father of the Core Knowledge movement (and foundation by the same name), Hirsch started as a scholar of English.
Theodore R. (Ted) Sizer, who passed away last week after a long and valiant battle with cancer, was a towering figure in American education--and a wonderful guy.
Forget sleeping in class. Try sleeping on the way to class. At night! On a Sunday! Last weekend, sheriff’s deputies in St. Charles, Illinois, discovered a 5 year-old boy at his elementary school way past his bedtime. Seems the little guy had sleepwalked to school, managing to escape the house without waking his parents.
After the pomp, circumstance, and hope we can believe in of 2008, you may have an election hangover. And if you don’t live in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City, or Boston, you may not have even realized that next Tuesday, November 3, is Election Day. But of four big races (and a few ballot initiatives) due next week, education is a common theme in all of them.
Last week, you may have read about Rhode Island State Superintendent Deborah Gist’s move to abolish seniority bumping rights for teachers. But what you might not have seen was another move just as important: Raising cut scores for Rhode Island teacher candidates on the Praxis I exam.
I've written a couple times recently about the Department's lack of clarity about its view of the proper role for the feds in K-12 education.
Per the below RTT minutiae, the Department offered more in its latest weekly update: The Department reviewed and responded to??comments from OMB on the final notices for the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund and Race to the Top programs.