Randi Weingarten says something nice about Obama's ESEA plan
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, gave a mostly robotic interview to NPR's All Things Considered yesterday.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, gave a mostly robotic interview to NPR's All Things Considered yesterday.
Education reformers on both sides of the aisle are torn between pressing for their preferred policies from Washington, DC, and acknowledging the federal government is too far removed from classrooms to do good without doing harm, too.
James Merriman, the head of the New York City Charter School Center and former chief of SUNY's Charter School Institute (a state authorizer), writes a level-headed assessment of CSI's decision to grant a short-term renewal to the UFT's charter school in NYC.
Anyone interested in what to do about America's most persistently failing schools--and especially those caught up in today's turnaround craze--should consider Part II of this report a must-read. A MUST-read.
I just went through the teacher provisions of Hawaii's RTT application, and they rival Connecticut's for placement at the bottom of the list. HI admits that currently tenured teachers get evaluated once every five years (!). It hopes to change that along with its rules governing tenure, performance pay, and the removal of low-performing teachers.
In a break from testifying before Congress and working on his bracket, Arne Duncan called for a
From Mike's Desk Fickle on federalism (What should we make of the Department's mixed messages on the federal role in education?)
???It's still based on narrow, do-or-die, high-stakes tests, where some kids win and some kids lose.??? ???Dennis Van Roekel, President, National Education Association