Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching
Stafford PalmieriA valuable study that asks a worthless question
Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress, and Reform, 16th Edition
Janie ScullRankings based on reform-friendliness? Sounds familiar
E-Learning 2010: E-Educators Evolving
Amanda OlbergPersonnel and accountability measures for e-educators
Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010
Michael J. Petrilli, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Janie ScullEd professors remain in the clouds. But, their views are starting to change.
It's raining anchormen and education reformers
A deluge at Education Nation can't stop IBM's innovation
Kill HQT ASAP
Michael J. PetrilliNo Child Left Behind's Highly Qualified Teachers provision deserves to die.
Quotable & Notable
?If you're failing my children, get out of the way.'' ?Cory A. Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
Contest Time
Peter MeyerOur little school district just got word that our share of the RttT pie (nearly $700 million in NY) will be $55,000 per year for?four years. ?Wow! But here's the challenge?and it is real and it applies just as much to Cory Booker with his $100 million as to us:?How do we spend it?
Meyer's Musings
Peter MeyerWhile reading Liam's musings this morning??armies of grown-ups who had gone gaga for a certain presidential candidate's mellifluous vapidities about change and hope?
Confessions of a battered idealist school reformer
Terry RyanIn reading Liam's post about idealists being chewed up by the DC culture of inertia and status quo I couldn't help but think of the brilliant Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, ???Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.???