Even ed profs think ed school accreditation is lacking
Last week, the two national accreditation bodies for teacher preparation programs?NCATE and TEAC?voted to standardize their accreditation processes and ultimately merge into a single organizati
Last week, the two national accreditation bodies for teacher preparation programs?NCATE and TEAC?voted to standardize their accreditation processes and ultimately merge into a single organizati
Pondiscio and Willingham team up to give?new You Tube education phenom ?Ken Robinson a?good going-over.? Don't miss. ?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
There's a new batch of striking teachers in the Pittsburgh area?maybe the affected students can keep up with their math classes online, like students at Allegheny Valley Sc
?Everybody who acts like we can tinker with the state monopoly on education and get radically better results is working to ensure that our present system survives to inflict its dysfunctional results on another generation of Americans who cannot afford its failures.''
. . . when Crash is on the teacher-training syllabus. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Kevin Carey, Education Sector's policy director, regularly advertises that he has very little if any respect for Charles Murray, the political scientist who famously coauthored The Bell Curve in 1994.
Education professors are in step with some current reform initiatives targeted at improving teacher quality, but not others, according to our new survey of teacher educators.?
Though the headline had it that New York State gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo ?Vows Offensive Against Labor Unions,? what he actually tells the New York Times is much kinder, gentler.?
Sure, it's selective, but this run-on-a-shoestring school for poor kids still gets the job done. ?Give me one good reason?okay, I'll take two or three?why this isn't it replicable and scalable?
Jason Brooks, research director at the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability, amplifies on the issues that his boss, Tom Carroll, raised with
Tom Carroll continues to chew on the question of RTTT and charter school independence, amplifying his
I wonder if research on absenteeism in elementary school takes a factor like this one into account.?
?When a teacher teaches, the school system does not regulate that speech as much as it hires that speech. Expression is a teacher's stock in trade, the commodity she sells to her employer in exchange for a salary.
The National Education Association has just settled an eight-year-old lawsuit, filed against it in Washington State, which accused the union of illegally using money to ?support initiative campaigns.?
Charter schools ?were a punching bag? at a recent ?education forum? in Brooklyn. ?Charter schools are all about money,? said one parent in attendance. They are? ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow
Paul Tough interviews Bill Gates for Parade magazine. ?Among the revelations: last year, while traveling for several months, Gates and his wife homeschooled their three school-age children.
A recent ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati concluded that teachers' in-classroom curricular decisions are not protected by the First Amendment.?
Since improving low-performing, inner-city schools is arguably the chief education challenge presently facing policymakers and the nation, one might expect education school professors to emphasize teaching strategies as they relate to disadvantaged and struggling students. But as our?
Rick Hess summons the ghosts of Bernie Madoff to illustrate the obscene? ?deal? that?
This fall, fourth-graders throughout Virginia opened their history textbooks, Our Virginia: Past and Present, to the following passage on the Civil War:
Thinking of skipping school to enjoy the final days of good weather? Well, you might want to think again.
?There are a lot of benefits to this [value-added] approach, but the science of the methodology at this point isn't where it should be to attach teachers names to it.? ?Douglas Ready, Professor, Columbia University's Teacher College
Well?.no real resolution today on whether or not New York City can release the names and ratings of its teachers.
Trying to?increase parental involvement in schools is a?laudable goal, but? threatening parents?with jail time if they repeatedly miss parent-teacher conferences? Really? According to this CNN report, a county prosecutor in Michigan is proposing a law that would do just that.
Gotham Schools is reporting that the NYC's teachers union did indeed file suit earlier today, seeking to prevent the city from publicly releasing the effectiveness ratings (and names) of its teachers.
In case you haven't heard, there's a pretty?big tussle going on in NYC over whether education officials there should be allowed to publicly release the performance info/ratings of the city's teachers.
The Washington Post's Answer Sheet blog will tell you. ?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow