Re: Maybe there's no ?teacher quality gap? after all
Uber-reformer (and hedge fund manager) Whitney Tilson had this to say about my earlier post:
Uber-reformer (and hedge fund manager) Whitney Tilson had this to say about my earlier post:
Huge breaking news out of Indiana. Because of the state teacher union's unwillingness to negotiate on reform, Indiana will NOT apply in round two of RTT. ?Andy Smarick
Will pretty bulletin boards be the death of education? Let's get some teachers trained like doctors to revive the patient.
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Mike appeared in two similar news stories on NBC Nightly News last night and on the Today show this morning. Watch the clips below.
The school board of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District voted this week to lay off 10 percent of its 8,000 employees, including 545 teachers.?? Particularly hard hit will be the district's ten ???innovation schools.????? Reported the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Here's more (a lot more) from Whitney Tilson, continuing our ongoing debate about the Education Next forum on teacher equity.