In a tough job market, people with doctorates in other disciplines are seeking employment in K-12 education, trading the high-wire uncertainties of university teaching for the stability of public school tenure. While their numbers are still small - about 1.7 percent of teachers held doctorates in subjects other than education as of 1996 - they are believed to be growing.
This week, Mike and Rick wonder why Texans don't like money, why Russian schools are resegregating, and how long before 02138 goes under. We've got an interview with a principal who paddles his students, and News of the Weird is plain inappropriate. There are no Mark Foley jokes in this 20-minute podcast.
This week, Mike and Rick wonder why Texans don't like money, why Russian schools are resegregating, and how long before 02138 goes under. We've got an interview with a principal who paddles his students, and News of the Weird is plain inappropriate. There are no Mark Foley jokes in this 20-minute podcast.
The Philanthropy Roundtable, a national association of individual donors, foundations, donor-advised funds, and other grant makers, is seeking highly qualified individuals to serve as chief operating officer/chief financial officer and as director of K-12 education programs.
Fifteen-year-old Gaurav Rajav will not be receiving an Xbox 360 video game console this month. That's because the high school student, who hoped to recite 10,790 digits of Pi, and whose parents promised him the Xbox if he met that goal, could muster only enough intellectual stamina to correctly recite 8,784 numbers.
Education Pioneers seeks a dynamic Program Director to lead the implementation of the DC Metro Area Fellows Program.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is hosting the 8th Annual National Charter Schools Conference June 22nd through 25th, 2008, in New Orleans. NAPCS seeks presenters to share and discuss strengthening public charter schools. The deadline to submit proposals is October 17, 2007.
It's a Mike and Rick reunion, during which, amid much catching up, they discuss the tweaking of mayoral control in New York City, the slashing of school busing in some districts (figuratively, not literally), and the changes to Rhode Island's teacher evaluation systems.
The SEED Foundation needs a top-notch individual to head their new Maryland school, opening in fall 2008. Interested? All the information you need is available here.
This week, Mike and Rick chat about the election, the economy, and algebra. Amber tells us what it would take to get mid-career professionals into the classroom and Rate that Reform calls the police! Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
With Mike and Rick playing hooky, Andy and Stafford stage a coup of the podcast. They discuss Obama's solidarity speech to the NAACP, the end of privately-paid-for teacher aides in New York City, and a stimulus funding snafu that's left Arizona $250 million in the red. With Amber on vacation, we then skip to Mickey's Rate that Mascot and the reemergence of the summertime Gentleman's C.
Join us on June 4 from 3 to 4:30 pm as we celebrate the release of Checker Finn's new book, Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut.
Our critical look at Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut will take place on June 4 from 3 to 4:30 pm. Better still, the first seventy guests to show up that afternoon will receive complimentary copies of this acclaimed but contentious little tome.
To learn more about the Fordham prizes, or about this year's winners, please click here.Winner of the 2005 Prize for Distinguished ScholarshipTERRY MOE-GODFATHER OF SCHOOL CHOICE
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers seeks a vice president of external affairs. The position is based in Chicago; all the information you need is here.
The Springfield Association of Classroom Teachers is in an uproar over the "Principal for a Day" program at Walker Elementary.
Barbara Van Dyke's ninth grade classroom in Marblehead is a child-centered haven where everyone is steadfastly respected, repeatedly affirmed, and children feel free to construct their knowledge of currency counterfeiting, reports the Boston Glob. "My job is to help these children unlock the knowledge already within themselves," says Van Dyke.
This week, Mike and Rick talk Iowa, special education, and the wisdom of children. We've got an interview with Sunil Iyengar of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Education News of the Weird is growing up so fast. Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions.
It is by no small accident that Gadfly was able to get his pulvilli (as in the plural of pulvillus, of course, the sticky footpads on the feet of flies) on a copy of the OECD's Australia report.
This week, Mike and Rick chat about whether we can be excellent and equal, whether the College Board is too obsessed with race, and whether Detroit is too obsessed with having bad schools. Jeff Kuhner thinks Canadians are great, unless they frequent soothsayers, and Education News of the Weird spikes the punch bowl.
This week, Mike and Rick chat about the Navy, incarceration in Buffalo, and the aesthetic pleasures of Brown Center Reports.
Every day, teachers, administrators, superintendents, and policy officials make important decisions based on insufficient or unreliable information. What if you could help? As a Strategic Data Project (SDP) fellow, you could be placed in a school district, charter network, or state education agency to bring your statistical know-how and high quality research methods to bear on those decisions.
In order to fully understand the magnitude of claims that districts don’t collaborate very well with charter schools, despite much jabber to the contrary, conside
The Teacher Quality Bulletin is the National Council on Teacher Quality's bi-monthly newsletter of scintillating, must-read commentary for anyone interested in issues affecting in-the-classroom education. Its latest issue is a real peach, plump with juicy opinion about the complacency of American parents when choosing their children's teachers, among other items.
There are a variety of ways for people from nontraditional backgrounds to enter teaching, from state alternative certification policies to programs like Teach for America and the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence (ABCTE). But is it enough?
Gather the family ‘round the fire for a live chat with Checker Finn and Rick Hess, today (10/4) at 3 p.m. They'll be taking your questions and live-chatting on Ed Week about their new book, No Remedy Left Behind. Click here.
Round one Race to the Top winner Delaware is poised to put their plans into action. But to do so, they need to fill a number of positions, including some managerial ones. Folks are needed to head and help in the turnaround, charter school, and teacher and leader effectiveness strands, and the state’s department of education wants to hire quickly, so act now.
As states scramble to win money from Arne Duncan’s discretionary fund, the Education Department has its own scramble: finding reviewers for the Race to the Top applications. Are you one of Duncan’s “disinterested superstars”?
