Ohio: lower paid teachers teaching poor kids
Or so a study released yesterday by the Education Trust has found.
Or so a study released yesterday by the Education Trust has found.
This comprehensive report neatly summarizes what we know about teacher effectiveness, turnover, distribution, and tenure--and their relation to the overrepresentation of low quality teachers in high poverty schools.
On Tuesday, President-Elect Obama ended weeks of speculation by selecting Chicago schools CEO Arne Duncan to be his secretary of education.
Here's an original (and fallacious) thought: when times get rough, absolve children of the need to learn math. That, at least, is the story coming out of Oregon, where budget woes have allegedly forced the state to drop its brand-new graduation requirements in algebra, geometry, and statistics.
Brian GottlobThe Buckeye InstituteDecember 2008
It's no new news that Scarsdale, NY has long disdained tests and suffered from an inflated ego on this topic as well. Its latest ploy to distinguish itself from the pack?
Center on Reinventing Public Education, School Finance Redesign ProjectPaul T. Hill, Marguerite Roza, and James HarveyDecember 2008