On Borrowing Best Practices and Even Better Policies
Marc Tucker reports from the Second International Summit on the Teaching Profession in New York City. Read Full Post >
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March 19, 2012
March 18, 2012
A Million Teachers Prepare to March Out the Classroom Door
Follow me on Twitter at @AnthonyCody The Metlife survey of American teachers has been much discussed in recent weeks. The biggest red flag I see waving here is the 70% increase, over the past two years, in the number of teachers who are likely to leave the profession in the next five years (from 17... Read Full Post >
March 16, 2012
Jack Hassard: Charter School Data Fuels Controversy in Georgia
Guest post by Jack Hassard. The Charter school movement has been in the news recently in Georgia. The Georgia Legislature is trying to get around the present Charter School law which says that applications for establishing a charter school must be approved by the local school district. According... Read Full Post >
February 28, 2012
The Brown Center Report: When Will American Researchers Take on the Issues That Really Matter?
Marc Tucker responds to Tom Loveless' recent take on interpreting international test scores. Read Full Post >
February 19, 2012
Jack Hassard: Test-Based Reform: What Values are we Adding?
Guest post by Jack Hassard. You can read Part One here. Practicing teachers, clinical professors, and researchers who work in the field know that assessing teachers or students requires much more than simply looking at test scores. And indeed, researchers who have examined the value-added assessm... Read Full Post >
February 16, 2012
Phil Kovacs Responds to the Latest Research on Teach For America
A few days ago, I ran a guest post authored by science educator Jack Hassard; Cobb County, Georgia, Rejects Teach For America. One cogent comment came from Stuart (EdOutsider), who wrote the following: Listen, all this slapping our own backs might be fun and good, but of all the states where TFA pl... Read Full Post >
February 15, 2012
Gerald Coles: The Growing Educational Achievement Gap: Don't Think What You Might Think You Should Think
Guest post by Gerald Coles Last week the New York Times provided valuable, disturbing information by reporting recent research on the growing educational achievement gap between rich and poor students, which has grown substantially over the past few decades, even while the achievement gap between b... Read Full Post >
February 12, 2012
Jack Hassard Reports: Cobb County, Georgia, Rejects Teach For America
Guest post by Jack Hassard. Cobb County, Georgia's second largest school district, decided not to consider the superintendent's request to hire 50 Teach for America (TFA) uncertified college graduates to work in under-performing schools in South Cobb. According to an editorial in the Marietta Dail... Read Full Post >
February 05, 2012
Education Reform vs. Manufacturing
Economist Christina Romer, writing in the New York Times, says that improving access to education to prepare workers for high-skilled jobs in many industries is a better strategy for addressing income inequality than trying to return to the days when factories provided family-supporting jobs for low... Read Full Post >
February 03, 2012
Resilience and the Disadvantaged Student
Marc Tucker examines the OECD data on disadvantaged students who succeed in school. Read Full Post >
