Teachers at Chicago School Plan Boycott of State Test
Teachers at an elementary school in Chicago have made the bold move of announcing that they will refuse to administer state-mandated standardized tests that are scheduled to start next week.
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February 26, 2014
February 11, 2014
Teachers Dress Down to Protest Salaries
Teachers at a high school in Fairfax County, Va., have taken to protesting district salary squeezes in a way that could be described as highly casual. Literally.
February 06, 2014
Matt Damon: Why Cut Teachers Out of Ed. Policy?
Matt Damon stopped by Reddit today for an Ask-Me-Anything session, and took the opportunity to reproach certain kinds of education reform.
January 23, 2014
For Teachers Seeking More Autonomy: Have You Tried North Dakota?
North Dakota may give its teachers more control over their classrooms than any other state, followed closely by South Dakota.
January 15, 2014
2014 National Teacher of the Year Finalists Named
Four educators, hailing from Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, have been announced by the Council of Chief State School Officers as the finalists for the 2014 National Teacher of the Year Award.
January 10, 2014
Group Looking to Bolster Educator Influence Announces 2014 Teacher Fellows
The Hope Street Group, a nonprofit advocacy group focused on economic opportunity, announced 13 teachers and instructional coaches from across the country to participate in the group's National Teacher Fellowship.
January 02, 2014
Educator's Resolution: Enough With the 'Feel-Good' Teacher Movies
Joshua John Macklin, a New York City middle school reading teacher, says it would be beneficial to those working for real improvement in schools if Americans made a collective New Year's resolution to desist from relying on feel-good teacher movies for their information about struggling schools
December 19, 2013
New National-Board Certifications Still Declining
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards announced this week that 4,117 teachers received certification from the group in 2013—down 17 percent from the previous year and more than 50 percent from 2008.
November 17, 2013
Expert: Deeper Learning Hinges on Content Expertise
In an address on deeper learning at the Learning and the Brain conference in Boston this weekend, Christine Massey, the director of research and education at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania, offered a helpful definition: "We take deeper learning as the process of learning for transfer."
November 16, 2013
Rethinking Teacher Roles in a New Networked World
Author-educators Marc Prensky and Will Richardson opened up this weekend's conference with some big ideas on how technology is changing learning and the many ways schools need to adapt and catch up.
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