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McGuire on Unions and Urban Students10 comments

matthewladner wrote 1 month ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)  MaryEllen McGuire of the New America Foundation takes on the unions … more →

Tags: MaryEllen McGuire, New America Foundation

Different means to the same end.

onedaytoanewbeginning wrote 1 month ago: I must say that I felt a little weird sitting at a table in AEI’s Conference Center just three … more →

Tags: Education Policy Ramble, internship, Education Law, school finance, Think Tanks

What We Learned from Mr. Canada

robynschein wrote 1 month ago: When Geoffrey Canada spoke to a room of 1,000 people at the most Geoffrey Canada addresses the crowd … more →

Tags: Education reform, Harlem Childrens Zone, measurement, Minnesota Meeting, poverty

PJM on Free to Teach

Greg Forster wrote 1 month ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Today Pajamas Media runs my column on why the government school monopo … more →

Tags: Research Reports, Greg Forster, pajamas media, Free to Teach

Rick Hess on Recruiting the Teachers of the Future1 comment

matthewladner wrote 1 month ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The new edition of Education Next is online, and Rick Hess has a ver … more →

Tags: Teacher pay, Rick Hess, Education Next, American Enterprise Institute

Q Comp not expanding this year

jamessanna wrote 1 month ago: The K-12 education policy bill that Governor Tim Pawlenty signed into law earlier this week did not … more →

Tags: Minnesota, Education, Tim Pawlenty, Education reform, Education Policy, Achievement gap, Q Comp

Free to Teach: What America's Teachers Say about Teaching in Public and Private Schools13 comments

Greg Forster wrote 1 month ago: (Guest post by Greg Forster) Today the Friedman Foundation releases Free to Teach: What America … more →

Tags: teacher union, competitive effects, Research Reports, Greg Forster, Christian D'Andrea, Free to Teach

Rubber Room Rules6 comments

Jay P. Greene wrote 2 months ago: You…administrator…bastards…still…can’t…fire me!!!! Matt has done a great job of describing how we c … more →

Tags: teacher union

Rock Star Pay for Rock Star Teachers Part Trois8 comments

matthewladner wrote 2 months ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) A few months ago I got an angry email from an Arizona teacher claimin … more →

Tags: Teacher pay, Goldwater Institute, Matthew Ladner, value added assessment

Rock Star Pay for Rock Star Teachers Part Deux9 comments

matthewladner wrote 2 months ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Last year I was reading the comments section of a newstory online, an … more →

Tags: class size myth, Teacher pay, Matthew Ladner, class size, Goldwater Institute

Rock Star Pay for Rock Star Teachers!

matthewladner wrote 2 months ago: (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The Goldwater Institute released a new study today titled New Millen … more →

Tags: Teacher pay, Goldwater Institute, Greg Stone, Mark Francis, Matthew Ladner

Obama Echoes Bush on Education Ideas

veronicalynne wrote 3 months ago: President Barack Obama campaigned on a message of change, but when it comes to K-12 education, he ap … more →

Tags: Breaking News, Politics, administration, obama, stimulus, George Bush, Performance-based pay

Tuesday Schools Round-up - Teacher Performance Pay/Colleges like rich kids/Low grad rates at HBCUs

jamessanna wrote 3 months ago: Photo: Smitten Kitchen Good afternoon (eesh! I need to get this out earlier!), and welcome to Tuesda … more →

Tags: Minneapolis, National, Minnesota, Education, budget crisis, Education funding, Achievement gap, News, Stimulating Stimuli

A High Stakes Training Program

robynschein wrote 3 months ago: Imagine on your first day of work walking into a board room filled with 30 of your company’s most im … more →

Tags: Education, Minnesota Meeting, Professional Development

A Matter of Urgency for Minnesota

robynschein wrote 3 months ago: Education Trust’s Kati Haycock pointed out that sustaining teachers is a greater challenge than recr … more →

Tags: Education, Teach For America, Education Trust, Professional Development, Recruitment

A Toast-y Thursday's Round-up (3/26/09)

jamessanna wrote 3 months ago: Why toasty, if the thermometer didn’t break 30 degrees today in the Twin Cities?  Read on, dea … more →

Tags: Minneapolis, St. Paul, National, Minnesota, Education, Minneapolis Public Schools, Education funding, News, Q Comp

Leave Nothing to Chance

robynschein wrote 3 months ago: Recruiting and retaining high quality teachers is a high risk game. We all make mistakes at work fro … more →

Tags: Education reform, Professional Development

Raising Expectations: Strategies for Reform1 comment

robynschein wrote 3 months ago: Peter Hutchinson, Kati Haycock and Rudy Crew discuss the issue of teacher quality. Today, over 600 … more →

Tags: Achievement gap, Education reform, Minnesota Meeting

What makes a good teacher? 2 comments

jamessanna wrote 4 months ago: (h/t Mary Turk at the Daily Planet) Kay Thompson Peters, a teacher at St Paul’s Central High S … more →

Tags: Minnesota, Education, Education reform, Education Policy, St. Paul Public Schools


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