Who’s Accountable for…Everything That Matters?
If you’re a public school teacher you are likely facing (or bracing for) some big changes in the coming years. If your state has adopted the new common core standards (and only four have not), you will...
View ArticleEnough Already With All the Pesky Achievement Gap Talk
In today’s Washington Post and then on Fordham’s site here, Fordham’s Mike Petrilli and AEI’s Rick Hess write that we are “defining excellence down” by not sufficiently challenging high-achievers. They...
View ArticleContract in Hawaii, Conflict in New York
It looks like Hawaii has finally reached agreement on a new labor contract, much to the relief of the state and the USDOE who had threatened to pull back some or all of the state’s $75 million Race to...
View ArticleProvidence Labor-Management Collaboration: Three Years and Done?
Last year we described Providence’s joint labor-management efforts to turn around its lowest performing schools. The story centered on our “unlikely allies”, Providence union president, Steve Smith,...
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College Board Reports to the Nation on Advanced Placement
We’re getting close to a million students—903,000—that now take at least one AP exam while in high school. That’s double the number in less than a decade. And the number scoring a 3 or higher has also...
View ArticleGates on Shaming NYC Teachers
More than 12,000 New York City Teacher Data Reports will be released today, after a judge ruled Tuesday against the United Federation of Teachers’ argument that disclosing the ratings violates the...
View ArticleTransforming the Teacher Profession in 12 Minutes
Last Friday I had the privilege of talking about the future of the teaching profession alongside an amazing cast of teachers, leaders, researchers, and policy folks at EWA’s annual conference in...
View ArticleLosing Ground? Teachers on Unions
As Quick Hits reports, a recent survey by Harvard professors Paul Peterson and Martin West, along with professor William Howell from University of Chicago reports that the share of teachers with a...
View ArticleBe Your Own Self
The best writing comes from great reading. To continue Kris’ shoutout to EdSector’s WWR tradition, I recommend that we all dust off some Ray Bradbury, who died today at age 91. The author of Farenheit...
View ArticleThe Value of a School Day
Districts across the country are considering cutting the number of school days. The move is an extreme cost-savings measure, one that many are saying is unfortunate but necessary and unavoidable. But...
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