Category: Teacher Unions
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How Troubled Pension Systems are Hurting the Teaching Profession
Flawed teacher pension systems are hurting teachers and undermining their profession.
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Disrupted: Public-education Reform in the Nation’s Capital
The District of Columbia Public Schools have undergone one of the most ambitious, most controversial, and most successful, school reform campaigns in the nation.
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How D.C. Schools Are Revolutionizing Teaching
D.C.’s traditional public schools, once among the nation’s worst, have become magnets for some of America’s best educators.
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A New Era in the Battle Over Teacher Evaluations
The Obama administration encouraged more robust ways of assessing which educators were doing a good job. Will its legacy last?
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Education Schools: Deja Vu All Over Again
The crisis in teacher education, circa 1981.
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Evaluating Teachers
A panel discussion on the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers
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School Reform-It’s Complicated
In his new book Class Warfare, journalist Steven Brill pulls back the curtain on the last decade of school reform, but not all the way
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Rhee Engineering Education
Has D.C.’s radical experiment in school reform really worked? A review of The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District, by Richard Whitmire
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How Public School Teaching Got Cool
Teach for America’s 20th anniversary bash in Washington, DC, proved that public education is increasingly a destination for the best-and-brightest.