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Romney Distorting Obama Record On Key Issue

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 05.25.2012

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-- When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand...

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Romney Shifts Focus To Education, Teachers' Unions

AP | STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON — Originally planning to focus on education, Mitt Romney instead reignited the debate over his business credentials on Wednesday, wel...

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Silicon Valley Nonprofit Launches Full-Scale Assault On Teacher Protection Laws

| John Fensterwald | Posted 05.18.2012

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This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. A nonprofit founded by a Sil...

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In Praise of Ordinary Teachers

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.08.2012

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The crisis in American education is really about how to find and retain and nourish ordinary teachers. They are the ones who do most of the work, have the greatest influence, and are under the greatest stress.

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Group Writes Scathing Report: What Kind Of President Would Romney Be On Education?

Posted 05.04.2012

President Barack Obama and Republican hopeful Mitt Romney haven't been talking much about education's toughest questions aside from recent attention o...

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Romney's Wrong: States Are More Responsive to Special Interests Than Voters

Peter Scheer | Posted 05.03.2012

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Federalist conservatives love shifting power from the federal government to states because they believe that the closer government is to its citizens, the more responsive it is to those citizens. They could not be more wrong.

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Struggle Over How To Evaluate Special Ed Teachers

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 04.24.2012

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MIAMI -- Since the first day of class this school year, Bev Campbell has been teaching her students how to say their names. Some of the children in h...

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Are Democrats Wrong to Blame Teachers Unions?

Andrew Coulson | Posted 04.20.2012

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Acknowledging the real root of the problem -- state school monopolies -- seems like an attack on government. But it is not an attack to observe that government is bad at running schools, anymore than it's an attack on shovels to note that they make lousy Web browsers.

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Will Education Be A Decisive Election Issue In 2012?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.04.2012

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After a presidential primary campaign so far largely devoid of debate on education, the topic could be a decisive one in 2012, according to a new surv...

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Tea Partiers and Teachers Unions Could Unite to Defend Local Control in Louisiana

Fred Bauer | Posted 05.28.2012

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In the days ahead, perhaps Louisiana will witness the unlikeliest of odd couples: teachers unions and Tea Partiers coming together to defend the tradition of local governance.

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High Stakes Testing: Who's Cheating Whom?

Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 05.28.2012

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Let's get back to the core purpose of public education -- ensuring students have access to a great education that prepares them for lifelong learning and success -- and leave the pressure cooker for pot roasts.

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Romney Launches Attack On Teachers Unions

Posted 03.20.2012

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Mitt Romney has pledged to push back against teachers unions as president. The former Massachusetts governor said on "Fox News Sunday," "But the ro...

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Education Proves Common Ground Among Obama, GOP Governors

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 05.08.2012

WASHINGTON — A funny thing is happening between President Barack Obama and many Republican governors when it comes to improving America's school...

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Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets (Perhaps Teacher-Bashing Isn't Productive)

Kevin Welner | Posted 05.07.2012

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None of us would want to have our job performance judged on an outcome that we don't really control. But that's where teachers now find themselves.

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Teachers Unions Step Up to Lead on Education Reform

Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 04.23.2012

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The only way to turn around struggling schools is to work together -- by demanding concrete changes that make low student achievement totally unacceptable for any group of students.

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We Can All Make a Difference

Sara Ferguson | Posted 04.07.2012

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Teachers are doing art projects with the students. I've seen others come in early or stay late to create dance routines and compose music... just to make sure students get a well-rounded education. But there are only so many "stretches" we can make with resources this low.

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Teachers Take the Helm of Local School Reform

Ama Nyamekye | Posted 03.13.2012

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There was very little fanfare about a landmark change to the teacher's contract in Los Angeles. This was because the contractual change wasn't decidedly pro-union or pro-district. Instead, it was pro-teacher.

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Group Encourages Ditching Standardized Tests

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.06.2012

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Last year, stress about Pennsylvania's state standardized tests caused third grader John Michael Rosenblum to start scratching himself so hard in his ...

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Kenya Parents Attack Teachers Over Poor Exams Results

AP | Posted 01.05.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The chairman of the Kenyan teachers' union says angry parents are attacking teachers nationwide after their children's dismal perfor...

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Detroit Area Charter School Teachers Form Union

HuffingtonPost.com | Simone Landon | Posted 12.15.2011

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After a six-month organizing drive, teachers at a suburban Detroit charter school voted to unionize on Wednesday, simultaneously certifying a new unio...

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The NEA's 'New Professionalism'

Richard Lee Colvin | Posted 02.13.2012

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An NEA commission report released last Thursday appears to depart from union positions on seniority; tenure; performance pay; student achievement as a factor in evaluations; and the role of teachers in evaluating their colleagues.

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How The Super Committee's Failure Hurts K-12 Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.23.2011

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Seventy thousand teaching jobs. More than one billion in Title I grants to disadvantaged school districts. Nearly 900 million in funding for special e...

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Meet America's New Education Lobby

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.23.2011

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Meet the new education lobby. It's ambitious, expansive and, in some cases, modeling itself after sprawling single-issue lobbying organizations lik...

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Teach For America Gives Detroit A Second Try

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.17.2011

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When Brenda Belcher, principal of the new Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine, interviewed Mo Torres this past summer for a position t...

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A Brief Primer on Contract Negotiations

David Macaray | Posted 01.08.2012

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With organized labor so prominently in the news these days, it might be helpful to explain how contract negotiations actually work.

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