Schools are about children and their teachers and the system we have now fails them both. The reason for this generation-long failure seems to be a mystery.
Steve Nelson | Posted 05.05.2012
The latest skirmish in the education wars came as the New York Times published performance rankings for New York City public school teachers. Teachers don't need metrics-driven scolding. They need small classes, professional development and moral support.
The New York Times | Fernanda Santos | Posted 02.27.2012
In the days leading up to the release of ratings for thousands of New York City public-school teachers on Friday, hundreds of e-mails poured into the ...
AP | By CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 01.10.2012
MIAMI -- Several states that won a slice of the U.S. Department of Education's $4.3 billion Race to the Top competition have had to delay plans to imp...
AP | By CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 01.05.2012
NEW YORK -- They may still be laboring to change the quality of life for the 99 percent, but Wall Street protesters have made some progress near their...
Joel Shatzky | Posted 01.03.2012
In contrast to the Congressional wranglers that seem unable to think out of the box, especially since they've nailed themselves inside the box, the OWS seems to be moving toward Occupying the Future.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.25.2011
NEW YORK -- When New York City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stood up to face a full Seward Park High School auditorium on the Lower East Side Tue...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.27.2011
WASHINGTON -- Standardized tests should rank students by percentile and rate teachers in teams, according to a new policy brief by Derek Neal, an econ...
Jeanne Allen | Posted 11.04.2011
This Labor Day, let's resolve to change the system that once was needed but is no more. All of our great labors day in and day out aside, our schools and public institutions need the right to put results and effort first.
The Wall Street Journal | Lisa Fleisher | Posted 10.25.2011
By Lisa Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal A New York state appellate court has ruled New York City must release reports that measure public school ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.05.2011
NEW YORK -- New York should drop a $27 million contract with Wireless Generation, a Rupert Murdoch-owned student data tracking company, in light of Ne...
Posted 09.16.2011
The New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers agreed Friday on an evaluation and compensation system at 33 failing c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.24.2011
NEW YORK -- A state Senate hearing in Albany on Monday explored ways to make the process for disciplining teachers suspected of incompetence or ethica...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.18.2011
NEW YORK -- The battle between New York City's teachers union and its school officials reached its latest crescendo in the form of a lawsuit Wednesday...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.11.2011
NEW YORK -- It’s civil disobedience, schoolhouse style. As constrained budgets embroil state houses and city councils, igniting pitched debates a...
Alan Singer | Posted 07.09.2011
New York City teachers and the United Federation of Teachers have initiated a militant and radical response to the latest budget cut proposals made by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Peter Zucker | Posted 06.20.2011
In March of 2010 we had the elections for the United Federation of Teachers. Somehow, someway, the Unity caucus, headed by President Mike Mulgrew, received 91 percent of the vote.
Peter Zucker | Posted 06.14.2011
Apathy and ignorance of what is going on with education today will ultimately be our undoing. The time has come for us to start standing up for our rights.
Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Bloomberg is threatening to lay off over 4,6000 teachers because of state budget cuts. Lay-offs will devastate the schools, no matter which teachers get let go.
Arthur Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011
It's tough being a teacher nowadays. With plans like these are coming down the pike, how can you really sustain a teaching career?
Posted 05.25.2011
The Daily News today is drawing some attention the The United Federation of Teachers' spending. Namely, that they spent $1.4 million on a 50th anniver...
Arthur Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011
Blanche DuBois famously trusted in the kindness of strangers. Personally, I'm not willing to take that leap of faith. Nor are 80,000 working UFT teachers.
nypost.com | YOAV GONEN Education Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011
A month into her appointment as incoming schools chancellor and more than a week after getting state approval for the role, Cathie Black has yet to me...
Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether a court would rule that the TDRs (with teachers' names attached) must be publicly released remains in doubt; it's a question that Justice Kern wasn't considering, as she says in her decision.
Posted 05.25.2011
Newly appointed Schools Chancellor Cathie Black wasted no time before attacking the tenure system, much maligned by her boss, Mayor Bloomberg. Blac...
Tom Allon | Posted 05.07.2012