Teacher Accountability

Stop the Education "Blame Game": Let's Get Real About Accountability

Lydia Dobyns | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Innovation Education, New Tech Network, School Assessment, Technology Education, Teacher Accountability, Ntn, Education News

If we want our teachers to succeed, we need to stop blaming them and offer new habits. Transforming our schools will demand real resources and real reform built on a commitment to change some of our behaviors.

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Empower Effective Teachers -- Get Out of Our Way!

Larry Strauss | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Public Education System, Empowering Teachers, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Responsibility, Education System, Effective Teaching, Fixing Education System, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Accountability, Education News

We cannot begin to fix our education system until we get everyone in power to recognize the falseness of the military-corporate-education analogy, until we accept the absolute stupidity of executive-ruled schools.

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The Global Search for Education: Change Leader

C. M. Rubin | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Dylan William, Global Education, Sir Ken Robinson, Canadian Education System, Higher Order Skills, Michael Fullan, Education Reform, Global Search for Education, Change Leader, 21st Century Skills, Standardized Testing, PISA Test, Teacher Accountability, The Wrong Drivers for Education System Reform, C. M. Rubin, Achievement Gap, Education News

Michael Fullan has been working to identify the right drivers for whole system education reform. His paper, "Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform," has stimulated considerable interest from educators around the world.

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Dennis Van Roekel: The NEA Plan For Teacher Accountability

| Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Education Standards, Teacher Evaluations, Education Nation, National Education Association, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Assessment, Education Reform, Nea, Professional Standards, Dennis Van Roekel, Video, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation’s The Learning Curve blog. Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, w...

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Teachers Unions: All For Accountability... In Theory

Bob Bowdon | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Education, National Education Association, Teachers Unions, Teachers Union, Education Reform, Teachers, Teacher Accountability, Teachers Accountability, Education News

There's an easy way to predict whether teachers unions will oppose an accountability proposal. Just find out if the plan would lead to actual dismissals of poorly performing teachers.

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WATCH: Focus On Accountability In Schools Deemed Too Narrow

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Education News, National Academy of Sciences, Video, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Teacher Accountability, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Reports, Studies, Value-Added, Education News

NEW YORK -- Education policies pushing more tests haven't necessarily led to more learning, according to a new National Research Council report. "W...

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Teacher Accountability: Father vs. Son

Tony Zini | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Education, Education Reform, Teacher Accountability, Education News

I am in a back and forth via email with an individual with whom I have had vigorous debate on public education. The person I am talking about is my dad! It is a father/son smack down via the blogosphere!

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Is 'Accountability' Only For Teachers?

Joel Shatzky | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: Willard Lanham, City Time Scandal, Mayor Bloomberg, Teacher Accountability, School Scandal, New York Public Schools, New York Schools, Teachers, School Fraud, Education News

The latest NYC school scandal doesn't involve test scores or arbitrary school closings, but something more relevant to the way in which schools are being run: the bottom line.

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Meaningful Education Reform Needs Parents

Elizabeth Hampton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Improvement Grants, Student-Accountability, Education Policy, Teacher Accountability, Turnaround Schools, Harlem Children's Zone, Accountability, Parents, Education Reform, Education News

Without support and buy-in from the school community, i.e. teachers, parents, and students, these turnaround initiatives are nothing more than a well-intentioned rearrangement of furniture.

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Obama And Education Reform: Deborah Kenny Responds

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msnbc, President Obama, Tom Brokaw, Harlem Village Academies, Teacher Accountability, Deborah Kenny, Obama, Education Reform, Barack Obama, State of the Union, Video, Education News

Deborah Kenny, founder and chief executive of Harlem Village Academies, says the essential education takeaway from President Obama's State of the Unio...

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Educational Productivity and the Reform Wars

Conor Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ulrich Boser, Valerie Strauss, Teacher Accountability, Poverty, Teachers' Unions, Teach for America, Educational Productivity, Teaching, Education Reform, Politics, Center for American Progress, Education News

We can improve education without solving poverty first. Demographics are no excuse for ineffective education spending.

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John Legend, Do Not Help the Accountability Hawks Drive Music From the Classroom

John Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Legend, Education Reform, Teacher Accountability, Blame Game, Michelle Rhee, Bruce Springsteen, Education News

Mr. Legend, yes we can close the achievement gap, but we can not do so by driving "Yes We Can" and other music from our poor schools.

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One is Not Enough: Let's Get Teacher Accountability Right

Tony Zini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Standardized Tests, Teacher Accountability, Education Reform, Education, Education News

If we hope to truly create a world class educational system we must have accountability. This accountability must extend to all administrators as well.

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The Best Way to Recruit Teachers is to Promote Teaching

Heather Wolpert-Gawron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle School, Education, Teachers, Teacher Training, Teacher Accountability, Teachings, Education News

I want to remind many teachers who are here now why they already are the best and the brightest. To do both takes promoting what makes teaching so wonderful and unique.

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Waiting for the Teachers' Union

Joel Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Davis Guggenheim, Teachers Union, Waiting for Superman, Education Reform, Charter Schools, A Nation at Risk, KIPP Charter Schools, Teacher Accountability, Harlem Success Academy, Harlem Children's Zone, Public Education, Geoffrey Canada, Impact News

"Waiting for 'Superman' " shines a much-needed spotlight on the status quo and the people who benefit from and defend it.

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Thriving Charter Schools Need Fairness, Not Favors

James Merriman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlem, New York City Department of Education, Education, Special Education, Charter Schools, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Perkins, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Harlem Children's Zone, Education Reform, Teacher-Accountability, New York News

Having become identified with charter schools, it is only human nature for the Department of Ed to be tempted to tilt the playing field in their favor. That would be a mistake.

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Teacher Accountability and Autonomy

Robert Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Justice, Responsibility, Autonomy, Freedom, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Quality, Education, Teachers, Teaching, Politics News

Accountability is only fair and possible when teachers have the freedom, the autonomy, to use all the tools at their disposal in the manner the best serves them and their students

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