Teacher Quality

Michael Bennet Is Securing Our Future

Angie Paccione | Posted 11.10.2009 | Denver

Read More: Teacher Quality, Teachers, Help Committee, Hate Crimes, Veterans Day, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Veterans, Senator Bennet, Denver News
Angie Paccione

I'm proud that Bennet has gone to bat for our veterans by co-sponsoring the "Troops to Teachers Enhancement Act," which will expand a program that encourages our veterans to become teachers.

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The New York Times Bizarrely Attacks Teachers -- Why?

Dan Brown | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Teacher Quality, Public Schools, Education, Arne Duncan, Michelle Rhee, Teacher Evaluation, School Accountability, New York Times, High-Stakes Testing, Teachers Union, Education Reform, Media News
Dan Brown

The editorial page in today's New York Times takes a bizarre pot shot at teachers. Teachers are demeaned by the Times as a destructive force when it comes to developing systems that work in schools.

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Headlines I'd Like to See About Chicago Public Schools

Lorraine Forte | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Teacher Quality, Chicago Test Scores, Chicago Public Schools, CPS Students Killed, Standardized Testing, Teachers, Chicago Magnet Schools, Cps Admissions Investigation, Cps Clout, Chicago Schools, Cps Admissions, Cps, Chicago News
Lorraine Forte

Giving principals the authority to hand-pick even a small percentage of students is just asking for trouble. The policy reinforces the notion that who you know matters more than who you are or what you've accomplished.

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Newsweek's Top High Schools List is Off Base

Dan Brown | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Schools, Teacher Quality, Newsweek, Jay Mathews, Education, Newsweek School Rankings, Newsweek Challenge Index, AP Exam, Education Reform, Newsweek Top High Schools, Media News
Dan Brown

Scoring high on Newsweek's top US high schools Index has created an incentive for schools to push students who have no shot at passing the exams into high-intensity classes.

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Demand Grows, Giving Slows: The Teach For America Connundrum

AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Teacher Quality, Charitable Giving, Education, Teachers, Teach for America, Public Education, Living News

WASHINGTON — When school starts next fall, Teach for America will send an unprecedented number of college graduates to teach in poor communities...

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The Single Best, Most Indispensable Essay on Reforming Education

Dan Brown | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uft, Teacher Quality, Michelle Rhee, Public Schools, Education, Education Week, Public Education Reform, Ronald Wolk, DC Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Education Reform, Nea, Dropout Epidemic, Teacher Unions, Dan Brown, Politics News
Dan Brown

We need to understand what pushes these young people out the door, and we need to provide more substantive intervention to more students sooner.

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Hey. Nicholas Kristof and Michelle Rhee! Teachers Are the Keys, Not the Roadblocks to Reforming Schools

Dan Brown | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Teacher Quality, Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Class Size, Education, Will Okun, New York Times, Washington DC, Teachers Union, Nicholas Kristof, Teachers, Education Reform, Media News
Dan Brown

Nicholas Kristof's effusive essay on DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee left me with a sour taste. Here are a few snippets from Kristof's piece, in w...

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Teacher Accountability and Autonomy

Robert Rose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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

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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"You're Either With Us or You're With the Status Quo": Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary

Dan Brown | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Cabinet Pick, Amanda Ripley, Time Magazine, Education Trust, Barack Obama, Teacher Quality, Education Secretary, Education, Jon Schnur, David Brooks, Joel Klein, Linda Darling-Hammond, Washington Post, Education Reform, High Stakes Testing, Obama Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Dan Brown

Wrap your arms around the testing mania of Joel Klein, or you're soft on accountability. Embrace Michelle Rhee's nuclear approach to administering schools, or you're a status quo-hugging wuss.

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David Brooks Made Me Wring My Hands: Obama and His Education Secretary Pick

Dan Brown | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Linda Darling-Hammond, No Child Left Behind, New York Times, Naomi Klein, High-Stakes Testing, Nea, Barack Obama, Uft, Teacher Quality, Teacher Union, Aft, Shock Doctrine, David Brooks, Nclb, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Education Reform, Newt Gingrich, Cabinet Appointments, Media News
Dan Brown

In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.

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The Economic Bailout Is Not Enough: The Case for Obama, Education, and the Longer View

Martin Carnoy | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Tuition Tax Credits, Economic Bailout, Teacher Quality, John McCain, Economic Crisis, Federal Investment Policy, Education Policy, Economic Growth, High School Dropouts, Barack Obama, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

Obama gave twelve major education speeches in this campaign and McCain only two. McCain hasn't introduced a major education initiative in his 26 years in Congress.

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McCain's Education Plan is Scary as Hell

Dan Brown | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nea, John McCain, Early Childhood Education, National Education Association, No Child Left Behind, Community Schools, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Teacher Quality, Education, School Vouchers, Teacher Recruitment, Deregulation, School Choice, Head Start, Alan Greenspan, Education Reform, Election 2008, Free Market Ideology, Politics News
Dan Brown

Reforming America's inadequate public school system--a crucial priority for our country's future-- should not be undertaken with a failed ideology. Th...

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Obama Gets It on Education

Dan Brown | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Teacher Quality, John McCain, Education Week, Spending Freeze, School Vouchers, DC Public Schools, Teacher Recruitment, School Choice, Campaign K-12, Teach for America, Boston Teacher Residency, Barack Obama, Obama Education, Politics News
Dan Brown

Throughout the campaign, Obama has laid out workable plans to address our education crisis, but perhaps nowhere is his aim more dead-on than his campaign for recruiting and retaining good teachers.

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"The Great Expectations School" Paperback Gets AFT President Randi Weingarten's Endorsement

Dan Brown | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

Read More: American Federation of Teachers, Leo Casey, Randi Weingarten, Jonathan Kozol, Teach for America, New York City Teaching Fellows, Teacher Quality, Barack Obama 2008, Eduwonk, Education, Eduwonkette, United Federation of Teachers, Anya Kamenetz, Generation Debt, Uft, National Book Award, Aft, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Teachers, Living News
Dan Brown

Classrooms are ready-made for great stories. Comprised of twenty-some children and one adult, bound by a common mission, they are intersections of you...

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