“Use student achievement to measure teachers” is a catch-phrase or headline you might expect to hear or see working on education policy inside the beltway, but it wasn’t exactly what I expected to see waking up Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa. But, lo and behold, teacher evaluations were the focus of the front and back covers of yesterday’s Opinion section of the Des Moines Register. In addition to the main story, they featured an interview with Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, headlined “Let’s make sure we employ good teachers” and an op-ed by Linda Lantor Fandel, the Editorial page editor, titled “Protect students instead of teachers.” Protect students instead of teachers?! This isn’t Michelle Rhee talking, this is the op-ed page of a Gannett-owned newspaper in central Iowa!
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.