AFTie Ed responds to the posts below on Master’s degrees, just after I chided union blogs for non-responsiveness. My bad. His arguments, as near as I can tell, are as follows:
1) Unions like the AFT are supporting progams right now in places like New Mexico that expand the kinds of professional development for which teachers [...]
All Posts Tagged: 'Education Master’s Degrees'
Teacher Voice on Master’s Degrees
Radio Silence from Teachers Unions
After near 24 hours, no response yet from my challenge to teachers union bloggers to defend the indefensible–spending billions of dollars of taxpayer’s and teachers money on Master’s degrees that don’t improve teaching. (It’s possible ,of course, that Leo Casey is simply in the middle of composing an 8,000-word response and has been held up [...]
A Question for Teachers Unions
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to ask my teachers union friends in the edublogosphere: Why do you support tying salary increases to Master’s degrees, when all the research says that Master’s degrees do your members no good?
It makes a certain kind of sense for unions to support things like seniority raises, tenure, bumping rights, generous [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.