At the National Review, Rick Hess and Checker Finn denounce the Obama administration for using stimulus funding to save the jobs of 400,000 teachers and college professors on the grounds that…this was a bad idea. Really:
It’s a fact that employment was an explicit purpose of stimulus funding — Congress said as much — and with [...]
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Conservatives Denounce Obama for Saving Jobs, Economy
The View From Your Classroom
Today’s “view” comes to us from a technology classroom at Sunset Park Preparatory Middle School in Brooklyn, N.Y. Thanks for sending in this great photo, Ms. Apfel!
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The View From Your Classroom
Last week, we introduced the new feature “The View From Your Classroom.” Inspired by Andrew Sullivan’s “View From Your Window,” we asked educators from across the country to show us the what they see from their classrooms. We’ve gotten some wonderful submissions so far and we’re very happy to present this Halloween-inspired classroom “view” from Leslie [...]
The View from Your Classroom
This week we launch a new feature: The View from Your Classroom. Based on Andrew Sullivan’s wildly popular The View from Your Window, we’ll showcase views from classrooms around the country, like the one below from Brian Woodward, an English teacher at Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Md. (He’s also ES Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva’s husband).
We hope you will share [...]
Rifts in RIFs
As school districts faced budget cuts all across the country, they were contractually obligated to issue Reduction in Force (RIF) notifications to teachers they might not be able to afford in 2009–10. The process districts must go through to layoff workers is typically spelled out in the negotiated agreements. Here’s the relevant passage from the [...]
Teachers Unions Don’t Matter
Some say. Others argue that unions matter more than ever, not just for job security but also to push necessary reforms. Our survey last year showed a mix of opinions on the role of unions in improving public schools. Now we’re digging in deeper with a small group of public school teachers from around the [...]
Good Point
Marguerite Roza of the Center on Reinventing Public Education observes that if the great recession forces school districts to cut their personnel budgets under “last in, first out” rules, they’ll end up firing substantially more teachers than they otherwise would, because the last in tend to be younger and lower-paid and thus you have to [...]
Teachers In Need of Improvement
Richard Kahlenberg* writes about peer review as the better way to get rid of DC’s worst teachers. Since teachers are harder on each other than any principal, he says, having them review each other’s teaching practice, assignments, exams and lesson plans would result in evaluations that “weed out the incompetent while preserving the basic idea [...]
The Most Education-y Oscars Ever?
Let other folks be all about the SOTU; I want to talk about the educational implications of today’s Academy Award nominations. In what may well be an historical first, three out of the 20 acting nominees are nominated for their performances as teachers: Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson and Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in [...]
When Mom and Dad Don’t Show Up
Sophia Pappas has a really terrific post up about parent engagement and teacher responsibilities. After trying–and failing–to engage the mother of one of her lowest-performing students, Pappas writes:
I grow frustrated and decide instead to focus solely on Tyrique and our work inside the classroom. With our efforts to target his needs in one-on-one, [...]
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.