By Howard Blume | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. August 3, 2013 Anthony Edholm, left, and Jordan Greenwald are Teach for America instructors with the ICEF charter group in Los Angeles. “My biggest thing is I wanted to take a kid at a critical point [...]
AP Photo/Seth Perlman). By Kay Steiger | Originally Published at The American Prospect. July 31, 2013 A new study finds that drops in white student achievement often lead to the passage of "teacher quality" bills. Not so much when it comes to dips in black student achievement. [...]
Originally Published by The National Memo July 11, 2013 While Wall Street aims for another record-breaking week, we would like to remind economic forecasters of the harsh reality facing the rest of the country. Last month, we conducted focus groups among voters in Orlando, Florida and Columbus, [...]
Photograph; The district's push for so-called education reform has long been a sticking point for the Washington Teachers Union, as evinced by this poster criticizing officials Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty from a 2009 rally. The perceived capitulation of several WTU presidents to such an agenda has [...]
Columbia University's Teachers College held two Masters convocations on May 21. During the ceremonies students held up signs that read "I am not a number" and "not a test score." Photo by George Joseph
By Linda Shaw. Originally Published at The Seattle Times on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 7:32 PM Five years into the second phase of its mission to overhaul America’s public schools, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is moving to work more closely with teachers, generating interest [...]
Sunday Dialogue: A Talent for Teaching Readers discuss what goes into making a gifted teacher. Originally Published in The New York Times, May 4, 2013 Readers React As a former teacher, I could not agree more with Mr. Greene. There is a dangerous myth [...]
By David Greene | Originally Published in The New York Times, April 30, 2013 To the Editor: What makes a great teacher? Not every college graduate is cut out to teach, regardless of his or her innate intelligence, G.P.A. or previous career success. Only those with specific [...]
Working Together For Effective Reform In America's Public Schools Mostly we hear bickering; we play the blame game. In education, the topic thought to be the great uniter we see divisiveness more than we might imagine. The "Right" and "Left" split along party lines while each [...]
