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• Swimming Up-Stream: The DC Schools System

  
  Wolf Howling — Authority: 589
  There is some very good news out of what has long been the worst public school system in America - the DC public schools. Michelle Rhee was brought in to work changes - and she appears to be working miracles against fierce opposition from the teachers union. This from the WSJ : The Washington, D.C., public school ...
  6 days ago

• Board puts a gun to the heads of D207 teachers.

  
  Fred Klonsky's blog — Authority: 432
  Maine Township District 207, a district that many of our students go to after leaving middle school, includes three nearby high schools. The teachers are represented by the Maine Teachers Association. They have a contract. The District 207 board wants the MTA to tear the contract up, accept pay freezes and still ...
  6 days ago

• Unions About to Destroy Lauded DC Voucher Program

  
  Axis of Right — Authority: 135
  I was once under the impression that once a government program was enacted it went on forever .  I was wrong! In the $1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion) spending bill which whisked through Congress this weekend, funding for the much lauded DC School Voucher program are being cut:  current students can finish their ...
  1 week ago

• State schools admit they do not push gifted pupils because they don’t want to promote ‘elitism’

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 435
  And you wonder why your kids sleep in class?As many as three-quarters of state schools are failing to push their brightest pupils because teachers are reluctant to promote ‘elitism’, an Ofsted study says today.Are teachers unions the reason for this?Many teachers are not convinced of the importance of providing ...
  1 week ago

• Capo Teacher Pay Cuts: Mediation Fails; Tempers Flare

  
  Mission Viejo Dispatch — Authority: 138
     In June the Capo School District demanded a 10% compensation concession from the Teacher’s Union (CUEA), providing six options from which the union could choose to reach the 10% goal.  Teachers have since hit the streets with pickets, and hundreds of teachers planned to protest at the Capo Board meeting ...
  1 week ago

• Incentives and Motivation

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 528
  Surely we can find a happy medium? (Guest post by Greg Forster) I’ve just read a fascinating article – Frederick Herzberg’s “One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?” from the Harvard Business Review . The 1987 version, an update of the original 1968 article of the same title, went on to become ...
  1 week ago

• Arizona Legislature Single Taps Union Zombie

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 528
  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) The movie Zombieland delivers a humorous take the zombie movie genre. The protaganist is a person who has survived the outbreak of zombe-ism by following a set of self-developed rules. “Cardio” is rule number one (i.e. stay in shape so you can out run the zombies when necessary). ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blog Envy

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 528
  I’m suffering from blog envy.  Other blogs have had some great posts — much better than what I’ve come up with recently.  If I can’t beat them I might as well link to them and poach their material. First, Brian Kisida has a superb post at Mid-Riffs  on the predictable waste and banality of consultant ...
  2 weeks ago

• What helps kids to learn? Parents, teacher unions or education bureacrats?

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 553
  Christine Kim What’s the best way to help children do well in school? On the one hand, social conservatives on the right favor the traditional family structure, complete with a father who lives in the home and is an involved parent. Parents have an incentive to help children do well in school because they ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Jersey Teachers’ Union’s ‘Electile Dysfunction’ for Corzine Explained

  
  Big Government — Authority: 819
  An interesting document found its way to my inbox last weekend. It was a PowerPoint presentation of an analysis done by the New Jersey Education Association, regarding its efforts to re-elect Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine. The document can be found at NEAexposed.com . Citing “Electile Dysfunction,” meaning ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK bill imposes restrictions on homechooling families

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 553
  Story at LifeSiteNews . (H/T Andrew) Excerpt: The British government announced last week their acceptance of the Badman Review of home education and introduced the new Children, Schools and Families Bill that will require home educated children to be registered with the local authorities. [...]Homeschooling ...
  3 weeks ago

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