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• Capo Teacher Pay Cuts: Mediation Fails; Tempers Flare

  
  Mission Viejo Dispatch — Authority: 139
     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 ...
  11 hours ago

• Incentives and Motivation

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 509
  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 day ago

• Arizona Legislature Single Taps Union Zombie

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 509
  (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). ...
  1 week ago

• Blog Envy

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 509
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• UK bill imposes restrictions on homechooling families

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 521
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can’t Think of A Blog Post

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 509
  I apologize for my lack of a post yesterday and this lame post today.  I just can’t seem to think of a good post. Yesterday Greg suggested that I blog about this excellent editorial in the Wall Street Journal denouncing the Ford Foundation for giving $100 million to the teachers union to spur education reform ...
  3 weeks ago

• Senator Meeks vs. CTU

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 509
  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) “Chicago Public Schools have a gang problem. The gang, however, is not the BDs (Black Disciples), the gang is not the GDs (Gangster Disciples), the gang is not the Vice Lords and the gang is not the Four Corner Hustlers. The gang is the Chicago Teachers Union.” – State Sen. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rhode Island Eliminates Tenure

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 509
  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) ">Check it out  on this video. The unions are going ape- no one consulted them! They are going to sue! (HT Whitney Tilson) First Michelle Rhee lets RIFs teachers without regards to tenure, and now her former protege strikes a blow against the indefensible practice in Rhode ...
  6 weeks ago

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