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• Pennsylvania Pension Problems

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 569
  Question: What do you get when you add a bad stock market + equally bad state budgets + generous pension benefits + an enhancement of those benefits + rising health costs + an aging workforce? Answer: A large unfunded liability. Example A is Pennsylvania , which recently announced they will be increasing the ...
  4 days ago

• Teaching is the Worst Job on Earth

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 569
  Education Week recently ran a commentary by Teach for America corpsmember Kerry Kretchmar. Kretchmar starts out by recalling her first year teaching 32 kids in a rat-infested South Bronx basement. This is exactly the type of call-to-action that attracts young well-educated service-minded people to make a difference ...
  4 days ago

• Did you know? Cincinnati students in “F” schools 5x less likely to have National Board certified teacher than students in “A” schools

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) has the highest number of teachers with certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (139) of any Ohio district, but the way these teachers are distributed across the district threatens to undermine CPS’ mission to improve learning for all students.  ...
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• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 569
  Should banks stay in the student loan business? Secretary Duncan weighs in. (Wall Street Journal) Which state now has the most ambitious version of a “smart cap” for charter schools? (Detroit News) What do you have to do to get tenure in L.A.? Apparently not much. (LA Times) What can graphic novels teach ...
  6 days ago

• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  Quotable: “This district can be rightly criticized for the promotion of ineffective teachers over the years. That is about to change. We do not owe poor performers a job.” -Ramon C. Cortines, Superintendent of Los Angeles Unified School District “ L.A. schools chief orders weak new teachers ousted ,” Los ...
  1 week ago

• THE TEACHER QUALITY INDEX: A PROTOCOL FOR TEACHER SELECTION

  
  Free Download — Authority: 180
  The Teacher Quality Index: A Protocol for Teacher Selection ISBN: 1416602720 Category: Uncategorized Buy: << Buy This Book on Amazon >> Read more
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• The View From Your Classroom

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 569
  We’re delighted to share two photos today from Kristi Thomas, Mt. Vernon Woods Elementary School’s  band director.  Photo from Mt. Vernon Woods Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. Photo from Mt. Vernon Woods Elementary School in Alexandria, Va. Ms. Thomas writes of her school and photos: Mt. ...
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• Secretary Duncan Participates in National Launch of School Leadership Project

  
  ED.gov Blog — Authority: 419
  On Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered remarks at the launch of a new school leadership project sponsored by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).For more than 20 years, NBPTS has developed a record of creating rigorous ...
  2 weeks ago

• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  Quotable : “You don’t want to get into a situation where a teacher is going to argue or parse words, or get defensive about a rating, if you’re interested in teacher performance improving.  I think it’s easy to create unanticipated consequences inadvertently.” -Charlotte Danielson, educational ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making Tenure Tougher

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 131
  Think it’s too easy for teachers to get tenure?  How about a system where only six out of ten teachers get tenure?  If that sounds about right to you, click here.
  2 weeks ago

• Changing “value added” terminology

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  When Emmy returned from a Midwest REL conference on educator compensation in October, she brought with her a Center on Education Reform report on “alternative compensation terminology.” Not the most scintillating title, but the paper had some persuasive takeaways. Educators and policy makers have far too many ...
  2 weeks ago

• The implications of tracking and detracking

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  Our latest report, " Tracking and Detracking: High Achievers in Massachusetts Middle Schools ," analyzes the implications of tracking, or grouping students into separate classes based on their achievement. Among the report’s key findings: detracked schools have fewer advanced students in mathematics than tracked ...
  2 weeks ago

• Incentives and Motivation

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 532
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The View From Your Classroom

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 569
  Today’s view comes to us from Professor Edward Hsieh’s classroom. He’s an economics professor at the California State University, Los Angeles (He’s also Education Sector intern Tiffany Hsiesh’s father). Nice umbrellas! California State University, Los Angeles Keep those views coming! E-mail or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arizona Zombie Association Objects to NEA Comparison

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 532
  (Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) I received the following email yesterday from the Arizona Zombie Association (AZA) objecting to being compared to the Arizona Education Association (AEA). The email read: Dr. Ladner , I serve as President of the Arizona chapter of the American Zombie Association.  I want to let you ...
  3 weeks ago

• Did you Know: Cincinnati educators admit there are very poor performers in their ranks

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  This week The New Teacher Project (TNTP) unveiled its Cincinnati-focused report on human capital reform. The report’s recommendations for Cincinnati Public Schools and the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) are similar (predictably so) to client reports for other districts, like Indianapolis , Los Angeles , ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arizona Legislature Single Taps Union Zombie

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 532
  (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). ...
  3 weeks ago

• Marcus on Tenure & Test Scores

  
  Jay P. Greene's Blog — Authority: 532
  HT Education Week (Guest post by Greg Forster) On NRO today, Marcus soldiers on through the endless New York test score tenure wars, reporting on a gutsball move by Mayor Bloomberg: New York’s state legislature gave teachers a gift last year by banning the use of student test-score data in tenure ...
  3 weeks ago

• Today’s Quotable and Notable

  
  Flypaper — Authority: 600
  Quotable : “The underlying problem for all of this is: We don’t measure this stuff. Think of Major League Baseball where nobody tracked batting averages: ‘Well, I don’t know if this guy hits .350 or .150, but he looks pretty good up at the plate.’ That’s where we’re at (with teachers).” -Daniel ...
  3 weeks ago

• The View From Your Classroom

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 569
  Check out the view from Kimberly Wilson’s classroom. Wilson is a 7th Grade math teacher at Plymouth Educational Center in Detroit, Michigan: Plymouth Educational Center, Detroit, Michigan If you look closely, you can see Detroit’s skyline in the far distance. Check out past views here .  And, ...
  3 weeks ago

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