Faculty Lounge The Wells Fargo Scandal Sounds a Lot like the Atlanta Teacher-Test Scores Scandal Spencer Irvine October 7, 2016 A good read on the similarities between the two scandals: This all sounds a lot like the Atlanta public schools…
Faculty Lounge First-Year Teacher Upsets Many during First Amendment Lesson where He Stomped on the American Flag Spencer Irvine September 22, 2016 The teacher in question, Lee Francis, has been placed on administrative leave after a student took a photo of him…
Perspectives Look for the Union Label Spencer Irvine August 25, 2016 Teachers’ unions can now point to an academic study to defend themselves against the charge that they prevent the firing…
Faculty Lounge Baltimore County Public Schools No Longer Grades on Homework, Behavior of Students Spencer Irvine August 24, 2016 You’d think this was a sick practical joke for the county’s schoolteachers, but it isn’t: Under the new system, a…
Faculty Lounge North Carolina Imports More Teachers than it Exports Spencer Irvine October 12, 2015 Not sure if this is something that North Carolina wants to boast about? It’s an interesting find that this state…
Faculty Lounge Study: Minority Teachers have Higher Quit Rate than Others Spencer Irvine September 22, 2015 This is a legitimate concern: An Albert Shanker Institute study has found that “[t]eachers of color continue to be underrepresented”…
Faculty Lounge $8 Billion Spent on Teacher Development Have Not Improved Teachers Spencer Irvine August 7, 2015 Wait, spending more money on teachers to help them in professional development doesn’t actually help?! The 50 largest school districts…
Faculty Lounge Teachers’ Union Chief agrees Bad Teachers Should Go Spencer Irvine February 25, 2015 Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, agreed that bad teachers should be let go. This is a…
News, Perspectives Unions cap Charter School Growth Malcolm A. Kline February 11, 2015 Charter school growth has exploded over the last two decades and so have the waiting lists to get in them….
News Parents vs. Teachers’ Unions Spencer Irvine December 9, 2014 For years, teachers’ unions, and the politicians they support, have been equating caring for children with public school funding. Apparently,…
Student Center Teachers’ Unions v. Obama Allie Winegar Duzett November 5, 2009 It appears that teachers’ unions will oppose Obama as they once did Bush.
Student Center Sec of Ed to attack school today Allie Winegar Duzett October 22, 2009 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is planning to attack teacher training programs in a speech he will give at Columbia…
