Just how many ineffective teachers are out there?
by Professor Aaron Pallas
How many New York City public schoolteachers are so incompetent that they should be fired? That’s the 250-million-dollar question that must be addressed by both sides wrangling over what kind of teacher-evaluation system the city is going to build.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013, 5:00 AMHow Should Children Be Taught About Puberty and Sex?
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Teaching Values: Let's End Our Misguided Approach
By Katherine Casey and Francesca Kaplan Grossman
"Schools and teachers don't get to choose whether they teach values. Schools and teachers are always affecting values by, for…
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Thirty Years Later: A Nation Still at Risk?
This April marks the 30th anniversary of the controversial Reagan-era report “A Nation at Risk”—and little has changed since.
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Why I Cannot Support the Common Core Standards by Diane Ravitch
I have thought long and hard about the Common Core standards.
I have decided that I cannot support them.
In this post, I will explain why.
I have long…
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ADHD Medication Can Help Kids, But It Can't Fix Schools
By Nancy Rappaport
Ed Week
I think we can all agree that reforming schools through medicating students would be misguided, even ridiculous.
Yet The New York Times reported…
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Poverty's Prominent Role in Absenteeism
By Marc Cutillo
Half of life is just showing up." I once loved repeating that to my students who were regularly absent from school. Like all good quotes, it owns a perfect blend of simplicity, adaptation,…
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A Genetic Code for Genius?
In China, a research project aims to find the roots of intelligence in our DNA; searching for the supersmart…
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Some Concerns About Facebook
“Does the Internet make people lonely, or are lonely people more attracted to the Internet?” asks novelist Stephen Marche in this troubling article in The Atlantic. He quotes John Cacioppo (University of Chicago’s Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience): “If you use Facebook to increase face-to-face contact, it increases social capital… It’s like a car. You can drive it to pick up your friends. Or you can…
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Can Parent Involvement Be a Negative Factor in a School?
In this American Journal of Education article, Linn Posey-Maddox (University of Wisconsin/Madison) explores the phenomenon of middle- and upper-middle-class parents raising funds, writing grants, and volunteering in their children’s urban schools. The contributions from these parents can make a significant difference to school quality in tight budget times, providing art and music…
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