A Sound Deal on Teacher Evaluations
NY Times Editorial
Thanks to an agreement brokered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York has moved a step closer to carrying out the statewide teacher evaluation system it promised two years ago in return for $700 million from the federal Race…
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What All Students Need from All Teachers
(Originally titled “Teach Up for Excellence”)
Marshall Memo - 423
In this Educational Leadership article, differentiation guru Carol Ann Tomlinson (University of Virginia) and EDEquity founder Edwin Lou Javius note that until quite recently, U.S. schools were legally segregated and unequal based on race. Today, there is…
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Seven misconceptions about how students learn
Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what people don’t know that hurts them. It’s what they do know that just ain’t so.”
That’s the introduction to a…
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Just Lin, Baby! 10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us Before We Go To Work Monday Morning
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Reasonable doubt on teacher evaluation
My guest is Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He writes the …
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Senior writer for The Education Trust…
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Cuomo and the schools
Fred LeBrun, Commentary
Albany Times Union
Thanks to Carol Corbett-Burris for referring this commentary to us.
Published 08:32 p.m., Saturday, February 4, 2012…
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Actress
Make It Fair for All…
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New teacher decries lesson plan gap
Maybe Bruce Friedrich raised the lesson plan issue because he was so out of sync with the recent college graduates who were the other Teach for America instructors at his Baltimore high school. He was 40. He…
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Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off on January 28, 1986.
January 27th, 2012
02:06 PM ET…
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An L.A. teacher reviews her review
Evaluations don't take into account the real world of today's Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms.
 Members of the Cleveland High School forensic team are seen enjoying a humorous monologue…
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‘Shut up and teach’: The high stakes of teacher voice
Hechinger Report
I remember the…
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How to grade a teacher
LA Times Editorial
United Teachers Los Angeles and the school district should get behind a teacher-led evaluation system.
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January 28, 2012
Ritalin Gone Wrong
By L. ALAN SROUFE
NY Times
THREE million children in this country take drugs for problems in focusing. Toward the end of last year, many of their parents were deeply alarmed because there was a shortage of drugs like Ritalin and Adderall that they…
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