This Week In Education

This Week In Education
Supportive leadership helps retain top teachers WP Nick Anderson: A national survey of more than 40,000 public school teachers suggests that while higher salaries are far more likely than performance pay to help keep top talent in the classroom, supportive leadership trumps financial incentives.  

US teachers more interested in reform than money Donna Gordon Blankinship AP:  U.S. teachers are more interested in school reform and student achievement than their paychecks, according to a massive new survey.

Board Passes Plan to Restrict Busing of Students AP:  The board that controls schools in Raleigh voted 5 to 4 on Tuesday to begin moving away from a policy of busing children throughout the district to achieve economic diversity.

Duncan to Name States Qualifying for School Grants WSJ:  Mr. Duncan has won bipartisan support for Race to the Top, but that could change as lawmakers and governors realize only a small minority of states may emerge as winners.

States Band Together to Increase Graduation Rates for CollegeAP:  Seventeen states have formed an alliance to improve college completion rates. The nonprofit group has raised $12 million. 

Union files state complaint over RI school firings Eric Tucker AP: A teachers' union has filed a state labor complaint over a school board's plan to turn around one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools by firing the entire faculty.