Remainders: Social promotion definitely not dead says teacher
- Gov. Paterson introduced Rochester’s mayoral control bill, which could have trouble in the Senate.
- Klein may have declared an end to social promotion, but in practice it’s alive and well, writes a teacher.
- The economy could bounce back, but the education of children going through the recession may not.
- Whether you live in South Dakota or Alaska determines at what age you’ll learn to tell time.
- A policy brief on Teach for America finds the teachers improve with time, but most don’t stay long enough.
- TFA isn’t the answer, but it still has a role to play argues an education blogger.
- The city’s practice of overbooking gifted programs has led to a frantic search for seats at P.S. 163.
- Kim Gittleson adds retention data to a UFT report on charter attrition and finds it changes the story.
- Leonie Haimson analyzes the number of charter school opeds in recent months from the city’s papers.
- CO Sen. Michael Bennet backs a bill to create training programs for principals of turnaround schools.
- Bennet had been working on a teacher quality bill but may have shelved it to avoid union ire.
- Sherman Dorn explains his skepticism of performance pay and the studies done on merit pay systems.
- Mike Petrilli says Fordham is working to see that control of national standards isn’t given to unions.
- And Deven Black asks: can you name five famous teachers?