This Week In Education: Thompson: The Growing Culture Of Dishonesty

This Week In Education: Thompson: The Growing Culture Of Dishonesty

Crunchtime: What Schools Are REALLY Doing To Save Money

by Alexander Russo

Despite what you may have heard, there are lots of other things that schools can (and are) doing to save money besides laying teachers off:

Four day weeks are

Thompson: The Growing Culture Of Dishonesty

by john thompson

A-Russ, "a hard man to please," wasn't satisfied with the six investigations listed by the New York Times of the pattern of cheating that always grows during test-driven accountability regimes. Valerie Strauss cites a seventh, where an assistant principal who was hired at the turned around Central Falls High School, misstated test growth at his old school in his resume. Rather than use the word "cheating," I would

Quote: "It's The Teachers' Turn"

by Alexander Russo

"You could argue that it’s the teachers’ turn to absorb some of the pain that they have been spared to date." -- Charles Lane, Washington Post

Pictures: Talk To The Hand (In Chicago)

by Alexander Russo

Meet Karen Lewis, the feisty science teacher who just won the race to head the Chicago Teachers Union.