General Strike? Has the NEA Finally Found Some Balls? Would teachers call for a national strike if states across the nation tried to eliminate tenure? “I would not take that off the table,” said John Wilson, executive director of the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers ...
Teacher Evaluations: Presumption of Incompetence (Image from Wiki Commons) In San Francisco Unified (SFUSD) last year, 40 out of 1,924 teachers (2%) received bad reviews. Over the past five years, an average of 2.7% teachers received marks of “unsatisfactory” or “needs improvement.” In nearby San ...
Thousands Protest Dutch Education Cuts Between 11,000 and 15,000 Dutch students and professors demonstrated today against cuts to education spending. The cuts will force some university students to pay an extra $4,000 per year in fees and lead to the elimination of as many as 7,000 jobs. ...
