NYC CHANCELLOR CATHIE BLACK OUT AFTER THREE MONTHS By Christina Samuels in EdWeek District Dossier | http://bit.ly/gh5cTw April 7, 2011 12:49 PM | Cathleen P. Black, the former publishing executive whom New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg fought to have lead the 1 million-student district, has ...
JOHN MERROW ON ‘THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHERS’, EDUCATION DEBATE: “They haven't figured how to put the needs of kids first” …whoever “they” are! EDUCATION -- By: Murrey Jacobson | PBS NewsHour Rundown blog | http://to.pbs.org/fbgLs3 April 7, 2011 at 3:07 PM EDT - Many school district superintendents -- and the mayors who appointed them -- are demanding teachers be held up ...
MISPLACED PRIORITIES: Analysis with Benjamin Jealous of NAACP + Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform It rarely gets more bipartisan than that! PBS Newshour | http://to.pbs.org/g3hKMA Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. 7 April 2011 - A new report from the NAACP shows states are devoting increasingly larger portions of their budgets to ...
Cue the Britney Spears music: “Oops, we did it again!” :: L.A. TIMES TO CONTINUE IT’S OWN ‘VALUE-ADDLED” TEACHER ASSESSMENTS + smf’s 2¢ Los Angeles Times offers teachers a preview of ratings Beth Shuster | LA Times/LA NOW | http://lat.ms/hVRWTb Graphic: Shows presentation of teachers' ratings in the second version of the Los Angeles Teacher Rating database. The red line shows the best ...
TAKING A MEASURED APPROACH TO TENURE REFORM L.A. Times Editorial | http://lat.ms/g1IXy8 A new Florida law deserves credit for tackling the tenure problem, but it's adversarial and puts far too much emphasis on test scores to determine pay, layoffs and teaching assignments. John Deasy, who takes ...
CRESCENDO CHARTER SCHOOL PARENTS SPEAK OUT AT LAUSD MEETING FOX 11 News video report | Reporter: Gigi Graciette |Posted by: Tony Spearman / myFOXla.com |http://bit.ly/eT06h5 Wednesday, 06 Apr 2011 - Los Angeles - The parents of Crescendo charter school students are begging the Los Angeles ...