John Deasy’s pressure chamber - by John Fensterwald - Educated Guess
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy was asked to talk about a career failure during a breakout session Wednesday at NewSchools Venture Fund’s annual Summit in Burlingame, the Lollapalooza for education reformers. Deasy talked about his first effort to move forward a multiple-measure teacher evaluation system combined with tenure and teacher compensation reform while [...]
Besides anger, action and ideas can emerge from the worst of times - by Charles Taylor Kerchner
My anger grew this past weekend as I watched teachers demonstrate and heard story upon story of obscene class sizes, schools without counselors and librarians, and young men and women being laid off because they were foolish enough to follow their passion to teach our children. Anger is a funny thing, though. It can be the [...]