Are teachers paid too much?
I never thought I’d do this, but I’m going to call Michelle Rhee, superstar school reformer who can’t do enough to diminish the role of teachers unions, as an expert witness on the subject of teachers.
Yet another report has been published purporting to tell us something new about the world of education. This one, called “Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers,” makes the argument that teachers are overpaid.
Read full article >>What the new NAEP test results really tell us
Someone should be printing up a T-shirt about now that says: “My nation spent billions on testing and all I got was a 1-point gain.”
Here’s what the newly released scores for the 2011 administration of the National Assessment of Educational Progress show for fourth and eighth graders in reading and math, on a 500-point scale:
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