Wednesday, November 2, 2011

This Week In Education: Teaching: Resorting To Heavy-Handed Screening

This Week In Education: Teaching: Resorting To Heavy-Handed Screening:

Teaching: Resorting To Heavy-Handed Screening

Image001 (6)Newark isn't the only place where things aren't going particularly smoothly these days. Come to think of it, most big city districts seem full of divisions and disputes. One of several challenges the teachers union in Chicago has made against Board of Education initiatives includes an attempt to block further use of an online survey called TeacherFit (Union files complaint over 'TeacherFit' survey Tribune, Union challenge to teacher screening test faces hurdles Catalyst). Without much explanation or justification, Chicago officials