NCTQ; Take it With A Grain of Salt
Back in 2010, Charlie wrote a thread on this ed reform group and a report they had written about the Seattle teachers contract.NCTQ - National Council on Teacher Quality - has now come out with another report, NCTQ Teacher Prep Review, and this one is about teacher preparation programs. I haven't read all of it (it's 112 pages). Their premise is that the overwhelming majority of teacher prep prog
Seattle Public Education and Mayor McGinn
I met the Mayor at a Starbucks (on the very day there were flash strikes at a few Starbucks but not the one we were in). He was in an expansive mood and ready to talk Seattle schools.The Mayor always talks as "we" meaning his team at City Hall. So he started by saying what "we" have been doing. It's a pretty long list:doubled the Families&Education Levy and helped support its passagelaunc
Oxford Comma - Yay or Nay?
You thought the teachers contract was a battle? OnlineSchools.com presents - the Oxford Comma. Teachers, yay or nay? (Me, I'm old school so it's yay.)
9-3-13 Seattle Schools Community Forum Teacher contract details leaked
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Teacher contract details leakedAlthough neither the District nor the teachers' union have released details of the tentative agreement on a new contract, KUOW's education beat reporter, Ann Dornfeld, has a copy of the agreement and reported these elements, each of which is a compromise on the primary areas of disagreement:It's a two-year contract.The pay raise will
