America’s oldest working teacher turns 100
America’s oldest teacher celebrates 100th birthday with her NJ students http://t.co/6Z9hwLN0HT pic.twitter.com/WMe2piSFiz — NJ.com (@njdotcom) January 10, 2014 Agnes “Granny” Zhelesnik, believed to be the country’s oldest working teacher, turned 100 on Friday and celebrated, of course, at the private Sundance School in New Jersey with her students. This story in the Newark Star-Ledger […]
Eric Cantor threatens new NYC mayor over school reform
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a conservative Virginia Republican, has long supported local control of education — except, apparently, in New York City, when the newly elected Democratic mayor there promises to do something Cantor doesn’t like. In an address this week at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, Cantor threatened […]
Why teachers think Gov. Christie is a bully
And the rally ends, inevitably, with Christie arguing with a teacher pic.twitter.com/YyLsoJVTWQ — daveweigel (@daveweigel) Nov. 2, 2013 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he’s not a bully, but there are plenty of teachers in New Jersey who would disagree. Here’s a small part of the transcript from the press conference that New Jersey […]
1-8-14 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Should principals stop visiting classrooms?Principals are above all supposed to be “instructional leaders” but exactly what that means — or how to be effective in that role — isn’t entirely clear. Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham looks at the research on what makes for an effective instructional leader in the post below. Willingham is a professor and director of graduate [