A case for why K-12 teachers need tenure
Why should teachers have tenure? What, for that matter, is “tenure” anyway? The issue has become a big topic of conversation because of the recent verdict in the “Vergara trial,” in which a Los Angeles judge tossed out California statutes giving job protections to teachers. The decision didn’t exactly come out of nowhere; school “reformers” have […]
Dear LeBron: Time to get a college degree (other big-time athletes did)
“Thank you,” Washington Post sports writer Mike Wise wrote in this great love letter to Miami Heat basketball star LeBron James, “for giving youngsters someone to emulate.” Love him or hate him — and it seems that more people love to hate him than perhaps anybody else in professional sports — James has been a role model […]
Summer reading list for and by teachers
Here are books for and recommended by teachers, from Scholastic Instructor magazine and titled the “Ultimate Summer Reading List for Teachers:” We searched far and wide to come up with a list of great books for you to crack open during the summer break—and, most important, we asked our teacher advisers and Facebook teachers what they were […]
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 6-14-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer Sheet‘ I have very real concerns about the sustainability of public education’ — Virginia teacher’s ‘painful’ decision to quitJosh Waldron is an award-winning teacher in Waynesboro, Virginia — or rather, was an award-winning teacher in Waynesboro, Virginia. In the following sobering post, Waldron explains why he made the “tough decision” to leave the classroo