AFT calls for Education Secretary Duncan to submit to ‘improvement’ plan or resign
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s relations with the country’s largest teachers unions — which collectively have more than 4 million members — keep getting worse. Earlier this month, the nation’s largest teachers union called for him to resign. On Sunday, the second-largest teachers union passed a resolution that stopped short of a direct call for him […]
Readers react to what teachers told Obama
There was a lot of reaction to a post I published a few days ago about what happened when four teachers from high-poverty schools sat down with President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan for lunch at the White House to talk about education, teaching and school reform. Here are some of the reactions from […]
All Week @ The Answer Sheet 7-12-14
The Answer Sheet:All Week @ The Answer SheetHow Microsoft will make money from Common Core (despite what Bill Gates said)Microsoft founder Bill Gates got somewhat indignant when my Post colleague Lyndsey Layton asked him in an interview this past spring about concerns of some opponents of the Common Core State Standards that his important support for the initiative has been driven by business in