Skip to main contentRemainders: In reform v. union buy-in debate, Klein picks reform
By | May 5, 2010, 12:03am UTC - A survey finds the U.S. is likely to lay off 275,000 teachers in the next school year.
- In the debate over whether reform > consensus for RttT, Klein sides with reform.
- Dick Iannuzzi says the union is already negotiating the charter cap lift with Assembly members.
- Edward Murrow HS’s former principal, who put freedom over order, died on Monday.
- Sol Stern: NY’s tests are easier, checks on abuse are laxer, but with Tisch and Steiner there’s hope.
- The Equity Project charter school pays a lot and asks a lot, but is it a stable model, a teacher asks.
- Kim Gittelson posts a monthly round-up of the most-discussed academic research.
- Former Sect. of Labor Robert Reich calls for a public education bailout to avoid “armageddon.”
- A math teacher says the state’s claim that Integrated Algebra is as hard as the AP test is bogus.
- In this third year of teaching, Ruben Brosbe confronts a slump and the ensuing self-doubt.
- After evaluating her principal’s faculty conference, a teacher rates him “satisfactory.”
- Peter Murphy: the charter cap lift bill’s passage means the Assembly can’t afford to ignore it.
- Another bill that would end tenure is getting national attention, this time in Colorado.
- D.C. teachers union elections are coming up and apathy is likely to win, writes Andy Rotherham.
- Thousands of students failed New Jersey’s school exit exam and may drop out.
- And what do you suppose “basic sea lion enrichment and training” looks like?