- A study reports that teachers with good value-added scores are the ones principals hire anyway.
- The final version of the common core standards for math and reading were released today.
- The D.C. teachers union ratified its new teachers contract, produced after years of negotiations.
- The first research on Denver’s pay-for-performance plan shows reported positive results.
- A new study (pdf) reports that teachers’ effectiveness is unrelated to the colleges they attended.
- The state teachers union posted a long Q & A explaining the new teacher evaluation plan.
- The Hechinger Report has a handy map of which states applied to each round of Race to the Top.
- GOOD magazine’s “guide to education innovation” includes a lot of online learning.
- The city says its push towards virtual education is not a strategy to replace teachers.
- And in honor of today’s start of the National Spelling Bee, here’s the “top ten spelling bee freak-outs.”