Skip to main contentRemainders: Summing the budget battles in 14 quick quotations
By | March 9, 2011, 12:31am UTC - From Randi to Arne, a best-of list of quotations from the battle over teachers unions. (New Yorker)
- A young teacher describes her hopes and then disappointment with the PEP. (GS Community)
- Since the city offered pension boosts to get its failed merit pay trial, costs are ongoing. (Quick and the Ed)
- Tom Vander Ark: A national curriculum reflects old ideas about what classrooms look like. (EdReformer)
- But rejecting a national curriculum could mean embracing illiteracy. (Robert Pondiscio)
- On the benefits of making teachers easier to fire. (Megan McCardle)
- GothamSchools might be the only news outlet not to publish value-added scores when they come. (CJR)
- Not many schools have applied for President Obama’s “Commencement Challenge.” (EdWeek)
- Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s education transition team has some familiar names. (The 312)
- “Collective impact” can change schools if the effort is more substantial than a partnership. (Opinionator)
- A brother’s experience with zero tolerance informs one teacher’s thoughts on punishment. (Mrs. Ripp)
- Philadelphia wants to fire a teacher who let students out of class to protest against the district. (Notebook)