The New Teacher Project is part of a chorus of national education-policy organizations that have sung the same tune on teacher appraisal, supporting a heavy stress on students’ achievement-test results in the evaluation of teachers. That orientation was much in evidence when a New Teacher Project leader testified recently before the Texas Senate Education Committee. But TNTP’s just-published guidelines for...
阅读更多Last week a federal appeals court in California held that alternative-route teachers still in training are not "highly qualified" under the federal education law, the No Child Left Behind Act. 美国.S. Department of Education has interpreted the "highly qualified" requirement to allow individuals who "demonstrate satisfactory progress" toward certification to be deemed the equivalent of a teacher who "has...
阅读更多The Fall 2010 issue of American Educator, the professional journal of the American Federation of 老师, includes an extraordinary essay by one of our own, new BET8平台登录会员 Secretary-Treasurer Louis Malfaro. 他的作品, entitled "The 职业al Educator: Lessons on Organizing for Power and School Improvement," offers many insights into what union organizing in education–particularly here in Texas–is all about. 阅读更多
阅读更多The much-hyped movie “Waiting for Superman” has been the focus this week of a media campaign that scapegoats teachers and their unions for all the ills of the nation’s schools, while portraying the operators of select charter schools and self-designated “school reformers” as heroes. 阅读更多
阅读更多德州州长. Rick Perry likes to boast that Texas on his watch has created the biggest performance-pay program of any state in the country, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on bonuses tied mainly to the scores of students on standardized achievement tests. It’s not much to boast about, however, in light of studies that show no positive impact on...
阅读更多Even as the craze for judging teachers by their students’ standardized test scores reaches new heights, now comes a sharply worded report from a distinguished group of testing experts who all agree that test-driven teacher evaluation is a really bad idea. 他们的新研究, published by the Economic 政策 Institute, explains in detail what’s wrong with the seemingly simple and...
阅读更多BET8平台登录会员's local affiliate in McAllen ISD has won a significant victory in a legal battle to get the district to give teachers their full 2009-2010 pay raise as required by state law. This week an administrative law judge with the Texas Education Agency ruled in McAllen AFT's favor, supporting the union's contention that the district violated state law last...
阅读更多The latest Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools shows strong public support for a positive rather than punitive approach to improving school and teacher performance. 绝大多数, 54 percent of those polled, said the best way to turn around low-performing schools is to keep them open with the existing teachers and principal and to...
阅读更多BET8平台登录会员 has received notification that there will be no appeal by school districts from a June court decision upholding the state ban on local minimum-grade policies. 在这些地方政策下, teachers have been required to give students grades no lower than some district-mandated minimum, even if the students have refused to do any assignments or have failed to attend...
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