DVR Unplugged
From New York City to Nevada, the heat is on teacher tenure. Predictably, the Times quotes NEA President Dennis Van Roekel pushing back against the momentum. However, in so doing, Van Roekel asks a great question: “Why aren’t governors standing up and saying, ‘In our state, we’ll devise a system where nobody will ever get […]
Learning to Teach … Better
Earlier this month, when the Tennessee state board of education released data showing that teachers trained by Teach For America were among the most effective new teachers in the state, the blogosphere sounded off with the familiar strains of a TFA debate. Critics searched for ways to discredit the report’s conclusions and boosters enthusiastically called […]