Former Indiana Education Commissioner Headed to Florida
Tony Bennett lost re-election for the post in Indiana last month and was appointed by unanimous vote today
Tony Bennett lost re-election for the post in Indiana last month and was appointed by unanimous vote today
But older students not showing much progress
After partnering up with a charity
Get your kids out of the public schools. Now.
Maybe if the money followed the student instead ...
"The kids are used to being monitored."
Maybe the world will end and nobody will have to make an unpopular choice
Why, that's the worst thing two boys could ever do!
Yes, meatheads are still in charge in lots of places
More than 300 removed from duty due to investigations, but of course are still drawing salaries
Government schools are ... just a mess
Jail time for posting even truthful statements that "harass" school employees
About 10 percent of the 61 finalists representing more than 200 school districts are charters
Those padded payrolls don't come cheap
In the current issue of Sports Illustrated, the compelling story of the two-month-old Urban Dove Team Charter School, which enrolls kids who are way, way behind (as in, unlikely to graduate) and motivates them to come to school and do school work with a curriculum massively infused with sports and the team mentality.
Says performance evaluations not something that should be part of collective bargaining agreements
David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on New Orleans, private prisons, drug policy, newspapers, and letting down libertarians
Los Angeles Unified School District is not
Didn't want to wear tag informing school of her whereabouts
Andrea Hernandez objects on privacy, religious grounds
Study also finds good teachers give students the equivalent of eight extra months of education over bad teachers
The longstanding love affair between Democrats and organized labor is on the rocks.
Reason 24/7 News flagged this story a few days ago and I think it deserves a second post at the site. It's about a teacher who instructed some students to draw on the faces of others - in permanent marker! - as punishment for poor reading-test results.
But how can a public school achieve its goals without humiliation?
You have the right to clean that funky smell out of your locker ...
The Kentucky Supreme Court is deciding a case that tests the limits of self-incrimination in a public school setting.
I wonder how much that will cost
Voters thumbs-downed accountability and reforms in several states
Here's what happens when the education system is just another government jobs program
Voters reject regulations to restrict teacher union power,eliminate tenure
Must have been quite a conflict ... Government money vs. accountability
There's a special place in Hell for school administrators
Threatened with suspension for refusing to remove them