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June 16, 2014
Good teachers are an incredibly important variable in student success. Last year, a Harvard researcher found that students taught by an incompetent teacher lose more […]
June 15, 2014
This morning’s New York Times features a long article on the deleterious impact of higher academic standards on a captivating nine-year-old boy. Unfortunately, the article […]
June 13, 2014
Mike Petrelli in the New York Times: Tenure reform is no education game-changer. Tenure is just one part of a dysfunctional approach to human resource […]
June 12, 2014
I regularly follow the mishigas at Lakewood Public Schools, largely because the district is a useful caricature of the educational inequity that pockmarks New Jersey’s […]
June 12, 2014
Today’s WHYY Newsworks: The New Jersey Education Association, N.J.’s primary teacher union, is suing Gov. Chris Christie for reneging on a legally-mandated $2.4 billion pension […]
June 11, 2014
Playing a little catch-up today, but here’s some links to some reactions to the L.A. County Superior Court ruling on Vergara v. California: RealClearEducation: “Sixty […]