Bill Gates Takes on Teacher Effectiveness
The debate on the efficacy of Value-Added Models as a measure of teacher effectiveness continues and the well-documented reservations remain unresolved, but the game changed last year when the Gates…
New Year Brings Only Uncertainty For ESEA
As the new Congress settles in after the so-called wave election sent a strong message to Washington, it remains to be seen just what the message was. For public education…
Municipalities Advance First Salvo Over MBR
About half a billion – that’s b as in billion – is at stake as state officials and municipal officials worry about who will make up the local deficits created…
More Uncertainty in Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements
One of the more disruptive and confusing elements of the NCLB law has been the set of requirements that defined who was a “Highly Qualified Teacher”. Here’s the latest twist.…