“You’ve made a difference in the lives of so many children,” CEA President Sheila Cohen told more than 100 retirees at the CEA Retired Annual Spring Meeting at the Aqua Turf…
DetailsA North Carolina judge has ruled that the state’s repeal of due process protections for teachers was unconstitutional. A law passed last year would have phased out career status for teachers and replaced it with up to four-year long contracts. North Carolina Association of Educators President Rodney Ellis praised the ruling, saying, “The court said…
DetailsToday marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education — the Supreme Court case that overturned legal segregation in our public schools. Much has changed over the last 60 years, but our schools remain far from equal. Ending forced racial segregation was indeed a monumental step forward for our country. Unfortunately, the decades since that…
Details“Time has been the most significant challenge,” Litchfield Superintendent Deborah Wheeler, told the State Common Core Implementation Task Force. “It’s been a lot of decision making in a short amount of time, which has been very stressful.” Wheeler was one of the presenters, who also included assistant superintendents from Stamford, at the task force’s meeting yesterday…
DetailsTeachers and others who are marathon runners are buzzing about today’s announcement that Northeast Utilities (NU) is the new title sponsor of the Hartford Marathon. But we’re hoping you’ll help us spread the news that CEA’s charitable arm, the Connecticut Education Foundation (CEF), has been selected as an Official Charity for the 2014 NU Hartford…
DetailsHow do you help your kids — your own children and/or your students — learn to love reading? In a New York Times op-ed yesterday, columnist David Bruni bemoaned the results of a new report by Common Sense Media, which shows that 22 percent of 13-year-olds and 27 percent of 17-year-olds say they “hardly ever” or never…
DetailsTeachers have a renewed spring in their step this week at Uncas Elementary School in Norwich thanks to the thoughtful efforts of the school’s PTO. Parents honored educators during Teacher Appreciation Week with fabulous events and tokens of gratitude that left the teachers feeling valued and supported. “It was just so great,” said kindergarten teacher…
DetailsWaterbury Teachers Association Vice President Ray Santovasi has an impressive resume to share with his students. The music educator, who is based at Wilby High and North End Middle Schools, performs often with national acts and is a sought-after transcriptionist for some of the music industry’s famed drummers, including Melvin “Melly” Baldwin of Justin Bieber’s…
DetailsWhile self-proclaimed education reformers have been huddling, trying to hoist more change than ever before on our public schools, students and teachers have been plugging along doing the hard work of teaching and learning. Now the jury is in. And it’s the students and teachers who can claim success. Known as the “Nation’s Report Card,”…
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The State Board of Education early this afternoon approved changes to Connecticut’s Guidelines for Educator Evaluation. The State Board acted on…
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