There is no reason that I, as a first-year teacher, should ever be creating lesson plans from scratch. Yet I create nearly every lesson plan from scratch. What sense does that make?
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With the Washington paycheck protection law headed to the Supreme Court, a new and better day for the free speech rights of teachers may be just over the horizon.
Read more »Ken De Rosa and Right Wing Prof give their merciless take on Philadelphia's new "School of the Future".
Read more »The Association of Teacher Educators responds to a recent study of teacher education.
Read more »The principal of one of the top schools in the nation explains what sets charter schools apart.
Read more »It doesn’t appear that very many people in the field of education--or in the mainstream media--understand effective reading instruction.
Read more »Choice opponents in Arizona are turning to their last refuge: legal action against a policy they dislike. This is the third such lawsuit against scholarship tax credits in Arizona, and like the previous two, this one is doomed to fail.
Read more »A Los Angeles blogger takes an up-close look at the Green Dot revolution.
Read more »More than 50 million children across America returned to school over the past few weeks, and so now is a good time to consider how much we spend on public education and whether we’re getting good value for that money. This big-picture view is disheartening.
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