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Check out the article on Merit Pay, testing, and Harrison SD2. http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_test_generation
If you are frustrated by attacks of public education nationally, NEA created a foundation to help. It is called the 51 Fund and aims to provide one consistent voice to the debate in the US. Check it out here:
Dianne Ravitch offers a great opinion on why teachers are frustrated with the current dialogue on the business model. Check out this interview from NPR: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/28/134134735/Op-Ed-Rage-Simmering-Among-American-Teachers
On Tuesday, February 22, Cathy Royce, President of PPEA and Kelsey Moore, President of Canon City Education Association traveled to Denver to participate in the rally in support of Wisconsin's public employees.
Click here to find out what's happening with evaluation legislation in Wyoming.
Current American education policy is built on these assumptions: The quality of American education has plummeted because our schools are filled with teachers who can't teach. Teachers' unions and contracts tie the hands of school administrators. And teachers' unions protect bad teachers. Here are a few reasons why these conclusions are leading our educational system in a bad direction.
When the new Congress is sworn in this January, it will have to tackle the nation’s most pressing matters, including education and the economy. The nation is on the road to economic recovery, but the economy is still shedding jobs, especially in the education sector. High unemployment rates and a record number of home foreclosures are wreaking havoc in communities across the country.
On November 16th, the Pikes Peak United Way hosted a K-12 Education Forum at the Crown Plaza hotel, and a panel of representatives from several school districts and institutions of higher education was convened. The panel discussed the question, "what does the biography of the future teacher look like?"
Test scores are up at a school in Los Angeles “run by a teacher-controlled committee where the principal carries the same weight as a teacher and the district has minimal say in operations.” Source: Associated Press