When Bill Gates says, "Give Teachers What They Deserve," I think many of us can be forgiven for flinching. But over at his blog, H...

One of the achingly stupid portions of Andrew Cuomo's budgetary assault on education is the mandated use of outside evaluators. There ...

From Students Matter to Campbell Brown, reformsters have been working to erode teacher job security and end the use of seniority in furlough...

This has truly been the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. An unpopular proposal that guts teaching as a profession and kicks public edu...

The situation with education as described by the New York State budget could best be described as fluid, like the contents of one of those l...

At Yahoo News (yes, that's a thing) Matt Bai, who usually blogs about politics, has a piece arguing for more transparent metrics for tea...

In Pennsylvania, we rate schools with the School Performance Profile (SPP). Now a new research report reveals that the SPP is pretty much ju...

Last night was the night for the Ken-Ton School Board and their president Bob Dana to take a stand against the test-and-bully policies of Ne...

It appears that some board members of the Kennmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District (generally known as the Ken-Ton district) h...

When you want a bunch of legit-sounding baloney about education, call up an economist. I can't think of a single card-carrying economist...

This week the e-mail came out as it does every year. Who's willing to take a student teacher next year? Let the office know. For the f...

Maine joins the list of states that have received a spanking from the US Department of Education. Maine came to the waiver party with the ...

As the Defenders of Big Standardized Tests have rushed to protect and preserve this important revenue stream this monster program, they hav...

Regular readers here know that I'm a huge fan of Mercedes Schneider, whose attention to detail, relentless research skills, and sharply ...

Anthony Cody's Living in Dialogue should be on your bookmark list. In addition to Cody's own valuable voice, the blog provides a gre...

If you have not yet seen the letter from Cuomo aid Jim Malatras to ed leaders Tisch and King, you can find a copy right here . If you want t...