HB 805 -- a bill to #protectexcellentteachers -- just passed the Senate Education Committee by a vote of 6-3. #HB805 #PAbudget — Studen...

I'll give Andrew Cuomo this-- when he makes threats to come after someone, they aren't just empty political promises. He said he wou...

Conversations over the holiday break have reminded me that to the regular civilians, the removal of bad teachers remains a real policy issue...

I keep trying to write this out, and I keep getting bogged down in the many intricacies and side issues. I'm going to try once again to ...

Time's cover story by Haley Sweetland Edwards is the tale of David Welch's crusade to provide school CEO's with more power to c...

TNTP, the Reimagine Teaching people and generators of plenty of fancy-looking reformy nonsense, have some more ideas for the post-Vergara wo...

Yesterday, twitter blew up with responses to Whoopi Goldberg and the View having one more uninformed discussion of tenure (and, really, we n...

Economist Allison Schrager is quoted over at Yahoo putting forth the idea that tenure is worth cold hard cash . Certainly this is not the ...

Monday, Campbell Brown, the new face of the attack on teacher job security, tried to "set the record straight. " I suppose she did...

I have had this piece from Peter DeWitt open in a tab for days, trying to formulate a response. DeWitt, as he sometimes does, is pondering ...

At Growing Leaders, Tim Elmore ends his column " The Cost of Bad Teachers ," with a question: "Am I missing something here?&q...

"Collective bargaining is a fundamental right that helped build America’s middle class. I’ve seen firsthand as Education Secretary tha...

In the June 24 NY Daily News, Campbell Brown presented the basic talking points for the newly-manufactured NY road show version of the Verg...