Chicago Teachers: Fighting Test-Based Evaluation is a Loser
What does it take to get teachers so angry that they are willing to let more than 350,000 public school students go uneducated for days? In Chicago, where striking public school teachers have done just...
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The Information Gap
Like many policy issues, using student test scores in teacher evaluation is an iceberg—reasonably easy to understand on the surface, but incredibly complex once you dive deeper. The challenge starts...
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Same Old, Same Old: Principal (In)action
In Trending Toward Reform, we highlighted how teachers’ opinions have changed since 2007. Teachers are more open to some differentiated pay proposals, believe that tenure is becoming more meaningful,...
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Principals: The Biggest Bully Or The Strongest Advocate?
From Waiting to Be Won Over in 2007 to Trending Toward Reform in 2011, teachers’ opinions shifted significantly on key education reforms such as teacher evaluation and tenure. But equally important is...
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Trending Toward Reform: Top Five Findings
Today’s teachers face a slate of bold reforms: new and improved evaluation systems, professional development, tenure laws, and hiring, compensation, and dismissal policies. But far too often, these...
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Building relationships. The Seattle teachers union is taking a different approach that relies more on collaboration and less on confrontation, says the new president. Education Sector took an in-depth...
View ArticleTeachers’ Differing Views on Differentiated Pay
Most educators are currently paid based on their experience and credentials – work more years, get more money. But some districts, like Harrison School District 2 in Colorado Springs, Colo., are...
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Survey Says: Teachers May Be Warming to Using Test Scores in Evaluation
Policymakers nationwide are focused on reforming teacher evaluation, and many are pushing to include student test scores as one measure of a teacher’s effectiveness. And there’s evidence that they have...
View ArticleLosing Ground? Teachers on Unions
As Quick Hits reports, a recent survey by Harvard professors Paul Peterson and Martin West, along with professor William Howell from University of Chicago reports that the share of teachers with a...
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Teachers on Tenure: Change It, Don’t Chuck It
Last week, Communities for Teaching Excellence released a policy brief advocating for common sense tenure reform. The brief describes what we already know: after a few years in the classroom, teachers...
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