Please read the article below and respond to it in the comments section of this post. Majority of states lining up to ditch No Child Left Behind Educators say Bush-era law leads to counterproductive ‘teaching to the test’ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44693695/ns/today-education_nation/
Action Alert August 29, 2011 Rectal Injection Bill Escapes from Committee; Contact Assembly and Senate to Kill This Bad Measure The CTA-opposed measure, SB 161, requiring school employees to rectally administer the drug valium to students experiencing epileptic seizures while in classes, is in the full Assembly, where it could be heard as early [...]
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Educators have great ideas about how education should be reformed in America. Most of these ideas have nothing to do with using the standardized tests that are choking off the joy of teaching and learning. Unfortunately, we don’t spend enough time sharing those ideas with eachother, let alone with those outside of education. The people [...]
From NEA’s “The Opening Bell”: The Commercial Appeal (TN) (2/24, Roberts) reports, “Last week, a bill that would eliminate collective bargaining through teachers’ unions passed in the” Tennessee “state Senate Education Committee,” and another measure “has been introduced in the state House to end payroll deduction of public-sector union dues. Without a bargaining unit, city [...]
From NEA’s “Opening Bell”: The Los Angeles Times (2/10, Watanabe) says the California Board of Education met Wednesday and the panel “put the brakes on” the parent trigger law, which “gives parents the right to force major reforms at low-performing schools.” The board “took no action on proposed regulations to implement the law but instead [...]
From NEA’s “The Opening Bell”: The Orlando Sentinel (2/4, Postal) reported that Florida lawmakers “are again pushing to adopt a merit-pay bill that would overhaul how teachers are evaluated and paid – relying heavily on tests to judge their quality – and end tenure for new instructors. It’s [an] effort similar to last year’s, which [...]
Appearantly we do not test enough… From the NEA’s “The Opening Bell”: Noting that using value-added teaching assessments is not feasible for subjects that are not tested as systematically as core subjects, Education Week (2/1, Sawchuk) reports on the quest by “teachers’ unions, content-area experts, and administrators in many states and communities” to find “measures [...]