With a district near Chicago striking this week, and with continuing reports of impending strikes, one of my biggest worries about the education landscape has been over the representation of teacher evaluations. If you recall, teacher evaluations were at the center of union/district tensions in Chicago, where they were touted by the city leaders and […]
September 14, 2012
Reports coming out of Chicago today suggest that there’s some light at the end of the tunnel for the city’s public schools, but even when a deal is reached, the fight is far from over. Until Chicago Public Schools and districts all over the U.S. get their priorities straight, and teachers receive the tools they […]
September 7, 2012
Click the play button to learn about this growing, grass-roots vision for students in America The fact is, there are student populations in the U.S. that have been, and always will be, college and career ready. Most challenges in education do not come from a lack of readiness alone, but from America’s unique gap in […]
October 2, 2012
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