Why so many teachers feel so bad so much of the time
It’s no secret that most teachers today feel demoralized — poll after survey tells us so, and it’s no wonder, given that they feel school reformers have put targets on their backs with teacher...
View ArticleTeacher to legislators: Here’s how your decisions impact my students every...
Lori Rice is a fourth-grade teacher at West Elementary in Wamego, Kansas, who has taught K-2 reading as well as kindergarten, first grade and fourth grade for the past 19 years. Her students read...
View ArticleN.Y. teachers bash Gov. Cuomo: Your reform plans are ‘extremely damaging’
There are three possibilities why New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo would ignore the position of the American Statistical Association on how not to use statistics to evaluate teachers. One is that he doesn’t...
View ArticleThe terrible thing that happened to a Teach For America corps member
The friend request popped onto Josh Kaplowitz’s Facebook page one afternoon. He was at his office at a top-shelf D.C. law firm, but the name on the screen transported him to a very different place, a...
View ArticleWhat makes a great teacher
What is at the heart of great teaching? Ellie Herman set out to find out and the following post explains what she learned. Herman took an unorthodox path to the world of education. For two decades she...
View ArticleWhy teachers can’t have ‘normal’ lives
I’m not entirely sure what a normal life is, but the author of this post says they aren’t in the cards for teachers. This was written by Alice Trosclair, who has been teaching for eight years in...
View ArticleWhy Miss Smith snapped
Veteran educator Larry Ferlazzo has assembled on his blog a collection of what he considers the best tweets of 2015 so far. Here are a handful, and you can find the rest here: Funny, but also not...
View Article‘You have made us the enemy. This is personal.’— 7 N.Y. Teachers of the Year...
Seven New York State Teachers of the Year have written an open letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, blasting his new proposed education reforms that, among other things, link half of a teacher’s evaluation to...
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Seth Meyers: ‘There is something wrong with the way our society values’ teachers
Seth Meyers came to the defense of Detroit teachers in a big way in a segment on his “Late Night With Seth Meyers” television show. For those not paying attention, Detroit teachers staged a sick-out...
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The United States’ growing teaching shortage: How it looks state by state
There are growing teacher shortages in various states across the country (despite some media reports that insist otherwise) and the problem looks like it is only going to get worse. The numbers,...
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