2013 National Teacher of the Year named
Jeff Charbonneau, a high school science teacher from Zillah, Washington, was chosen as the 2013 National Teacher of the Year. He and the group of State Teachers of the Year from which he was selected,...
View Article2013 National Teacher of Year: Public education not in crisis
The newly named 2013 National Teacher of the Year, who is visiting with President Obama at the White House on Tuesday with other award-winning teachers, is not a big fan of all of Obama’s education...
View ArticleA dozen things teachers won’t tell parents (e.g., ‘Kids dish on your secrets...
Interviews with teachers by Reader’s Digest yielded a list of more than 30 things that teachers think but would not tell their students’ parents. Here are a dozen of them, and you can find the rest...
View ArticleWhat schools need and what they don’t need
Veteran educator and education blogger Anthony Cody wrote a piece on his Education Week blog, Living in Dialogue, about a new proposal by Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of...
View ArticleWhat one teacher wants for Teacher Appreciation Week
What do I want for teacher appreciation week @networkpubliced? For teachers to not be thrown under the bus in the name of ed reform. — Michelle Gunderson (@MSGunderson) May 8, 2013
View ArticleAppreciating teachers (for a change)
This is Teacher Appreciation Week (so declared by the National Education Association), a fine moment to say something nice to or about teachers, who have been put through the ringer in recent years....
View ArticleHigh school student tells off his teacher — viral video
The following 90-second video was secretly recorded by a student at Duncanville High School in Texas as another student, Jeff Bliss, told off his world history teacher about the way she was teaching...
View ArticleWhat if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?
Finland’s Pasi Sahlberg is one of the world’s leading experts on school reform and the author of the best-selling “Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn About Educational Change in Finland?” In...
View ArticleLetter to Obama: We need data on ‘highly qualified’ teachers
Should students still learning how to be teachers be considered “highly qualified teachers“? Should new college graduates with only five weeks of teacher training (that’s what Teach For America gives...
View ArticleTeacher’s resignation video: ‘Everything I loved about teaching is extinct’
In the video below, veteran teacher Ellie Rubenstein of Highland Park, Ill., resigns after eloquently explaining how teaching has changed over the past 15 years of school reform and why she believes...
View ArticleAward-winning Virginia teacher: ‘I can no longer cooperate’ with testing regime
Ron Maggiano is a social studies teacher at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County. In 2005, he won the Disney Teacher Award for innovation and creativity, and in 2006, he won the American...
View ArticleHis last day of school, after 33 years
Thursday is Ron Maggiano’s last day of school after a 33-year award-winning teaching career. Maggiano is a social studies teacher at West Springfield High School in Fairfax County but is retiring, four...
View Article‘Life is not a multiple-choice test’
(Correction: Fixing 33-year teaching degree to 33-year teaching career) I recently posted the resignation letter of Ron Maggiano, an award-winning social studies teacher at West Springfield High School...
View ArticleWhere U.S. stands in education internationally — new report
A new report that analyzes education trends in several dozen countries says that the United States is behind in early childhood education even though it spends more and that American teachers spend...
View ArticleHow mad are some teachers? This mad
Educators who are sick and tired of being blamed for whatever woes exist in the public education system have banded together in a group named to show their disgust and defiance: the Badass Teachers...
View ArticleThose who can….
A comment from a post on the Web site Teachers’ Letters to Bill Gates, a place where teachers write letters to the billionaire about the effects that his massive financial support for...
View ArticleHow many ‘nightmare’ teachers are really out there?
A music educator in New Jersey who blogs under the name of Jersey Jazzman took up an interesting issue: How many nightmare teachers are really out there? He starts out his post, which you can find...
View ArticleThe world’s most famous teacher blasts school reform
The most famous teacher in the world is not a fan of high-stakes standardized tests, Teach For America or the Common Core State Standards. But he loves teaching and teachers, and he has written a new...
View ArticleThe problem with ‘the problem with teachers’
We hear plenty about the problem with teachers. Here’s a piece on the problem with that problem, written by Marcus D. Pohlmann, professor of political science at Rhodes College in Memphis. He has...
View ArticleTeacher who left: Why I am returning to school
Early this year I published a piece by award-winning veteran teacher Kenneth Bernstein, entitled “A warning to college profs from a high school teacher.” It went viral when it was first posted and has...
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