Tenure
Recruitment & Retention
N.J. Poll: Parent Involvement, Not Vouchers, Key to School Reform
New Jersey voters cite parent involvement as the most crucial factor in resolving the state's public school problems, according to a survey released this week.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Getting Arrested for 95,000 Teachers
In an act of civil disobedience, Rodney Ellis, President of the North Carolina Association of Educators was arrested for refusing to leave the legislative building after closing hours. He was protesting the way legislators were passing bills that did harm to teachers and their profession.
Recruitment & Retention
Tenure, Salary Premiums End for North Carolina Teachers
The action comes on top of other major policy changes in the Tarheel state.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
The Most Backward Legislature in America
The North Carolina legislature has turned back the clock on the state's reputation for having an innovative and progressive education system. Program after program has been defunded or dismantled.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Teachers Need So-Called Tenure More Than Ever
Teachers need fair employment and dismissal procedures or so-called tenure because so much concentration on high stakes testing has distorted the practice of teaching. Politicians need to assure good teachers that they will not be subjected to personal, political, arbitrary, and capricious decisions not to mention nepotism.
Recruitment & Retention
La. Judge Strikes Down Teacher-Tenure Law
A judge struck down Louisiana's 2012 tenure- and pay-reform law.
Teaching Profession
Decisive Teacher-Policy Wins for Unions in S.D., Idaho
Unions were among the big winners in several teacher-policy-related ballot referendums on tickets last night.
Teacher Preparation
Opinion
NCTQ Report Offers Glimpse into Teacher Effectiveness Policies
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NTCQ) recently released "," which offers a glimpse into changes in K-12 teacher evaluation policy across the country this year. The brief builds off a similar report NTCQ completed in October 2011, "Trends and Early Lessons on Teacher Evaluation and Effectiveness Policies" that I discussed in a previous . I also provided an on educator evaluation legislation in January.
Recruitment & Retention
Chicago Delegates Vote to Suspend Strike
Delegates to the Chicago Teachers Union voted Tuesday night to suspend the 7-day-old strike, tentatively approving a settlement brokered last weekend with the district.
Teaching Profession
StudentsFirst Raises $7.6 million in 2010-11
Education advocacy group StudentsFirst seems to have raised about $7.6 million between its founding in October 2010 and July 2011, according to tax forms released today by the group.
Teaching Profession
Calif. Lawsuit Challenges Teacher Tenure, Layoff, Due-Process Statutes
A handful of California parents have sued the state over five laws that allegedly concentrate poorly performing teachers in schools that primarily serve disadvantaged and minority students.
School Climate & Safety
Opinion
Teacher Morale Plummets
The confirms what we have known for the last two years--teachers have become less satisfied with their jobs. The survey statistics indicate that job satisfaction has dropped 15 points in the past two years, and now stands at 44 percent. This is the lowest level in two decades.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Tenure Protects Good Teachers
Okay! Okay! I know teachers do not have tenure in the pure definition of guaranteed lifetime employment that was available in some higher education institutions long ago. Instead, teachers have fair employment and dismissal procedures that protect them from dismissal for arbitrary, capricious, and discriminatory reasons after completing a probationary period.
Teacher Preparation
Opinion
Follow-Up: Rethinking Tenure and Teacher Careers
David Orphal
The myth about tenure is that once a teacher has worked for two or three years of probationary service, he has a job for life, and barring burning down the school or beating random children, there is no way of getting rid of that teacher no matter how lackluster or sub-par he becomes.
The myth about tenure is that once a teacher has worked for two or three years of probationary service, he has a job for life, and barring burning down the school or beating random children, there is no way of getting rid of that teacher no matter how lackluster or sub-par he becomes.