NEW YORK — One morning, just before classes at New York City’s Quest to Learn Middle School broke for lunch, Etai Kurtzman found himself transformed into a lemon tree. It was a warm day in la...
Whether the use of outside evaluators — or any particular approach to evaluating teachers — improves teaching in the long run remains an open question. The post New York teachers hate the i...
NEW ORLEANS – Kaycee Eckhardt, a former charter school teacher in New Orleans, has decidedly mixed feelings about teachers unions. She believes they play an important role on certain issues, in...
https://hechingerreport.org/charter-schools-need-teachers-unions/
As a fifth grade student in Clarksville, Tenn., a small city near Nashville, I constantly got in trouble. Just about every day, I came home with a pink slip. I didn’t always know what I’d don...
The pressure is on teachers this year. Students are preparing to be tested on the new, tougher Common Core State Standards in over 40 states where, in many cases, teachers will be evaluated on th...
https://hechingerreport.org/deeper-learning-improves-student-outcomes/
The sprawling second floor of the Sheraton Boston Hotel is swarming with teachers. They’ve traveled from 17 states for the Common Core Now Institute, a two-day conference held by Solution Tree,...
Twenty-five years ago, when dwindling enrollment at Wilson College in Pennsylvania threatened to close its doors, a swell of opposition by staff and students stopped it. This year, the college wi...
https://hechingerreport.org/facing-money-enrollment-squeeze-still-womens-colleges-go-coed/
This summer, nearly 100 new and veteran teachers from the New York City public schools became students themselves. The subject? How to introduce blended learning into their classrooms. Blended l...
https://hechingerreport.org/teachers-figure-turn-technology-turn/
On the heels of a summer fraught with drama surrounding teachers and the policies that govern the schools where they work, education reporter Dana Goldstein offers a new look at the deep history ...
Amid intense debate about new education standards, and teacher tenure and pay, the Alliance for Excellent Education has turned the focus to new teachers – and their tendency to quit. A new repo...
https://hechingerreport.org/half-teachers-leave-job-five-years-heres/