North Carolina’s public school children could return in August to very different classrooms if the state Senate budget is passed. The proposal is up for a second vote today before moving on to the House. It reduces the number of teacher assistants and pre-kindergarten slots, and it removes the cap on kindergarten-through-second-grade class sizes. Read […]
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 this piece he writes about whether the emphasis that American school reformers put on “teacher effectiveness” is really the best approach to improving student achievement. He […]
The annual Met Life Survey of the American Teacher is out. There are hardly any surprises. Principals (who are also surveyed) and teachers are feeling the effects of declining budgets, and being asked to do more with less creates a great deal of stress for our educators. Some noteworthy findings: More than half of principals […]
