Teacher Professionals

As a doctoral student in a small Education Policy cohort, I attended lots of Friday potluck dinners—cheap wine, the requisite tabouli and Korean mondoo, and hot discussion about which educational research grants are getting funded these days. The usual entertaining...

On this quiet eve, anniversary of our national introduction to a radical idea—“all men created equal”—I have been pondering a blog entry posted a couple of weeks ago over at Eduwonkette. E-wonkette threw out a link to and some speculation...

Education Sector has an interesting new policy report making the rounds. Here’s Education Week’s take: Think it's hard for schools to get bad teachers out of the classroom? Turns out teachers agree. More than half of teachers believe it's too...

Corey Bower asks a lot of questions about bad teachers in his unpretentiously titled blog, Thoughts on Education Policy. Mr. Bower, a doctoral student in Ed Policy at Vanderbilt, has been pumping out an assortment of blogs on a wide...

Oh, Checker, Checker. You and I have led such different lives. I totally (and I mean this sincerely) appreciated your piece, 'Lessons Learned'—on the Gadfly and in EdWeek -- because it was a ripe opportunity for me to compare myself...

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