education policy

Bill Ferriter, who blogs here on the TLN website as The Tempered Radical, is the only practicing teacher among a half dozen prominent education figures whose commentary is featured in the new PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the...

There's a new collaborative teacher blog coming out of Washington State that's worth your attention. It's called Stories from School and among the writers are several members of our Teacher Leaders Network. Sponsored by the Center for Strengthening the Teaching...

A new organizational blog hosted by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future will be of interest to teacher leaders and other educators who support teaching quality and professionalism. The blog kicked off on July 22nd, as part of...

Members of the Teacher Leaders Network regularly review new books from education publishers. They bring a classroom perspective to their reading and help you decide whether a book is worth your investment of time. We've just entered all of our...

More than 150 research studies have examined the impact of National Board Certification for teachers. Now, for the first time, a team of NBCTs have revealed their analyses of the research — from the perspective of highly accomplished teachers who...

In his June 17 post at The Quick and the Ed (“Dueling Manifestos”), former U.S. News reporter turned think-tank crewman Tom Toch was so bold as to suggest that both sides in the Broad and Bold debate over ed policy...

The “free” tutoring mandated under NCLB for schools with high failure rates on math/reading assessments is not paying off. Or, to state it more accurately, these "supplemental services" are not bumping up standardized test scores to any meaningful degree. And...

TLN Forum member Laura Reasoner Jones has an excellent feature article in the Summer 2008 issue of Threshold magazine, titled "The 'Ick' Factor: Do Gender or Ethnicity Drive STEM Choices?" Threshold, published by Cable in the Classroom, devotes each quarterly...

TLN bloggers, like most committed teachers, won’t be lazing around the beach this summer. In fact, they’re just getting their second wind. Renee Moore (TeachMoore) is considering the implications of a recently released Teacher Working Conditions Survey in Mississippi, where...

In the wake of an upbeat Urban Institute report on the performance of Teach for America high school teachers (or rather the performance of their students on end-of-course tests in North Carolina)… …and the news that TFA, after a year...

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