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Welcome to other side of the looking glass, and into the Bizarro world of so-called "education reform" - an upside-down universe in which up is down, left is right and multimillionaire CEOs are civil rights heroes championing social justice, while public school teachers are corrupt fat cats, maintaining a status quo which oppresses students in poverty and racism.
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- ► 2013
- ► May
- • More Sen. Peggy Lehner Please
- • Adequately funding my school
- • What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?
- • 3rd grade reading guarantee changes again
- • Backlash to Education Mandates Grows, Spreads
- • Money and politics
- • Ohio Teachers endorse Common Core Standards
- • Public schools neglected in favor of private choice expansion
- • ALEC's Report Card Receives Failing Marks
- • How "top charters" screen students
- • Exposing ALEC’s agenda
- • May 2013 School Levy Results
- • What do teachers want for National Teacher Day
- • Wall Street ♥ charter schools
- • Tea Party guide to legislative supporters
- • Turmoil swirling around Common Core education standards
- • Walmart gives $8 million to StudentsFirst
- • The Three Biggest TFA Lies
- • Republican lawmakers looking to attack working people again
- ► April
- • Michelle Rhee and the unproven teacher evaluation
- • The Foolish Endeavor of Rating Ed Schools by Graduates’ Value-Added
- • Advertorials in standardized tests?
- • Voucher demand falls
- • Teacher of year not a fan of corporate ed reform
- • Voucher opposition is expanding
- • Graph of the week
- • Lawsuit filed over unfair teacher evaluations
- • Substitute HB59 (budget bill) Analysis
- • Why are we investing more in a failed experiment?
- • Fordham hides from facts
- • Bill Gates Dances Around the Teacher Evaluation Disaster He Sponsored
- • On Teacher Evaluations, Between Myth And Fact Lies Truth
- • Ohio Teacher Evaluation System: Dishonest, Unrealistic, and Not Fully Supported by Academic Research
- • School levies on the May 2013 Ballot
- • Teachers stay strong in Strongsville
- • Exposing the real "Right to Work" supporters agenda
- • School funding disaster in the making
- ► March
- • Teachers Love Their Lives, but Struggle in the Workplace
- • How Do High-Performing Nations Evaluate Teachers?
- • Is Ohio ready for computer testing?
- • 10 reasons why VAM is harmful to students
- • Real consequences of ‘school choice’
- • Why are Ohio's charter schools so poor?
- • Charter school performance crisis
- • Stongsville Strike Primer
- • Surprise! Charters want even more money.
- • The Network for Public Education launches
- • SB21 - Brings changes to 3rd grade reading law
- ► February
- • HB59 (budget bill) Initial Analysis
- • Survey shows disturbing patterns
- • What Administrators Are Really Saying About Kasich’s School Plan
- • Stop Saying That
- • A minority budget
- • Improving the Budget Bill Part II
- • Improving the Budget Bill Part I
- • Deep Red Opposition to Kasich Funding Plan
- • Budget Bill: HB 59 As Introduced
- • Budget brings 2 dead policies back to life
- • Teachers and Policy Makers: Troubling Disconnect
- • On Teacher Quality
- • Governor's school funding bamboozle
- • Kasich education team is out of control
- • Correlation? What correlation?
- • Close failing charters quickly
- • Ohio Media Ignore Financial Link Between Failing Charter School Operators And New Charter-Friendly Education Plan
- • Budget announcement analysis
- ► January
- • A pre-budget baseline
- • ODE publishes propaganda
- • On the Issue of Value-add
- • The Terhar debacle roundup
- • HB555 FAQ for teacher evaluations
- • Working together for effective reform in America's public schools
- • 10 Education Reform Tactics That Hurt Students and Don’t Improve Education
- • Debe Terhar breaks Godwin's law
- • The Science of Value-Added Evaluation
- • Now is the time to do something about gun violence
- • $50 million. 3 years. No clue.
- • Gates Foundation Wastes More Money Pushing VAM
- • Poll: Educators Support Stronger Laws to Prevent Gun Violence
- • How charter operators evade Ohio’s automatic closure law
- • Begone Ghosts of Reform Past!
- • Michelle Rhee's Failing Report Card
- • Ohio Third Graders Face Retention Ultimatum
- • The Higher the StudentsFirst grade, the lower the academic performance
- • StudentsFirst is an anti-tax group
- • Right To Work Is A Lie — It's No Rights At Work
- • Why No Rights At Work Is Wrong
- • Major evaluation change slipped into HB555
- ► May
- ► 2012
- ► December
- ► November
- • Stop blaming teachers
- • How Do Value-Added Indicators Compare to Other Measures of Teacher Effectiveness?
- • Do Different Value-Added Models Tell Us the Same Things?
- • How Stable are Value-Added Estimates
- • Do Value-Added Methods Level the Playing Field for Teachers?
- • How Should Educators Interpret Value-Added Scores?
- • What I’ve learned so far
- • How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance
- • Fordham losses its bearings
- • Strong Schools - Strong Communities
- • Partisan purges
- • Teacher Turnover Affects All Students' Achievement
- • Support kids not cuts
- • A decade-long crisis of democracy
- • Teaching as team sport
- • Are you an entertainer?
- • Corporate Ed Reform a big election loser
- • Ohio House Dems won popular vote
- • November 2012 School Levy Results
- • State Board of Ed 2012 Results
- • Campaign 2012 Election Live Blog
- • Final Campaign 2012 recap
- • New Research Uncovers Fresh Trouble for VAM Evaluations
- • Power, Ideology, and the Use of Evidence
- • Where the polls stand - the last look
- • Donna O'Connor
- • State Board of Education
- • Teachers to the legislative rescue
- • Ann Romney - "Get rid of public education"
- • Obama's 2nd term plan for education
- • Mitt Romney's 10 best education ideas
- ► October
- • Mixed messages from legislature
- • Where the polls stand - 1 week to go
- • Ohio Voters’ Checklist
- • Kasich cuts bite deep locally
- • 2 new studies question value add measures
- • Dispatch must apologize
- • Where the polls stand - 2 weeks to go
- • What's in your portfolio?
- • Charters and their supporters failing our kids
- • All of this is nonsense
- • Education Profiteering: Wall Street's Next Big Thing?
- • Why the ‘market theory’ of education reform doesn’t work
- • Where the polls stand - 22 days to go
- • What of test integrity?
- • After the evaluations binge, the hangover
- • The Educational Path of Our Nation
- • How long one teacher took to become great
- • Romney’s plan would cut education, drastically
- • The (real) looming teacher crisis
- • Where the polls stand - Post Debate
- • Assessing Ourselves To Death
- • UPDATED: Auditors Interim Attendance Report Released
- • November 2012 School levies and issues
- • Vote Yes on Issue 2 - Had Enough Early Vote Tour
- • The Big e-school rip off
- • Where the polls stand - as voting begins
- ► September
- • Some Choice
- • An Open Letter to Ohio Women
- • Where the polls stand - 6 weeks out
- • Lessons from the teachers strike
- • Research-Based Options for Education Policy Making
- • No one trusts Gov Kasich with ed policy
- • New study - Charters cut costs to make money
- • Value-Added and Teacher Branding
- • Where the polls stand - 50 days to go
- • Are you prey to a "choice" stealth campaign
- • A narrative path forward for teachers
- • Infographic: Obama v. Romney: K-12 Education
- • 5 Romney Education Flip-Flops
- • Two Visions
- • Invest in Public Education
- • Many costs to attendance investigation
- • Where the polls stand - Post convention
- • DNC Convention Day 3 - The President Speaks
- • DNC Day 2 - Clinton schools on policy
- • Losing Sway
- • DNC Convention Day 1 - Democrats Strike Back
- • Where the polls stand - Week 1
- • New School Year - New Cuts in Funding
- ► August
- • RNC Convention Final Day - Upstaged!
- • RNC Convention Day 2 - chock full of misstatements
- • Choice, but for who
- • Erasure scandal now a farce
- • RNC Convention Day 1 - Ugly
- • Voters First - Issue 2 - ballot language
- • Kasich pushes public ed to precipice
- • Double down on failure
- • Rube Goldberg Evaluation system
- • Poll: Americans feel good about teachers
- • Ryan budget wrecks public education
- • Erasures demonstrate huge sensitivity in ratings
- • It’s not about the children
- • August 7th 2012 school levy results
- • 10 most inaccurate ed reform axioms
- • The Long-Run Impact of the Reduction in Classroom teachers
- • Kasich failed leadership test
- • Education jargon: What ‘no excuses’ and other terms really mean
- • Is firing bad instructors the only way to improve schools?
- • Stan Heffner's Double Standards
- • Stan Heffner's Double Standards
- • Stan Heffner involved in major ethics violantions
- ► July
- • High stakes failure
- • ODE shifting rhetoric in wake of scandal
- • Romney education claims: are exaggerations, inaccuracies a pattern?
- • Major scandal brewing
- • Students for sale
- • Kasich manufacturing a funding crisis
- • Shady group secretly plots against voters
- • Catastrophic failure of teacher evaluations in TN
- • Maureen Reedy, Ohio teacher running for office
- • Investment loser
- • Republicans oppose critical thinking
- • Leading reform
- • Politicians Ignore Research, Say Smaller Class Size Makes No Difference
- • We Educate America
- • Mirroring Microsofts failing system
- ► June
- • Out of Touch and Turning Back the Clock: Romney on Education
- • The New Ohio Teacher Evaluation System
- • 555
- • School levies on the August 2012 ballot
- • Dispatch dodge disappoints
- • Shaming teachers
- • Local educators counter Romney
- • SB316 analysis Part II
- • Public education - a middle class bargain
- • SB316 analysis
- • People Not Politicians
- • The Casino shell game
- • Romney - too many teachers
- • Like shoving a pig through a snake
- • The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum
- • Romney education policy aligns with ALEC agenda
- • Beyond Rhetoric
- ► May
- • ALEC and the Invisible Schools with Invisible Success
- • Top reasons to take power out of the hands of the politicians
- • Mitt Romney - Mr. Corporate Ed
- • Hard to measure love
- • A pictorial–how billions of dollars from “education” funders don’t go into the classrooms
- • 4 reasons educators must get in the game and fight ALEC
- • Gross miscalculation
- • To Sir: Where are you?
- • High Stakes Testing Backlash
- • Studies show unionized charters are desperately needed
- • Charter teachers receive "psychic salary"
- • Testing Profits
- • Tea partiers threaten public education
- • Voucher expansion pressure
- • The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
- • Opportunity Knocks
- • Radical legislation being planned
- • 5 ways teacher unions advocate for students, educators
- • Teachers And Their Unions
- • Survey finds parent-teacher relationships strong--Teachers given grade of "A"
- • No Education Reform Without Tackling Poverty, Experts Say
- • It's raining in Cleveland
- • The people's choice amendement
- ► April
- • Politics and Education Don't Mix
- • College Readiness
- • The Toxic Trifecta in Current Legislative Models for Teacher Evaluation
- • OSBA SB316 testimony and policy position
- • No laughing matter
- • A different kind of investment
- • Teach the Books, Touch the Heart
- • Experience Counts
- • Accountability for vouchers
- • Choosing blindly
- • Blind eyes and cruel intentions
- • Value-Added Versus Observations
- • Studies Give Nuanced Look at Teacher Effectiveness
- • Parents *STILL* choose public schools
- • I Don't Understand Michelle Rhee
- • Voucher welfare for big business
- • Has the Tide Turned Against ALEC?
- • Done deal in Cleveland?
- • Crisis and recovery in Chardon
- • 3rd grade retention plan could cost $500 million
- • The Crisis in American Education Is a Myth
- • Swing state education survey
- • The real story in Cleveland
- • Charters spend more on admin, less on class
- • Merit pay and the candle problem
- • How corporate tax loopholes defund the American Dream
- • How to Buy and Sell School Reform
- • Flunking the Test
- • Analysis of Education MBR bill SB316
- ► March
- • PolitiFact is mostly made up
- • Misconceptions and Realities about Teacher Evaluations
- • Poor schools can’t win
- • The real Cleveland crisis
- • Suspicious test scores
- • Cleveland teachers advance the way forward
- • Cleveland Plan Press Conference
- • Parents Agree – Better Assessments, Less High-Stakes Testing
- • Three big issues to be decided by voters
- • VIDEO: Merit Pay, Teacher Pay, and Value Added Measures
- • What 10,000 teachers think
- • Education By the Numbers
- • Recruiting the best?
- • Teachers Around the World No Longer “Asking For Permission”
- • A Democratic Crisis in Cleveland
- • Superintendents say proposed school grading system gets F
- • An Unfair Editorial
- • The "Cleveland Plan" - Draft Legislation
- • Who are the businesses making threats to children?
- • Science Fact
- • Simple thinking, bad reporting
- • Cleveland School Plan Needs Work
- • Survey: Teacher Job Satisfaction Drops to New Low
- • Data proves voters increasingly supporting schools
- • The Missing Link In Genuine School Reform
- • Union member election results
- • March 2012 Ohio School Levy Results
- • John Kasich is not a normal Governor
- • Value-Added Evaluation Hurts Teaching
- • Your vote today
- • Santorum spread thin in Ohio
- • Following the Dollars
- • Union members spotlight - State Senate
- • Union members spotlight - day 5
- • Union members spotlight - day 4
- ► February
- • U.S. School Shootings data, 1979-2011
- • Shame, errors and demoralizing
- • Union members spotlight - day 3
- • Union members spotlight - day 2
- • Union members spotlight - day 1
- • Popular modes of evaluating teachers are fraught with inaccuracies
- • Incompetent Teachers or Dysfunctional Systems?
- • Parents want small class sizes
- • Rick Santorum Needs A History Lesson
- • What Teachers Want
- • Meet The Billionaires Who Are Trying To Privatize Our Schools
- • Desperate Times in Cleveland
- • As teacher merit pay spreads, one noted voice cries, ‘It doesn’t work’
- • Ohio's Draft Waiver for NCLB
- • Frank Jackson's plan circa 1970
- • Making The Mandate Work For Both Teachers And Students
- • “Teaching Isn’t Really a Profession”
- • Virtual schools, virtually useless
- • Read Across America, partners with OSU
- • Do Politicians Know Anything About Schools and Education? Anything?
- • Mutual trust and respect
- • A Democrat's bold plan to force GOP to re-legislate SB5
- • How Bad Education Policies Demoralize Teachers
- • Frank Jackson's factory of sadness
- • Why Levy requests are down
- • The Teacher Evaluation Juggernaut
- • Overpaid? Hardly
- • Failing students, falling stock prices, and investor law suits
- ► January
- • School levies on the March ballot
- • The Michelle Rhee Connection
- • School Principals Swamped by Teacher Evaluations
- • 1,560,379
- • Unworkable "solutions"
- • Natural disaster based ed reform
- • Kids ride filthy, broken privatized buses
- • Charter schools "fast facts"
- • Teacher evaluations years away from completion
- • Massive budget cuts having massive effect
- • Czar leaves as "work calls"
- • Ohio funding formula - hearings scheduled
- • The State Constitution - Article VI
- • Packed Virtual Classrooms
- • Lesson Learned?
- • Straight Talk on Teaching Quality
- • Rhee cloaks her partisan agenda
- • Mayor Jackson has a secret Ed plan
- • UPDATED: Oops, You're fired!
- • New criteria for dropout schools proposed
- • What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
- • New Gates Study on teacher evaluations
- • Money Matters
- • NCLB’s 10th Anniversary No Cause For Celebration
- • A bridge too far
- • Stop Tying Pay to Performance
- • Where the GOP Presidential candidates stand on education
- • Teacher Retention: Estimating and Understanding the Effects of Financial Incentives
- ► 2011
- ► December
- • Top 10 posts of 2011
- • More cheating exposed
- • The #1 Education Story of the Year
- • Top 5 Ed stories of 2011
- • TDS talks RttT
- • Time to occupy the education reform
- • Test Scores Often Misused In Policy Decisions
- • The Evidence on Charter Schools and Test Scores
- • A doomsday bill for public ed
- • Teach for America ‘research’ questioned
- • What teachers didn't tell the governor
- • HB136 is dead, but will return
- • School privatization bill under intense pressure
- • A difficult year
- • 280 Days
- • The real fight over SB5 is still ahead
- • Bloomberg's brain dead brainwave
- • What Value-Added Research Does And Does Not Show
- • School rankings raise serious concerns
- • Two steps back
- ► November
- • Guest Post: Proposed education reforms misguided
- • Collaboration in reform is missing
- • 'Value-Added' Formulas Strain Collaboration
- • Common Core, costly
- • Is Our Students Learning? Yes.
- • Fordham Exposed Part II
- • Fordham Exposed Part I
- • Rethinking Teacher Evaluation in Chicago
- • Research doesn’t back up key ed reforms
- • Would you blame the architect if you accidentally burned your house down
- • Subtraction by Distraction
- • Performance Index Ranking for Districts and Schools – A Preview
- • Five School Reform Sound Bites That Hurt Teacher Buy-In
- • The diminished power of the press
- • November 2011 School Levy Results
- • SB5 repeal was a clear message
- • SB5 Social media by the numbers
- • Schedule Conflicts
- • False choices in charter schools
- • Scapegoats
- • SB5 heading for humiliating defeat
- • More crazy teacher evaluation ideas
- • Nation's Report Card' Distracts From Real Concerns For Public Schools
- • Despite lay offs TFA circling in Cincinnati
- • When the money runs out
- • Clippy as the model for Bill Gates involvement in schools
- ► October
- • Corporate money vs the people
- • Like an untested drug?
- • Experienced educators are critical
- • A primer on corporate school reform
- • Are we serious about evaluations?
- • Teacher attrition and education policy
- • Evaluations gone wild
- • Are Ohio's Republicans threatening to pass SB5 again if it is defeated?
- • When Governors Talk Education, It's About the Economy, Stupid
- • Teacher evaluations are becoming big business for private companies
- • Do Teacher Quality Initiatives Impact the Wrong Teachers?
- • SB5 Opposition beginning to crush extreme law
- • Delivering lower costs, higher quality
- • Michele Rhee's own contract betrays her rhetoric
- • The Myth of Security
- • Challenging Corporate School Reform and 10 Hopeful Signs of Resistance
- • NEW POLL: SB5 Headed for defeat
- • A teacher schools the Dispatch
- • Public Employees saved $1billion for tax payers
- • EdChoice Program Designated Public Schools list
- • Can Education Be ‘Moneyball’-ed?
- • Starving America’s Public Schools
- • Making (Up) The Grade In Ohio
- • SB5 is very harmful to new teachers
- • Cashing In on Education
- • UPDATE: Gahanna city council in the hot seat
- • The State of Charter Schools
- • Teacher Quality Is Not A Policy
- • GrannyGate
- • Gahanna city council in the hot seat
- • State budget decisions severely harming communities
- • The attack on collective bargaining
- • Turgid mandates
- • Here’s What’s So Bad About School Choice
- • Ohio charters are solving the wrong problem
- • What We Lose When Teachers Retire
- • Ohio E-Schools are catastrophically failing
- • Teacher Evaluation Reform - Report from NBPTS
- • Bad charter sponsors, bad policy
- • Checking in on Ohio’s E-schools, Part 1: Enrollment
- • For Many Teachers, Reform Means Higher Risk, Lower Rewards
- • Ohio can't wait to start misusing value add
- • Teachers
- • The People's Road Trip
- • SB5 Venn diagram analysis
- • A Nationally Board Certified Teacher on Merit Pay and SB 5
- ► September
- • No one is watching Better Ohio ads
- • A Model for Teacher Effects From Longitudinal Data
- • ODE subject matter contact info
- • Why Pay for Performance Should Get the Sack
- • Issue 2 Early Vote Rally
- • The Stability Of Ohio’s School Value-Added Ratings
- • Innovation Ohio highlight Issue 2 Pay, Perks and Hypocrisy
- • Pictures & Canvassing 101
- • The League of Women Voters of Ohio oppose HB136
- • Worthington School Board passes resolution opposing HB 136
- • The Flipped Classroom Infographic
- • Repeal of SB5 favored by double digits
- • Teacher Town Hall Recap
- • Poll finds large opposition to voucher plan
- • ESEA Flexibility- more details from the Dept of Ed.
- • YouTube for Teachers
- • NEA and AFT reaction to NCLB Waiver proposals
- • What's the matter with teachers today?
- • NCLB waiver news
- • Nationally televised "Teacher Town Hall"
- • Harder to deal than to teach
- • Bad Score
- • We're not saying it is hypocritical, but
- • When endorsements go wrong
- • HB136 The Privatize Public Education Bill
- • The Debate over Teacher Merit Pay
- • Van Roekel: The NEA Plan for Teacher Accountability
- • How unemployed parents might affect your job
- • Moving Beyond ‘Blame the Teacher’
- • Vote No on Issue 2 to repeal SB5
- • Governor blasted for "lies"
- • Canvassing 101: Myths vs Realities
- • The weakest "linkage"
- • The bait and switch of school "reform"
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 5
- • Are radical school funding changes ahead?
- • Top Ten Signs Your School is Too Focused on the State Test
- • THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT: IMPACT FOR OHIO
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 4
- • A decade of stalled teacher pay
- • How money buys education "research"
- • Simple facts about Issue 2 (SB 5)
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 3
- • HB 153 Teacher Retesting Provision Facts
- • Due process protects you
- • November 2011 School levies and issues
- • THE AMERICAN JOBS ACT
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 2
- • Teachers comments hit with bullets
- • What teachers are telling the Governor: Day 1
- • In Ohio, Charter School Expansion By Income, Not Performance
- • Why educators oppose SB5 and vote no on issue 2
- • Linking Student Data to Teachers a Complex Task, Experts Say
- • Eduction cuts hurt Ohio
- • Trust the Evidence, Not Your Instincts
- • Charters omitted from evaluation
- • State Board struggles to develop plan
- • It all comes down to purpose!
- ► August
- • Teacher Pay: U.S. Ranks 22nd Out Of 27 Countries
- • In the news: retesting teachers
- • Confessions of a bad teacher
- • Ohio education budget and policy briefing
- • A process with little credibility
- • The First SB5 debate
- • Analysis shows charters underperform in Ohio's big 8
- • State Charter Law Punishes Ohio’s Largest Districts
- • Teacher testing law is disgraceful and must be repealed
- • Let's Say You're a Teacher
- • A charter teacher answers our honest question
- • A Honest question, answered
- • Note to teachers: Thanks for loving our kids
- • Certainty And Good Policymaking Don’t Mix
- • SB5 arguments language
- • The Missing Link in School Reform
- • What's a teacher's time worth?
- • Proving SB5 unnecessary, public schools show significant gains
- • The reform movement is already failing
- • What Does a Teacher Do?
- • A simple honest question for SB5 supporters
- • Only right wing partisans endorse SB5
- • Why won’t Ms. Rhee talk to USA Today?
- • Merit Pay: The End Of Innocence?
- • Big changes come to Wisconsin
- • Grading teachers
- • Gov Kasich "I'm done talk, talk, talking
- • SB5 still double digits ahead, but work to do
- • Ohio's teacher evaluation - Flawed from the start?
- • The White flag as seen from around Ohio
- • On SB5, full repeal or no deal
- • New Poll:What Americans believe about public education
- • Parents choose public education
- • Educators Offer Solutions For NCLB Rewrite
- • Common Standards to Play Pivotal Role in NCLB Waivers?
- • Mapping State Proficiency Standards Onto NAEP Scales
- • Private schools getting more public dollars
- • Common Core Cooperation?
- • A litmus test tomorrow in Wisconsin
- • Don't mess with Matt Damon
- • The concerns of a first-year teacher
- • Brennan ordered to show where the dollars go
- • Vote NO on Issue 2
- • A Teacher's Open Letter to John Kasich
- • PROFILE OF TEACHERS IN THE U.S.
- • August 2nd, 2011 complete levy results
- • Is election tampering of SB5 coming to Ohio
- • Gates: "Poverty is an excuse"
- • School related election issues today
- • Ohio School Funding
- ► July
- • Vouchers have no clear positive impact on student achievement
- • FAQ: Evaluations, merit pay and seniority
- • The Truth About Teachers
- • Did Bill Gates Advocate privatizing public education?
- • Education based on fictional movies
- • Repealing SB5 isn't partisan, it's personal
- • Racing to the bottom by firing experience
- • Time for Governor Kasich to listen
- • New Poll: SB5 is a referendum on Kasich
- • National Research Council Gives High-Stakes Testing an F
- • NYCS abandons merit pay failure
- • Infographic: Anatomy of a Teacher
- • Our Broken Escalator
- • In a short time, a big mess
- • Union-Management Collaboration Can Help Public Schools
- • Teacher Attitudes about Compensation Reform
- • Freedom School children march against budget cuts
- • Guest Post: A Comprehensive Union
- • The Ohio voucher boondoggle
- • What Studies Say About Teacher Effectiveness
- • Civic Investment and the 'Skyboxing' of Education
- • Data shows massive and widespread opposition to SB5
- • No, Seriously: No Excuses
- • Could collective bargaining prevent cheating?
- • SB5 could turn Gov. Kasich into a lame duck
- • Teacher Grades: Pass or Be Fired
- • High stakes testing leads to cheating
- • New Guidelines on Teacher Evaluation and Accountability Approved at 2011 RA
- • SB5 repeal, the difficult second act
- • Final Budget Analysis
- • Infographic: A Teacher’s Worth Around the World
- • Teachers Work the Same Number of Hours as Average U.S. Worker
- ► June
- • Shock Doctrine Summer
- • Dispense with the Pretense to Listen
- • The People Deliver
- • Pictures: The People's Parade to Repeal SB5
- • Final Ohio Budget Comparison Document
- • Teacher Evaluation Budget Language
- • A Radical Assault on Public Education
- • What happens to merit pay without the pay?
- • Guest Post: Thoughts about teacher evaluation
- • Michelle Rhee, Inc.
- • Leaked docs show Rhee propping up Gov Kasich agenda
- • Video: Budget Uncertainties
- • Is Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson trying to have it both ways
- • How Blueberries changed a corporate reformer
- • How Socrates would fare on new teacher evaluation plan
- • BASA and OASBA urge legislators to reinstate merit pay
- • The Gates Foundation Exposed. Part III
- • The Gates Foundation Exposed. Part II
- • Michele Rhee, stranger to the truth
- • Super Who?
- • Relying on Magic: The Foundations of Would-be Education Reformers
- • The answer Is in the room not in witch hunts
- • The Gates Foundation Exposed. Part I
- • Illinois' New Teacher Law: Model for Other States, or Outlier?
- • Collaborations Between Union and District Leadership in Four School Systems
- • Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea?
- • The Dispatch should read its own paper
- • Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- • The famous 5 SB5 Senators who can be targeted in 2012
- • Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: Are We Creating an Education Nightmare?
- • An Open Letter to Gov. John Kasich
- • It's too late Rheeby
- • Substitute House Bill 153 COMPARISON DOCUMENT As Reported by Senate Finance
- • Teachers sacrifice and prove SB5 is not needed
- • Big business attacking teachers, advocating for SB5
- • Citizens can lobby too!
- • The Buckeye Institutes doesn't understand simple things
- • Punishing Experience
- • Destroying what works for what doesn't
- • When It Comes To How We Use Evidence, Is Education Reform The New Welfare Reform?
- • 10 GOOD things about SB5
- • SB5 solves exactly zero problems, creates many more
- • The Ethics Of Testing Children Solely To Evaluate Adults
- • Administration destroying jobs to create phantom ones
- • Budget merit pay - gone but not forgotten
- • Teach For America: From Service Group to Industry
- • Bringing Out the Me in Team
- • This week in education cuts
- ► May
- • Ohio Senate Budget Comparison
- • SB5 Supporters go live with their astroturf campaign
- • Time is running out to act on the budget
- • DAS misled about having SB5 documents
- • Test-Based Incentive Programs Have Not Consistently Raised Student Achievement
- • The tax loophole test system
- • Teaching Experience Matters
- • Teacher responds to Kasich request for input
- • SB5 Polling Trends Favor Repeal
- • Will friends of David Brennan please stand up
- • Michele Rhee architected parts of SB5
- • UPDATED: SB5 Help Wanted
- • The good, the bad and the uncertainty
- • Testing experts warn about use of VAM
- • This week in education cuts
- • BREAKING: 214,399 Signatures so far
- • The Exaggerations of TFA
- • A balanced approach to the budget
- • There's nothing Super about charters
- • Waiting for a Governor who gets it
- • SB5, Issue campaigns and Polls
- • Cincinnati Public Schools is first in Ohio to test merit pay
- • Ohioans overwhelmingly support SB5 repeal
- • A Columbus Teacher Testifies against HB153
- • A Worthington teacher testifies against HB153
- • Class Bias, Class Size and Online Learning
- • To Understand The Impact Of Teacher-Focused Reforms, Pay Attention To Teachers
- • Charter schools funneling vast sums of money to Turkey
- • E-School Catastrophe in Ohio
- • Blockbuster revelations coming on charter schools
- • SB5 Rally with Ted Strickland
- • Sen. Peggy Lehner (R) responds to JTF
- • School 'reforms' are doomed to failure
- • This week in education cuts
- • HB153 Whodunnit
- • Sen. Mark Wagoner (R) responds to JTF
- • Gutting education for a cup of cheap coffee
- • The cost of Charters
- • Dublin city schools town hall report
- • Stretching the Truth, Not Dollars
- • Charter school amendments likely to be stripped
- • Sen. Tim Schaffer (R) responds to JTF
- • How deceptive is Rhee’s organization?
- • Un-Accountable Charters
- • This week in education cuts
- • Lots of SB5 news from around the state
- • Dublin SB5 Referendum Petition Signing
- • Top 3 Today
- • Bad news from Worthington school district
- • Who profits with more testing?
- • We send letters
- • Merit Pay Mess
- • The Columbus parent trigger profit motive
- • Can Teachers be Evaluated by their Students Test Scores?
- • Back to School for the Billionaires
- • Full list of May 3rd school levy results
- • Primary election results quick snapshot
- • Top 3 Today
- • Events Reminder
- • Some Hows and Whys of Value Add Modelling
- • Value add high stakes use cautioned
- • White Hat Management Political Contributions
- • It's National Teacher Day!
- • The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries
- • Teaching isn't as simple as it appears
- • 20 years after DeRolph case school funding in Ohio isn't fixed
- • OSBA Refutes Education Matters Report
- • This week in education cuts
- ► April
- • GOP school privatization plan under scrutiny
- • $3.1 billion in education cuts will force levies, larger classes
- • Top 3 Today
- • SB5 vs The Budget
- • Top 3 Today
- • Congrats to Kenton Ridge High School Marching Band!
- • Canary in the community
- • Time to get serious Governor
- • Kasich looks funny on a horse
- • How to fix our schools
- • Top 3 Today
- • Value add limitations debated in HB153
- • The Limits of School Reform
- • Top 3 Today
- • SB5 Legislates the Onion
- • Outrage over school cuts rises
- • New Poll shows high support for SB5 opponents
- • SB5 signature collection continues apace
- • SB5 Merit Pay - teachers weigh in
- • The Nation: Teachers Are Not The Enemy
- • This week in education cuts
- • The Truth about Ohio Senate Bill 5 - Fair Teacher Evaluations
- • Kasich makes false claims to state workers
- • Ohio Education Matters Report
- • Anger over reckless budget runs red
- • What's John Kasich hiding?
- • Top 3 Today
- • New Study: reckless budget costing 29,000 K-12 jobs
- • School district field-tests 52 (yes, 52) new tests on kids
- • Does Class Size Really Matter?
- • SB5 Roundup
- • Education Czar ok with expanding charter failure
- • SB5 would set us back
- • The Intent to Leave: Impact of Eroding Teacher Salaries
- • Rhee's partisan political agenda
- • Hilliard Schools Budget
- • Teachers again prove SB5 is a sham budget tool
- • Olentangy Schools Budget
- • Governor Kasich offers shabby solutions
- • Voucher expansion news report
- • Petition training pics and update
- • Top 3 Today
- • This week in education cuts
- • A $715 million experiment
- • Voucher expanding Bills
- • A pernicious argument
- • Students are not widgets
- • Charter Schools and Our Tax Dollars
- • Petition training at JTF world HQ
- • Referendum is Go for Launch
- • OHIO SENATE BILL 5, AND WHY WE NEED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
- • Notes from Colorado
- • Public school battles city over charter
- • Two Sides of the School Staffing Coin
- • Top 3 Today
- • SB5 language In budget to get the axe?
- • Budget priorities
- • Search School District State Funding Projections
- • SB5 Myths vs Facts
- • GOP Pollster puts SB5 repeal way ahead
- • The "Jobs Budget" Calculator
- • Teachers literally pay $6,000,000 out-of-pocket annually for Jobs Budget
- • Everyday Heroes
- • Top 3 Today
- • “I Couldn’t Believe It Happened to Me”
- • What's on your ballot?
- • Voucher Poll
- • Teach for America not education's cure-all
- • Top 3 Today
- • 99 Reasons Teachers Rocks
- • Sommers sweats gifted student question
- • Administration - cut ESP's first
- • Next Season on Survivor
- • The Week in Review
- • We Are Ohio Pictures
- • Top 3 Today
- • OEA Petition Training Schedule
- • Reach Out and Read Success
- • SOS Husted directive to Franklin County BoE RE: SB5 petition
- • What passing the buck looks like
- • Top 3 Today
- • Wisconsin election bodes ill for anti worker forces
- • Budget bill mirrors SB5 attacks on teachers
- • Chillicothe educator named Foreign Language Teacher of the Year
- • Top 3 Today
- • Outsourcing the Future
- • Chamber of Commerce risks massive backlash
- • Education cuts should be a wake up call
- • Teachers union poll - teachers still popular
- • Teachers ready to fight Senate Bill 5
- • Top 3 Today
- • An election to watch tomorrow
- • LSC Analysis of Education Budget
- • ODE Budget Testimony
- • Parents don't want to pull the trigger
- • Pulling the Trigger
- • Your Voice is Being Heard Now
- • Governor’s Executive Budget Proposal Analysis
- • Senate Bill 5 Analysis
- • We're gonna need a bigger boat
- • I’m Sorry I’m a Teacher
- • New Poll - Workers More Popular
- • The Arc of Truth bends towards Justice!
- • SB 5 - Your Next Steps
- ► March
- • Words vs Deeds #Updated
- • When Criticism of Teachers Becomes Offensive
- • Budget News for March 31st, 2011
- • S.B.5 Passes - Reports from around the web
- • Senate Bill 5 House Hearing Pictures
- • News for March 30th, 2011
- • WHAT ARE THE COMPONENTS OF A GOOD SCHOOL?
- • SB5 forging an undemocratic path
- • The Reckless Budget, story after story
- • News for March 29th, 2011
- • Attack PAC - "Stop Public Unions Now" Spotted!
- • S.B.5 Rally in Newark
- • News for March 21th, 2011
- • News for March 16th, 2011
- • Ohio budget documents released
- • Great Testimony on ill effects of SB 5
- • News for March 15th, 2011
- • Rallys around the State on Tuesday
- • News for March 14th, 2011
- • Behind the Right-Wing Attacks on Collective Bargaining
- • CEA member Karen Andermills speaks against S.B. 5
- • News for March 11th, 2011
- • SB 5 - The Citizen Veto Basics
- • March 5th Middle Class Rally
- • News for March 10th, 2011
- • Fighting for the future, today
- • News for March 9th,2011
- • News for March 8th, 2011
- ► December
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