Category : “Education Policy”

Teaching: Should It Really Be Like Selling Christmas Trees?

July 15, 2011Mike Lee Education Policy, Elementary

Teaching, learning, and leading, is apparently a part-time job. And, to me, it says a lot about what we value.

Whose Responsibility Is It?

June 22, 2011Jen Robinson Education, Education Policy, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

Every school needs good teachers who step up and accept responsibility for their teaching and student learning. In the same respect every school needs strong administration to hold teachers responsible for their teaching and of student learning. What happens when

The Teacher-Evaluation Autobahn

June 16, 2011Mike Lee Education, Education Policy

In a recent post entitled “Principal-Proof Evaluation” on the National Council for Teacher Quality website, I stumbled upon some baffling commentary. Obviously, I am still a bit confused, or I wouldn’t be responding. (I was supposed to be following up

Oops. I Used My Outside Voice.

June 2, 2011Mike Lee Current Affairs, Education Policy, Teacher Leadership

So, read at your own risk and have your blood pressure medication nearby. I’m about to defend Teach For America.

How Do Ya Like Them Apples? (And Oranges?)

May 19, 2011Mike Lee Current Affairs, Education Policy

Here’s a quiz for you. Who was a better player: Michael Jordan or Babe Ruth? Joe Montana or Wayne Gretzky? Ali or Pele? I’m sure this would be a fantastic discussion starter at your local sports bar, particularly if

Value Added Part III

May 13, 2011Eve Rifkin Assessment, Education, Education Policy, Literacy, Mathematics

Tests are easy to graph. I’d like to find a psychometrician who can take the camping, the PB&J, and the Pacific Ocean and show how THOSE things have forever impacted the sophomores on their four-day trip.

23 Days…

May 11, 2011Jen Robinson Assessment, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom

I am not sure if other teachers are feeling the same way that I am or not. It seems like the end of the school year has turned into one assessment after another. At the beginning of April we

Two Fronts and Many Voices

April 30, 2011Mike Lee Education, Education Policy

The climate is toxic and the vultures are circling. Union partnerships are being used against educators in the court of public opinion in a way that shifts the conversation from exemplary teaching to benefits and bargaining. They are important topics

Value Added Part II

April 27, 2011Eve Rifkin Assessment, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Teacher Leadership

I wonder what, in recent history, has suggested that the world of business has anything to even offer the world of education. In just the past couple of years, business models have messed up the economy as well as the gulf of Mexico. Why on earth would we be looking to business to help us figure out how to better educate our kids?

Reform or Deform: Which is it?

April 18, 2011Alaina Adams Assessment, Books, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership

Like its sister-term, “accountability,” the term “reform” has had a few minutes of fame in education this year (see this swell piece by blogger-extraordinaire Nancy Flanagan). Here, Flanagan blatantly opens her piece with the statement, “Hello my name is

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