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A big legal battle is brewing between New York City’s education department and the local teachers union over the recently announced plan to issue public rankings of teachers based on how their students perform on tests.
NEW YORK — Do public school teachers get tenure just by breathing?
OLD BRIDGE, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday called for taking away tenure from ineffective teachers, saying that “tenure should be granted and maintained for those who show they know how to teach.” The governor also said teachers’ contracts should not increase salaries just for completion of a certain number of years of service, or for earning a master’s or other graduate degree, unless the teacher can show that their students’ performance improved.
BROCKTON, Mass. — A decade ago, Brockton High School was a case study in failure. Teachers and administrators often voiced the unofficial school motto in hallway chitchat: students have a right to fail if they want.
“One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me ‘Superman’ did not exist,” the educational reformer Geoffrey Canada recalls in the opening moments of “Waiting for ‘Superman,’?” a powerful and alarming documentary about America’s failing public school system. “She thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real. I was crying because no one was coming with enough power to save us.” More About This Movie Overview Tickets & Showtimes New York Times Review Cast, Credits & Awards Readers’ Reviews Trailers & Clips View Clip..
NEWARK — Shortly after landing at Malcolm X Shabazz High School as a Teach for America recruit, Dominique D. Lee grew disgusted with a system that produced ninth graders who could not name the seven continents or the governor of their state. He started wondering: What if I were in charge?
Michelle Rhee, the reform-minded chancellor who took over the District of Columbia public schools three years ago, on Friday fired 241 teachers, or 5 percent of the district’s total. All but a few of those dismissed had received the lowest rating under a new evaluation system that for the first time held them accountable for their students’ standardized test scores
There were the hugs goodbye, the exchanges of phone numbers and the almost sure to be broken promises of keeping in touch. They packed up their bags one last time and left Room 619, which had been their daytime home for months, if not years.
Annie and Ella Glazer, 6-year-old twins at Midtown West Elementary School in Manhattan, will be playing hooky with parental consent on Monday. In a pattern being repeated across New York City, their mother decided that the girls’ last day of school would be on Friday — even though, due to a quirk of the calendar, all students are supposed to report on Monday for a final half day. “We think it’s ridiculous,” said the girls’ mother, Andy Glazer, who said she told teachers that her daughters would not be coming
WASHINGTON — Adele Dalesandro stepped inside the U.S. Supreme Court wide-eyed