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The Diane Rehm Show -- Chicago teachers on strike: How the union’s fight over merit pay and job security highlights a broader national struggle.
TIME.com -- With city officials and the Chicago teachers’ union at an impasse, both sides should heed Louis Brandeis’ call and start negotiating in the open.
The Washington Post -- [W]hen Education Secretary Arne Duncan allowed states to set new performance targets earlier this year, Virginia, along with many other states, jumped at the chance. Unfortunately, rather than taking the opportunity to focus more on underserved students, the state took the stunning step of adopting dramatically different school performance targets based on race, ethnicity and income.
From 2010-2012, more than 20 states passed legislation designed to address educator effectiveness by mandating annual evaluations based in part on student learning and linking evaluation results to key personnel decisions. This report surveys more than 20 states' laws and rates each on the law's strengths and weaknesses in teacher evaluation design requirements, transparency and public reporting of evaluation data, principal autonomy over teacher hiring and placement, and the extent to which the law links teacher evaluation results to key personnel decisions, including tenure, reductions in force, dismissal of underperforming teachers, and retention.
TIME Magazine -- New to homeschooling, an angsty parent tells all.
TIME.com -- Three reasons the candidate’s school-choice proposal is less provocative than it seems.
TIME.com -- Pension reform will help cities balance budgets, but will their schools still be able to attract talented teachers?
TIME.com -- [R]ather than trying to squeeze a few more STEM students from populations that can already choose STEM if they want to, perhaps policymakers should focus even more on giving currently under-served populations the ability to make a STEM choice in the first place.
TIME.com -- Taxpayers are spending $36 billion a year on federal college grants. Here’s why the program is in serious need of an overhaul.
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