Labor Management Conference Focuses on Elevating the Teaching Profession
NEA to showcase innovative collaborative partnerships that are boosting student achievement.
NEA Spells Out Vision of ‘Education Utopia’
It’s a system that benefits students, empowers teachers, and where union leaders and district administrators confront challenges as partners.
Florida’s High-Stakes Testing Fiasco
Fed up with the overreliance on testing, parents and educators call on lawmakers to take a 'time-out.'
Bullying of Teachers Pervasive in Many Schools
The problem of workplace bullying in schools has gone unchecked for too long. Teachers - and their students - are paying the price.
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Labor Management Conference Focuses on Elevating the Teaching Profession
By Amy Buffenbarger Union leaders, state and district school chiefs, and school board leaders from 41 states and more than 100 school districts will meet in Cincinnati, OH this week to exchange ideas and share lessons learned in boosting the stature of the teaching profession. The teams will tackle issues such as better recruiting, preparation and career... [Read more]
NEA Spells Out Vision of ‘Education Utopia’
By Amy Buffenbarger Asking the crowd to imagine a world in which every student receives a quality public education, National Education Association (NEA) Secretary-Treasurer Rebecca Pringle shared the NEA vision of “education utopia” on May 18, at a meeting of the Education Writers Association (EWA). “The National Education Association believes... [Read more]
Florida’s High-Stakes Testing Fiasco
By Tim Walker The already diminished reputation of high-stakes testing took another hit this week with the startling news out of Florida that only 27 percent of fourth graders passed the state’s comprehensive assessment test (FCAT) for writing. That’s a drop from 81 percent the previous year. The scores for eight and tenth graders yielded similarly... [Read more]
Bullying of Teachers Pervasive in Many Schools
By Cindy Long Workplace bullying is on the rise. About a third of American workers have been impacted by bullying in the workplace, either as a target or as witness to abusive behavior against a co-worker. Unfortunately, it’s even more prevalent in the field of education. In a recent survey of medium-sized school districts, 25 percent of employees... [Read more]
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Romney Education Panel a Throwback to Bush EraIn assembling a cast of bad actors dragged right out of the two-term George W. Bush era, it’s clear that Mitt Romney would be satisfied as president to force what amounts to a return to “test, label and punish” education policies on the target audience: the nation’s students, parents, and educators. Source: Education Votes
Public Money Finds Back Door to Private Schools
Spreading at a time of deep cutbacks in public schools, private scholarship programs operate in eight states and represent one of the fastest-growing components of the school choice movement, many at the expense of the neediest children. The programs have redirected nearly $350 million that would have gone into public budgets to pay for private school scholarships for 129,000 students. Much of that money has been used to attract star football players, expand the payrolls of the nonprofit scholarship groups and spread the theology of creationism. Source: The New York Times
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Ahead in Ed
Labor-Management Conference: Collaborating to Transform the Teaching Profession – May 23-24Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education together with NEA, the Council of Chief State School Officers and others, the 2012 Labor-Mangement Conference will focus on improving student achievement by increasing the stature of the teaching profession and the number of highly effective teachers in our nation’s schools. Visit NEA.org for more information.
May is Asian-Pacific Islander Month
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have contributed to politics, military, medicine, aviation, entertainment, and sports in the United States. Celebrate their heritage and contributions with these lessons and activities.
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