More predictable news from the US involving the redundancy of employed teachers to make way for new Teach for America recruits. In what is seen as a very deliberate attempt to undermine the teaching unions, the Kansas City School District have told over half of 200 teachers without tenure that their contracts won’t be renewed. [...]
We have already written at some length about the new philanthropic organisations that appear to be doing the UK Tories’ dirty work and also the rather creative interpretation of UK charity commission guidelines that permit organisations like Teach First to operate as charities. CfBT Education Trust is another on-message charity. They claim to “provide education [...]
Is there a perfect test? A test so well developed that it can do all those things that policymakers want it to do: higher test scores, teacher evaluation, and assisting teachers to help students learn in the classroom? Test developers Grant and Jennifer Wilson think so, and they have developed what they believe are the [...]
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