Monthly Archives:: August 2014

And, even the New York Times weighs in on the importance of teacher quality. Mike Johnston’s mother was a public-school teacher. So were her mother and father. And his godfather taught in both public and private schools. So when he expresses the concern that we’re not getting the best teachers into classrooms or weeding out… Read more »

Paul E. Peterson: The Public Turns Against Teacher Tenure – WSJ.   Article worth reading, again focusing on the importance of teacher quality. You can’t have good schools without good teachers, but improving the lowest-performing segment of teachers would go a long way. Good teachers are so important to student learning that if roughly the… Read more »