Chicago Teachers' Strike Forces Obama To Steer Carefully Between Two Allies
Getting caught in a fight between two important allies is not where a president locked in a tight re-election race would willingly choose to be. But that's where President Obama is today as he attempts...
View ArticleTeachers Unions At A Crossroad
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: On the face of it, the teacher's strike in Chicago is about money, job security and how teachers are evaluated. But it's also about the political pressure on teachers'...
View ArticleStriking Chicago Teachers And City Still 'Miles Apart' On Contract
As a strike by Chicago's schoolteachers enters a third day, the president of their union says negotiators are still "miles apart" from an agreement to get 350,000 students back in the classroom, the...
View ArticleTeacher Evaluation Dispute Echoes Beyond Chicago
One of the primary issues at the heart of the the Chicago teachers' strike is whether student test scores should be used to evaluate teachers and determine their pay. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing that...
View ArticleNo Deal Yet: Chicago Teachers On Strike For Fifth Day
Update at 3:00 p.m. ET. No Settlement Expected Today: NPR's Ken Barcus says that no settlement is expected today. The most likely scenario is a contract vote sometime on Sunday, he says. The Chicago...
View ArticleThe Spotlight: Left Behind, Dropping Out
Every year, more than a million kids drop out of school. Without a diploma, these kids will have a tough time succeeding. But the problem starts much earlier than high school.
View ArticleTeachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform
In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.
View ArticleDo Scores Go Up When Teachers Return Bonuses?
In Chicago, parents were fuming over a weeklong strike by teachers. Around the rest of the country, in the face of growing evidence that many U.S. students are falling behind, administrators have tried...
View ArticleTeachers Get Bonuses, With A Catch: They May Have To Pay Them Back
NPR's Shankar Vedantam has a story today about a study conducted by a bunch of economists. He writes that they: divided 150 teachers into three groups. One group got no incentive; they just went about...
View ArticleHow A Middle-School Principal Convinced Students To Come To School
Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was...
View ArticleTeacher Evaluation Impasse Costs New York City Hundreds Of Millions
In New York City, the failure to agree on a plan for evaluating its teachers is being widely criticized, especially because it means the city will now miss out on hundreds of millions of dollars in...
View ArticleObama Tries To Move Spotlight Off Deficit Reduction
Transcript LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Pre-school is one example of how President Obama says the government can play a constructive role in the U.S. economy. In his State of the Union speech, President...
View ArticleSequester Spells Uncertainty For Many Public Schools
If Congress and the Obama administration can't agree on a budget deal by Friday, the federal government will be forced to cut $85 billion from just about every federally funded program. Every state...
View ArticleJudge Intervenes In Heated Battle Over Alabama's Education Bill
A judge in Alabama has blocked the state's governor from signing a school choice bill, after a lawsuit alleged that lawmakers bypassed state rules when they substantially revised the legislation in...
View ArticleAlabama's Governor Signs Education Bill Allowing School Choice
Alabama's Gov. Robert Bentley has signed a sweeping education bill that gives tax credits to parents who want to transfer their children from a failing public school to another public or private...
View ArticleSchool Closures Pit Race And Poverty Against Budgets
In Chicago, parents are fighting to prevent the city from closing 54 public schools.
View ArticlePhoenix Schools Under Fire For Program Linked To Scientology
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View Article'Core Curriculum' Puts Education Experts At Odds
At 2 p.m., it's crunchtime for students who write for The Harbinger Online, the award-winning, student news site at Shawnee Mission East High just outside Kansas City, Kan.
View Article30 Years On, Educators Still Divided On Scathing Schools Report
Thirty years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan's administration released "A Nation at Risk," a report warning of "a rising tide of mediocrity" in American public education.According to the report,...
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