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It Seems I’m Not Alone

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

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More teachers resigned during the last school year than at any time in recent history, according to figures released yesterday by the United Federation of Teachers … The good news is that the UFT could be making it all up. That’s also the bad news.

Who’s Afraid of Merit-Based Pay?

Thursday, October 25, 2007

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Doug Noon is talking about reform and merit-based pay on his blog today. I’ve been exchanging a few brief comments with TMAO about merit-based pay in connection with NCLB. I found the Eduwonkette post that Doug referenced to be helpful in thinking about this issue. The discussion in comparison with other professions [...]

No Surprise to Me

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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TMAO brought my attention to these prepared remarks of California Democratic Congressman George Miller, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. TMAO quotes this line: Even with all of these changes, we will not meet our national goal of closing the achievement gap until and unless we close the teacher quality gap. While I strongly [...]

Another Stab at Teacher Salaries

Friday, August 3, 2007

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PayScale is a service that offers salary and compensation profiles for a wide range of jobs, and they’ve just added a service called GigZig that tries to predict career paths and subsequent pay scales.1 It’s been a while since I’ve complained about financial compensation in the world of education, so I thought I’d test [...]

Time Off

Monday, February 5, 2007

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A few quotes from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research about teacher pay are listed below, and I’m annoyed enough to want to list some clarifications from a personal perspective. I don’t really want this to be just a rant, though … I also hope it will be informative to people who don’t [...]

Rampant Stupidity

Sunday, January 21, 2007

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I don’t mean to be negative. I am, in general, a happy person who enjoys life and tends to prefer the optimistic perspective. Unfortunately, I stumble upon stupidity far more often than I’d like, and then I get angry. Here’s a recent example … One potentially valuable source of funds for reform are [...]