I have said for some time that teaching will reach professional status when the 'highest paid anybody in a school district is a teacher.' Well, thanks to Zeke Vanderhoek and The Equity Project Charter School, we are getting closer. While...

Last week Time magazine featured on its cover a piece on 'How to Make Great Teachers.' The article, which primarily focused on the 'merits' of performance pay, begins poignantly with its author, Claudia Wallis, writing: 'We never forget our best...

The National Governors Association recently released (yet another) teacher pay for performance report, penned by Emily and Bryan Hassell. The paper offers up the usual arguments for transforming teacher compensation and describes a number of important issues that a state’s...

Last week Education Sector, a Washington DC think tank released this thoughtful report on teacher evaluation. The report, entitled 'Rush to Judgment: Teacher Evaluation in Public Education' and reviewed extensively by colleagues with our Teacher Leaders Network, raises serious questions...

Although the Presidential candidates (with the exception of Senator Obama), have appeared to leave almost all education issues behind, the debate over teacher pay continues to swirl -- especially through the blogosphere. I just ran across a performance pay tit-for-tat...

In the January 21st edition of the Palm Beach Post, Christina DeNardo reports that Florida legislators are beginning to question their spending on teachers who earn National Board Certification. Drawing on one Florida State University study that surfaced mixed findings...

Almost 10 years ago American newspapers made a great deal of the fact that 59% of Massachusetts’ prospective teachers failed its licensure test -- a ‘flunk heard around the world.’ In the headline’s wake, the state launched a $20,000 signing...

As 2007 comes to an end, a treasure trove of new teaching quality reports are being released. The most stunning and sobering report may be the one released by the Public Agenda Foundation and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher...

Anthony Cody, Teacher Leaders Network member and science teacher extraordinaire who now serves as a science content coach in Oakland, has just published terrific op-ed pieces on No Child Left Behind in two prominent California newspapers. In the San Jose...

Yesterday the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning released its 2007 report on the Status of the Teaching Profession in California, again lamenting that the state does not have “a coherent teacher development system that builds knowledge and...