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- Why teacher accountability is the next front in the school reform wars,??Michael J. Petrilli (Instead of trying to pressure the status quo with choice, why not go to the heart of the issue?)
- Teacher quality policy and practice unite,??Kathleen Porter-Magee (Doug Lemov's Teach Like A Champion will revolutionize policy and teacher practice)
- Don't underestimate the elderly (Wanna know why unions stick up for pensions? Retirees vote)
- The new normal: borrow, borrow, borrow (Duncan's new "edu-jobs" bill...welcome to the perpetual bailout)
- Taking the "pal" out of principal (No more can you be "Friends" with your teacher)
- Contentious objectors, in the science classroom (Virtual fetal pig dissection? Sure, says CT)
The Education Gadfly Show Podcast
- Partying at a Jersey Shore motel (Ever wonder what Amber was doing in the mid-90s? Now you know.)
- Constrained Job Matching: Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?; Eric Hanushek and Steven Rivkin; National Bureau of Economic Research; March 2010 (Teacher turnover might NOT be a bad thing, this study finds)
- The Cost of New Higher Quality Assessments: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Potential Costs for Future State Assessments; Barry Topol, John Olson, and Ed Roeber; Assessment Solutions Group for the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy Education; April 2010 (High quality assessments at lower cost than multiple choice? Could it be?)
- The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher 2009: Collaboration for Student Success; MetLife Foundation; March 2010 (Find out what teachers, principals and administrators are saying about conditions in schools)
- The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World; Ben Wildavsky; Princeton University Press; 2010 ("The World is Flat" meets higher ed)
- Getting to the core of Common Core (Curious about the Common Core draft standards? Get all your questions answered on April 22)
- Paul^2 (Paul Hill and Paul Peterson talk the past, present, and future of school choice on May 5)
- Work at HGSE (In the job market? The Harvard ed school has three open positions)
