Tag: teachers

This new book argues that the present system of K-12 education is no longer financially sustainable - and provides a strategy to address it.

When there are schools that are smaller, different than traditional schools, it becomes particularly important to measure value-added performance—and to appreciate expanded forms of achievement. Schools should be held to high standards but not compelled to follow standardized processes.

As Detroit Public Schools manage crisis, one school moves toward teacher control.

In this guest post Jon Woloshin, an advisor at the project-based TAGOS middle school, describes how a group of teachers empowered to run the school built an assessment rubric that assists them as advisors to know when to add responsibility to the students’ work load.