2008

August

• Energy costs are affecting our schools
• One Million ISAT exams to be regraded.
• Google Teacher Academy - Applications Now Being Accepted
• summer musing

July

• Teacher pensions are underfunded too
• Carnival of Education - see resources section
• Public School Funding
• What is the purpose of public education?
• Carnival of Education - see resources section
• Teacher preparation
• Carnival of Education
• Poll on school effectiveness
• Federal education policy
• Carnival of Education

June

• Academic capital
• Class size, class culture
• Carnival of Education
• What are you doing this summer?
• This just doesn’t make sense
• Gender and education
• Carnival of Education
• A broader, bolder approach?
• Imaginative education system fixes
• Big rally a big waste?
• Carnival of Education
• Where is the career ladder for teachers?
• “I’m not a social worker”
• That kid
• Carnival of Education
• Interdisciplinary learning

May

• Realism about 21st Century Schools
• Carnival of Education
• ACT prep: too much, too late
• Surprising (or not) news about science teachers
• End of the year anxieties
• Carnival of Education
• Youtube activism
• Everyone wants to be in Teach for America
• Changing jobs?
• Carnival of Education
• Elitism
• Middle ground on learning styles?
• Teachers speak on evaluation, unions, and reform
• Carnival of Education
• Reviving the Dream for Immigrant Students
• Carnival of Education
• More on Bill: Teaching for social justice

April

• The Bill Ayers controversy
• Reframing the conversation on contracts
• Nation at Risk
• Carnival of Education - High Expectations
• Understanding and assessing
• New achievement gap research
• Carnival of Education
• Born to teach?
• Chicago high school transformation: a work in progress
• This week’s Carnival
• Supreme Court limits teachers’ freedom of speech
• On being a teacher
• Fight back against cynicism

March

• Building professional learning communities
• Mandatory schooling?
• Potholes on the road to college
• Carnival of Education
• Throwing money at education
• Race in America
• Carnival of Education
• National math panel report reveals what we don’t know
• Guest blogger: Unions and the election
• Nuance in evaluation
• Single-sex education, and a new internet tool for you
• On second thought…
• It’s that time again

February

• Bilingual ed controversies
• New homework study from MetLife
• Join us for a TEN Happy Hour!
• The sweet spot
• Teaching overrated?
• New teacher evaluation pilot…and a question
• Teachers: more conservative than you might have thought
• Reading and the adolescent male
• Seeing school through students’ eyes
• Measuring teacher quality
• Reasonable incentives? Bribes?

January

• Before Super Tuesday
• Hundreds of excellent teachers needed
• Grouping students
• What to do with $40 million
• Education and the Primaries
• Rigor and Relevance
• Parent Communication

2007

December

• No changes for NCLB this year
• Tips for the first week in January?
• “Does ‘Donors Choose’ send the wrong message?”
• Expectations, goals, and working in a school of need
• Tough times to be a science teacher in Texas…
• The Ledge
• No more xeroxing assignment sheets!

November

• Encouraging students to try hard things and make mistakes
• Golden Apple Awards - Nomination Deadline Extended!