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States Embrace Core Standards For the Schools

July 21, 2010 By TAMAR LEWIN Less than two months after the nation's governors and state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks. Their support has surprised many in education circles, given states' long tradition of insisting on retaining... Full article »

A Wholesale School Shake-Up Is Embraced by the President, and Divisions Follow

March 7, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and SAM DILLON; Katie Zezima and Liz Robbins contributed reporting. A Rhode Island school board's decision to fire the entire faculty of a poorly performing school, and President Obama's endorsement of the action, has stirred a storm of reaction nationwide, with teachers condemning it as an insult and conservatives hailing it as a watershed moment of school accountability. The decision by school authorities in... Full article »

EDITORIAL; Walking the Walk on School Reform

January 17, 2010 The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers' union, has been working hard to distance itself from its competitor, the National Education Association, which tends to resist sensible reforms. The federation's president, Randi Weingarten, set the contrast quite effectively with a speech last week in Washington, in which she... Full article »

Union Chief Seeks to Overhaul Teacher Evaluation Process

January 13, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHOUSE Facing criticism that her union makes it too hard to get rid of bad teachers, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, on Tuesday announced a union-backed effort to develop a new model for how public school teachers should be evaluated, promoted and removed. The effort will be run by Kenneth R. Feinberg, the federal... Full article »

OP-ED COLUMNIST; A Serious Proposal

January 12, 2010 By BOB HERBERT The president of the American Federation of Teachers says she will urge her members to accept a form of teacher evaluation that takes student achievement into account and that the union has commissioned an independent effort to streamline disciplinary processes and make it easier to fire teachers who are guilty of misconduct. In a speech to be... Full article »

With Teachers' Contract Set to End, Talks Are Quiet

October 30, 2009 By JENNIFER MEDINA With two days left on the New York City teachers' contract, it would be reasonable to expect a thunder-and-lightning storm of fists pounding on tables and accusations flying in the press. But this is no ordinary year for the United Federation of Teachers, the city's teachers' union, or for City Hall. Instead, there is near silence. While the union... Full article »

New Leader Of Teachers Is Ready For His Test

September 22, 2009 By JENNIFER MEDINA This is not the kind of man who walks into a room unnoticed. Michael Mulgrew's stature -- six feet tall, 230 pounds, size 48 -- demands attention. His voice, trained in years of childhood theater, booms from his chest. He is just what central casting might expect when searching for the part of union president. But Mr. Mulgrew cuts quite a different... Full article »

As More Charter Schools Unionize, Educators Debate the Effect

July 27, 2009 By SAM DILLON Dissatisfied with long hours, churning turnover and, in some cases, lower pay than instructors at other public schools, an increasing number of teachers at charter schools are unionizing. Labor organizing that began two years ago at seven charter schools in Florida has proliferated over the last year to at least a dozen more charters from... Full article »

Tough Challenges Ahead in U.S. Effort to Reshape Failing Schools

June 2, 2009 By SAM DILLON As chief executive of the Chicago public schools, Arne Duncan closed more than a dozen of the city's worst schools, reopening them with new principals and teachers. People who worked with him, and some who fought him, say those school turnarounds were worth the effort, but all aroused intense opposition. ''It's always painful,'' said David Pickens,... Full article »

Charter Schools Weigh Freedom Against the Protection of a Union

April 21, 2009 By JENNIFER MEDINA After months of soul-searching, Kashi Nelson left her career as an assistant principal in North Carolina at the start of 2008 to teach seventh- and eighth-grade social studies at a Brooklyn charter school, convinced that the freedom to innovate would translate into better education for students. But within a year, she began to feel that the... Full article »

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