Fight over effective teachers shifts to courtroom
They have tried and failed to loosen tenure rules for teachers in contract talks and state legislatures, The New York Times reports.
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Erased answers on tests in Philadelphia lead to a three-year cheating scandal
The first sign that something was wrong appeared more than two years ago when a company grading student tests from Philadelphia noticed that erasures from wrong to right…
The defiant parents: Testing’s discontents
Anna Allanbrook, the principal of the Brooklyn New School, a public elementary school in Carroll Gardens, has long considered the period of standardized testing that arrives every spring…
Technology is not driving us apart after all
In September 2008, two graduate students working for Keith Hampton, a professor at Rutgers, raised a camera atop a 16-foot tripod to film down into Bryant Park, the…
Accountability without autonomy is tyranny
When educational research reaches the public through the corporate media, the consequences are often dire, explains P.L. Thomas for the Daily Kos.
Schools use web tools, and data is seen at risk
Public schools around the country are adopting web-based services that collect and analyze personal details about students without adequately safeguarding the information from potential misuse by service providers,…
Professors in deal to design online lessons for A.P. classes
To ease the way for students grappling with certain key concepts, professors at Davidson College in North Carolina will design online lessons for high school students in Advanced…
An uptick in the hiring of women for tech jobs
There are signs that tech companies are hiring more women, but women still appear to make up far less than half of all new hires in the industry,…
F.C.C. Chairman calls for transforming the technology used by phone systems
Americans could soon be one step closer to getting that videophone they were promised in the 1960s, The New York Times reports.
Women gain in some STEM fields, but not computer science
A few weeks ago, I wrote about ways to get more women interested in computer science, The New York Times reports.