Education Department tries to ease testing worries
Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Aug. 21 said that states can apply for extra time before they use student test scores to judge teachers' performance.
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Chicago teacher strike poses test for unions
The massive teacher strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation’s teacher unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing education reform movement…
New movie reignites debate over ‘parent trigger’ laws
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Despite image, union leader backs school change
In “Waiting for Superman,” the new education documentary, the union leader Randi Weingarten is portrayed, in the words of Variety, as “a foaming satanic beast," the New York…
AFT: Education must change to move forward
Moving public education to a model that will better prepare students for today's knowledge economy, and one that will strengthen teacher development and evaluation, is critical to the…