I, Too, Became That Parent
We never thought that we would be the type of parents to consider private school. And yet.
Tagged: public schools
Doubling down on mandatory vaccinations
Oregon proves Tod right.
Bonus content: Do you know which religions do and don’t forbid vaccinations?
The Problem with the Public vs. Private Distinction in Education
Allison Benedikt accuses her colleagues who send their kids to private school for turning their backs on the promise of public education.
The Corporate City or the Scholarly Enclave?
Choosing a university isn’t about truth, beauty, or the quality of the dining hall. It’s about people.
Ask Kazzy #3
How do we explain the difference in confidence between similarly capable private and public school students? Kazzy attempts to answer…
seniority & nepotism
Lisa – I should clarify my thoughts on both merit pay and seniority. Regarding merit pay, I agree with you and a number of commenters here that it is very difficult to accurately measure...
Evaluating Teachers
Opponents of merit pay often argue that performance-based compensation punishes good teachers for factors beyond their control. A new article from The Atlantic suggests that administrators and teachers are getting markedly better at measuring...
Education & Autonomy
Will backtracked last week from this post, which included a chart detailing federal spending increases in education and the rather flat results over the past few decades. And I wish he hadn’t, despite the...
Teachers Unions, Performance Pay, and Autonomy
Conor’s latest posts (here and here) sparked off a pretty decent debate in the comments over at The American Scene, and led to a good follow-up here at the League via Brother Will. Over...
Teaching Moments
This depressing Los Angeles Times story inspired a pretty interesting debate on teacher unions over at the American Scene. In comments, Freddie mounts a persuasive defense of union-backed tenure for professional educators, arguing that...
the local school district today
…is laying off all the school psychologists, school counselors, art teachers, music teachers, theatre teachers, P.E. teachers, and many of its new teachers not out of the “probationary” period yet – a total cut...
