New Report: Performance-Pay for Teachers

A new report from the Center for Teacher Quality supports performance-pay plans that advance student achievement and the teaching profession. This new study proposes rewarding small teams of teachers who raise student achievement together; rewarding teachers who accept challenging assignments in high-needs schools; and redesigning pay systems so that teacher success, not seniority or graduate degrees, determines maximum teacher pay. The report, Performance-Pay for Teachers: Designing a System that Students Deserve, is the first to be issued by TeacherSolutions, an initiative of the Center for Teaching Quality; a link to the report is provided below.

Homeland Defense - No Child Left Behind the Lines?

Chris Whittle, founder of the Edison Schools, weighed in on education reform in "Homeland Offense," a policy brief published by WestEd. Whittle uses a military metaphor to call for radical school redesign and business approaches to education. It's a strange, offbeat work of fiction drawn from Whittle's equally odd "Crash Course." There's a link to the policy brief below. You've been warned.