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Upending the Negative Teacher Stereotype

Teacher Leaders Network members have a few ideas about how to stop the media from scapegoating teachers. (July 1, 2009)

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Help Wanted: Leader to Promote a Culture of Learning

Author and school consultant Kirsten Olson thinks schools need to create a new leadership position to keep the focus on organization-wide learning. (July 1, 2009)

Ed Secretary Challenges NEA on Performance Pay

Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged National Education Association members at the union’s annual meeting to be open to linking teacher pay to student achievement. (July 2, 2009, AP)

How to Hook Boys on Books

Children’s authors offered teachers and librarians advice on getting boys to love reading, including featuring more humorous books. (July 2, 2009)

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How About a Little Googling, Class?

Elliot Soloway, a Michigan University professor, claims that schools are selling kids short by using computers as a classroom "add-on." (July 1, 2009)

Studies Probe 'Value-Added' Measures

As a method for evaluating teachers’ effectiveness, researchers say, the technique has some drawbacks. (July 1, 2009)

Making the Case for Mobile Computing

Are cellphones and other mobile devices powerful learning tools or intolerable classroom distractions? (June 29, 2009)

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Peer Review Aims to Help Struggling Teachers

Montgomery County, Md., school system is one of 80 systems nationwide who use peer review to help struggling teachers and remove those who are underperforming. (June 30, 2009, AP)

High Turnover Crippling Chicago Schools, Report Says

A new report shows about 100 Chicago schools lose more than a quarter of their staff every year, hobbling efforts to create an effective learning environment for children in largely African-American schools. (June 30, 2009, MCT)

Wash. Public Schools Hiring Foreign Teachers

School districts may find it harder to support the hires as many face laying off teachers and staff this summer. (June 29, 2009, AP)

Supreme Court Limits Strip-Searches of Students

Arizona officials violated a student’s Fourth Amendment rights, but can’t be sued in this case, the high court ruled. (June 25, 2009)

Supreme Court Eases Oversight of ELL Program

The Supreme Court has ruled for Arizona officials who are challenging federal court supervision of a program to educate students who aren't proficient in English. (June 25, 2009, AP)

N.M. Union Sues Investment Firm

The National Education Association of New Mexico sued Austin Capital Management claiming two state investment agencies would not have lost tens of millions of dollars in the Bernard Madoff scandal had the firm done its job. (June 25, 2009, AP)

N.Y.C. Teachers’ Union President Resigns

Randi Weingarten, the current head of American Federation of Teachers, is resigning from her second job as the president of New York’s United Federation of Teachers. (June 25, 2009, AP)

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