For Immediate ReleaseWashington, D.C.Department of EducationDetermined to defuse nagging tensions over his performance and his qualifications for the office he holds, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan brought a dead possum back to life on a busy highway about 8 miles southeast of D.C today.  Duncan applied cardiac massage and artificial respiration to the c […]

"This is another example of the Rhee administration’s petty, personal retaliation against teachers who are not members of the Rhee/Fenty inner circle — retaliation that has nothing to do with the competence and ability of teachers." - Gary Imhoff, in TheMail.From the earliest days of the PEP meetings I raised this issue that even one example of tea […]

Several of us have linked together and, today, our letter to President Obama was posted on Valerie Strauss' The Answer Sheet (a Washington Post education blog). If you agree with its sentiments you can send your own message to the President by going to the online form at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact. This letter is a follow-up to a one we sent in M […]

George Parker, 'Hold Over' president of the Washington Teachers' Union (whose constitutional term ended June 30, 2010) filed a lawsuit on August 16, 2010 against the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The purpose of Parker's lawsuit is to seek an injunction to prohibit the AFT from suspending the autonomy of the WTU. In one of Parker […]

The LA Times has added a new level to the concept of "teacher bashing." They recently published rankings of LA teachers based on their students' test scores. Its been repeatedly shown that student test scores are not reliable indicators of teachers' performance. Studies have shown that the so-called "Value-Added" methods are uns […]