Winter 2005 / Vol. 5, No. 1
Dollars and Sense
What a Tennessee experiment tells us about merit pay
Skewed Perspective
What we know about teacher preparation at elite education schools
Field Notes … 02.12.03
A Day in the Life of an Education Professor Who Came Down from the Ivory Tower to Start a Charter School
Book Alert
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market, by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane; Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap, by Richard Rothstein; Leaving No Child Behind? Options for Kids in Failing Schools, by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr., eds.; Standards Deviation: How Schools Misunderstand Education Policy, by James P. Spillane
Reading, Writing, and Willpower
Doomed to Fail: The Built-In Defects of American Education by Paul A. Zoch
The Softening of American Education
Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future By Michael Barone
Supplemental services; keeping good teachers
Siobhan Gorman’s “Selling Supplemental Services” (Feature, Fall 2004) was informative and engaging, but, like much of the discussion on the subject, it furthers a theme that school districts are the “bad guys.”
Paying Teachers Properly
That the uniform salary “schedule” for teachers is obsolete and dysfunctional is a truth widely accepted but rarely challenged.
Gray Lady Wheezing
The AFT hoodwinks the Times
Who Got The Raw Deal in Gotham?
The kids or New York Times readers?
No Distortion Left Behind
The New York Times education columnist gets it wrong
Teachers and Students Speak
Those closest to the action like the retention policy
Retaining Retention
How Chicago changed, but ultimately saved, its controversial program to end social promotions
Where Have All the Dollars Gone?
An NCLB lawsuit fizzles
The Moral Imperative
Character Education, soul by soul, at the Hyde Schools
Recognizing Differences
Lewis Solmon makes the case for rewarding better teachers with more money.
All Teachers Are Not the Same
Julia Koppich argues that we have the tools for recognizing—and rewarding— the best teachers.
The Uniform Salary Schedule
For at least two and a half decades, political leaders and opinion makers have been telling teachers and union leaders like me that it is high time to move away from the single salary schedule. For a long time it was easy for us to dismiss those calls for change. This was partly because as [...]
What’s a Teacher Worth?
Much more, and much less, than what they get now
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