Teachers and Teaching

An interview that stops at the “story” sets up employees for failure

‘Grand bargain’ would feature higher pay and increased accountability.

Redesign roles, budgets, and schedules to put excellent teachers in charge of small teaching teams, for more pay.

Teachers spend more than a third of their instructional time on tasks other than instruction. And that’s before we add in paperwork done outside the classroom.

The U.S. is spending dramatically more per pupil than in decades past, yet teacher salaries have barely kept pace with inflation.