Whos of Who-cester

 Hills: "a really good Board conversation broke out" when it was proposed  anyone having an issues, we should postpone the vote un...

 There is a memo here. Erin Hashimoto-Martell Claire Abbott  who is really soft and hard to hear there are over 1200 preparation programs; 6...

Wulfson: 40% of new teachers each year come out of MA public higher ed system backup on this is here 68 different sponsoring organizations...

The agenda for all of today is here . The early college documents are here . Welcome from Bridgewater State President Clark, who notes that...

and also my schedule! DESE, amusingly, has posted a single agenda for all the of the upcoming meetings. Just keep scrolling!  Tomorrow, we...

The National Council of State Legislatures after 18 months of study today released a report on what successful school systems around the w...

Excellent article from the Hechinger Report on California's effort to reverse the ridiculous Unz law that ended bilingual education, ex...

I got a couple of questions last week about WPS's  being listed as a partner  with  Sposato Graduate School of Education , which is comi...

Goodness, we're having quite a week in the Telegram and Gazette  "As I See It" section, aren't we? The Pioneer Institute y...

A telling couple of paragraphs from today's Politico article : A recent study  funded by the Education Department found that value-a...

In case you missed it: there's a rebellion going on in the alums of Teach for America. Previously known for going on to law school or me...

...Bruce Baker has a good rundown on how evaluating teachers , or teachers' prep programs, by student test scores, really doesn't wo...

Before you take too seriously the National Council on Teacher Quality* report on teacher preparation programs, please take a look at Linda ...

The Worcester School Committee meets tomorrow afternoon at 4 pm. You'll find the agenda here . On the agenda: We have local citizenr...

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And, yes, Worcester is a pilot district for the ELL teacher training. We'll have a group of 25 teachers, and it will be the equivalent o...

There's an article in EdWeek this week covering the upcoming changes in English Language Learning in the Commonwealth, in answer to a D...

I walked out of last night's event with a colleague from one of our suburbs. I asked him, "So, when are you guys going to bring Tea...

At tonight's Worcester Regional Research Bureau event, we heard from Teach for America and the Boston Teachers' Residency program, ...

I should open by saying that this stands little chance of passing as proposed. President Obama presented his budget request to Congress on ...