teacher unions
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Education
Emmanuel Uses Charter Children as Bargaining Chip to Placate Teachers Union
by Timothy Benson October 24, 2016The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s administration reached a tentative agreement to avert what would have been the second teachers strike in Chicago in four years.
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Education
Why Teachers, Parents, and a Comedian Want to “Can Common Core”
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil May 6, 2014Common Core is appropriately named. It is indeed “common”, and not the exceptional education system its promoters promised. Digging into its core we find problems with its design, philosophy, tactics by which it was implemented, and specific ideology which is liberally peppered throughout the various subjects.
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Last Sunday’s New York Times had an article highlighting the implementation of the new teacher evaluation system being put in place in Tennessee. The system is part of the Race-to-the-Top…
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As someone involved in the education reform movement, I hate to criticize Michelle Rhee. That said, if you want to bring about a better education system, you have to identify…