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Are teachers' unions on the defensive? What should their strategy be?
L.A. NOWHow are teachers' unions handling the push for charter schools and school reform? The Times' Mitchell Landsberg looked at the question, noting that even the long-held protections and prerogatives conferred by seniority and tenure no longer seem... -
School board approves value-added contract
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Board of Education unanimously approved a contract Tuesday with a company that will analyze teachers' effectiveness in raising students' standardized test scores. The agreement with the University of Wisconsin Value Added Research Center,... -
The Conversation: Pursuing successful education reform might mean going the way of Adventists
Opinion L.A.In an Op-Ed from Tuesday's pages, Camille Esch, director of the California Education Program at the New America Foundation, proposed a way to train better teachers. She wrote that training programs for teachers could be improved upon if those if...... -
Three former Imperial Valley educators indicted in misuse of public funds
L.A. NOWTwo former professors and a former schools superintendent in the Imperial Valley have been indicted for allegedly misusing federal grant money, the U.S. Attorney's office in San Diego announced Tuesday. Indicted were Michael Klentschy, 66, former... -
LAUSD presses union on test scores
Los Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Unified School District will ask labor unions to adopt a new approach to teacher evaluations that would judge instructors partly by their ability to raise students' test scores -- a sudden and fundamental change in how the nation's second-...Tags: Teachers, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Unified School District, School Examinations, American Federation of Teachers
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In reforming schools, quality of teaching often overlooked
Sitting in the library during a break, two veteran teachers at Edwin Markham Middle School rattled off the names of principals who had been sent to fix the chronically low-performing school in Watts.
There was Kimbell, Miller, Norris and Borges. Then...Tags: Teachers, Career and Workplace, John Miller, Science and Technology, Unemployment
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It's all about kids learning
Vacation ends Monday for most Los Angeles Unified elementary school students, but opening day this year might be more stressful for parents and teachers than for children. That's because hundreds of teachers considered competent last semester have now...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Academic Progress, Children
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Hard lessons for teachers
For The Record
Teacher rankings: The On the Media column in the Sept. 4 Calendar section supporting The Times' decision to publish so-called value-added rankings of teachers said rankings derived from student test results "presumably would remain...Tags: Career and Workplace, Teachers, Twitter, Inc., Journalism, Government
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Group urges new teacher evaluations
Los Angeles TimesA group of business and civic leaders is urging the Los Angeles school district and teachers union to quickly develop a new evaluation system that incorporates student test score data and gives families more access to information about instructors. "This...Tags: Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Unified School District, School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Unions
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School board ends evaluation silence
Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles school board members made their first public statements Tuesday about evaluating teachers partially by analyzing student test scores, with most saying that the current system needs to be reworked and some adding that parents deserve more...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress, Teachers Unions, Standardized Testing, School Examinations
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Parents have the right to know
SACRAMENTO -- Grading teachers based on how much their students learn should be a no-brainer. In fact, state law for more than three decades has required that pupil progress be one of the factors in evaluating teachers. But, as it turns out, when...Tags: Jack O'Connell, Los Angeles Unified School District, Joe Nunez, Government, School Examinations
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There's teaching, and there's learning
I can't recall my fourth-grade teacher's name. Mrs. Klatt? Miss Klapp? What I remember about her is that she had naturally curly hair, which I envied, and that she let us play "Heads-up, Seven-up" on rainy days when we had to stay in for recess.
What...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Unified School District, Society, Science and Technology
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