American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

QOD: Opt-Out Demagoguery Is Bad for Schools and Kids

Jonah Edelman, the father of two children taking Common Core-aligned assessments (he's also a writer for the Daily Beast), parses…

10 years ago

Civil Rights Leaders Plead with Congress to Maintain Annual Standardized Testing

In a letter addressed to U.S. Congressmen John Kline and Robert Scott of the Education and Workforce Committee, a group of…

10 years ago

Eva Moskowitz, Union Leaders, and Special Education

Today's  Wall Street Journal features an fiery editorial by Eva Moskowitz, founder of the widely-acclaimed Success Academy Charter Schools, about…

10 years ago

QOD: Teacher Unions Are Alienating “Blue-State Democrats”

I have little affection for Reason, a publication that sings the anthem of "free minds and free markets," but this…

10 years ago

QOD: Annual Standardized Testing is a “Moral Imperative”

Today the Washington Post Editorial Board says that the “civil rights achievement” of NCLB, and pending Congressional negotiations over its reauthorization…

10 years ago

Standardized Testing Opponents are on the Wrong Side of Civil Rights

Here's my new Newsworks column:On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Why a Christie Presidential Run is Good for N.J.’s Teachers’ Union

It starts here:The nation’s atwitter about a potential Republican nomination brawl between Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, as well as…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: A Local NJEA Unit’s Distorted Attacks on PARCC Testing

It starts here:Last month the Executive Committee of the Delran Education Association (Burlington County) issued a "massive position statement" detailing…

10 years ago

New WHYY Newsworks Post: Is the NJEA Convention Past Its Prime?

It starts here;If you're the parent of a New Jersey public school student, then this week marks your annual quality…

10 years ago

QOD: Teacher Union Leaders Are Missing a Great Opportunity

Andy Rotherham and Richard Whitmire analyze teacher union leaders' decision to choose "confrontation over collaboration" and put "the unions they…

10 years ago