The Broader, Bolder Approach coalition formed a year ago, today issued its first task force report. The subject?  School Accountability -- A Broader, Bolder Approach. Or as most understood it to mean... what we and the public need to replace NCLB?Read more

Independent researcher Joan Snowden, today issued a report, Fixing Tenure, that debunks popular myths on tenure, while calling for making tenure more meaningful and rigorous. The same report offers a critique and guidance for what teacher evaluation systems need to look like to be effective.Read more

The Center of American Progress issued today a new study on teacher evaluation So Long, Lake Wobegon? by University of Connecticut professor Morgaen Donaldson. While presenting evidence that most teacher evaluation systems add little value to the quality of teaching Donaldson offers a clear roadmap for what good teacher evaluation systems need to do. The system needs to have credibility with teachers, use multiple evaluators and measures, oRead more

When the Denver teachers' union developed its infamous Pro Comp pay for performance system a decade ago, the union's point person was a smart union leader named Brad Jupp. The detail person who led the design team and sold the plan to the administration and to teachers, Brad then had a falling out with the union. He went to work as special assistant to the new, young superintendent in Denver, Michael Bennett, where's he's been for the past five years.Read more

Have you ever wondered why, if peer review is so successful, it isn't being proposed for consideration by every teacher union local and district in the country? Well, now there are no excuses.Read more

CUNY Professor Jennifer Goldstein's Commentary in Ed Week urges a more reasoned approach and a challenge to teacher unions

A new organization that includes Antonia Cortese and Diane Ravitch has launched a critique of the 21St Century Skills movement, that includes Linda Darling-Hammond. Ed Week covered the story this week that may be one of the most important debates in years. The battle is joined.

In response to a note from Linda Darling-Hammond to friends that she is returning home to Stanford and will no longer be seeking a role in the Obama administration, two prominent education researchers, Gary Orfield and Diane Ravitch articulated a stunning critique of Arne Duncan's direction at the US Department of Education. It resonated with progressive educators nationally.

Richard Rothstein's Ed Week commentary "Getting Accountability Right" summarizes his new book Grading Education.

Just in time to demonstrate that Linda Darling-Hammond is the most thoughtful voice in education today, this month's Kappan magazine published her critique of the US approach to assessment in light of international standards. If she doesn't continue to be the lead voice in the Obama administration, there's something wrong. Its a must read.