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Technology and School Choice: The False Dichotomy
(Guest post by Greg Forster) Terry Moe has a great article in today’s Journal about how entrepreneurial innovation taking advantage of new technology is putting the teacher’s unions on the road to...
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Excellence in Failure
It’s long been a goal of mine to be so awful at a job that they have to pay me to leave. Unfortunately, excellence in failure is something that has escaped me — even though I normally seek excellence...
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Are Public School Teachers Underpaid?
(Guest Post by Lindsey M. Burke) My colleague at Heritage, Jason Richwine, along with co-author Andrew Biggs of AEI, has just published a groundbreaking new paper on teacher compensation. The authors...
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Teachers Matter
My friend and colleague, Marcus Winters, has a new book out on how to improve the quality of the teaching workforce. Teachers Matter is an excellent summary of the literature on how best to recruit,...
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“How Do You Sleep at Night?”
Just fine, thank you. But some teachers seem determined to disturb the sleep of people who do research they dislike. When Heritage’s Jason Richwine co-authored a study on teacher pay, he received a...
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If Teachers are Underpaid, Why Don’t They Earn More When They Move to Other...
[Note -- AEI's Jason Richwine noticed my post urging people to read the debate in Education Next over how to assess teacher compensation. He asked if he could submit this post to address an argument...
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In Chicago — Phony Merit Pay is Dead, Long Live True Merit Pay
The dust hasn’t yet settled from the resolution of the Chicago teacher strike, but it appears that the reforms the city were able to retain will result in a better “true” merit pay system than the...
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This is How You Pay for That 16% Pay Raise
How will virtually bankrupt Chicago pay for the 16% pay raise over 4 years that is in the new teacher contract? As I suggested last week, this headline in the Chicago Tribune answers the question:...
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WSJ Op-Ed — We Don’t Need More Teachers
I have a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal about how the solution to our education problems can’t be found by hiring more teachers. We need quality over quantity, for which we will have to pay the...
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Randi Weingarten and Friends Respond to My WSJ Piece
I’ve long argued that the teacher unions are hardly better at running their political interests than they are at running schools. They compensate for lousy ideas and poorly made arguments with the...
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The No-Stats All Star Retires
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Shane Battier, the man dubbed by Michael Lewis as the No-Stats All Star- has announced his retirement from the NBA at age 35 to take a college basketball analyst...
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I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This…
(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner) Remember when I told you about Clark County (LV) Nevada packing thousands of kids into trailers with long-term substitute teachers some of whom even had BA degrees?...
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