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Georgia’s Race to the Top Questionable Relationships with Charters, Teach for America & The New Teacher Project

by Jack Hassard | Sep 16, 2013 | Charter Schools, Race to the Top, Reform

Georgia’s Race to the Top has clear, yet questionable relationships with Charter Management...

Is Georgia’s Race to the Top a Good Idea?

by Jack Hassard | Sep 15, 2013 | Charter Schools, Politics, Reform, Teach for America

A report was published this week that ought to raise the eyebrows of a lot of Georgians. The...

Trojan Horse On Midnight Ride to Manage How Georgia Teachers Will Be Paid

by Jack Hassard | Sep 13, 2013 | Teacher Evaluation

Latest Story When the state of Georgia received a half billion dollars of Race to the Top funds...

A Heads Up for Georgia Teachers: The Problem with VAM Scores

by Jack Hassard | Sep 12, 2013 | Teacher Evaluation, Teachers

Guest post by John Spencer John Spencer, who I met online after reading his blog, is a middle school computers and journalism teacher, passionate about authentic learning, social justice and critical thinking in a digital world....

A High School Principal Tells How One Great Teacher Was Wronged by Flawed Evaluation System

by Jack Hassard | Sep 11, 2013 | Progressive World-View

Guest Post by Dr. Carol Burris Carol Corbett Burris has served as principal of South Side High School in the Rockville Centre School District in NY since 2000. Prior to becoming a principal, she was a teacher at both the middle...

In Marietta, GA, Teachers Might Be Scammed by the Use of VAM

by Jack Hassard | Sep 9, 2013 | Politics, Reform, Teachers

Latest Story In 2010, Georgia was one of the winners of the Race to the Top competition. The...

Marietta City Schools To Use High-Stakes Achievement Tests in Teacher Compensation Plan

by Jack Hassard | Sep 8, 2013 | Reform, Teachers

Did you know? The Marietta City Schools believes that teacher’s paychecks should be based on how well their students do on high-stakes achievement tests, and assessments of their classroom teaching based on a few pop-in-visits...