by TN School Choice | Feb 23, 2012 | Blog
We continue our discussion of Education Tax Credit Scholarships (Part I, Part II, Part III) with a further review of “The Public Education Tax Credit” December 5, 2007 by Adam B. Schaeffer, Cato Institute. Many school choice supporters prefer targeted programs over...
by TN School Choice | Feb 10, 2012 | Blog
We finish up the last of our four part series (Part I, Part II, Part III) with “Giving Kids the Chaff; How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need” by Marie Gryphon, Cato Policy Analysis No. 579, September 25, 2006. This entire paper is excellent and very much worth...
by TN School Choice | Feb 9, 2012 | Blog
We continue with part three (part I & Part II) of our series with a few snippets from the NY Times article, “Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain” by Annie Lowery, January 6, 2012 (warning today’s information is a bit technical): The paper [The...
by TN School Choice | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog
We continue yesterday’s posting with a few snippets from “Blame Game: Let’s Talk Honestly About Bad Teachers; Removing the lowest performing educators would pay big dividends, but saying so invites charges of “teacher bashing” by Andrew Rotherham October...
by TN School Choice | Feb 7, 2012 | Blog
After remaining basically the same for 150+/- years the world of teaching is changing. Theories in pedagogy have evolved, but with globalization and the invent of computers our access to and our ability to study and process large amounts of data are giving us...
