Blog - PEI's School of Thought
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KEYSTONE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION Legislation Frees Educators from Forced Union Fees Earlier this week State Representatives Daryl Metcalfe, Kathy Rapp, Fred Keller, Jim Cox, Jerry Knowles and Stephen Bloom introduced aRight to Work package of bills that frees public and private employees from being forced to pay union fees as a condition of emp... -
Are you noticing the increased attacks on the teaching profession? The media and many politicians seem to think that most teachers are lazy and incompetent. The articles and reports are everywhere. I agree that there are many teachers “rocking their way to retirement”, but the reality is that a great number, maybe the ...
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Are you wondering what to give your friends for Christmas thisyear? Might I suggest five gifts that have no price tags, yet their valueis priceless. 1. The Gift of Time.Here is a gift that is at the very top of most people’s “want list.” It is agift that simply has no substitute. It is universally desired, and one sizefits all. Little ...
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Education Update by Dr. Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies John Locke Foundation Indeed, it took several years to get to this point. In 2005, the nation’s governors signed the Graduation Counts Compact of the National GovernorsAssociation. The compact was a voluntary agreement to calculate and report statewide graduat...
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Yes, evaluation should happen annually for teachers. As a matter of fact, evaluation should happen daily for teachers – and it does. The problem is we don’t ask the real evaluators how their teachers are doing. Daily our students are in the classrooms and daily the teachers are “performing.” Oh I know, some of us teachers ...
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Iowa has one of the toughest certification procedures of which I am aware. The way it works is that a student aspiring to be a teacher must be admitted to a college or university, and then be admitted to the college of education, and then pass coursework leading up to student teaching, then successfully student teach, and then apply for a jo...