By Anthony Lawson Note: Not every teacher wants to go into administration. This article is for the ones who do. When I first began my teaching career in 2008, I earned somewhere between $50,000-$55,000. I already had a master’s degree, so I was making a little more than many of my fellow colleagues whose salaries […]
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Posted inFrom the Front Lines, The State of Education
The State of Education: Montana
By Peggy Cordell Two state educational issues in Montana are receiving some attention these days. The first is an issue of equity in school funding. Our bicameral legislature has struggled to find a fair funding formula between large (urban) and small (rural) school districts. Through the years, legislative school funding measures have passed and lawsuits […]
Posted inElementary School, Featured, Kindergarten, Uncategorized
Refugee Students: Who will advocate for the UN-Common students who got Left Behind during the Race to the Top?
By Jennifer Healey Portland, OR The notion that ALL students can be lifted up and freed from their circumstances, past language barriers, out of poverty and away from war and crime and drugs, upward and onward toward a glorious middle-class future, is absurd. If we insist on being a country with an elite high school […]
Posted inHow to Fix Education, Literacy, Opinion
A Student Wants Grammar Brought Back in English Classrooms
As a high school student focusing on an education career and seeking opportunities to become a better writer, I have noticed something that disturbs me a little bit about our English classrooms. Actually, our classrooms in general. Â The first things that we are all taught as young children in school, are how to read and […]
Posted inCurrent Events in Education, Opinion
The Assault on Teacher Pension Plans
All across the United States, there is an unprecedented attack on public employees’ rights and benefits, especially teachers’ pensions. Those of us in Illinois have felt, as has the nation, the impact of the 2008-09 financial crises. State policymakers have responded to this catastrophe, not by addressing the structural deficits that are a result of […]
Posted inCurrent Events in Education, Featured, High School, Instruction & Curriculum, Middle School, Opinion
The Truth Behind the Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal
By now the headlines have screamed about how teachers and administrators cheated in Atlanta Public Schools (APS) to falsify results from the CRCT exams in elementary and middle schools. As a teacher who worked in APS for several years, these headlines literally make my stomach turn. Despite the claims about answer changing parties, administrators who […]
Posted inConfessions of a Teacher, Featured, From the Front Lines, Middle School
Confessions of a Teacher: The Kids Appreciate You!
The Educator’s Room now hosts a column called “Confessions of a Teacher.” Â If you would like to get something off your chest, talk about something that bothers you, or just simply express some thoughts anonymously, click here. Â You’re not alone! Â You may find your note published in this column! I have been teaching for […]
Posted inFeatured, Opinion
Endings and Beginnings
By: Jane Rhodes As the school year ends for so many of us in the next few weeks, it is easy to be caught up in business of grading final assignments, attending end-of-year assemblies, finally cleaning out our classrooms (do we really need to keep all those paper towels tubes for projects next year?), and […]