Teachers.net Gazette

The research is very specific: Well trained, proficient and effective teachers produce student learning. Each year schools spend $7.3 billion recruiting and hiring the same new teachers to replace the same teachers hired the year before. They are given a mentor, yet the attrition rate stays the same and student learning does not improve.

Daily homework is the rule in most schools. Why not make it the exception?

by Harry and Rosemary Wong
Last month you saw a picture of us playing Mexican Train. This month we’re eating hamburgers…and scoring them! We’re using a rubric or scoring guide to rate the quality of the hamburgers.