Posts Tagged ‘educational reform’

Weekly Education Round-Up: States Implement New Performance-Based Ratings for Teachers

We’re starting a new series of posts that include a roundup of education-related headlines.  Here’s a rundown of topics from the week of June 14th.
The Colorado state legislature changed state-wide tenure rules for teachers, linking tenure eligibility with student performance. The move, which counts student performance for 50% in an annual teacher rating system, is viewed by some to …

A Conversation About Education

On November 11th, Dr. Karen Symms Gallagher, the Dean of USC’s Rossier School of Education, and Dr. Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana, a USC Rossier Alumnae and President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, hosted “A Conversation About Education” in Washington D.C.

A Conversation About Education

As part of the USC Rossier School of Education’s Centennial year activities, Dean Karen Symms Gallagher and Alumnae Thelma Melendez de Santa Ana (PhD ’95), President Obama’s Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, are hosting “A Conversation About Education” in Washington D.C.