(C) Julie Boyd 2011 Not everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that counts can be counted                                                                    Albert Einstein     The Grattan Institute recently wrote that a new system of teacher appraisal and feedback in Australia would improve teacher effectiveness, recognise our best educators and lift the outcomes of Australian students to [...]

Below is a series of tweets which were collected over a single day in December 2011. These show the depth of anger among American teachers and their international colleagues over what is happening with the ‘corporatisation’ of US education, with some containing hyperlinks to terrific articles. Some information has necessarily been omitted simply to ensure [...]

John Merrow A veteran education reporter reflects on four decades of covering America’s schools. http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/john-merrow-teachers-charter-schools — By Kristina RizgaIn October 1988, a small group of education leaders came together to define the rules for what they hoped would become the “incubators” of influential ideas for improving public education. They called these new schools charters. Veteran [...]