Kids' educational test scores are a major cause for concern across the world. Indonesia embraced all these popular policies at once: it doubled education spending to achieve one of the lowest class sizes in the world while doubling teachers pay — yet another landmark randomized controlled study showed "no improvement in student learning". When my think tank, Copenhagen Consensus Center, …
PORTLAND, Ore. — Teachers in Portland, Oregon, temporarily shut down a major bridge Tuesday morning as they marched in a strike started roughly three weeks ago. Photos posted by the union on its Facebook page showed teachers sitting down on the bridge donning blue clothes and holding banners calling for better pay and teaching conditions. The union had called on …
PORTLAND, Ore. — Teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that shuttered schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s largest city. “Our kids deserve more than teachers that are absolutely exhausted and at the end of their ropes,” said Sarah Trapido, a special education teacher at Kellogg Middle School who …
Teachers and their supporters demonstrate Wednesday on the first day of a teachers’ strike in Portland, Ore. Teachers in Portland, Ore., walked off the job on Wednesday for the first day of a strike that shuttered schools for some 45,000 students in Oregon’s largest city. “Our kids deserve more than teachers that are absolutely exhausted and at the end of …
