Eduwonk: Unmasking the “Blame the Teacher” Crowd
The hunt has intensified recently for a shadowy menace: the “blame-the-teacher crowd.” Yet the truth is that the existence of the blame-the-teacher crowd is a myth.

Memphis Flyer: Memphis as a Model
When Memphis won funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it charged TNTP with hiring the district's teachers. Now the district's bold initiatives have put Memphis in the spotlight of national education reform.

Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed: California’s Quality-Blind Layoffs Law Harms Teachers and Students
Over the last several weeks, nearly 30,000 teachers throughout California received layoff notices. Factors related to job performance should be taken into account rather than length of service.

The Wall Street Journal: Editorial: No (Tenured) Teacher Left Behind
The consequences of putting job protection ahead of learning.

New York Daily News: Op-Ed: A Higher Bar for Teachers, Finally
Nothing in our schools matters more to students' success than teachers, which means tenure decisions carry high stakes. Now, New York City is finally on the verge of making some progress toward a more rigorous tenure process.

The Atlantic: What Makes a Great Teacher?
We tend to ascribe teachers' gifts to some mystical quality that we can recognize and revere—but not replicate. The great teacher serves as a hero, but ironically never as a lesson.

The Boston Globe: Grade the Teachers
We know that individual teachers can make a huge difference. Yet almost nothing about the way we hire, evaluate, pay, or assign teachers to classrooms is designed to operate with that goal in mind.

Cincinnati Enquirer: Op-Ed: Talks Represent Tremendous Opportunity
How can we identify, recognize, reward and retain excellent teachers in CPS? How can we attract our best teachers to the schools that need them most?

The New Yorker: The Rubber Room
The battle over new York City's worst teachers.

O, The Oprah Magazine: Class Acts
People are searching for meaningful career change – and finding it in public schools.

The New York Times: Dangling Money, Obama Pushes an Education Shift
TNTP published a report handicapping states’ chances for Race to the Top funding.

The Washington Post: Editorial: Best in Class
Teachers are too often treated as interchangeable widgets. Because teachers are the single most critical factor in improving student achievement, it’s time to start drawing distinctions in how they are retained, promoted and rewarded.

Los Angeles Times: Editorial: Paying for Bad Teachers
A recent study by TNTP found that in many schools where teachers agreed that a colleague should be fired for poor performance, no one was even given an “unsatisfactory” rating on evaluations. Some objective measures are necessary.

The New York Times: Editorial: Truth in Teaching
Education reform will go nowhere until the states are forced to revamp corrupt teacher evaluation systems that rate a vast majority of teachers as “excellent,” even in schools where children learn nothing. A startling new report from TNTP lays out the scope of the problem.

Newsweek : Peanut Butter Politics: Education Funding Is a Sticky Issue
Teacher effectiveness–say it three times. Last week TNTP released a report titled “The Widget Effect” that argues that teachers are viewed as indistinguishable widgets and notes that more than 99 percent of teachers are rated satisfactory.