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Education Nov 29

California students take a stand to topple teacher tenure; New York up next

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Education Nov 29

Teacher tenure rules are in state of flux across the nation

NewsHour Weekend's piece on a lawsuit filed by nine California students against the teacher tenure system tells the story of just one battle in a war being waged across the country. More than a dozen states have changed their tenure…

By News Desk

Nation Oct 01

Think tenure protects you? With wealthy donors and less public funding, think again

Tenure isn't all it's cracked up to be, argues Denise Cummins. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Cummins used to teach as an adjunct, recently rescinded a job offer made to professor Steven Salaita -- even though he had…

By Denise Cummins

Nation Aug 29

Why the backlash against adjuncts is an indictment of the tenure system

Psychologist Denise Cummins, who has held faculty and research positions at Yale and the University of Illinois, draws upon her own career to argue that tenure is a meaningless distinction between the accomplishments of adjuncts and full-time professors.

By Denise Cummins

Nation Aug 03

UPDATE: New York becomes latest state to challenge teacher tenure law

Two separate education advocacy groups have filed suits in New York challenging the state’s teacher tenure laws, claiming that current laws, which protect teacher employment, violate the constitutional rights of children and make it difficult to dismiss ineffective teachers.

By Tracy Wholf

Apr 05

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