LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
December 12, 2010
Stephen Sawchuk in EdWeek looks at the new Gates Foundation study on the validity of value-added teacher evaluations: “Value added” gauges based on growth in […]
December 10, 2010
Don’t miss Andrew Rotherham’s latest piece in Time Magazine regarding school funding’s “lack of attention to productivity, i.e., thinking about outputs (student learning) in relation […]
December 9, 2010
Charles Stile of The Record: New Jersey’s embattled teachers union’s new “vision” for public education could best be summarized this way: “We’ve taken a hard […]
December 8, 2010
Lots of coverage today as NJEA released its reform proposals: check out the Star-Ledger (which focuses on the Christie Administration’s reaction), the Philadelphia Inquirer (which […]
December 8, 2010
New Jersey School Board Association’s Frank Belluscio responds to NJEA’s reform package: While expediting the tenure hearing process would have some benefit, it doesn’t get […]
December 7, 2010
Sometime this afternoon, NJEA promises, it will unveil its blueprint for reforming our outdated tenure laws and using student growth as a measure of teacher […]