March 14, 2013
In my post today at WHYY’s Newsworks I look at New Jersey’s new teacher/principal evaluation and the attendant regulations (released last week). What does this […]
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March 13, 2013
Michael Guerriero in The New Yorker derides the uses of standardized tests to evaluate teachers, particularly the internal assessments used by schools to track student […]
March 6, 2013
The honeymoon’s over. After years of attacking Gov. Christie and his education agenda full throttle – and losing authority, gravitas, and public support – NJEA’s […]
February 7, 2013
The New Jersey Department of Education has released two reports that evaluate the status of the first-year pilot for evaluating teachers. One was prepared by […]
January 18, 2013
This is probably not how Mike Bloomberg imagined his education legacy: mired in mud after the leadership of UFT, NYC’s teachers’ union, declined to sign […]
October 16, 2012
Did anyone else think that Deborah Kenny’s op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times on teacher evaluations — called “Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings” — […]
July 2, 2012
One dispute over tying teacher evaluations to data on student growth has been the charge that teachers who are effective with wealthy students would see […]
April 20, 2012
David Brooks, in today’s New York Times, discusses the need for value-added evaluations of colleges, given that ” that nearly half the students showed no […]
April 16, 2012
Today’s Wall St. Journal lauds Louisiana’s new school choice laws, which: 1) Give each low-income parent a voucher worth an average of $8.5K per year […]
March 28, 2012
A survey just released by Scholastic Education and the Gates Foundation (hold your fire!) interviewed 10,000 pre-K through 12th grade public school teachers about, among […]
March 22, 2012
Tomorrow morning at 11 I’ll be discussing tenure reform and teacher evaluations with Joseph Cheff, President of the Passaic County Education Association and NJSBA host, […]
March 14, 2012
This past Friday NJ Spotlight hosted a Roundtable in Monroe on the new teacher evaluation pilot program, now underway in 11 districts and due for […]