March 7, 2012
Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, considers the “humiliating” decision in New York State to release teachers’ value-added rankings, which is “based on a […]
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March 6, 2012
It was quite the scene at the Statehouse Annex yesterday as the Senate Education Committee heard public testimony on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill, […]
March 2, 2012
Tweet from “Stop The Freeze NJ,” the facebook site devoted to “defending public education in NJ”: “Tenure bill going to committee on Monday. Spread the […]
January 6, 2012
The New York Times analyzes a new study that asserts the value of value-added teacher evaluations: Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ […]
December 12, 2011
Gordon MacInnes, in today’s NJ Spotlight, advises that tying teaching evaluations to student growth is premature. The current teacher evaluation-tenure system,” he concedes, “is close […]
October 20, 2011
Check out Andy Rotherham’s editorial in Time, which begins with a well-known quotation: “a lot of people who have been hired as teachers are basically […]
September 27, 2011
Speaking of white papers, here’s a new one from the Education Trust, entitled “Fair to Everyone: Building the Balanced Teacher Evaluations that Educators and Students […]
September 23, 2011
My position regarding the teachers’ union has been the same from the time I got into the race until today. And that is when they […]
September 20, 2011
Here’s two hopeful signs of education reform in NJ: according to NJ Spotlight, Senator Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill is moving forward; she hopes to […]
September 19, 2011
NJ Spotlight looks today at “the state of relations between Christie and NJEA: “It’s not exactly warm and fuzzy, but the thaw is unmistakable – […]
September 14, 2011
So bigger fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite ’em And little fleas have lesser fleas And so, ad infinitum Megan McArdle quotes […]
September 2, 2011
In the last year New Jersey has moved from talk to action, from ideas to implementation. The legislature is now considering a revamp of teacher […]