August 30, 2011
I’ll jump right into the new Monmouth University Poll that shows that New Jersey support many of the tenets of education reform. The majority of […]
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July 6, 2011
Today’s Wall St. Journal ponders two newsworthy items that emerged at this week’s National Education Association Annual Meeting and National Assembly in Chicago. First, the […]
July 5, 2011
Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members, the nation’s largest teachers’ union on Monday affirmed for the first time that […]
May 13, 2011
Has Bob Bowdon (of The Cartel fame) been reading too much Bruce Baker? It can hardly be denied that there are factors outside a student’s […]
May 3, 2011
A new report out from Education Next asks whether “classroom observations—when performed by trained professionals external to the school, using an extensive set of standards—could […]
March 14, 2011
Dr. Bruce Baker, in his column in yesterday’s Record, makes the case that the use of any sort of value-added models (VAM’s) to assess teacher […]
March 4, 2011
Here’s some tweets from NJEA’s twitter account, “stopthefreezenj” on the Interim Report issued by the NJ Education Effectiveness Task Force. @GovChristie crock of BS – […]
March 3, 2011
In response to the Acting Commissioner Cerf’s tenure reform proposal, a group calling itself “Educators for the Quality Assessment of Teachers” or EQuATE has produced […]
March 3, 2011
NJEA President Barbara Keshishian in a new press release warns against tying teacher evaluations to student test scores: We believe student test scores have a […]
February 18, 2011
All’s curiously quiet in the aftermath of Ed. Commissioner Christopher Cerf’s speech on Wednesday describing his five-part proposal for tenure reform. Sure, the leadership of […]
January 14, 2011
We shouldn’t be afraid of teacher quality metrics just because they have flaws. Instead, we should continually refine those metrics, expect superintendents to articulate local […]
January 11, 2011
There’s a bit of a contretemps boomeranging around cyberspace between Mike Petrelli of the Fordham Institute and Flypaper and Bruce Baker of Rutgers and SchoolFinance101. […]