Motoko Rich’s article today on the front page of the New York Times, perhaps unwittingly, recites a meme of those who resent higher standards for
It starts here: Gov. Chris Christie made national headlines recently when he announced that he was reversing his long-term support for the Common Core, a
From today’s NJ Spotlight on New Jersey’s first year of value-added teacher evaluations, which rated 97% of teachers and principals “effective” or “highly effective”: The
From the Washington Post, which reports that “U.S. states’ education spending averaged $10,700 per pupil in 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but that
Education News looks at the first results of N.J.’s value-added teacher evaluations, which “found that overall, 23.4% of teachers received “highly effective ratings; 73.9% of teachers
Kristin DeLorenzo and Liz Gardner, two New Jersey elementary math teachers, respond in today’s Star-Ledger to Gov. Christie’s call to abandon the Common Core State
“We got approval twice already. They are not likely to prevail,” she said. “We hope that the Hoboken Board of Education finally stops trying to
It starts here: Last Thursday during a speech at Burlington County College, Governor Christie renounced his commitment to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the
On Monday the New Jersey Department of Education released its Final Educator Evaluation Implementation Report, which provides data on the first year that N.J. linked
“We must move forward with our work under this new system to make good teachers great, and great teachers exceptional.” That’s State Senator Teresa Ruiz