merit pay

There’s a Catch with Newark’s Hot New Teacher Magnet: Those $62K Starting Salaries Go Nowhere Slow

Newark Public Schools is desperate to fill teaching slots, a combination of teacher burn-out and an increase in the number…

2 years ago

LILLEY: Teacher Shortage? Old News to Union Chiefs Who Just Ignore What Young Educators Want

Why is there a teacher shortage? It turns out the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association (NEA), knew…

2 years ago

NJ Teacher: Meddling Parents and School Boards Are Driving Teachers to Quit

This is a letter by retired New Jersey teacher Freya Gervasi of Denville. Regarding the recent op-ed, “N.J. needs policies that…

2 years ago

LILLEY: New Jersey Teachers Are Poorly Served By Their Union Leaders

The New Jersey Education Association, the state chapter of the largest teachers union in the country, boasted more than 200,000…

4 years ago

Newark Teacher Union Prez Takes Money From the Pockets of His Members: Notes on the New NTU Contract.

In October of 2012, the Newark Teachers Union signed a contract with then-Superintendent Cami Anderson that was celebrated as a…

5 years ago

What is Driving Newark Students’ Academic Growth? Answers Here, Via New Harvard Analysis

Researchers at Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) are releasing a  study today called “Assessing the Impact of…

7 years ago

A Response to UFT President Mike Mulgrew

Why is Michael Mulgrew in such a lather? The President of the United Federation of Teachers in New York City…

9 years ago

Americans Want Democratic Candidates Who Will “Modernize the Teaching Profession”

Third Way, a global research group, has a report today on a recent survey that asked voters what they want…

10 years ago

Paying Teachers $125K; An Experiment in Merit Pay

Leslie Brody at the Wall St. Journal reports on a small New York City charter school, The Equity Project, that…

10 years ago

New Newsworks column: Newark’s School Reform Battle is Taking a Toll on its Union

 Last week I wrote here about a legal dispute in Camden: twenty-five local residents, backed by several statewide anti-charter groups,…

10 years ago