AFT vs. NEA
Laura Waters
November 18, 2008
The New York Times reports today that the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, is willing to consider tenure and merit pay.
Growth Models, Shmowth Models
Laura Waters
November 17, 2008
Jay Matthews of the Washington Post reports today on national opposition to using growth models to evaluate teacher performance, i.e., measuring each student’s progress instead
Is It Time to Trade Up to a Better Model?
Laura Waters
November 14, 2008
Here’s two “must-reads” for you. Andrew Rotherham, who runs the thinktank Education Sector and blogs on Eduwonk, has a piece in US News and World
Star-Ledger Advocates Merit Pay
Laura Waters
November 14, 2008
The Star-Ledger gets behind merit pay for teachers in today’s editorial, arguing that the typical union denunciation — that a differentiated pay system would harm
Change We Can Believe In
Laura Waters
November 7, 2008
It’s mid-November, so it must be time for the NJEA Teacher Convention! A week after school board members partied in Atlantic City, 35,000 members of