tenure

I’ll Wheel You a Principal If You Deal Me a Job: Live Tonight from Asbury Park

Welcome to a New Jersey school district so ridden with nepotism, exorbitance, and a singular disregard for student outcomes that…

4 years ago

Happy 20th Anniversary to New Jersey’s Charter Schools! A New Report Parses the Quality of the Sector

Twenty years ago New Jersey opened its first charter school. To mark the occasion, the New Jersey Charter School Association…

7 years ago

Why N.J. Still Needs Tenure Reform

"Two Mount Olive High School teachers, initially fired in 2013 after allegedly calling students "Negroes," have been allowed to return…

8 years ago

Correcting the Record: NJEA President’s False Narrative of PARCC and Opt-Out Alliances

Last week Wendell Steinhauer, President of the New Jersey Education Association, published an editorial in the Asbury Park Press called…

9 years ago

Is Incremental Progress “Good Enough for a Student Assigned to a Failing School?”

Andy Rotherham has a great piece today in U.S. News that considers the trade-offs between transformative and incremental changes in education.…

9 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

Cuomo Cries “Uncle” to Labor Lobbyists and Eviscerates NYS’s Teacher Evaluation Reform

When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo navigated an overhaul of the teacher tenure law last Spring, he took a moribund…

9 years ago

New NCTQ Report: “The dearth of teachers in need of improvement simply doesn’t ring true”

There's a new report out from the National Center of Teacher Quality that does a relatively deep dive into the…

9 years ago

NYC School Chief Farina Won’t Integrate Segregated Schools Because It Might Affect Teacher Evaluations

I’m guessing that many parents, particularly those of color whose children are consigned to a failing school, left a meeting…

9 years ago

QOD: What Does Merryl Tisch’s Departure Mean for Ed Policy in New York State?

From Chalkbeat, which asks if  the pending retirement of  Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch is a victory for labor leaders of…

9 years ago