Here’s a good one. Antonio Lewis is a former Superintendent of Asbury Park School District whose compensation package included a…
Chris Daggett on teacher tenure: "What other profession gets lifetime protection?"NJEA response: "What he’s saying is not something that’s doable.Repartee…
Steven Brill’s must-read in The New Yorker: 99% of all NYC teachers in 2001 received a “satisfactory” performance rating. Is…
"Before there was tenure, anyone could throw a teacher out a window so their Uncle Charlie could get a job."Now,…
"No scientific proof, then, has been found to convict smoking as a hazard to health."From a 1968 Tobacco Institute publication…
Today’s Star-Ledger features a piece on the infamous “rubber room” in New York City that warehouses 700 fully-paid teachers who…
That's an easy one. It's education, stupid.Or it is once you parse the political pablum, thankfully at a minimum but…
You know that the zeitgeist in New Jersey has tilted away from the merits of teacher tenure when The Star-Ledger…
Bill Gates, in his 2009 Annual Letter from the Gates Foundation (here), is candid about some failures in his education…