Mike Petrelli in the New York Times: Tenure reform is no education game-changer. Tenure is just one part of a…
From KPCC:A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday called California’s teacher job protections illegal, issuing a tentative ruling striking…
New Jersey clings to the student-unfriendly policy of laying off school staff in order of seniority regardless of classroom effectiveness.…
Teachers and the public disagree over other teacher employment policies. . . . Seventy-six percent of the public think that…
Chris Cerf’s parting shot, addressed to NJ school leaders, addresses NJEA’s increasingly assertive campaign against new standardized testing, teaching evaluations,…
Newark Update: After a vote of “no confidence," hostile meetings, and personal attacks (or at least a reference to her…
As you all no doubt know by now, Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has submitted a waiver to the NJ Department…
How’re we doing after almost one year of NJ’s new tenure law, which shortens the process of arbitrating disputes between…
The National Council on Teacher Quality has just released its 2013 report on states’ progress in improving teacher evaluation systems.…
This morning NY Times columnist Frank Bruni suggests that we should pay attention to pending educational changes in Colorado, specifically…