tenure

Newark’s Teacher Evaluation System Is ‘Highly Encouraging’

NJ Spotlight today looks at how Newark Public Schools’ teachers performed under the new evaluation system, which was jointly approved…

11 years ago

New Spotlight Column: Is NJ Overusing Data in Assessing Student Growth and Teacher Performance?

My column today at NJ Spotlight examines the conflict between those who fear that escalating use of data in evaluating…

11 years ago

Is NJ’s New Teacher Tenure Law Working?

Could be. The Trentonian reports on a state arbiter's ruling that a Paterson elementary school teacher should lose his tenure…

11 years ago

NJ Legislature Update: Tenure Protection for all Public School Employees and Restrictions on Out-Sourcing

Today the NJ Assembly is scheduled to vote on A-3696, which would provide tenure-like protection to all public school employees,…

11 years ago

Is Teacher Tenure Reform Possible without a Brawl?

Here's this week's post at WHYY's Newsworks:I stumbled out of the opening panel Thursday night at the Yale School of…

12 years ago

NJEA is Out of Remission

The honeymoon’s over. After years of attacking Gov. Christie and his education agenda full throttle – and losing authority, gravitas,…

12 years ago

Hunterdon Democrat to NJ Teachers: “Welcome to the Real World”

The Hunterdon County Democrat Editorial Board weighs in on teacher discomfort with NJ’s new teacher evaluation legislation because of discomfort…

12 years ago

NJ DOE Releases Two Assessments of New Teacher Assessments

The New Jersey Department of Education has released two reports that evaluate the status of the first-year pilot for evaluating…

12 years ago

Bizarre NY Times Op-Ed on Teacher/Principal Accountability

Did anyone else think that Deborah Kenny’s op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times on teacher evaluations -- called "Want to…

12 years ago

Restricting Tenure to “Master Teachers”

A NJ educator, Dr. Michael Hoban, proposes a merit pay system in today’s NJ Spotlight in which only “Master Teachers”…

12 years ago