Here’s a good one. Antonio Lewis is a former Superintendent of Asbury Park School District whose compensation package included a salary of $188K. Before he
Chris Daggett on teacher tenure: “What other profession gets lifetime protection?”NJEA response: “What he’s saying is not something that’s doable. Repartee courtesy of Tom Moran
Steven Brill’s must-read in The New Yorker: 99% of all NYC teachers in 2001 received a “satisfactory” performance rating. Is there any other industry where
“Before there was tenure, anyone could throw a teacher out a window so their Uncle Charlie could get a job.” Now, now. Not quite. But
“No scientific proof, then, has been found to convict smoking as a hazard to health.”From a 1968 Tobacco Institute publication entitled “The Cigarette Controversy.” “Tenure
New Jersey was the first state in the U.S. to pass a law giving tenure to teachers. That was in 1909, and the purpose was
Today’s Star-Ledger features a piece on the infamous “rubber room” in New York City that warehouses 700 fully-paid teachers who have been accused of everything
That’s an easy one. It’s education, stupid. Or it is once you parse the political pablum, thankfully at a minimum but repeated in the Star-Ledger
You know that the zeitgeist in New Jersey has tilted away from the merits of teacher tenure when The Star-Ledger Editorial board denounces it. Today’s
Bill Gates, in his 2009 Annual Letter from the Gates Foundation (here), is candid about some failures in his education initiatives, specifically in regard to