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New Newsworks Column: Why Data-Driven Teacher Evaluations Are Here to Stay in New Jersey

It starts here:The New Jersey Department of Education just released the "2013-2014 Final Educator Evaluation Implementation Report," which lays out…

9 years ago

About That $15 Million That NJEA Spent on Anti-PARCC Propaganda To Fight “The Corporate Reform Agenda”

From today's NJ Spotlight on New Jersey's first year of value-added teacher evaluations, which rated 97% of teachers and principals…

9 years ago

N.J. D.O.E. Releases Report on N.J.’s First Year of its New Teacher Evaluation System

"We must move forward with our work under this new system to make good teachers great, and great teachers exceptional.”That’s…

9 years ago

In Diegnan’s Anti-PARCC bills, Poor Children are just Collateral Damage

Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Education Committee,  has an editorial in today’s Star Ledger promoting his PARCC…

10 years ago

Parents Across America and Fairtest Fight ESEA/NCLB Commitment to Annual Standardized Tests

Today is Parents Across America and Fairtest’s “National Day of Action,” which is devoted to lobbying U.S. senators to eliminate…

10 years ago

QOD: Opt-Out Demagoguery Is Bad for Schools and Kids

Jonah Edelman, the father of two children taking Common Core-aligned assessments (he's also a writer for the Daily Beast), parses…

10 years ago

QOD: Sen. Sweeney on the Prospects of the N.J. Legislature Passing PARCC “Opt-Out” Bill

Senate President Steve Sweeney said this week in an interview with NJ Spotlight that he was waiting on both bills…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: N.J.’s Anti-Testing Bill is Really About Teacher Tenure

It starts here:New Jersey State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan's (D-South Plainfield)  new opt-out-of-testing proposal, A-4165, guts the ability of parents, teachers,…

10 years ago

QOD: Diane Ravitch on National Standards and Annual Standardized Assessments

Absent standards, poor and minority children do not have equal access to challenging courses; absent assessments, no one can know…

10 years ago

How the Anti-Standardized Testing Movement is Like the Anti-Vaccine Movement

Fifteen years ago the Center for Disease Control declared that measles had been eradicated in America. But now the CDC…

10 years ago