VAM

190 Newark Teachers Receive Merit Bonuses

Lisa Fleisher in the Wall Street Journal:Newark, in a first for a large New Jersey public-school system, has given out…

11 years ago

What Happens to Newark’s Schools if Mayor Booker Becomes Senator Booker?

Yesterday's Trentonian has an A.P. piece that considers the  impact on Newark Public Schools (and Newark in general) if Cory…

11 years ago

The Virtue of LIFO: It’s Arbitrary

Social science writer Eric Horowitz has been reading Richard Kahlenberg’s biography of Albert Shanker ("Tough Liberal") and comments on Shanker’s…

12 years ago

Florida Teachers’ Union Sues State on Data-Based Teacher Evaluations

Motoko Rich in the New York Times describes the federal lawsuit, initiated by seven Florida teachers with support from local…

12 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

Letter of the Day: How to Get Past the “Widget Effect”

A New York Times feature article last weed, "Curious Grade for Teachers: Nearly All Pass," notes that in spite of…

12 years ago

NJ’s New Teacher Evaluation System; Is VAM A Sham?

In my post today at WHYY's Newsworks I look at New Jersey's new teacher/principal evaluation and the attendant regulations (released…

12 years ago

Quote of the Day (VAM)

Michael Guerriero in The New Yorker derides the uses of standardized tests to evaluate teachers, particularly the internal assessments used…

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

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