Lisa Fleisher in the Wall Street Journal:Newark, in a first for a large New Jersey public-school system, has given out…
Yesterday's Trentonian has an A.P. piece that considers the impact on Newark Public Schools (and Newark in general) if Cory…
Social science writer Eric Horowitz has been reading Richard Kahlenberg’s biography of Albert Shanker ("Tough Liberal") and comments on Shanker’s…
Motoko Rich in the New York Times describes the federal lawsuit, initiated by seven Florida teachers with support from local…
Here's this week's post at WHYY's Newsworks:I stumbled out of the opening panel Thursday night at the Yale School of…
A New York Times feature article last weed, "Curious Grade for Teachers: Nearly All Pass," notes that in spite of…
In my post today at WHYY's Newsworks I look at New Jersey's new teacher/principal evaluation and the attendant regulations (released…
Michael Guerriero in The New Yorker derides the uses of standardized tests to evaluate teachers, particularly the internal assessments used…
The honeymoon’s over. After years of attacking Gov. Christie and his education agenda full throttle – and losing authority, gravitas,…
The New Jersey Department of Education has released two reports that evaluate the status of the first-year pilot for evaluating…