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Rating Sen. Ruiz’s Tenure Reform Bill

Tweet from “Stop The Freeze NJ,” the facebook site devoted to “defending public education in NJ”: “Tenure bill going to…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

The New York Times analyzes a new study that asserts the value of value-added teacher evaluations:Elementary- and middle-school teachers who…

13 years ago

“Useless” Teacher Evaluations

Gordon MacInnes, in today’s NJ Spotlight, advises that tying teaching evaluations to student growth is premature. The current teacher evaluation-tenure…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

Check out Andy Rotherham’s editorial in Time, which begins with a well-known quotation: “a lot of people who have been…

13 years ago

Evaluating and Retaining Effective Teachers

Speaking of white papers, here’s a new one from the Education Trust, entitled “Fair to Everyone: Building the Balanced Teacher…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

My position regarding the teachers’ union has been the same from the time I got into the race until today.…

13 years ago

Ed Reform Moves Forward in Jersey

Here’s two hopeful signs of education reform in NJ: according to NJ Spotlight, Senator Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill is…

13 years ago

NJEA & Christie: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

NJ Spotlight looks today at “the state of relations between Christie and NJEA: “It's not exactly warm and fuzzy, but…

13 years ago

Nipping Away at NJEA

So bigger fleas have little fleas Upon their backs to bite 'em And little fleas have lesser fleas And so,…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

In the last year New Jersey has moved from talk to action, from ideas to implementation. The legislature is now…

13 years ago