VAM

Back from a hurricane-related hiatus,

I'll jump right into the new Monmouth University Poll that shows that New Jersey support many of the tenets of…

13 years ago

NEA Takes a Step Forward; Will NJEA?

Today’s Wall St. Journal ponders two newsworthy items that emerged at this week’s National Education Association Annual Meeting and National…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members, the nation’s largest teachers’ union on Monday affirmed…

13 years ago

A Crititique of Student Value-Added Models

Has Bob Bowdon (of The Cartel fame) been reading too much Bruce Baker?It can hardly be denied that there are…

14 years ago

A Value-Added Model that Works

A new report out from Education Next asks whether “classroom observations—when performed by trained professionals external to the school, using…

14 years ago

VAM!

Dr. Bruce Baker, in his column in yesterday’s Record, makes the case that the use of any sort of value-added…

14 years ago

NJEA as Stock Character

Here’s some tweets from NJEA’s twitter account, “stopthefreezenj” on the Interim Report issued by the NJ Education Effectiveness Task Force.@GovChristie…

14 years ago

Hold Your Horses!

In response to the Acting Commissioner Cerf’s tenure reform proposal, a group calling itself “Educators for the Quality Assessment of…

14 years ago

Quotes of the Day

NJEA President Barbara Keshishian in a new press release warns against tying teacher evaluations to student test scores:We believe student…

14 years ago

Tweaking NJ’s Tenure Reform

All’s curiously quiet in the aftermath of Ed. Commissioner Christopher Cerf’s speech on Wednesday describing his five-part proposal for tenure…

14 years ago