This is probably not how Mike Bloomberg imagined his education legacy: mired in mud after the leadership of UFT, NYC’s teachers’ union, declined to sign
Did anyone else think that Deborah Kenny’s op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times on teacher evaluations — called “Want to Ruin Teaching? Give Ratings” —
One dispute over tying teacher evaluations to data on student growth has been the charge that teachers who are effective with wealthy students would see
David Brooks, in today’s New York Times, discusses the need for value-added evaluations of colleges, given that ” that nearly half the students showed no
Today’s Wall St. Journal lauds Louisiana’s new school choice laws, which: 1) Give each low-income parent a voucher worth an average of $8.5K per year
A survey just released by Scholastic Education and the Gates Foundation (hold your fire!) interviewed 10,000 pre-K through 12th grade public school teachers about, among
Tomorrow morning at 11 I’ll be discussing tenure reform and teacher evaluations with Joseph Cheff, President of the Passaic County Education Association and NJSBA host,
This past Friday NJ Spotlight hosted a Roundtable in Monroe on the new teacher evaluation pilot program, now underway in 11 districts and due for
Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, considers the “humiliating” decision in New York State to release teachers’ value-added rankings, which is “based on a
It was quite the scene at the Statehouse Annex yesterday as the Senate Education Committee heard public testimony on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill,