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

Has Bob Bowdon (of The Cartel fame) been reading too much Bruce Baker? It can hardly be denied that there are factors outside a student’s

A new report out from Education Next asks whether “classroom observations—when performed by trained professionals external to the school, using an extensive set of standards—could

Dr. Bruce Baker, in his column in yesterday’s Record, makes the case that the use of any sort of value-added models (VAM’s) to assess teacher

In response to the Acting Commissioner Cerf’s tenure reform proposal, a group calling itself “Educators for the Quality Assessment of Teachers” or EQuATE has produced

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