The New York Daily News has an article about a Brooklyn school that allowed teachers and administrators to give answer to students in order to get higher scores on their state exams. Investigators are probing charges that teachers at a Sunset Park public school gave kids...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about the new teacher evaluations and how they apply to special education teachers. Special education teachers under the new teacher evaluation system have everything going against them, which begs the question, how do we evaluate the...
New York Times has an article about how certain Texas schools are so cash strapped that they have stopped providing essential services such as bussing students. HUTTO, Tex. — School buses passed by 16-year-old Aubrey Sandifer as he walked home one recent afternoon in...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about how NY State wants to show teacher data, but only to parents and not the general public. This comes after the backlash of making the current evaluations public citing that it was a breach of privacy. A top Albany lawmaker said...
NYPost has an interesting article about how certain parents want the teacher evaluation grades be made public. Albany politicians must slap a failing grade on any plan to conceal teacher grades, outraged public-school parents told The Post...
I love School . Not the lesson. Not the Teacher Originally posted here: I love School. Not the lesson. Not the Teacher. Just the...
An interesting article from Edweek about how the evaluators are evaluated and trained to comment about education Formal training of the principals and other observers conducting teacher evaluations is a complex, necessary, and often overlooked component of the systems,...
Education Week has an interesting article about the new evaluations system and how it affects the race to the top funds Although the grand bargain on teacher evaluations in New York state has saved—for now—the state's $700 million federal Race to the Top award, the...
The Washington Post has an interesting article about how a DC teacher got fired for being creative and motivating. By the end of her second year at MacFarland Middle School, fifth-grade teacher Sarah Wysocki was coming into her own. “It is a pleasure to visit a...
The New York Post has an interesting article about one teacher being paid $125,000 yet failed miserably in the DOE evaluation system. She has appeared on “60 Minutes,” starred in the documentary “American Teacher” — and makes $125,000 at an unusual Washington...
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