Blue Jersey:: Alternate Route to Undermining Teaching

Blue Jersey:: Alternate Route to Undermining Teaching:

Alternate Route to Undermining Teaching by: A New Jersey Farmer Sun Dec 09, 2012 at 08:55:17 PM EST

Diary rescue. Don't know why this wasn't frontpaged the day it was posted. It's good. - RosiCross-posted at A New Jersey Farmer It's not enough that the Christie Administration has bashed teachers as union mules and the source of New Jersey's fiscal ills. It's not enough that the governor has promoted private partnerships with public schools to avoid paying the state's fair share of education aid to school districts in need of money. It's not enough that he's advocated for merit pay based on an evaluative model that is reliant on faulty research. And it's not enough that he's attacked NJEA officials personally because of their private organization salaries. Now the governor's administration wants to make it easier for charter schools to hire lesser qualified teachers simply, it seems, for ideological reasons. How is he doing this? By proposing that alternate route teachers who want to work in charter schools be able to earn teaching licenses with fewer requirements than those people who want public school teaching certificates. If you ever need any more evidence that the governor hasn't a clue about how to attract and train quality teachers, then here's your proof.

A New Jersey Farmer :: Alternate Route to Undermining Teaching

Let me state from the outset that I have taught the alternate route New Pathways to Teaching in New Jersey (NPTNJ) program since 2003. It's a wonderful program that has trained thousands of people in New Jersey to