Education News Round-Up, 5/11/13
Sorry about last week folks: I was sequestered in my studio trying to meet a deadline. Let's get back to it:- A New Voice on NJ Education Policy
A group of education policy scholars, led by Bruce Baker of Rutgers, has put together a new resource for state-wide education policy: the New Jersey Policy Forum. Wonks will want to bookmark this, as I'm sure there will be any number of new briefs challenging the orthodoxies of Christie's education policies, starting with...
- The Many Problems With NJ's New Teacher Evaluation System
The NJDOE says there is research that backs the way it uses test scores to evaluate teachers in its new accountability system, AchieveNJ. Except the very research Education Commissioner Chris Cerf refers todoesn't say that at all:
A group of education policy scholars, led by Bruce Baker of Rutgers, has put together a new resource for state-wide education policy: the New Jersey Policy Forum. Wonks will want to bookmark this, as I'm sure there will be any number of new briefs challenging the orthodoxies of Christie's education policies, starting with...
- The Many Problems With NJ's New Teacher Evaluation System
The NJDOE says there is research that backs the way it uses test scores to evaluate teachers in its new accountability system, AchieveNJ. Except the very research Education Commissioner Chris Cerf refers todoesn't say that at all:
Another claim used in defense of New Jersey's growth percentile measures is that a series of